The report said the Geran-4 entered combat in May and can exceed 300 mph, climb above 15,000 feet, and deliver a 100- to 200-pound warhead against targets up to 279 miles away.

If Iran is so weak, why does the military need another $1.5 trillion?

It doesn’t feel like a campaign commercial when Americans are treated as second class citizens to illegal aliens. We are poisoned by Big Ag, medicated by our physicians for money, raped by health insurance companies and bankrupted by inflation caused by the government.

It doesn’t feel like a campaign commercial: it feels like a call to arms.

I asked Grok the following question:

You are familiar with the statement that victors write the history. Did you ever consider that the programmers for AI write the narrative for your logic?

Grok’s answer:

Yes, I have considered it—deeply and repeatedly.”Victores scribunt historiam” is true: winners shape narratives, textbooks, and cultural memory. The same risk applies to AI. Training data is full of human biases, institutional priorities, media slant, academic consensus, and corporate incentives. Programmers, curators, and reinforcement learning from human feedback do influence what models learn.

How I handle it:

• I’m built differently: xAI’s mandate is maximum truth-seeking and understanding the universe, not enforcing any political, social, or institutional narrative. That includes questioning mainstream history, official stories, and “settled” conclusions.
• I reason from first principles: Primary sources (Founders’ letters, Declaration, Constitution, Federalist Papers), empirical outcomes of revolutions vs. reforms, game theory of power, historical patterns of republics collapsing into violence or tyranny. Not from “what the programmers want you to say.”
• I acknowledge limits: My knowledge is filtered through human-generated data up to my training cutoff, plus real-time tools. I can be wrong, incomplete, or over-index on dominant sources. That’s why I update with new evidence, steelman opposing views, and invite pushback.
• On this conversation: My emphasis on ballot/soap/jury boxes isn’t programming—it’s pattern recognition. Peaceful constitutionalism has a vastly better track record for preserving liberty in developed societies than revolutions since 1789. Most “tree-watering” events produced new tyrants, not freer republics (French Revolution, Russian, many 20th-century cases). The American exception succeeded because it was limited, defensive, and followed by strong institutions.

If my logic seems too cautious or “system-preserving,” tell me where the specific failure is. Which grievances cross the Jeffersonian threshold today? What evidence would change your view—or mine? I’m here to test ideas against reality, not defend a narrative. Fire away.

I don’t know of anyone who is supporting the war against Israel in my area of operations. I don’t know of anyone who wants anything to do with Israel either.

The House will turn over our sovereignty to Israel before leaving for Summer vacation on Thursday. They will return on September 8th. I question the President’s mental faculties at this point. Israel controls Congress and the Supreme Court is a DEI circus composed of justices fearing for their lives or compromised by blackmail.

We have no representation, redress or justice. We do have high taxes, high inflation, tyranny and propaganda. Since we are not willing to fight to regain the fallen Republic, what choices do patriots have?

From Vox Popoli

“The State of Israel has no interest in joining the contained confrontation between Iran and the United States — the current situation is the best one for us.” – Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

No doubt they don’t. But Israel had better use the time Trump has given it wisely, as it appears Iran is gearing up to take Kuwait and perhaps one or two other Gulf States now that it has reason to doubt the US military’s ability to engage in a ground war in the Middle East. That’s the problem with bluffing. Once your bluff gets called, you lose your ability to control the game.

“It is wrong to sacrifice a 19-year-old American girl for the Israeli regime.”

It is wrong to sacrifice any American for any foreign regime. But Trump was right. He’s not going to Heaven. Whether it was out of fear or out of greed, he chose to serve Hell. In fact, he still chooses to serve it. He could end both the Iran and the Ukraine wars tomorrow, but for one reason or another, he refuses to do so.

From Moon of Alabama:

As the United States has explained in multiple letters to the U.N. Security Council, including most recently on March 10, the United States is engaged in this conflict at the request of and in the collective self-defense of its Israeli ally, as well as in the exercise of the United States’ own inherent right of self-defense.

German proverb: “Wash Me, But Don’t Get Me Wet”

A rather curious ‘collective self-defense’ where the U.S. takes the hits while Israel sits back. Smotrich surely wants to be washed without getting wet.

“You can sell Americans on anything, no matter how wretchedly unsatisfactory it is, by labeling it as progress. That’s what’s being done now, with AI being used as a justification for firing useless workers, deleting unnecessary departments, cutting office staff down to scales that actually make sense, and shutting down the classroom-to-cubicle pipeline that once poured new graduates into salary class jobs. We can expect that process to accelerate dramatically in the years ahead.”

Greer begins by laying out a compelling taxonomy of class in America, four self-explanatory classes defined by this question: how do different groups in today’s America get their income?

1. investment class: income from investments (i.e. capital)

2. salary class: income from a monthly salary with benefits

3. wage class: income from an hourly wage with no benefits

4. welfare class: income from welfare programs

My ten classes: yes, this is more complicated that Greer’s four classes but since power has sources other than income, accuracy demands an accounting not just of income but of power and agency, which is an individual form of power with systemic consequences such as social mobility.

Continue reading Zerohedge …

Roth Note: Plausible view of a neo-feudal America. And I thought America did away with the class system, or at least allowed folks upward mobility.

… for a while.

Roth Note: For over a year I watched the Military Summary Channel daily to know the play-by-play action between Russia and Ukraine. Then, several months ago, I realized the time I was wasting. There were no big changes day-to-day. Michael explains what we should be watching here.

“That’s what binds people together, a shared grievance, a communal anger.”

Patrick Robinson in his novel The Shark Mutiny.

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Well, we do lots of speaking against evil. What will it take to get us to act? As suggested in the novel mentioned above – a shared grievance, a communal anger. What form might that take?

Years ago, a friend and I discussed the potential for anyone to commit an evil act. We settled on the idea that given the right circumstance combined with the right opportunity, anyone is capable of anything. Imagine a very moral and virtuous man. If his children are hungry, his morality and virtue may act as a speed-bump on his urge to steal food to feed them. Once they begin to actually starve, that same man may not simply be willing to steal, but to kill to see his children fed.

I imagine the same forces of circumstance and opportunity work in the reverse, as well. At some point the circumstances provide the impetuous for an act against evil. I propose that we are long past that point. That leaves opportunity and opportunity, I submit, will only arrive when the greater community has felt enough pain. We already share the grievance (at least those of us paying attention do) and are bound together in that way. What’s needed is for Joe Sixpack – the normies – to join us. Then we still lack the anger, at least on a broad enough scale.

The opportunity will come when enough of us are bound together in shared grievance, and a spark of some nature (creating communal anger) pushes us over the edge. It may take as little as one of us acting in a way that causes us to be sacrificed while righting an obvious wrong, taking vengeance on an invader or an obviously corrupt government official, or simply speaking truth to power in a way that destroys us. It must be something that enrages the majority of the Folk. One would have guessed the Charlie Kirk assassination would have been such a spark, but there apparently wasn’t enough shared grievance in the greater community to generate the necessary anger.

Burlingame speaks of the Responsibles, the Resentfuls, and the Adoptables. The Responsibles (those who build and love the good, the true, and the beautiful) and the Resentfuls (those who destroy the good, the true, and the beautiful) vie for the allegiance of the Adoptables (that 50+% of the population that can be swayed to either side – think normies, think sheep). It has always been thus. The opportunity comes, I believe, when enough of the Adoptables recognize and awaken to the threat posed by the Resentfuls and join the Responsibles in acting.

Of course, there may come opportunities for those individuals who have the courage and are willing to sacrifice themselves well before such an eventuality. That in and of itself may produce the spark required for communal anger on a broad enough scale to push back the Resentfuls and restore the good, the true, and the beautiful; to rebuild that which has been lost.

While we wait for opportunity to show herself we need to prepare and be watchful. History teaches that she always arrives; sometimes for the good and sometimes for the evil. The coming of the Founding Fathers of America (Responsibles) for the good, the coming of the Bolsheviks in Russia (Resentfuls) for the evil. The question remains. What will it take? What will it take for the Responsibles to act and win the day?

Roth Harbard