Sen. Kennedy: Do we have the ability to destroy whatever is underneath Iran's Pickaxe Mountain?

Hegseth: A lot of our capabilities are classified, Senator. But if anybody in the world can reach anything on God’s green Earth, it’s the United States military. pic.twitter.com/bAmLcVv4mF

— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinkle) July 21, 2026

Pete Hegseth says that without another $1.5 trillion, the Department of Defense could collapse.

"Not funding this department at $1.5 trillion is the greatest threat our nation faces." https://t.co/czUjuZaKfZ pic.twitter.com/hIhunv1L1H

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) July 21, 2026

🇨🇳 Meanwhile in China

Driverless delivery trucks are quickly taking over.

No limits on drivers hours, no salary or insurances for the employee drivers & the data will soon show they are safer.

This is the 4th Industrial Revolution. pic.twitter.com/Of535KgnX4

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) July 21, 2026

Netanyahu's Government Just Made A SHOCKING Admission! After Netanyahu Started The Iran War On February 28th, Israel Now Has No Intention Of Helping The United States Win The War, And In Fact, Israel Will Do Everything It Can To Keep Us In The War & The Strait Of Hormuz Closed!… pic.twitter.com/Ov3FZeTaHf

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) July 21, 2026

Rep. Gill: "Is it important to be polite?"

Smithsonian Director Hartig: "Yes, sir"

Gill: "The Smithsonian lists politeness as an attribute of white supremacy" pic.twitter.com/HH4lefFZ07

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 21, 2026

When will the madness end? Unless the people understand their end fate under an evil government, the madness will never end. I cannot imagine trying to explain to our founding fathers the current state of the Great Experiment.

This does bring to mind how our current society acts in public. We are anything but polite. And to be clear, “Bless your heart” in the South is not being polite.

Tucker Carlson: ‘My sense is that Trump's views are irrelevant…I don't think he was for this war with Iran. He did it anyway. He’s utterly controlled.’pic.twitter.com/3D97XpCMZd

— ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 (@ImBreckWorsham) July 21, 2026

Mamdani ooooh boy! 😂This Italian Queen is speaking my language lol Real Italian roots energy!! IJoey, make him an offa he can't refuse 'eh 😅😬🇮🇹🤌 https://t.co/YgZk0O5tcI pic.twitter.com/XyayoUHr0s

— Catarina Senora Gatita (@WyattCatarina) July 20, 2026

Current Status

• On July 8–9, 2026, President Trump publicly announced via Truth Social that he intends to seek a rehearing “immediately,” calling the Supreme Court’s June 30 decision “insane.”
• Supreme Court Rule 44 gives the losing party a 25-day window after the judgment to file a petition for rehearing. That window remains open (deadline is approximately July 25, 2026).
• No filing has been reported on the Supreme Court’s docket, in major news outlets, or by legal trackers as of today. It is possible they are preparing or will file before the deadline, but nothing has been submitted yet.

Roth Note: Some of the readers here have commented/inferred/believed that Iran is a terrorist state. While I’m certainly no supporter of Islam, I am a supporter of truth and reason as opposed to emotion. Larry Johnson, former CIA analyst, posted the following in 2024. One should also recall that all but one of the alleged 9-11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. Sunnis not Shia. Anyone who hates the Persians because they’re evil terrorists should read Mr. Johnson’s post in it’s entirety.

The short answer is, “no!” The Iran of the 1980s, when Iran was very active backing the activities of Imad Mughniyeh, which included the bombings of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, two separate bombings of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, and the kidnapping of a CIA Chief, a Marine Colonel and several other American residents of Beirut. But those were not carried out because “Iran hates our freedom.” Those attacks were a direct response to our policy in Lebanon and Israel. The bombing of the Marine Barracks and the U.S. Embassy in 1983, for example, was preceded by the US forces attacking Lebanese Muslims in the Bekka Valley as part of the Multinational Force in Lebanon. Following the November 1983 bombing of the Marines, the US pulled out.

I thought it time to revisit the past in light of what the present portends. It looks like the United States, once again, is going to embroil itself in Israel’s war against the Palestinians and, if the past is any predictor, will again find itself burying US military personnel.

I am attaching two pieces — the 2017 VIPS Memo and a 2020 blog posting. I co-authored the VIPS memo with Ray McGovern and am responsible for the 2020 blog posting. I think both are still relevant. Read them and let me know in the comments.

Thirteen of the 14 Muslim Groups identified by the U.S. intelligence community as actively hostile to the US are Sunni, not Shia, and are not supported by Iran:

– ISIS (Sunni)

– The Al-Nusra Front (Sunni)

– Al-Qa’ida Central (Sunni)

– Al-Qa’ida in Magheb (Sunni)

– Al-Qa’ida in Arabian Peninsula (Sunni)

– Boku Haram (Sunni)

– Al-Shabbab (Sunni)

– Khorassan Group (Sunni)

– Society of the Muslim Brothers (Sunni)

– Sayyaf Group in the Philippines (Sunni)

– Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan (Sunni)

– Lashgar i Taiba (Sunni)

– Jemaa Islamiya (Sunni)

– Houthis (Shia)

Read the entire post at Sonar21 …

The Trump administration has greenlit Saudi Arabia’s nuclear enrichment project, but with no safeguards in place to prevent the development of a bomb, CNN reported on Friday. 

The draft deal, viewed by the news outlet, showed Washington’s support for Riyadh’s civilian nuclear program is still awaiting President Donald Trump’s signature, despite US-Saudi negotiations concluding in October.

Read the entire post at Zerohedge …

From the comments:
The reason the assassinated mullah in Iran made a fatwah decree against pursuing nukes was because it was immoral AND because he knew it would cause regional nuclear escalation. Both good reasons in my book.

This article reveals yet another escalation path and the inevitable result will be that all countries in the region will have nukes almost insuring nuclear confrontation. With Israel in the mix, this path is a certain disaster. 

Roth Note: So, we start a war to keep Iran from getting nukes that they had a religious aversion to, a fatwah against, and our intelligence agencies declared they were not pursuing, and now not only is Iran contemplating building a bomb for protection from USreal, but we’re going to green light the Saudis? Winning! Bigly!!!

The war on Iran continues to escalate. Last night the U.S. again bombed various cities in Iran hitting military as well as civilian targets. Iran responded by hitting U.S. installation in various Gulf countries.

Remarkable was an attack on the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia:

Iranian ballistic missiles struck Prince Sultan Air Base in Al-Kharj on July 18, wounding twelve US service members — two critically — and hitting KC-135 Stratotankers on the flight line while a second rotation was still climbing out. Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defense Authority cleared the sirens six minutes later without naming the weapon, the origin, or the damage, and neither Riyadh nor Washington has issued an official statement since.

Several U.S. tanker air planes were damaged. For several months Saudi Arabia had not been a target of Iranian strike. During previous engagements the Saudis have lost a major parts of their air defenses. Out of an original stash of 2,800 Patriot air defense missiles only 400 are said to be left.

The U.S. had hit a desalination plant in Iran. In response Iran attacked a desalination plant in Kuwait which is much more dependent on such facilities than Iran is. The response strike was thus a very severe warning.

The U.S. has moved a large part of its air fleet out of its bases in Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Emirates and transferred them to Jordan. Further reinforcement coming from Europe were also stationed in Jordan and Israel. Iran however has followed the move and attacked the Muwaffaq al-Salti air base in Jordan as well as U.S. installation near Akabar, Jordan’s only harbor. The strikes left extensive damage and several dead and wounded:

In the week leading up to the Iranian attack on Friday that killed two U.S. soldiers and left one service member missing in Jordan, Iran carried out three other strikes against U.S. forces in the country.

Those attacks injured dozens of U.S. service members and damaged several helicopters, according to several U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters.

But the Pentagon did not disclose the earlier strikes, nor the casualties and damage they inflicted.

It is expected that the U.S. air fleet will move further west to Israel with the hope to slip under a more reliable air defense umbrella. Iran however seems to be waiting for that. It has already proven that it can hit targets in Israel and any assemblies of U.S. jets and tanker air planes on the few well known air bases in Israel will be juicy targets for more of its drones and missiles.

The Strait of Hormuz is closed. Several ships which have tried to run through it under U.S. protection were hit and severely damaged.

Today Ansarallah in Yemen declared the “imposition of a maritime navigation ban” for all ships related to Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have held Yemen under a blockade for some eleven years. It is time to pay back.

Further air attacks on Iran will not change the strategic picture.

Trump has lost the war on Iran. How long will take him to find a way out of the mess?

Read the entire post at Moon of Alabama …

Roth Note: We examine the ‘evil’ on this site regularly. While it pains me to suggest it, our nation has become an evil empire. I don’t know how any man or woman with any sense of morality could start this war, much less continue it. Then there’s all the rest of the nefarious nonsense like tyrannical pedophilic corrupt leaders.

h/t WRSA

The FBI is doing corrupt, criminal and fraudulent stuff because the institution of the FBI is comprehensively corrupt. As a consequence, they are allied -directly or through willful blindness- with operatives in other agencies doing criminal, corrupt and fraudulent stuff.

The same FBI agency who took possession of Hillary Clinton’s missing emails, Huma Abedin/Anthony Weiner’s laptop and Hunter Biden’s laptop. The same FBI agency who took custody of Jeffrey Epstein’s safe contents. The same FBI agency who raided James O’Keefe to retrieve the Ashley Biden diary. That’s the same FBI agency now with custody of the Fulton County election evidence.

The same agency who investigated the J6 pipe bombing, the Las Vegas mass shooting, the various Trump assassination attempts and even the TWA-800 explosion. That’s the same agency that seemingly cannot stop Antifa terrorist attacks yet can pour over 1,500 agents into a J6 investigation.

The FBI now has the physical ballots and machines from the Fulton County election offices.

Do we think the FBI wants honest elections?… that could result in larger ranks of honest, elected officials?… that could then hold oversight over the FBI?

Do we really think valid and secure elections are in the interests of a corrupt FBI organization?

Continue reading …

SEAL Team Six, Rob O’Neill: 'What killed Charlie Kirk was NOT a bullet.'pic.twitter.com/CnYXQ4vTdH

— ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 (@ImBreckWorsham) July 20, 2026

If you disagree, the truth is simple to find. Shoot a watermelon with a 30 caliber round from 100 yards. Discussion is over.

The House is set to vote on several bills before they leave on Thursday and won’t be back in session until September.

The $1.15 Trillion dollar NDAA, which will tie our military intelligence to Israel.

A Trump requested $93 billion dollar bill that gives the pentagon $60…

— Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@FmrRepMTG) July 20, 2026

Roth posted an interesting article concerning Germanic tribes and how laws were dispensed. One of points described the shared will of the community.

Important decisions were made collectively. At assemblies, free men and women—practices varied by tribe and era—gathered to deliberate on matters of war and peace, alliances, disputes, and the well-being of the community. There, they spoke, listened to one another, and strove to reach a decision. It was not the power of a single individual that was to determine the fate of all, but the shared will of the community.

Underlying this concept was a profound mythological idea: the human being was not an isolated entity, but a thread in the great tapestry of the kin group. Every action affected the fate of all. Honor, therefore, was not merely personal renown but the standing of the entire lineage. Those who acted justly strengthened the community. Those who committed treason, murder, robbery, or perjury did not merely harm individuals; they disrupted the order that bound ancestors, the living, and future generations together.

For this reason, a chieftain alone did not adjudicate serious transgressions. The community deliberated on what form of restitution or punishment corresponded to the wrong that had been committed. Depending on the deed, this might entail compensation, penance, banishment, or—in the case of particularly grave crimes—even death. The goal was not mere retribution, but the restoration of peace within the community. Order had to be renewed so that the trust binding the kin-group could endure.

From my personal experience, survival groups have failed in the past mainly due to the inexperience of the “leadership” and immorality of its members.

I came to the conclusion that building community is a better strategy. My first premise was that you can build community easier with a community center. Taking your life’s savings to buy land and build the foundation for a community center is not a light commitment but it was one that the Lord led me to make.

I foolishly thought that if I built it, the people would come. And they came for my head. Since I kept to myself, I did not know many people in my area. It did not take long for the “racist” accusation to be made and propagated to marginalize my efforts. As Dalton told me: that was bad ju ju.

This was in 2017 which was the fruition of Obama’s program to destroy our culture through division using government funding of NGOs. There are very few black Americans in Cherokee County and I learned a valuable lesson: people will use any lie to divide or marginalize people and their efforts.

Were my efforts and sacrifices made in vain? You may as well ask if the Lord was leading me astray. I came to the conclusion that the timing was not right and continued building a foundation for the community when the collapse happened.

So what is the point? A community center without moral people and leaders will fail. Infrastructure is only the beginning.

Justice, security and property rights are the keys to building a successful community. Our government’s descent into evil has brought chaos, a two-tiered justice system, unsecured borders and bankruptcy. I look at the government’s failures as a blueprint for a community’s success: if you do not let evil into your community and you have moral leadership, you will grow and prosper.