<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Lee Canter Report: Philosophical Musings of War and Peace]]></title><description><![CDATA[Political musings of War, Peace, and Philosophy.]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/s/war-and-peace</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Qq0!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f412560-647c-42d5-87b7-57ce0d494465_1024x1024.png</url><title>The Lee Canter Report: Philosophical Musings of War and 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The Neoconservative Wet Dream, Destroying Iran]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bringing back the Bush dynasty's playbook of selling a war with, well, A WAR....]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-gulf-war-playbook-why-they-needed</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-gulf-war-playbook-why-they-needed</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:52:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dgfg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd1fe7df7-a462-4077-90a3-d76c34e67b6e_600x400.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>MIC-Funded Politicians &amp; Think-Tankers Say, &#8220;We Must Revive America&#8217;s Killer Instinct&#8230; But, How?!&#8221;</h1><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;By God, we finally defeated Vietnam War syndrome&#8230;&#8221;</p></div><p>The government has always needed the people, brainwashed and obeying, to carry out their evil deeds. Some people are raised up to have no morality problems when it comes to carpet-bombing villages like they did to the citizens in Indo-China and Laos or turning asphalt into liquid molten lava and sucking the oxygen out of the air from so many bombs being dropped at the same time, like in Dresden, Germany when the allied forces (the &#8220;good guys&#8221;) took out the Nazi regime. </p><p>Some people are Oliver North or Henry Kissinger on these issues and some are <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Scott Horton&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:2016908,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/95bb0561-503b-4d83-8304-05f3d5a895f1_4501x4500.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;df26d093-2535-40c0-bbf6-0a762febf950&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>. The government wants us <em><strong>all</strong></em> to be Kissinger, or <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jonah Goldberg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:4350832,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a3f30974-6c78-4770-ba97-1f16d32329a2_512x512.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;bbb71b20-8676-4177-beea-910b52997bad&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, &#8220;Bill&#8221;<span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;William Kristol&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:2362056,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5b9acd1d-1db5-4d0d-8c83-769e6062ff23_450x450.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;f26ec6f9-b562-4a6b-899a-b9fcba9ad098&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;David Frum&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:536117,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/080eff45-be98-4bab-b49a-a9aed127ad51_4024x6048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;06e8ccf6-0812-4782-ab7e-46ae7260ae60&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, or Ben Shapiro. The government wants us to be accountable to them, but the constitution wants us to be accountable to our own morality. </p><p>This is why we start school so young and stay there longer than most murderers and <em>all </em>pedophiles stay in prison. Memorizing facts instead of learning to think critically, in what&#8217;s known as the <a href="https://cardinalinstitute.com/the-prussian-model-of-education-in-the-us-should-be-reexamined/">&#8220;Prussian Model&#8221; for schooling</a>, the last time the people were against war:</p><blockquote><p><em>The Prussian model of education wasn&#8217;t designed to create critical thinkers; it wasn&#8217;t even designed for kids. Prussian leaders built it to produce disciplined, obedient soldiers who would follow orders without question.</em></p><p><em>This was in response to the military weaknesses exposed by Prussia&#8217;s defeat by Napoleon. The defeat revealed shortcomings not only in military tactics but also in the population&#8217;s readiness and loyalty. This led Prussian leaders to recognize the need for a more unified, reliable, and well-trained citizenry that could support the state&#8217;s military and political objectives.</em></p><p><em>This shift in control allowed the state to decide what children learned and, more importantly, how they learned to think &#8212; or rather, not to think. In Prussia, schooling was a tool for control, shaping young people into compliant subjects who wouldn&#8217;t question authority or run tail in the face of a canon.</em></p><p><em>Horace Mann, an American reformer, visited Prussia and saw potential in the Prussian model as a way to bring order and predictability to a young and rapidly changing country. By the 1830s, more than 80% of children in Prussia were attending state-run schools.</em></p><p><em>Mann took these ideas back to America, convinced that the Prussian approach was the answer to creating good, orderly citizens. By adopting the Prussian model, we began to trade our local autonomy for a one-size-fits-all system and not one that supports our form of government. Republics require a knowledgeable and engaged citizenry capable of thinking critically about their society and their government rather than obedient soldiers.</em></p><p><em>Under the influence of Mann and other like-minded reformers, America&#8217;s educational system began to take on the shape of a factory conveyor belt. Children were sorted by age, taught the same subjects in the same ways, and evaluated based on standardized assessments. This system no longer fit the diverse needs of different communities; it became an assembly line creating predictability and uniformity across the board.</em></p><p><em>As standardized schooling spread across the United States, our education system gradually lost its local, personalized touch. We moved further away from the early ideals that had shaped education in the colonies. Instead, American schools became an extension of the state, focused on compliance and uniformity.</em></p></blockquote><p>With the educational implementation of the populace of brainwashed prisoners who cannot think for themselves , who, when confronted by pushback, do what they&#8217;ve been taught to do spout memorized propaganda and talking points as fact, <em>&#8220;America&#8217;s the greatest country in the world.&#8221; &#8220;Most powerful country.&#8221; &#8220;Israel is: Only democracy in the Middle East; America&#8217;s greatest ally;&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;Based around freedom, liberty, and the constitution.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>The propaganda goes on and on&#8230; </em></p><p>The Vietnam war led to the <em> fracturing of the American psyche</em> as a whole followed by full-scale retreat leaving the American empire terminally ill. After all, how can you have a global empire if you&#8217;re not willing to defend it? The point was to&#8230; <em>NOT. </em></p><p><em>Post-1975</em>: Americans had written off war wholesale. The White House and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), or the Pentagon, the <em>&#8220;Spy Services&#8221; (CIA, NSA, FBI, etc.)</em>, any of these relative structures of death &amp; decay, there, not to <em>&#8220;preserve&#8221; </em>life, but to destroy it. There was lots of talk behind the scenes of the troubles of dealing with a populace with &#8220;Vietnam Syndrome.&#8221; They needed us willing to die in for our country at the drop of a hat. Otherwise, when they act like gangsters, as American leaders often do, <em>who</em> would enforce it att= the barrel of a gun?</p><div class="pullquote"><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_eF3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d5650ee-ff8c-4530-9b50-81137eaf0880_468x240.gif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_eF3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d5650ee-ff8c-4530-9b50-81137eaf0880_468x240.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_eF3!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d5650ee-ff8c-4530-9b50-81137eaf0880_468x240.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_eF3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d5650ee-ff8c-4530-9b50-81137eaf0880_468x240.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_eF3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d5650ee-ff8c-4530-9b50-81137eaf0880_468x240.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_eF3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d5650ee-ff8c-4530-9b50-81137eaf0880_468x240.gif" width="468" height="240" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5d5650ee-ff8c-4530-9b50-81137eaf0880_468x240.gif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:468,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;rumsfeld&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="rumsfeld" title="rumsfeld" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_eF3!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d5650ee-ff8c-4530-9b50-81137eaf0880_468x240.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_eF3!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d5650ee-ff8c-4530-9b50-81137eaf0880_468x240.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_eF3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d5650ee-ff8c-4530-9b50-81137eaf0880_468x240.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_eF3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d5650ee-ff8c-4530-9b50-81137eaf0880_468x240.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Donald Rumsfeld, shaking hands with American ally, Saddam Hussein, their to offer military help against their mutual enemy, Ira n, during the Iraq v Iran War. Before the wars end. We provided intel, military hardware, training, and WMDs, as chemical/biological weapons. Very soon we would ally with Iran, also, funding both sides of the war. Then, seven years later, we go to war with that same ally.</figcaption></figure></div><p>US intelligence helped Saddam's Ba`ath Party seize power for the first time in 1963. Evidence suggests that Saddam was on the CIA payroll as early as 1959, when he participated in a failed assassination attempt against Iraqi strongman Abd al-Karim Qassem. In the 1980s, the US and Britain backed Saddam in the war against Iran, giving Iraq arms, money, satellite intelligence, and even chemical &amp; bio-weapon precursors. As many as 90 US military advisors supported Iraqi forces and helped pick targets for Iraqi air and missile attacks.</p></div><p>The <em>killing in the of</em> the U.S. didn&#8217;t stop after Saigon fell, what did was American morale towards the entire institution of militarism, and war making, what continued just that, the systematic destruction, economically or actually, of anyone not sufficiently willing to play ball with American interests. </p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/aa3b558b-92c5-451d-9141-04360ea8d862_265x190.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ff1eae09-4a5e-411b-acaf-6e1aa44ce22f_640x360.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Marine Barracks, Beirut, Lebanon, 1983; Before &amp; After;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f372f640-c984-492d-bdf8-26ab5b082b5c_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>This would lead to a constant stream of &#8220;blowback terrorism&#8221; like the American hostages in &#8216;79 to &#8216;80, the Barracks bombing in Beirut, 1983, claiming over two hundred American lives, and eventually 9/11, when we trained, armed and funded future al-Qaeda members, at this time known only as the Mujahideen, Arab rebels against the atheistic Soviet Communist-backed government who had taken power in Afghanistan, including one Saudi businessman/Sunni Muslim extremist AKA Usama Bin Laden.</p><p>Then came Iraq War I. A pre-planned attack on American ally Saddam Hussein, they would make Desert Storm the <em>&#8220;opposite of Vietnam&#8221; </em>With a win that came so easily this would be the propaganda that would lead give the &#8220;Okay&#8221; for the whims &amp; woes of American foreign policy of the next 30 years beginning with  military operations all through the 90&#8217;s leading to 9/11 and subsequently the <em>Global War on Terror, </em>where we would suffer devastating loss, and a new &#8220;syndrome&#8221; which could only be healed by a new <em>Desert Storm</em>-like win, in Venezuela, or so they thought.</p><p>Our spirits were broken after Vietnam.</p><p>The public was &#8220;done&#8221; with war, but the elites don&#8217;t change their policy when an obstacle appears. Instead, they&#8217;ll simply change the public.</p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>The Lee Canter Report is a reader-supported publication. Please share with anyone and everyone, <s>even</s><em><strong>especially</strong></em> if they disagree. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p><div><hr></div><h1><strong>Infrastructure for Consent</strong></h1><div id="youtube2-XgMKiUpFhrA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;XgMKiUpFhrA&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XgMKiUpFhrA?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><blockquote><p><a href="https://vandvreader.org/george-h-w-bush-proclaims-a-cure-for-the-vietnam-syndrome-01-march-1991/">According to reporter</a> Arnold Isaacs, National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft believed that since the United States&#8217; defeat in the Vietnam War, a &#8220;paralysis&#8221; had crippled American national security policymakers and U.S. troops would only be sent into harm&#8217;s way under the most idealized conditions.</p></blockquote><p>As a defense of John McCain and every other corporate news outlet who refused to publish <a href="https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2008/10/06/mccain-pow-cover/">Sydney Schanberg&#8217;s John McCain-P.O.W. cover-up scandal </a>after Vietnam <em>&#8220;most Americans chose to tuck-tail and run away from the entire Vietnam situation as hard and as fast as possible, with zero consideration of the lessons that should have came from the first military loss faced by the United States,&#8221; </em>but no one took heed, making the soon-to-be implemented strategy of overcoming our broken spirit from the pandemic of <em>&#8220;Vietnam War Syndrome (VWS)&#8221; </em>so damn easy to sell us we were unaware we were even the customer in this transaction.</p><p>In  1991, the American public was still reeling from &#8220;Vietnam Syndrome&#8221;&#8212;a deep-seated skepticism of foreign military intervention. Memories of the Iranian hostage crisis and the failed rescue attempt at <a href="https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0199desertone/">Desert One</a> were fresh and humiliating.</p><p>While <a href="https://www.jcs.mil/portals/36/documents/history/monographs/urgent_fury.pdf">Operation </a><strong><a href="https://www.jcs.mil/portals/36/documents/history/monographs/urgent_fury.pdf">URGENT FURY</a></strong>&#8212;the invasion of Grenada in 1983&#8212;was presented as a show of force, it did little to truly cure this scourge of the security state. It was actually the decisive victory of <strong><a href="https://www.afhistory.af.mil/FAQs/Fact-Sheets/Article/458965/1991-operation-desert-shielddesert-storm/">Desert Storm</a></strong><a href="https://www.afhistory.af.mil/FAQs/Fact-Sheets/Article/458965/1991-operation-desert-shielddesert-storm/"> </a>in 1991 that finally provided the psychological permission for future American foreign policy and effectively killed the &#8220;ghost of Saigon.&#8221;</p><p> The mission was mounted in haste, ostensibly to rescue American medical students. In reality, it was a <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coup%20de%20main">&#8220;coup de main&#8221;&#8212;</a>a surprise attack with overwhelming force designed to achieve a quick, decisive victory. It took exactly nine days to eliminate the &#8220;threat&#8221; and restore a popular government.</p><p>Although not the cure, it would be something like pre-op medications to prepare for a major procedure, see, without the easy &#8220;win&#8221; in the Caribbean, the American public never would have bought the &#8220;New World Order&#8221; pitch for Iraq.</p><h1><strong>Penicillin For the New &#8220;Afghan Syndrome&#8221;: Why Venezuela?</strong></h1><p>After Operation Epic (Epstein) Fury, and listening these psychopaths describing the current Iran excursion, I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder &#8220;Why Venezuela?&#8221; if the real target is Iran.</p><p>The answer is that Venezuela was never about the oil&#8212;it was about the <em>momentum</em>.</p><p>Trump&#8217;s decision to attack Iran was gut-driven, like everything else he does, but that gut was filled with the confidence of previous easy victories. Specifically, the &#8220;hasty seizure of the Venezuelan leader Nicol&#225;s Maduro <em><strong>(AND HIS WIFE-MIGHT I ADD)</strong></em> in January,&#8221; an operation where &#8220;no American lives were lost&#8221;.</p><p>Venezuela was the modern &#8220;Grenada.&#8221; It was a bloodless, ostensibly, televised victory used to convince the president and the public that the next operation would be just as &#8220;quick and decisive&#8221;. When intelligence officials warned that the plan to topple the Ayatollah was &#8220;detached from reality&#8221; or &#8220;farcical,&#8221; Trump pointed to Venezuela.</p><p>He believed it would be easy &#8220;because it always is&#8221;.</p><p>Sold and organized as the anti-Vietnam, it had the opposite of all the perceived negatives of the Vietnam War, it went on in infamy to be one of the two most bloody, pointless, and fraudulent military excursions America ever embarked on, as of today. Will Iran take third place?:</p><blockquote><p><a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-afghan-syndrome/">A decade later</a>, after the U.S. military smashed Saddam Hussein&#8217;s army in Kuwait in the First Gulf</p><p>War, George H.W. Bush exulted that the country had finally &#8220;kicked the Vietnam Syndrome once</p><p>and for all.&#8221; As it turned out, despite the organization of massive &#8220;victory parades&#8221; at home to prove</p><p>that this hadn&#8217;t been Vietnam redux, that war kicked back. Another decade passed and there was H.W.&#8217;s son W. and his advisors planning the invasion of Iraq through a haze of Vietnam-constrained obsessions.</p><p>W.&#8217;s top officials and the Pentagon would actually organize the public relations aspect of that invasion and the occupation that followed as a Vietnam &#8220;opposite&#8217;s&#8221; game &#8212; no &#8220;body counts&#8221; to turn off the public, plenty of embedded reporters so that journalists couldn&#8217;t roam free and (as in Vietnam) harm the war effort, and so on. The one thing they weren&#8217;t going to do was lose another war the way Vietnam had been lost. </p></blockquote><div><hr></div><p><em><strong>Boy, were they wrong!</strong></em></p><div><hr></div><blockquote><p>Yet they managed once again to bog the U.S. military down in disaster on the Eurasian mainland, could barely manage to win a heart or a mind, and even began issuing body counts of the enemy dead.</p><p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t do body counts,&#8221; General Tommy Franks, Afghan War commander, had insisted in 2001, and as late as November 2006, the president was still expressing his irritation about Iraq to a group of conservative news columnists this way: &#8220;We don&#8217;t get to say that &#8212; a thousand of the enemy killed or whatever the number was. It&#8217;s happening. You just don&#8217;t know it.&#8221; The problem, he explained, was: &#8220;We have made a conscious effort not to be a body count team&#8221; (&#224; laVietnam). And then, of course, those body counts began appearing.</p><p>Somehow, over the endless years, no matter what any American president tried, The War &#8212;<em>that war</em>&#8212; and its doppelganger of a syndrome, a symbol of defeatso deep and puzzling Americans could never bear to fully take it in, refused to depart town. </p><p>They were the ghosts on the battlements of American life, representing &#8212; despite the application of firepower of a historic nature &#8212; a defeat by a small Asian peasant land so unexpected that it simply couldn&#8217;t be shaken, nor its&#8220;lessons&#8221; learned.</p></blockquote><p>Just like the Gulf War was there to ease &#8220;Vietnam Syndrome&#8221;, a new ill had come to pass post-Global War on Terror campaigns known as <em>&#8220;Afghan Syndrome&#8221;</em> which needed its own dose of antibiotics.</p><p><em>That</em> was <em>&#8220;why Venezuela?&#8221;</em></p><h1><strong>From &#8220;Dumb McNamara&#8221; to the Current Stalemate</strong></h1><p>The tragedy is that this trick only works if the next target is just as small.</p><p>Iran is not Iraq. It is not even Venezuela in January.&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;&#9;.</p><p>We are now witnessing the return of the &#8220;McNamara&#8221; era of war management. Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, has been mocked as &#8220;Dumb McNamara&#8221; for lobbing statistics at reporters like hand grenades&#8212;&#8221;Over 10,000 enemy targets destroyed,&#8221; he crows, while the war remains a bloody, expensive stalemate.</p><p>Just like in Vietnam, the Pentagon bombards the public with statistics to hide a &#8220;horrible failure&#8221;. And just like in Vietnam, the state is now dealing with a populace that is &#8220;done&#8221; with the &#8220;immorality, bigotry, and economic cost&#8221; of endless war.</p><p>The &#8220;bitter fruit&#8221; of these policies is a moment where the U.S. has lost its leverage. Because we used Venezuela as a &#8220;switchboard&#8221; to signal our toughness, we are now trapped in a war of choice in Iran that has given Tehran a &#8220;death grip&#8221; on the global economy. We can <em>&#8220;blockade the blockade&#8221; </em> all we want, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T19GODD3THM">Trump can pontificate about </a><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T19GODD3THM">&#8220;America having our own oil&#8221; </a></em>until he&#8217;s blue in the face, but the truth is right there in our faces every time we go anywhere and have to refuel, over and over and over again, <em>Why Mr. Trump, if we don&#8217;t need the Strait of Hormuz,  why has gas risen $1.50/gallon since March 1st? </em> Right. He&#8217;s either stupid or a liar. We all know which one&#8230;<em>Both. </em></p><p>The &#8220;Vietnam Syndrome&#8221; isn&#8217;t a disease. It&#8217;s the immune system of a democracy. And Venezuela was the immunosuppressant that let the current disaster in.</p><p>Thank you for reading, </p><p>This is <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8278de67-045a-411e-8b17-7aa1770e1e47_1592x1592.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;56444aac-372b-4db3-9053-d10e5b030736&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, <em>Editor-in-Chief, Founder, Lead Creative Director, </em><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Lee Canter Report&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:368081,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9f412560-647c-42d5-87b7-57ce0d494465_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;7bf31da3-ff83-41b5-87eb-3ebd6d6d1f9e&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span></p><p>Subscribe or Share if you found this interesting OR if you hated it, I&#8217;ll be in the comments section waiting to reply.</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dark Cloud Has Settled Above Our Civilization]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are at war, and nobody knows what will happen next...]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-dark-cloud-has-settled-above</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-dark-cloud-has-settled-above</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:53:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PZR-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F85c3e07d-90f8-4a96-a3e4-8a0a97363fd7_1200x864.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8212;Including the foolish, ego-driven fool who traded lawyer fees and campaign funds for&#8212;at this time the risk, but no doubt&#8212;the lives of our bravest young men.</p><p>As <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Saagar Enjeti&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1998730,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6f98d34f-fb91-4aae-bc69-51c511c3c2b3_48x48.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;4c6fbfb3-8957-40d5-8dd5-53c5210cc666&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> foretold on Breaking Points <a href="https://youtu.be/KnroM-W76iw?si=EOqU6DndfaAMv_Eg">really informative broadcast</a>  just hours after the president announced his stupidity on the world stage and, gaslit the <em>whole</em> planet, Saagar preceded this with:</p><p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be annoying, but when people bring it up, try to get into it and really get because the propaganda is going to be unbelievable.&#8221; </p><p>I know nobody brought it up, but the interweb is burning brighter than the Palisades with many sides being represented. But only one side is the truth, and  I&#8217;m here to represent <em>that </em>side as quickly as I can. There&#8217;s a lot of context to cover, if you feel I fell short on anything, please reach out. I&#8217;ll make, and publish the correction, unless of course you&#8217;re <em>wrong</em>, then I will provide sources citing why <em>I</em> am <em>right.</em> </p><p><em>(Apologizing for the subject matter, already, what a sad soul you are Jordan.)</em></p><p>There&#8217;s nothing more prescient at the moment than informing the public on the who, why, when, and what of the preemptive attack by the &#8220;<em>mostly </em>peaceful&#8221; tyrants calling the shots in DC, and I have spent every moment I've had to spare obsessively researching, writing, fact checking, getting a grasp on the crime story, that is <em>our government </em>for <em>years</em> now. I've lost touch with friends, a woman I thought I would marry, and at least one job, where I had worked for a decade, in pursuit of understanding how things like this happen. So that I could ascend from the rabbit hole, and report to the commoners what I seen down that hole.   </p><p>So, when <em>shit hits the fan</em>, if I was to now write about the Winter storm hitting the East this week, well, that would be journalistic malpractice of the highest order. Sorry, Epstein, you&#8217;re six feet under already, and since I sat down to write this (the following was added in post) Supreme Leader Khamenei, alongside many of the leadership in Iran, 50+ children and staff at an all girls school in Iran, courtesy of the offense (U.S. or Israel, unsure which), and three American servicemen, (so far) and thousands more at risk. </p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-24-girls-killed-us-strike-elementary-school-southern-iran" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!X01a!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2554d3c0-fb4e-4618-bb58-e0f1651be7c6_2740x948.png 424w, 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Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States [p. 1]. Yale University Press. Kindle Edition.) </p></div><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;83afa080-6866-48b6-935e-cf405ba984f3&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><em>Charlie got it right, and for that they did him wrong.</em></p><h2><strong>Another Day, Another Treasonous Vomit of Lies</strong></h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PZR-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F85c3e07d-90f8-4a96-a3e4-8a0a97363fd7_1200x864.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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President Donald Trump announced the commencement of &#8220;Operation Epic Fury,&#8221; a large-scale, multi-domain military offensive against the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to the Washington Post, who was the first journalist to make contact with the president post-strike. The early bird bought a belly full of lies, right? I&#8217;m believe that's how the line. <sup>   </sup></p><blockquote><p>&#8220;All I want is freedom for the people,&#8221; Trump said in a brief phone interview shortly after 4 a.m., when asked what he hopes his legacy will be as a result of the military action and a push for regime change in Iran. </p><p>&#8220;I want a safe nation, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to have,&#8221; the president said, his first reportable remarks after announcing in a 2:30 a.m. video message that the U.S. had launched &#8220;major combat operations.&#8221;</p><p>Iran quickly launched counterstrikes in response to the attack, which the Trump administration named &#8220;Operation Epic Fury,&#8221; and multiple U.S. military bases were targeted by Iran. Officials have not reported any injuries of American service members. Seven Arab countries and Israel also reported missile attacks.</p><p>Trump spoke to The Post from Mar-a-Lago, his home in Palm Beach, Florida, where he arrived Friday night just hours before the military strikes began. Television news played in the background at the time of the call.</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.wwno.org/npr-news/2026-02-28/israel-and-the-u-s-launch-strikes-on-iran">Strikes launched parallel to the Israeli Defense Forces</a>&#8217; &#8220;Operation Roaring Lion,&#8221; the campaign represented the culmination of rapid military buildup in the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, characterized by the deployment of what the administration described as a <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/explainer-us-armada-in-the-middle-east-what-assets-is-washington-deploying-against-iran/3812999">&#8220;vast armada&#8221;.</a> At approximately 2:30 AM Eastern Time, in an<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-full-statement-on-us-iran-attack-major-combat-operations/"> eight-minute video address released via Truth Social</a>, the President detailed the tactical<a href="https://www.bssnews.net/international/364569"> objectives of the mission:</a>  </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;We are going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally &#8212; again &#8212; obliterated. We&#8217;re going to annihilate their navy,&#8221; Trump said.</p></blockquote><p>This <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/iran-attack-us-political-reaction">announcement </a> coincided with reports of heavy explosions across Tehran, Isfahan, and Karaj, as over 200 fighter aircraft and hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles targeted approximately 500 sites across the Iranian heartland.</p><p><a href="https://www.bssnews.net/international/364569">The administrative justification</a> for this unprovoked escalation rests on the premise of an &#8220;imminent threat&#8221; to the American homeland and its regional allies. President Trump characterized the Iranian leadership as a &#8220;vicious group of very hard, terrible people&#8221; who have waged an &#8220;unending campaign of bloodshed&#8221; for nearly five decades. </p><p>Central to this narrative is the assertion that the regime had reconstituted its nuclear weapons program following the limited strikes of June 2025, known as &#8220;Operation Midnight Hammer,&#8221; which the administration previously claimed had &#8220;obliterated&#8221; Tehran&#8217;s enrichment capacity. This shift, from limited tactical strikes to a full-scale regime-change war, is another slap in the face to the 73-million Americans, majority low-to-middle working class who trusted this man after seeing how the dark forces around Washington, Langley, and other spook training centers for Lindsey Graham-think-alikes in &#8220;Big Intel <em>(The Swamp)&#8221;</em> and democratic power parishioners, whose elitism and fake compassion blinds them of the <em>forest AND the trees,</em> had colluded to frame the man for treason, fraud, and other crimes normally reserved for people like them. Those of us who hate authority, and know how the system fucks us all, really started empathize and figured after seeing shoe on the other side foot, maybe he could begin to empathize with them. After all, he <em>did </em>pardon Ross Ulbricht.</p><p>More than anything, he became the Republican that real Americans have always hated. The con artist &amp; war hawks, <em>enemies of the people</em>, titans of big oil, pharma, and the military-industrial complex, and this group of corporate RINO&#8217;s&#8212;as the like to call them&#8212;are the neocon&#8217;s of a new age, same as the old age, leading the departure from the &#8220;Peace through Strength&#8221; rhetoric that defined the 2024 campaign, moving instead toward a doctrine of &#8220;Epic Fury&#8221; designed to force a total collapse of the clerical system.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>No matter who you vote for, you get John McCain.</p></div><h2><strong>The Official Casus Belli: Lies, Lies, Lies</strong></h2><p>The case for war articulated by President Trump and his senior cabinet members involves a synthesis of historical grievances, nuclear non-compliance, and alleged ties to global terrorism.<sup> </sup></p><div><hr></div><div id="youtube2-EGDkKMZ4klk" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;EGDkKMZ4klk&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EGDkKMZ4klk?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div><hr></div><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-full-statement-on-us-iran-attack-major-combat-operations/">In his 2:00 AM address,</a> the President provided a detailed, if controversial, account of Iranian &#8220;sins,&#8221; framing the current military action as a long-overdue response to a variety of provocations. The administration&#8217;s argument is built upon several key pillars intended to mobilize public support and justify the bypass of congressional authorization.</p><p>The first pillar is the &#8220;Imminent Nuclear Breakout&#8221; narrative, which is nothing but a copy/paste campaign from the failed Iraqi invasion that Donald. Despite the 2025 &#8220;Midnight Hammer&#8221; strikes, the administration claims that Iran continued to enrich uranium to 60% purity, <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/un-nuclear-watchdog-says-its-unable-to-verify-whether-iran-has-suspended-all-uranium-enrichment">positioning itself just &#8220;weeks away&#8221; from a functional nuclear device. </a></p><p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued that Tehran was utilizing underground tunnel complexes in Isfahan to hide enriched material from IAEA inspectors, rendering further diplomacy &#8220;legally untenable&#8221;. </p><p>The second pillar involves the &#8220;Mass Terror&#8221; claim, which holds Iran responsible for a litany of historic attacks, including the 1979 hostage crisis, the 1983 Beirut Marine barracks bombing, and the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel by Hamas. The administration asserts that 46 Americans were killed and 12 taken hostage during the October 7 events, for which Iran serves as the primary &#8220;state sponsor&#8221;.</p><p>Perhaps the most significant claim is the &#8220;Bin Laden Proxy&#8221; assertion. President Trump explicitly stated that Iran was &#8220;probably involved&#8221; in the al-Qaeda attack on the USS Cole in 2000 and has historically served as a critical support network for Sunni extremist groups, including Osama bin Laden. This narrative seeks to blur the lines<a href="https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/node/3295"> between the Shia clerical regime in Tehran and Sunni Salafist</a> terror networks, framing the conflict as a definitive strike against the heart of global jihadism. </p><p>Finally, the administration cited the &#8220;Massacre of Protesters&#8221; as a humanitarian mandate for regime change, alleging that the Iranian government murdered &#8220;tens of thousands&#8221; of its own citizens during economic protests in late 2025 and early 2026. By portraying the Iranian people as &#8220;oppressed&#8221; and &#8220;asking for America&#8217;s help,&#8221; the President has positioned the United States as the liberator in a mission of &#8220;freedom&#8221;, but let's avoid amnesia and stay in reality. Remember how Iraq would &#8220;greet us as liberators?&#8221; Turns out, not so much.  </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!U4fd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa146bd87-2777-490c-ada5-f1037eb8c5cd_2574x1245.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!U4fd!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa146bd87-2777-490c-ada5-f1037eb8c5cd_2574x1245.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!U4fd!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa146bd87-2777-490c-ada5-f1037eb8c5cd_2574x1245.png 848w, 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The fundamental schism in Islam, which dates to the 7th century, is centered on the legitimate succession of the Prophet Muhammad, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia%E2%80%93Sunni_relations">Sunnis following a consensus-based model and Shias adhering to the bloodline of Ali ibn Abi Talib</a>. Al-Qaeda, an organization rooted in the most austere forms of Sunni Wahhabism, <em>views Shia Muslims as &#8220;apostates&#8221;</em> <em><a href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2014/12/the-tortured-roots-of-sectarian-violence.html">(takfiris) who have corrupted the faith.</a></em> The Iranian regime, <a href="https://www.cfr.org/photo-essay/sunni-shia-divide">a Shia theocracy</a> governed by the &#8220;Guardianship of the Jurist&#8221; (Velayat-e Faqih), represents the ideological antithesis of the Al-Qaeda caliphate.</p><p>While some transactional cooperation occurred in the 1990s&#8212;facilitated by Hasan al-Turabi in Sudan to target common Western enemies&#8212;this relationship was never a &#8220;proxy&#8221; arrangement. </p><p><a href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2014/12/the-tortured-roots-of-sectarian-violence.html">Experts note </a>that Al-Qaeda and Iran have spent much of the 21st century in a state of mutual hostility, particularly during the Iraq War and the Syrian Civil War, where Iranian-backed militias and IRGC forces were the primary ground combatants against Al-Qaeda affiliates and later ISIS. The administration&#8217;s attempt to link Iran to the USS Cole bombing and Bin Laden&#8217;s broader network overlooks the reality that Al-Qaeda&#8217;s ideology mandates the destruction of the &#8220;Rafidah&#8221; (a pejorative for Shias) alongside the &#8220;crusaders&#8221;. This conflation is viewed by critics like <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Scott Horton&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:2016908,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/95bb0561-503b-4d83-8304-05f3d5a895f1_4501x4500.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;95dd609f-7013-4772-8e81-5b8c5e246a89&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>  and <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Trita Parsi&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:4108129,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EEa6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72951980-29b7-474e-9cc9-1670f552648b_363x363.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;e65870d3-d121-4ccb-98a3-4ccfdeed5b9a&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> as a calculated piece of propaganda designed to trigger the legal and emotional mechanisms of the Global War on Terror to justify a war against a sovereign state. </p><h2><strong>The 2024 Election Narrative: From &#8220;Peace Candidate&#8221; to Wartime Escalation</strong></h2><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;b1c349c6-535d-41d9-a376-d6a6664aebed&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Trump Admin: &#8220;Bombs Away&#8221; in the New Cold War&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;So Much for the &#9774;&#65039;Peace&#9774;&#65039; Candidate&#128024; &quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Opposing the War parties, and  the Censorship-Industrial Complex, one post at a time.\n&#8220;Those who choose SECURITY over LIBERTY will have neither&#8221;\nCard carrying member of FIRE. \nFoundation for Individual Rights and Expression&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8278de67-045a-411e-8b17-7aa1770e1e47_1592x1592.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-30T22:45:33.970Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/Q7m6vmx4nEs&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/so-much-for-the-peace-candidate&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Philosophical Musings of War and Peace&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:177926733,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:7,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:368081,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;The Lee Canter Report&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Qq0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f412560-647c-42d5-87b7-57ce0d494465_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/28/trump-unprovoked-attack-on-iran-has-no-mandate-and-no-clear-objective">The current state of war</a> represents a dramatic reversal of the &#8220;Peace Candidate&#8221; messaging that defined Donald Trump&#8217;s successful 2024 presidential campaign. Throughout the election cycle, the Trump-Vance ticket, supported by figures like Steve Bannon and RFK Jr., argued that the Biden administration was leading the country into &#8220;unnecessary and endless wars&#8221;. <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tucker-carlson/">Trump frequently cited</a> his first-term record of &#8220;no new wars&#8221; as proof of his isolationist credentials, claiming that his &#8220;force of personality&#8221; could resolve the Iranian nuclear issue without firing a single shot.</p><p>Specifically, JD Vance, the junior senator from Ohio and vice-presidential running mate, gained notoriety for his vocal opposition to neoconservative interventionism, urging the Republican Party to &#8220;overlearn&#8221; the lessons of the Iraq War. Bannon, through his &#8220;War Room&#8221; platform, championed a &#8220;Sovereignty First&#8221; agenda that sought to dismantle the military-industrial complex and avoid Middle Eastern entanglements. However, the 2026 transition to Operation Epic Fury has been accompanied by a shift in rhetorical framing. High-profile administration officials now argue that the &#8220;Peace Candidate&#8221; was &#8220;betrayed&#8221; by Iranian intransigence.<sup> </sup>On the eve of the strikes, President Trump told reporters in Texas that he &#8220;would love not to use&#8221; force, but that Iran&#8217;s &#8220;difficult people&#8221; had left him with &#8220;no choice&#8221;. This evolution suggests that the &#8220;Peace Candidate&#8221; identity was a conditional strategy, intended to secure the populist vote while maintaining a latent capability for maximalist military action.</p><h2><strong>Historical Restraint: The Bush Administration and the Voices of Deterrence</strong></h2><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e1d81b1a-d467-4dc8-a3c6-554cd52864f8_275x183.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/386b6bff-110c-46c1-a0e7-12784b580b57_621x412.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;VP Cheney-Left; Admiral William Fallon-Right&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/28a2e3ed-ad27-4436-aadb-183aeea30b5a_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>The push for regime change in 2026<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2007/02/10/israel-iran-and-the-bush-administration/"> mirrors the intense internal debates </a>of the George W. Bush administration between 2005 and 2008. During that period, the &#8220;drumbeat for war&#8221; was at its loudest, with Vice President Dick Cheney and senior neoconservatives advocating for strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.<sup> </sup>However, a coalition of military and intelligence experts successfully deterred such action. <a href="https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/timeline-nuclear-diplomacy-iran-1967-2023">Admiral William Fallon, the commander of CENTCOM</a> during the 2007-2008 period, was a pivotal voice of reason, publicly stating that a war with Iran would be a &#8220;catastrophic mistake&#8221;. Fallon&#8217;s resignation in March 2008 was reportedly tied to his refusal to support plans for a &#8220;preemptive strike&#8221; that he believed lacked a strategic endgame. The Admiral was no dove by the way, according to <a href="https://www.military.com/feature/2026/02/21/25-years-after-9-11-former-centcom-commanders-strategic-warning-what-america-still-gets-wrong.html">Military.com:</a></p><blockquote><p><em>Admiral William J. &#8220;Fox&#8221; Fallon (Ret.), the only U.S. officer in history to command both U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) and U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), spent more than four decades at the center of some of America&#8217;s most critical military decisions.</em></p></blockquote><p>Furthermore, the <a href="https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/timeline-nuclear-diplomacy-iran-1967-2023">2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)</a> served as a critical deterrent, concluding with &#8220;high confidence&#8221; that Tehran had halted its nuclear weapons development in 2003. This assessment, alongside warnings from the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/iran-attack-us-political-reaction">1973 War Powers Resolution</a> advocates, compelled the Bush administration to pivot toward covert disruption rather than overt combat.<sup> </sup>The deployment of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet">Stuxnet virus in &#8220;Operation Olympic Games&#8221; </a>demonstrated that industrial sabotage could achieve tactical goals without the risks of regional conflagration. In contrast, the 2026 administration has dismissed these historical warnings, with President Trump arguing that the &#8220;failed diplomacy&#8221; of the past 25 years only emboldened the regime. The absence of a modern-day &#8220;Fallon&#8221; in the current Pentagon leadership has been cited by critics as a primary reason for the lack of internal institutional resistance to the current strikes.</p><h2><strong>The Israeli Architecture of the War: Lobbying and Strategic Imperatives</strong></h2><p>The case that Israel is the primary driver behind the 2026 conflict is documented extensively by scholars like Trita Parsi and Scott Horton. For decades, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has portrayed Iran as an &#8220;existential threat&#8221; to the Jewish state, frequently using visual aids and &#8220;red line&#8221; rhetoric at the United Nations to lobby for U.S. military intervention. According to Parsi, the Israeli strategy has been to &#8220;ensnare&#8221; the United States into a war that Israel itself cannot win alone, effectively turning the U.S. military into Israel&#8217;s &#8220;third aircraft carrier&#8221; in the region.</p><p>The 2026 strikes, occurring on the Jewish Sabbath and reportedly timed to coincide with biblical passages regarding the eradication of &#8220;Amalek,&#8221; highlight the ideological fervor driving the joint operation. Israeli military officials described the mission as a &#8220;joint, broad, and powerful operation&#8221; aimed at the &#8220;elimination of existential threats&#8221;.<sup>    </sup></p><p>Not a chance that date was set by American lawmakers. It&#8217;s not like Christmas. This was planned and date set by someone with knowledge of Jewish holidays.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hgjZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd515c5d5-10b4-43d2-929e-12c722177a9f_1504x1640.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hgjZ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd515c5d5-10b4-43d2-929e-12c722177a9f_1504x1640.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hgjZ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd515c5d5-10b4-43d2-929e-12c722177a9f_1504x1640.png 848w, 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However, the narrative of these protests is complicated by evidence of foreign infiltration and information operations. While <a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602237242">human rights groups like Iran Human Rights (IHR) verified over 3,400 deaths </a>during the December 2025 &#8211; January 2026 unrest, the Iranian government has alleged that the uprising was manufactured by the CIA and Mossad. 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvJ4!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F839db8a0-4f3c-46df-9d82-0a78535b7f74_1524x1436.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvJ4!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F839db8a0-4f3c-46df-9d82-0a78535b7f74_1524x1436.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvJ4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F839db8a0-4f3c-46df-9d82-0a78535b7f74_1524x1436.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvJ4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F839db8a0-4f3c-46df-9d82-0a78535b7f74_1524x1436.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>If you don&#8217;t know why the NED is significant, they are the regime change wing of the CIA. I cover them extensively <em><a href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/usaid-and-the-two-party-industrial?r=iuq6q">here</a>, <a href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/a-quick-note-on-usaid-and-one-of?r=iuq6q">here</a>, </em>and <em><a href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/interference-the-anatomy-of-regime?r=iuq6q">here</a>.</em></p><p>Analysts at the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) have documented how these foreign-linked posts were used by the Iranian state as &#8220;proof&#8221; of external meddling to justify a more brutal crackdown. The &#8220;digital playbook&#8221; described by researchers involves framing organic economic grievances as a foreign intelligence operation, thereby fracturing domestic solidarity and allowing the regime to label protesters as &#8220;rioters&#8221;. </p><p>At the same time, activists have shared verified footage of bodies in the Kahrizak morgue, suggesting that the scale of the state&#8217;s violence was indeed unprecedented. The Trump administration has seized upon this brutality, with the President telling Iranians that &#8220;the hour of your freedom is at hand&#8221; and urging them to &#8220;take over your government&#8221; once the bombings cease. This demonstrates the effective &#8220;repackaging&#8221; of domestic unrest as a military tactical opening for regime change.</p><p>The truth of the matter, however, is there was absolutely foreign meddling. If those people were really killed, and God rest their souls. Western leaders should be put on a pike for this. Everybody who does any kind of dealings with us end up dead or in the Epstein files. We should <em>all </em>be isolationists, <em>somebody stop us before we kill again!</em> US and Israel led those protestors down the primrose path to doom!</p><h2>Hoops and Hurdles: The Systematic Sabotage of Negotiations</h2><p>The claim that Iran refused to negotiate is challenged by the detailed history of the <a href="https://sundayguardianlive.com/world/geneva-deadlock-us-iran-nuclear-talks-collapse-without-deal-as-war-drums-beat-louder-carriers-f-22s-ready-in-mideast-172657/">Geneva talks held in February 2026</a>. In the weeks leading up to the 2:00 AM strike, the Iranian government &#8220;jumped through hoops&#8221; to accommodate U.S. demands mediated by Oman. In the final rounds of technical discussions, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reportedly offered to completely shut down high-level uranium enrichment and allow IAEA inspectors back into sites targeted in the June 2025 &#8220;Midnight Hammer&#8221; strikes. Tehran proposed a &#8220;down-blending&#8221; of its highly enriched stockpile (including 400kg of 60% purity) and a return to low-level enrichment under constant UN surveillance.</p><p>However, the Trump administration, influenced by Secretary Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff, shifted the &#8220;goalposts&#8221; to include the permanent dismantling of the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan facilities, as well as the termination of Iran&#8217;s ballistic missile program. These were conditions that Tehran viewed as an &#8220;existential surrender&#8221; of its sovereignty. By demanding &#8220;zero enrichment forever&#8221; and the physical destruction of infrastructure, the U.S. team effectively ensured a deadlock. <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tucker-carlson/">Critics argue that the administration utilized the negotiations not as a path to peace</a>, but as a &#8220;pre-scripted failure&#8221; designed to build a public record of Iranian &#8220;intransigence&#8221; before launching Operation Epic Fury, and I believe the critics were correct. By the end of the negotiations, just like Maduro, <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tucker-carlson/">they offered </a><em><a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tucker-carlson/">everything</a></em><a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tucker-carlson/">,</a> but we&#8217;d gotten the taste of blood and were ready to kill. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xHX2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf485dbe-aca8-4571-98ee-bd36e4d8079a_1239x828.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xHX2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf485dbe-aca8-4571-98ee-bd36e4d8079a_1239x828.png 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>Iraq 2003 vs. Iran 2026: The Repackaging of WMD Propaganda</h3><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/iran-attack-us-political-reaction">The propaganda utilized to sell</a> Operation Epic Fury bears striking similarities to the &#8220;intelligence debacle&#8221; that preceded the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In 2003, the Bush administration relied on a &#8220;willful overinterpretation&#8221; of intelligence regarding Saddam Hussein&#8217;s weapons of mass destruction, a case that was ultimately disproved but only after a decade-long war. <a href="https://providencemag.com/2026/02/iran-in-2026-is-neither-iran-in-1953-nor-iraq-in-2003/">The Trump administration </a>has repackaged these themes, but with a critical difference: while Iraq did not have a nuclear program, Iran actually possesses the technical knowledge and infrastructure, which allows the administration to frame a &#8220;real&#8221; threat into an &#8220;imminent&#8221; one.</p><p>The &#8220;repackaging&#8221; process involves the same rhetorical devices: the promise of a &#8220;cakewalk&#8221; victory, the characterization of the enemy as uniquely evil, and the dismissal of critics as &#8220;fifth column isolationists&#8221;. The 2026 campaign has also utilized modern technology, such as &#8220;Voice of America&#8221; and targeted social media pushes, to incite an internal uprising, much like the failed efforts to encourage Iraqis to rise up in the 1990s. Senator Tim Kaine and other critics point out that the administration has &#8220;learned nothing&#8221; from 25 years of unproductive wars, repeating the cycle of &#8220;lashing out&#8221; without a viable strategy for what comes after the regime falls. The &#8220;propaganda of victory,&#8221; where the White House manufactures successes and derides concerns over casualties, is already being deployed to drown out the reality of a &#8220;war of choice&#8221; that lacks congressional authorization.</p><p>And finally&#8230;</p><p>Operation Epic Fury and the concurrent Israeli Operation Roaring Lion represent the most definitive attempt to resolve the &#8220;Iran Problem&#8221; through overwhelming force and the total dismantling of the Islamic Republic&#8217;s power structure. By itemizing a 47-year history of grievances and utilizing a controversial &#8220;Bin Laden proxy&#8221; narrative, the Trump administration has sought to create a legal and moral mandate for a conflict that bypasses the traditional constitutional checks and balances of the American government. The analysis of the Geneva negotiations reveals that while Iran was willing to make unprecedented concessions on its nuclear program, the U.S. administration&#8217;s move toward maximalist demands rendered a peaceful resolution impossible.</p><p>As the conflict progresses, the reliance on the &#8220;protestor massacre&#8221; narrative and the active role of Israeli strategic lobbying suggest that the war&#8217;s objectives go far beyond nuclear non-proliferation, aiming instead for a complete reordering of the Middle Eastern map. The lessons of the Iraq War and the restraint of the Bush-era military experts have been discarded in favor of a &#8220;gamble&#8221; that assumes an internal Iranian collapse is imminent.<sup>  </sup>Whether the &#8220;hour of freedom&#8221; promised by President Trump leads to a stable, democratic Iran or a protracted regional catastrophe remains the central question of this 2:00 AM war.<sup>  </sup>The architecture of this conflict, built on a foundation of repackaged propaganda and strategic brinkmanship, now faces the ultimate test of military and political reality.</p><p>The last thing I have to say about this is if you are not fucking retarded and you are still still supporting these fucking losers than <em>we are not the same.</em> I&#8217;m not even sure we are the same species, or could it be you are caught up in some kind of Crispr, inbred, form sociopathic being that keeps you so mentally unwell that you can&#8217;t keep up with what happened from one moment to the next.  </p><p>Otherwise, as I said in the last piece, it's time for a change. Time to relocate these scumbags to the funny pages, but until then, keep our troops, and serviceman, in your prayers, they&#8217;re under bad leadership, and even if they&#8217;re assholes, their families aren't.</p><p>And the poor souls whose homes are getting bombed. God be with them.</p><p>And if you made it this far, God bless you, and thank you, so very much for taking the time to hear what I had to say.</p><p>Happy trails, stay tuned for more.</p><p> <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8278de67-045a-411e-8b17-7aa1770e1e47_1592x1592.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;da8aa7fd-2f47-43e8-b38c-f6abbd83f999&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, Editor-in-Chief, <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Lee Canter Report&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:368081,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9f412560-647c-42d5-87b7-57ce0d494465_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;bc4db7a9-491b-416b-a401-7c8c185fca6f&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE SILENT INVASION: How the War on Venezuela's Maduro Went From Maritime Drone War to Boots-on-the-Ground False Flag Operation to Justify Regime Change ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Because What Good is a 'Department of War' Without a War?!]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-silent-invasion-how-the-war-on</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-silent-invasion-how-the-war-on</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:30:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/jJ-udTVrhI4" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><hr></div><h1>Late, But Accurate</h1><p><em>Late, as usual. However unfortunate it may seem to you, dear reader, I assure you my tardiness is a most fortunate turn of events.</em></p><p><em>What I do here&#8212;fancying myself a journalist and all, maybe a data journalist&#8212;is strictly about getting the whole story. I&#8217;ve seen the term &#8220;Solidarity Reporting&#8221; thrown around, and the definition seems to stick, as long as the field doesn&#8217;t evolve into some kind of negative incantation. You know the type: labeled as &#8220;biased,&#8221; &#8220;not credible,&#8221; or any other derogatory term used to discredit this movement of independence happening at this great free platform we are a part of.</em></p><p><em>I do my best to get the whole story, whatever the subject of the piece is. I follow and listen to sources that I have learned to trust&#8212;not blindly, of course. I look into everything they say because I can&#8217;t cite it myself if I have no source. I believe my positions on most things are too radical or controversial to not make damn sure I provide lots of evidence. I also really love going through documents and putting pieces together; what a great place to be. I should kill my guidance counselor.</em></p><p><em>So, although &#8220;I have not been there&#8221; like Douglas Murray, I definitely do not refrain from speaking of a place until I visit, as he claims to. However, I don&#8217;t write speeches for leadership supporting the wars that are the subject of my reporting, either. Douglas Murray and David Frum do, however. Talk about bad ethics.</em></p><p><em>Many otherwise credible reporters, journalists, pundits, and speakers received word from Congress and others close to the White House regarding an announcement of war. Even the most hardworking and credible journalists on this issue, like </em><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Dave DeCamp&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:75445561,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3465b782-6269-462d-b4f3-cd81163a58ee_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;f678f3c9-a923-4759-b9f7-4868d0207a0b&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <em>and </em><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Scott Horton&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:2016908,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/95bb0561-503b-4d83-8304-05f3d5a895f1_4501x4500.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;7172fc57-65df-4b10-9b70-b1ca0f534db4&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <em>, heard from their sources that a declaration of war with Venezuela would happen in Donald Trump&#8217;s end-of-year address.</em></p><p>As it turns out, the word &#8220;Venezuela&#8221; wasn&#8217;t even spoken in the speech. The closest he got was an offhand comment mid-brag:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;They decimated the bloodthirsty foreign drug cartels. We did that all by ourselves with our people. And we&#8217;re so proud of it, because they were poisoning and destroying our population. Drugs brought in by ocean and by sea&#8230;&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>If only it were so&#8230;</p><div id="youtube2-jJ-udTVrhI4" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;jJ-udTVrhI4&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jJ-udTVrhI4?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>So,<em> what happened? </em>Someone from the White House sent some little stories up the grapevine, maybe to feel things out, maybe to cause confusion, that the president would be announcing war with Venezuela during the <a href="https://youtu.be/jJ-udTVrhI4?si=YGQM-3wboXJrTOw9">end of year address</a>. However, told Fox News received the &#8220;real intel,&#8221; that the speech would be &#8220;about the economy.&#8221; Turns out they got a trick or two up their sleeves and would love, more than anything, to sow chaos and ruin the credibility of anyone in opposition to the president&#8217;s agenda. </p><p>But, these tricks are useless. There&#8217;s no longer a gate being kept by the halls of power stopping these tricks from being exposed. So, the next day when everyone reported the same story it was very obvious where the foul play came from. </p><p>That is why this is the greatest time to be alive. We were sold a lie, a fake bill of goods when leadership promised to be the carriers of mass disclosure, regardless of every time they sold us up the river in the past, we believed them. What they didn&#8217;t realize, however, is disclosure is no longer up to them. </p><p>As long as the internet is free and forever, disclosure will remain at the tips of our fingers, and whatever they might be hiding, be patient, and the dark will come to the light.</p><p>So, with that being said, some Housekeeping:</p><p>My stories might be old news by the time that I get them published, but what I strive for is accuracy. This is a long-term project I&#8217;m doing and I hope to be considered one day at levels as high as say, <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Racket News&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1042,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d63b6e63-bda5-4551-8e76-a7fce22793ec_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;f90b2004-bf73-451c-baf7-dbc215ac569a&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> or <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Drop Site News&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:241462060,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c8afbb85-9896-4b37-b11d-021bf3058862_647x647.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;669a170e-a54e-411c-845a-d00eea9e0e54&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> or maybe even <a href="https://anti-war.com/">Anti-War.com</a>.</p><p>One more thing, I&#8217;m thinking of changing the name of this here publication, something like, <em><strong>&#8220;</strong>Late, But True&#8221;&#8230;. <strong>Late, But Accurate? </strong>How about this: <strong>The Late, But Accurate Report?</strong></em> I got it, I&#8217;ll do a poll, wherever the vote is when the ball drops into 2026, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ll go with.  This is a <em>for-the-people </em>type of operation.</p><div class="poll-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:422304}" data-component-name="PollToDOM"></div><div class="pullquote"><p><strong>The United States finds itself at a moment when the gap between power and prudence has rarely been more visible. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-grapple-with-affordability-crisis-hard-for-me-just-to-survive/">As American society grapples with structural inflation</a>, <a href="https://americanbazaaronline.com/2025/07/14/america-divided-a-polarized-future-464994/">deep social fragmentation,</a> a crisis of institutional credibility, and the steady <a href="https://theconversation.com/mainstream-media-faces-a-credibility-crisis-my-journalism-research-shows-how-the-news-can-still-serve-the-public-245094">erosion of public trust</a>, renewed talk of military confrontation with Venezuela is once again circulating within Washington&#8217;s political and security circles. In recent months, this rhetoric has intensified, driven in part by President Donald <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/politics/rubio-trump-drugs-venezuela.html">Trump and influential figures around him &#8211; most notably Senator Marco Rubio &#8211; who have pushed an increasingly confrontational line toward Caracas</a>, bringing the country closer to the threshold of conflict. These developments are not the product of a genuine threat, but rather reflect a dangerous habit in U.S. foreign policy: transforming domestic deadlock into external military adventure. The central question is both simple and decisive: who exactly is this war for, and what purpose is it meant to serve? </strong></p><p><a href="https://original.antiwar.com/greg_pence/2025/12/18/a-war-no-american-needs-confrontation-with-venezuela-brings-neither-security-nor-benefit/">Greg Pence, Anti-War.com,</a> <strong>A War No American Needs: Confrontation with Venezuela Brings Neither Security nor Benefit</strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Corporate media has failed, The Freedom Manifesto <strong>will never.</strong> The Freedom Manifesto is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p><em>&#8203;The warships are in position. The airspace is closed. And the justification for the coming slaughter has been exposed as a lie.</em></p><p><em><strong>AGAIN!!!</strong></em></p><p>&#8203;While the American public were distracted by the end-of-year holidays, the United States military machine quietly shifted gears from "posture" to "prelude" to &#8220;kinetic war.&#8221; As of this morning, December 26, 2025, the United States is effectively at war with Venezuela. Boots are on the ground. The grid has been hacked. The airspace is closed.</p><p>For the last four months, <em>The Freedom Manifesto</em> has tracked every naval deployment, every leaked cable, and every contradiction in the official narrative. We kept the receipts when the mainstream media looked away.</p><p>His most ardent supporters oppose this conflict with margins as high as 77%. The rest use this redundant Orwellian newspeak to suppress fear and hysteria from the public by citing the exceedingly-optimistic line, &#8220;he&#8217;s just using his negotiation skills, you know, like &#8216;A<em>rt of the Deal.&#8221;&#8217; </em></p><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all#:~:text=%E2%80%9CMore%20than%20anyone%20else%20I,what%20a%20building%20he%20owned">Unfortunately, he didn&#8217;t write the book</a> and probably never read it. It&#8217;s placement on the &#8216;Bestseller List&#8217; was a fluke at best and stolen valor at worst.</p></div><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all#:~:text=%E2%80%9CMore%20than%20anyone%20else%20I,what%20a%20building%20he%20owned">Donald John Trump doesn&#8217;t read books</a> to inform his decisions, he follows his stomach, and reportedly <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170415004804/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/14/want-to-change-trumps-mind-on-policy-be-the-last-one-who-talks-to-him/">goes with whatever the last person he talked to said</a>. If that&#8217;s true he has very apparently been taking calls from some real spooky types, or one closeted-gay Republican congressman&#8230; You know who. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vPod!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe677d579-4a00-42f5-ba62-6433a0b8e53f_199x253.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vPod!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe677d579-4a00-42f5-ba62-6433a0b8e53f_199x253.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vPod!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe677d579-4a00-42f5-ba62-6433a0b8e53f_199x253.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vPod!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe677d579-4a00-42f5-ba62-6433a0b8e53f_199x253.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vPod!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe677d579-4a00-42f5-ba62-6433a0b8e53f_199x253.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vPod!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe677d579-4a00-42f5-ba62-6433a0b8e53f_199x253.jpeg" width="199" height="253" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e677d579-4a00-42f5-ba62-6433a0b8e53f_199x253.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:253,&quot;width&quot;:199,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM > U.S. Air Force ...&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM > U.S. Air Force ..." title="SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM > U.S. Air Force ..." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vPod!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe677d579-4a00-42f5-ba62-6433a0b8e53f_199x253.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vPod!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe677d579-4a00-42f5-ba62-6433a0b8e53f_199x253.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vPod!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe677d579-4a00-42f5-ba62-6433a0b8e53f_199x253.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vPod!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe677d579-4a00-42f5-ba62-6433a0b8e53f_199x253.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Regardless, I bought that BS, hook, line, &amp; sinker, myself, but as the Commander-in-Chief of my adolescence once famously declared:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s an old saying in Tennessee &#8212; I know it&#8217;s in Texas, probably in Tennessee &#8212; that says, fool me once, shame on &#8212; shame on you. Fool me &#8212; you can&#8217;t get fooled again.&#8221;</p></blockquote><div id="youtube2-rQ6N-sb7SVQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;rQ6N-sb7SVQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/rQ6N-sb7SVQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p> When the MAGA-fanatics start in with the <em>&#8220;Art of the Deal&#8221;</em> line it&#8217;s usually preceded by some kind of disastrous policy announcement so far out of bounds from being &#8220;only America first&#8221; or in line with the populist promises which delivered Donnie a landslide popular vote+electoral college win, and this time is no different.</p><p>As I sit and type this &#8216;ode to disaster&#8217; the president, Rubio, Pete Hegseth, intelligence agencies, and the rest of the president&#8217;s men are busy spinning the narrative about &#8220;narco-terrorism&#8221; and other obfuscations to make us believe that they are fighting for us.  </p><p>&#8203;But this is not a war about drugs. It is not a war about "narco-terrorism," and if you want to know what this war is actually for, you needn&#8217;t look at the destroyers off the coast of La Guaira&#8212;you need to look no further than the prison release form signed in West Virginia earlier this month and listen to the words of Donald Trump and all of his men.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-silent-invasion-how-the-war-on/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-silent-invasion-how-the-war-on/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-silent-invasion-how-the-war-on?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-silent-invasion-how-the-war-on?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Freedom Manifesto is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h2>Armada: &#8220;Th3 Gringos are Coming! Th3 Gringos are Coming!&#8221;</h2><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a173f24d-f71e-427d-a614-d88cd58c465b_384x511.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d217d785-1ff5-40b2-b813-92a68f10254a_638x813.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/03ddca8c-35ee-4d9f-8998-ed1f7ba37dda_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>&#8203;The Pentagon sold this deployment as a standard counter-narcotics surge. A review of the naval assets currently on station reveals a force package designed not for drug interdiction, but for total air dominance and amphibious invasion.</p><p>&#8203;This is the largest accumulation of American firepower in the Caribbean since the Cold War:</p><p><a href="https://www.fourthfleet.navy.mil/Press-Room/News/Article/4329586/gerald-r-ford-carrier-strike-group-enters-us-fourth-fleet/">&#8203;The Crown Jewel</a>: On November 11, 2025, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) Carrier Strike Group entered the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility. This is the world's largest warship, carrying over 75 aircraft&#8217;s including F/A-18 Super Hornets and electronic warfare squadrons. You do not deploy a supercarrier to chase speedboats; you deploy it to level air defenses.</p><p><a href="https://news.usni.org/category/fleet-tracker">&#8203;The Invasion Force</a>: The USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) has been on station since August, carrying the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit&#8212;thousands of combat-ready Marines capable of hitting the beach within hours. </p><p><a href="https://www.defencetoday.com/security/flashpoints/us-deploys-f-35-fighter-aircraft-to-puerto-rico-as-tensions-with-venezuela-escalate/">&#8203;The Air Power: </a>In Puerto Rico, the Pentagon has forward-deployed a squadron of F-35B Lightning II stealth fighters. These jets are designed to penetrate sophisticated air defense networks.</p><p>And the one that scares me the most:</p><p>&#8203;<a href="https://defensescoop.com/2025/11/14/hegseth-announces-operation-southern-spear-after-20th-us-strike-against-alleged-narco-terrorists/">The &#8220;Robotic&#8221; War</a>: On November 13, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth officially announced &#8220;Operation Southern Spear,&#8221; debuting a new strategy involving &#8220;robotic and autonomous systems.&#8221; Unmanned surface vessels are currently patrolling the coastline, creating a surveillance dragnet. This started in early 2025, by the same name, &#8220;Operation Southern Spear,&#8221; now in an official capacity, commanded by SecDef Pete Hegseth:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people. The Western Hemisphere is America&#8217;s neighborhood &#8212; and we will protect it.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>I hate to say this in such an unscientific and anecdotal way, but if you can&#8217;t beat &#8216;em, join em. <em><strong>Everybody, and I mean everybody who has seen a Vice documentary knows that the fentanyl is coming from clandestine labs in Mexico, receiving the pre-cursor ingredients from chemical/pharmaceutical companies in China. </strong></em>Venezuela accounts for less than 5% of America&#8217;s cocaine supply, and 21% of the boats, according to coast guards, are innocent of carrying that  cocaine. They&#8217;re simply trying to provide for their families.</p><h3>Venezuela&#8217;s Buildup&#8230;</h3><p>In Venezuela they are making their own preparations for the coming conflict mobilizing 25,000 to the borders. </p><p>Along with that Maduro <a href="https://ca.news.yahoo.com/venezuelas-maduro-signs-decree-granting-212027733.html">signed</a> a decree granting himself expanded emergency powers in case of U.S. incursion, allowing him to mobilize forces nationwide and grant the military control over public services and the oil industry, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-maduro-trump-military-standoff-drug-boat-christmas-troop-deployments/">declared</a> Christmas in October, and <a href="https://blogs.shu.edu/thediplomaticenvoy/2025/10/03/tensions-grow-between-the-u-s-and-venezuela-after-third-drug-boat-is-attacked/">conducted</a> amphibious warfare exercises, keeping in mind, the Americans are back to sow chaos again.</p><h2>&#8203; The Kinetic Reality: The "Double Tap"</h2><p>&#8203;The war has already started. Since September 2, 2025, U.S. forces have conducted 28 confirmed strikes on vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.</p><p>&#8203;The official body count is 104. The administration claims they were all cartel members. However, leaked after-action reports suggest a far darker operational standard.</p><h4>War Powers Resolution&#8217;s Failed to Resolve</h4><p>After the president made it clear that he had no intention of seeking a Congressional &#8220;Declaration of War&#8221; Congress made their attempt at passing a <em>War Powers Resolution </em>that would put the power to declare war back into the hands of Congress, the way the framers of the constitution wanted.<em> </em></p><p>Reporting for <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/11/06/venezuela-war-powers-maga-rand-paul/">The Intercept</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Advocates for the war powers resolution sought to cast it as an<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/11/06/venezuela-war-powers-maga-republican/"> embodiment of MAGA non-interventionism</a> in a bid to sway Republican senators. The GOP, however, largely lined up behind Trump instead as he mulls attacking Venezuela.</p></blockquote><div class="pullquote"><p><strong>&#8220;For decades, the globalists in Washington have led our country into one disastrous foreign war after another.&#8221;</strong></p></div><blockquote><p>Senators voted 51-49 against the resolution, dooming it even as a U.S. aircraft carrier <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/uss-gerald-r-ford-carrier-strike-group/">sailed toward the Caribbean</a>. The resolution would have faced long odds even if it had passed, since Trump could have vetoed it, as he did in 2019 in the face of a measure blocking him from supporting <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/04/18/trump-veto-yemen-saudi-arabia-mbs/">Saudi Arabia&#8217;s war in Yemen</a>.</p><p>Using language drawn from the MAGA lexicon, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/90/cosponsors">lone Republican co-sponsor</a> of the measure, asked his colleagues on the Senate floor to block the potential strikes.</p><p>&#8220;For decades, the globalists in Washington have led our country into one disastrous foreign war after another, whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and now Venezuela,&#8221; Paul said. &#8220;The warmongers have recycled these experiments in regime change again and again, and what has it brought? Instability, chaos, suffering, and resentment. It is the height of arrogance to think we can forcibly remove the dictatorship in Venezuela and expect a different result.&#8221;</p></blockquote><h4>&#8203;War Crimes From Strike #1:</h4><p> In late November, reports surfaced that Secretary Hegseth authorized a &#8220;double tap&#8221; strike&#8212;bombing a disabled vessel, waiting, and then striking again to kill survivors. Presented to us as a video clip, you see the boat, the explosion, and then they are gone. What you don&#8217;t see is the two survivors clinging on for dear life, and the second strike to take out the survivors. It&#8217;s a scene reminiscent of Wikileaks <a href="https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/">&#8220;Collateral Murder&#8221;</a> video which cost Chelsea Manning four years of her life in prison for releasing. </p><div id="youtube2-kelmEZe8whI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;kelmEZe8whI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/kelmEZe8whI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><blockquote><div id="youtube2-5rXPrfnU3G0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;5rXPrfnU3G0&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/5rXPrfnU3G0?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h6><a href="https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/">Collateral Murder (above)</a>: 5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad &#8212; including two Reuters news staff.</h6><h6>Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-sight, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.</h6><div><hr></div></blockquote><div id="youtube2-zpGk9HA0Tq8" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;zpGk9HA0Tq8&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/zpGk9HA0Tq8?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Initially Navy Adm. Bradley said he was given an order to take out the survivors and gave the orders for the double tap strike. Hegseth, said in an <a href="https://x.com/SecWar/status/1994552598142038358?s=20">X post</a> of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20251129020007/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/">Washington Post report</a>:</p><blockquote><p><em>As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting to discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland.</em></p></blockquote><p> Later he blamed it on the &#8220;fog of war&#8221; and the president stated &#8220;he didn't know about the second strike,&#8221; the administration has now admitted the tactics were used, and although he has their full support, are placing the blame solely on Adm. Bradley. </p><p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s make one thing crystal clear: Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has my 100% support,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/1995643490152128919?s=20">Hegseth said in an X post</a>. &#8220;I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made &#8212; on the September 2 mission and all others since. America is fortunate to have such men protecting us. When this @DeptofWar says we have the back of our warriors &#8212; we mean it.&#8221;</p><p>Kentucky Senator (My Home) <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/politics/rand-paul-hegseth-boat-strike">Rand Paul said of this:</a> &#8220;Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this, and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn&#8217;t happen. And then the next day, from the podium at the White House are saying it did happen. So, either he was lying to us &#8230; or he&#8217;s incompetent and didn&#8217;t know it had happened.&#8221;</p><p>Now, thanks to reporting by <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/12/23/boat-strikes-venezuela-hegseth-bradley-legal/">The Intercept,</a> we know that Adm. Bradley, in the 45 minutes before the final kill-shot on the two survivors, wasn&#8217;t watching them float or popping champagne as I imagined he was, or getting a nap in, instead Bradley was seeking legal counsel from his top legal advisor:</p><blockquote><p>[F]or some <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/12/05/boat-strike-survivors-double-tap/">45 minutes</a>, Adm. Frank Bradley &#8212; then the head of Joint Special Operations Command &#8212; sought guidance from his top legal adviser. At Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on September 2, he turned to Col. Cara Hamaguchi, the staff judge advocate at the secretive JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command).</p></blockquote><p>Regardless, Bradley made the wrong choice:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Obviously, we don&#8217;t know what they were saying or thinking,&#8221; one of the sources said, &#8220;but any reasonable person would assume that they saw the aircraft and were signaling either: don&#8217;t shoot or help us.&#8221;</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KUbr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2d9f2c07-f652-40ed-b368-5f1b012cc3e3_440x440.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Under international law, those who surrender &#8212; like those who are <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/12/04/boat-strike-survivors-video/">shipwrecked</a> &#8211; are considered <a href="https://casebook.icrc.org/node/20452">hors de combat</a>, the French term for those out of combat, and may not be attacked. The Pentagon&#8217;s Law of War Manual is explicit in this regard. &#8220;Persons who have been incapacitated by wounds, sickness, or shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack,&#8221; <a href="https://ogc.osd.mil/Portals/99/department_of_defense_law_of_war_manual.pdf">reads </a>the guide.</p><p>But that&#8217;s not how Bradley &#8212; now the chief of Special Operations Command, or SOCOM &#8212; saw it. Bradley declined to comment to The Intercept, but a U.S. official familiar with his thinking said he did not perceive their waving to be a &#8220;two-arm surrender.&#8221;</p></blockquote><h2>&#8203; The &#8220;Smoking Gun&#8221;: The Honduras Connection</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uF8Y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F370a4193-0074-45ff-b479-59cdb83a6a58_1024x683.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uF8Y!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F370a4193-0074-45ff-b479-59cdb83a6a58_1024x683.webp 424w, 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lie.</a></p><p>&#8203;On that day, President Trump issued a full presidential pardon to Juan Orlando Hern&#225;ndez, the former President of Honduras.</p><h4>&#8203; Why does this matter?</h4><p>Well, as it turns out, in 2024, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/juan-orlando-hernandez-honduras-former-president-sentenced-45-years-us-prison-cocaine-trafficking/">Hern&#225;ndez was sentenced to 45 years</a> in federal prison for conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. </p><p><a href="https://time.com/7338442/trump-hernandez-honduras-pardon-maduro-venezuela-drug-trafficking-boat-strikes/">According to prosecutors,</a> he trafficked 400 tons of cocaine&#8212;far more than the U.S. accuses the Venezuelan regime is accused of moving.</p><p>While Hern&#225;ndez was in power, he was a U.S. ally. Now, Trump calls his conviction a &#8220;setup.&#8221; Hernandez, Trump wrote, had been &#8220;treated very harshly and unfairly.&#8221; Setting a convicted drug lord free while simultaneously bombing Venezuela for the exact same crime. </p><h4>Interesting, right? </h4><p>What&#8217;s more interesting is the money paid by Hern&#225;ndez to Republican lobby firm, BGR, of $660,000, who are also the #1 contributors to Marco Rubio&#8217;s campaign. Who is <em><strong>ALSO </strong></em>the #1 proponent of regime change in Venezuela.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AI3E!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c86998-41d8-4fa3-9f26-f146ecc72104_1024x802.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AI3E!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c86998-41d8-4fa3-9f26-f146ecc72104_1024x802.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AI3E!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c86998-41d8-4fa3-9f26-f146ecc72104_1024x802.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AI3E!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c86998-41d8-4fa3-9f26-f146ecc72104_1024x802.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AI3E!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c86998-41d8-4fa3-9f26-f146ecc72104_1024x802.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AI3E!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c86998-41d8-4fa3-9f26-f146ecc72104_1024x802.jpeg" width="1024" height="802" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/51c86998-41d8-4fa3-9f26-f146ecc72104_1024x802.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:802,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;GettyImages-537179818&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="GettyImages-537179818" title="GettyImages-537179818" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AI3E!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c86998-41d8-4fa3-9f26-f146ecc72104_1024x802.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AI3E!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c86998-41d8-4fa3-9f26-f146ecc72104_1024x802.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AI3E!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c86998-41d8-4fa3-9f26-f146ecc72104_1024x802.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AI3E!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51c86998-41d8-4fa3-9f26-f146ecc72104_1024x802.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p> <em><strong>&#8203;The message is unmistakable:</strong></em> You are not a "narco-terrorist" if you serve American interests. You are only a target if you sit on the world's largest oil reserves without American permission.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-silent-invasion-how-the-war-on/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-silent-invasion-how-the-war-on/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-silent-invasion-how-the-war-on?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-silent-invasion-how-the-war-on?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h1>&#8203;The C.I.A.&#8217;s Nobel Prize-Winning Puppet &amp; Domestic Resistance   </h1><p>&#8203;Inside Venezuela, the political situation is fracturing. On November 18, opposition leader Mar&#237;a Corina Machado released a document, titled the &#8220;Freedom Manifesto.&#8221; An obvious plagiarism if you ask me, but never mind that. While she declares a &#8220;new era,&#8221; her call for transition is being used by Washington to justify kinetic action, among their many scapegoats.</p><p>Many will call this conspiracy theory. They say things like &#8220;do you not believe in a Democratic uprising?&#8221; Forgetting that the presence of the &#8220;democratic&#8221; part leaves little room for uprising. But, what we are talking about here has nothing to do with anything organic or Democratic. This is a coup d&#8217;&#233;tat carried out by Western powers through covert action by the CIA. </p><p>As a refresher, here&#8217;s a few of the last incursions into Venezuela by <em>yours truly:</em></p><h2><strong>The Money &amp; The Contract</strong></h2><p>To understand the mechanics of these coups, we must <em>&#8220;follow the money.</em>&#8221; Since the &#8220;official&#8221; narrative exists to obscure the financial and contractual realities established by primary documents.</p><p><strong>Operation Gideon (2020): The Silvercorp Contract</strong></p><p>This was not merely a rogue plot; it was a contracted commercial transaction for regime change.</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/general-services-agreement-between-the-venezuelan-opposition-and-silvercorp-oct-16-2019/a86baff6-40fa-4116-a9cb-9725c84bf4e0/#:~:text=16%2C%202019,by%20Silvercorp%20CEO%20Jordan%20Goudreau.">The Contract: </a>A <a href="https://www.chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/129858">General Services Agreement</a> was signed on October 16, 2019, between Silvercorp USA (a private military contractor led by former Green Beret Jordan Goudreau) and the Venezuelan Opposition&#8217;s &#8220;Strategic Committee.&#8221;</p><p>The total value of the contract was <strong>$212,900,000</strong>.</p><p>Political Strategist <strong>J.J. Rend&#243;n</strong> admitted to paying Goudreau <strong>$50,000</strong> from his personal funds for &#8220;expenses&#8221; to kickstart the operation.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Signatories:</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>Jordan Goudreau</strong> (Silvercorp)</p></li><li><p><strong>Sergio Vergara</strong> (Opposition MP)</p></li><li><p><strong>J.J. Rend&#243;n</strong> (Strategist)</p></li><li><p><strong>Juan Guaid&#243;</strong> (Goudreau produced a copy of the contract bearing Guaid&#243;&#8217;s signature; Guaid&#243; denied signing it, but Rend&#243;n and Goudreau confirmed the negotiations took place).</p></li></ul></li><li><p><strong>The Objective:</strong> The contract explicitly outlined a mission to &#8220;capture/detain/remove Nicol&#225;s Maduro,&#8221; secure the country, and install the recognized interim government.</p></li><li><p><strong>US Knowledge:</strong> While the US State Department denied direct involvement, Goudreau claimed he had been in contact with US officials. The operation relied heavily on the expectation of US support once the beachhead was established, and if there was any doubt left over in your mind, officially this op was titled &#8220;Operation Gideon.&#8221; Unofficially, however, it was called the &#8220;Bay of Piglets.&#8221; A humorous throwback to the 1961 CIA-backed regime change attempt on Cuba, that failed when John F. Kennedy refused to call in air support. More on this<a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2025/11/24/casa-blanca-sabia-del-golpe-venezolano/"> from the Grayzone</a>, who interviewed Jordan Goudreau after he became a wanted man and went into hiding.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" 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(CTV)</strong>. The leaders of these very groups were the ones who signed the <a href="https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/6709/">&#8220;Carmona Decree&#8221;</a> dissolving Venezuela&#8217;s democratic institutions on April 12, 2002. One of them happening to be<a href="https://www.oas.org/en/iachr/decisions/court/12.724fondoeng.pdf"> Mar&#237;a Corina Machado (Page 23).</a></p><p>State Department Admission: A report by the US State Department Office of Inspector General (OIG) later reviewed US policy during this period. While it found no evidence that the US &#8220;ordered&#8221; the coup, it confirmed that the US was funding the groups involved and that &#8220;mixed signals&#8221; from US officials may have emboldened the plotters.</p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>The Case Against Mar&#237;a Corina Machado</strong></h2><p><strong>Subject:</strong> Mar&#237;a Corina Machado (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 2025) <strong>Thesis:</strong> Critics and investigative journalists argue she is not merely an organic opposition leader, but a curated asset of US foreign policy, groomed to replace the current administration.</p><p>Below is the documented evidence used to support the argument that she functions as a US-backed replacement, often cited as the &#8220;CIA connection.&#8221;</p><h3><strong>The &#8220;S&#250;mate&#8221; Financing (NED/USAID)</strong></h3><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maria_Corina_Machado_(Sumate)_meets_George_W._Bush_(2002).jpg">The foundation of Machado&#8217;s political career </a>is the NGO <strong>S&#250;mate</strong>, which she co-founded.</p><p><strong>The Evidence:</strong> <a href="https://cepr.net/publications/on-the-state-of-democracy-in-venezuela/">S&#250;mate received a documented grant of </a><strong><a href="https://cepr.net/publications/on-the-state-of-democracy-in-venezuela/">$53,400</a></strong><a href="https://cepr.net/publications/on-the-state-of-democracy-in-venezuela/"> </a>from the NED in September 2003, specifically for activities related to the recall referendum against Hugo Ch&#225;vez.</p><p><strong>The Implication:</strong> Under Venezuela&#8217;s &#8220;Law for the Defense of Political Sovereignty and National Self-Determination,&#8221; receiving foreign government funds for political activities is illegal. This funding established the direct financial link between her operation and Washington early in her career.</p><h3><strong>The &#8220;Allen Weinstein&#8221; Admission</strong></h3><p>To understand why &#8220;NED Funding&#8221; is often equated with &#8220;CIA Funding,&#8221; one must look at the source.</p><ul><li><p><strong>The Quote:</strong> In 1991, <strong>Allen Weinstein</strong>, a founder of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), famously told <em>The Washington Post</em>:</p></li></ul><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><ul><li><p><strong>The Argument:</strong> The NED was created to do overtly (and legally) what the CIA used to do covertly: fund opposition groups, unions, and media to destabilize unfriendly governments. Machado being a primary recipient of these funds fits this historical pattern.</p></li></ul><p>I wrote about this last year. If you would like to know how regime change is enacted this way.</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;c5bf4f26-b0ea-4564-9ceb-777da9c9ab0f&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;**This piece is to congratulate the United States and whoever is left of Al-Qaeda after the news that came out this morning of the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad by &#8220;Rebel Forces&#8221;. Remember, any time they refer to &#8220;rebel forces&#8221;. What they mean is US+NATO/NGO&#8217;s/CIA-Trained forces, that is what we literally do. I&#8217;ll explain how but first, let&#8217;s take trip t&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Interference: The Anatomy of \&quot;Regime Change\&quot; in the Age of \&quot;Congressional Oversight\&quot;&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Opposing the War parties, and  the Censorship-Industrial Complex, one post at a time.\n&#8220;Those who choose SECURITY over LIBERTY will have neither&#8221;\nCard carrying member of FIRE. \nFoundation for Individual Rights and Expression&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bc49df27-2dac-4930-bc86-293f34eb9859_1944x1944.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2024-12-09T20:29:48.343Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/3cktmS-yaxM&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/interference-the-anatomy-of-regime&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Philosophical Musings of War and Peace&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:152418620,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:6,&quot;comment_count&quot;:4,&quot;publication_id&quot;:368081,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fWu7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F80f893b7-b534-4d79-b7de-7d1669b980f2_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><h3><strong>Sign 3: The 2005 Oval Office Meeting</strong></h3><p>In May 2005, Mar&#237;a Corina Machado was granted a meeting with President <strong>George W. Bush</strong> in the Oval Office.</p><p>It is virtually unheard of for the head of a foreign NGO to be granted a solo audience with a US President in the Oval Office. This level of access is typically reserved for Heads of State, but if you are being chosen as the next Head of State&#8230;.Why not?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZOh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e611c19-ed50-460b-b178-43123f050771_300x168.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZOh!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e611c19-ed50-460b-b178-43123f050771_300x168.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZOh!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e611c19-ed50-460b-b178-43123f050771_300x168.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZOh!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e611c19-ed50-460b-b178-43123f050771_300x168.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZOh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e611c19-ed50-460b-b178-43123f050771_300x168.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZOh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e611c19-ed50-460b-b178-43123f050771_300x168.jpeg" width="300" height="168" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5e611c19-ed50-460b-b178-43123f050771_300x168.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:168,&quot;width&quot;:300,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;When Mar&#237;a Corina Machado wins the ...&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="When Mar&#237;a Corina Machado wins the ..." title="When Mar&#237;a Corina Machado wins the ..." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZOh!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e611c19-ed50-460b-b178-43123f050771_300x168.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZOh!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e611c19-ed50-460b-b178-43123f050771_300x168.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZOh!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e611c19-ed50-460b-b178-43123f050771_300x168.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZOh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e611c19-ed50-460b-b178-43123f050771_300x168.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This meeting was widely interpreted by diplomatic observers as Washington &#8220;anointing&#8221; her as their chosen leader, bypassing the traditional Venezuelan political parties.</p><p>In case you thought they cared about <em>&#8220;democracy.&#8221;</em></p><p>By the way, <a href="https://www.sumate.org/documentos/Varios/NED_Grant_Agreement_25septiembre2003.pdf">click here</a>, for a copy of Machado&#8217;s grant from the NED.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOOw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb946e98-0ce9-4c30-854f-24851a562f7e_300x168.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOOw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb946e98-0ce9-4c30-854f-24851a562f7e_300x168.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOOw!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb946e98-0ce9-4c30-854f-24851a562f7e_300x168.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOOw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb946e98-0ce9-4c30-854f-24851a562f7e_300x168.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOOw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb946e98-0ce9-4c30-854f-24851a562f7e_300x168.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOOw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb946e98-0ce9-4c30-854f-24851a562f7e_300x168.jpeg" width="300" height="168" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fb946e98-0ce9-4c30-854f-24851a562f7e_300x168.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:168,&quot;width&quot;:300,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Mar&#237;a Corina Machado and High Treason ...&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Mar&#237;a Corina Machado and High Treason ..." title="Mar&#237;a Corina Machado and High Treason ..." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOOw!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb946e98-0ce9-4c30-854f-24851a562f7e_300x168.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOOw!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb946e98-0ce9-4c30-854f-24851a562f7e_300x168.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOOw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb946e98-0ce9-4c30-854f-24851a562f7e_300x168.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOOw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb946e98-0ce9-4c30-854f-24851a562f7e_300x168.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>Sign 4: Wikileaks Cables</strong></h3><p>Diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks reveal the US Embassy&#8217;s long-term view of Machado.</p><ul><li><p><strong>The Strategy:</strong> Cables from the US Embassy in Caracas have historically described Machado as a polarizing but essential asset. While some cables noted her &#8220;elitist&#8221; approach alienated voters, they consistently identified her as a key point of contact for US strategy in the region.</p></li><li><p><strong>The &#8220;Voldemort&#8221; Cable:</strong> In some cables, former US Ambassadors discussed the difficulty of uniting the opposition, often citing Machado&#8217;s uncompromising stance&#8212;a trait the US later leaned into as they moved from an electoral strategy to a &#8220;maximum pressure&#8221; strategy.</p></li></ul><h3><strong>Sign 5: The Nobel Prize as &#8220;Validation&#8221; (2025)</strong></h3><p>Her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize win is viewed by skeptics not as a recognition of peace, but as a geopolitical tool.</p><p><strong>The Precedent:</strong> Historically, Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded to opposition figures in rival nations to grant them international immunity and legitimacy (e.g., Liu Xiaobo in China, Lech Wa&#322;&#281;sa in Poland), and this time is no different.</p><p><strong>The Function:</strong> By designating her a Nobel Laureate, the international community makes it significantly harder for the Venezuelan government to arrest her without facing global backlash. It effectively grants her diplomatic armor, a tactic consistent with regime change &#8220;soft power&#8221; operations.</p><h3><strong>Summary of the &#8220;CIA Replacement&#8221; Argument</strong></h3><p>The argument is not necessarily that she carries a CIA badge, but that she is the product of <strong>&#8220;Soft Coup&#8221; infrastructure from the CIA</strong>:</p><ol><li><p><strong>Funded</strong> by the NED (historically linked to CIA functions).</p></li><li><p><strong>Legitimized</strong> by elite access (Oval Office).</p></li><li><p><strong>Protected</strong> by international awards (Nobel Prize).</p></li><li><p><strong>Positioned</strong> to take power not through organic coalition building, but through external pressure and &#8220;maximum pressure&#8221; campaigns designed in Washington. </p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Freedom Manifesto is a reader-supported publication. 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To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div></li></ol><h3>Now for a Large White Pill</h3><p>&#8203;With all that being said, the American people are not buying the narrative:</p><p>&#8203;According to Polls released by <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-venezuela-u-s-military-action-trump/">CBS News</a>/<a href="https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/52958-most-americans-oppose-military-involvement-in-venezuela-maduro-poll">YouGov</a> in late November, 70% of Americans oppose military intervention in Venezuela, and only 13% view the country as a major threat.</p><div 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They must see that Maduro is not doing this to them, Maduro is not the enemy of the Venezuelan people, Marco Rubio is. Donald Trump is; Mar&#237;a Corina Machado is, instead of becoming the leader by democratic means; They&#8217;re using the militant option.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jvo8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0725022-ca55-42b0-a622-d73c2436c28a_640x639.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jvo8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0725022-ca55-42b0-a622-d73c2436c28a_640x639.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jvo8!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0725022-ca55-42b0-a622-d73c2436c28a_640x639.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jvo8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0725022-ca55-42b0-a622-d73c2436c28a_640x639.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jvo8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0725022-ca55-42b0-a622-d73c2436c28a_640x639.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jvo8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0725022-ca55-42b0-a622-d73c2436c28a_640x639.jpeg" width="640" height="639" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f0725022-ca55-42b0-a622-d73c2436c28a_640x639.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:639,&quot;width&quot;:640,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;IP-1540 - 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The shadow war between the United States and Venezuela has officially moved out of the shadows.</p><p>What began as a counter-narcotics mission has evolved into a de facto naval blockade. Following a rejected ultimatum from President Trump to Nicol&#225;s Maduro, the U.S. has declared Venezuelan airspace &#8220;closed,&#8221; and the death toll in the Caribbean is rising daily. Operation Southern Spear, has commenced, is bigger and more technocratic than anyone knew, and is coming into the light today.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-silent-invasion-how-the-war-on/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-silent-invasion-how-the-war-on/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-silent-invasion-how-the-war-on?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-silent-invasion-how-the-war-on?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h3>&#8203;Political Standoff and Failed Diplomacy</h3><p>&#8203;The military pressure is paired with intense political and diplomatic efforts to force Maduro from power.</p><p>&#8203;Our leaders have built the legal framework for escalation by designating the <em>Cartel de los Soles</em>&#8212;an amorphous grouping of Venezuelan military and political officials&#8212;as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, increasing the scope for military action.</p><p>&#8203;President Maduro has used the U.S. actions to rally domestic support and frame the conflict as an imperialist threat.</p><p><strong>&#8220;Colonial Aggression&#8221;:</strong> Maduro has condemned the U.S. military buildup and threats as &#8220;psychological terrorism&#8221; and a &#8220;colonial threat,&#8221; asserting that Washington&#8217;s true motive is to <strong>&#8220;appropriate Venezuela&#8217;s vast oil reserves,&#8221; </strong>which are the largest proven oil reserves on the planet.</p><p>&#8203;The current atmosphere remains highly unpredictable, with both sides entrenched in their positions. International observers and U.S. lawmakers are increasingly concerned about the legality of the military strikes and the potential for the conflict to escalate beyond targeted maritime attacks.</p><p><strong>December 24:</strong> Chevron executives were spotted at the White House. With oil prices hitting $110/barrel due to the blackout, the economic pressure for &#8220;stabilization&#8221; has reached a fever pitch.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/gunfire-reported-colombia-venezuela-border-us-silence-2025-12-26/">December 26: </a></strong><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/gunfire-reported-colombia-venezuela-border-us-silence-2025-12-26/">As of this morning, the &#8220;Silent Invasion&#8221; is over.</a></p><p>Reports from C&#250;cuta, Colombia, confirm that heavily armed units&#8212;suspected to be Delta Force or SEAL Team 6&#8212;have crossed the T&#225;chira river into Venezuela.</p><p>Video footage shows soldiers operating in the <em>La Mulata</em> jungle sector using advanced American night-vision tech. Explosions have been reported near National Guard outposts.</p><p>They told you it was about drugs, but they pardoned a drug lord.<br>They told you it was about democracy, but they bypassed Congress.<br>They told you it was a &#8220;rescue,&#8221; but they sent an invasion force.</p><p>We are now in the opening hours of a major conflict. Possibly, within 72 hours, the limited &#8220;rescue&#8221; operation will expand into a full assault on Caracas. The war is here, and it was manufactured in plain sight.</p><p>Thank you for reading. This was a long one. Needless to say, I really hope I won&#8217;t be talking about Venezuela again for a long time.</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bc49df27-2dac-4930-bc86-293f34eb9859_1944x1944.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;01bd39c7-3b09-48df-ad75-b6f758415dd2&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> Editor-in-Chief <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:368081,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/80f893b7-b534-4d79-b7de-7d1669b980f2_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;dbf1ffa2-08d6-4fd3-973c-5afc9cc03517&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Much for the ☮️Peace☮️ Candidate🐘 ]]></title><description><![CDATA[If this is peace... then what exactly is war, Mr. President?]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/so-much-for-the-peace-candidate</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/so-much-for-the-peace-candidate</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:45:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/Q7m6vmx4nEs" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>Trump Admin: &#8220;Bombs Away&#8221; in the New Cold War </h1><p><em><strong>What a disappointment!</strong></em></p><p>Donald Trump is, no doubt, proving to be truly worthy of the office he holds, regardless of the rhetoric by Trump and his MAGA coalition, anyone who heard his posturing and saber-rattling towards Iran and Venezuela and China and Gaza on the campaign trail, should&#8217;ve known better than to think Donald Trump was for peace. However, many of us&#8212;including myself&#8212;<em>did. </em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Freedom Manifesto is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Maybe it was the constant repetitive chants all up and down the campaign trail, media appearances, and wherever else he might pop up, he never let up on his claims of <em>&#8220;no new wars&#8221;, </em>and pontificating braggadocio about all the wars that were &#8220;ended&#8221; or &#8220;avoided&#8221; by him being in office. The big one for me, however, was during his controversial Town Hall on CNN with Kaitlan Collins, airing adjacent to the Republican Primaries he refused to take part in. </p><p>Collins pulled a shitty little <em>&#8220;gotcha question&#8221;,</em> on the subject of (America&#8217;s proxy) war between Russia and Ukraine, and to say it backfired&#8230;. would be the <em>understatement of the year. </em></p><p>His reply, exposed all who heard it to the possibility that maybe this guy isn&#8217;t as bad as they say. And his promise to <em>&#8220;end the war on day one,&#8221;</em>  <em>&#8220;end the killing.&#8221; </em>That was even the point that Joe Rogan started to soften about the guy. Although he might be the least credible, at least <em>someone</em> was talking like this. </p><p>Not from Biden, Kamala, not from anyone <em>in</em> the ruling class. Or potentially to become the ruling class. It showed a respect for the mortality of others, not present from any other president of my lifetime.</p><p>But now we have this:</p><div id="youtube2-Q7m6vmx4nEs" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Q7m6vmx4nEs&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Q7m6vmx4nEs?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p><em>Above, starting at the 1:00 mark of the 1:18  long clip, responding to what at any other time would be a softball question &#8220;What about a &#8216;<a href="https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/declarations-of-war.htm#:~:text=The%20Constitution%20grants%20Congress%20the,war%20during%20World%20War%20II.">declaration of war&#8217; from Congress?&#8221; </a>As the constitution says is a must for going to war with another country using the United States military. To this he responds, finally, blowing it off, following it up with some much colder rhetoric than we, or at least, I am used to:</em></p><blockquote><p><em>Oh, I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re gonna need a declaration of war. We&#8217;re just gonna kill people who are bringing drugs into our country. <strong>We&#8217;re going to kill them.</strong>   </em></p></blockquote><h2>So much for the &#8220;peace candidate&#8230;&#8230;&#8221;</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y4Dl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6d8c7b37-506d-403e-8ccc-26eae0f49035_1920x1080.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y4Dl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6d8c7b37-506d-403e-8ccc-26eae0f49035_1920x1080.jpeg 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>What the fuck happened to &#8220;No More New Wars&#8221;? </p><p>This is a continuation of Cold War rhetoric from&#8212;as far as I am concerned&#8212;ancient times.</p><p>He was supposed to be the refutation of the <em>status quo.</em> Now he <em>is</em> the <em>status quo. </em>Dismantle the deep state. Now he <em>is</em> the deep state. <em>Drain the swamp? </em>We should<a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/the-epstein-email-cache-2-300-messages-many-of-which-mention-trump-5edf0226?mod=article_inline"> consult his friend Jeffrey about that.</a> </p><p>America carried out their first failed coup against Venezuela in 1908. There is nothing <em>&#8220;America First&#8221;</em> about following the same catastrophic policies preceding the worst event(s) to ever happen in the history of the world, World War One, World War Two, and the destruction of Europe at the hands of the &#8220;Allied Forces&#8221; including Joseph Stalin, who became the next enemy&#8212;and rival&#8212;of Western Civilization, and the start of the five decade long Cold War against the Soviet Union (USSR). </p><p>It is insane to me how badly Donald Trump has wasted all the good will that he had gained from being pursued legally by his successor/predecessor which landed him back in office. </p><p>Squandered. Smashed. Pissed in ALL OF OUR FACES! For what?! It&#8217;s your legacy Mr. Trump, that is being destroyed. What a fucking fool. </p><p>Before the  Election last year, I went out and surveyed everyone who&#8217;d listen &#8220;who&#8221; they &#8220;like in the election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump?&#8221; And completely astounding to me, no one under 50 years old was against him, when four years earlier, post-J6, his supporters almost had to bury their heads in the sand. </p><p>Now the dark days seem to be retFFurning with a vengeance, even his most ardent supporters have to caveat their support with things like, &#8220;however, <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/immigration-agents-become-increasingly-aggressive-in-chicago">I don&#8217;t agree with the ICE shit</a>&#8221; or &#8220;<a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/fighting-campus-censorship-the-aclu-defends-pro-palestinian-voices-in-florida">the censorship of pro-Palestine protestors is ridiculous and illegal</a>&#8221; or &#8220;<a href="https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/30-years-of-failure-how-u-s-venezuela-relations-spiraled-into-military-confrontation/">war with Venezuela is not we voted for</a>&#8221; or &#8220;this <a href="https://www.american.edu/sis/news/20250807-analysis-gaza-is-not-the-first-time-the-us-has-downplayed-atrocities-by-us-backed-regimes.cfm">wholesale support of genocide by Israel is not the America First he promised us.</a>&#8221; </p><p>It seems <em>&#8220;America First&#8221;</em> was simply a slogan, just like <em><a href="https://www.ussc.edu.au/reagan-making-america-great-the-first-time">Make America Great Again</a>, </em>or Kamala Harris&#8217; <em>&#8220;We&#8217;re Not Going Back&#8221;(ICK)</em> or Barack Obama&#8217;s infamous <em>&#8220;Vote for Change&#8221; or</em> &#8220;<em>Change We Can Believe In&#8221; </em>depending on the year.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>No matter who you vote for you <em>always</em> end up with John McCain. &#8212;Tom Woods</p></div><div id="youtube2-Sb0q4BZFpgM" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Sb0q4BZFpgM&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Sb0q4BZFpgM?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div><hr></div><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/avif&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/caa3581a-9e70-457f-84ca-b8f22d588556_1440x810.avif&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/546af4ed-d92d-472f-a01d-4be468dda087_225x225.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9bd2e9b5-fc8f-4a79-859f-899b9ad4ffd6_747x1000.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/30d642c7-ca46-46f4-8000-bcbcce3b93ff_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><div><hr></div><p> <a href="https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/fighting-words/">Politics is fighting words again. </a>Watch your step. Be mindful of your surroundings. <a href="https://www.cockatoo.com/content/tucker-carlsons-official-response-to-the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk">Charlie Kirk was murdered for speaking his beliefs out loud</a>. By all means, speak your mind but, do so with all discretion advised. Now, back to the Caribbean&#8230;.</p><div><hr></div><h2>Regime Change! Yea, That&#8217;ll Show Em&#8217;</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i-5U!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98464d74-d4c4-4975-a910-b997c5a9bfce_2000x1620.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i-5U!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98464d74-d4c4-4975-a910-b997c5a9bfce_2000x1620.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i-5U!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98464d74-d4c4-4975-a910-b997c5a9bfce_2000x1620.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i-5U!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98464d74-d4c4-4975-a910-b997c5a9bfce_2000x1620.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i-5U!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98464d74-d4c4-4975-a910-b997c5a9bfce_2000x1620.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i-5U!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98464d74-d4c4-4975-a910-b997c5a9bfce_2000x1620.jpeg" width="1456" height="1179" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/98464d74-d4c4-4975-a910-b997c5a9bfce_2000x1620.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1179,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i-5U!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98464d74-d4c4-4975-a910-b997c5a9bfce_2000x1620.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i-5U!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98464d74-d4c4-4975-a910-b997c5a9bfce_2000x1620.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i-5U!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98464d74-d4c4-4975-a910-b997c5a9bfce_2000x1620.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i-5U!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98464d74-d4c4-4975-a910-b997c5a9bfce_2000x1620.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>After the blood thirsty clip of him coldly speaking of murdering Venezuelans (Clip at top of page) and their democratically-elected leader, Nicol&#225;s Maduro, what world is <em>that</em> not grounds for impeachment but the stupid Ukraine call was. Wonder why? I&#8217;ve got a hunch.</p><p>As we speak there have now been<a href="https://youtu.be/Pc2qnfMzfRc?si=_ffkQuLySA0nerXk"> 20 illegal boat strikes by American drones</a>, offering zero evidence that they might be anything more than fishermen trying to feed their families', <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77z48lg2l5o">currently causing families to go hungry, and a fish shortage in mainland Venezuela because the citizens are afraid to fish for fear that they might be next.</a></p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/so-much-for-the-peace-candidate?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/so-much-for-the-peace-candidate?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><div id="youtube2-Pc2qnfMzfRc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Pc2qnfMzfRc&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Pc2qnfMzfRc?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h2>America Threatens a New &#8220;War on _______&#8221; as Supposed &#8220;Narco-Terrorists&#8221; Enter Stage Left</h2><p>So, now I <em>must</em> ask what happened to arresting motherfuckers!? <em>Due process? <strong>Western values</strong></em> for God sake. </p><p>What happened to the agreement that the government side was flawed, and therefore should consider everyone &#8220;innocent until proven guilty&#8221; to avoid sentences from being passed against people who were innocent but had their lives ruined anyway.<br>While the president drone strikes fishermen, the heroin&#8212;poisoned with fentanyl, and a new, Narcan-resistant demon, xylazine&#8212;is still moving from Mexico and the Middle East, leaving the streets thrashed with sleeping zombies, and lab grade crystal meth, more abundant and cheaper than any other drug on the market. Followed by Abscesses, <em>psychosis</em>, and violent eruptions from this crystalline evil taking place on a daily basis, and what does our <em>fearless leader</em> do about it? Go after the <em>wrong</em> country under recommendation of State Department crony Marco Rubio, and others.</p><p>The war on drugs being carried out, failure be damned, is a war on the most vulnerable of American souls. The very people he campaigned on saving. And he, representing their last glimmer of hope, is using their illness as an excuse to go on the warpath towards war with the wrong fucking country. Go figure. </p><p>And &#8220;Narco-Terrorists&#8221;? Give me a break. Firstly, if any one of those twenty boats had drugs in them it doesn&#8217;t mean the people were fucking terrorists. In most cases the cartels make these people into mules through extortionist tactics (intimidation, kidnapping, etc). If someone would arrest them instead of blowing them up, you might be saving their lives or God forbid their families&#8217; lives. </p><p>Secondly, we failed just as badly in the war on terror as we did in the war on drugs! Of course, Trump doesn&#8217;t know this. He has never read a book. You think he&#8217;s ever seen &#8220;The Wire?&#8221; How about &#8220;Snow?&#8221; Doubt it. Now we&#8217;re doing a &#8220;war on drug-terrorists?&#8221; That&#8217;s <em>bound</em> to be a winner.<br>Donald Trump and his group of imbeciles are really overplaying their hands. </p><p>His credibility collapsed with the botched cover-up of Jeffrey Epstein, which gets worse and worse daily and the stripping of the First Amendment, when you decided to turn your dogs on blue cities and disappear protesters who are not even protesting America, and chose a fake ally, a vassal state of the U.S. over his <em>own</em> people. </p><p>He&#8217;s horribly subservient to Israel, we knew he would be. He took a half-a-billion dollars from the Adelsons, who he admits would choose Israel <em>over</em> America, for his legal bills and campaign, but dude, we didn&#8217;t sign up for another war on <em><strong>anything.</strong></em> </p><p>We can&#8217;t win <em>&#8220;War(s) on things.&#8221; </em>We fail every time! </p><p><em>War on Drugs? </em>Lost.</p><p><em>War on terror? </em>Hell, they&#8217;re visiting the White House!</p><p>How did the <em>War on Terror, </em>lead to more terror worldwide? The same way that the War on Drugs led to more deadly, and more abundant drugs around the world, and right here at home.<em> </em></p><p>Both of them were created by us, and destabilized the whole world in the name of saving it. How did this happen? Let&#8217;s talk about it.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/so-much-for-the-peace-candidate?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/so-much-for-the-peace-candidate?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" 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The author of &#8220;<a href="http://chasingthescream.com/">Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs</a>,&#8221; Johann Hari explains in the book above and in an interview<a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/one-thing-you-can-say-war-drugs-we-gave-it-fair-shot"> (below) with the ACLU</a>:</p></li></ul><blockquote><p><strong>Johann Hari:</strong> The most influential person who no one has ever heard of is Harry Anslinger, the man who invented the modern War on Drugs &#8212; way before Nixon, way before Reagan. He&#8217;s the guy who takes over the Federal Bureau of Prohibition just as alcohol prohibition is ending. So, he inherits this big government department with nothing to do, and he basically invents the modern drug war to give his bureaucracy a purpose. For example, he had previously said marijuana was not a problem &#8212; he wasn&#8217;t worried about it, it wasn&#8217;t addictive &#8212; but he suddenly announces that marijuana is the most dangerous drug in the world, literally &#8212; worse than heroin &#8212; and creates this huge hysteria around it. He&#8217;s the first person to use the phrase &#8220;warfare against drugs.&#8221;</p></blockquote><ul><li><p><strong><a href="https://museum.dea.gov/museum-collection/collection-spotlight/artifact/opium-order-form">Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (1914)</a>:</strong> The foundational pillar of U.S. drug policy. It effectively criminalized the non-medical use of cocaine and opiates. Enforcement was driven by racialized fears of African Americans in the South using cocaine and Chinese immigrants using opium.</p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2z2j!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4970b71-54d7-478a-b680-a562c143af5e_584x437.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2z2j!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa4970b71-54d7-478a-b680-a562c143af5e_584x437.png 424w, 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Anslinger utilized sensationalist propaganda and racial tropes against Mexican immigrants to secure its passage.</p></li><li><p><strong><a href="http://www.theyoungresearcher.com/papers/khadraoui.pdf">Boggs Act (1951)</a>:</strong> Established the first mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses, setting a precedent for the draconian sentencing structures of the 1980s.</p></li><li><p>October 27th 1970, President Richard Nixon signed into law the <em><a href="https://www.dea.gov/controlled-substances-act">&#8216;Controlled Substances Act&#8217; </a></em>which was the first formation of the<a href="https://www.dea.gov/controlled-substances-act"> I-V Controlled Substance Scheduling</a> and the basis for drug regulation still used (and unrevised) today. </p></li><li><p>Although the first push against drugs began in 1909 with the<a href="https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/opium-exclusion-act"> Smoking Opium Exclusion Act</a> banning the possession, importation and use of opium for smoking. </p></li><li><p>Then, <a href="https://www.naabt.org/documents/harrison_narcotics_tax_act_1914.pdf">in 1914, Congress passed the </a><a href="https://museum.dea.gov/museum-collection/collection-spotlight/artifact/opium-order-form">Harrison Narcotics Act</a>, which required narcotics manufacturers, sellers, and distributors to register with the Bureau of Internal Revenue under the U.S. Treasury Department. The act was the first comprehensive law in the U.S. to regulate whole classes of drugs., which regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of opiates and cocaine. </p></li><li><p>Next came alcohol leading to the Volstead Act and the prohibition of alcohol starting what is known as the Prohibition era (1919-1933).</p></li></ul><p>This &#8220;War&#8221; as we know it today, however, began in June 17 1971 when Nixon addressed the nation with the following statement:</p><div id="youtube2-y8TGLLQlD9M" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;y8TGLLQlD9M&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/y8TGLLQlD9M?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><blockquote><p><em>America&#8217;s public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new all-out offensive.</em></p></blockquote><p>Under Nixon this was almost immediately used as something like a pretty new pistol for the FBI and CIA crushing of anti-war/pro-civil rights sentiment through the many operations pegged against us <a href="https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/spying-america-fbis-domestic-counter-intelligence-program">(COINTELPRO</a>, CHAOS, and <a href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-at-the-cleanse">others</a>). Carter&#8217;s win posed as a reprisal to Nixon&#8217;s policies and started the decriminalization of reefer. Reagan made the same declaration in 1982, however, with a bit more of a charming disposition.</p><div id="youtube2-nAh-JavFAuI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;nAh-JavFAuI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/nAh-JavFAuI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p> And again in 1986 with the enlistment of First Lady Nancy, and the now infamous, <em>&#8220;Just Say No&#8221; </em>Campaign. (Below)</p><div id="youtube2-Gj8gAQ_cQ7Q" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Gj8gAQ_cQ7Q&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Gj8gAQ_cQ7Q?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>So cute, are they not? Nancy Reagan telling people to &#8220;just say no&#8221; during the &#8220;Crack epidemic.&#8221; Patronizing people in the throws of addiction, just trying to survive. </p><p>H.W. Bush declared the same war. Here he is (1989) making that declaration followed by a speech by a much more spry Joe Biden on the same subject.</p><div id="youtube2-j6K1VPatBoY" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;j6K1VPatBoY&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/j6K1VPatBoY?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><blockquote><p>George H.W. Bush: Some used to call drugs harmless, recreational, they&#8217;re not. Drugs are a real, and terribly dangerous threat to our neighborhoods, our friends, and our families. No one among us is out of harm&#8217;s way when four-year-olds play in playgrounds strewn with discarded hypodermic needles and crack vials it breaks my heart. </p><p>When cocaine, one of the most deadly and addictive illegal drugs, is available to school kids, <em>school kids,</em> it&#8217;s an outrage! And when hundreds of thousands of babies are born each year to mothers who use drugs, premature babies born desperately sick, and even the most defenseless among us are at risk.</p><p>These are the tragedies behind the statistics, but the numbers also have quite a story to tell. Let me share with you the results of the recently completed household survey of the national institute on drug abuse, it compares recent drug use to three years ago, it tells us some good news and some very bad news.</p><p>First the good, as you can see in the chart in 1985. The government estimated that 23 million Americans were using drugs on a current basis. That is at least once in the preceding month last year that number fell by more than a third <strong>that means almost 9 million fewer Americans are casual drug users. </strong>Good news because, we changed our national attitude toward drugs, casual drug use has declined. We have many to thank, our brave law enforcement officers, religious leaders, teachers, community activists, and leaders of business and labor.</p><p>We should also thank the media for their exhaustive news and editorial coverage and for their air time and space for anti-drug messages and finally i want to thank the president, and  Mrs. Reagan for their leadership. All of these good people told the truth, that drug use is wrong and dangerous, but as much comfort as we can draw from these dramatic reductions, there is also bad news, very bad news, <strong>roughly eight million people have used cocaine in the past year, almost one million of them used it.</strong></p></blockquote><p>And here he is visiting a crack house.</p><div id="youtube2-P54Zf_O-hK8" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;P54Zf_O-hK8&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/P54Zf_O-hK8?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>The law came down on these people (majority minority) selling crack-cocaine harder than they&#8217;ve ever come down on sex offenders or murderers&#8212;. Which, by the way, still stands. Problem was, that the cocaine they used to make the Crack came from the office of the vice president, <em><strong>yes, it came from THEM!!!</strong></em> So they could fund the very thing that they are currently planning to do to Nicol&#225;s Maduro, Regime Change. </p><div id="youtube2-hjqlvOYB7zA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;hjqlvOYB7zA&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hjqlvOYB7zA?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/so-much-for-the-peace-candidate?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/so-much-for-the-peace-candidate?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h1>Iran-Contra</h1><p>As explained by Arun Gupta at The Intercept:</p><blockquote><p>Bush was at the CIA during the height of <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3185071?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents">Operation Condor</a>, an international &#8220;<a href="https://nacla.org/article/counterterror-wars-and-human-rights-operation-condor-present">kidnap-torture-murder apparatus</a>&#8221; run by six Latin American dictatorships and coordinated by Washington. In an Operation Condor plot carried out in October 1976, Chilean secret police assassinated <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/21/the-assassination-of-orlando-letelier-and-the-politics-of-silence/">former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier</a> and American Ronni Moffitt with a <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/21/the-assassination-of-orlando-letelier-and-the-politics-of-silence/">car bomb</a> in Washington, D.C. Bush <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2016/09/21/george-h-w-bush-the-cia-and-a-case-of-state-terrorism/">misled</a> an FBI investigation about Chile&#8217;s responsibility. Also as spy chief, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/28/us/bush-and-noriega-examination-of-their-ties.html">Bush met</a> his Panamanian counterpart, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/21/world/fighting-in-panama-the-us-and-noriega.html">Manuel Noriega</a>, already suspected at the time of drug trafficking. (As president, Bush ordered the invasion of Panama in 1989 to remove Noriega from power, who was the country&#8217;s ruler by that point.)</p><p>As vice president, Bush became an architect of the &#8220;secret government&#8221; that came into being for the Iran-Contra operations. Official investigations of Iran-Contra are limited to the period after October 1984 when Congress <a href="https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/n-contrasus.php">banned</a> military and intelligence services from providing direct or indirect support to the Contras. But Gary Webb&#8217;s expose on CIA and Contra links to cocaine smuggling, &#8220;<a href="https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/n-contrasus.php">The Dark Alliance</a>,&#8221; dates to 1981 the covert U.S. support for the Contras. Cobbled together from remnants of Nicaragua&#8217;s defeated National Guard, the Contras were notorious for torture, assassination, and other atrocities. The Phoenix-Condor link reached Central America, as the <a href="https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/main/sites/default/files/images/AA-Argentina-March-2016.pdf">CIA recruited</a> veterans of <a href="https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/n-contrasus.php">Argentina&#8217;s Dirty War</a> to train the Contras, who ignited a decadelong war that killed an estimated <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jun/30/duncancampbell">50,000 Nicaraguans</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-dirty-secrets-of-george-bush-71927/">Rolling Stone</a> dates Bush&#8217;s involvement in the Contra war to 1982, when he reportedly conspired with CIA chief William Casey in an operation they code-named &#8220;Black Eagle.&#8221; Working under Bush, Donald Gregg managed finances and operations for the Contras, according to Rolling Stone. Rodriguez handled arms flights to Central America and negotiated with military commanders there. Historian Douglas Valentine has claimed that in 1981, Bush authorized these veterans of the Phoenix Program to initiate a &#8220;<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2001/11/08/the-turning-point/">Pink Plan</a>&#8221; <a href="https://survivorbb.rapeutation.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&amp;t=879&amp;start=30">terror war</a> against Central American insurgents.</p><p>Black Eagle masked its operation by relying on the Israeli Mossad to acquire and ship weapons to Central America, employing Panamanian airfields and companies as fronts, according to <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-dirty-secrets-of-george-bush-71927/">the Rolling Stone story</a>. But the planes, once emptied of their arms cargo in Central America, were repurposed by Noriega and the Medell&#237;n cartel to ship drugs back to the United States. The CIA <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/04/air-cocaine-the-wild-true-story-of-drug-running-arms-smuggling-and-contras-at-a-small-airstrip-in-clintons-arkansas/">allegedly stuck a deal</a> with the Medell&#237;n cartel&#8217;s primary contact, Barry Seal. In return for Seal hauling weapons to the Contras, the CIA protected him as his <a href="https://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/crimesOfMena.html">operations</a> smuggled an estimated $3 billion to $5 billion in drugs into the United States.</p><p>The White House also leaned on <a href="https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/06/10/King-Fahd-provides-millions-for-anti-communist-rebels-at-Reagan-behest/6533550296000/">Gulf State monarchies</a> to cough up more than $40 million for the Contras, violating the 1984 congressional ban known as the Boland Amendment. In 1985, Lt. Col. Oliver North coordinated with Israel to ship more than <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/07/20/reagans-worst-speech/af936567-4a8e-4b1e-b7aa-9da4f4ab08c1/?utm_term=.94a78981dc0b">2,000 anti-tank missiles</a> to Iran through Israel in exchange for Iran&#8217;s assistance in freeing American hostages held in the region &#8212; and the profits were used to fund the Contras.</p><p>The maneuver, which violated the <a href="https://fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/execsum.htm">Arms Export Control Act</a>, was extraordinarily cynical. Iran was mired in a brutal war with Iraq, which was backed by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/02/25/bush-others-said-to-have-repeatedly-pressed-bank-to-aid-iraq/8f9a37d8-d244-408e-b840-b385c25799a5/?utm_term=.3026cb1241bd">Bush</a> and other senior Reagan administration officials beginning <a href="http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/97181/21h-912-spring-2003/contents/study-materials/hoirancontra.pdf">in 1982</a>. Through the BNL bank that would later collapse in scandal, Iraq received more than <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Mwtdk-AHhZgC&amp;pg=PT21&amp;lpg=PT21&amp;dq=iraq+us+credits+$4+billion+george+bush+export-import+bank&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=k62a-KIKHu&amp;sig=K3FoIEQEW5WZCqCX-J_W0o5idFc&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjkl63mlIzfAhVLIjQIHZH5CB0Q6AEwBXoECF8QAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=iraq%20us%20credits%20%244%20billion%20george%20bush%20export-import%20bank&amp;f=false">$4 billion</a> of U.S. Department of Agriculture credits. Most of that money reportedly went to buy weaponry even as Iraq waged <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40276361?read-now=1&amp;seq=3#page_scan_tab_contents">chemical warfare</a> against Iran and its own Kurdish citizens.</p><p>Both the Contra weapons shipments and the arms-for-hostages deals were exposed in 1986.</p></blockquote><p>So, after sanctions passed by Congress it was legislated that we would no longer fund the Contras. An unruly group, kind of like Al-Qaeda, <em>remember</em> Al-Qaeda? The head-chopping Bin Ladenite wannabes who now rule Syria, visit the White House, play basketball with military leaders after we armed them against Syrian &#8220;dictator&#8221; Bashar al-Assad, just a decade after they flew planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, killing 3,000 Americans at home, 4,500 in the illegal invasion we carried out in Iraq, causing trauma that has led to the suicide of 30,000&#8212;and counting&#8212;of our bravest and brightest. They (Americans) are gone, but not forgotten, like the saying goes, however, we seem to have forgotten that they&#8217;re&#8212;al-Qaeda&#8212;<em>not</em> gone! </p><p>After the Reagan administration was banned from funding<em> the Contras</em>, who he repeatedly compared, publicly and privately, with the forefathers of America calling them a &#8216;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191001214336/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/02/politics/reagan-terms-nicaraguan-rebels-moral-equal-of-founding-fathers.html">&#8216;moral equal to our Founding Fathers</a>&#8221; minus the cocaine, I guess, and a lot more genocide. Not sure if Ronnie really believed that or if it was just a dope line from a throw away speechwriter that he was hoping would manufacture consent, to steal a Chomsky term, of the populace <em>and</em> Congress, unfortunately for the Contras, the latter wasn&#8217;t buying it. </p><p>President Ronald Reagan, and his pack of neoconservative wolves, however, wouldn&#8217;t take &#8220;No!&#8221; for an answer. </p><p>As mentioned above, following the president&#8217;s green-light, CIA Director Bill Casey, Vice H.W. Bush, and the rest of the warmongering snakes collaborated with Israel&#8217;s Mossad, to sell weapons to Iran, illegally of course. </p><p>Taking the profits from the weapons sale, to provide more weapons to the contras, and thanks to VP Bush/CIA/State Dept. hammering out a deal with the Medellin Cartel &amp; Noriega&#8212;who Bush would go on to arrest during his turn as president&#8212;would fill up the plane&#8212;now empty in Nicaragua&#8212;with cocaine which would then be sold to a dealer in Los Angeles&#8212;<em>Freeway&#8221; </em>Rick Ross <em>ring any bells&#8212;</em>with profits, once again, being used to repeat the cycle.</p><p>At the same time this was happening, trouble was brewing domestically, as the LA street dealer, Rick Ross was expanding his empire with the tons of cocaine he was buying, turning to freebase (smokable cocaine) and marketing as <em>&#8220;Ready-Rock&#8221; </em>was taking America by storm and began the beginning of the crack epidemic as we knew it.</p><p>What was our beef with the Sandinista government? The same beef we got with Maduro in Venezuela and why we are in process of replacing him. Because we don&#8217;t own them. Back then we called it &#8220;Communist&#8221; but really they were just further to the left than Ronald Reagan, and not in the pocket of the US government, yet.<br>Our narco exploits didn&#8217;t end there. Below the War on Terror will crash together with the War on Drugs in a way that we can only speculate. </p><p>You see, when prosecuting the intelligence agencies most secret operations, especially after being given the time to cover-up said operations we are left, simply with outlines of what actually happened, and we must draw our conclusions from an abundance of circumstantial evidence, however, enough pieces come together to form a narrative just about any twelve jurors would find &#8220;beyond a shadow of a doubt.&#8221;<br>After bombing Iraq all through the 90&#8217;s and putting military bases all over the Middle East which offended the former Mujaheddin who beat the Soviet Union into submission in Afghanistan with <em>our</em> weapons. This caused a string of terrorist attacks all leading up to a climactic attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001. This was a plan from the beginning to provoke us into invading Afghanistan to bleed us dry the same way that they bled the USSR dry just over a decade earlier.</p><p> <br>When we invaded Afghanistan and pushed the Taliban to the margins, a few unintended consequences took place, one of them being the&#8212;once almost clean of drug cultivation&#8212;country would become the largest producer of heroin in the world, with American soldiers running cover for the farmers and USAID subsidizing the farms. At the same time here in the states the opiate boom came, bigger than anything anyone had ever seen. Wave after wave the drugs came and decimated what was left of the inner cities. <br>Now, those drugs that Nancy Reagan told us to &#8220;Just say no&#8221; to while Ronald was feeding them to us by the ton, and the heroin that our soldiers took up guarding for the &#8220;good of the people&#8221; are nothing compared to what they evolved into. <br>We had fentanyl, manufactured in mexico using precursors from china being mixed with heroin from Afghanistan and Xylazine, a horrible tranquilizer that there is nothing to reverse an overdose to, killing on average 100,000-&#8221;A 747 full of people shot out of the sky every single day.&#8221; -Jelly Roll-Americans every year, but we&#8217;re worried about Venezuela. <br>With that we introduce the failed War on Terror. </p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2><br>The War on Terror was a failure. We spent 8 trillion dollars, lost 4500 American servicemen and a million Iraqis and that was just in Iraq. No telling how many more became the &#8220;casualties of war&#8221; in the seven that we destroyed.</h2><p><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/11/-sp-isis-the-inside-story">We created ISIS when we opened the doors to Bucca prison in Iraq</a>. We <a href="https://mronline.org/2022/04/23/al-qaeda-is-on-our-side/#:~:text=A%20concise%20articulation%20came%20from,a%20senior%20post%20under%20Biden.">fought on the same side as the guys who flew the planes into the tower</a>s in an attempt to overthrow Bashar al-Assad. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/29/the-cia-lied-to-justify-torturing-one-prisoner-after-911-20-years-later-his-story-is-still-shrouded-in-secrecy">We tortured Arabs who turned out to be innocent, locked them up indefinitely to cover it up</a>, and sent the only guy who dared to speak against it to prison, a CIA officer named John Kiriakou.</p><p>During one five-month drone-strike campaign in Afghanistan, <strong>nearly 90%</strong> of the people killed were not the intended targets.<br><a href="https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2022-09-17/veteran-suicide-rate-study-7363791.html">30,000 and rising, servicemen from the War on Terror have taken their own lives</a>, at 24 a day, no telling how many more can no longer take part in society, all this for our War on Terror.<br>But, surely we defeated terrorism, right? Right!? <br>Wrong.<br>At the beginning of this war on terror there was 440 members of one group called al-Qaeda. By Christmas they were all but decimated. However, according to reports al-Qaeda alone has grown by a thousand times:</p><blockquote><p>Al-Qaeda has recruited an estimated <a href="https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/al-qaedas-resurrection">40,000 fighters</a> since Sept. 11, 2001, when the Osama bin Laden-led extremist group attacked the United States, according to the not-for-profit Council on Foreign Relations.</p><p>Despite a United States-led global &#8220;<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/sept-15-2001-president-declares-war-terror-10877347">war on terror</a>&#8221; that has <a href="https://watson.brown.edu/research/2018/59-trillion-spent-and-obligated-post-911-wars">cost US$5.9 trillion</a>, (now $8 trillion) killed an estimated <a href="https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2018/Human%20Costs%2C%20Nov%208%202018%20CoW.pdf">480,000 to 507,000 people</a> and assassinated bin Laden, al-Qaeda has <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/south-asia/2011-02-20/how-al-qaeda-works">grown and spread</a> since 9/11, expanding from rural Afghanistan into <a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/05/12/world/12aqmap.html?_r=0">North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, the Gulf States, the Middle East and Central Asia</a>.</p></blockquote><p> Thousands of members of hundreds of new groups. Every time we seek out to overthrow a regime who we &#8220;don&#8217;t like&#8221; it causes <em><a href="https://americanempireproject.com/blowback/">Blowback</a></em><a href="https://americanempireproject.com/blowback/"> as Chalmers Johnson wrote in his book by the same name</a>. Coined by General McChrystal, <em>&#8220;Insurgent Math&#8221;</em> You kill 5 insurgents and 10 rise up because when you kill 5, it emboldens the 10 to fight back and practically does the recruiting for al-Qaeda.<em> </em> <br>No one in corporate media even talks about Iraq anymore, images from Libya are so bad. Reports of slave auctions, the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/globalpost-qaddafi-apparently-sodomized-after-capture/">sodomized Qaddafi</a>. It doesn&#8217;t get uglier.<br>All for money and ego, that&#8217;s it. </p><p>We, for our own damn ego and oil, destroyed the Middle East. How about Yemen. Two years ago we stopped backing the Saudi&#8217;s in their genocide against Yemen. Straight from a member of Trump&#8217;s cabinet in his first term: We can&#8217;t stop bombing Yemen because we owe Lockheed Martin too much money. They called it &#8220;putting the defense industry on welfare.&#8221;<br>No worries <em>Lockheed Martin</em>. No worries at all. Regime change is in the air. It reeks of death and oil.<br>The shrieks of joy from little Marco the neocon, sound like the sound barrier breaking overhead, this is after all his lifelong mission, to be the blood-soaked monster that destroyed Venezuela. <br>Using weapons of war to murder &#8220;drug dealers.&#8221; Who the fuck do we think we are. We are truly overplaying our hand, the world hates us. No one can trust us. Anyone we shake hands with, must know their days are numbered.<br>Twenty speed boats have been bombed now, the country is encircled by our weapons. </p><p>The blowback from the Middle East led to 9/11, what do we think this will lead to. Venezuela is so damn close to us, ninety miles off our coast, what makes anyone think that this wouldn&#8217;t be another disaster for America.<br>We militarized the police with both wars. Bled our own country of resources, and handed the ball to organized crime all over the world.</p><p>We created an overdose crisis with the &#8220;War on Drugs.&#8221;<br>Created terror with the &#8220;War on Terror.&#8221;<br>How exactly do we think we could now win the war on this imaginary hybrid we are calling &#8220;Narco-Terrorists?&#8221; Does such a thing even exist? We should probably look a little closer to home, because in most counts, the real culprits are sitting in Langley or the State Department of Washington, D.C.</p><p>Thank you for reading. </p><p>This is <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bc49df27-2dac-4930-bc86-293f34eb9859_1944x1944.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;c6ed65d4-61b7-4c2d-a5f0-01b3e1d0c17e&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> Editor-in-Chief <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:368081,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/80f893b7-b534-4d79-b7de-7d1669b980f2_1024x1024.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;f59b9eb7-fedd-4b43-be9b-d4952f81514c&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <br></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Freedom Manifesto is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Death of Palestine]]></title><description><![CDATA["Is there anybody out there?"]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-death-of-palestine</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-death-of-palestine</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:15:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GO5V!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7988d511-1f55-4baf-af0b-a8228542ec7c_475x478.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>The Killing of a People</h2><p>The new Hasbara is making al-Qaeda seem like a wholesome crowd. Hitler a friend till the end.<br>Scrolling through X last night my feed was inundated with the pictures of dead journalists from an airstrike the night before. <br><br>I can't write about anything else. It feels like malpractice to carry on about anything else when children are being slaughtered and my government is running cover for them, using bombs and ammunition manufactured in my country, paid for with my tax dollars. Scrolling through my drafts I have 27 articles that are nearly finished or have a good start, but I keep hitting a roadblock in the form of an airstrike on innocent children, men, and woman whose only crime was being born in the wrong skin. </p><p>My first thought was <em>well, everyone is covering this. It won&#8217;t make a damn bit of difference if I do or not.</em> And maybe that is so, but even if my writing doesn&#8217;t move the needle a millimeter or change one person&#8217;s mind at least I can get this shit off of my chest.<br>The latest crimes by the Israeli Gestapo have the entire world up in arms. The only people who aren't completely outraged are those who stand to benefit from the actions of their masters. Those who are already bought and paid for by the blood-soaked racket. They know who they are and I hope it was worth it.<br></p><p><em>Crazy,</em> they were called when they accused them of imposing a hunger blockade right out in the open.</p><p>August 1st, 2025 from<a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/witkoff-huckabee-visit-ghf-rafah-gaza-palestinians-killed-aid-famine?r=iuq6q&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web"> Drop Site News:</a></p><blockquote><p>President Trump&#8217;s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee toured an &#8220;aid distribution&#8221; site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah in southern Gaza on Friday. During the U.S. envoy's highly stage-managed visit, at least 82 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across the enclave, including 49 people seeking food aid with more than 270 injured.</p><p>The visit came as the leading international authority on food crises&#8212;the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)&#8212;this week said that the &#8220;worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,&#8221; warning that the situation has reached &#8220;an alarming and deadly turning point&#8221; and predicting &#8220;widespread death&#8221; without immediate action.</p><p>&#8220;A theatrical performance is currently taking place at the U.S. aid distribution centers, attended by Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff: A civilized distribution of aid, without repression and pepper gas, without gunfire or casualties, without stampedes," Eyad Amawi, a representative of the Gaza Relief Committee and a coordinator for local NGOs based in Deir al-Balah, said. "Today, the goal is to discredit thousands of video clips, to wipe away the blood of nearly 1,000 starving martyrs and hundreds of wounded in the traps of humiliation.&#8221;</p><p>Israel&#8217;s starvation campaign in Gaza reached a tipping point last month, with Palestinians collapsing in the streets and with men, women, and children dying from hunger and malnutrition on a daily basis. Three new deaths from the spreading famine were recorded by the ministry of health on Friday, bringing the total number since the start of the war to 162, including 92 children&#8212;many of them over the past three weeks alone.</p></blockquote><p>This deliberate act of starving these people, not due to a shortage but simply because they can, is on the level of the Holodomor in 1932-33 Ukraine, when Joseph Stalin instituted a hunger blockade leading to a &#8220;man-made famine&#8221; on his own people as a means to crackdown on dissent. </p><p>How is this <em>any</em> different.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>June 12, 2025 at 12:38 pm ET | <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/tag/gaza/">Gaza</a>, <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/tag/israel/">Israel</a></strong></p><blockquote><p><strong>Gaza&#8217;s Health Ministry <a href="https://t.me/MOHMediaGaza/6647">said Thursday</a> that Israeli forces killed 103 Palestinians and wounded 427 over the previous 24-hour period as Israeli troops continued to shoot people seeking aid, and airstrikes and artillery pounded the Strip.</strong></p><p><strong>Details about Israeli strikes, photos, and videos were not as widely available as usual on Thursday, as Palestinian authorities <a href="http://last%20remaining%20main%20fiber%20optic%20route%20connecting%20gaza/">reported a total internet blackout</a> due to an Israeli attack on the last remaining main fiber optic cable connecting Gaza. The UN said that the blackout had hampered its aid operations inside the besieged enclave.</strong></p><div><hr></div></blockquote><p>Even President Trump is talking about the starvation in Gaza:</p><blockquote><p><strong>President Trump <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1949819811401273583">acknowledged on Monday</a> that there was &#8220;real starvation&#8221; in the Gaza Strip, comments that came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1949779085003022661">claimed there was &#8220;no starvation&#8221;</a> despite the daily malnutrition deaths that have been caused by the US-backed Israeli siege.</strong></p><p><strong>&#8220;That&#8217;s real starvation stuff, I see it. You can&#8217;t fake that,&#8221; the president told reporters while meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a Trump golf course in Scotland.</strong></p><p><strong>Trump said the US would become &#8220;even more involved&#8221; with getting aid into Gaza. However, the current US aid system, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), has created death traps for Palestinians as they are regularly gunned down by the Israeli military near GHF sites.</strong></p></blockquote><h2>The Serial Slaughter of the Free Press in Gaza</h2><p>Flippantly they tell us, &#8220;You&#8217;re losing your mind,&#8221; when they&#8217;re accused of targeted assassinations of Palestinian journalists. And follow-up with the excuse that, &#8220;The people you are talking about are not <em>actual</em> journalists, they are Hamas militants.&#8221; They used this excuse as recently as last night to cover their asses for the six Al-Jazeera journalists they just killed in an airstrike.</p><p>I have to wonder if these people are militants where is their weapons? They don&#8217;t have any? Unarmed? And you killed them anyway.</p><p>Early in the assault on Gaza a Palestinian poet, writer, and teacher, known for teaching his students <em>not</em> to hate Jews, Refaat Alareer, had taken up reporting what was happening in Gaza. For this they hunted him and when they found him staying at his sister they bombed the home and killed everyone inside.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GO5V!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7988d511-1f55-4baf-af0b-a8228542ec7c_475x478.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GO5V!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7988d511-1f55-4baf-af0b-a8228542ec7c_475x478.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GO5V!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7988d511-1f55-4baf-af0b-a8228542ec7c_475x478.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GO5V!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7988d511-1f55-4baf-af0b-a8228542ec7c_475x478.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GO5V!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7988d511-1f55-4baf-af0b-a8228542ec7c_475x478.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GO5V!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7988d511-1f55-4baf-af0b-a8228542ec7c_475x478.webp" width="475" height="478" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7988d511-1f55-4baf-af0b-a8228542ec7c_475x478.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:478,&quot;width&quot;:475,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&#8220;If I must die, you must live to tell my story&#8230;&#8221;: Israel targets and kills beloved poet Refaat Alareer - Beirut Today&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="&#8220;If I must die, you must live to tell my story&#8230;&#8221;: Israel targets and kills beloved poet Refaat Alareer - Beirut Today" title="&#8220;If I must die, you must live to tell my story&#8230;&#8221;: Israel targets and kills beloved poet Refaat Alareer - Beirut Today" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GO5V!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7988d511-1f55-4baf-af0b-a8228542ec7c_475x478.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GO5V!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7988d511-1f55-4baf-af0b-a8228542ec7c_475x478.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GO5V!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7988d511-1f55-4baf-af0b-a8228542ec7c_475x478.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GO5V!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7988d511-1f55-4baf-af0b-a8228542ec7c_475x478.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Refaat Alareer</figcaption></figure></div><p>He left this poem behind:</p><div class="pullquote"><h3><strong>If I Must Die</strong></h3><p>December 14, 2023</p><p>If I must die,<br>you must live<br>to tell my story<br>to sell my things<br>to buy a piece of cloth<br>and some strings,<br>(make it white with a long tail)<br>so that a child, somewhere in Gaza<br>while looking heaven in the eye<br>awaiting his dad who left in a blaze &#8212;<br>and bid no one farewell<br>not even to his flesh<br>not even to himself &#8212;<br>sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above,<br>and thinks for a moment an angel is there<br>bringing back love.<br>If I must die<br>let it bring hope,<br>let it be a story. </p></div><p>Since then 236 Palestinian journalists have been murdered, 2 Israeli. Western journalists are not allowed in Palestine. Without these journalists we would know nothing, and the Israelis know this.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q-ZH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd492a65d-6ae9-4751-abda-f381f87d1828_760x427.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q-ZH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd492a65d-6ae9-4751-abda-f381f87d1828_760x427.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q-ZH!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd492a65d-6ae9-4751-abda-f381f87d1828_760x427.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q-ZH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd492a65d-6ae9-4751-abda-f381f87d1828_760x427.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q-ZH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd492a65d-6ae9-4751-abda-f381f87d1828_760x427.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q-ZH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd492a65d-6ae9-4751-abda-f381f87d1828_760x427.jpeg" width="760" height="427" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d492a65d-6ae9-4751-abda-f381f87d1828_760x427.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:427,&quot;width&quot;:760,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;An Israeli army spokesperson had called Al Jazeera Arabic&#8217;s Gaza correspondent Anas al-Sharif a terrorist multiple times before his death in an Israeli airstrike on August 10, 2025.&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="An Israeli army spokesperson had called Al Jazeera Arabic&#8217;s Gaza correspondent Anas al-Sharif a terrorist multiple times before his death in an Israeli airstrike on August 10, 2025." title="An Israeli army spokesperson had called Al Jazeera Arabic&#8217;s Gaza correspondent Anas al-Sharif a terrorist multiple times before his death in an Israeli airstrike on August 10, 2025." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q-ZH!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd492a65d-6ae9-4751-abda-f381f87d1828_760x427.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q-ZH!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd492a65d-6ae9-4751-abda-f381f87d1828_760x427.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q-ZH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd492a65d-6ae9-4751-abda-f381f87d1828_760x427.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q-ZH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd492a65d-6ae9-4751-abda-f381f87d1828_760x427.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Anas al-Sharif</figcaption></figure></div><p>The most recent journalist massacre as I mentioned above was a deliberate airstrike of the most prolific Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif and five others all working for Al-Jazeera and &#8220;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/mohammed-qreiqeh">Mohammed Qreiqeh</a> was well-known for his eloquent way of speaking, a skill he displayed to the world in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpmf8ZE3hyU">live TV report</a> just moments before Israel killed him.</p><p>&#8220;The 33-year-old Al Jazeera correspondent was one of six Palestinian journalists killed in a direct and deliberate Israeli strike on their media tent beside Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital on Sunday.&#8221;    </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DwzD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29ed7d69-20db-449d-8301-48158b9de354_2600x1462.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DwzD!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29ed7d69-20db-449d-8301-48158b9de354_2600x1462.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DwzD!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29ed7d69-20db-449d-8301-48158b9de354_2600x1462.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DwzD!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29ed7d69-20db-449d-8301-48158b9de354_2600x1462.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DwzD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29ed7d69-20db-449d-8301-48158b9de354_2600x1462.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DwzD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29ed7d69-20db-449d-8301-48158b9de354_2600x1462.jpeg" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/29ed7d69-20db-449d-8301-48158b9de354_2600x1462.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh reports in Gaza City on 1 December, 2024 (AFP)&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh reports in Gaza City on 1 December, 2024 (AFP)" title="Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh reports in Gaza City on 1 December, 2024 (AFP)" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DwzD!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29ed7d69-20db-449d-8301-48158b9de354_2600x1462.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DwzD!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29ed7d69-20db-449d-8301-48158b9de354_2600x1462.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DwzD!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29ed7d69-20db-449d-8301-48158b9de354_2600x1462.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DwzD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F29ed7d69-20db-449d-8301-48158b9de354_2600x1462.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/mohammed-qreiqeh">Mohammed Qreiqeh</a></figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-colleagues-pay-tribute-six-colleagues-murdered-israel">Middle East Eye:</a></p><blockquote><p>Their names were Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed al-Khalidi.</p><p>Israel has killed 238 Palestinian journalists in Gaza since the beginning of the war, according to the Gaza government media office.</p><p>Sharif was a renowned Al Jazeera correspondent who had gained prominence for his brave reporting during the conflict.</p><p>Qreiqeh was a <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/mohammed-qreiqeh">Middle East Eye contributor</a> who had reported on Israeli atrocities and most recently was working for Al Jazeera.</p></blockquote><p>According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ):</p><blockquote><p>An Israeli army spokesperson had called Al Jazeera Arabic&#8217;s Gaza correspondent Anas al-Sharif a terrorist multiple times before his death in an Israeli airstrike on August 10, 2025.</p></blockquote><p>The CPJ started to worry that the Israelis were about to act and were using the premise that &#8220;Anas was a terrorist&#8221; as their excuse to kill him. This is someone who reported on the assault on Gaza 11 months straight at one point. </p><blockquote><p>New York, July 24, 2025&#8212;The Committee to Protect Journalists is <strong>gravely worried</strong> about the <strong>safety</strong> of Al Jazeera Arabic&#8217;s Gaza correspondent <a href="https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1948118003934982362">Anas al-Sharif</a>, who is being <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DMbv7meK2hp/?igsh=MXNkcjB3MDQweTJvdA%3D%3D">targeted</a> by an Israeli military smear campaign, which he believes is a precursor to his assassination.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee has stepped up his online attacks on al-Sharif, by falsely alleging that he is a Hamas terrorist, since the journalist cried on air while reporting on <a href="https://cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-israel-is-starving-gazan-journalists-into-silence/">starvation</a> in Gaza. The 28-year-old journalist has been a key source of news from Gaza for international audiences since the war began more than 650 days ago.</p><p>&#8220;We are deeply alarmed by the repeated threats made by Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee against Al Jazeera&#8217;s Gaza correspondent Anas al-Sharif and call on the international community to protect him,&#8221; said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. &#8220;This is not the first time Al-Sharif has been targeted by the Israeli military, but the danger to his life is now acute. Israel has killed at least <a href="https://x.com/ajplus/status/1948000608612389028">six Al Jazeera journalists</a> in Gaza during this war. These latest unfounded accusations represent an effort to manufacture consent to kill Al-Sharif.&#8221;</p><p>The IDF have made <a href="https://cpj.org/2024/08/cpj-denounces-israels-smearing-of-killed-palestinian-journalists-with-unsubstantiated-terrorist-labels/">unsubstantiated claims</a> that many of the journalists they <a href="https://cpj.org/2023/10/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/#targeted-murder">deliberately killed</a> in <a href="https://cpj.org/data/killed/all/?status=Killed&amp;motiveConfirmed%5B%5D=Confirmed&amp;motiveUnconfirmed%5B%5D=Unconfirmed&amp;type%5B%5D=Journalist&amp;type%5B%5D=Media%20Worker&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=IS&amp;cc_fips%5B%5D=LE&amp;start_year=2023&amp;end_year=2025&amp;group_by=year">Gaza</a> were terrorists, including four Al Jazeera staff &#8212; <a href="https://cpj.org/data/people/hamza-al-dahdouh/">Hamza Al Dahdouh</a>, <a href="https://cpj.org/data/people/ismail-al-ghoul/">Ismail Al Ghoul</a>, <a href="https://cpj.org/data/people/rami-al-refee/">Rami Al Refee</a>, and <a href="https://cpj.org/data/people/hossam-shabat/">Hossam Shabat</a>. CPJ <a href="https://cpj.org/data-terminology/">classifies</a> such cases as murder.</p><p>Al-Sharif was one of <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-al-jazeera-journalists-1.7361844">six Al Jazeera journalists</a> that the IDF accused in October 2024 of involvement with Hamas or Islamic Jihad militant groups, a claim that the Qatari-based channel rejected as &#8220;<a href="https://network.aljazeera.net/en/press-releases/al-jazeera-condemns-israeli-accusations-towards-its-journalists-gaza-and-warns">baseless</a>.&#8221; Shabat was later killed and Talal Al Arrouqi was <a href="https://cpj.org/2023/10/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/#TalalAlArrouqi">injured</a>.</p><p>Two other Al Jazeera staff journalists &#8211; <a href="https://cpj.org/data/people/samer-abu-daqqa/">Samer Abu Daqqa</a> and <a href="https://cpj.org/data/people/ahmed-al-louh/">Ahmed Al-Louh</a> &#8212; have been killed during the Israel-Gaza war, as well as eight journalists who freelanced for the channel, according to CPJ data.</p></blockquote><p>Because he was recorded crying in a video over the people being starved they decided that Anas was a part of a &#8220;false Hamas campaign on starvation.&#8221;</p><blockquote><p>Israel is coming under increasing <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/all-options-table-if-israel-does-not-deliver-gaza-pledges-eus-kallas-says-2025-07-22/">pressure</a> to stop <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/07/20/nx-s1-5474123/100-killed-seeking-aid-gaza-palestinian">shooting</a> Palestinians at aid distribution points and allow more food in, amid global alarm over reports of <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250724-hunger-crisis-deepens-in-gaza-more-starvation-deaths-reported">deaths</a> from hunger and <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/23/middleeast/gaza-starving-killed-israel-while-seeking-aid-intl">images</a> of emaciated children.</p><p>In a July 24 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=783744694223312&amp;rdid=sshO6ZwS8HF4yFac">video</a>, Adraee accused al-Sharif of being a member of Hamas&#8217; military wing, Al-Qassam, since 2013 and moving during the war &#8220;to work for the most criminal and offensive channel.&#8221;</p><p>In a July 23 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19Szqo8VsJ/">video</a>, Adraee described Al Jazeera&#8217;s reporting on starving Palestinians as &#8220;a fabricated drama starring Anas al-Sharif, who sheds crocodile tears,&#8221; while playing a clip of the journalist <a href="https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1946895044142567913">crying</a> while reporting on July 20.</p><p>In a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16tQckcrui/">July 20</a> video, Adraee played the same footage of al-Sharif crying and accused him of &#8220;propaganda&#8221; and being part of a &#8220;false Hamas campaign on starvation.&#8221;</p><p>On <a href="https://x.com/AvichayAdraee/status/1943928131137798456?s=19">July 12</a>, responding to al-Sharif&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1940523510289650059">post</a> calling for a ceasefire, Adraee described the journalist as &#8220;a mouthpiece for intellectual terrorism.&#8221;</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-death-of-palestine?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-death-of-palestine?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div></blockquote><h2>&#8220;There IS NO ETHNIC CLEANSING or GENOCIDE!&#8221;&#8212;Says Israeli Spokesman </h2><h2>&#8220;Yes, There Is!&#8221;&#8212;Says Benjamin Netanyahu! </h2><p><br>It is anti-semitic, a <em>&#8220;blood libel,&#8221;</em> to say that were committing ethnic cleansing.<br>Now, with the backing of the American empire they&#8217;re committing these things out in the open.<br>To say this is evil is the understatement of the decade.<br>They starved these people for months, and that was letting <em>nothing</em> in, which is kind of a red herring because before they sealed the place up for months and wouldn&#8217;t let a crumb in and arrested anyone who tried to get past them to feed the people they were already not allowing enough food in to feed the people.<br>Then when they let in food they would open fire on the lines of hungry people, gathered to relieve their aching bellies. Killing as many as forty-nine people at once, standing in line. </p><p>So far, they have killed 245 people while they were simply trying to eat. <br><em>People</em>, <em>yes, people</em>, these are people just like you and I. <br><br>In the past 24 hours 60 Palestinians were murdered. <br>6 of them journalists for Al-Jazeera.<br>Over 300 injured and 36 were murdered in line to get food.</p><p>&#8220;The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has warned that a &#8220;worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out,&#8221; predicting &#8220;widespread death&#8221; without immediate intervention.&#8221;</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-death-of-palestine?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-death-of-palestine?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>Benjamin Announces His &#8220;Final Solution&#8221; Like His Predecessor in the Third Reich.</strong></h2><blockquote><p><em><strong>The Israeli leader claimed he didn&#8217;t want to &#8216;keep&#8217; Gaza but the Israeli plans involve the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from large swathes of Gaza with the goal of driving them out entirely</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>by <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/author/dave_decamp/">Dave DeCamp</a> | August 7, 2025 at 3:28 pm ET | <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/tag/gaza/">Gaza</a>, <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/tag/israel/">Israel</a>, <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/tag/palestine/">Palestine</a></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/08/07/netanyahu-israel-occupy-gaza-strip-hamas">confirmed in public comments on Thursday</a> that his goal for Israel&#8217;s next military offensive in Gaza is the takeover and full Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Netanyahu claimed that he doesn&#8217;t want to &#8220;keep&#8221; Gaza and that Israel would hand over the territory to an unspecified Arab force, but the Israeli military plans involve the <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/08/06/israels-escalation-plans-involve-the-ethnic-cleansing-of-gaza-city-and-gazas-central-refugee-camps/">ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian civilian population</a> of Gaza City and Gaza&#8217;s central refugee camps with the goal of driving them out of the Strip entirely.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>&#8220;We intend to control all of Gaza. We don&#8217;t want to keep Gaza. We want a security perimeter. We want to hand Gaza over to Arab forces that will govern Gaza properly,&#8221; Netanyahu told Fox News.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>In another interview, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-israel-intends-to-capture-all-of-gaza-hand-it-over-to-non-pa-arab-forces/">Netanyahu said</a> Hamas and the Palestinian Authority couldn&#8217;t govern Gaza and that the Israeli military would be responsible for &#8220;overall security,&#8221; meaning Israel would maintain a tight grip on the territory. &#8220;We will never hand [Gaza] over to the Palestinian Authority or Hamas. We will provide overall security. There will be a security perimeter provided by us,&#8221; he said.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Netanyahu&#8217;s plan has faced resistance from the military since heavy Israeli troop casualties are expected, and the Israeli captives in Gaza will likely be harmed or killed during the offensive. Thousands of Israelis are <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-07/ty-article/.premium/israels-cabinet-meets-to-weigh-gaza-takeover-as-thousands-protest-for-hostage-deal/00000198-85a0-d9db-a9be-87ab6b680000?lts=1754605071305">protesting against the planned escalation</a>, and the families of the hostages are calling for a diplomatic deal to free their relatives.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Despite the risks and the daily slaughter and starvation in Gaza, the Trump administration has decided to back whatever Netanyahu decides to do. &#8220;President Trump has decided not to intervene and to let the Israeli government make its own decisions,&#8221; Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/08/07/netanyahu-israel-occupy-gaza-strip-hamas">reported on Thursday.</a></strong></em></p><p><em>According to reports, the military offensive on <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/topics/Gaza_city">Gaza City</a> and the surrounding refugee camps in the center of the enclave is expected to last for months. Israel will push the civilian population out of the area and direct them to the south in an effort to prompt them to leave.</em></p></blockquote><div id="youtube2-aus-S1g3hBE" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;aus-S1g3hBE&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/aus-S1g3hBE?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>This is everything that the more moderate voices said would <em>never</em> happen. This is the Greater Israel plan that they wanted all along. Planned since the 90&#8217;s when Netanyahu was approached by the neocons who&#8217;d go on to be consequential to the post-9/11 War on Terror. Outlined in their policy memo, addressed to Benjamin Netanyahu on his way into office for his first term as Prime Minister. Titled<a href="https://www.dougfeith.com/docs/Clean_Break.pdf"> A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.</a></p><p>They&#8217;ve kept Syria weak, so it&#8217;ll be no problem to take. Settlers have taken the West Bank piece-by-piece and according to recent reports, it&#8217;s <em>already </em>in Israels possession. Piece-by-piece the <em>Greater Israel Project</em> is falling into there hands.</p><p>The people of Gaza City are so weak from malnutrition, what are they really gonna do? Someone should <em>do something.</em> But <em>who? What?</em></p><p>Whether you&#8217;re the praying type or not, we should all say a prayer for the Palestinian people.</p><p>They need a <em>miracle!</em></p><p>Thank you for reading. This is <a href="https://open.substack.com/users/31666706-jordan-lee-canter?utm_source=mentions">Jordan Lee Canter</a> Editor-in-Chief</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty">The Freedom Manifesto</a></p><p><a href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share">Share The Freedom Manifesto</a></p><p>The Freedom Manifesto is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p><div id="youtube2-9S8w6mdmZ3E" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;9S8w6mdmZ3E&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/9S8w6mdmZ3E?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Scrolling through some clips about the Tucker Carlson X Nick Fuentes fallout and I run into this Adam Sosnick pontificating as to why Candace Owens/Dave Smith/Tucker Carlson might be so critical of Israel.</p><p>After the latest news that they literally voted this week for the ethnic cleansing of all the Palestinians from Gaza, it&#8217;s unbelievable that anyone could still be in wonder about why anyone would oppose these people.</p><p>At this point, if you are not in opposition to Israel, you are guilty of a crime against humanity.</p><p>Especially if you have a platform that millions of people watch, that&#8217;s even worse. By all means, if you don&#8217;t or can&#8217;t pay attention to all this shit, I get it. But if you <em>are</em> watching and find yourself thinking, I wonder why everyone is so upset at them? Maybe it&#8217;s because she has a Catholic husband, as Adam so stupidly suggests, you are in fucking dream world.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ted Cruz's Nail in the Coffin]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everybody's got to die sometime]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/ted-cruzs-nail-in-the-coffin</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/ted-cruzs-nail-in-the-coffin</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:19:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ix6i!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9bc1555b-f303-4986-bfae-2c5daa487dcd_2048x1365.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple months ago Douglas Murray wrote an Op-Ed for the New York Post, which was zero &#8216;Ed&#8217; and not much &#8216;Op&#8217;, that was, shall I say, the most factually inaccurate piece of garbage I ever read in my life, it was more inaccurate when compared to real life than &#8220;Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire&#8221;, it was disparaging of people who I love, called for censorship based on lies and for this I had to put his final <em>nail in the coffin.</em> </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;47099f26-25b8-4c52-a5bb-970a8e44b652&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;The Oldest American Newspaper in Print Allows the Likes of a British Neocon to Destroy its Credibility, What a Dark Day for Corporate Hackery and a Bright Day for Independent Media&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Douglas Murray's Nail in the Coffin&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Opposing the War parties, and  the Censorship-Industrial Complex, one post at a time.\n&#8220;Those who choose SECURITY over LIBERTY will have neither&#8221;\nCard carrying member of FIRE. \nFoundation for Individual Rights and Expression&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bc49df27-2dac-4930-bc86-293f34eb9859_1944x1944.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-04-20T02:21:26.373Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F46c7969e-0084-4e22-9d25-294daedc1ce2_791x407.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/douglas-murrays-nail-in-the-coffin&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Speech and Censorship&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:161683775,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:17,&quot;comment_count&quot;:24,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lYBV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0713a6ae-3f57-4fdf-8fc7-241d89b85795_768x768.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>Now, the war drums are beating. The bombing has already started, and Ted Cruz, a good ole&#8217; boy from Texas is beating the drums harder than anyone looking for a change of regime and a military occupation. Why? It wouldn&#8217;t be because he&#8217;s lobbied by the most powerful lobby in American history, who is the mortal enemy of the country in the crosshairs, right?</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/ted-cruzs-nail-in-the-coffin?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/ted-cruzs-nail-in-the-coffin?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uymt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01b32c38-8d18-47d3-baf3-3495319a3cec_1440x865.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uymt!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01b32c38-8d18-47d3-baf3-3495319a3cec_1440x865.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uymt!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01b32c38-8d18-47d3-baf3-3495319a3cec_1440x865.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uymt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01b32c38-8d18-47d3-baf3-3495319a3cec_1440x865.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uymt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01b32c38-8d18-47d3-baf3-3495319a3cec_1440x865.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Uymt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01b32c38-8d18-47d3-baf3-3495319a3cec_1440x865.jpeg" width="1440" height="865" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/01b32c38-8d18-47d3-baf3-3495319a3cec_1440x865.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:865,&quot;width&quot;:1440,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Harvard Law outsider became Tea Party hero - 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In the interview I&#8217;m referring to it&#8217;s quite hilarious how the only thing Ted can admit that Tucker has gotten right was on the border even though he mentions many times in this interview that he reads Tucker&#8217;s newsletter every day. But Ted tends to be great on these policies, when that government happens to be Democrat, when the shoe is on the other foot however, he turns into a scouring partisan hack.</p><p>Ted Cruz is a Texas Senator.  He&#8217;s known for having a silver-tongued dialect and intellect that is <em>second to none</em>. Here is CNN, who are no fans of Teddy:</p><blockquote><p>The first Hispanic American<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Hispanic_Heritage_Month.htm__;!!AQdq3sQhfUj4q8uUguY!wQEqTrImn_49-kilsIrQXkWZEuQ1ZxtUDAVjG7NoatgBIS-11H_OskhWgWHPvQ2LHjLLr30l$"> elected </a>to the US Senate from Texas, and a graduate of Harvard Law School and Princeton University, Cruz <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.texastribune.org/2016/01/24/ted-cruz-supreme-court-cases/__;!!AQdq3sQhfUj4q8uUguY!wQEqTrImn_49-kilsIrQXkWZEuQ1ZxtUDAVjG7NoatgBIS-11H_OskhWgWHPvQ2LHrjMLqBL$">had argued</a> nine cases before the US Supreme Court by the time he ran for Senate &#8211; more than any practicing Texas lawyer or member of Congress. Anyone who <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/web.archive.org/web/20130927141153/https:/www.morganlewis.com/pubs/Cruz_Law360RisingStar_05apr10.pdf__;!!AQdq3sQhfUj4q8uUguY!wQEqTrImn_49-kilsIrQXkWZEuQ1ZxtUDAVjG7NoatgBIS-11H_OskhWgWHPvQ2LHoe76xKc$">has authored </a>70 Supreme Court briefs, which Cruz did as solicitor general of Texas, surely must have skills to marshal the power of facts.</p></blockquote><p>Yes, he must. According to people who would know, such as our very own novelist intellectual, <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Walter Kirn&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:5584330,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/972df81c-16fb-4e10-a426-608ab7a9e747_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;a59c562b-9dc8-4ad2-99f9-158a77e4c37c&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, he is known to be a quite formidable linguist on the debate stage, but on the subject of Israel, well, he sounded as he appears like a bumbling religious fundamentalist redneck.</p><p>Now, I don&#8217;t doubt he&#8217;s a formidable debater with a silver tongue, but the hardest thing to debate is a bad argument that you don&#8217;t actually believe in. He appears dumb in this exchange because his arguments were dumb.</p><p>It&#8217;s very hard to argue for the moral high ground when you&#8217;re arguing in favor of a nation that just carried out the new <a href="https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/holodomor">Holodomor </a>by<a href="https://apnews.com/article/gaza-aid-hunger-israel-hamas-b7429c043bc9d01717713eab21bae546"> blocking the entrance of food for three months</a>, have <a href="https://cpj.org/2023/10/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/">murdered over a hundred journalists</a> who were trying to report the situation on the ground, have<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5wel11pgdo"> killed a minimum of 50,000 </a><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/gaza-health-officials-say-55000-palestinians-have-died-in-israel-hamas-war">civilians and </a>are now <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/israel-launches-preemptive-strike-on-iran-s-capital-tehran">carrying out a preemptive strike on a country that are currently in peace talks with us. </a></p><p>However, the things he spoke with confidence about were also very telling in their own. So, let&#8217;s get into it&#8230;</p><div id="youtube2-smemFVe0l5E" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;smemFVe0l5E&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/smemFVe0l5E?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>It only took four minutes to inject the term &#8220;Isolationism&#8221; into the conversation where I must insert the quote by <a href="https://cdn.mises.org/For%20a%20New%20Liberty%20The%20Libertarian%20Manifesto_3.pdf">Murray Rothbard&#8217;s </a><em><a href="https://cdn.mises.org/For%20a%20New%20Liberty%20The%20Libertarian%20Manifesto_3.pdf">Libertarian Manifesto</a></em><a href="https://cdn.mises.org/For%20a%20New%20Liberty%20The%20Libertarian%20Manifesto_3.pdf">:</a></p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Isolationism&#8221; was coined as a smear term to apply to opponents of American entry into World War II. Since the word was often applied through guilt-by-association to mean pro-Nazi, &#8220;isolationist&#8221; took on a &#8220;right wing&#8221; as well as a generally negative flavor.</p></blockquote><p>Isolationist became then, and forever, the number one slur against anyone who went against the state&#8217;s proliferation of violence. </p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/ted-cruzs-nail-in-the-coffin?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/ted-cruzs-nail-in-the-coffin?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2><a href="https://youtu.be/smemFVe0l5E?si=MF_FrWHWhJrNrZqR&amp;t=147">&#8216;I have not said that.&#8217;</a></h2><p>Let&#8217;s start with &#8216;I have not said that&#8217; when Tucker confronted Ted for calling for a &#8220;military regime change.&#8221;</p><blockquote><p>SENATOR TED CRUZ: No, no, I&#8217;ve not. Not said that once. I don&#8217;t think we need to use military force to do regime change. I said I support it. I would like to see it happen. You asked me how should it happen, A popular uprising. So what I&#8217;ve advocated for&#8230;. </p></blockquote><p>So, this is a fun one, and one that I&#8217;ve written about extensively. </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;56766025-5473-4f90-8df8-17c4749132a3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;**This piece is to congratulate the United States and whoever is left of Al-Qaeda after the news that came out this morning of the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad by &#8220;Rebel Forces&#8221;. Remember, any time they refer to &#8220;rebel forces&#8221;. What they mean is US+NATO/NGO&#8217;s/CIA-Trained forces, that is what we literally do. I&#8217;ll explain how but first, let&#8217;s take trip t&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Interference: The Anatomy of \&quot;Regime Change\&quot; in the Age of \&quot;Congressional Oversight\&quot;&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Opposing the War parties, and  the Censorship-Industrial Complex, one post at a time.\n&#8220;Those who choose SECURITY over LIBERTY will have neither&#8221;\nCard carrying member of FIRE. \nFoundation for Individual Rights and Expression&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bc49df27-2dac-4930-bc86-293f34eb9859_1944x1944.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2024-12-09T20:29:48.343Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/3cktmS-yaxM&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/interference-the-anatomy-of-regime&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Philosophical Musings of War and Peace&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:152418620,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:6,&quot;comment_count&quot;:4,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lYBV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0713a6ae-3f57-4fdf-8fc7-241d89b85795_768x768.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;a207f450-e7c4-4bc1-9b4d-8c8cf9128e7e&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;To this Mike Benz, founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online, and if &#8220;I told you so&#8221; could be a person he is it, he&#8217;s been sounding the alarm about these places for years, replied:&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Bipartisan Fraud of USAID&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Opposing the War parties, and  the Censorship-Industrial Complex, one post at a time.\n&#8220;Those who choose SECURITY over LIBERTY will have neither&#8221;\nCard carrying member of FIRE. \nFoundation for Individual Rights and Expression&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bc49df27-2dac-4930-bc86-293f34eb9859_1944x1944.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-02-11T03:14:20.744Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/kPihC7UQ9jk&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/usaid-and-the-two-party-industrial&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:156811233,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:4,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lYBV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0713a6ae-3f57-4fdf-8fc7-241d89b85795_768x768.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;c58839aa-2345-4996-b911-6c10623055a4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;I swear I didn&#8217;t go looking for this. For some reason MSN.Com is serving up articles from The Atlantic???? The whole piece is just gushing with idiocy. These morons still think that we can&#8217;t actually see where the money went to! At one point says, &#8220;Trump and Musk&#8217;s foreign-aid freeze could be one of the cru&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;A Quick Note on USAID and \&quot;one of the cruelest acts that a democracy has ever undertaken.\&quot; -The Atlantic &quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Opposing the War parties, and  the Censorship-Industrial Complex, one post at a time.\n&#8220;Those who choose SECURITY over LIBERTY will have neither&#8221;\nCard carrying member of FIRE. \nFoundation for Individual Rights and Expression&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bc49df27-2dac-4930-bc86-293f34eb9859_1944x1944.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2025-02-13T14:24:14.117Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3Qqx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdcd4f729-eb4c-4161-9c57-87948f7c5063_768x432.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/a-quick-note-on-usaid-and-one-of&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Corruption in Life &amp; Law&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:157058256,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:5,&quot;comment_count&quot;:2,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lYBV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0713a6ae-3f57-4fdf-8fc7-241d89b85795_768x768.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>Any time they call for a &#8220;popular uprising&#8221; what they are doing is rallying the people, for our NGO&#8217;s to start pumping in money to the protest movements and prepare for, what we call, a &#8220;Color Revolution.&#8221; This is an uprising funded by a foreign government that wants to install a new government that is willing to play ball with our interests. It&#8217;s easier to hide behind the protest movements, and carried out by the CIA.</p><p>When a countries government is not friendly to our interests we send in Government-funded NGO&#8217;s such as USAID, National Endowment for Democracy, International <em><strong>Republican</strong></em> Institute, National Democratic Institute, and wouldn&#8217;t you know it, the United States Agency for International Development. They rattle the people, train the rebels, overthrow the leaders and install the new one, all under the supervision and assistance of the US State Department, CIA, and US Military.</p><p>Check out the screenshot below is from another piece I did on this. All sources cited, paid for by the Government-Funded NGO, the National <em><strong>Republican </strong></em>Institute. Because <em>Republicans</em> have historically been interested in &#8220;transgender art&#8221; and &#8220;Sex changes for Peruvians&#8221;, right?: </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yqS_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F812971ce-1837-471d-97eb-afd62272450d_637x120.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yqS_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F812971ce-1837-471d-97eb-afd62272450d_637x120.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yqS_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F812971ce-1837-471d-97eb-afd62272450d_637x120.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yqS_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F812971ce-1837-471d-97eb-afd62272450d_637x120.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yqS_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F812971ce-1837-471d-97eb-afd62272450d_637x120.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yqS_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F812971ce-1837-471d-97eb-afd62272450d_637x120.png" width="637" height="120" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/812971ce-1837-471d-97eb-afd62272450d_637x120.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:120,&quot;width&quot;:637,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:16241,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/i/166597905?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F812971ce-1837-471d-97eb-afd62272450d_637x120.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yqS_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F812971ce-1837-471d-97eb-afd62272450d_637x120.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yqS_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F812971ce-1837-471d-97eb-afd62272450d_637x120.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yqS_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F812971ce-1837-471d-97eb-afd62272450d_637x120.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yqS_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F812971ce-1837-471d-97eb-afd62272450d_637x120.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>When Ted says, &#8220;I have not said that&#8221;. This is what he means. He works in Congress; Congress funds these uprisings. When he says &#8220;Regime Change&#8221; it&#8217;s much different than some rando pundit saying it. His words have action behind them.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ix6i!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9bc1555b-f303-4986-bfae-2c5daa487dcd_2048x1365.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ix6i!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9bc1555b-f303-4986-bfae-2c5daa487dcd_2048x1365.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ix6i!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9bc1555b-f303-4986-bfae-2c5daa487dcd_2048x1365.jpeg 848w, 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data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9bc1555b-f303-4986-bfae-2c5daa487dcd_2048x1365.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:970,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Ted Cruz calls himself an idiot for endorsing in statehouse races&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Ted Cruz calls himself an idiot for endorsing in statehouse races" title="Ted Cruz calls himself an idiot for endorsing in statehouse races" 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Ted Cruz, pictured above casting spells on all those who defy Israel</figcaption></figure></div><h2>Is Ted &#8220;Bought and Paid For&#8221;</h2><p>Something that comes across through this interview, mainly because Ted Cruz says it explicitly is his love for Israel ahead of Texas. Because, though it may seem &#8220;weird&#8221; how many questions Tucker asks about Israel, but I find it weirder how little regard Ted has for Texas. It seems Joe Rogan has more good things to say about Texas when he&#8217;s talking to scientists and alien abductees than this actual &#8220;representative of Texas&#8221;. But just for shits n giggles let&#8217;s take a look back at his 2012 campaign and see how much he had to say about &#8220;being the leading defender of Israel in the United States Senate."</p><p>So, I found what seems to equal up to his claim at: TRUE. The following headline was put out by Fox News in 2014:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-ted-cruz-emerges-as-a-leading-defender-of-israel-wows-zionist-groups?msockid=062c247184376a24139531af859a6ba4" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b-cy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb9238f8-86aa-4824-b9d5-5302f8ef4951_1226x218.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b-cy!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb9238f8-86aa-4824-b9d5-5302f8ef4951_1226x218.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b-cy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb9238f8-86aa-4824-b9d5-5302f8ef4951_1226x218.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b-cy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb9238f8-86aa-4824-b9d5-5302f8ef4951_1226x218.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b-cy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb9238f8-86aa-4824-b9d5-5302f8ef4951_1226x218.png" width="1226" height="218" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/db9238f8-86aa-4824-b9d5-5302f8ef4951_1226x218.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:218,&quot;width&quot;:1226,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:22089,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-ted-cruz-emerges-as-a-leading-defender-of-israel-wows-zionist-groups?msockid=062c247184376a24139531af859a6ba4&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/i/166597905?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb9238f8-86aa-4824-b9d5-5302f8ef4951_1226x218.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b-cy!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb9238f8-86aa-4824-b9d5-5302f8ef4951_1226x218.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b-cy!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb9238f8-86aa-4824-b9d5-5302f8ef4951_1226x218.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b-cy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb9238f8-86aa-4824-b9d5-5302f8ef4951_1226x218.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b-cy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb9238f8-86aa-4824-b9d5-5302f8ef4951_1226x218.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This was after walking off a stage earlier that year, as the keynote speaker at a Christian Arab event:</p><blockquote><p>In recent days Sen. Ted Cruz received a warm embrace by the crowd he addressed during a Zionist Organization of America dinner at a New York City hotel.</p><p>Cruz, a conservative Texas Republican, has emerged as a staunch defender of Israel. Just two months ago he made headlines when he lectured hecklers at a Christian Arab event &#8211; where he was keynote speaker &#8211; telling them anyone who hates Israel also hates America, and then walking off the stage.</p></blockquote><p>Which calls to question, what exactly is the role of a Texas Senator? Is it <em>not</em> to represent the needs of the people of Texas? </p><p>Is the state of Texas doing so well that Texans can afford to sacrifice their representative and allow him to instead represent a foreign country? A client state?</p><p>What&#8217;s good for Israel might not be good for Texas, can Texans trust that if ever the time came Ted would vote in favor of what&#8217;s good for his <em>real</em> constituents? Above what&#8217;s good for Israel? I think we already have that answer. </p><p>Texas has a high percentage of the military living there, with the bases and the patriotic culture. How does it benefit them to have the most pro-Israel representative also representing them? Just because they love the military, does it mean they want to fight a war of choice on behalf of a client state. I don&#8217;t think so, no doubt his extremist Evangelical dispensationalist views fit great with the cults of Texas, but what about the regular people who simply want to live their lives without the grid being knocked out.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/ted-cruzs-nail-in-the-coffin?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/ted-cruzs-nail-in-the-coffin?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>The &#8220;Careful Word Game&#8221;</h2><div id="youtube2-smemFVe0l5E" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;smemFVe0l5E&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;2469&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/smemFVe0l5E?start=2469&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Ok, for this I believe we start with Ted&#8217;s antisemitism game. To make this a piece that could be read and understood in a timeless manner, the context of this interview is that Israel has bombed Iran and many pro-Israel politicians are calling for an &#8220;American&#8221; bombing campaign and regime change, including Ted Cruz, that&#8217;s the context of the interview. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!62dy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fc4f571-c3f4-406e-80ec-bb4b60901efc_275x183.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!62dy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fc4f571-c3f4-406e-80ec-bb4b60901efc_275x183.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!62dy!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fc4f571-c3f4-406e-80ec-bb4b60901efc_275x183.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!62dy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fc4f571-c3f4-406e-80ec-bb4b60901efc_275x183.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!62dy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fc4f571-c3f4-406e-80ec-bb4b60901efc_275x183.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!62dy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fc4f571-c3f4-406e-80ec-bb4b60901efc_275x183.jpeg" width="275" height="183" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8fc4f571-c3f4-406e-80ec-bb4b60901efc_275x183.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:183,&quot;width&quot;:275,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Ted Cruz knows exactly what he's doing | Salon.com&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Ted Cruz knows exactly what he's doing | Salon.com" title="Ted Cruz knows exactly what he's doing | Salon.com" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!62dy!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fc4f571-c3f4-406e-80ec-bb4b60901efc_275x183.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!62dy!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fc4f571-c3f4-406e-80ec-bb4b60901efc_275x183.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!62dy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fc4f571-c3f4-406e-80ec-bb4b60901efc_275x183.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!62dy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8fc4f571-c3f4-406e-80ec-bb4b60901efc_275x183.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Ted Cruz, pictured above auditioning for Dumbo the Elephant; One week prior to his appearance in Harry Potter as a Gringotts Bank Goblin; </figcaption></figure></div><p> About 40 minutes into the interview Ted Cruz swaps &#8220;Israel&#8221; for &#8220;the Jews&#8221;, Tucker immediately takes issue with it and says, &#8220;no one said anything about &#8216;the Jews&#8217; </p><p>Although Ted might not have seen how obvious this was because he was in it, it was so very obvious. They&#8217;d been talking about Israel and the support of Israel&#8217;s war with Iran than as soon as Ted didn&#8217;t want to answer the question he was being confronted with, he derailed it by replacing Israel with &#8216;The Jews&#8217;, Tucker caught it and responded so &#8220;now I&#8217;m an antisemite&#8221;, and Ted accuses him of being &#8216;obsessed with the Jews&#8217; and then &#8216;obsessed with Israel&#8217; this was after just espousing that his &#8220;number one goal&#8221; when running for his Senate seat was to be the &#8220;leading supporter of Israel in the Senate.&#8221; Tucker calls this out.</p><p>Then Ted accuses Tucker of playing a &#8220;careful word game&#8221; by referring to Ted Cruz&#8217;s admission that when he ran for congress in 2012 he ran as the #1 defender of Israel in the Senate.</p><p>Ted was the one playing a word game here, anyone listening could hear it, and his constituents in Texas, I hope are paying attention. They are being represented by an empty seat.</p><p>Their representation is busy with a hostile foreign power and maybe if he has time he can worry about their needs.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/ted-cruzs-nail-in-the-coffin?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/ted-cruzs-nail-in-the-coffin?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r3aX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81995558-e37f-47cd-9ea7-0e825f5257f1_1140x684.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r3aX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81995558-e37f-47cd-9ea7-0e825f5257f1_1140x684.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r3aX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81995558-e37f-47cd-9ea7-0e825f5257f1_1140x684.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r3aX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81995558-e37f-47cd-9ea7-0e825f5257f1_1140x684.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r3aX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81995558-e37f-47cd-9ea7-0e825f5257f1_1140x684.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r3aX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F81995558-e37f-47cd-9ea7-0e825f5257f1_1140x684.jpeg" width="1140" height="684" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/81995558-e37f-47cd-9ea7-0e825f5257f1_1140x684.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:684,&quot;width&quot;:1140,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Princeton Alumni Rebuke Sen. 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Number one, as a Christian growing up in Sunday school, I was taught from the Bible, those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will. Will be cursed. And from my perspective, I want to be on the blessing side of things, of the.</p><p>TUCKER CARLSON: Those who bless the government of Israel.</p><p>SENATOR TED CRUZ: Those who bless Israel is what it says, doesn&#8217;t say the government of. It says the nation of Israel. So that&#8217;s in the Bible. As a Christian, I believe that.</p><p>TUCKER CARLSON: Where is that?</p><p>SENATOR TED CRUZ: I can find it to you. I don&#8217;t have the scripture off the tip of mine. You pull out the phone and use the.</p><p>TUCKER CARLSON: It&#8217;s in Genesis. But. So you&#8217;re quoting a Bible phrase, you don&#8217;t have context for it. You don&#8217;t know where in the Bible it is. But that&#8217;s like, like your theology. I&#8217;m confused. What does that even mean? Tucker, I&#8217;m a Christian. I want to know what you&#8217;re talking about.</p><p>SENATOR TED CRUZ: Where does my support for Israel come from? Number one, because biblically, we are commanded to support Israel. But number two.</p><p>TUCKER CARLSON: Hold on, hold on. You&#8217;re a senator and now you&#8217;re throwing out theology. And I am a Christian and I am allowed to weigh in on this. We are commanded as Christians to support the government of Israel.</p><p>SENATOR TED CRUZ: We are commanded to support Israel and we&#8217;re.</p><p>TUCKER CARLSON: What does that mean? Israel?</p><p>SENATOR TED CRUZ: We&#8217;re told those who bless Israel will be blessed.</p><p>TUCKER CARLSON: But hold on. Define Israel. This is important. Are you kidding? Kidding? This is a majority Christian country.</p><p>SENATOR TED CRUZ: Define Israel. Do you not know what Israel is? That would be the country you&#8217;ve asked, like 49 questions about.</p><p>TUCKER CARLSON: So that&#8217;s what Genesis. That&#8217;s what God is talking about.</p><p>SENATOR TED CRUZ: The nation of Israel.</p></blockquote><p>Ted says this with such confidence it&#8217;s infuriating!</p><p>What he is referring to is a new way of reading the Bible that came out in the last hundred years called &#8220;dispensationalism.&#8221; It means during different eras of the bible you follow god&#8217;s words differently. So, this bit is from the It&#8217;s from the Old Testament and doesn&#8217;t say this at all. The Mises Institute did an <a href="https://mises.org/power-market/ted-cruz-dispensationalism-and-state-israel">excellent explainer of this interaction</a> if you&#8217;d like to know more. Here&#8217;s what it actually says in Genesis 12:1-3:</p><blockquote><p>Now the Lord said to Abram, &#8220;Go from your country and your kindred and your father&#8217;s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>It doesn&#8217;t say &#8220;Israel&#8221; at all but Ted doesn&#8217;t say that. It&#8217;s really misleading. He&#8217;s saying that when God refers to &#8220;You&#8221;, that You is Israel. And Tucker is saying, &#8220;You think God is referring to the government of Israel?&#8221; And I think that takes the cake.</p><p>This alone is the reason there is a separation of church and state. The idea is so crazy that in a country whose founding was based on the freedom of religion, for us to, 300 years later, to now be on the brink of war at the behest of a religion that is now being deciphered to say, whatever they want it to say.</p><p>Maybe next year we should go to war for the Mormons? Or, actually, according to my translation everyone is supposed to pay their taxes to me, because, well, here&#8217;s what happened, every preacher all across America who says to give the Lord 15% of your income, who they&#8217;re actually referring to is me, so if you want those blessings, you shouldn&#8217;t let our god down. </p><p>What&#8217;s stopping anyone from saying that. And what if you don&#8217;t believe in that? What if your religion is completely opposed to that? Or maybe you believe when you blow some shit up you&#8217;ll get 40 virgins in the afterlife, like some do, should we now institute legislation at state level or should we say you&#8217;re fucking nuts, and so is the other one and even if I believed any of you it has no grounds, because the constitution of the United States doesn&#8217;t allow it, and I represent <em>my</em> countrymen, not yours.</p><p>Fuck you, Ted Cruz!</p><p>Thank you for reading!</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bc49df27-2dac-4930-bc86-293f34eb9859_1944x1944.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;0dc297bd-e923-4bc2-bc0e-c12b1975e7fe&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> Editor-in-Chief <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:368081,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0713a6ae-3f57-4fdf-8fc7-241d89b85795_768x768.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;35c86a02-84a0-4425-b704-fea43509f2fb&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Freedom Manifesto is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nation-Builder Who Never Built Nothing.]]></title><description><![CDATA[And the voice inside his ear...]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/neocon-don-has-let-us-down-again</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/neocon-don-has-let-us-down-again</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 01:43:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vVpl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e5cd78c-7514-478b-b87e-f1687e0131ff_1170x780.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="pullquote"><p>It doesn&#8217;t matter who you vote for you always wind up with John McCain.</p><p>Tom Woods, Woods&#8217; Law #3</p></div><div class="pullquote"><p>There is a tremendous amount of animosity between myself and the GOP who has ran around talking as if they&#8217;re Ron Paul but governing as if they&#8217;re John McCain.</p><p>Clint Russel, Liberty Lockdown</p></div><div><hr></div><p><code>Conference call: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; President Donald J. Trump; Senator of Texas Ted Cruz;</code></p><p><code>Thursday June 12th, 2025:</code></p><p><code>DJT: Bibi, as far as they know we are continuing peace talk with the Iranians for the &#8220;nuclear deal.&#8221; Are you going ahead with the strike?</code></p><p><code>BB: Yes. Our bombers are committed and set on course. We must take out Iran if we are going to advance our removal of the Arabs from Judea and Samaria (Palestine). How is public sentiment on the war, Mr. President we are going to require American support.</code></p><p><code>DJT: If they&#8217;re not on board they will be. There&#8217;s an IAEA report that came out May 31st claiming Iran is enriching their uranium to a dangerous level. It&#8217;s fake, of course, but they don&#8217;t know that, and it should help quiet the dissent. I&#8217;m the president, I say who we support.</code></p><p><code>BB: Well, Mr. President with all due respect some of the biggest voices in your coalition seem to be dissenting, regardlesss. Umm, what will you do about Tucker Carlson? And the black girl, Candace Owens? They are spreading propaganda which is poisoning our effort. </code></p><p><code>DJT: This is why the report was necessary, using their own organization against them. As you know IAEA is no friends of Israel, when they put out a report the dissenters listen. Look, Bibi, don&#8217;t worry about them, they can talk all they want, and say whatever they want, the people will follow me&#8212;</code></p><p><code>Ted Cruz: &#8212;Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister&#8212;</code></p><p><code>DJT: &#8212;Teddy you weren&#8217;t supposed to talk until we call on you&#8212;</code></p><p><code>TC: Sorry sir&#8230;</code></p><p><code>DJT: Well, continue now, you already started.</code></p><p><code>TC: Okay, MAGA is behind you no matter what, the faction of dissent taking Tucker&#8217;s position, the &#8220;complainers&#8221;, are soon to coming to an end. I have a meeting with him next week, aired publicly, and we&#8217;ll set the record straight. After that, the &#8220;isolationist&#8221; faction will no longer have a leg to stand on. They&#8217;ll follow us to the very end. Iran is a scourge on the face of humanity and must be wiped out, so will it be.</code></p><p><code>DJT: Thank you, Teddy.</code></p><p><code>BB: If he starts to get the best of you Teddy, you use every trick in the book, make sure no one will listen to him ever again, slander him as an antisemite, a Jew hater, blood libel, he loves Hitler, whatever we gotta do.</code></p><p><code>He turns his attention to Trump. </code></p><p><code>BB: Mr. President, this strike must be victorious, and we need your support. Please don&#8217;t pull a Kennedy on us and abandon us at the last minute like the &#8220;Bay of Pigs.&#8221; And the American people, must be in support&#8212;</code></p><p><code>DJT: Bibi, you worry too much. I am MAGA, they&#8217;re gonna do anything I say. They&#8217;ll follow me to the end of the earth. I say what is America First, after all I created it, and America First is Israel First. The Iranians think we&#8217;re still scheduled for peace talks on Sunday. They should&#8217;ve known, I gave them 60 days, today is day 60, tomorrow will be 61.</code></p><p><code>TC: I&#8217;ll set the record straight with Tucker, and in turn all his followers. </code></p><p><code>DJT: Okay, Teddy. You can go now.</code></p><p><code>Ted Cruz: Thank you, Mr. President; Mr. Prime Minister. </code></p><p><code>(Cruz disconnects, but the meeting continues)</code></p><p><code>DJT: So, you really think they have weapons of&#8212;nuclear weapons, Bibi? You know our IC threat assessment&#8212;</code></p><p><code>BB: MOSSAD has their own threat assessment, and it says, &#8216;BOMB THEM NOW.&#8217; The AIEI has released a new assessment that says they are days away from nuclear weapons, we must strike them now. No, they don&#8217;t have them yet, but we can&#8217;t wait put it off until there&#8217;s a mushroom cloud over Tel-Aviv, or even New York, maybe Washington. We must strike them now; we&#8217;ve been waiting decades for this. Don&#8217;t forget this isn&#8217;t only about the bombs, but it is mostly, it&#8217;s also the Greater Israel project. Deferment is at our own peril&#8212;</code></p><p><code>DJT: Okay, well you got our full support&#8212;</code></p><p><code>BB: Boots on the ground?</code></p><p><code>DJT: If it comes to that.</code></p><p><code>BB: It will. Once we take out Iran, we will have no more enemies in the Global South, and we can finish dealing with Hamas and our Greater Israel project.</code></p><p><code>DJT: Yea, so what will you do with all those people? </code></p><p><code>BB: I don&#8217;t care. We&#8217;re thinning the herd as much as we can, and the rest that survive, fuck &#8216;em. They can be spread out throughout the Arab lands. Or maybe we can send them to Iran after we take it over, but if Iran doesn&#8217;t go none of that happens.</code></p><p><code>DJT: Alright Bibi, appreciate the call. You&#8217;ve got our full support.</code></p><p><code>BB. I appreciate the Truth post, throwing them off our trail.</code></p><p><code>(End of Transcript)</code></p><div id="youtube2-smemFVe0l5E" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;smemFVe0l5E&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/smemFVe0l5E?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div><hr></div><p>As the genocide of the Palestinians comes to a close Bibi Netanyahu knows the time to pay the piper is closing in.</p><p>As illustrated in the new documentary<a href="https://youtu.be/2Rel6ZeY98M?si=Hyusb68H7eCJf4zh"> &#8220;Bibi Files&#8221;, </a>Netanyahu&#8217;s goose is cooked.</p><p>Just like Zelenskyy won&#8217;t allow his war to end because he knows he&#8217;ll be thrown out of office, neither will Netanyahu.  </p><p>First, let's talk about <em>our</em> leader, because he's who actually matters to me. </p><h2>Diplomatic Deception</h2><p>Publicly, &#8220;peace talks&#8221; were scheduled for Sunday between the President and the Iranian negotiators, it soon became clear that there was no peace talks on the docket. </p><p>Thursday night Israel carried a good old Friday the 13th surprise with a preemptive air strike on several bases, and assassinations of key military leaders provoking return fire from Iran. Iran and Israel traded strikes, and the cycle of violence began. Anyone saying &#8212; and they are &#8212; that Israel <em>or</em> Iran is not targeting civilians or residential areas is full of shit, that&#8217;s what war is, and this no different than any other. The goal of war is to kill people and blow shit up. Devastate their society as much as possible. </p><p>As late as 5PM Thursday night Donald Trump was suggesting that diplomacy was still on the table, but he already knew that it was not:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114672438335170335" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DM15!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9525a63-c5e3-47f9-a3bf-9d8cf1a13f12_627x289.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DM15!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9525a63-c5e3-47f9-a3bf-9d8cf1a13f12_627x289.png 848w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Now that six days have passed, we now know that 60 days prior to June 13th Donald Trump gave a warning that if there is not a deal in 60 days (quote the post), there was nothing else said about it, it seemed like maybe a far-out threat as Donald Trump tends to make.</p><p>President Trump told the<a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty/p/douglas-murrays-nail-in-the-coffin?r=iuq6q&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false"> New York Post</a> the <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/13/us-news/trump-tells-post-i-always-knew-the-date-for-israel-attack-on-iran/">day of the </a>first strike that he &#8220;always knew the attack date,&#8221; maybe the Israeli leaders and American leaders were laughing amongst themselves at the bad luck coming to Iran on Friday the 13th.</p><div><hr></div><p>Leading up to the weekend Donald Trump made many posts referring to the peace talks happening that Sunday, but this what&#8217;s being referred to <em>&#8220;diplomatic cover&#8221; </em>because we now know Israel&#8217;s attack on Friday, and the days that followed, was with Donald Trump&#8217;s blessing.</p><blockquote><p>His response to the attacks:</p><p>&#8220;Iran should have listened to me when I said &#8212; you know, I gave them, I don&#8217;t know if you know but I gave them a 60-day warning and today is day 61,&#8221; he told CNN.</p><p>&#8220;They should now come to the table to make a deal before it&#8217;s too late. It will be too late for them. You know, the people I was dealing with are dead, the hardliners,&#8221; the president said. He would not specify which people he was referring to. </p></blockquote><p>&#8220;The people I was dealing with are dead.&#8221; What an ominous, dark thing to say, Donald Trump, with that statement killed peace as an option forever. Iran&#8217;s only choice now is to build a nuclear bomb and as they say bring <em>&#8220;<a href="https://theweek.com/politics/israels-war-is-americas-too">Death to America &amp; Death to Israel!&#8221;</a></em></p><p>How would another group of Iranian&#8217;s come to the negotiation table when the last ones who did, <em>were killed!</em></p><p>Essentially Donald Trump gave cover to Israel. Publicly stating that <em>peace would commence!</em> While behind the scenes Israel planned their attack.</p><h2>On The Ground</h2><p>Correspondent from FOX News in Tel Aviv, yelled in his report, &#8220;Israel is targeting military structures and Iran is targeting civilians&#8230;&#8221;</p><p>But this isn&#8217;t true, from either side. The news is flipping between Israel&#8217;s damge and Iran&#8217;s damage, it seemed like they were trading apartment complexes, reduced to rubble.</p><div id="youtube2-Xu_stK-kLqI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Xu_stK-kLqI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Xu_stK-kLqI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>In Israel, and I&#8217;m sure in Iran too, censorship is running ramped, suppressing battle damage reports, and arresting journalists for trying to report what is happening. </p><div id="youtube2-qKBRSIUQzGE" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;qKBRSIUQzGE&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qKBRSIUQzGE?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/12/world/israel-iran-us-nuclear">In Israel, on day one, a civilian apartment complex</a> had been destroyed, a man was stuck underneath the rubble, and his son sat on the sideline, praying he&#8217;s alive.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2glx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0626635c-1bc4-435a-95ed-835f10e8de96_600x400.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2glx!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0626635c-1bc4-435a-95ed-835f10e8de96_600x400.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2glx!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0626635c-1bc4-435a-95ed-835f10e8de96_600x400.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2glx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0626635c-1bc4-435a-95ed-835f10e8de96_600x400.jpeg 1272w, 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2glx!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0626635c-1bc4-435a-95ed-835f10e8de96_600x400.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2glx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0626635c-1bc4-435a-95ed-835f10e8de96_600x400.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2glx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0626635c-1bc4-435a-95ed-835f10e8de96_600x400.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Tehran, Iran</figcaption></figure></div><p>In Tehran the report was less personal. Downtown Tehran, from a drone view I suppose, buildings were destroyed, it looked like 10 missiles hit in a big cluster.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aX_Q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ae7080c-e61d-4722-b29d-4250f46a6c8e_299x168.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aX_Q!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ae7080c-e61d-4722-b29d-4250f46a6c8e_299x168.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aX_Q!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ae7080c-e61d-4722-b29d-4250f46a6c8e_299x168.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aX_Q!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ae7080c-e61d-4722-b29d-4250f46a6c8e_299x168.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aX_Q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ae7080c-e61d-4722-b29d-4250f46a6c8e_299x168.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aX_Q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ae7080c-e61d-4722-b29d-4250f46a6c8e_299x168.jpeg" width="299" height="168" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6ae7080c-e61d-4722-b29d-4250f46a6c8e_299x168.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:168,&quot;width&quot;:299,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Tehran no longer immune, Israeli jets flying freely': IDF | World News -  Hindustan Times&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Tehran no longer immune, Israeli jets flying freely': IDF | World News -  Hindustan Times" title="Tehran no longer immune, Israeli jets flying freely': IDF | World News -  Hindustan Times" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aX_Q!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ae7080c-e61d-4722-b29d-4250f46a6c8e_299x168.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aX_Q!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ae7080c-e61d-4722-b29d-4250f46a6c8e_299x168.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aX_Q!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ae7080c-e61d-4722-b29d-4250f46a6c8e_299x168.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aX_Q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ae7080c-e61d-4722-b29d-4250f46a6c8e_299x168.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The Neocons have wanted Iran since the 90&#8217;s, publicly, to run their little experiment. They said, &#8220;<a href="https://www.leadingtowar.com/war_rosecolored.php">we would be greeted as liberators!</a>&#8221;</p><p>Here is info on the targeted nuclear sites, stated to be for civil-use, i.e. nuclear energy:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y7oC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0474eac7-86a7-4b36-9849-9a5e8edb676c_1200x1000.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Y7oC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0474eac7-86a7-4b36-9849-9a5e8edb676c_1200x1000.png 424w, 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Like John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hitman) said, &#8220;when all else fails they send in the <em>jackals.&#8221;</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yPwn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25748b4d-a17e-4b90-b4b9-ee84af2b804c_576x427.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yPwn!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25748b4d-a17e-4b90-b4b9-ee84af2b804c_576x427.png 424w, 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Since 2007 our intelligence has said &#8220;they don&#8217;t want nukes, and have no intention to get nukes,&#8221; but their neighbor who picks fights with everyone swears they&#8217;re lying, swears they&#8217;re lying, swears they&#8217;re lying, and wants help from American troops just in case they&#8217;re lying. That neighbor was the same person who appeared in front of Congress in 2002 to appear as a &#8220;regional expert&#8221; and testifies according to his &#8220;expertise&#8221; first that &#8220;Iran could get weapons of mass destruction in no time, they&#8217;ve been ahead of Iraq in developing them, but Iraq <em>has</em> weapons of mass destruction and if we overthrow Iraq it will reverberate throughout the middle east, the people will rise up and overthrow their leaders and democracy will sweep the region.&#8221; This was Benjamin Netanyahu (See next section).</p><p>By following this expertise, Iraq is such a disaster that no one even talks about what is happening there. Libya has a modern-day slave trade. Syria is now run by a leader of al-Qaeda who killed American soldiers in Iraq. Afghanistan is being run by the Taliban. And here is Iran, the one we never got to war with, <em>the one that got away,</em> if I may.</p><p>We displaced 150 million people which caused a refugee crisis in Europe. We killed a million Arabs, 500,000 children, and starved half a million more. </p><p><em>Are we not done yet?</em></p><div id="youtube2-B7-3qEHjiOI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;B7-3qEHjiOI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/B7-3qEHjiOI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Donald Trump has failed us.  </p><p>He campaigned non-stop as the president that didn&#8217;t get us into anymore wars, which was <em>mostly true.</em></p><p>Now his rhetoric is this:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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supporting the proliferation of violence in another country that is not our fight. Another protracted regime change war, another <em>nation-builder</em> <em>who never built nothing.</em> </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2025-Unclassified-Report.pdf" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LTic!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a81511d-4834-4625-a56c-30d848321892_656x410.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LTic!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a81511d-4834-4625-a56c-30d848321892_656x410.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LTic!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a81511d-4834-4625-a56c-30d848321892_656x410.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LTic!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a81511d-4834-4625-a56c-30d848321892_656x410.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LTic!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a81511d-4834-4625-a56c-30d848321892_656x410.png" width="656" height="410" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6a81511d-4834-4625-a56c-30d848321892_656x410.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:410,&quot;width&quot;:656,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:150016,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2025-Unclassified-Report.pdf&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/i/166074551?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a81511d-4834-4625-a56c-30d848321892_656x410.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LTic!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a81511d-4834-4625-a56c-30d848321892_656x410.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LTic!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a81511d-4834-4625-a56c-30d848321892_656x410.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LTic!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a81511d-4834-4625-a56c-30d848321892_656x410.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LTic!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a81511d-4834-4625-a56c-30d848321892_656x410.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>He campaigned on a policy of &#8220;America First&#8221; and is dragging us into a war that our own Intelligence community (<a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2025-Unclassified-Report.pdf">Click here or image above to view, Page 26 is Iran-WMD</a>) reported wasn&#8217;t a threat just a couple months ago, pictured below:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MGbS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F627c15f1-983e-4ab4-b845-a96c789a0cf4_789x223.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MGbS!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F627c15f1-983e-4ab4-b845-a96c789a0cf4_789x223.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MGbS!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F627c15f1-983e-4ab4-b845-a96c789a0cf4_789x223.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MGbS!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F627c15f1-983e-4ab4-b845-a96c789a0cf4_789x223.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MGbS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F627c15f1-983e-4ab4-b845-a96c789a0cf4_789x223.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MGbS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F627c15f1-983e-4ab4-b845-a96c789a0cf4_789x223.png" width="789" height="223" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/627c15f1-983e-4ab4-b845-a96c789a0cf4_789x223.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:223,&quot;width&quot;:789,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:75172,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/i/166074551?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F627c15f1-983e-4ab4-b845-a96c789a0cf4_789x223.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MGbS!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F627c15f1-983e-4ab4-b845-a96c789a0cf4_789x223.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MGbS!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F627c15f1-983e-4ab4-b845-a96c789a0cf4_789x223.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MGbS!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F627c15f1-983e-4ab4-b845-a96c789a0cf4_789x223.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MGbS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F627c15f1-983e-4ab4-b845-a96c789a0cf4_789x223.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>If you cannot see the image above here&#8217;s what it says,<a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2025-Unclassified-Report.pdf"> &#8220;ANNUAL THREAT ASSESSMENT OF THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY&#8221;</a> released March of 2025:</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003, though pressure has probably built on him to do so.</strong></em> In the past year, there has been an erosion of a decades-long taboo on discussing nuclear weapons in public that has emboldened nuclear weapons advocates within Iran&#8217;s decision-making apparatus. <strong>Khamenei remains the final decisionmaker over Iran&#8217;s nuclear program,</strong> to include any decision to develop nuclear weapons. </p><p><em><strong>Iran very likely aims to continue *R&amp;D of chemical and biological agents for offensive purposes.</strong></em> Iranian military scientists have researched chemicals that have a wide range of sedation, dissociation, and amnestic incapacitating effects, and can also be lethal.</p></blockquote><p><em>*R &amp; D is Research &amp; Development</em></p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/neocon-don-has-let-us-down-again?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/neocon-don-has-let-us-down-again?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>It&#8217;s Time for &#8220;America First&#8221; to Give This Traitor the Boot</h2><p>I&#8217;ll bet the Republicans don&#8217;t get another term like this. </p><p>After all the bullshit this guy has gotten away with, after the crimes and corruption, after &#8220;rape&#8221; that didn&#8217;t happen, accidentally sending a gay hairdresser from Venezuela to a gang prison in El Salvador.</p><p>After lying to 350 million people about the most important issue to our survival, we are at war with Iran, and the peace deal is <em>over, </em>if it ever existed. It might&#8217;ve been diplomatic cover to blindside the Iranians from the beginning.</p><p>Donald Trump will leave behind a legacy of ashes.</p><p>It&#8217;s time to pull support from this guy.</p><p>If you&#8217;re anti-war, Donald Trump is <em>not</em> on your side.</p><p>If you&#8217;re worried about immigrants taking your jobs, Donald Trump is <em>not</em> on your side, if you&#8217;re worried about freedom of speech, or the freedom to assemble, Donald Trump is <em>not</em> on your side.</p><p>If you wanna &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221;, Donald Trump is <em>not</em> on your side.</p><p>If you wanna &#8220;Make America <em>Healthy</em> Again&#8221;, Donald Trump is <em>not</em> on your side.</p><p>And if you are <em>America First</em>, if that is the flag you fly, Donald Trump is <em>not</em> on your side.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Freedom Manifesto is on your side. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6374323669112">Bibi Netanyahu said the quiet part out loud on Fox News</a> the night after the initial attacks, he said, &#8220;Iran was the one who attacked Israel on October 7th.&#8221; When he was challenged on this, he said, &#8220;Because they provided the weapons and the funds to carry out the attack, they are a proxy.&#8221;</p><p>Yes, Bibi, and now so are we. We are at war with Russia, at war with Palestine, and at war with Iran, by proxy.</p><p>From the world&#8217;s oldest propaganda outlet, The Atlantic, Donald Trump said, <em>I decide what America First means.</em> It&#8217;s time for America to strike <em>first</em> against the warmonger-in-chief that has been in disguise and throw this motherfucker out of office. J.D. will do a much better job anyways.</p><blockquote><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Seymour Hersh&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:3455155,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9bbe858d-9ba2-49fc-a3d0-8ce15f53d936_144x144.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;196bd9cb-2f89-4b99-a536-f6b7612f199f&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> has already uncovered the war plans that have been in the works behind our backs, let&#8217;s look at what he&#8217;s saying:</p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:166335210,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/what-i-have-been-told-is-coming-in&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:1377040,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Seymour Hersh&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F972a3674-1cd8-4e4e-9ba2-8d38d3306045_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;WHAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD IS COMING IN IRAN&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;This is a report on what is most likely to happen in Iran, as early as this weekend, according to Israeli insiders and American officials I&#8217;ve relied upon for decades. It will entail heavy American bombing. I have vetted this report with a longtime US official in Washington, who told me that all will be &#8220;under control&#8221; if Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei &#8220;departs.&#8221; Just how that might happen, short of his assassination, is not known. 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It will entail heavy American bombing. I have vetted this report with a longtime US official in Washington, who told me that all will be &#8220;under control&#8221; if Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei &#8220;departs.&#8221; Just how that might happen, short of his assassination, is not known. There has been a great deal of talk about American firepower and targets inside Iran, but little practical thinking, as far I can tell, about how to remove a revered religious leader with an enormous following&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">10 months ago &#183; 518 likes &#183; Seymour Hersh</div></a></div><p>This is a report on what is most likely to happen in Iran, as early as this weekend, according to Israeli insiders and American officials I&#8217;ve relied upon for decades. It will entail heavy American bombing. I have vetted this report with a longtime US official in Washington, who told me that all will be &#8220;under control&#8221; if Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei &#8220;departs.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Regime Change, that&#8217;s the plan, but who will it change to? <a href="https://www.growthinktank.org/en/the-return-of-slavery-in-libya/">How&#8217;d that work out in Libya?</a></p><div><hr></div><p><a href="https://humantraffickingsearch.org/resource/the-open-slave-market-in-libya/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22453895959&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADq-eHx4U-7mx2JrOwupzeK3NGky2&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw6s7CBhACEiwAuHQckm9qdDZ6G9QHUIhIJJ2zjp4pnd-wknD1C_CzyGlXdsYw4-0VpC5YjhoC4roQAvD_BwE">HumanTraffickingsearch.org</a>:</p><p>The situation in Libya is a result of years of political instability and conflict. The country has been divided since the overthrow of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Two governments now control different parts of the country, and the situation has led to a rise in criminal activity, including human trafficking. Many migrants from neighboring countries, including Nigeria, Eritrea, and Somalia, attempt to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. However, many of these migrants are captured by human traffickers and sold as slaves in open markets.</p><div id="youtube2-2S2qtGisT34" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;2S2qtGisT34&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;103&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/2S2qtGisT34?start=103&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>The issue of the open slave market in Libya gained widespread attention in 2017 when footage of migrants being sold at an open-air market in the city of Sabha went viral. The footage showed individuals being auctioned off for as little as $400. The images were shocking and disturbing, and they served as a stark reminder of the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade.</p><div><hr></div><blockquote><p> More poaching from Sy Hersh, who is the greatest reporter America has ever seen:</p><p>Sy&#8217;s reporting continues with the following:</p><p>I have been told that the White House has signed off on an all-out bombing campaign in Iran, but the ultimate targets, the centrifuges buried at least eighty meters below the surface at Fordow, will, as of this writing, not be struck until the weekend. The delay has come at Trump&#8217;s insistence because the president wants the shock of the bombing to be diminished as much as possible by the opening of Wall Street trading on Monday. (Trump took issue on social media this morning with a <em><a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-privately-approved-attack-plans-for-iran-but-has-withheld-final-order-4563c526?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAhcI9G2ua7qc73K_xeZ5x1vdcwgAUrQAeNlpmBhicJjhAzvuVYT-uih122YIOc%3D&amp;gaa_ts=6854b06d&amp;gaa_sig=heHnoqpFhHc3BK7g7Lrvy7To002kiePYxIUi39g06wTkwjYGzDtqUpM1QANGs--96nxmEKlBNZs9Zw5g5gX6lg%3D%3D">Wall Street Journal</a></em><a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-privately-approved-attack-plans-for-iran-but-has-withheld-final-order-4563c526?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAhcI9G2ua7qc73K_xeZ5x1vdcwgAUrQAeNlpmBhicJjhAzvuVYT-uih122YIOc%3D&amp;gaa_ts=6854b06d&amp;gaa_sig=heHnoqpFhHc3BK7g7Lrvy7To002kiePYxIUi39g06wTkwjYGzDtqUpM1QANGs--96nxmEKlBNZs9Zw5g5gX6lg%3D%3D"> </a>report that said he had decided on the attack on Iran, writing that he had yet to decide on a path forward.)</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a 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loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>He also exclaimed in <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114710162640808420">another Truth post, </a>&#8220;They are always wrong and negative. It&#8217;s why MAGA HATES FoxNews, even though their anchors are GREAT.&#8221;</p><blockquote><p>Destroy the centrifuges at Fordow, which are stored at least eighty meters underground. It has been agreed, as of Wednesday, that US bombers carrying bunker bombs capable of penetrating to that depth, will begin attacking the Fordow facility this weekend.</p><p>The delay will give US military assets throughout the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean&#8212;<strong>there are more than two dozen US Air Force bases and Navy ports in the region</strong>&#8212;a chance to <strong>prepare for possible Iranian retaliation.</strong> The assumption is that Iran still has some missile and air force capability that will be on US bombing lists. <em><strong>&#8220;This is a chance to do away with this regime once and for all,&#8221;</strong></em> an informed official told me today, <em><strong>&#8220;and so we might as well go big.&#8221;</strong></em> He said, however, <em><strong>&#8220;that it will not be carpet bombing.&#8221;</strong></em></p><div><hr></div><p><em>The retaliation against our troops stationed within Iran's reach was always the biggest fear. If one person gets hurt when Donald Trump knew what he was doing and that this was planned ahead of time with American cooperation he should be impeached and have to pay reparations for it.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>The planned weekend bombing will also have new targets: the bases of the Republican Guards, which have countered those campaigning against the revolutionary leadership since the violent overthrow of the shah of Iran in early 1979.</p><p>The Israeli leadership under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hopes that the bombings will provide <em><strong>&#8220;the means of creating an uprising&#8221;</strong></em> against Iran&#8217;s current regime, which has shown little tolerance for those who defy the religious leadership and its edicts. Iranian police stations will be struck. Government offices that house files on suspected dissenters in Iran will also be attacked.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>They are planning an uprising, and the NGO money from org's like USAID will be pouring in, just like Iran &amp; Netanyahu's money pours into Hamas through Qatar.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>The Israelis apparently also hope, so I gather, that Khamenei will flee the country and not make a stand until the end. I was told that his personal plane left Tehran airport headed for Oman early Wednesday morning, accompanied by two fighter planes, but it is not known whether he was aboard.</p><p>Only two thirds of Iran&#8217;s population of 90 million are Persians. The largest minority groups include Azeris, many of whom have long-standing covert ties to the Central Intelligence Agency, Kurds, Arabs, and Baluchis. Jews make up a small minority group there, too. (Azerbaijan is the site of a large secret CIA base for operations in Iran.)</p><div><hr></div><p>What Sy Hersh means is there is already CIA connections inside of Iran which will, through NGO&#8217;s and such, be able to assist the uprising as I explain in my piece &#8220;Interference: The Anatomy of Regime Change.&#8221;</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;cb815cc4-3574-48db-a004-5b1e2b283b1a&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;**This piece is to congratulate the United States and whoever is left of Al-Qaeda after the news that came out this morning of the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad by &#8220;Rebel Forces&#8221;. Remember, any time they refer to &#8220;rebel forces&#8221;. What they mean is US+NATO/NGO&#8217;s/CIA-Trained forces, that is what we literally do. I&#8217;ll explain how but first, let&#8217;s take trip t&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Interference: The Anatomy of \&quot;Regime Change\&quot; in the Age of \&quot;Congressional Oversight\&quot;&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Opposing the War parties, and  the Censorship-Industrial Complex, one post at a time.\n&#8220;Those who choose SECURITY over LIBERTY will have neither&#8221;\nCard carrying member of FIRE. \nFoundation for Individual Rights and Expression&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bc49df27-2dac-4930-bc86-293f34eb9859_1944x1944.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2024-12-09T20:29:48.343Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/3cktmS-yaxM&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/interference-the-anatomy-of-regime&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:&quot;Philosophical Musings of War and Peace&quot;,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:152418620,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:6,&quot;comment_count&quot;:4,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0713a6ae-3f57-4fdf-8fc7-241d89b85795_768x768.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p>Bringing back the shah&#8217;s son, now living in exile in near Washington, has never been considered by the American and Israeli planners, I was told. But there has been talk among the White House planning group that includes Vice President J.D. Vance, of installing a moderate religious leader to run the country if Khamenei is deposed. The Israelis bitterly objected to the idea. <em>&#8220;They don&#8217;t give a shit on the religious issue, but demand a political puppet to control,&#8221;</em> the longtime US official said. <em>&#8220;We are split with the Izzies on this. Result would be permanent hostility and future conflict in perpetuity, Bibi desperately trying to draw US in as their ally against all things Muslim, using the plight of the citizens as propaganda bait.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>Izzies=Israelis; That last line is gold and should sum up the entire war.</em></p><p>Context: They are arguing about who will be the leader of Iran after they topple the current leader Khamenei or he is &#8220;deposed.&#8221; The White House planners, including VP Vance, would like to install &#8220; a moderate religious leader to run the country&#8221; but the <em>&#8220;Izzies</em>&#8217;<em> &#8220;</em>bitterly objected to the idea&#8221; and here&#8217;s the money line: </p><p><em>&#8220;They don&#8217;t give a shit on the religious issue, but <strong>demand a political puppet</strong> to <strong>control,</strong>&#8221;</em> </p><p>The longtime US official said.</p><p><em>&#8220;We are split with the Izzies on this. <strong>Result would be permanent hostility</strong> and f<strong>uture conflict in perpetuity</strong>, Bibi <strong>desperately trying to draw US in</strong> as their ally against <strong>all things Muslim,</strong> using the <strong>plight of the citizens as propaganda bait.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>One more time:</p><p><em><strong>&#8220;Permanent hostility and future conflict in perpetuity&#8221; </strong></em>and<em><strong> &#8220;B</strong>ibi <strong>desperately trying to draw US in</strong> as their ally against <strong>all things Muslim,</strong> using the <strong>plight of the citizens as propaganda bait.&#8221;</strong></em></p><div><hr></div><p>Back to Hersh:</p><p>There is the hope in the American and Israeli intelligence communities, I was told, that elements of the Azeri community will join in a popular revolt against the ruling regime, should one develop during the continued Israeli bombing. There also is the thought that some members of the Revolutionary Guard would join in what I was told might be <em>&#8220;a democratic uprising against the ayatollahs&#8221;</em>&#8212;a <em><strong>long-held aspiration of the US government.</strong></em> The sudden and successful overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was cited as a potential model, although Assad&#8217;s demise came after a long civil war.</p><p>It is possible<strong> </strong>that the result of the massive Israeli and US bombing attack could leave <em><strong>Iran in a state of permanent failure</strong></em>, as happened after the Western intervention in Libya in 2011. That revolt resulted in the brutal murder of Muammar Gaddafi, who had kept the disparate tribes there under control. The futures of Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon, all victims of repeated outside attacks, are far from settled.</p><p>Donald Trump clearly wants an international win he can market. To accomplish that, <em><strong>he and Netanyahu are taking America to places it has never been.</strong></em></p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/neocon-don-has-let-us-down-again?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/neocon-don-has-let-us-down-again?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div></blockquote><h2>The Plan Under Wraps  </h2><p>So, if anyone hasn&#8217;t seen the documentary by Alex Gibney, <em>The Bibi Files,</em> I&#8217;ll post the free YouTube versions below.</p><p>Btw, I posted all of them I could find because I believe they won&#8217;t last long on YouTube.</p><div id="youtube2-iGZlJEhB-mQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;iGZlJEhB-mQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/iGZlJEhB-mQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div id="youtube2-ml3DlCFnDEI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;ml3DlCFnDEI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ml3DlCFnDEI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Iran has always been the big dog. The final boss, if I may, after 9/11 when there were talks between Ariel Sharon and the W. Bush administration Sharon wanted us to overthrow Iran first, this was part of the <a href="https://www.archives.gov/files/declassification/iscap/pdf/2008-003-docs1-12.pdf">Wolfowitz doctrine</a> that carried over from Bush&#8217;s father&#8217;s time in office. We know about this doctrine because not only was it published but four-star General Wesley Clark, admitted it in what is famously known as the &#8220;seven countries in five years plan (see below).&#8221;</p><div id="youtube2-fAnNJW9_KYA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;fAnNJW9_KYA&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fAnNJW9_KYA?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>General Clark elaborated many times on this including most recently during a debate with <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Scott Horton&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:2016908,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/95bb0561-503b-4d83-8304-05f3d5a895f1_4501x4500.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;c8bb63d6-edfe-4b0e-84f7-f1562fd58b12&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> on Piers Morgan&#8217;s show <em>Uncensored, </em>where he said that he actually seen this plan the first time in the 90&#8217;s and was something the neocons of the Bush one and two era had lobbied for from the beginning when they were a part of the Nixon administration and the Reagan administration.</p><div id="youtube2-gPwqDGnTMuc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;gPwqDGnTMuc&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;789&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/gPwqDGnTMuc?start=789&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>In fact, every Republican administration follows this plan. The Trump administration, if you listened to his rhetoric on podcasts and on the campaign trail you would come away thinking, finally a Republican not owned by the Neocon faction of the right.</p><p>Looking at Kamala Harris&#8217;<a href="https://researchcentre.trtworld.com/featured/analysis/neocon-support-for-harris-a-troubling-sign-for-things-to-come/"> final move promoting her endorsement of the neoconservative wing i.e. Dick &amp; Liz Cheney, Robert Kagan, </a>all of their staffers, it truly seemed like the war pigs had hopped sides, which gained Donald Trump a substantial number of votes, but it seems they were playing both sides of the fence.</p><p>Donald Trump even denounced &#8220;neocons and nation-builders&#8221; during his speech in the middle east a couple weeks ago. </p><div id="youtube2-5RINobmDCwU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;5RINobmDCwU&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;1020&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/5RINobmDCwU?start=1020&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Listen to this, it was a month ago: </p><blockquote><p>So, think of that, other industries are now bigger, even, than oil! Which is always going to be a big monster. It's a big one! But that's a great tribute to you and economic development properly used. </p><p>In other cities throughout the peninsula, places like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Doha, Muscat, the transformations have been unbelievably remarkable. </p><p>Before our eyes a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts of tired divisions of the past and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by <em>commerce</em> not <em>chaos!</em> </p><p>Where it exports <em>technology</em> not <em>terrorism!</em> </p><p>And where people of different nations, religions, and creeds, are building cities together not bombing each other out of existence. </p><p>We don't want that!</p><p>And it's crucial for the wider world to note this <em>great</em> transformation has not come from <em><strong>western interventionalists</strong></em> or <em><strong>flying people in, on beautiful planes, giving you lectures on how to live</strong></em> and <em><strong>how to govern your own affairs.</strong></em> </p><p><em><strong>No, the gleaming marvels of Riad and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called &#8220;nation-builders&#8221;, neocons, or liberal nonprofits,</strong></em> like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Kabul, Baghdad, so many <strong>other cities. </strong></p><p><strong>Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by </strong>the people of the region themselves. </p><p>The people that are right here, the people that have lived here, <em><strong>all their lives </strong></em>developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions, and charting your own destinies, in your own way. </p><p><em><strong>It's really incredible what you've done!</strong></em> </p><p>In the end, the <em><strong>so-called &#8220;nation builders&#8221; wrecked far more nations than they built.</strong></em> </p><p>And <em><strong>the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.</strong></em> </p><p>They <em><strong>told you how to do it</strong></em>, but they had <em>no idea</em> how to do it <em>themselves.</em></p><p><em><strong>Peace, prosperity, and progress, ultimately came, not from a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions, and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>He was in Saudi Arabia talking to the Middle East that we&#8217;ve spent the last 40 years destroying. He was going against the people that he is now in line with. <em>That was a month ago! What happened?!</em></p><p>This is what is heartbreaking and should be a lesson to us all, it pays to read books. He might&#8217;ve meant what he said, he probably meant it per his translation. I know these speeches are written by other people but damn it would really be great if our president read a book sometime, he has &#8220;experience knowledge&#8221; but zero book smarts. He has no clue that he&#8217;s been over run, once again, by the deep state, neocons, and nation builders that he campaigned on getting rid of.</p><p>There is no doubt now, the deep state has won. The &#8220;Wesley Clark-exposed-plan&#8221; has made it to Bowser. The very large, very militant, country of Iran. </p><p>Afghanistan took 20 years to fail at; Iran might take 40. </p><p>Even George Bush&#8217;s deep state apparatus stopped short of overthrowing Iran. &#8220;Experts&#8221; at the time said that if we go into Iran, it will be a bloodbath for Americans. Iran has access to far too many vulnerable American positions in the middle east, the country is large and mountainous, we will be entrenched in a war of attrition for many years if we invade Iran. </p><p>And nothing has changed. </p><p>It&#8217;s time for cooler heads to prevail. </p><p>Donald Trump is taking on the same legacy as the Governor Bush and Hussein Obama, but we don&#8217;t have to follow him. The MAGA coalition, the America First coalition, it&#8217;s time to let go. This is a war crime, Congress didn&#8217;t authorize the war, there&#8217;s the 25th amendment, Donald Trump has been compromised by the deep state, it&#8217;s time to replace him.</p><p>Elon Musk said it two weeks ago, impeach him, maybe even a little prison time, just a little, and put J.D. in office he&#8217;ll do much better.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gKpP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68c898a0-9b32-49a1-992e-515c88ce0834_517x488.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gKpP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68c898a0-9b32-49a1-992e-515c88ce0834_517x488.png 424w, 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This guy has been saying since the 90&#8217;s that Iran is &#8220;dangerously close to weapons of mass destruction.&#8221;</p><p>First let&#8217;s start with this from CNN:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZHx4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae21ce3-0a78-43ec-bb05-18bf95a5abe7_954x227.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZHx4!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae21ce3-0a78-43ec-bb05-18bf95a5abe7_954x227.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZHx4!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae21ce3-0a78-43ec-bb05-18bf95a5abe7_954x227.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZHx4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae21ce3-0a78-43ec-bb05-18bf95a5abe7_954x227.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZHx4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae21ce3-0a78-43ec-bb05-18bf95a5abe7_954x227.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZHx4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae21ce3-0a78-43ec-bb05-18bf95a5abe7_954x227.png" width="954" height="227" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7ae21ce3-0a78-43ec-bb05-18bf95a5abe7_954x227.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:227,&quot;width&quot;:954,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:35259,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/i/166074551?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae21ce3-0a78-43ec-bb05-18bf95a5abe7_954x227.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZHx4!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae21ce3-0a78-43ec-bb05-18bf95a5abe7_954x227.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZHx4!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae21ce3-0a78-43ec-bb05-18bf95a5abe7_954x227.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZHx4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae21ce3-0a78-43ec-bb05-18bf95a5abe7_954x227.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZHx4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae21ce3-0a78-43ec-bb05-18bf95a5abe7_954x227.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>When Israel launched its <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/politics/israel-iran-attack-planning-trump">series of strikes</a> against Iran last week, it also issued a number of dire warnings about the country&#8217;s nuclear program, suggesting Iran was fast approaching a point of no return in its quest to obtain nuclear weapons and that the strikes were necessary to preempt that outcome.</p></blockquote><p>However, <em>our</em> intelligence said that they weren&#8217;t even close.</p><blockquote><p>But US intelligence assessments had reached a different conclusion &#8211; not only was Iran not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon, it was also up to three years away from being able to produce and deliver one to a target of its choosing, according to four people familiar with the assessment.</p></blockquote><p>Hahaha! &#8220;Four people familiar with the assessment.&#8221; CNN never ceases to fail as a media outlet; <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2025-Unclassified-Report.pdf">the assessment was public.</a> <em>I am</em> familiar with the assessment, lmfao! Fools, then they go on<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/israel-iran-nuclear-bomb-us-intelligence-years-away"> to call for US support of the military strike</a> in Iran, but at least they said the first part. Onto Bibi&#8217;s history of floating this lie.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vVpl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e5cd78c-7514-478b-b87e-f1687e0131ff_1170x780.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vVpl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e5cd78c-7514-478b-b87e-f1687e0131ff_1170x780.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vVpl!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e5cd78c-7514-478b-b87e-f1687e0131ff_1170x780.jpeg 848w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Here he is in 2012 feeding us this bullshit.</figcaption></figure></div><ul><li><p>In 1992, Benjamin Netanyahu addressed his Knesset as an MP, &#8220;Within three to five years, we can assume that Iran will become autonomous in its ability to develop and produce a nuclear bomb,&#8221; he declared at the time. The prediction was later repeated in his 1995 book, Fighting Terrorism.</p></li><li><p>On July 10th, 1996, he addressed the joint session of US Congress at the Capitol in Washington, DC and called on Europe and Asia to join efforts to isolate Iran and Iraq and prevent them from developing nuclear capabilities that he warned would bring catastrophe.</p></li><li><p>In 2002, he addressed Congress in the wake of 9/11 as a &#8220;regional expert&#8221; of the Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, suggested that the U.S. invading Iraq would have "enormous positive reverberations on the region," implying it would lead to peace or stability in the Middle East. He argued that removing Saddam Hussein from power would send a message to other "despots" in the region, including Iran, that the time for such regimes was over. Netanyahu also stated that an invasion of Iraq would be easier following the victory in Afghanistan.</p><ul><li><p>&#8220;Iran is also, outpacing Iraq in the development of ballistic missile systems that they hope will reach the eastern seaboard of the United States within 15 years.&#8221;</p></li><li><p>&#8220;Regime Change&#8221;</p><div id="youtube2-7632MxHXtYI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;7632MxHXtYI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7632MxHXtYI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div></li><li><p>Full Hearing, September 12th, 2002</p><div id="youtube2-4AkcI-ncUpE" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;4AkcI-ncUpE&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4AkcI-ncUpE?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div></li></ul></li><li><p>In September of 2012 Netanyahu gave his presentation with the Bobomb from Super Mario pictured above, where he claimed the following: &#8220;By next spring, at most, by next summer, at current enrichment rates,</p><p>they will have finished the medium enrichment and move on to the final stage. From there, it's only a few months, possibly a few weeks, before they get enough enriched uranium for the first bomb.&#8221;</p></li><li><p> In Washington, DC, on March 4, 2014, Netanyahu addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. He urged world powers not to allow Iran to retain the ability to enrich uranium, saying it must be stripped of all nuclear technologies with bomb-making potential.</p></li><li><p>In March of 2015, he appeared before Congress(?) and said that, &#8220;The foremost sponsor of global terrorism <em>(he means Iran)</em> could be weeks away from having enough enriched uranium for an entire arsenal of nuclear weapons.&#8221;</p></li><li><p>October of 2015, he claimed the following in a speech aired on UNTV: &#8220;That would place a militant Islamic terror regime weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs.&#8221;</p></li><li><p>June 13th, 2025, appearing on Israeli media, but speaking English so that he all get it: &#8220;If not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time. It could be a year, it could be within a few months, less than a year.&#8221;</p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8RY8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1c418cc8-06d8-44a0-8ba3-dfb4689ef701_3726x2445.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8RY8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1c418cc8-06d8-44a0-8ba3-dfb4689ef701_3726x2445.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8RY8!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1c418cc8-06d8-44a0-8ba3-dfb4689ef701_3726x2445.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8RY8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1c418cc8-06d8-44a0-8ba3-dfb4689ef701_3726x2445.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8RY8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1c418cc8-06d8-44a0-8ba3-dfb4689ef701_3726x2445.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8RY8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1c418cc8-06d8-44a0-8ba3-dfb4689ef701_3726x2445.jpeg" width="1456" height="955" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1c418cc8-06d8-44a0-8ba3-dfb4689ef701_3726x2445.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:955,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8RY8!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1c418cc8-06d8-44a0-8ba3-dfb4689ef701_3726x2445.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8RY8!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1c418cc8-06d8-44a0-8ba3-dfb4689ef701_3726x2445.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8RY8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1c418cc8-06d8-44a0-8ba3-dfb4689ef701_3726x2445.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8RY8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1c418cc8-06d8-44a0-8ba3-dfb4689ef701_3726x2445.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>While we play Risk from air-conditioned conference rooms young men get dragged to war with &#8220;insurgents&#8221; who look just like them and have everything in common, but nothing alike. He doesn&#8217;t hate you, and you don&#8217;t hate them. Were at war either way because it&#8217;s how the game was played.</p><p>It&#8217;s time for the games to stop.</p><div id="youtube2-bc5Nk1DXyEY" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;bc5Nk1DXyEY&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/bc5Nk1DXyEY?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Thank you for reading!</p><p>This is <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bc49df27-2dac-4930-bc86-293f34eb9859_1944x1944.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;ecca524c-1f03-4ed3-bf02-0753ee45b784&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <em>Editor-in-Chief</em> at <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:368081,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0713a6ae-3f57-4fdf-8fc7-241d89b85795_768x768.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;4c05f88b-c9f5-44a2-ac0c-f4326587799f&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[As U.S. President Tries To Work Out Peace Agreement With Iran Israel Undercuts Negotiations by Striking Tehran]]></title><description><![CDATA[War on Iran by Israel]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/as-us-president-tries-to-work-out</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/as-us-president-tries-to-work-out</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 01:15:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/JPrzqwciRhA" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This just happened minutes ago. 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Bush/Cheney; Middle-Cheney-Powell/Bush/General-Timeline of the founding of neoconservatism; Bottom-RIP Neocons-Robert Kagan-Kagan Wife Victoria Nuland;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/575e99cb-da57-4bb4-938e-f9019b13910b_1456x1454.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><h2>The NEO-Neoconservatives:</h2><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e984183f-ea2d-4a28-82b5-af86d56d3c88_339x500.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7ff192ec-21f7-4aa0-9d5a-c9310b742792_1076x719.webp&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4d2573f6-43b5-4cb9-a32b-1711b363f66f_196x258.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/69f1f5aa-76a2-4069-a338-afe57ab49ac1_225x225.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f82fd84c-5371-44a9-9b89-71624a78138d_702x414.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/67886a81-8613-420a-865b-e08cf7310741_300x168.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/99e5612f-83fd-472d-947f-b20eb4e9c46e_225x225.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a619cd51-d8c0-4f0b-86a0-5d6356df6432_201x251.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8cb3982-8bdd-485b-a493-35bcf751cab5_225x225.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Left to Right-Top-\&quot;Neoconservatism and why we need it\&quot; by Douglas Murray-Doug Murray-Konstantin Kisin; Middle-Sam Harris-\&quot;Nuland joins Board of Directors for the States Regime change arm-NED\&quot;-Ben Shapiro; Bottom-James Lindsay-Jordan Peterson-Winston Marshall;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/26e6e106-da0f-4ae5-bf60-0f77fea85bee_1456x1454.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><h2>The NEO-Liberals:</h2><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5a3ec816-ac2b-4411-b959-cc8675e1f0bc_1024x683.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/38aaea4d-8161-4b58-8008-a9d116eb7692_274x184.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a0a1d1e9-d25d-497b-b970-6a0c7cd27eab_183x275.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b27deb31-ff56-4129-ae91-2a9e74d57a94_300x168.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b214ccab-41e6-40d5-8a38-6f3f1b470cfd_218x232.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/avif&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cbc66af3-5247-46ce-865b-1e9931063fd4_620x535.avif&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/528898bd-c7c9-4825-af5e-6fec1cd0fe57_299x168.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b3a7c6d4-1a13-4ded-80b9-7d416268c05f_204x247.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Left to Right-Top-Joe Biden/Pete Buttigieg-Bill Clinton-Tony Blair; Middle-Reagan Banner for Neoliberalism-Nial Ferguson-Ronald Reagan/Margaret Thatcher; George Soros-Karl Popper;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e24d7d2-54a8-4246-a8f5-fa6acdd3c56d_1456x1700.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><h2>And the Terrorists:</h2><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/51a386f7-dd2b-4c8f-bdd8-dc3720933821_188x269.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/431fe454-988d-4708-bbfe-383b05c3c21b_293x172.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7172b7e1-e3aa-4537-84b9-438bc93d7048_294x171.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/96bf32c8-9964-4b9a-a0a9-54e07f000eab_299x168.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/680196b3-1cec-4bb8-b2dd-09f8382676b8_1200x1200.webp&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df06fead-1ff2-4f2d-9a72-1f4dc6f7a7a0_225x225.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e1a32b1-9344-47e0-a666-25b10cd82a37_259x194.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/698d48f3-f610-45cf-9a45-413a16046cc0_225x225.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/257788a8-7b25-48f4-b947-246fb274a817_299x168.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Left to Right-Top-9/11 Hijackers-al Qaeda in Syria driving a gift from America-al Qaeda Meeting; Middle-King of Syria, Bashar al Assad-King of Syria, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani-Osama Bin Laden/His Doctor; Bottom-Colonel Muammar Gaddafi-Saddam Hussein-and Oops! Jeffrey Goldberg! What are you doing here???&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/977a9cae-b766-47e1-a723-13399ea9f839_1456x1454.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><h2>Now Meet the <em>NEO-</em>Terrorists:</h2><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/57d4fda3-83eb-495d-ac94-85ea892378bd_275x183.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d33e330b-4698-4ed2-ac46-036110df1a4e_225x225.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/13ac1b05-75cc-4805-ab20-967ef190e386_221x228.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/37612a4d-fa0c-4e1c-9f32-5277ac06aea9_299x168.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9086490d-850d-4f4a-8e6b-bac9bcfef6cf_259x194.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b9d81fee-c57f-4f1f-9190-602cba942992_1536x1242.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eb3c4a07-788d-41ac-a7e1-d2a608dc5961_275x183.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/364851d4-e81a-4157-810e-978070880f98_300x168.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Left to Right-Top-Candace Owens-Dave Smith-Darryl Cooper; Middle-Ian Carrol-Tucker Carlson-Thomas Massie; Rumeysa Ozturk-Ms. Rachel;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;These people are considered terrorists for their compassion towards Palestinians.&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a1b71e3e-802c-4f36-b6ca-a7543c089056_1456x1700.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><h2>These Terrorists are so Sly, So Cunning, So <em>Artful</em>, you Couldn't Tell They Were Terrorists </h2><div><hr></div><p><em>Neo-terrorists are no more terroristic as neoconservatives are conservative, and neoliberals are liberal.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>My first time hearing of Candace Owens my best friend, Will, turned on a video of her and said, &#8220;Have you heard of this girl? I think she&#8217;s gonna be president one day.&#8221; I thought, <em>oh, ok cool.</em> And that was the deepest thought I had about her. I didn&#8217;t care about politics yet, but very soon after, I would take my journey down the endless rabbit hole that is American politics.</p><p>Since then, she has been into controversy after controversy. From George Floyd wasn&#8217;t murdered to <em>All Lives Matter, but </em>nothing has drawn more fire, however, than the waters she&#8217;s swimming in now.</p><p>It was October 2023; she&#8217;d just had a child and was pregnant with another. And she, like everyone else, was online seeing the devastation happening in Gaza. Children, being pulled from the rubble. And the media, including her boss at the Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, cosigning it all without question, but that&#8217;s not who Candace was or is. She&#8217;s asking the questions. And she asked, &#8220;why are we supporting the mass slaughter of these children in Gaza?&#8221;</p><p>Very soon she was in a heated battle with her boss, calling for a public debate. Then, she was fired &#8212; or <em>let go (don&#8217;t you sue me Jeremy Boreing)</em> and hit with a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). </p><p>But this didn&#8217;t shut Candace up. She kept talking and very soon she became the target, and they turned her into the Nazi that none of her other controversies had. </p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9f2be8ad-67ae-4a02-9b9e-f5b3c8e40c6c_568x113.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f3e75d32-01c0-4844-9738-7e8ca5bc23f9_555x136.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e1f445e7-c383-4369-bf56-e84e7228d907_566x199.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0d730620-0202-44db-8a62-34b75fa4e2f3_604x131.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0e8612fc-7328-4f28-8e5b-0c71922a2bf1_731x221.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2b27fed8-41e3-4442-b963-2428b2953bc5_688x410.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3856f7f3-c120-4512-bff2-ae0adf2ba699_606x196.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9f54a31b-c1d7-45f6-80c8-9d9aac0f3790_658x170.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2c3f9a6d-150e-4e51-9af3-f7aed4ea4c7f_1456x1700.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>The Neoconservative think tank <em>American Enterprise Institute (AEI) </em>who has never found a war they didn&#8217;t support, responsible for the murder of millions of innocents around the world, and completely aligned with the killing of babies in Gaza wrote on March 15, 2024, in an Op-Ed entitled <em><a href="https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-hateful-candace-owens/">&#8220;The Hateful Candace Owens&#8221;:</a></em></p><blockquote><p><em>Owens&#8217;s remarks are worth quoting at length:</em></p><blockquote><p><em>In all communities there are gangs. In the black community we&#8217;ve got the Bloods, we&#8217;ve got the Crips. Well, imagine if the Bloods and the Crips were doing horrific things, murdering people, controlling people with blackmail, and then every time a person spoke out about it, the Bloods and the Crips would call those people racist, would get the media to say those people were racist.... What if that is what is happening right now in Hollywood if there is just a very small ring of specific people who are using the fact that they are Jewish to shield themselves from any criticism. It&#8217;s food for thought, right?... There are enough people that are speaking out about a ring in Hollywood, also a ring potentially in D.C., that we should start to ask those questions.... All Americans should want answers because this appears to be something that is quite sinister.</em></p></blockquote><p><em>What is sinister is Owens&#8217;s &#8220;just asking questions&#8221; approach as a means of encouraging anti-Semitism, a posture she&#8217;s doubled down on since the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7. She has emerged as a loud and ill-informed critic of the State of Israel, one whose views would be far more at home on the progressive left than among most Republicans and conservatives, who support Israel.</em></p><p><em>On X, Owens wrote of Israel, &#8220;No government anywhere has a right to commit a genocide, ever. There is no justification for a genocide.&#8221; She also called the Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem a &#8220;ghetto&#8221; and remarked, &#8220;If you think it&#8217;s antisemitism to notice that innocent Christians were killed in an IDF bombing, then you need to log off.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>I know they probably think they exposed her, but I truly don&#8217;t hear what&#8217;s anti-semitic or even offensive here. No more offensive than &#8220;George Floyd died of a drug overdose.&#8221; If she, or I, can say this stuff about our own country we can say it about anyone else's that we want to, and my country has taken part in <em>all of the above.</em></p><h2>Dave Smith:</h2><p>Ever a critic of war, he, very early on after the bombardment of Gaza, post-October 7th, compared it to being against the Iraq invasion in 2002, when the propaganda was turned up to a hundred. The people who supported that, and didn&#8217;t speak out against it, will forever be tarred with that shame. This is the right side of history. </p><p>From there, it seems, he was 100% correct, and we know this not only by their actions in Gaza, but by their slander. They&#8217;ve labeled Dave Smith as a terrorist, or at least terrorist adjacent, a Hamas-Supporter, and a <em><a href="https://x.com/blackflagpod/status/1769844873585148266/video/1">self-hating Jew.</a></em></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1057f3cc-3a6c-4e8d-90ff-9be2576d84a1_576x461.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5c280ab1-6744-44f3-ac98-b3440543c208_974x129.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ef993415-20bd-463e-a566-14c62b820d0d_743x169.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9ced4d13-ebe9-4606-b5d7-545f438126df_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><h2>Darryl Cooper</h2><p>Darryl read hundreds of books, thousands of articles on the subject of the founding of Israel pre-Nakba, 1948, before embarking on his first of what is now known at Martyr Made, and the first series known as <em><a href="https://www.martyrmade.com/featured-podcasts/fear-loathing-in-the-new-jerusalem">Fear and Loathing in New Jerusalem</a>,</em> a 6-part series on the founding of Israel. Being a traveling maintenance man for a weapons company he&#8217;d spent lots of time in the middle east, including Israel and the West Bank. He had girlfriends and friends who were Palestinian and Israeli, and although the subject was controversial, he wanted to portray both sides of the conflict and I believe he did with spectacular nuance. As does anyone else who puts in the time from either side of the conflict. </p><p>However, nothing in his hundreds of hours of work would draw the eyre of the various &#8220;Neo-s&#8221; and create a <em>neo</em> in himself like his very short statement to Tucker Carlson about Winston Churchill.</p><div id="youtube2-4eKMV4VtSuA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;4eKMV4VtSuA&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4eKMV4VtSuA?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>From there every mainstream pop historian who knew <em>anything</em> about WW2 was rolled out into public to display their knowledge against him.</p><p>Hundreds of articles, hit pieces were written against him, he was denounced by the White House and to this day he is still being used as a way to slander anyone with non-conformist ideas.</p><p>He was told that he should &#8220;avoid visiting certain European countries, as he will be arrested upon landing.&#8221; All this for an off-hand comment that he admitted was &#8220;being hyperbolic&#8221; and attempting to &#8220;provoke an argument with his friend.&#8221; His friend being Jocko Willink, a decorated Navy Seal and author of children&#8217;s books and books on <em>responsibility. </em>By the way, he never denounced Darryl. There is one other thing, Darryl has been <em>loudly </em>critical of the bombardment against the Palestinians in Gaza. <em>Interesting&#8230;</em>              </p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/75a142ff-899a-43fe-b199-c829d012d3c9_580x299.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/307a41a3-0279-4eab-8f57-23ba1862a199_578x191.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a1fd628c-b96f-41fa-bee8-8b2995e93fd4_579x192.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e90fb35c-3b39-4df1-b26e-160b07b1d0c7_566x216.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/117b706f-ecf7-4e33-bf09-3f74117d5695_581x174.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4fb31c8a-def5-44f8-b8aa-5bc1e7f1a743_591x189.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/90d844a3-4f8f-4d76-8776-ce9b7d2ad614_577x175.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9ad6a11f-e199-4cc3-af75-f21789f1851c_588x157.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/31d2a35c-2282-4872-98be-3d0a1afc13aa_894x199.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/98563f73-7088-4eca-a9a5-294b66787e32_1456x1454.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><h2><a href="https://x.com/IanCarrollShow">Ian Carroll</a></h2><p>Is fairly new in the journalism space, about as new as I am. He&#8217;s a fierce warrior in the growing anti-war/anti-corruption movement as I see it. He got his start researching where our food we are buying in grocery stores actually comes from, researching lawsuits, following primary source documents, I see myself as being in the same genre of work as him except doing text instead of video, he takes his research and makes Tik-Tok videos on it where he went viral and became very big, very fast. </p><p>As everyone else did, he kept seeing the horrific videos online of children being murdered, he&#8217;s anti-war so he started looking into Israel and speaking out about it. </p><p>Quickly, he became an enemy of the <em>death cultists</em> and <em>&#8220;genocide apologists.&#8221;</em></p><p>They marked him as a nazi, antisemite, Hamas supporter, and claim he&#8217;s paid by Qatar and Iran!</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" 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He&#8217;s been called everything from a Nazi to a baby killer but if you listen to his actual words, he&#8217;s simply trying to find the truth and say what he believes no matter who it offends.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3c390c5d-143a-485d-bd31-e3f9fadcccc2_634x572.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3c390c5d-143a-485d-bd31-e3f9fadcccc2_634x572.jpeg&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>And it offends a lot. It used to offend liberals who disagree with him. Now there is some beliefs he has that I disagree with, but no one is more principled in his stance against America going to war than him. He&#8217;s apologized hundreds of times by now for falling for the Iraq war, but early on he changed his stance. He believes in <em>&#8220;America First&#8221;</em> purely. That means he&#8217;s against us being involved in <em>any</em> foreign entanglements or <em><strong>supporting with our tax dollars any foreign entanglements.</strong></em> </p><p>For this, he is accused of being paid by Russia, paid by Qatar, and paid by Iran. According to neocon pundits and war hawk elites.</p><p>His biggest controversies as of late have been things that I agree with on a visceral level, such as right or wrong it was evil to drop a nuclear bomb on Japan after Pearl Harbor and William F. Buckley was the # 1 villain of the 21st century. Who could really argue with those things? These are the beliefs of a neo-terrorist. Just humanitarian enough that you think they are good. </p><p><em><strong>Must be paid by Russia!</strong></em> </p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/30407f66-0d8b-40a1-9de7-639088b862ef_589x154.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a03864b2-6b29-4741-ae82-dbcba8a3dcc2_602x184.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9243fc8-a1ef-48c0-a105-12d4741c0c61_598x143.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3ced866f-1d21-4074-b035-0ad87a0a8f98_571x185.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/275b565f-b5e7-4e80-9aa6-a87ac36e4be2_589x119.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e028f01c-60d0-4c17-9ec7-29504f5f6c40_586x92.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8aeeedad-2e0e-427a-b208-e2955d7b8708_587x181.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ef7520a5-5bd7-41e4-b087-14faedbbcb9f_591x359.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/148c4977-c1f2-4d56-a57e-c2082bd8e77e_562x161.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/981e52d3-0b36-443d-aa67-dd560cedaec3_1456x1454.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/slander-report-the-rise-of-the-neo?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/slander-report-the-rise-of-the-neo?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>Representative Thomas Massie</h2><div class="pullquote"><p>Glowing Acknowledgments:</p><p>&#8220;Of course you&#8217;re a no, you disingenuous piece of anti-Semitic filth.&#8221; &#8212;<a href="https://x.com/jpodhoretz/status/1754164269141156055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1754164269141156055%7Ctwgr%5E66f24da2f00073fd6926005a8bdd01b3ca46ea73%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationliberation.com%2F%3Fid%3D64281">John &#8220;Neocon John&#8221; Podhoretz</a></p><p>&#8220;I think he's a grandstander, frankly, I think he should be voted out of office, and I just don't think he understands government.&#8221; &#8212;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/one-house-republican-opposed-trump-key-votes-years-survived-can-thomas-rcna208419">President Donald J. Trump</a></p><p>&#8220;Massie&#8217;s actions yesterday were UNAMERICAN. He is a Trump hater, a HAMAS enabler and he sides with the Squad over our own national security interests any chance he gets so he can dunk on Jews.&#8221; &#8212;2nd Lady Laura Loomer</p><p>&#8220;He boycotted the speech along with the HAMAS LOVERS in DC.&#8221; &#8212;Also,<a href="https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1816543102792007867"> Laura  </a></p></div><p>As a follower of the beautiful mess that is our Congressional office, Thomas Massie is a breath of fresh air. He is the most principled congressman in any vote he&#8217;s taking place in. You can be sure that he&#8217;s thought through the unintended consequences of any legislation getting a &#8216;Yes&#8217; vote from him, which has led to him being very unfortunately mis-maligned. But he has never shown no signs of fear or cowardice. </p><p>He voted against the CARES Act, and the American Rescue Plan at the beginning of Covid that, since it passed <em>anyways</em>, led to the greatest transfer of wealth from the American people in the middle and lower class to the 1% here and abroad, and is the cause of the current inflation we are experiencing now. This made him an enemy of the Trump 1.0 and Biden administration at the time.</p><p>Now, he is drawing the eyre for opposing our tax dollars being spent to fight other people&#8217;s wars abroad. One specifically; Now, you can think what you want about that, but it is a position he holds, has held, and runs on and his constituents (as a Kentuckian, I am one) continue to vote for him for.</p><p><a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/thomas-massie/pacs?cid=N00034041&amp;cycle=2024">He takes no campaign money</a> from the defense industry, the pharma lobby, and opposes AIPAC&#8217;s owning of every politician in Congress. </p><p>He accepts no money from them and for these things he makes our list as a &#8220;Neo-Terrorist.&#8221;</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" 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Arrested by men in masks who approached her at what looks like a bus stop.</p><div id="youtube2-sCCgwntWCgo" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;sCCgwntWCgo&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/sCCgwntWCgo?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Luckily, she didn&#8217;t die of a heart attack. </p><p>Rumeysa, born in Turkey, traveled here on an F-1 Student Visa to study and become a doctor. At some point afterwards October 7th happened and the Gaza bombardment leading to 70K civilian deaths and rising. Now, I don&#8217;t know what country they thought they lived in but in America, as has been tradition since the first world war, part of college culture in America is political protest.</p><p>The idea that we are now kicking students out of the country for participating in what they signed up for is absurd, and I say this once again, it would be <em>almost</em> understandable, <em><strong>almost, </strong></em>if it was a war being conducted by American troops on the ground, for this reaction, but she wasn&#8217;t even talking about us. They weren't boycotting American products; she was calling for the school to boycott Israeli products. I don&#8217;t even know what Israel makes. Contracts, Congressman&#8230; movies??? ;-) Moving on.</p><h2>And The GRAND Finale, Queen of The NEO-Terrorists, a Soul Whose Depth of Depravity Knows no End&#8230; </h2><h2>Ms. Rachel&#8230; Guilty of&#8230; <em>Compassion, <a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/jQ2VlswpmPI?si=AVfDei7KU713_Xyo">in the First Degree</a></em></h2><p>In a short that I&#8217;m able to embed here, but you can click <a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/jQ2VlswpmPI?si=AVfDei7KU713_Xyo">here</a> to see it, Ms. Rachel can be seen with hands together, eyes closed, singing the vile antisemitic words:</p><blockquote><p><em>This is a prayer for the children of Gaza.</em></p><p><em>This is a prayer for the children of Israel.</em></p><p><em>This is a prayer for all the children, please stop hurting them.</em></p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Enough negative that she, at another point, talked in a video about the terrible bullying coming her way and in an interview with CNN.</p><div id="youtube2-qtq-yOsToXk" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;qtq-yOsToXk&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qtq-yOsToXk?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Now, that same &#8220;Civil Rights&#8221; Watch Group, <em>StopAntisemitism.org,</em> who earlier labeled Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens &#8220;Anti-Semite of the Week&#8221; is doing some heavy lifting calling for the investigation of Ms. Rachel for <em>&#8220;spreading Hamas propaganda over posts about Gaza kids&#8221; </em>parroted by my new favorite media hate-read publication the<a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/07/us-news/youtube-star-ms-rachel-should-be-probed-by-feds-for-posts-about-gaza-kids-antisemitism-group-says/"> New York Post.</a></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0a76acf7-7677-4c69-8840-9d798b3eb166_771x306.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a565c769-e002-40c6-8af0-fda5e7fb85af_559x409.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/46aad633-30f2-4e41-a98a-ce92faf6a886_579x498.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Left-NY Post; Middle &amp; Right-Stop Antisemitism on X;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/96b6b4d4-715c-40a7-bcfb-33492da3a27f_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>The &#8220;Civil Rights&#8221; watch group got killed in the comments under this post. Once by Grok, even:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://x.com/randy_tulfo/status/1909654648245658005" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RiMM!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8537eaf8-bb37-42dd-b164-05cff8f9983e_579x737.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RiMM!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8537eaf8-bb37-42dd-b164-05cff8f9983e_579x737.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RiMM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8537eaf8-bb37-42dd-b164-05cff8f9983e_579x737.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RiMM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8537eaf8-bb37-42dd-b164-05cff8f9983e_579x737.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RiMM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8537eaf8-bb37-42dd-b164-05cff8f9983e_579x737.png" width="579" height="737" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8537eaf8-bb37-42dd-b164-05cff8f9983e_579x737.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:737,&quot;width&quot;:579,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:129096,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/randy_tulfo/status/1909654648245658005&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/i/164130653?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8537eaf8-bb37-42dd-b164-05cff8f9983e_579x737.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RiMM!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8537eaf8-bb37-42dd-b164-05cff8f9983e_579x737.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RiMM!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8537eaf8-bb37-42dd-b164-05cff8f9983e_579x737.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RiMM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8537eaf8-bb37-42dd-b164-05cff8f9983e_579x737.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RiMM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8537eaf8-bb37-42dd-b164-05cff8f9983e_579x737.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>So, Ms. Rachel is what many have described as the &#8220;Miss Rogers of YouTube.&#8221; With 15 million subscribers she has quite the following and from what I can tell, sure it's corny af to me, but kids love her, and in interviews she seems to genuinely care for children, even if it&#8217;s just a grift, kids don&#8217;t know that. She&#8217;s sweet Ms. Rachel who loves them. </p><p>According to interviews she realized about a year ago that a substantial amount of the children watching her were being affected by the devastation in Gaza and felt she couldn&#8217;t not try to comfort those children too. </p><p>Isn&#8217;t that just the sweetest thing you ever heard?! Fast forward to now, some fucking bogus Twitter group is calling for this sweet lady to be investigated for supporting Hamas. As if enough of our tax dollars aren&#8217;t dedicated to the bogus causes of a useless nation-state who only benefits approximately .2 percent of the world's population.</p><p>I really have no issue with the Jewish people but my God they&#8217;re as bad at electing assholes as we are. </p><p>If Pam Bondi goes on to investigate this lady, it&#8217;ll say something very dark about who we are dealing with in her.</p><p>Hmmmm&#8230;. So, you protect the clients of a <a href="https://goldman.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-dan-goldman-demands-ag-bondi-release-promised-jeffrey-epstein-files-share">serial child sex trafficker</a>, but investigate an advocate for the safety of <em>all</em> children? I think you should be investigated next.   </p><h2>Finally&#8230;</h2><p><em>Neo-terrorists </em>are no more terroristic as neoconservatives are conservative, and neoliberals are liberal. </p><p>No more than I love decaf or Lindsay Graham loves woman.</p><p>The attacks on these people as supporting terrorist, or being terrorists as some have said, is not going to age well.  </p><p>Just like &#8220;Saddam has <em>Weapons of Mass Destruction</em>&#8221; didn&#8217;t age well. Sure, the attackers might start their own think tank or become the next Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic, but they&#8217;ll never be forgotten. Especially in the current age of <em>mostly</em> full disclosure. Every year it' gets harder for the rot to hide.</p><p>This, is the oldest trick in the book, <em>&#8220;Divide and Conquer&#8221;</em> and the less we divide, the more that people will notice what they are seeing and the more they fail to conquer. This is a resistance to opposition.</p><p>Opposition <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty/p/we-need-to-talk-about-our-president?r=iuq6q&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false">has always been persecuted.</a> WWI they were arrested and deported, put on lists for opposition to the war. Slandered as &#8220;German Sympathizers.&#8221; </p><p><a href="https://cdn.mises.org/For%20a%20New%20Liberty%20The%20Libertarian%20Manifesto_3.pdfhttps://cdn.mises.org/For%20a%20New%20Liberty%20The%20Libertarian%20Manifesto_3.pdf">&#8220;Isolationist&#8221; </a>they slandered anyone against being dragged into WWII and has become the intellectual warmongers go to slur ever since.</p><p>Nixon called anti-war activist&#8217;s <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/6/6/how-do-the-us-antiwar-protests-today-differ-from-those-of-1967-1968#:~:text=Antiwar%20activists%2C%20like%20Teague%2C%20carrying%20their%20Viet,sympathisers%20who%20wanted%20the%20enemy%20to%20win.">supporters of the Viet Cong.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-a-2001-09-21-14-bush-66411197/549664.html">W. Bush said</a>, &#8220;either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.&#8221;</p><p>Now, anyone who points out the hard truths of the Russia/Ukraine conflict are <em>&#8220;<a href="https://www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-north/putins-puppetry-how-russian-propaganda-divides-the-west">Puppets of Putin&#8221;</a></em> and anyone calling for Palestinian rights are labeled <em>&#8220;antisemites&#8221;</em> and <em>&#8220;supporters of Hamas.</em>&#8221;  </p><p>This is an old trick of the feeble-minded fools, who make a show war after war of being wrong in the most spectacular ways! </p><p>How will they be wrong this time? Only time will tell.</p><p>Thank you for reading. </p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9b39f62-dd60-45ab-af4a-247b927b5511_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;aa97dbde-8eb8-4456-a126-50ee52206a6b&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> Editor-in-Chief <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:368081,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0713a6ae-3f57-4fdf-8fc7-241d89b85795_768x768.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;6beb7633-04fc-4db5-937e-55388dc14fd6&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ‘Mass’ Deportation of Political Thought in Place of Immigrant Gangsters and the New Guantanamo Bay]]></title><description><![CDATA[Instead of weapons we&#8217;re attacking words.]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-our-president</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-our-president</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 13:25:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZbNw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb1bdfc05-ce7c-4070-b490-843426be4433_463x473.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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A 22-year-old J. Edgar Hoover administered a program that photographed, fingerprinted, and interrogated 500,000 suspects. </strong></p><p><strong>Local newspapers published the names of people who were not buying war bonds or otherwise supporting the war. People were fired or ostracized for insufficient enthusiasm. The </strong><em><strong>Espionage Act of 1917</strong></em><strong> made it a crime to &#8220;collect, record, publish, or communicate&#8221; information useful to the enemy.</strong> </p><p><strong>The war unleashed a flu pandemic that killed more people in a year &#8212; somewhere between 20 million and 50 million &#8212; than the war killed in </strong><em><strong>four years.</strong></em></p><p><em>George Will, America&#8217;s Dark Home Front During World War I</em></p></blockquote><p><em><strong>Randolph Bourne died during the pandemic in 1918.</strong></em></p><div class="pullquote"><p>War is the health of the state. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense. &#8212;Randolph Bourne</p></div><p><em><a href="https://worldhistoryedu.com/alien-enemies-act/">The Alien Enemies Act of 1798</a></em><a href="https://worldhistoryedu.com/alien-enemies-act/"> </a>was also used during World War One, enacted by President Wilson to deport, as is written above, anyone of German descent or immigrants with pro-German sympathies. </p><p>Maybe you&#8217;ve heard of it? It&#8217;s enaction is quickly becoming the most controversial move in contemporary politics by the current administration, and this administration is getting the most controversial use of the law in history, if you haven&#8217;t heard of it, that&#8217;s okay, I&#8217;ll explain.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">But first, why not Subscribe? It&#8217;s free, unless you find value in my work and would like to pay. However, I&#8217;m really just happy your here, and reading my work. The Freedom Manifesto is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h2>Alien Enemies and Another Chip Off the Free Speech Block</h2><p>During the campaign that led to our current leadership illegal immigration became a leading cause. Even the first-generation immigrants who hold the contract to clean up the factory where I work said &#8220;Trump was their guy.&#8221; After the win there was polling from <a href="https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/majority-americans-support-deporting-immigrants-who-are-us-illegally">Axios/Ipsos</a> saying, <a href="https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2025-01/Axios%20Ipsos%20Poll%20Topline%201.19.2025.pdf">&#8220;66% of Americans</a> support deporting immigrants who are in the country illegally.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/majority-americans-support-deporting-immigrants-who-are-us-illegally" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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People speculate that this was a way to increase Democrat voters by bringing them in, removing voter ID, and supporting them through controversial moves like giving them jobs, health insurance, expensive hotels and debit cards where they would receive money to pay for their expenses. Although most of that did happen, it&#8217;s not totally clear there was a clear plan to get these people to vote blue. In fact, if you look at voter demographics the opposite turned out to be true. What is more likely is this was a backlash to what was perceived as harsh immigration policies under the first Trump administration &#8212; maybe you remember the <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/11/written-testimony-kids-cages-inhumane-treatment-border">&#8220;kids in cages</a>&#8221; campaign &#8212; the problem is, and I believe we mostly all know this now &#8212; those cages <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201024010259/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/22/trump-children-immigration-defense/">were built under the Obama administration.</a> Barack Obama deported more people in his time per capita than any administration had in history, but the way Trump campaigned on this issue, and the other side <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201023204858/https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/kids-in-cages-debate-trump-obama/2020/10/23/8ff96f3c-1532-11eb-82af-864652063d61_story.html">demonized over this issue</a>, the assumption became that <em>he</em> was the worst. And we <em>all </em>know what &#8220;assumptions&#8221; do, they make and <em>&#8220;ass&#8221; </em>out of <em>&#8220;ump</em>. </p><p>After four years of a lax border,<a href="https://cmsny.org/us-undocumented-population-increased-in-july-2023-warren-090624/"> twelve million illegal crossings,</a> the killing of several innocent American civilians, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/22/us/who-was-laken-riley">a young girl by the name of Laken Riley</a>, when Donald Trump came back &#8212; once again &#8212; running on mass deportations, getting rid of anyone illegal who was here committing crimes against the American people, we didn&#8217;t ask too many questions of the who, what, when, why nature. When he said he would enact the <em>Alien Enemies Act </em>to get rid of members of the Mexican drug cartel, Venezuelan gang members, and what he called &#8220;rapists and killers released from central American prisons to make room and dropped off at our border,&#8221; we thought, <em>Hell yea! At least someone is doing something.</em> </p><p>You might even say that a 66% approval of this policy gives him a <em>mandate</em> to get it done. We never guessed that no one along the way would <em>Show proof this person is who you say they are or affiliated or wait, no judge? Oh, this person isn&#8217;t actually illegal!? They are just exercising the first amendment rights that GOD granted them?! That what our Constitution says, &#8220;We find these rights to be SELF-EVIDENT! That means you were born with them. </em>In our defense, that should&#8217;ve been a given, we shouldn&#8217;t have had to ask <em>that</em> question. Due process is the backbone of our justice system. In the past if the court was backed up by congestion, which I&#8217;m sure would no doubt happen if all these people had to see a judge, I&#8217;ve heard this excuse bounced around. They set up a rocket docket system, get &#8216;em in, get &#8216;em out, but at least there is a guardrail between the officer on the street and the plane in the air. Even fearmongery fictional depictions like season seven of <em>Orange is the New Black</em> had the deportations seeing a judge before they were put on a plane.</p><div id="youtube2-y-HYRutHvlw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;y-HYRutHvlw&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/y-HYRutHvlw?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>So, the <em><a href="https://worldhistoryedu.com/alien-enemies-act/">Alien Enemies Act of 1798</a></em><a href="https://worldhistoryedu.com/alien-enemies-act/"> </a>is a wartime law still on the books, &#8220;officially titled &#8220;An Act Respecting Alien Enemies,&#8221; that has been used in a time of war three times since it was passed in 1798. Every time it was used against those who we were at war with. It was created to supplement the Alien Friends Act, which was temporary, for the same principles of which the President could enact at any time there was war breaking out, and the President needed it. Kinda like the &#8220;<a href="https://protectdemocracy.org/work/presidential-emergency-powers-explained/">Emergency Powers Act</a>&#8221;, or <a href="https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2021/01/28/fda-emergency-use-authorization-history/">Emergency Use Authorization</a>, and those have worked out superbly, or shall I say, <em>&#8220;They were <strong>tremendous!&#8221;</strong></em> </p><p><em>&#8220;This law granted the President of the United States the power to arrest, relocate, or deport any male over the age of 14 who originated from a foreign enemy nation.&#8221; </em>Facing zero controversy at the time of its passing, <em>&#8220;The act was seen as a necessary wartime measure, ensuring that individuals from enemy nations could be monitored and removed if deemed a threat to national security. Over the centuries, various U.S. presidents have invoked the act, making it a significant component of American wartime policy.&#8221;</em></p><blockquote><p><em>The Alien Enemies Act was one of four laws passed under the Alien and Sedition Acts, a set of controversial measures enacted by the Federalist-controlled Congress in 1798.</em></p><p><em>These laws were created during heightened tensions with France, particularly amid the Quasi-War. The Alien Friends Act allowed the president to deport any non-citizen deemed &#8220;dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States,&#8221; while the Sedition Act criminalized criticism of the federal government.</em></p></blockquote><p>The Sedition Act was later repealed and replaced with the Espionage Act of 1917, and then was extended with the Sedition Act of 1918, and is still in use today. <a href="https://prospect.org/justice/julian-assange-espionage-act-1917-freedom-press/">Ask Julian Assange.</a></p><p>In fact, the Alien Enemies Act is what they do to immigrants, the Sedition Act is what they do to us. So, there is the <em>Alien-Enemies </em>and the<em> Enemies&#8217;-Enemies.</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Freedom Manifesto is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p>So, Donald Trump, our dear leader, with permission from a majority of the American people who elected him, to deport the illegals that were taking jobs, transporting fentanyl, and taking over <a href="https://youtu.be/8JbIt11fdf4?si=qcEZm2cFceSelxHC">whole apartment complexes like spicy Nino Brown&#8217;s</a>, is given an opportunity of a lifetime, and what does he do? Immediately starts squandering the mandate that he had by &#8212; not just deporting the wrong people, he&#8217;s deporting the wrong people, and partnering with Bukele, President of El Salvador, sending them to this prison called CECOT, which is known as a <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/10/torture-at-abu-ghraib">George Bush Torture Regime level prisons in a countr</a>y where<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250501003012/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/politics/trump-deportations-venezuela-el-salvador.html"> they have </a><em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250501003012/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/politics/trump-deportations-venezuela-el-salvador.html">never</a></em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250501003012/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/politics/trump-deportations-venezuela-el-salvador.html"> been</a>. And it doesn&#8217;t end there, the place is known for human rights abuses, &#8220;like overcrowding, lack of due process, and inhumane conditions.&#8221; Which isn&#8217;t physical torture, but psychologically, it&#8217;s the worst abuse I could imagine, as far as human rights abuses. As far as these people know &#8212; and we know for that matter &#8212; these people are serving a life sentence. No plans of due process, no court date coming up, I&#8217;m sure this is hard for the DC elite and a New York Real Estate tycoon to empathize with, but it&#8217;s not hard for me, I&#8217;ve felt this to such a lesser extreme and it was the worst thing that has ever happened to me. </p><p>There is <em>nothing</em> worse than not knowing if, or when, you&#8217;ll get a chance to see a judge. That&#8217;s actual torture and should be condemned to the fullest extent. <em><strong>We didn&#8217;t even do that shit to Timothy McVeigh!</strong></em></p><p><em>But that&#8217;s not all!</em> Not only are we not deporting <em>actual</em> criminals, but we&#8217;re also yanking green cards and deporting people who oppose war policies for wars we&#8217;re supposedly <em>not</em> fighting. </p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-our-president?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-our-president?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>So, the Alien Enemies Act has been used a few other times. The war of 1812 it was used to deport the French, who we were at war with, in World War One it was used against Germans, who we were at war with, and in World War Two it was used to deport Japanese immigrants, who we were also at war with. Cool. I mean, that wasn&#8217;t cool, but we were <em>actually </em>at war with those people. </p><p>They are now deporting people we are<em> not </em>at war with.<em> </em>We didn&#8217;t even do this after 9/11. Plenty of people looked at Arabs with a distrustful eye, but no one deported them! That&#8217;s insane. </p><p>We have never deported someone until now who disagreed with the foreign policy of one of our &#8220;allies.&#8221;<a href="https://www.racket.news/p/timeline-the-arrest-of-mahmoud-khalil?r=iuq6q&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false"> Mahmoud Khalil </a>was a student who took part in negotiations at a protest against the slaughter happening in Gaza. He did the negotiations because he had the best rapport with the school administration and spoke the best. <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/timeline-the-case-of-rumeysa-ozturk?r=iuq6q&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false">Rumeysa Ozturk</a> was one of four co-authors of an <a href="https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj">op-ed for her school newspaper</a>, Tufts Daily, calling for her school to join the protest of the same conflict. </p><p>And they&#8217;re not alone, &#8220;Secretary of State Marco Rubio estimates he&#8217;s revoked <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/politics/rubio-immigration-students-ozturk-chung-khalil.html">about 300 student visas</a>.</p><p>&#8220;They&#8217;re visitors to the country. If they&#8217;re taking activities that are counter to our foreign &#8211;to our national interest, to our foreign policy, we&#8217;ll revoke the visa,&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TwU6ZYCYDc">Rubio said</a> to reporters.&#8221; </p><p>This is like getting deported from Britain in 2003 for attending the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/nyregion/threats-and-responses-overview-from-new-york-to-melbourne-cries-for-peace.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E08._aHQ.qEv8xAChPJdq&amp;smid=url-share">February 15th mass protest against the Iraq invasion.</a></p><p>The worst part, I believe, is that we would <em>never</em> deport them for speaking out against the American empire, but for some reason when it comes to <em>this</em> ally, we will not tolerate it. </p><p>One more, this is like deporting someone for protesting the dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudi Prince&#8217;s goons. That&#8217;s what this is like.</p><p>For an administration that swore to bring back the &#8220;First Amendment&#8221; they sure do have a poor sense of what that means.</p><p>If they truly care about antisemitism, I can&#8217;t think of a worse way for to escalate it than to use it as a ploy to crush the freedom of speech in what&#8217;s known as the &#8220;freest country on Earth&#8221;, and use our laws and our tax dollars to arrest and deport people critical of one of our &#8220;allies&#8221; and when asked why? &#8220;Because they were antisemitic.&#8221;</p><p>Now, that the Trump administration has managed to weaponize this mandate at the behest of a nation-state committed to destroying the indigenous people to their south, a new poll has come out on immigration:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/trump-poll-immigration-deportations/index.html" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wBDv!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffebfb2dd-73cb-4a7c-baed-e6ef43cd507e_627x187.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wBDv!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffebfb2dd-73cb-4a7c-baed-e6ef43cd507e_627x187.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wBDv!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffebfb2dd-73cb-4a7c-baed-e6ef43cd507e_627x187.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wBDv!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffebfb2dd-73cb-4a7c-baed-e6ef43cd507e_627x187.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wBDv!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffebfb2dd-73cb-4a7c-baed-e6ef43cd507e_627x187.png" width="627" height="187" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/febfb2dd-73cb-4a7c-baed-e6ef43cd507e_627x187.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:187,&quot;width&quot;:627,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:18836,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/trump-poll-immigration-deportations/index.html&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/i/162781428?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffebfb2dd-73cb-4a7c-baed-e6ef43cd507e_627x187.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wBDv!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffebfb2dd-73cb-4a7c-baed-e6ef43cd507e_627x187.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wBDv!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffebfb2dd-73cb-4a7c-baed-e6ef43cd507e_627x187.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wBDv!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffebfb2dd-73cb-4a7c-baed-e6ef43cd507e_627x187.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wBDv!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffebfb2dd-73cb-4a7c-baed-e6ef43cd507e_627x187.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Maybe it&#8217;s fixed by CNN, but these new clarifications have destroyed what tiny inkling of hope I had in this system, now I&#8217;m back to tear it all down! If you can&#8217;t do it, someone else will.</p><p>Final point:</p><p>Although these wartime statutes are being used with the implication that this is a war, <em>it is not!</em> I clearly remember boomers, or one specifically, screaming at the top of his lungs in the 2010&#8217;s after <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/us/23border.html">every news station reported</a> that Arizona<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/arizona-militias-gain-momentum-after-citizen-border-group-bill-is-defeated"> had militias rising up</a> and <a href="https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Everett-border-watch-activists-accused-in-deadly-1304512.php">&#8216;border-watch activists&#8217; killing people and committing armed robberies every other day</a>, Rick said to me, <em>&#8220;Jordan, don&#8217;t you understand, if this many Japanese (he definitely called them &#8220;japs&#8221;) crossed our border without us knowing in World War 2 we lost the war!&#8217;</em> </p><p>As it turned out we didn&#8217;t then, and we haven&#8217;t now. </p><p>Furthermore, if Donald Trump would like to continue to be the &#8216;President who didn&#8217;t start any wars&#8217; maybe he should stop trying to convince us that we&#8217;re fighting one, right now. This is like Churchill calling for the invasion of Germany after Germany was already conquered. </p><p>Mr. President, you have a job. Your job is upholding the Constitution, not protecting us from thoughts that your donors disagree with. Donald Trump is driving head on, no seatbelt at 110mph towards a legacy of ruin. Think Michael Hastings (see below) after the CIA took control of his car, with their <em>Black Mirror</em>-esque tools exposed by Wikileaks in Vault 7.</p><p>I don&#8217;t know if there is any turning back at this point, there sure was not for Michael.</p><div id="youtube2-eQciooqeZoA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;eQciooqeZoA&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/eQciooqeZoA?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div id="youtube2-gWpOAxaGDYk" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;gWpOAxaGDYk&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/gWpOAxaGDYk?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; 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Donald Trump vs. Himself; Louis Theroux "Settles" in for a Long Day; ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tim Dillon says, "Release the interview or Theroux's settlers will find you CNN"]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/tim-dillon-vs-cnn-donald-trump-vs</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/tim-dillon-vs-cnn-donald-trump-vs</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 05:33:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9BN6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fc9ed08-62a8-4cac-bdee-1c2a6305b6ed_4992x3264.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, I started with this new administration very optimistic. Probably more optimistic than I&#8217;ve been about any presidency of my life. I was totally against him first term and continued to be against him until I did some research on Russiagate, which softened me a bit, and seeing the censorship carried out by the Biden administration there was no chance that Donald Trump would be worse than another four years of that, which is what we would be signing up for from a Harris administration.   </p><p>After inauguration, when he kept his word on pardoning Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the <em>&#8220;Silk Road&#8221;</em>, a decentralized website that made it possible to sell items otherwise illegal to sell without oversight and was ruthlessly given two life sentences + 50 years, it seemed like Trump 2.0 was gonna be unlike anything we&#8217;d ever seen, but now it seems to be just like everything we&#8217;ve seen before, nothing new here.</p><h3><strong>Donald trump says vs Donald Trump does:</strong></h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9BN6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fc9ed08-62a8-4cac-bdee-1c2a6305b6ed_4992x3264.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9BN6!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fc9ed08-62a8-4cac-bdee-1c2a6305b6ed_4992x3264.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9BN6!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fc9ed08-62a8-4cac-bdee-1c2a6305b6ed_4992x3264.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9BN6!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fc9ed08-62a8-4cac-bdee-1c2a6305b6ed_4992x3264.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9BN6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fc9ed08-62a8-4cac-bdee-1c2a6305b6ed_4992x3264.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9BN6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fc9ed08-62a8-4cac-bdee-1c2a6305b6ed_4992x3264.jpeg" width="1456" height="952" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4fc9ed08-62a8-4cac-bdee-1c2a6305b6ed_4992x3264.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:952,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;A majority of Republicans are living in a fantasy world built around the  Big Lie | CNN Politics&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;A majority of Republicans are living in a fantasy world built around the  Big Lie | CNN Politics&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="A majority of Republicans are living in a fantasy world built around the  Big Lie | CNN Politics" title="A majority of Republicans are living in a fantasy world built around the  Big Lie | CNN Politics" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9BN6!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fc9ed08-62a8-4cac-bdee-1c2a6305b6ed_4992x3264.jpeg 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em><strong>What Donald Trump Says:</strong></em> &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna &#8220;drain the swamp&#8221; (corruption in Washington) and get rid of bad actors in the deep state.&#8221;</p><p><em><strong>What Donald Trump Does:</strong></em> Fires 50,000 people with federal jobs doing things like testing water for feces while<a href="https://www.ndia.org/events/2023/10/30/4880---solic-symposium/speakers/mike-waltz"> putting people in his cabinet that worked for Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in the Bush Administration.</a></p><p><em><strong>What Donald Trump Says:</strong></em> We&#8217;re gonna deport the criminals and gang members that came into our country illegally and brought harm to the American people.</p><p><em><strong>What Donald Trump Does</strong></em>: Deport people who came to our country legally like students and green card holders<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/immigration-judge-rules-trump-administration-can-deport-columbia-protestor-mahmoud-khalil"> for protesting a war that his donors support, </a><a href="https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025/03/op-ed-no-one-should-be-arrested-or-deported-for-writing-an-op-ed">writing articles in their school newspaper in opposition of the war</a>, and carrying <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/tattoos-deported-venezuelans-not-necessarily-gang-members-rcna197089">tattoos that are mistaken for gang tattoo</a>s. Even worse, instead of deporting them to their home country, Venezuela, he sent them to a black site prison in El Salvador that is known for torture, that&#8217;ll teach &#8216;em. This included a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuelan-migrants-deportations-el-salvador-prison-60-minutes/">gay hairdresser </a>who had a tattoo in remembrance of a loved one.</p><p><em><strong>What Donald Trump Says:</strong></em> &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna end the war in Ukraine on day one.&#8221;</p><p><em><strong>What Donald Trump Does:</strong></em> Tries to work out a<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/ukraine-and-u-s-negotiating-continued-military-aid-in-exchange-for-access-to-mineral-resources"> deal to get Ukraine&#8217;s minerals in exchange for a security deal</a> that puts Americans at risk of being directly at war with Russia. </p><p><em><strong>What Donald Trump Says:</strong></em> We&#8217;re gonna bring back freedom of speech and the first amendment!</p><p><em><strong>What Donald Trump Does: </strong></em><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-takes-forceful-and-unprecedented-steps-to-combat-anti-semitism/">Signs into law a hate speech bill that criminalizes antisemitic phrases</a> such as <em>&#8220;Christ is King&#8221;</em> or mentioning the bible saying Jesus Christ was killed by Jews.  </p><p><em><strong>What Donald Trump Says: </strong></em>We&#8217;re gonna pursue peace, here and abroad.</p><p><em><strong>What Donald Trump Does: </strong></em>Strikes 1,000 targets in Yemen in 100 days, nearly goes to war with Iran, threatens war with practically everyone, <em>on Truth Social</em>, X, and in speeches/press briefings.</p><div><hr></div><p>The truth is, the difference between what Donald Trump says and what Donald Trump does are as far apart as &#8212; very sadly &#8212; every other Washington leech <em>relentlessly jamming their blood funnels into anything that smells like money <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110223143559/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405">(if you know, you know).</a> I hope I&#8217;m proven wrong; I&#8217;ll continue to be cautiously optimistic. </em></p><p>Now for something lite&#8230;</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" 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&#8220;Release the Interview&#8221;</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FLdR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb89838cd-e4ff-4f9b-9b70-25b05cfd951f_600x900.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FLdR!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb89838cd-e4ff-4f9b-9b70-25b05cfd951f_600x900.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FLdR!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb89838cd-e4ff-4f9b-9b70-25b05cfd951f_600x900.jpeg 848w, 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He expressed on the JRE that they were going to edit out what they didn&#8217;t like and release the rest, what they did, however, was even worse than that, but first here&#8217;s Tim Dillon talking with Joe Rogan about the interview:</p><div id="youtube2-icpHcD3L8T8" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;icpHcD3L8T8&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/icpHcD3L8T8?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><blockquote><p>Tim: I did a CNN interview for an hour because I'm promoting my special and then&#8212;</p><p>Joe: Did you really? Who&#8217;d you talk to?</p><p>Tim: This girl L. Reeves. She was cool&#8230;</p></blockquote><p>After pestering with <em>&#8220;comedy is right wing now&#8221; </em>and Tim giving examples to the contrary, they asked, &#8220;if he thought Theo Von was the new <em>establishment,</em> he says:</p><blockquote><p>Tim: No, I don't think so. I think you ran a really unpopular candidate. I don't think Americans like child sex changes, and I don't think they want an open border, and I think if you'd, you know, co-opted some of those issues you might have won. They said to me at CNN they're like, "We're editing the interview." I said, "Put the hour out." I sat there for an hour, and we had a nice conversation, but you know we talked for one hour and I was like "Put it out."</p><p>I'm like "I understand if you can't put it out." And then she goes like this, she goes "Um I can't believe you'd show up, um people have said that they can't come on here because Joe Rogan would get mad at them." I said, "That's absolutely ridiculous." </p><p>Joe: Why would I? </p><p>Tim: I said he doesn't care; he would never care, I said&#8212; </p><p>Joe: &#8212;Oh, that's so silly&#8212; </p><p>Tim: &#8212;it's the silliest thing ever&#8212; </p><p>Joe: &#8212;they think we're at war. </p><p>Tim: I just said "Put the thing&#8212;put out the hour online, if you can only put out a few minutes on network, fine, but it's wrong to have someone come in and talk for an hour right and then&#8212; </p><p>Joe: &#8212;use three minutes&#8212;</p><p>Tim: &#8212;and then use five minutes. </p><p>Joe: How much did they use? </p><p>Tim: We don't know yet they haven't put it out. </p><p>Joe: And do you&#8212;did they say we can't put the whole hour out? </p><p>Tim: I texted this journalist and she texted me, she goes "I'm pushing for like a long form release." I go "Yeah man just put out the interview."</p><p>Joe: Also do you guys want ratings or no? </p><p>Tim: Yeah. We had a conversation about all these things you guys talk about&#8212; </p><p>Joe: &#8212;Yeah, you guys have a website&#8212; </p><p>Tim: &#8212;Then what are we doing?</p><p>Joe: Don't you have a YouTube page? Doesn't CNN have a YouTube page out? </p><p>Tim: I go&#8212;she goes, "What do you think&#8212;the Joe Rogan show&#8212;why is it so popular?" I go "Well one of the reasons is he doesn't <em>edit</em> people! They're not edited, they come on, they say what they want to say and there's no editing. So, what's weird about those institutions is they will sit you down for an hour and then, I guess cherry pick what they think their audience wants to see??? </p><p>Joe: Well, they just want what they think is going to grab the most ratings and is not going to make them look stupid&#8230;</p></blockquote><p>So, it seems they decided what would grab them the most ratings and make them look the least stupid:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/politics/tim-dillon-comedians-trump/index.html" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UJ3e!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa18ad147-0447-4d4c-859f-46e39f93e5cf_979x233.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UJ3e!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa18ad147-0447-4d4c-859f-46e39f93e5cf_979x233.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UJ3e!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa18ad147-0447-4d4c-859f-46e39f93e5cf_979x233.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UJ3e!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa18ad147-0447-4d4c-859f-46e39f93e5cf_979x233.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UJ3e!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa18ad147-0447-4d4c-859f-46e39f93e5cf_979x233.png" width="979" height="233" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a18ad147-0447-4d4c-859f-46e39f93e5cf_979x233.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:233,&quot;width&quot;:979,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:25809,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/politics/tim-dillon-comedians-trump/index.html&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/i/162426206?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa18ad147-0447-4d4c-859f-46e39f93e5cf_979x233.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UJ3e!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa18ad147-0447-4d4c-859f-46e39f93e5cf_979x233.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UJ3e!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa18ad147-0447-4d4c-859f-46e39f93e5cf_979x233.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UJ3e!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa18ad147-0447-4d4c-859f-46e39f93e5cf_979x233.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UJ3e!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa18ad147-0447-4d4c-859f-46e39f93e5cf_979x233.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/politics/tim-dillon-comedians-trump/index.html">Comedian Tim Dillon isn&#8217;t expecting a certain member of the British royal family to stream his newly released stand-up special on Netflix.</a></p><p>And he thinks the same logic should apply to Democrats who may fault him and other entertainers for President Donald Trump&#8217;s return to power.</p><p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t go to war with straight white men for four years and then ask why they didn&#8217;t vote for you,&#8221; Dillon told CNN. &#8220;That seems crazy. I&#8217;ve made fun of Meghan Markle a lot. I can&#8217;t then go, &#8216;Why don&#8217;t you think Meghan Markle is watching (my special)?&#8217; I just think you have to pick your fights in a better way.&#8221;</p><p>As with much of Dillon&#8217;s commentary, the provocation was delivered in the style of a punchline &#8212; but with a point that matters for both political parties as well as the fast-changing media landscape.</p><p>Digital creators like Dillon &#8212; irreverent, predominately male and previously politically unclassifiable &#8212; emerged as a key force behind Trump&#8217;s victory. Democrats and Republicans alike have credited these podcasters, YouTubers and self-styled contrarians for driving support for Trump among men, particularly those under 40.</p></blockquote><p>Of course this is what they did with it. <em>&#8220;Tim Dillon used his comedy to make trump more palatable to young men.&#8221;</em> Tim must&#8217;ve gone on there and trashed them for an hour. Even their cherry-picked quotes are mocking them, listen to this:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;It was actually the goal and why I started comedy &#8212; JD Vance,&#8221; Dillon said with his characteristically dry delivery. &#8220;I knew about him when I started out in 2010 and I had it all plotted out like &#8216;A Beautiful Mind&#8217; on the wall.&#8221;</p><p>Then, more seriously: &#8220;It was kind of fortuitous. We just have this podcast that&#8217;s big and people listen to it.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>What fools! Trump did these podcasts, Kamala Harris didn&#8217;t&#8230; Trump won, Kamala didn&#8217;t, correlation? </p><p>Here&#8217;s more Tim:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Trump understands the two cultural forces that I&#8217;ve seen in my lifetime that have changed the way people have behaved: reality television and social media,&#8221; Dillon said. &#8220;He understands social media and using it to communicate. Now that we have phones, we&#8217;re all starring in our own reality television shows. He understands that, and he was able to utilize that understanding to connect with people in a way that Kamala didn&#8217;t seem to understand. I felt like he just had the upper hand.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Some <em>Media Matters </em>stats:</p><blockquote><p>A post-election review of the digital landscape by the progressive media watchdog Media Matters found right-leaning online content has five times as many followers as programs on the left. Former Daily Show Host Trevor Noah is the only left-of-center voice among the top 10 most popular internet shows, the analysis said.</p></blockquote><p>Followed by a quote from Rob Flaherty, of the Biden White House, underboss of the Censorship-Industrial Complex, and senior aide to the Harris campaign. You&#8217;ll remember him from hits such as, &#8220;Why are you not censoring who we say Facebook? YouTube? Twitter?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bu28!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77ca5b83-651e-4db3-9fa4-f59185216eca_654x372.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bu28!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77ca5b83-651e-4db3-9fa4-f59185216eca_654x372.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bu28!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77ca5b83-651e-4db3-9fa4-f59185216eca_654x372.png 848w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>And demanding Facebook censor people who were complaining online that they were <a href="https://uncoverdc.com/2023/01/10/new-discovery-in-missouri-v-biden-flaherty-directing-censorship-for-white-house/">Vaccine-Injured (you monsters) because they were afraid it might cause </a><em><a href="https://uncoverdc.com/2023/01/10/new-discovery-in-missouri-v-biden-flaherty-directing-censorship-for-white-house/">&#8220;vaccine hesitancy.&#8221;</a></em></p><blockquote><p><strong>Rob Flaherty coerced Facebook to ban and censor the vaccine injured, despite acknowledging their posts were true and didn&#8217;t break the Terms of Service</strong> </p><p>Rob Flaherty is the White House Director of Digital Strategy and a senior advisor to President Joe Biden. The government initially attempted to hide his involvement in censorship, but other discovery exposed his name, and the judge granted written interrogatory and discovery to the Plaintiffs in this case. </p><p>As we will see in the examples below, Flaherty often acts as a &#8221;boss&#8221; or manager to social media executives, cursing at them and treating them with disdain when they don&#8217;t follow his directives to censor the speech of Americans. In an email response to Flaherty, Facebook beamed about removing post visibility and censoring the vaccine injured, stating: </p><p><em>&#8220;As you know, in addition to removing vaccine misinformation, we have been focused on reducing the virality of content discouraging vaccines that does not contain actionable misinformation. This is often true content, which we allow at the post level because experts have advised us that it is important for people to be able to discuss both their personal experiences and concerns about the vaccine, but it can be framed as sensation, alarmist, or shocking. We&#8217;ll remove these Groups, Pages, and Accounts when they are disproportionately promoting this sensationalized content. More on this front as we proceed to implement.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>And here&#8217;s a nice email from Flaherty to Facebook while he was <a href="https://uncoverdc.com/2023/01/10/new-discovery-in-missouri-v-biden-flaherty-directing-censorship-for-white-house/">working directly under Joe Biden:</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uobc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F792eea52-b494-44df-aefb-1d9610948a55_663x357.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uobc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F792eea52-b494-44df-aefb-1d9610948a55_663x357.png 424w, 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href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/03/health/japan-suicide-forest-intl/index.html">Japanese Forest by now</a>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0QXK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34014ea5-93ef-4f00-8375-91171233f64b_635x1000.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0QXK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34014ea5-93ef-4f00-8375-91171233f64b_635x1000.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0QXK!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34014ea5-93ef-4f00-8375-91171233f64b_635x1000.jpeg 848w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Anyways, back to Tim Dillon.</p><p>Aaaaand they go there:</p><blockquote><p>The Democratic National Committee recently announced plans to overhaul its online communications. Already, the party&#8217;s potential 2028 contenders have made early attempts to mimic Trump&#8217;s success. California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshears launched competing podcasts. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmner recently gabbed on a Detroit Pistons basketball podcast while Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro talked Philadelphia Eagles and Trump with outspoken ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith earlier this year.</p><p>Within the Democratic Party, some have begun to explore how to build a podcast ecosystem to rival the MAGA-friendly manosphere. <em><strong>More simply, some say what the party really needs is its own Joe Rogan.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>It&#8217;s been said so much it&#8217;s becoming cringey. You <em>had your own Joe Rogan!</em> You attacked him for half a decade! He was <em>always</em> on the left. He even said in the clip above &#8220;I haven&#8217;t really accepted that I&#8217;m not part of the left anymore.&#8221;</p><p>Joe Rogan is not some super MAGA right winger! What world do you live in?! Anyways, I&#8217;ve stretched this out far enough, here&#8217;s the rest of all they&#8217;re gonna give us of the <em>TimDillonXCNN COLLAB:</em></p><blockquote><p>Dillon is quick to point out that he also extended an invitation to Vance&#8217;s Democratic counterpart, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Rogan, Schulz and Von have publicly said they offered Harris interviews as well.</p><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t do many interviews, but none of them are super contentious,&#8221; Dillon said. &#8220;They&#8217;re all just kind of a conversation. So I don&#8217;t think I would have been disrespectful in any way.&#8221;</p><p>But as he eviscerated the Democratic playbook, identity politics and the country&#8217;s costal elites, Dillon acknowledged why the Harris campaign may have avoided him.</p><p>&#8220;Yeah, I mean, I think I agree with Vance more than I do with Tim Walz.&#8221;</p><p>As for his interview with Vance, Dillon said he wished he had pressed the Republican on the outsized influence of tech giants like billionaire Elon Musk in Trump&#8217;s orbit, which he has since criticized on his show. Dillon has also been bothered by the administration&#8217;s crackdown on foreign college students involved in campus protests against Israel.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a free speech guy. I don&#8217;t love that,&#8221; Dillon said. &#8220;We always talk about these antisemitic conspiracy theories that run rampant. They&#8217;re all over the place. I think a great way to feed those theories are things like this &#8212; deporting people that have been critical of Israel.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;The entertainment business wants to make money,&#8221; Dillon said. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t exist to teach people lessons. That&#8217;s not why it was invented. There was a belief after Trump was elected the first time that the job of the entertainment business was to act as a resistance to Trump, and it proved pretty ineffective. I think what it should be doing is entertaining people. I think that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s going to get back to doing. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to effectively marshal any type of political capital.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>And it ends with this:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;I find everyone really boring, and the only person I really am interested in hearing from is myself,&#8221; Dillon said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why my show is fun for me to do &#8211; because I just say my opinion.&#8221;</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><p>The Freedom Manifesto is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/tim-dillon-vs-cnn-donald-trump-vs?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/tim-dillon-vs-cnn-donald-trump-vs?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>Finally:</p><h2>Louis Theroux <em>has</em> &#8220;Bean Thare&#8230;&#8221;</h2><p>And so have you after you watch his new documentary, &#8220;The Settlers&#8221;.</p><p>It&#8217;s a breathtaking account of the life of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and how the Israeli&#8217;s feel about them, and, you should watch and make your own determination of who these people are, from my view these people are demonic souls, completely indifferent to how someone else might feel, devoid of empathy. Maybe they've been radicalized by events in their lives, maybe they were raised to be like this, I don't know, but it's a dark reality. I hope they're not all like this. Just check it out for yourself&#8230; Copyright claimed before I could even finish editing, here&#8217;s the first one he did on the same subject in 2011 called <em>The Ultra-Zionists: </em></p><div id="youtube2-8DFUqZRXQ28" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;8DFUqZRXQ28&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/8DFUqZRXQ28?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Rumble still has it copyright free, sorry I don&#8217;t know how or if I can embed from Rumble, but I will link it below. It&#8217;s worth the watch, but it is heartbreaking, however, a <em>must-see</em> if you are wading in these waters. You need to see this. It breaks the Israeli propaganda machine <em>wide open.</em></p><p>Rumble Link: <a href="https://rumble.com/v6sop89-the-settlers-louis-theroux.html">Louis Theroux: </a><em><a href="https://rumble.com/v6sop89-the-settlers-louis-theroux.html">The Settlers</a></em></p><p><em><strong>(P.S. No payment was received for this ad&#8230; Cough*Cough*Louis? BBC? Anybody&#8230;)</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>P.S.S. We MUST Protect Theroux, Tim, and Joe Rogan at all costs, and thank you for reading.</strong></em> </p><p>This is <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9b39f62-dd60-45ab-af4a-247b927b5511_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;45fb1255-0611-42c3-b058-6ac75be7ed34&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p><p>Editor-in-Chief <br><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty">The Freedom Manifesto</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The George-Bush-ification of the 47th President, Donald J. Trump]]></title><description><![CDATA[The final stage of the neoconservative doctrine of the 90's, and Mr. Trump is being played like a violin.]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-george-bush-ification-of-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-george-bush-ification-of-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:13:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/gH1V25Aaw98" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="pullquote"><p>Hey, Israel, Netanyahu, whoever is writing these war plans! How about you write us out of this one and <em>all</em> future conflicts. If you can&#8217;t win without <em>us</em> maybe it&#8217;s a battle you shouldn&#8217;t take.</p></div><p><em>Donald Trump is working on a legacy that could bypass that of the Bush dynasty by a hundred-fold, in awfulness. </em></p><p><em>If he crosses this line, it&#8217;ll be on page one of every history book when they recount his reign.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>First things first, let&#8217;s talk about the truth, here is <a href="https://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Snider/2025/04/23/seven-reasons-why-its-absurd-to-bomb-iran/">Ted Snider at Anti-War.com:</a></p><blockquote><p><em>Iran is not pursuing a nuclear bomb. In 2003, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, issued a fatwa, an official religious ruling, that declared nuclear weapons to be forbidden by Islam. The <a href="https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2025%20Annual%20Threat%20Assessment%20of%20the%20U.S.%20Intelligence%20Community.pdf">2025 Annual Threat Assessment</a>, which &#8220;reflects the collective insights of the Intelligence Community,&#8221; clearly states that U.S. intelligence &#8220;continue[s] to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that [Ayatollah] Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.&#8221; That assessment maintains the 2022 U.S. Department of Defense <a href="https://media.defense.gov/2022/Oct/27/2003103845/-1/-1/1/2022-NATIONAL-DEFENSE-STRATEGY-NPR-MDR.PDF">Nuclear Posture Review </a>that concludes that &#8220;Iran does not today possess a nuclear weapon and we currently believe it is not pursuing one.&#8221; The most absurd reason for bombing Iran to prevent them from pursuing a nuclear bomb is that the U.S. knows Iran is not pursuing a nuclear bomb.</em></p></blockquote><p>The article goes on to name six more very obvious reasons <em>not</em> to bomb Iran. Continuing with the first reason, Iran is <em>not</em> pursuing a nuclear bomb therefore they have <em>&#8220;every legal right to its civilian nuclear program. As a signatory to the <a href="https://www.un.org/en/conf/npt/2015/pdf/text%20of%20the%20treaty.pdf">Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty</a>, Iran has &#8220;the inalienable right to a civilian program that uses &#8220;nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.&#8221;</em></p><blockquote><p><em>America&#8217;s concerns, well-founded or not, can be satisfied by establishing verifiable limits on Iran&#8217;s levels of enrichment. Iran demonstrated its willingness to comply with this nonmilitary solution when it agreed to those verifiable limitations in the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Program of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement. Eleven consecutive International Atomic Energy Agency reports <a href="https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/iran-is-implementing-nuclear-related-jcpoa-commitments-director-general-amano-tells-iaea-board">verified</a> that Iran was completely and consistently in compliance with the commitments made under that agreement. A military solution to America&#8217;s concerns about Iran&#8217;s civilian nuclear program is absurd because the U.S. has historical evidence that the nonmilitary solution works.</em></p></blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Iran has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7n905jqdo">stated</a> that U.S. military action against its civilian nuclear program will elicit a military response from Iran against U.S. bases in the region. Iran&#8217;s Parliamentary Speaker, Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/united-states-iran-nuclear-warning-2051988">said</a>, &#8220;If they threaten Islamic Iran, then, like powder kegs, America&#8217;s allies in the region and U.S. bases will be made unsafe.&#8221; </em></p><p>And the last I&#8217;ll poach from Mr. Snider, but not the last I&#8217;ll poach in this article:</p><blockquote><p><em>In a striking line that has received little attention, The New York Times <a href="https://archive.vn/9JtaI">reported</a> that the goal of military plans to bomb Iran&#8217;s civilian nuclear sites being discussed by the U.S. and Israel &#8220;was to set back Tehran&#8217;s ability to develop a nuclear weapon by a year or more.&#8221; Absurd is an understatement for risking war with Iran, and even a wider Middle East war, to set Iran&#8217;s nuclear program &#8211; a nuclear program the U.S. knows Iran does not have &#8211; to set the program back by only a year.</em></p></blockquote><p>This has <em>nothing </em>to do with <em>&#8220;Nuclear Bombs&#8221;</em> this is a plan that&#8217;s been around since the 90&#8217;s and they&#8217;re trying like hell to fulfill it.</p><p>Recall the words of <a href="https://youtu.be/fAnNJW9_KYA?si=yLCCd32OoagN7_NE">Four-Star General Wesley Clark</a>, or we can recall the words of Netanyahu in 2002:</p><div id="youtube2-gH1V25Aaw98" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;gH1V25Aaw98&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/gH1V25Aaw98?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>They just purged <em>Senior Advisor</em> to Pete Hegseth, Dan Caldwell, for leaking classified information, and if we believe him, I really see no reason <em>not</em> to, this guy doesn&#8217;t have any knowledge that a leak took place, neither does anyone else, what we do know is Caldwell is <em>as</em> anti-war as I am, and anyone who has read my work gets what that means, anyone who doesn&#8217;t, I believe &#8212;and can demonstrate &#8212; that the wars taking place today are a direct result of American imperialism around the world and policing by Washington of other peoples and cultures that we don&#8217;t understand, and what the CIA dubbed as <em>blowback</em> from those excursions &#8212; that everyone <em>must</em> put down their weapons. He knew about the coup we carried out in Ukraine, and how our unwavering support of Israel is keeping them from making peace, and the <em>War on Terror</em>, starting with 9/11, which was blowback from US bombing campaigns of the Middle East all through the 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s and post-9/11 became permission to rollback civil liberties and excursion after excursion ending in failure after failure, a mile-high pile of innocent dead people and the pockets of the military contractors, building contractors, and weapons companies lined with cash, fleeced from the American people in the name of &#8220;safety.&#8221; Maybe he&#8217;s not that far but, he at least doesn&#8217;t want more war. It&#8217;s unbelievable, we had someone like him as an advisor to the <em>Secretary of Defense</em>, and they pushed him out.</p><div id="youtube2-Xg9rKJGlieM" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Xg9rKJGlieM&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Xg9rKJGlieM?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Freedom Manifesto is a reader-supported publication. 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Trump's &#8220;W.M.D.&#8221; Moment &#8212;What will he do? </h2><div class="pullquote"><p>It has all the same elements. </p><p>An invasion of a middle Eastern country at the behest of a vassal state, Israel.</p><p>A non-existent nuclear weapons program.</p><p>An intelligence report telling us we&#8217;re wrong<em>.</em></p><p>And an administration pretending the intelligence report doesn&#8217;t exist.  </p></div><p>The Trump administration has some demons that must be excised, and let me tell ya, it ain&#8217;t Elon Musk or Robert Kennedy Jr.</p><p>Factions of the White House and Pentagon are facilitating a <em><strong>&#8220;counter</strong></em>insurgency&#8221; with the more rational wing as the insurgents. </p><p>Let&#8217;s get into it:</p><p>So, after the story broke that<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-israel-iran-nuclear.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DE8._NB0.x9gv93zqED4e&amp;smid=url-share"> &#8216;war with Iran was imminent</a>&#8217; we learned Donald Trump at the urging of Tulsi Gabbard and &#8212; surprisingly &#8212; Tucker Carlson, had backed out of the strike on Iran&#8217;s &#8220;nuclear facilities&#8221; that had already been deemed &#8220;not able to produce nuclear bombs&#8221; per this year&#8217;s<a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2025-Unclassified-Report.pdf"> Intelligence community threat assessment.</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-israel-iran-nuclear.html" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8TSj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71dc0e19-b61f-421c-833e-7246bb9ddcfc_608x246.png 424w, 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190524082050/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/20/war-with-iran-would-be-mother-all-quagmires/">&#8220;The Mother of all Quagmires</a></em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190524082050/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/20/war-with-iran-would-be-mother-all-quagmires/">.&#8221; </a></p><p>So, where did this strike come from? Well, it turns out the battleplans were written up by the war makers of the Israeli Government. Since wiping out Iran has <em>always </em>been the number one target of factions of the neoconservative wing here in America and every pro-war bozo in the Israeli government, it makes sense, but what&#8217;s that got to do with us?</p><div id="youtube2-Eo6u9DpASp8" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Eo6u9DpASp8&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Eo6u9DpASp8?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p><em>Well, duh, Jordan, they&#8217;re our greatest ally! </em>No. WE are THEIR greatest ally.</p><p>Here&#8217;s <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Ryan Grim&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:281006,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/edaeaa11-4322-4732-86b8-3cb754a225bc_458x510.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;9e7bf3c5-548b-478d-af84-3a462d06d77d&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> and <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Saagar Enjeti&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1998730,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6f98d34f-fb91-4aae-bc69-51c511c3c2b3_48x48.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;4fc5a837-992f-4530-80ef-f494b19ac9dd&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>&#8217;s expos&#233; for <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Drop Site News&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:241462060,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c8afbb85-9896-4b37-b11d-021bf3058862_647x647.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;06635347-ffb2-4b70-b44d-005cbf3bb0a8&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, it&#8217;s not long, but extremely important to this story so I&#8217;ll just steal the whole thing:</p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:161765566,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trumps-nsc-director-israel-iran-formerly-worked-ministry-defense&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:2510348,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Drop Site News&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd02a3749-a1f0-4749-a762-d0b01ebedb26_647x647.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Trump&#8217;s NSC Director for Israel and Iran Previously Worked for Israeli Ministry of Defense&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;The story below is co-reported with my Breaking Points colleague Saagar Enjeti. 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We&#8217;ll be covering it on the program Monday morning&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">a year ago &#183; 350 likes &#183; 25 comments &#183; Ryan Grim and Saagar Enjeti</div></a></div><blockquote><p> <em>The American official overseeing White House policy toward both Israel and Iran inside the National Security Council formerly worked for the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Drop Site News has learned. Merav Ceren&#8217;s appointment as Director for Israel and Iran at the NSC has not previously been reported, but her work with Israel&#8217;s MoD is well known among GOP circles.</em></p></blockquote><p>This is worse than Joe Biden, the person overseeing Ukraine policy getting his son <em>&#8220;No-Show Positions&#8221; </em>on the board of an energy company <em>in</em> Ukraine.</p><p>Former member of the Israeli Ministry of Defense is now overseeing White House policy on whether or not to go to war with Iran.</p><blockquote><p><em>Ceren&#8217;s appointment gives Israel an unusual advantage in internal policy discussions just as the Israeli government has launched a new campaign to pressure the American government to start a war with Iran rather than continue with negotiations toward a nuclear deal.</em></p><p><em>NSC spokesperson Brian Hughes confirmed that Ceren is now an official at the NSC and defended her as &#8220;a patriotic American.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;Merav is a patriotic American who has served in the United States government for years, including for President Trump, Senator Ted Cruz, and Congressman James Comer,&#8221; said Hughes. &#8220;We are thrilled to have her expertise in the NSC, where she carries out the President&#8217;s agenda on a range of Middle East issues.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>Ceren includes her time with Israel&#8217;s Ministry of Defense in her bio at the pro-Israel think tank <a href="https://www.fdd.org/team/merav-ceren/">Foundation for Defense of Democracies</a> (FDD).</em></p><p><em>The Israeli campaign has forced the issue into the top echelons of government. At a high-level meeting <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-israel-iran-nuclear.html">reported on recently by the New York Times</a>, Vice President J.D. Vance, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth all pushed back against Israel&#8217;s plan for a major strike on Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities. They were even joined by NSC Director Michael Waltz, who warned that Israel&#8217;s effort would not succeed without ample U.S. support. Waltz and CENTCOM commander, Gen. Michael Kurilla, the Times reported, had previously been open to entertaining the Israeli idea and were briefed by Israeli military officials on a range of plans.</em></p><p><em>It&#8217;s rare for a foreign country to be able to pitch American policymakers on a joint war effort and look across the table to see a former member of their own Ministry of Defense working for the Americans. As Trump debates his tariff policy, for instance, there are no high-level officials who previously worked for the Chinese Communist Party present.</em></p><p><em>Ceren&#8217;s FDD bio says that while working for the Israeli military she participated in negotiations in the West Bank between Israel&#8217;s Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) and the Palestinian Authority. COGAT is the Israeli agency now refusing entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, sparking a humanitarian crisis of unspeakable proportions. Ceren is the sister of Omri Ceren, a bellicose neoconservative and longtime foreign policy adviser to Sen. Ted Cruz.</em></p><p><em>In 2021, she authored the article &#8220;<a href="https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-moral-case-for-high-tech-weapons">The Moral Case for High-Tech Weapons</a>&#8221; for The New Atlantis, a long-form style publication that seeks to &#8220;understand the core anxiety about tech as the threat of dehumanization.</em></p></blockquote><p>I wonder, if <em>every</em> key member of the White House Cabinet was arguing against this war, who was arguing for it? Ceren and <em>who?</em> They should be fucking ejected from the cabinet immediately, put on a rocket and shot to the moon.</p><p>Of course, the battleplans they wrote up couldn&#8217;t be carried out without us <em>actively</em> fighting in the war alongside of them. Interesting that it&#8217;s always about murder that our allies want to team up with us, and <em>never </em>to make <em>our</em> country better for the people that live here, or <em>there </em>for that matter, it&#8217;s always a <em><strong>WAR</strong></em>, why war!? <em>Where is is reciprocal benefit? Our people are dying in the streets here! And our friends are using us to kill for them! Causing mass suicides when our veterans come home. With friends like that who needs enemies.</em></p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-george-bush-ification-of-the?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-george-bush-ification-of-the?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Freedom Manifesto is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h2>The Debate That Won the Day</h2><p>So, one of the people arguing for the war &#8212; the only person named as arguing for the war &#8212; was previously a member of the Israel Ministry of Defense, and she was put in charge of Iran policy. This is like having the wolf guard the chickens.</p><p>Iran is literally Israel&#8217;s mortal enemy. Israel views Iran as an existential threat on account of Tehran's rhetoric, its support for proxy forces in the region, and its arming and financing of Palestinian groups such as Hamas.</p><p>Interestingly, you know who else supported Hamas? Benjamin Netanyahu!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gzej!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb81e99e6-b424-4a0b-8159-cb1efdba22d5_967x319.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gzej!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb81e99e6-b424-4a0b-8159-cb1efdba22d5_967x319.jpeg 848w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Merav Ceran, is currently, actively working to sabotage the Iran Nuclear deal that her own administration, because it <em>is </em>her administration now, she does not work for Israel, although her actions seem to say otherwise &#8212; is in the process of negotiating. If they &#8212; instead of working out this deal &#8212; just bomb these <em>civil</em> nuclear sites, we will start a war with Iran, further radicalize them from <em>ever</em> dealing with us, and the site will be back up and running in two to four years, per Intelligence assessments, and then why would they <em>ever </em>trust us again. </p><div id="youtube2-9hXZkiel9Uo" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;9hXZkiel9Uo&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/9hXZkiel9Uo?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Breaking Points and <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Drop Site News&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:241462060,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c8afbb85-9896-4b37-b11d-021bf3058862_647x647.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;dfe3d14c-5f82-43c8-a6cf-f9a0959652a1&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Ryan Grim&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:281006,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/edaeaa11-4322-4732-86b8-3cb754a225bc_458x510.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;e8be0ea1-37be-4f27-9453-2d7cdaa57a62&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Saagar Enjeti&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1998730,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6f98d34f-fb91-4aae-bc69-51c511c3c2b3_48x48.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;6cf01e54-d1b3-4196-9cde-604dcb55769e&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, and <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Emily Jashinsky&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:4938337,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:null,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;bf9261f8-ab33-49b1-8832-b68a6508e2b6&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Krystal Kyle &amp; Friends&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:603504,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/55815504-003c-40a7-be4c-a12e3443c189_1880x1880.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;1060f705-842b-470b-8ddd-2d464c99654d&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, Krystal Ball, are doing the very best reporting on <em>all</em> of this. Krystal&#8217;s recent hysterics are a little much</p><p>However, it looks like in all her hysterics she was right about the &#8220;supposed gang members from Venezuela&#8221; shipped to the Abu Ghraib-like super prison in El Salvador using the <em><a href="https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB11269#:~:text=The%20Alien%20Act%20empowered%20the,secret%20machinations%22%20against%20the%20government.">&#8220;Alien Enemies Act.&#8221;</a></em></p><div id="youtube2-58vqcRjdhCw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;58vqcRjdhCw&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/58vqcRjdhCw?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p> Enough of Israel, and all the other bullshit, let&#8217;s talk about America, and the issue I am addressing here.</p><p>We&#8217;ve got to find a way to restore American credibility in the countries we&#8217;ve wronged, and I can&#8217;t think of a worse way to do that then starting another catastrophic war, at the behest of a country that <a href="https://youtu.be/Jz7VcRfRDAQ?si=OUN0MWuiFQRNIUjM">we </a><em><a href="https://youtu.be/Jz7VcRfRDAQ?si=OUN0MWuiFQRNIUjM">shouldn&#8217;t </a></em><a href="https://youtu.be/Jz7VcRfRDAQ?si=OUN0MWuiFQRNIUjM">trust. I know Iran isn&#8217;t exactly the most trustworthy place, but neither is Israel</a>, and Iran kept the &#8220;<a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/node/328996">Obama Iran Nuclear Deal</a>&#8221; with the countries that <em>didn&#8217;t</em> tear up the deal as soon as they changed leadership, like we did.</p><p>Yes, I know, &#8220;we had the deal, and Trump tore it up!&#8221; </p><p><em>That&#8217;s what I just said!</em> </p><p>Does it seem like he does the right things at all the wrong times.</p><h2>War w/ Iran</h2><div class="pullquote"><p>There&#8217;s no fake Kosovo&#8217;s, No Gulf of Tonkin, no 9/11 to place the blame on, the blame will go on you Mr. President, and the neoconservative war hawks that you allowed in your cabinet, and a nation state who has <em>Concern-Trolled </em>us into waring at their behest.</p></div><p>If we end up at war with Iran it will be the biggest stain on Donald Trump&#8217;s legacy, which has been <em>turbulent</em> to say the least, but if he enlists us in another catastrophic war in the Middle East, just like George W. Bush is remembered for the nightmarishly terrible <em>War on Terror</em> in response to 9/11, it will be on page one of the history books for the era of Donald J. Trump. </p><p>They will remember Trump as a president elected with a mandate to Make America <em>Great &amp; Healthy</em> Again, negotiate a peace with the slaughters happening on two fronts, and used his mandate to go to war with a country who didn&#8217;t attack us first!</p><p><strong>There&#8217;s no fake Kosovo&#8217;s, No Gulf of Tonkin, no 9/11 to place the blame on, the blame will go on you Mr. President, and the neoconservative war hawks that you allowed in your cabinet, and a nation state who has Concern-Trolled us into waring at their behest.</strong></p><p>Hey, Israel, Netanyahu, whoever is writing these war plans! How about you write us out of this one and <em>all</em> future conflicts. If you can&#8217;t win without <em>us</em> maybe it&#8217;s a battle you shouldn&#8217;t take.</p><p>Thank you for reading!</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9b39f62-dd60-45ab-af4a-247b927b5511_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;259b6abf-c1b7-4833-91bd-2aa56c839c6b&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> Editor-in-Chief <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:368081,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0713a6ae-3f57-4fdf-8fc7-241d89b85795_768x768.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;a98f008b-6cf5-4d08-a3a5-9807ac63c4ba&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "Nation Under Blackmail" Continues]]></title><description><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Israel, and Blackmail: Is it real?]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-nation-under-blackmail-continues</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-nation-under-blackmail-continues</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 04:02:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsfl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8569e9-9cdd-45c7-aa2a-9f1e6916870f_645x645.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uee_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34bb158d-4fd7-469a-92f2-a6f260022337_350x233.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uee_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34bb158d-4fd7-469a-92f2-a6f260022337_350x233.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uee_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34bb158d-4fd7-469a-92f2-a6f260022337_350x233.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uee_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34bb158d-4fd7-469a-92f2-a6f260022337_350x233.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uee_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34bb158d-4fd7-469a-92f2-a6f260022337_350x233.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uee_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34bb158d-4fd7-469a-92f2-a6f260022337_350x233.jpeg" width="350" height="233" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/34bb158d-4fd7-469a-92f2-a6f260022337_350x233.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:233,&quot;width&quot;:350,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Extortion, Bribery, and Blackmail Crimes in North Carolina | Charlotte  Criminal Defense Lawyer | Browning &amp; Long PLLC&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Extortion, Bribery, and Blackmail Crimes in North Carolina | Charlotte  Criminal Defense Lawyer | Browning &amp; Long PLLC" title="Extortion, Bribery, and Blackmail Crimes in North Carolina | Charlotte  Criminal Defense Lawyer | Browning &amp; Long PLLC" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uee_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34bb158d-4fd7-469a-92f2-a6f260022337_350x233.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uee_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34bb158d-4fd7-469a-92f2-a6f260022337_350x233.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uee_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34bb158d-4fd7-469a-92f2-a6f260022337_350x233.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uee_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34bb158d-4fd7-469a-92f2-a6f260022337_350x233.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>When the Hamas attacks on October 7th took place and the Gaza bombardment thereafter, many people took hard stances on what they believed they were seeing. Those who had an otherwise anti-war stance seemed to become as pro-war as possible when it came to &#8220;avenging the Jews.&#8221; Others doubled down and just the same, another faction who were all in on the war in Ukraine believed there was no way we could support Israel&#8217;s war on Gaza. Some, however, continued a principled stance that all war is wrong. Putin is wrong, Zelenskyy is wrong, Hamas is wrong, Netanyahu is wrong, and Washington is wrong. <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Scott Horton&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:2016908,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/95bb0561-503b-4d83-8304-05f3d5a895f1_4501x4500.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;a1dde076-2afb-4a1b-ae06-f3032d42399f&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> and Dave Smith, come to mind, <em>oh yea, and me. I,</em> come to mind. Hahahaha! <em>Continuing. </em> </p><p>Free speech crusaders on the right created hate speech laws for anyone saying words they deemed as antisemitism, even statements as innocuous as &#8220;from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free&#8221; or suggesting that the bible says, &#8220;Jesus was killed by the Jews.&#8221; Even repeating that here could be subject to those laws. And those censorious souls on the left who shouted down <em>&#8220;Racists!&#8221;</em> Finally got to see what the end game of this censoriousness could lead to. </p><p>And the woke left and woke right came to blows in the marketplace of ideas, right? Nope. One side was shouted down while the other side morally grandstanded as &#8220;The good guys! See, <em>they</em> support terrorists! Unlike us who just give them money, and guns, and anything else they need to complete their mission!&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsfl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8569e9-9cdd-45c7-aa2a-9f1e6916870f_645x645.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsfl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8569e9-9cdd-45c7-aa2a-9f1e6916870f_645x645.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsfl!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8569e9-9cdd-45c7-aa2a-9f1e6916870f_645x645.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsfl!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8569e9-9cdd-45c7-aa2a-9f1e6916870f_645x645.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsfl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8569e9-9cdd-45c7-aa2a-9f1e6916870f_645x645.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsfl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8569e9-9cdd-45c7-aa2a-9f1e6916870f_645x645.jpeg" width="645" height="645" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4a8569e9-9cdd-45c7-aa2a-9f1e6916870f_645x645.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:false,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:645,&quot;width&quot;:645,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:645,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsfl!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8569e9-9cdd-45c7-aa2a-9f1e6916870f_645x645.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsfl!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8569e9-9cdd-45c7-aa2a-9f1e6916870f_645x645.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsfl!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8569e9-9cdd-45c7-aa2a-9f1e6916870f_645x645.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dsfl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8569e9-9cdd-45c7-aa2a-9f1e6916870f_645x645.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>My subject today is Robert F. Kenndy Jr, aka RFK Jr, aka Secretary (HHS) Kennedy aka Bobby Kennedy, a kook, a disinformation artist, a member of the &#8220;Disinformation Dozen&#8221; and none of that led to him abasing himself as a pro war lunatic.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXkBxXnV3dI&amp;pp=ygUWYnJlYWtpbmcgcG9pbnRzIHJmayBqcg%3D%3D">Bobby Kennedy could&#8217;ve been our next president,</a> but after one public debate on Israel his entire campaign was crushed.</p><div id="youtube2-a21TAA9Hak0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;a21TAA9Hak0&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/a21TAA9Hak0?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>He had been so logical and rational when it came to the war in Ukraine. He looked at the facts of the war and could see that NATO expansion had led to an encirclement Russia by NATO leading Putin to believe, whether right or wrong, that his only way out was to invade Ukraine, but when asked about Israel encircling a people of a different geopolitical stature, all logic and rationality seemed to be sucked from the room, leaving you talking to an Israeli military banner or an <a href="https://aipacorg.app.box.com/s/n2wb9genqojtcblb7h0nv1lqfi5ijs03">AIPAC (American-Israel Political Action Committee) Briefing Book</a>. It&#8217;s unbelievable. He <em>actually</em> said on<a href="https://youtu.be/4LWHZDO7tgE?si=--8vmrwlBj1hl3-S&amp;t=1480"> Breaking Points to Krystal Ball</a> that the &#8220;Palestinian people are arguably the most pampered people by International Aid organizations in human history.&#8221; Of course, leaving out that this money goes to Hamas, not them and the leaders of Hamas don&#8217;t even live in Palestine.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p> Leaving out that they are boxed in on <em>all</em> sides by a military blockade. Two million people locked into a 5 x 25-mile rectangle where they are not even allowed to go out far enough into the water to fish and 78% don&#8217;t know where their next meal will come from. In comparison my hometown was this size and probably got the same amount of food, but for 50,000 people, <em>not</em> 2 million, and we thought <em>that</em> was tight. Listen to this exchange:</p><div id="youtube2-4LWHZDO7tgE" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;4LWHZDO7tgE&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;1480&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4LWHZDO7tgE?start=1480&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Robert Kennedy Jr&#8217;s stance on the war on Gaza after October 7th was more shocking to my mind than his stance on vaccines to Peter Hotez and wasn&#8217;t very clear to me until his most recent antics we&#8217;ll get into later.  </p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-nation-under-blackmail-continues?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-nation-under-blackmail-continues?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>But RFK&#8217;s extreme Israel views didn&#8217;t start at October 7th and even though his father&#8217;s alleged killer was a Palestinian, Sirhan Sirhan, this didn&#8217;t lead him to hate Palestinians either. Kennedy wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2021:</p><blockquote><p><em>During a three-hour meeting with him (Sirhan Sirhan) in 2018, I was impressed with the genuineness of Sirhan&#8217;s remorse for his role in my father&#8217;s shooting, even though he has always claimed to have no memory of those moments. Sirhan wept, clenched my hands and asked for forgiveness from me, from my siblings and from my mother for his part in the tragedy. At 77, he seems gentle, humble, kindhearted, frail and harmless.</em></p></blockquote><p>He calls for Sirhan&#8217;s release:</p><blockquote><p><em>My father had a pious Catholic&#8217;s belief in redemption, forgiveness and justice. His favorite quote, from Aeschylus, urged that we should &#8220;tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world.&#8221; By upholding the parole board&#8217;s decision to release Sirhan, Newsom has the opportunity to demonstrate the humanity, compassion and idealism of our justice system to which my father devoted his life.</em></p></blockquote><p>And then goes on to offer an alternative explanation to what happened that night that <em>actually</em> aligns with the evidence because the official story never did. This isn&#8217;t a raging islamophobe, he&#8217;s a smart man who is able to pick apart evidence and see a clear picture. So, how is it possible for him to look at the subjugated people in Palestine and think they are pampered. </p><p>I think, probably that he doesn&#8217;t believe it, but he must create the illusion that he does. </p><p>In a line: Someone has gained <em><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kompromat">kompromat</a>, </em>on him.</p><blockquote><p><em>kom&#183;&#8203;pro&#183;&#8203;mat <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kompromat?pronunciation&amp;lang=en_us&amp;dir=k&amp;file=kompromat">&#712;k&#228;m-pr&#601;-&#716;mat</a></em></p><p><em><strong>: </strong>compromising information that is used to blackmail or discredit a person or group usually for political purposes</em></p></blockquote><p>There has been lots of talk about this<a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/XHJIRWZRjIM?si=HkFxAN7YooL-exym"> lately from people like Candace Owens</a>, <a href="https://x.com/i/status/1905845537204584877">and Ian Carroll</a>, both of whom I love, they believe this Nuzzi Character might have what Whitney Webb wrote about in her books <em>One Nation Under Blackmail vol. one &amp; two</em>, &#8220;Sexual Blackmail,&#8221; on RFK Jr. This Nuzzi character apparently inserted herself into the RFK campaign as a campaign reporter for New York Magazine. Afterwards, it&#8217;s <a href="https://www.status.news/p/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-new-york-magazine">reported by </a><em><a href="https://www.status.news/p/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-new-york-magazine">Status</a></em> that Bobby and this girl Nuzzi had a <em>&#8220;Sexting&#8221;</em> relationship. Candace and Ian and many others I&#8217;m sure, see this as the <em>Kompromat</em> they have on RFK jr, but that&#8217;s all out. It&#8217;s <em>been</em> out, but Bobby seems to be a somewhat overly sexual guy, I mean, maybe there&#8217;s more on him. There&#8217;s absolutely still <em>something</em> going on. Truly ugly, Cheryl Hines, Bobby&#8217;s wife, is beautiful, seems like a beautiful person. It&#8217;s already bad enough, to think there must be <em>more</em> is horrific to say the least. What the fuck is going on here? </p><p>So, I paid close attention to RFK Jr&#8217;s presidential campaign, since it became a campaign. I believed I might have voted for the guy. </p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-nation-under-blackmail-continues?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-nation-under-blackmail-continues?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>This was before October 7th happened, the only thing I knew about Israel was the reporting from those who have made this <em>their</em> most animating issues like Max Blumenthal and Abby Martin, both of whom I am a fan of, so I heard the terrible stories of oppression and senseless killing that the Israelis had subjected the Palestinians to, but I didn&#8217;t know much else. I didn&#8217;t even know Israel was the <em>&#8220;Jewish State.&#8221;</em>  I was completely clueless!</p><p>Then, July 15th, 2023, <em><a href="https://youtu.be/MHyHQiKS3f0?si=Hd381ZB4C2kqXJGF">this</a></em><a href="https://youtu.be/MHyHQiKS3f0?si=Hd381ZB4C2kqXJGF"> leaked video</a> comes out of the New York Post:</p><div id="youtube2-MHyHQiKS3f0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;MHyHQiKS3f0&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/MHyHQiKS3f0?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>If the video doesn&#8217;t work, here&#8217;s what he said:</p><blockquote><p>RFK Jr<strong>:</strong> &#8220;[a]nd we need to talk about bioweapons. The level &#8212; I know a lot now about bioweapons because I've been doing a book on it for the past two and a half years. And, um you know the technology that we now have to develop these microbe(s) &#8212; we have &#8212; we've put hundreds of millions of dollars into ethnically targeted microbes. The Chinese have done the same thing. In fact, COVID-19, there's an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. The races that are most immune to COVID-19 are, because of the &#8212; of the structure &#8212; of the genetic structure, um the &#8220;genetic differentials&#8221; among different races of the, um, of the receptors &#8212; of the H2 receptors. Um, COVID-19 is targeted to attack, uh, Caucasians and, uh, and black people.</p><p>&#8220;The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and, uh, and Chinese. We don&#8217;t know if it was deliberately targeted at that or not, but there are papers out there that show the racial and ethnic differential and the impact to that. We <em>do</em> know the Chinese are spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons and <em>we</em> are developing ethnic bioweapons. That's what all of those labs in the Ukraine did are about, they&#8217;re collecting Russian DNA, they're collecting Chinese DNA, so that we can Target people by race&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>So, this was a huge deal when it came out. Because right around this time he started being regarded by the people on the right as someone whose campaign would steal votes from Donald Trump, and the left never stopped hating him, so at this time he started being regarded as an antisemite. What they translated this leaked audio into was he was saying that the Jews created COVID-19. Following this he was branded <em>&#8220;Antisemite of the Week&#8221;, </em>by &#8212; I believe &#8212; the Anti-Defamation League, not a nice label to have placed against you. Especially from a &#8220;league&#8221; against &#8220;defamation.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://www.newsweek.com/rfkjr-branded-anti-semite-week-jewish-watchdog-1814901" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4kSY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77b91839-3d1c-470c-81c7-53a8d76e1575_1124x181.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4kSY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77b91839-3d1c-470c-81c7-53a8d76e1575_1124x181.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4kSY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77b91839-3d1c-470c-81c7-53a8d76e1575_1124x181.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4kSY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77b91839-3d1c-470c-81c7-53a8d76e1575_1124x181.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4kSY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77b91839-3d1c-470c-81c7-53a8d76e1575_1124x181.png" width="1124" height="181" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/77b91839-3d1c-470c-81c7-53a8d76e1575_1124x181.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:181,&quot;width&quot;:1124,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:23894,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://www.newsweek.com/rfkjr-branded-anti-semite-week-jewish-watchdog-1814901&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/i/160954753?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77b91839-3d1c-470c-81c7-53a8d76e1575_1124x181.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4kSY!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77b91839-3d1c-470c-81c7-53a8d76e1575_1124x181.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4kSY!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77b91839-3d1c-470c-81c7-53a8d76e1575_1124x181.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4kSY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77b91839-3d1c-470c-81c7-53a8d76e1575_1124x181.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4kSY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77b91839-3d1c-470c-81c7-53a8d76e1575_1124x181.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p> That same week they even tried to censor his censorship hearing in front of the <em>&#8220;Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee&#8221;</em> in Congress. </p><div id="youtube2-tD-7rZAlKcA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;tD-7rZAlKcA&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/tD-7rZAlKcA?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Many of my fellow Democrats, I&#8217;ve spent my life in this party. I&#8217;ve devoted my life to the values of this party,&#8221; Kennedy, who is challenging President Biden for the 2024 Democratic nomination, told panel members in his opening statement. </em></p><p><em>&#8220;This itself is evidence of the problem that this hearing was convened to address,&#8221; he said, holding up the letter against him led by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) and Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.). &#8220;This is an attempt to censor a censorship hearing.&#8221; </em></p><p><em>&#8220;Censorship is antithetical to our party,&#8221; Kennedy added. &#8220;It was appalling to my father [former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy], my uncle [former President John F. Kennedy], [former President] F[ranklin] D[elano] R[oosevelt], [former President] Harry Truman to [former President] Thomas Jefferson.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>From here Bobby Kennedy immediately started running interference to dispel these claims by doing a bunch of events with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. The following says in the description that it is in response to these accusations:</p><div id="youtube2-C5e-Maq_q7E" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;C5e-Maq_q7E&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/C5e-Maq_q7E?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Now, I don&#8217;t know if this became an &#8216;I owe ya one&#8217; type thing but from this moment there has been a relentless number of blows to the principles of RFK jr in the name of Israel, but make no mistake this became the beginning of the end of the reputation of RFK jr. </p><h2>Bobby Kennedy&#8217;s Post-October 7th Mania</h2><p>Scrolling through the articles written on him in July of 2023 attacking him as an antisemite I now think <em>that</em> was what they had on him. It was insane. Everyone from the Atlantic to the New York Post, schoolteachers to congressman/woman were attacking him as a Jew-hating demon. I mean <em>&#8220;Antisemite of the Week&#8221;! Sheesh!</em> So, when October 7th happened it was easy to see how he compromised his principles as the guy who looks at both sides of a conflict to understand what is actually happening, but no doubt, this totally derailed his campaign. The same peace-loving people who oppose war at all costs are the same people who were his biggest supporters. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jyvj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c452502-900d-409b-95c9-5e963175e8a6_646x391.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jyvj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c452502-900d-409b-95c9-5e963175e8a6_646x391.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jyvj!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7c452502-900d-409b-95c9-5e963175e8a6_646x391.png 848w, 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Longtime friend of the Kennedy, antiwar activist, author, and former Rep. of the 7th District of Ohio, Dennis Kucinich &#8212; who was the only &#8220;No&#8221; vote of the House against the &#8220;War in Iraq&#8221; in 2003 &#8212; resigned as RFK&#8217;s campaign manager, almost immediately after Kennedy&#8217;s statements on October 7th on X and in the interviews listed earlier. Other reasons were given but he <em>is</em> a known critic of the war against Gaza, and it literally took place in the week following the attack on October 7th. And Bobby Kennedy was very clear where he stood, posting <a href="https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1710689115522371772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1710689115522371772%7Ctwgr%5E363438805da0873bd315ebd894fec0561c635004%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fcornel-west-rfk-jr-very-different-messages-israel-attacks-1832924">the following on X </a>later that day after the attack on Israel:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1710689115522371772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1710689115522371772%7Ctwgr%5E2bd664d69ac5adc87789681f7ecd0da31d786860%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fcornel-west-rfk-jr-very-different-messages-israel-attacks-1832924" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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We must provide Israel with whatever it needs to defend itself&#8212;now.</em></p><p><em>As President, I'll make sure that our policy is unambiguous so that the enemies of Israel will think long and hard before attempting aggression of any kind. I applaud the strong statements of support from the Biden White House for Israel in her hour of need.</em></p><p><em>However, the scale of these attacks means it is likely that Israel will need to wage a sustained military campaign to protect its citizens. Statements of support are fine, but we must follow through with unwavering, resolute, and practical action. America must stand by our ally throughout this operation and beyond as it exercises its sovereign right to self-defense.</em></p></blockquote><p>All this aside, it seemed like hope had been returned for Bobby when he dropped out, put his endorsement behind Trump, and joined the campaign.</p><p>Then, Trump won. Bobby was elected to the Secretary for Health and Human Services! I thought, &#8220;Hey, that&#8217;s something, right?&#8221;</p><p>This was a magnificent turn of events. Here is somewhere Bobby Kennedy is needed. Helping out in the health of the American people. This is where he <em>actually</em> has some experience. Getting the corruption <em>out</em> of the health system!</p><p>This is the guy who restored the Hudson River from a toxic waterway to a large source of North American drinking water! </p><p>He took on Monsanto, who was giving people Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma with their product Round-up.</p><p>And what an excellent slogan, <em>&#8220;Make America Healthy Again!&#8221;</em></p><p>Yes! I wanna be healthy! Everyone wants to be healthy! Now, we&#8217;re gonna be &#8220;Healthy AGAIN!&#8221;</p><p>So, he&#8217;s had a couple months in there. What&#8217;s he gotten done? SWAT Teamed McDonald's? <a href="https://youtu.be/meimv0Mfb1c?si=53XIgBAvlaLm46o5&amp;t=2619">Invade Steak N&#8217; Shake like Tim Dillon suggested</a>? More vigorous safety control testing of vaccines and pharmaceuticals? Are vaccine makers still getting a blanket immunity from compensation with taxpayers flipping the bill when damages <em>do</em> make it to settlement? Secretary Kennedy, what <em>are </em>you getting done? Are we <em>Making America Healthy Again?</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1896722453189034130?t=tYvtJMBwWo2T4oAb-Ei3Rw&amp;s=03" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aWT4!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28686477-e22d-4d9f-9aad-140e788c9a8d_599x457.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aWT4!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28686477-e22d-4d9f-9aad-140e788c9a8d_599x457.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aWT4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28686477-e22d-4d9f-9aad-140e788c9a8d_599x457.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aWT4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28686477-e22d-4d9f-9aad-140e788c9a8d_599x457.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aWT4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28686477-e22d-4d9f-9aad-140e788c9a8d_599x457.png" width="599" height="457" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/28686477-e22d-4d9f-9aad-140e788c9a8d_599x457.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:457,&quot;width&quot;:599,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:45095,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1896722453189034130?t=tYvtJMBwWo2T4oAb-Ei3Rw&amp;s=03&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/i/160954753?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28686477-e22d-4d9f-9aad-140e788c9a8d_599x457.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aWT4!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28686477-e22d-4d9f-9aad-140e788c9a8d_599x457.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aWT4!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28686477-e22d-4d9f-9aad-140e788c9a8d_599x457.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aWT4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28686477-e22d-4d9f-9aad-140e788c9a8d_599x457.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aWT4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F28686477-e22d-4d9f-9aad-140e788c9a8d_599x457.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p><em>Anti-Semitism &#8211; like racism &#8211; is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history&#8217;s most deadly plagues. In recent years, the censorship and false narratives of woke cancel culture have transformed our great universities into greenhouses for this deadly and virulent pestilence. Making America healthy means building communities of trust and mutual respect, based on speech freedom and open debate. </em></p><p><em><a href="https://t.co/ZdQg6bXWCN">https://hhs.gov/about/news/2025/03/03/hhs-ed-gsa-announce-additional-measures-end-anti-semitic-harassment-college-campuses.html</a></em></p></blockquote><p>Hmm&#8230; That doesn&#8217;t seem to be within the purview of the <em>Department of Health and Human Services.</em> </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://x.com/seckennedy/status/1904259440544743427" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WM9u!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1faa826-1191-4655-86f8-6456043eac77_596x393.png 424w, 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Ivy league campuses became a greenhouse for poison. President Trump has ordered his cabinet to use every constitutional tool to uproot this divisive weed. I&#8217;m glad Columbia has agreed to this first step and will begin to restore itself as a garden of tolerance, reason, compassion, and respect.</em></p><p><em><a href="https://hhs.gov/about/news/columbia-comply-anti-semitism-task-force-preconditions-met.html">Learn more</a></em><a href="https://hhs.gov/about/news/columbia-comply-anti-semitism-task-force-preconditions-met.html"> </a></p></blockquote><p>Oh, <em>shit!</em> This motherfucker&#8217;s compromised! There&#8217;s <em>not</em> a chance he isn&#8217;t. That&#8217;s the only thing that makes sense.</p><p><em>Proof? </em>Of course I have no solid proof of this. If that was the case it wouldn&#8217;t be blackmail, it&#8217;d be <em>information.</em></p><p>Maybe it&#8217;ll turn up in a declassified document dump, or a new book down the road, that&#8217;s how things normally get uncovered, eventually <em>everything</em> comes to light, even the death of his uncle. No one their heart still believes that official story. But somehow Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been compromised. Even his friends are saying it!</p><div id="youtube2-VB38ZJAeYhA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;VB38ZJAeYhA&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/VB38ZJAeYhA?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div id="youtube2-Ms1p_WDJunA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Ms1p_WDJunA&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Ms1p_WDJunA?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>I don&#8217;t know what they have on him, but it <em>must </em>be something good. And by <em>&#8220;they&#8221;</em> I mean&#8230; You know who I mean&#8230;&#128127;&#128127;&#128127; </p><p>Thank you for reading, this is as light-hearted as it gets.</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9b39f62-dd60-45ab-af4a-247b927b5511_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;9348c85e-1a24-44ff-ab89-cdde20a17e4b&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> Editor-in-Chief <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:368081,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0713a6ae-3f57-4fdf-8fc7-241d89b85795_768x768.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;0f6ea7c0-ca01-4e84-ac88-8a36a46fc3d2&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p><p>Have a great Easter weekend!</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Douglas Murray vs Dave Smith Breakdown Part Two: How Our Intellectual Class Has Crumbled ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Wolfowitz is antisemitic and "you haven't bean there" debate]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/douglas-murray-vs-dave-smith-breakdown</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/douglas-murray-vs-dave-smith-breakdown</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 01:18:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/Ah6kirkSwTg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="youtube2-Ah6kirkSwTg" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Ah6kirkSwTg&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Ah6kirkSwTg?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h2>Douglas Muray vs Dave Smith Part Two (because part one was getting too long)</h2><h3>Murray has become another unfortunate &#8220;Institutionalized&#8221; Soul, God help him.</h3><p>This is Douglas Murray's Sam Harris moment. It is absolutely clear here that Douglas Murray not only does not care about finding the truth in these issues, but he has also been driven mad by the idea that someone might have a different perspective than him.<a href="https://youtu.be/ijJwqR7RBmc?si=UCuFHcEFQPLako93"> Sam Harris has also attacked Dave Smith</a> for opposing war. </p><p>Douglas Murray cares about protecting institutions, unfortunately, we&#8217;ve lost another one. He&#8217;s become <em>institutionalized.</em></p><p>I&#8217;ve said it before, I&#8217;ll say it again. Used to be that when someone spent too much time in prison they would become &#8220;Institutionalized&#8221;, like they would get so use to life inside, they would forget how to live outside. </p><p>Now, that our institutions of intellect have crumbled, those who have spent their entire careers with them to lean on, like a crutch, they don&#8217;t know what to do except defend these institutions like they are still alive, and they can use the credentials they allotted to them to win any argument. </p><p>That time is gone. And these people must realize the present. We <em>all</em> have a voice now. Information is at our fingertips, and they can no longer lie to us again.</p><p>Mr. Murray, it seems, is one of these poor institutionalized souls, but he can make it out. I just hope he sees the light because he <em>is</em> a valuable voice, I believe, but maybe not. We&#8217;ll see. Now we continue&#8230;</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/douglas-murray-vs-dave-smith-breakdown?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/douglas-murray-vs-dave-smith-breakdown?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>There&#8217;s a moment in here where he talks about &#8220;Punching jelly&#8221; that is simply bullshit. &#8220;You&#8217;re a podcaster, but you talk about history, you&#8217;re not a historian&#8230;&#8221; It is unreal stupidity! He would like no one to have an opinion that doesn&#8217;t have a degree in the field they are talking about.</p><p>Dave asks him, &#8220;are you an expert?&#8221; </p><p>He says, &#8220;I have expertise in some things.&#8221; </p><div><hr></div><p>Let&#8217;s look at his expertise&#8230; Okay, so he&#8217;s written many books on many topics. This is what hurts me about this, he has written many excellent books on many topics that he had zero expertise in. His website <a href="https://douglasmurray.net/about/">douglasmurray.net</a> lists his education was an undergraduate at Oxford which I&#8217;m sure is very good. </p><p>When it came down to it, he has a bachelor&#8217;s degree in English.</p><p>He founded a think tank on terrorism and extremism:</p><blockquote><p><em>In 2007 he founded the Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC), the first think-tank in Britain to study extremism and terrorism. The CSC subsequently became part of the Henry Jackson Society, where Murray held the position of Associate Director from 2011 to 2018.</em></p></blockquote><p>He also wrote a book defending <em>neoconservatism</em> which therein is where the rubber meets the road:</p><blockquote><p><em>In 2005 Murray published</em> <em><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism:_Why_We_Need_It">Neoconservatism, a history and defence of neoconservative thought</a></strong></em>. <em>Reviewing the book in Asharq al-Awsat, Amir Taheri wrote &#8216;Whether one agrees with him or not Murray has made a valuable contribution to the global battle of ideas.&#8217; On publication of the US edition (2006) Christopher Hitchens wrote of his review of Murray&#8217;s &#8216;masterly&#8217; first book and his own review of it in the New York Review of Books: &#8216;There are not many occasions when a grizzled hack like myself can mark the emergence of a fresh new author who bears watching, but this was indubitably one of them.&#8217; In praising Murray&#8217;s Neoconservatism book Hitchens noted that &#8216;It is highly encouraging to find someone youthful, defiant and principled who can both write and think at the same time.&#8217;</em></p></blockquote><p>This is probably what I find the most detestable. I can see it now. The guys a fucking neocon. The neocons have shapeshifted through history to whoever is in power all the way up to most recently taking sides with Kamala Harris when they thought she would win.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/douglas-murray-vs-dave-smith-breakdown?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/douglas-murray-vs-dave-smith-breakdown?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>The Very Semitic Argument Against Wolfowitz</h2><p>So, now I understand his Paul Wolfowitz take. He made this same argument on Lex Fridman too that if you blame the wars on Paul Wolfowitz, &#8220;it&#8217;s because you are antisemitic.&#8221; He&#8217;s defending Wolfowitz, not Jewish people. We can definitely blame the Iraq War at least partly on Wolfowitz and his religion has <em>nothing </em>to do with it. </p><p>Okay here is the Wolfowitz bit on the JRE:</p><div id="youtube2-Ah6kirkSwTg" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Ah6kirkSwTg&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;9615&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Ah6kirkSwTg?start=9615&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>And here it is on the Lex Fridman Podcast:</p><div id="youtube2-HvI42TyE5Ww" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;HvI42TyE5Ww&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;7618&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HvI42TyE5Ww?start=7618&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Boy is that a strawman if I&#8217;ve ever heard on. He thinks we can&#8217;t look this shit up for ourselves. So, lemme explain the semitic argument against Paul Wolfowitz:</p><p>By the way, Paul Wolfowitz left his position as the Under Secretary of Defense to Donald Rumsfeld to be <em><strong>The 10th President of the World Bank</strong></em> according to the <a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/archive/history/past-presidents/paul-dundes-wolfowitz">WorldBank.org</a>. After he completed his goal in the Bush administration? Maybe. The World Bank also says:</p><blockquote><p><em>Prior to his arrival at the Bank Wolfowitz held a number of increasingly important positions in the U.S. government, including State Department Director of Policy Planning (1981-1982), **((<strong>During the Iran-Contra Affair))**</strong> Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1982-1986), Ambassador to Indonesia (1986-1989), Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (1989-1993)<strong>**((Iraq War I))**</strong> and Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001-2005)<strong>**((Iraq War II))**</strong>. Between 1994 and 2001 he was Dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.</em></p></blockquote><p>Okay, so it&#8217;s worse than I thought. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051024060117/http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/041101fa_fact">Here&#8217;s the New Yorker, </a>who was also employing <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/seymourhersh">Seymour Hersh</a> at this time, who the very next year broke the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120101055751/http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/05/17/040517fa_fact2?currentPage=all">Abu Ghraib story</a> the next year. If you don&#8217;t remember that was the secret torture prisons run the CIA and United States Military and here is what the New Yorker had to say about Paul:</p><blockquote><p><em>The previous afternoon, as Wolfowitz was preparing to board his plane at Andrews Air Force Base, an aide had handed him a report containing some vexing news. Wolfowitz&#8217;s boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, had just delivered a speech in New York and, in a question-and-answer exchange afterward, had declared that he had not seen any &#8220;strong, hard evidence&#8221; linking Al Qaeda with Saddam Hussein&#8217;s regime. Rumsfeld&#8217;s unexpected remark&#8212;undercutting one of the Administration&#8217;s principal arguments for going to war&#8212;had already prompted press inquiries at the Pentagon, suggesting a bad news cycle ahead. Meanwhile, the Washington Post was preparing to report that L. Paul Bremer, the former administrator of the American-led occupation of Iraq, had faulted the U.S. postwar plan for lacking sufficient troops to provide security&#8212;affirming a principal contention of the Administration&#8217;s critics. In addition, the government&#8217;s Iraq Survey Group, headed by Charles Duelfer, was about to release a final report on the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; already the report&#8217;s substance was being summed up in headlines as &#8220;report discounts iraqi arms threat.&#8221; And the Times had learned of a new C.I.A. assessment casting doubt on links between the Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Saddam&#8217;s regime&#8212;undermining yet another of the Administration&#8217;s rationales for the war.</em></p><p><em>Wolfowitz has been a major architect of President Bush&#8217;s Iraq policy and, within the Administration, its most passionate and compelling advocate. His long career as a diplomat, strategist, and policymaker will be measured by this policy, and, more immediately, the President he serves may not be returned to office because of it. The Administration had been divided over Iraq from the start, and new fissures seemed to be appearing.</em></p></blockquote><p>Later in the article it says:</p><blockquote><p>This grand idea of liberalizing the Middle East one country at a time, beginning with Iraq, was associated particularly with Wolfowitz. The State Department was, and is, skeptical, and it is said that Rumsfeld harbored doubts as well.</p></blockquote><p>But let&#8217;s not just listen to the New Yorker.</p><p>Here is Four Star General Wesley Clark, famously, said to Democracy Now, in a live event that the Bush Administration had been planning to overthrow seven countries in five years, here is that clip:</p><div id="youtube2-fAnNJW9_KYA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;fAnNJW9_KYA&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fAnNJW9_KYA?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Here he is again. On National Geographic:</p><div id="youtube2-UcWs4TFSjrY" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;UcWs4TFSjrY&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/UcWs4TFSjrY?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>And if that isn&#8217;t enough, here he is again. This year, in a debate against the great historian <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Scott Horton&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:2016908,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/95bb0561-503b-4d83-8304-05f3d5a895f1_4501x4500.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;812c9f4c-ec44-4959-bc1d-a20631394275&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> on Piers Morgan uncensored:</p><div id="youtube2-gPwqDGnTMuc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;gPwqDGnTMuc&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;836&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/gPwqDGnTMuc?start=836&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>So, this is the power of the moment we are in. </p><p>People, like Douglas Murray, can make these assertions, but we can look at the facts of what really happened. </p><p>What really happened is the Neoconservatives took power in the White House three times. Once when Nixon was in office, and when both Bushes were in office. It seems they are there again. Mike Waltz was Dick Cheney&#8217;s Director of Counterterrorism. Maybe that&#8217;s nothing, but it seems like something. </p><p>But, back to Douglas, I&#8217;m not done. Now for:</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/douglas-murray-vs-dave-smith-breakdown?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/douglas-murray-vs-dave-smith-breakdown?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2>&#8220;You Haven&#8217;t Bean There?&#8221;</h2><div id="youtube2-Ah6kirkSwTg" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Ah6kirkSwTg&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;6212&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Ah6kirkSwTg?start=6212&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>So, Douglas Murray as he is arguing that the people of Gaza are facing &#8220;No deficit&#8221; and they are receiving <em>all</em> their aid Douglas says, &#8220;Have you bean to the crossing points?&#8221;</p><p>Dave answers very sincerely, &#8220;No.&#8221;</p><p>Douglas&#8217;s eyes bulge, he thinks he has him, he says, <em>&#8220;No!?!?!&#8221;</em></p><p>Dave, bemused yet jovial, says, &#8220;What? So, I can&#8217;t have an opinion on this?&#8221;</p><p>Doug says, &#8220;Yes, but you should at least visit.&#8221;</p><p>Lots of his <em>institutionalized</em> fellows also thought this was a good point, but you know who didn&#8217;t Douglas Murray! Let&#8217;s roll the film:</p><div id="youtube2-HLbVGMyGZ9A" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;HLbVGMyGZ9A&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;57&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HLbVGMyGZ9A?start=57&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Here&#8217;s the original video, it was Douglas&#8217;s first appearance on Lex Fridman and his reaction was, &#8220;Fuck you. I really resent that form of argumentation, <em>really</em> resent it.&#8221;</p><p><em>&#8220;I have the right to talk about whatever the hell i want and no one's gonna stop me or try to intimidate.&#8221;</em></p><div id="youtube2-EG7I6Bt_NZY" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;EG7I6Bt_NZY&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;1621&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EG7I6Bt_NZY?start=1621&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Should I continue. I think those two videos make this argument better than I ever could. God, I love the internet.</p><p>I&#8217;m gonna skip all the people who <em>had</em> been there in the past who were used to sell the conflicts to the public. Because Jeffrey Goldberg and Judith Miller <em>had</em> been there and were used in support of the war, but <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Seymour Hersh&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:3455155,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9bbe858d-9ba2-49fc-a3d0-8ce15f53d936_144x144.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;57f74e70-5f1a-4db7-b082-ac6de992d600&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> and <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Chris Hedges&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:2166502,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F928bedc8-d771-47c6-b8a9-6cb3cb4862c6_4000x5673.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;24575c89-2b32-4e8e-9b6f-e3fd27d39f88&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> were there too. They very much represented the truth and always have. So, I&#8217;ll move on to&#8230;</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/douglas-murray-vs-dave-smith-breakdown?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/douglas-murray-vs-dave-smith-breakdown?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h1>The Response</h1><p>The response was deafening. I&#8217;m not even going to X. It&#8217;s Baaaaad over there, but the YouTube comment responses were the best and reverberated all across YouTube into every channel and show close to this.</p><p>These screenshots tell it <em>all:</em></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/48895c9d-810e-4fba-aefc-4cb991bccb96_844x110.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5158a438-2fb4-457b-8cff-7184c4a0df05_527x187.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cde8f1f5-39f2-43d4-8ca2-9bce72d53202_832x99.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8df2d9c0-5e16-459b-9b7b-6977a7dffc1d_598x102.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/41ed2e84-1971-4cab-ad73-6b4040d9ba49_624x109.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a396c5e2-7567-4647-8425-79f76528c136_556x196.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bf9b6b7a-3a69-446e-b092-0a74bc6902bc_845x120.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9345409e-6e82-46a5-8e02-810cc3a9e7d7_504x99.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7c94fd56-46e5-426d-9da7-32a0632be00d_527x96.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;These were from Murray's first and second appearance on the Lex Fridman Podcast&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/950475dc-8d4a-4f7d-899b-0a196d4d81e6_1456x1454.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>Now let&#8217;s get a little closer here&#8217;s just the beginning of the comments on the <em><a href="https://youtu.be/hv3CRo06VRk?si=G907NY5gOOMe4nX7">Duncan Trussel Family Hour</a> w/ </em><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Darryl Cooper&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:12413471,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97736ad9-c186-4380-be10-e95633241cbb_657x538.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;1c6203f3-d436-4e0d-ac19-e6fd5164328b&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>:</p><div 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from this podcast:</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;The devil moves in crowds; God speaks to us individually.&#8221;</p><p>&#8212;Darryl Cooper</p></div><p>Here&#8217;s <a href="https://youtu.be/9j6rvTrC6LQ?si=kcct8Ai9u3eQX064">Sky News Australia where Douglas talked about the debate</a>, here is the <em>Top Comments:</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ByGD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8c377e7-fc9d-4903-bf77-a1a1334ed0b4_859x673.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ByGD!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8c377e7-fc9d-4903-bf77-a1a1334ed0b4_859x673.png 424w, 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Where he contributes weekly! The &#8216;Top Five&#8217; comments!</p><p>Now for the Joe Rogan Experience comments:</p><p>(Top seven or eight, look at the number of likes on these comments)</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!elLr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F581240b9-73ef-404e-aea2-abdb1f061bc0_584x254.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!elLr!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F581240b9-73ef-404e-aea2-abdb1f061bc0_584x254.png 424w, 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data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ff6433ca-b2b1-4de9-b8bd-fce8696737b7_853x481.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/92f1e82a-e084-4ee7-aa65-d2e1f9b2c026_824x509.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5af38665-d85f-4377-af46-29f141d4b9a7_806x435.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eccd6826-4ff1-438f-8103-c18fcfa459db_866x458.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/779d86d4-4152-4e09-83b9-d8ba43c75723_863x444.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f31b5d0b-8c0b-48e4-ab45-ee3995d4c149_520x445.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/685e0335-14ae-4c53-a953-96ef2e4cc11e_717x414.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d3f6e870-5e83-4fd2-9425-fac34518f748_821x384.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/47da1d7a-3373-4a5d-828a-24c28ef856f3_817x458.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;These are the best comments ever!!!&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c0eef0dd-78ed-44ae-aec2-a766a7067fb4_1456x1454.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>So, who won? You decide. It&#8217;s honestly how you feel about the subject. Should people be allowed to express opinions that might be wrong without an &#8220;expert&#8221; in the room? I&#8217;m sure 99.8% of Americans have the same opinion on that. That 0.2% leftover are supporters of Hitler (probably). </p><p>One more thing I <em>must</em> address, that one of the comments reminded me of.</p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">The Freedom Manifesto is a reader-supported publication. Please Subscribe. We Need Some Engagement. Not Just to Grow, but to Expand the Views Expressed here. <em><strong>WE. WANT. YOU. That worked for Uncle Sam, and we are much more intellectually honest than he EVER was. Please Subscribe.</strong></em> </p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h2>Why Say &#8220;We&#8221; You Weren&#8217;t Fighting Any Wars</h2><p>I&#8217;m from a lower-class neighborhood. Joining the military was the only way out for a lot of my peers, loved ones, and peers who are loved ones. </p><p>The &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; very much <em>was</em> part of my upbringing and many of those I grew up with went to fight these terrible wars and some of them didn&#8217;t make it home. So, to say to him &#8220;You care a lot about these wars.&#8221; Yes, we do. We care <em><strong>a lot</strong></em> about our government sending our friends and family to fight wars that were based on lies. We care <em><strong>a lot</strong></em> about our tax dollars that we slave for everyday being used to kill innocent people. </p><p>And we care <em><strong>a lot</strong></em> about our freedom to say <em>whatever</em> we want, to whoever we want, however we want.</p><p>And we believe that right can&#8217;t be taken away. It is an inviolable right that was given to us as a package deal that came with our souls, and we will <em>never</em> be silent when an issue touches our hearts, our family, our friends, or our pocketbooks, and <em>no one </em>is gonna tell us otherwise.</p><p>Thank you for reading. This has been a production of <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:368081,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0713a6ae-3f57-4fdf-8fc7-241d89b85795_768x768.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;da6dbdb7-656b-4fdb-aa33-e24fb194f9a3&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>.</p><p>This is <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9b39f62-dd60-45ab-af4a-247b927b5511_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;9a12fcd5-812a-4ed1-bc0e-969117a78aa0&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, Editor-in-Chief. Checking out. </p><p>Goodnight, all.  </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[My, How the Mighty Have Fallen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Watching the Douglas Murray vs Dave Smith JRE Episode so you don't have to. However, you probably should so you can say you have "Bean" there.]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/my-how-the-mighty-have-fallen</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/my-how-the-mighty-have-fallen</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:58:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/Ah6kirkSwTg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><hr></div><p><em>Edit: Apparently every historian agrees that Hitler applied his antisemitism pragmatically to avoid national outrage. 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KBCt!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F440ffb37-e4a4-47d5-be34-0a4d91512060_1018x756.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KBCt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F440ffb37-e4a4-47d5-be34-0a4d91512060_1018x756.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KBCt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F440ffb37-e4a4-47d5-be34-0a4d91512060_1018x756.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>Courtesy of Author and Historian, <a href="https://t.co/lBch8rIeVo">Dave Benner, Nemesis of Neocons on X.</a></em></p><div><hr></div><p>Let me just start out by saying it&#8217;s kind of &#8220;weird&#8221; to talk about fishing for &#8220;algorithm hits&#8221; when you&#8217;re cover piece for the NY POST that I&#8217;ve listened to you brag about on two different podcasts now &#8212; &#8220;it was a picture of Vladimir Putin and said, &#8216;Mr. President, THIS is a dictator&#8217;&#8221; &#8212; like you&#8217;d said something truly <em>illuminating </em>and then follow that with &#8212;<a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/20/opinion/putin-is-the-dictator-and-10-ukraine-russia-war-truths-we-ignore-at-our-peril/"> I shit you not &#8212; a top 10 list of facts about Russia-Ukraine that </a><em><a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/20/opinion/putin-is-the-dictator-and-10-ukraine-russia-war-truths-we-ignore-at-our-peril/">everybody knows,</a></em> and you could&#8217;ve farmed from Wikipedia. Yes, we get it, Putin is a dictator. Thank you for your Rachel Maddow-esque take. </p><div id="youtube2-Ah6kirkSwTg" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Ah6kirkSwTg&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Ah6kirkSwTg?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>This will be a live blog of the Joe Rogan Experience #2303 &#8212; Dave Smith vs Douglas Murray and I am seven minutes in and outraged.</p><div><hr></div><p><em><strong>Please Subscribe!</strong></em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/my-how-the-mighty-have-fallen?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/my-how-the-mighty-have-fallen?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>Douglas starts in on Joe at <a href="https://youtu.be/Ah6kirkSwTg?si=U58rhl5MfzAci4Z9&amp;t=80">one minute and twenty seconds:</a></p><p>Murray: Can I ask you something? </p><p>Joe: Yes sir. </p><p>Murray: since the war in Israel began, and since the war in Ukraine began you've had quite a lot of people who are very against both in different ways </p><p>Joe: Yes. </p><p>Murray: Do you think you've had enough people on who are supportive of either war? </p><p>Joe: I don't know that word &#8220;enough&#8221;, I don&#8217;t know if that's a good word&#8212; </p><p>Murray: &#8212;um, let's say, on let's say enough people who are on the side of Israel instead of wild critics of Israel. </p><p>Joe: Well, I've had a few, I mean I believe Gad Sad is on the side of Israel, um for sure Jordan (Peterson) is on the side of Israel, um&#8212; </p><p>Dave: &#8212;you had Mike Baker, Coleman Hughes&#8212;</p><p>Murray: &#8212;Coleman &#8220;did it&#8221; for like 20 minutes, it wasn't why he was here&#8212;</p><div><hr></div><p><em>&#8220;Did it&#8221; What is this &#8220;did it?&#8221; Like it&#8217;s a required exercise to spout a certain amount of your views on a thing. What does that mean?  </em></p><div><hr></div><p>Joe: &#8212;no. I mean none of them&#8212;none of them is why they're here, you know, it's a good question. </p><p>Murray: Do you think you've tilted one way? </p><p>Joe: Um&#8230; Me personally, no, just with the guests, the guests yeah probably more tilted towards the idea that perhaps the way they've done it is <em>barbaric.</em> </p><p>Murray <em>(makes a slimy): </em>Mhm, but why do you think that is? Just out of interest in your selection of guests, because you're like the world's number one podcast. </p><p>Joe: Yeah, it's not, I don't&#8212;I don't think about it that way. I just think, I'd like to talk to this person&#8212; </p><p>Murray: &#8212;but can I just&#8212;Sorry it's your show&#8212;</p><p>Joe <em>(ever graceful):</em> Sure. </p><p>Murray: If you're going to interview historians of the conflict or historians in general, why would you get somebody like Ian Carrol or&#8212; </p><p>Joe: Yeah, but Ian Carrol, I didn't bring him on for that purpose. I brought him on because I want to find out like, how's one gets involved in the whole conspiracy theory business cuz his whole thing is <em>just</em> conspiracies, you know. </p><div><hr></div><p><em>I&#8217;m getting viscerally angry just going through these words. Joe, bless his heart, has Ian Carrol wrong. Ian Carroll is an Independent Journalist. He looks at subjects that are considered conspiracy and uncovers the truth in them. Provides the evidence and lets you decide for yourself, which is what I like to believe I&#8217;m doing here. If you don&#8217;t know who Ian Carrol is, he did these presentations at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@oldstatesaloon">Old State Saloon</a>, here, put this on pause and watch these, they disrupted my view of the world:</em> </p><div id="youtube2-xv0B-9DWYu0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;xv0B-9DWYu0&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xv0B-9DWYu0?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div id="youtube2-saCWtkWgSzs" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;saCWtkWgSzs&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/saCWtkWgSzs?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div id="youtube2-75iJi6omNZw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;75iJi6omNZw&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/75iJi6omNZw?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div id="youtube2-CSyVFVulN7A" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;CSyVFVulN7A&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/CSyVFVulN7A?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p><em>And two more four months later:</em></p><div id="youtube2-OCbm0JR0NAQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;OCbm0JR0NAQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/OCbm0JR0NAQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div id="youtube2-RoW6TXQHTus" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;RoW6TXQHTus&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RoW6TXQHTus?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p><em>Watch those. There is not an untrue claim in them. If Israel seems to come up a lot, it might be because they&#8217;ve been involved in a lot of evil shit. They&#8217;re even brainwashing our public intellectuals. Look what they&#8217;ve done to the great Douglas Murray. Upset there is not more pro-murder guests on the biggest podcast in the world. Sheesh!</em></p><div><hr></div><p>Murray: Sure, but do you have any, uh, I mean there's been a tilt in the conversation, in both conversations in the last couple of years, and it's largely to do with people who have appointed themselves &#8220;experts&#8221;, who are not experts. </p><p>Joe: Oh, you mean like Ian? I don't think Ian appoints himself an expert in anything. </p><p>Murray: Who's that other dude? Who thinks he's an expert on Churchill</p><p>Dave and Joe: Darryl? </p><p>Joe: <em>(This is where Joe gets offended, you can feel it, he loves Darryl) </em>Oh Daryl Cooper does not think he's an expert. </p><p>Dave: In fact, I think it's everybody else is always calling him an expert and he's like I'm just a history nerd. </p><p>Joe: Have you ever absorbed any of his material? Have you ever consumed any of his podcasts or anything like that? </p><p>Murray: <em>(Just outright lies) </em>I tried, it's pretty hard to listen to somebody who says, "I don't know what I'm talking about but now I'm going to talk, or I don't know about this or I'm not capable of debating this historian but I'm going to just tell you what I think."</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This is such a stupidly insane point. That is literally what podcasting is. This is what the world is, it&#8217;s what life is. How many things in our life are we absolutely sure of, but we still say, &#8220;what we think&#8221;. How dumb.</em></p><p><em>The debate part. <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Darryl Cooper&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:12413471,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97736ad9-c186-4380-be10-e95633241cbb_657x538.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;7d95c5fa-90d4-4240-891d-4bf593d1f24f&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> if you don&#8217;t know is a reader and is more well-read than, well, definitely than Douglas Murray. It seems Douglas Murray is against viewpoint diversity. Is this not wokeness? Back to Darryl, when he puts a podcast together, he reads every book, every article, he listed everything he read to prepare for the &#8220;Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem&#8221; it was over <strong>FOUR HUNDRED BOOKS AND OVER A THOUSAND ARTICLES. EVERYTHING HE COULD FIND ON THE FOUNDING OF ISRAEL BEFORE 1948</strong>. He was, to say the least, very prepared, and it is a 25-hour long series. His Jonestown series, &#8220;God&#8217;s Socialist&#8221;, I think is 30+ hours long. He read every book on it, which there was a lot less available on that subject, but he listens to the declassified Jim Jones sermons available online in the FBI archives, he listened to them all, and got a hold of police reports of hostage situations with meth involved where the father kills everyone and takes his own life and found how it correlated with the Jim Jones story. Because he found that when those situations went bad it when the police handled the situation with aggression and escalation, instead of de-escalatory means. </em></p><p><em>Anyways, he spends years on a topic, writes a script, and reads the script. He said, straight up. &#8220;I don&#8217;t wanna debate Andrew Roberts on this, I read Andrew Roberts and respect his work. I don&#8217;t do well in debates and I don&#8217;t know enough about this subject to debate him.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>And he didn't. He said many times, and he said in his maliciously clipped statement on Tucker that he doesn&#8217;t believe Churchill was worse than Hitler. That&#8217;s just stupid.</em></p><p><em>If you want an excellent representation of who <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Darryl Cooper&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:12413471,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97736ad9-c186-4380-be10-e95633241cbb_657x538.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;e6ac13ea-98aa-4242-80ce-c7b6da418969&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> is, you could subscribe to him at <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Martyr Made Substack&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:408190,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/martyrmade&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/79734ade-a21d-4441-bd1f-1923800c498d_794x794.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;2c18813d-171c-4443-a091-1ffd87b01cfa&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> or you could watch this beautifully timed podcast from the Duncan Trussel Family Hour:</em></p><div id="youtube2-hv3CRo06VRk" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;hv3CRo06VRk&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hv3CRo06VRk?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Dave: Yeah, but that's not exactly what Darryl was saying, I mean Darryl's point of view, however you feel about this, what Darryl is saying is he doesn't really like doing debates, he likes to do long format stuff where he can really explain his position. </p><p>Douglas: If you throw a lot of shit out there there's some point at which &#8220;I'm just raising questions&#8221; is not a valid thing. You're not raising questions, you're not asking questions, you're telling people something.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>Douglas has no fucking clue who </em><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Darryl Cooper&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:12413471,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97736ad9-c186-4380-be10-e95633241cbb_657x538.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;2ee98d0c-0c15-4497-ae99-a1d95b5ea363&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <em>is. He&#8217;s literally addressing the &#8220;Just asking questions&#8221; meme. What the fuck?!</em></p><div id="youtube2-elRxbGJuCw8" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;elRxbGJuCw8&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/elRxbGJuCw8?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Joe: Do you think Daryl's doing that? </p><p>Murray: I think there's a whole bunch of guys doing that, I think Dave is doing that, very obviously, Dave's a comedian, but he's now mainly talking about Israel. </p><p>Joe: No&#8212;</p><p>Dave: &#8212;No, I don't know if I mainly talk about Israel&#8212; </p><p>Murray: &#8212;that's all I see&#8212; </p><p>Dave: &#8212;yeah, but that's&#8212;</p><p>Joe: Well, that&#8217;s just you consuming clips.</p><p>Murray: &#8212;but that <em>is</em> also <em>your</em> shtick now, isn't it? </p><p>Dave: Well, what do you mean by &#8220;that's my shtick.&#8221; </p><p>Dave: Well, you're not a geopolitics guy, in general, are you?</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This smarmy British bastard! I now hate him forever! Dave didn&#8217;t understand his question because no one calls it geopolitics, but yes, I&#8217;ve consumed all of Dave Smiths content for years. He IS a geopolitics guy. That is his &#8220;shtick&#8221; as it is mine also, he is most animated by the issue of war because &#8212;by the way&#8212; it is the most destructive aspect of the human condition. War is the worst thing we, humans, do. The second worst thing we do is try to convince others that the first thing is okay!</em></p><div><hr></div><p> Dave: I don't even know exactly what you're asking? </p><p>Murray: I'm saying you've decided, being a comedian, you've decided now, to become somebody who talks about Israel&#8212; </p><p>Joe: (Joe&#8217;s face is turning dark, he&#8217;s attacking his friends) &#8212;I don't&#8212;I think you're incorrect. I don't think it's a decision. I just think you have long form conversations, <em>multiple</em>, of them, it's a huge event that's in the news, so it comes up. I don't think it's a thing. I think if you're on the outside you'd say, &#8220;Oh look they're trying to get attention by talking about this very polarizing issue publicly.&#8221; That's&#8212; </p><p>Murray: &#8212;they do, you do get attention from that, if you'd spent the last year speaking about Myanmar, you would not be, on my lips. <em>(Douglas said that, looking at Dave in a very homoerotic way, that&#8217;s what this is really about, I think. Douglas Murray is trying to turn Dave Smith out) </em> </p><p>Joe: Yeah, but he does talk about Yemen constantly, he talks about a lot of things that aren't in the news. </p><p>Dave: Well, I tend I tend to talk about the conflicts that <em>my</em> government is <em>directly</em> involved in, which I think is reasonable to me, but I don't quite get, like what's all the <a href="https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Appeal-to-Authority">&#8220;appeal to authority&#8221;</a> stuff? I mean, what you have to be an expert and what exactly makes you an expert?</p><div><hr></div><p><em>What indeed, Douglas?</em></p><div><hr></div><p> Joe hasn&#8217;t had enough people critical of Israel on if you ask me. Abby Martin needs to come back.</p><div><hr></div><p>Dear God Douglas made a claim at 11 minutes in that <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Darryl Cooper&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:12413471,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97736ad9-c186-4380-be10-e95633241cbb_657x538.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;7de8ee57-1152-437a-87b8-f8234be1cdfd&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> said Hitler was downplaying antisemitism in the 1930&#8217;s. Let&#8217;s see what he actually said&#8230; Okay, so he did say that at <a href="https://youtu.be/DE9oFxGoMvE?si=ma7J93rbpq6JR4GB&amp;t=2589">43:29-44:17</a> but not in the way Douglas is saying, he said most of the speeches out there where Hitler was talking about the Jews was not public speeches, they were National Socialist rallies, it wasn&#8217;t like Hitler said &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna kill the Jews!&#8221; And the German people were like &#8220;Right on!&#8221;&#128077;Even in 1938 when the <strong><a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht">Kristallnacht</a> </strong>happened there was outrage from the German public. And that seems to be true according to the <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht">&#8220;Holocaust Encyclopedia&#8221;,</a> </p><blockquote><p><em>Nazi officials disguised the organized nature of the pogroms. They described the actions as justifiable and spontaneous responses of the German population to the assassination of a German diplomatic official, Ernst vom Rath, in Paris.</em></p></blockquote><p>It sounds like a more violent version of where America got their idea for the regime changes, they do now. Organize unrest in the street, disguise the unrest as organic when it is actually organized by the state.</p><blockquote><p><em>The violence was instigated primarily by Nazi Party officials and members of the SA (Sturmabteilung: commonly known as Storm Troopers) and Hitler Youth.</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>In its aftermath, German officials announced that Kristallnacht had erupted as a spontaneous outburst of public sentiment in response to the assassination of Ernst vom Rath. Vom Rath was a German embassy official stationed in Paris. <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/narrative/4068/en">Herschel Grynszpan</a>, a 17-year-old Polish Jew, had shot the diplomat on November 7, 1938. A few days earlier, German authorities had expelled thousands of Jews of Polish citizenship living in Germany from the Reich; Grynszpan had received news that his parents, residents in Germany since 1911, were among them.</em></p><p><em>Grynszpan's parents and the other expelled Polish Jews were initially denied entry into their native Poland. They found themselves stranded in a refugee camp near the town of <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/narrative/46813/en">Zbaszyn</a> in the border region between Poland and Germany. Already living illegally in Paris himself, a desperate Grynszpan apparently sought revenge for his family's precarious circumstances by appearing at the German embassy and shooting the diplomatic official assigned to assist him.</em></p></blockquote><p>Jesus. This makes me feel ill. So, what he&#8217;s saying is not <em>all</em> German people were monstrous Jew hating killers. I feel we, as Americans, whose leadership has committed <em>Kristallnacht </em>all across the middle East 100 times over. Maybe that&#8217;s a crazy thing to say, I don&#8217;t know.</p><div><hr></div><p>Back to the show&#8230; I&#8217;m at <a href="https://youtu.be/Ah6kirkSwTg?si=9jgLvVVBW8-1X3Rd&amp;t=689">11:29</a>.</p><div id="youtube2-Ah6kirkSwTg" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Ah6kirkSwTg&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;689&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Ah6kirkSwTg?start=689&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>My God Douglas goes from being so wrong to so right to so wrong again.</p><p>At 17 minutes he said, &#8220;It was racist to say covid variants were coming from the place making covid variants.&#8221;</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/my-how-the-mighty-have-fallen?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/my-how-the-mighty-have-fallen?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>21:59 &#8220;Why are we even talking about this guy?&#8221;</p><p>Dave: Cuz you brought him up.</p><p>Douglas: Yes, because he comes on podcasts like this, my point is this is not a serious historian, he's not a historian, he's been&#8212; </p><p>Joe: No, no, no, he never claims <strong>to be. </strong>He's been doing these long form podcasts on these subjects for over a decade.</p><p>Inserting <em>Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem, pt 1, released in 2015. He didn&#8217;t need Joe Rogan or Dave Smith or even Tucker Carlson to put him on.</em></p><div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;52ab22b8-e17a-491a-9da4-876d0a4f9165&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:8465.633,&quot;downloadable&quot;:false,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><div id="youtube2-Ah6kirkSwTg" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Ah6kirkSwTg&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;1626&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Ah6kirkSwTg?start=1626&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Oh, <a href="https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/operation-unthinkable-churchills-plans-to-invade-the-soviet-union/">Operation Unthinkable (Not from Wikipedia)</a>:</p><blockquote><p><em>So concerned was the Prime Minister Winston Churchill, that in the spring of that year he ordered his Chiefs of Staff to prepare a plan, &#8216;Operation Unthinkable&#8217; to attack the Soviet Empire. The top secret plan was so sensitive that only Churchill&#8217;s immediate circle of military advisors were privy to the blueprint. The detailed proposal, which may seem fanciful today, sought to claw back East Germany and Poland, which had fallen under Soviet domination. Churchill felt particularly guilty over the fate of the Poles, who had fought valiantly for the Allies during the war but whose future was now dictated by Stalin.</em></p><p><em>If Churchill wanted to act, he knew that time was running out. The United States were about to move vast numbers of their troops and ordnance out to the Far East for the assault on mainland Japan, leaving Western Europe at the mercy of Stalin. Furthermore, demobilisation would start after VE Day and would rapidly reduce the size of the British Army and their capacity for offensive action.</em></p><p><em>The plan called for a massive Allied assault on 1 July 1945 by British, American, Polish and German &#8211; yes German &#8211; forces against the Red Army. They aimed to push them back out of Soviet-occupied East Germany and Poland, give Stalin and bloody nose, and force him to re-consider his domination of East Europe. But the plan was fraught with danger and the Allied force risked being dragged deeper into Soviet territory to face the nightmare of fighting in a Russian winter. The ghosts of Hitler and Napoleon were never far away.</em></p></blockquote><p>Eventually in June 1945 Churchill&#8217;s military advisors cautioned him against implementing the plan, but it still remained a blueprint for a Third World War.</p><p>Churchill&#8217;s political days were numbered. In July 1945 a General Election removed him from office and the plan for &#8216;Operation Unthinkable&#8217; was but away in the bottom drawer.</p><div><hr></div><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Ah6kirkSwTg?si=pioCEONrr7op_pNA&amp;t=2063">34:23</a>:</p><p>Joe (face at its darkest): What is your argument then? </p><p>Doug: It's a very weird thing to go back and zone in on a man, say this one thing is a mistake and should characterize him and you ignore everything else. </p><p>Joe: You're taking him out of context, when he's&#8212;when you're talking about Darryl, who's done what was it 30 plus hours</p><p> Doug: So, what? 30 plus hours of broadcasting? You do that in a week!</p><div><hr></div><p>What a fucking fool. I addressed this at the top. The work that <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Darryl Cooper&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:12413471,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97736ad9-c186-4380-be10-e95633241cbb_657x538.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;d5c9d0e7-79ca-4ed4-b466-6307130ffdab&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> does would be history books if put to text and should be considered audiobooks.</p><p>Douglas is being very weird zoning in on one thing this guy said and taking it out of context and ignoring everything else he&#8217;s done. Gah! This is agonizing, it&#8217;s making my eyes water.</p><div><hr></div><div id="youtube2-Ah6kirkSwTg" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Ah6kirkSwTg&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;3153&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Ah6kirkSwTg?start=3153&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Oh my god this makes me screaming mad! It is NOT the algorithm that is making views like Ukrainian corruption, or why did Putin invade Ukraine? It has nothing to do with the algorithm. It is simply this, <em><strong>the corporate media is talking about this. What is the corporate media NOT talking about?</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>That&#8217;s it. That's where they failed during covid, Russiagate, and the war on terror, and it&#8217;s why we no longer trust them. We already know the mainstream story, we wanna know the rest! </strong></em></p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/my-how-the-mighty-have-fallen?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/my-how-the-mighty-have-fallen?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>Countries came to NATO wanting to join, not because there was this aggression they were seeing from Russia, it was because NATO is the most powerful security alliance in the world, anyone would want their country in that, period.  </p><div><hr></div><p>Fuck you Douglas! I love Georgia! I used to invade there every summer when I was a kid, and while I&#8217;m taking a stroll through memories, I should probably say my conceived notions I had of Douglas Murray from recent Rogan appearances and podcast appearances in general and <a href="https://youtu.be/nvaf7XOOFHc?si=yW6pR9z8Cpm1e9WH">that Munk debate, Gah! I get cold chills thinking about it</a>. He was so on the money in that. I can&#8217;t begin to imagine what happened. All I can imagine is there was other pressures, pressuring him to address this here, maybe family, spousal, maybe <em>acquaintances,</em> but this is not the same man who made <a href="https://youtu.be/cGGCe2DlV88?si=ad5nE_ASHQ1XF4fL">Malcolm Gladwell go on his podcast afterwards and say, &#8220;They had a silver-tongued devil from oxford that humiliated me.&#8221; </a></p><p>This is not the same guy. Last time he appeared on Rogan, I was so blown away by his appearance and was so unsure why, that when I explained it to my girlfriend, I said, &#8220;he&#8217;s like the smartest guy in the world.&#8221; Well, egg on my face, she watched this before I did and said, &#8220;What&#8217;s the deal with that British asshole? Joe and Dave handled him like&#8221; I think she said, &#8220;brilliant gentlemen.&#8221; Jeez! I&#8217;m an idiot.</p><div><hr></div><p>So, Douglas has called on us to &#8220;Trust the Experts&#8221; 44 times in this podcast so far, wtf is he talking about. He has no clue who Dave Smith is, who Ian Carroll is and definitely doesn&#8217;t know who <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Darryl Cooper&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:12413471,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97736ad9-c186-4380-be10-e95633241cbb_657x538.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;6efd4e63-b15f-4015-b23f-691a8be39bac&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> is. This is straight up gobbledygook.</p><p>I think this is it: Douglas Murray wants Americans to be more like Brits. Eating up the propaganda from the expert class like candy.</p><div><hr></div><p>This is getting too long. I shall refer all statements made in this podcast to this statement right here:</p><div id="youtube2-Ah6kirkSwTg" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Ah6kirkSwTg&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;2244&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Ah6kirkSwTg?start=2244&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p><em><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m a free American I can talk about what I like to!&#8221;</strong></em> </p><p>And on that I cue the flag:</p><div id="youtube2-q6TcHBIyISw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;q6TcHBIyISw&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/q6TcHBIyISw?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Hold up: I&#8217;m not done.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This Breakdown finished in part two. Part two will be the geographical debate, the Paul Wolfowitz is antisemitic and the credentials of Douglas Murray. Join me, in part two. Or you cannot talk about it unless you&#8217;ve &#8220;at least visited.&#8221;</em></p><div><hr></div><p><em>The Woke Right strikes again in part two.</em></p><p><em>Thank you for reading. </em></p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9b39f62-dd60-45ab-af4a-247b927b5511_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;428233f0-153b-4279-a896-717d48d67d5d&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> Editor-in-Chief <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:368081,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0713a6ae-3f57-4fdf-8fc7-241d89b85795_768x768.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;19af9197-a504-4812-abe4-441024ec2153&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[SignalGATE, a Secretarial Scapegoat, and the Downward-Rise of Elite Propagandists in the ERA of TERROR ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The call is coming from inside the house...]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/signalgate-a-secretarial-scapegoat</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/signalgate-a-secretarial-scapegoat</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:40:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A9mt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F917c7005-b512-44f2-bea4-e2a132116a2f_723x343.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="pullquote"><p><em>The rise of Jeffrey Goldberg, propaganda extraordinaire, was so abrupt, yet so banal, it would seem he appeared out of the fog. Like some kind of apparition. You would only know his path if you followed the trail of dead children left in his wake. Bloated from rot. Expression, frozen on their faces from shock of experiencing such an abrupt end, at such an abrupt time. </em></p><p><em>When they get to the other side they must ask the lord, &#8220;Why so soon. Such a short-lived life?&#8221; I can only imagine he&#8217;d think of Jeffrey Goldberg.</em></p><p><em>&#8220;Why indeed?&#8221; </em></p></div><p>Last week, the big news in my little corner of the world was lit aflame over the U.S. bombing of the &#8220;Houthis&#8221; in Yemen. It seemed <em>so</em> crazy that <em>another </em>administration is continuing the tradition of bombing Yemen, the poorest country in the middle East. </p><p>Just a few years ago the Saudi-Yemeni war was considered the &#8220;largest humanitarian crisis in world history.&#8221; Reaching from Trump administration 1.0 halfway through the Biden administration. It was a direct result of our bombing campaigns, blockades, and every possible sanction being carried out against Yemeni society, at the behest of Saudi Arabia. </p><p>In a line, we were making Yemen the new Palestine, with the Saudi&#8217;s holding space for Israel.</p><p>Now, in the name of authoritarian Israel, we must carry on our conscience the continuation of the tradition <em>&#8220;Bombs Over Yemen</em>.&#8221; <em>Our</em> military! Our Air Force! Our bombs.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/signalgate-a-secretarial-scapegoat?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/signalgate-a-secretarial-scapegoat?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>No one needs to forget the <em>real</em> story here is that, we are continuing the imperialism that will be the death of America as we know it, with no one to blame but ourselves &#8212; as George Galloway put it on the Jimmy Dore Show &#8212; <em>&#8220;</em>Joe Biden could blame autopen, Donald Trump &#8212; in his first term &#8212; could put it on John Bolton in his first administration, but Trump had four years in office watching what can happen when you have a bad cabinet, and four years to plan on who he&#8217;d get to do better, now it&#8217;s on him. There is no one left to blame here.&#8221;</p><p>Donald Trump ran as the peace candidate and is governing like he&#8217;s John McCain. The great Tom Woods says, &#8220;Woods' Law #3: No matter whom you vote for, you always wind up getting John McCain.&#8221; Meaning, the Military-Industrial Complex always wins. John McCain is synonymous to the war machine. No matter what policies your guy runs on, John McCain, as soon as they get elected, they turn into John McCain. If you don&#8217;t remember John McCain&#8217;s run against Barack Obama, McCain ran on &#8220;Occupying Iraq for the next hundred years.&#8221; He was instrumental in the coup in Ukraine in 2014. If they had kept him as a farm hand or something in the POW camp he landed in, in Vietnam, the world might be a better place.</p><p>So, before we get into the substance of this story, let&#8217;s deal with the context.</p><h2>The Continuous Bombing Campaigns on Yemen and &#8220;The Houthi's&#8221; </h2><div class="pullquote"><p>The Houthi&#8217;s are like a no-bid contract for Raytheon. It keeps them in business continuously through every administration.</p></div><div class="pullquote"><p><em>&#8212;=++Skip this section if you&#8217;re aware of the context++=&#8212;</em></p></div><p>So, we&#8217;re bombing the Houthi&#8217;s in Yemen again. We carried out a war on Yemen, bombing and starving them into oblivion, but that&#8217;s <em>never</em> enough. We carried out this war, prosecuting it for Saudi Arabia and now for Israel, we are doing the same.</p><p>Ya know, a good way to fight antisemitism might be to <em>stop killing children at the behest of the Jewish state. </em>It kinda makes them look bad. So, stop, maybe?</p><p>According to <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Dave DeCamp&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:75445561,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3465b782-6269-462d-b4f3-cd81163a58ee_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;d079f401-2f73-4ed2-9b8d-691a048acf68&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> from <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/12/16/us-says-it-launched-airstrike-on-houthi-command-and-control-facility-in-yemen/">Anti-War.com:</a></p><blockquote><p>&#8220;On Dec. 16 Yemen time, US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted a precision airstrike against a key command and control facility operated by Iran-backed Houthis within Houthi-controlled territory in Sanaa, Yemen,&#8221; CENTCOM said in a press release.</p><p>The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, said on Monday that Yemeni forces launched a missile at Israel. &#8220;[In] response to the ongoing massacres against our brothers in Gaza &#8230; The missile force carried out a military operation targeting a military target of the Israeli enemy in the occupied Yaffa area, using a Palestine 2 hypersonic ballistic missile,&#8221; the group said in a statement, <a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/yemen-targets-israel-with-new-ballistic-missile-attack">according to </a><em><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/yemen-targets-israel-with-new-ballistic-missile-attack">The Cradle</a></em>.</p><p>In January 2024, President Biden launched a new bombing campaign against the Houthis in defense of Israeli shipping. The UK joined the US for several rounds of significant strikes on Yemen, but the bombings only escalated the situation in the Red Sea as the Houthis began targeting American and British shipping in response.</p><p>Israel launched two rounds of <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/08/19/hrw-israeli-airstrikes-on-yemen-were-possible-war-crime/">airstrikes</a> against the Houthis in recent months, which killed a total of 11 civilians, according to numbers from the <a href="https://mailchi.mp/19d549d90f72/october2024-monthly-update-us-and-uk-strikes-in-yemen-14758701?e=76efe5788e">Yemen Data Project.</a> Israel&#8217;s Kan public broadcaster reported Monday that Israel was planning a major offensive against the Houthis in response to recent missile and drone attacks.</p><p>From 2015-2022, the US supported a Saudi/UAE war against the Houthis, which involved heavy airstrikes and a blockade, and the Houthis only became a more capable fighting force during that time.</p><p>According to the UN, the war killed <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2021/11/23/un-says-yemen-war-death-toll-will-reach-377000-by-end-of-2021/">at least 377,000 people</a>, with more than half dying of starvation and disease caused by the siege. A ceasefire between the Houthis and Saudis has held relatively well since April 2022, but new US sanctions <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/02/18/new-us-sanctions-on-houthis-that-block-yemen-peace-deal-go-into-effect/">are blocking the implementation of a lasting peace deal.</a></p></blockquote><p>So, this was a constant bombing campaign through three presidential administrations, Obama-Trump-Biden, for Saudi Arabia then for Israel.</p><p>Things had apparently eased up in the hopes of a ceasefire deal between Israel-Palestine, then <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/20/more-us-airstrikes-hit-yemen-as-houthis-fire-missiles-at-israel/">Israel breaks the ceasefire:</a></p><blockquote><p>The US airstrikes were reported around the same time the Israeli military<a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hy2uzrynyg"> said that it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen</a>, the second Houthi attack within a day. The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, restarted missile attacks on Israel after the Israeli military resumed its massive bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip, massacring hundreds of Palestinians.</p><p>According to the <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skre6ttnjx">Israeli news site </a><em><a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skre6ttnjx">Ynet</a></em>, the US has asked Israel not to respond to the Houthis attacks and urged that Israel leave the response to the US military.</p><p>While US officials have framed the bombing campaign in Yemen as a way to protect the US military and American shipping, it was really launched in response to the Houthis saying they would reimpose its blockade on Israeli shipping over Israel imposing a total blockade on Gaza, a major violation of the ceasefire deal signed in January.</p><p>The Houthis had ceased their attacks once the Gaza ceasefire went into effect on January 19 and had not launched any until after the US restarted its bombing campaign on Saturday, March 15. The first barrage of US airstrikes<a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/16/yemen-us-airstrikes-kill-31-including-women-and-children/"> killed 53 people </a>in Yemen, including women and children.</p><p>Since then, the Houthis have claimed several attacks on the US aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman, which US officials have downplayed, saying they were easily intercepted.</p><p>President Trump is <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/19/trump-threatens-yemens-houthis-with-total-annihilation/">blaming the Houthis attacks on Iran</a> even though US officials have acknowledged that Ansar Allah acts independently and is unlikely to take orders from Tehran. The Houthis have<a href="https://archive.vn/Hj3DC"> said they would not &#8220;dial down&#8221;</a> operations in response to US military pressure or appeals from Iran.</p><p>President Trump is threatening the Houthis with &#8220;annihilation,&#8221; but a year-long US bombing campaign launched by President Biden from January 204 to January 2025 did not stop the Houthis, and a brutal US-backed Saudi-led war on Yemen from 2015 to 2022 also failed to remove the group from power.</p><p>Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree <a href="https://www.saba.ye/en/news3454170.htm">said early Friday</a> that the Yemeni attacks on Israel and the blockade on Israeli shipping won&#8217;t stop until &#8220;the aggression against Gaza stops and the blockade is lifted.&#8221; He said the operations &#8220;will not be halted no matter how long the American aggression continues.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>This is where we are at with the Houthi&#8217;s as of last week, Israel killed hundreds of innocent Palestinian civilians in a few hours, breaking the January 19th ceasefire deal. </p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/signalgate-a-secretarial-scapegoat?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/signalgate-a-secretarial-scapegoat?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>In response, the Houthis' recommenced to firing missiles into Israel, and hijacking Israeli shipping containers in the Suez Canal, and <em>our President</em> told Netanyahu not to respond, we would handle it. We carried out strikes against Yemen and Houthi &#8220;targets&#8221;, Houthis' then start targeting US shipping in canal, and now we are carrying out daily airstrikes on Yemen. The poorest country in the Middle East. One of them, as you&#8217;ll see in the <em>Signal Chat</em> below was on a civilian apartment complex where they seen one guy then bombed the complex killing everyone inside. This bombing campaign was in the middle of the night over there, so these people were murdered in their sleep.</p><p>Unbeknownst to the group chat, there was an <em>enemy in their midst.</em></p><h2>A Propagandist, The Stooge, and A Scapegoated Soldier Enter the Signal Chat</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=tKXHuCCV8oD12re9b0E3GsPlgAZO8uGRj14jFWg0EWE&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A9mt!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F917c7005-b512-44f2-bea4-e2a132116a2f_723x343.png 424w, 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The reason I knew this is that <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/tag/person/pete-hegseth/">Pete Hegseth</a>, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.</p></blockquote><p>Sometime before it became public knowledge, the US strikes on the Houthi&#8217;s were being discussed in a group chat &#8212; using Signal for increased privacy &#8212; between the top officials in the Cabinet of the current White House Administration. This included the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, the Vice President J.D. Vance, and Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor to Trump, among others. One of the <em>others</em> turned out to be the Senior Editor of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg. We wouldn&#8217;t know this until he released his first story on this (listed above) and chaos ensued. With the chaos came many questions and accusations seeming to point in the wrong direction. There&#8217;s been interviews, congressional hearings, all the elements that make up a scandal, without the scandal part. <em>Where&#8217;s the corruption? Where&#8217;s the salacious lies?</em> Well, they&#8217;re there, just not in the right direction. </p><p>In the story above Goldberg makes the claim, specifically, that &#8220;Hegseth texted it to him&#8221;, but we can see clearly from the discussion that Mike Waltz was the one who added him, and this was corroborated by sources close to the situation. And interviews with those involved, and in the chat <em>released by Goldberg:</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!InSu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4b1fb3a-b988-41a8-9371-35b1cfc03c35_540x541.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!InSu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4b1fb3a-b988-41a8-9371-35b1cfc03c35_540x541.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!InSu!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd4b1fb3a-b988-41a8-9371-35b1cfc03c35_540x541.png 848w, 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&#8220;talker&#8221; &#8212; which is a bulletin put out daily with the days &#8220;talking points&#8221; &#8212; from the Democratic National Committee website says, &#8220;Hegseth should resign, or he should quit.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hHY6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F174ab67d-dd0c-4c79-a5d3-026ed568bc81_708x606.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hHY6!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F174ab67d-dd0c-4c79-a5d3-026ed568bc81_708x606.png 424w, 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Even Goldberg covers for Waltz with his claim that &#8220;Hegseth sent it to him.&#8221; What&#8217;s going on here!? </p><p>What&#8217;s puzzling is, Mike Waltz claims he&#8217;s never spoken to Goldberg, never met Goldberg, doesn&#8217;t know Goldberg, and definitely doesn&#8217;t possess a contact for Goldberg.</p><p>Here&#8217;s a picture of them standing together from Newsweek. Not really engaging with each other, but my God, they are a foot apart from each other. Mike Waltz could smell Jeffrey Goldberg&#8217;s fart they are so close.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RGGG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faee15df9-5f4c-4866-af2c-532f18c1dc0f_756x471.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RGGG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faee15df9-5f4c-4866-af2c-532f18c1dc0f_756x471.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RGGG!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faee15df9-5f4c-4866-af2c-532f18c1dc0f_756x471.png 848w, 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Jeff&#8217;s contact info was in Mike&#8217;s phone it would be easy to chalk up to &#8220;Shit Happens&#8221;, but because he&#8217;s so adamant in this lie, and the media narrative is seeming to wanna place the blame on Hegseth, it seems like there is more to the story than an honest mistake or some kind of &#8220;glitch.&#8221;</p><div id="youtube2-UmEH2PLNVhc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;UmEH2PLNVhc&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/UmEH2PLNVhc?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div id="youtube2-Rz65ZLIFWDU" class="youtube-wrap" 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Taking the most badly sourced stories that most journalists would be afraid to take for fear of losing their jobs, but who is gonna fire Jeffrey Goldberg? In fact, he was one of the guys who made the biggest mistake in the history of journalism and for this received a promotion. The only guard rails above him are maybe owners of The Atlantic. He holds the highest position at The Atlantic, Senior Editor, and known for recent big scoops such as:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8MgJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f2a55d-e836-429a-a753-390d62cba103_912x259.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8MgJ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f2a55d-e836-429a-a753-390d62cba103_912x259.png 848w, 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8MgJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f2a55d-e836-429a-a753-390d62cba103_912x259.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8MgJ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f2a55d-e836-429a-a753-390d62cba103_912x259.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8MgJ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f2a55d-e836-429a-a753-390d62cba103_912x259.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8MgJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f2a55d-e836-429a-a753-390d62cba103_912x259.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Hoax. <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-hitler-generals/">Unproven.</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/10/washington-trump-presidency/680206/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x0CQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2f0426d-13d8-41f5-985a-88292c130a5b_912x238.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x0CQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2f0426d-13d8-41f5-985a-88292c130a5b_912x238.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x0CQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2f0426d-13d8-41f5-985a-88292c130a5b_912x238.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x0CQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2f0426d-13d8-41f5-985a-88292c130a5b_912x238.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x0CQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2f0426d-13d8-41f5-985a-88292c130a5b_912x238.png" width="912" height="238" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a2f0426d-13d8-41f5-985a-88292c130a5b_912x238.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:238,&quot;width&quot;:912,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:179561,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/10/washington-trump-presidency/680206/&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/i/159958600?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2f0426d-13d8-41f5-985a-88292c130a5b_912x238.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x0CQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2f0426d-13d8-41f5-985a-88292c130a5b_912x238.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x0CQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2f0426d-13d8-41f5-985a-88292c130a5b_912x238.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x0CQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2f0426d-13d8-41f5-985a-88292c130a5b_912x238.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x0CQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2f0426d-13d8-41f5-985a-88292c130a5b_912x238.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Maybe true, definitely negative. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/06/the-unadorned-truth-about-donald-trump/678816/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bC7f!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f76efcb-feb2-45be-9e92-e012ab5c82b6_922x263.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bC7f!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f76efcb-feb2-45be-9e92-e012ab5c82b6_922x263.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bC7f!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f76efcb-feb2-45be-9e92-e012ab5c82b6_922x263.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bC7f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f76efcb-feb2-45be-9e92-e012ab5c82b6_922x263.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bC7f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f76efcb-feb2-45be-9e92-e012ab5c82b6_922x263.png" width="922" height="263" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0f76efcb-feb2-45be-9e92-e012ab5c82b6_922x263.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:263,&quot;width&quot;:922,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:115187,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/06/the-unadorned-truth-about-donald-trump/678816/&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/i/159958600?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f76efcb-feb2-45be-9e92-e012ab5c82b6_922x263.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bC7f!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f76efcb-feb2-45be-9e92-e012ab5c82b6_922x263.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bC7f!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f76efcb-feb2-45be-9e92-e012ab5c82b6_922x263.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bC7f!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f76efcb-feb2-45be-9e92-e012ab5c82b6_922x263.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bC7f!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f76efcb-feb2-45be-9e92-e012ab5c82b6_922x263.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Very negative.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/rob-portman-donald-trump-january-6-impeachment/677833/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_qk!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0494ae0f-5146-4720-b1c0-81d1a890f42a_917x262.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_qk!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0494ae0f-5146-4720-b1c0-81d1a890f42a_917x262.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_qk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0494ae0f-5146-4720-b1c0-81d1a890f42a_917x262.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_qk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0494ae0f-5146-4720-b1c0-81d1a890f42a_917x262.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_qk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0494ae0f-5146-4720-b1c0-81d1a890f42a_917x262.png" width="917" height="262" 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_qk!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0494ae0f-5146-4720-b1c0-81d1a890f42a_917x262.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_qk!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0494ae0f-5146-4720-b1c0-81d1a890f42a_917x262.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_qk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0494ae0f-5146-4720-b1c0-81d1a890f42a_917x262.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_qk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0494ae0f-5146-4720-b1c0-81d1a890f42a_917x262.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Hoax. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/general-mark-milley-trump-coup/675375/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i7Nu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87ea8fe1-a557-4fe9-bd27-0d8b6b467a4f_900x241.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i7Nu!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87ea8fe1-a557-4fe9-bd27-0d8b6b467a4f_900x241.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i7Nu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87ea8fe1-a557-4fe9-bd27-0d8b6b467a4f_900x241.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i7Nu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87ea8fe1-a557-4fe9-bd27-0d8b6b467a4f_900x241.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i7Nu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87ea8fe1-a557-4fe9-bd27-0d8b6b467a4f_900x241.png" width="900" height="241" 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i7Nu!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87ea8fe1-a557-4fe9-bd27-0d8b6b467a4f_900x241.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i7Nu!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87ea8fe1-a557-4fe9-bd27-0d8b6b467a4f_900x241.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i7Nu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87ea8fe1-a557-4fe9-bd27-0d8b6b467a4f_900x241.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i7Nu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87ea8fe1-a557-4fe9-bd27-0d8b6b467a4f_900x241.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>Hoax.</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qc1l!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a9b7b30-238d-45ba-985f-b216c0e4c43f_718x348.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qc1l!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a9b7b30-238d-45ba-985f-b216c0e4c43f_718x348.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qc1l!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a9b7b30-238d-45ba-985f-b216c0e4c43f_718x348.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qc1l!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a9b7b30-238d-45ba-985f-b216c0e4c43f_718x348.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qc1l!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a9b7b30-238d-45ba-985f-b216c0e4c43f_718x348.png" width="718" height="348" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2a9b7b30-238d-45ba-985f-b216c0e4c43f_718x348.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:348,&quot;width&quot;:718,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qc1l!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a9b7b30-238d-45ba-985f-b216c0e4c43f_718x348.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qc1l!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a9b7b30-238d-45ba-985f-b216c0e4c43f_718x348.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qc1l!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a9b7b30-238d-45ba-985f-b216c0e4c43f_718x348.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qc1l!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2a9b7b30-238d-45ba-985f-b216c0e4c43f_718x348.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line 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They were <em>all</em> lies. Once again, I must ask, if he&#8217;s so bad <em>why, oh why, must, you lie about him! </em>I&#8217;m working on a dissenting piece against the current Trump administration as of now that will be filled with provable things to criticize the man for. There. Is. Plenty. Why, with the <em>&#8220;He Said/She Said&#8221; </em>pieces. Give us the facts, show us the proof. It&#8217;s because he believes he&#8217;s untouchable. Well, he&#8217;s not. And we remember who he is.</p><h2>The Negative Upturn in the Rise of Jeffrey Goldberg </h2><p>Jeffrey Goldberg lied his way to prominence. He followed the propaganda model Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman wrote about in <em>manufacturing consent</em> and cosigned the lies that led to the murder of <em><strong>a million innocent Iraqis. And without his appearances on MSNBC and CNN, combined with his work for the New Yorker and The Atlantic in the run up to the invasion the American public would&#8217;ve never went along with this. </strong></em>So, let&#8217;s talk about that&#8230;</p><h2><em><strong>Goldberg Goes to Iraqi-Ville</strong></em></h2><p><em><strong> </strong></em>As a Staff Writer for The New Yorker in the early years of the War on Terror, Jeffrey Goldberg was sent to Iraq to see how things look on the ground. His dispatch from that trip was one of the most influential to the invasion of Iraq that would happen pretty soon after his return and the March 17, 2002, release of his piece <em>&#8220;The Great Terror&#8221;. </em>It would be the first article by an eyewitness who visited the region and returned to make the connection between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, problem is the connection came from a third party he&#8217;d interviewed at an Iraqi prison, and had fed him a hefty helping of lies and whatever he wanted to hear, it was later confirmed to be lies:</p><blockquote><p>When I got to Sulaimaniya, I visited a prison run by the intelligence service of the Patriotic Union. The prison is attached to the intelligence-service headquarters. It appears to be well kept and humane; the communal cells hold twenty or so men each, and they have kerosene heat, and even satellite television. For two days, the intelligence agency permitted me to speak with any prisoner who agreed to be interviewed. I was wary; the Kurds have an obvious interest in lining up on the American side in the war against terror. But the officials did not, as far as I know, compel anyone to speak to me, and I did not get the sense that allegations made by prisoners were shaped by their captors. The stories, which I later checked with experts on the region, seemed at least worth the attention of America and other countries in the West.</p><p>The allegations include charges that Ansar al-Islam has received funds directly from Al Qaeda; that the intelligence service of Saddam Hussein has joint control, with Al Qaeda operatives, over Ansar al-Islam; that Saddam Hussein hosted a senior leader of Al Qaeda in Baghdad in 1992; that a number of Al Qaeda members fleeing Afghanistan have been secretly brought into territory controlled by Ansar al-Islam; and that Iraqi intelligence agents smuggled conventional weapons, and possibly even chemical and biological weapons, into Afghanistan. If these charges are true, it would mean that the relationship between Saddam&#8217;s regime and Al Qaeda is far closer than previously thought. </p></blockquote><p>It continues:</p><blockquote><p>When I asked the director of the twenty-four-hundred-man Patriotic Union intelligence service why he was allowing me to interview his prisoners, he told me that he hoped I would carry this information to American intelligence officials. &#8220;The F.B.I. and the C.I.A. haven&#8217;t come out yet,&#8221; he told me. His deputy added, &#8220;Americans are going to Somalia, the Philippines, I don&#8217;t know where else, to look for terrorists. But this is the field, here.&#8221; Anya Guilsher, a spokeswoman for the C.I.A., told me last week that as a matter of policy the agency would not comment on the activities of its officers. James Woolsey, a former C.I.A. director and an advocate of overthrowing the Iraqi regime, said, &#8220;It would be a real shame if the C.I.A.&#8217;s substantial institutional hostility to Iraqi democratic resistance groups was keeping it from learning about Saddam&#8217;s ties to Al Qaeda in northern Iraq.&#8221;</p><p>The possibility that Saddam could supply weapons of mass destruction to anti-American terror groups is a powerful argument among advocates of &#8220;regime change,&#8221; as the removal of Saddam is known in Washington. These critics of Saddam argue that his chemical and biological capabilities, his record of support for terrorist organizations, and the cruelty of his regime make him a threat that reaches far beyond the citizens of Iraq.</p></blockquote><p>He also suggested in another story that there was a threat against Israel by Iraq that might turn into nuclear war. This would make the assumption that Iraq had nuclear capabilities, and as we know now, and by the way, knew back then, Iraq and Saddam Hussein had zero intention of receiving nuclear capabilities.</p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share The Freedom Manifesto</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/signalgate-a-secretarial-scapegoat?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/signalgate-a-secretarial-scapegoat?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>Most people who know about the failings of the <em>&#8220;Iraq-WMD&#8217;s&#8221;</em> story blame the whole thing on Judith Miller, and she <em>was</em> wrong, but she paid for her mistake and still does. Her entire career was destroyed over this story, she&#8217;s now only talked about as a punchline to a bad joke, but there were scores of other journalists who got this wrong also and <em>still</em> refuse to take accountability for their wrongs. Jeffrey Goldberg was the worst but was given the best treatment. Goldberg was promoted to the highest rungs of elite journalism that anyone could be promoted.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>And the guy who has broken the most important and consequential stories of the 20th and 21st century, so far, is marred to obscurity, so much that he must take more steps than anyone else to prove his story, instead of his flawless track record doing the heavy lifting for him.</p></div><p>Parallel to this, the New Yorker had another guy on the job.</p><p><em>That</em> reporter is <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Seymour Hersh&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1377040,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/seymourhersh&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/972a3674-1cd8-4e4e-9ba2-8d38d3306045_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;701ccd26-2731-4607-ad29-2ff83c1d653f&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>. Wanna know what the difference is?</p><p>Hersh got it right, he broke the Abu Ghraib Prison Torture scandal, the failed intelligence that showed Iraq <em>didn&#8217;t</em> have WMD&#8217;s or a connection to Al-Qaeda, and for this he was pushed out to the point that he now writes on the same platform as I do. You see, the muckraking truth-teller, following the story wherever it leads is pushed out of the mainstream, left to a position where he was must bet on himself and hope the truth prevails, while the liars and propagandists like Jeffrey Goldberg are promoted to the upper echelons of his craft. The craft being consenting to government propaganda. So high that he no longer must give an argument, he doesn&#8217;t have to sound sensible, or &#8220;Make this clear&#8221;, just being in the position he is in, at the heights he&#8217;s been lifted to, does all the <em>&#8220;Fact Checking&#8221; </em>he&#8217;ll ever need. And the guy who has broken the most important and consequential stories of the 20th and 21st century, so far, is marred to obscurity, so much that he must take more steps than anyone else to prove his story, instead of his flawless track record doing the heavy lifting for him.</p><p>So, being the Bond villain that Mr. Goldberg has been for the last 25 years, how does he end up <em>&#8220;accidentally&#8221; </em>being added to the new Trump admins Yemen strike Signal chat?</p><p>Well, it just so happens that one of the members of that chat has been a longtime ally of Jeffrey Goldberg&#8217;s? Who? Who in that group chat actually carried out the policy of removing Saddam Hussein from power? It just so happens it was the same guy who added Jeffrey to the chat and the same guy who said he&#8217;d never met Jeffrey even though Jeff says otherwise <em>in</em> his article and there&#8217;s picture of the two of them together.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QjX0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7fe3fd70-e9f1-4d48-8950-274209ab2f08_750x375.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QjX0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7fe3fd70-e9f1-4d48-8950-274209ab2f08_750x375.jpeg 424w, 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Not questionable to the <em>&#8220;establishment&#8221;</em>, but questionable to those like me, who see the Trump Administration as a chance for long-needed reforms and dismantling of the establishment war machine that has long been a<em> </em>prototype for tyranny.<em> </em>This <em>establishment </em>I speak of, <em>loved </em>these picks. They got the least press because they were the least controversial. One was Marco Rubio, who helped fund the programs of soft power like USAID that DOGE is now attempting to dismantle. Another is Dr. (?) Sabastian Gorka, a self-proclaimed neoconservative with a fake British accent and an even more fake Doctoral degree, two mind-numbingly bad choices, and Mike Waltz, whose last position in the White House was as Dick Cheney&#8217;s pick for head of counterterrorism, which would place him directly at the forefront of the War on Terror and the institution of torture interrogations at unlisted black-site prisons and the lead to the war that was most, at the discretion of Vice President Cheney, the 2003 invasion of Iraq.</p><p>For Trump to pick someone as National Security Advisor, with <em>that</em> background was nothing less than bonkers! The Cheney&#8217;s, as recently as three months ago was campaigning with the opposition because the Cheney&#8217;s were afraid, he was going to oppose the wars they worked so hard to get us into. </p><p>So, they recruit Mike Waltz, someone who owes Cheney for giving him his start in the big time, a cabinet position in the White House, and now it was time to pay the piper. Try to get in good with trump, see if you can&#8217;t infiltrate the White House then, use your position as a dam against the <em>feared</em> isolationism of the Trump Administration. </p><div class="pullquote"><p>you&#8217;d have to catch me on an exceptionally credulous day to get me to buy this horseshit. </p></div><p>So, now the first military venture of the new administration takes place. Mike Waltz is tasked with setting up internal communications, and for his <em>first trick</em> he&#8217;ll make a <em>Signal</em> group chat. Signal being one of the first end-to-end encrypted messaging services used to protect privacy for things just like this. Problem is Signal was compromised by Intelligence Agencies long ago, and is now just another messenger app. Which makes them using Signal a <em>crazy</em> move!</p><p>So, Mike Waltz <em>and</em> Jeffrey Goldberg are completely aligned. Goldberg has never met a war he didn&#8217;t like. Just like Mike Waltz. Goldberg would be a Republican at any other time in history, but due to the isolationism of the Trump administration he&#8217;s a Democrat. Why? Because the Democrats are the party of war.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!opT-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff759fe31-1ef0-49c8-b18a-6e98ff4da4e2_400x278.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!opT-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff759fe31-1ef0-49c8-b18a-6e98ff4da4e2_400x278.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!opT-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff759fe31-1ef0-49c8-b18a-6e98ff4da4e2_400x278.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!opT-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff759fe31-1ef0-49c8-b18a-6e98ff4da4e2_400x278.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!opT-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff759fe31-1ef0-49c8-b18a-6e98ff4da4e2_400x278.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!opT-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff759fe31-1ef0-49c8-b18a-6e98ff4da4e2_400x278.jpeg" width="400" height="278" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f759fe31-1ef0-49c8-b18a-6e98ff4da4e2_400x278.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:278,&quot;width&quot;:400,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Photo Five: First Weeks Photo Essay&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Photo Five: First Weeks Photo Essay" title="Photo Five: First Weeks Photo Essay" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!opT-!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff759fe31-1ef0-49c8-b18a-6e98ff4da4e2_400x278.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!opT-!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff759fe31-1ef0-49c8-b18a-6e98ff4da4e2_400x278.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!opT-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff759fe31-1ef0-49c8-b18a-6e98ff4da4e2_400x278.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!opT-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff759fe31-1ef0-49c8-b18a-6e98ff4da4e2_400x278.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">VP Cheney and Sec. Def Donald Rumsfeld</figcaption></figure></div><h2>Too Many Coincidences in a Row</h2><div id="youtube2-RpyTrv1XI7U" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;RpyTrv1XI7U&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;91&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RpyTrv1XI7U?start=91&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Now, I&#8217;m one of those &#8220;miracle-believers&#8221; that likes to carry the mantra on my sleeve: <em>&#8220;everything happens for a reason</em>.<em>&#8221;</em>  But you&#8217;d have to catch me on an exceptionally credulous day to get me to buy this horseshit. </p><p>The most prolific Donald Trump propagandist hit maker who came to fame by helping to sell a war prosecuted by Dick Cheney in the Middle East, gets added to a group chat discussion on the battle plans for a current airstrike happening in the Middle East. He&#8217;s added by the current White House National Security Advisor who came to fame as Dick Cheney&#8217;s Head of Counterterrorism during the war that the <em>Prolific hit maker</em> helped to sell and they don&#8217;t know each other, neither of them has the other&#8217;s contacts, one hasn&#8217;t spoken to the other at any time in their lives, and this happened three months after Dick Cheney endorsed the other side.</p><p>He&#8217;s the key to <em>all </em>the answers in this story. Dick Cheney is the answer; he&#8217;s the connection to <em>all </em>of this.</p><div><hr></div><p>Vice President Richard Cheney <em>needs</em> this contract, or his company might go under. He thought for sure Harris would win which would give him an inside view to the White House. But she didn&#8217;t. That&#8217;s okay. Vice Dick Cheney has never been one to <em>not</em> have a backup plan. He puts on his famous eyeglasses. Takes out his phone, opens <em>Contacts</em> and types in Mike. He needs to speak with Mike Waltz, National Security Advisor, and Cheney&#8217;s contact on the inside.</p><p>Mike answers on the first ring.</p><p><em>&#8220;Hello?&#8221;</em></p><p>Dick says in his gravelliest voice, <em>&#8220;Hey Mike, it&#8217;s Dick, um, remember that favor I did you. You needed a job. I was #2 in the White House and your wife was pregnant. That was nice of me, right? Now I need something nice from you.&#8221;</em></p><p>Mike says, &#8220;Yes sir, I&#8217;m listening.&#8221;</p><p><em>&#8220;Pete Hegseth is causing trouble for the family; I need him taken out.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;Well, we thought the Senate confirmation would crush him but&#8212;&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;&#8212;It didn&#8217;t. Now it&#8217;s on you.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;Yes, sir. I have an idea.&#8221;</em></p><p>Mike pulls out his phone. Screen wet from nervous sweats. He opens the <em>Contacts</em> app. Clicks the search bar. Types in a <em>&#8220;J&#8221;. Scrolls down to &#8220;JG&#8221;. Taps the &#8220;Phone&#8221; icon.</em></p><div><hr></div><h2>Finally, The Text Chain (Full Chain):</h2><p>As the legend tells it, Goldberg was added to the Signal Chat titled <em>&#8220;Houthi PC small group&#8221;</em> it has 19 members and being that it&#8217;s from Jeffrey Goldberg&#8217;s Signal app says, <em>&#8220;Michael Waltz added you to the group.&#8221;</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iZMF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fae7426ef-7190-4fbe-bd11-f4875f0d4aa9_665x1043.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!57AM!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb8c6711-c35f-4a92-a2e3-71cda20c5a01_665x682.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!57AM!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb8c6711-c35f-4a92-a2e3-71cda20c5a01_665x682.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!57AM!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb8c6711-c35f-4a92-a2e3-71cda20c5a01_665x682.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!57AM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb8c6711-c35f-4a92-a2e3-71cda20c5a01_665x682.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Here they are announcing who will be their staff answering for them when they are away.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLN3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe281fc5-adb4-48a0-aadc-263850451a77_665x693.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLN3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe281fc5-adb4-48a0-aadc-263850451a77_665x693.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLN3!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe281fc5-adb4-48a0-aadc-263850451a77_665x693.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLN3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe281fc5-adb4-48a0-aadc-263850451a77_665x693.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLN3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe281fc5-adb4-48a0-aadc-263850451a77_665x693.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLN3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe281fc5-adb4-48a0-aadc-263850451a77_665x693.jpeg" width="665" height="693" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fe281fc5-adb4-48a0-aadc-263850451a77_665x693.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:693,&quot;width&quot;:665,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Screenshot" title="Screenshot" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLN3!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe281fc5-adb4-48a0-aadc-263850451a77_665x693.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLN3!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe281fc5-adb4-48a0-aadc-263850451a77_665x693.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLN3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe281fc5-adb4-48a0-aadc-263850451a77_665x693.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLN3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe281fc5-adb4-48a0-aadc-263850451a77_665x693.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>A briefing of what is going on here.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLyd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F891e1673-153e-4794-98b2-3081aa56ddfc_665x886.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLyd!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F891e1673-153e-4794-98b2-3081aa56ddfc_665x886.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLyd!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F891e1673-153e-4794-98b2-3081aa56ddfc_665x886.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLyd!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F891e1673-153e-4794-98b2-3081aa56ddfc_665x886.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLyd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F891e1673-153e-4794-98b2-3081aa56ddfc_665x886.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLyd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F891e1673-153e-4794-98b2-3081aa56ddfc_665x886.jpeg" width="665" height="886" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/891e1673-153e-4794-98b2-3081aa56ddfc_665x886.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:886,&quot;width&quot;:665,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Screenshot" title="Screenshot" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLyd!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F891e1673-153e-4794-98b2-3081aa56ddfc_665x886.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLyd!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F891e1673-153e-4794-98b2-3081aa56ddfc_665x886.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLyd!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F891e1673-153e-4794-98b2-3081aa56ddfc_665x886.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mLyd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F891e1673-153e-4794-98b2-3081aa56ddfc_665x886.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I think this is the most important message sent here. In the future years, and you're wondering who to vote for remember this exchange. Remember who opposed this strike being carried out. Remember what people say when they think no one is looking. As much as I wished he&#8217;d pushed harder or pulled rank, at least he called on them to act rational, but as you&#8217;ll see next rationale evades this bunch. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!inPe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b046e32-fb9c-413d-8fc0-68e8d2f61509_665x698.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!inPe!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b046e32-fb9c-413d-8fc0-68e8d2f61509_665x698.jpeg 424w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>So, Joe Kent, CIA Ratcliffe say it can wait.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bGOP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96a167f8-4ad8-4973-a43b-e58d85064dd9_665x1046.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bGOP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96a167f8-4ad8-4973-a43b-e58d85064dd9_665x1046.jpeg 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Ugh, there&#8217;s nothing uglier than only opposing bombing civilians for <em>&#8220;Messaging&#8221;. <strong>But</strong></em>, he doesn&#8217;t oppose waiting so there <em>is</em> that.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XkKD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa5cfb294-a838-40db-b11e-1329e3a89910_665x988.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XkKD!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa5cfb294-a838-40db-b11e-1329e3a89910_665x988.jpeg 424w, 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stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>And Vance breaks weak. That fast. On the basis of messaging. He obviously opposes war viscerally, but I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s hard to be the one lone voice in a house full of neocon hawks, so he backs down and says, &#8220;I just hate bailing Europe out again.&#8221; Like that&#8217;s the issue with bombing apartments.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jzel!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa53f792b-b3d8-431c-b302-eee8f5cfcc1c_655x950.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jzel!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa53f792b-b3d8-431c-b302-eee8f5cfcc1c_655x950.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jzel!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa53f792b-b3d8-431c-b302-eee8f5cfcc1c_655x950.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jzel!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa53f792b-b3d8-431c-b302-eee8f5cfcc1c_655x950.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jzel!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa53f792b-b3d8-431c-b302-eee8f5cfcc1c_655x950.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jzel!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa53f792b-b3d8-431c-b302-eee8f5cfcc1c_655x950.jpeg" width="655" height="950" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a53f792b-b3d8-431c-b302-eee8f5cfcc1c_655x950.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:950,&quot;width&quot;:655,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Screenshot" title="Screenshot" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jzel!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa53f792b-b3d8-431c-b302-eee8f5cfcc1c_655x950.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jzel!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa53f792b-b3d8-431c-b302-eee8f5cfcc1c_655x950.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jzel!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa53f792b-b3d8-431c-b302-eee8f5cfcc1c_655x950.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jzel!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa53f792b-b3d8-431c-b302-eee8f5cfcc1c_655x950.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Vance thinks Hegseth is his ally, but instead of backing Vance&#8217;s position, he hops on the neocon express with Mike Waltz. The man currently selling him out as they type.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AaNk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F31121365-5ba2-42d2-9718-0619d44ab18c_665x913.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AaNk!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F31121365-5ba2-42d2-9718-0619d44ab18c_665x913.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AaNk!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F31121365-5ba2-42d2-9718-0619d44ab18c_665x913.jpeg 848w, 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HuzG!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bce9968-3606-48e2-8613-1d19960da052_665x203.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HuzG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bce9968-3606-48e2-8613-1d19960da052_665x203.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HuzG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5bce9968-3606-48e2-8613-1d19960da052_665x203.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>&#8220;Godspeed to our Warriors.&#8221;</em> This isn&#8217;t Troy you asshole, and I&#8217;m not against the troops or the <em>Warriors</em>, but they chose to be the guys dropping the bombs, the innocents murdered here did <em>not</em> choose where they were born. They are <em>not </em>Warriors these are tools of government tyranny.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Glz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7114a156-0ca4-47ae-adb7-0575725ce3d9_665x961.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Glz!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7114a156-0ca4-47ae-adb7-0575725ce3d9_665x961.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Glz!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7114a156-0ca4-47ae-adb7-0575725ce3d9_665x961.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Glz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7114a156-0ca4-47ae-adb7-0575725ce3d9_665x961.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Glz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7114a156-0ca4-47ae-adb7-0575725ce3d9_665x961.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Glz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7114a156-0ca4-47ae-adb7-0575725ce3d9_665x961.jpeg" width="665" height="961" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7114a156-0ca4-47ae-adb7-0575725ce3d9_665x961.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:961,&quot;width&quot;:665,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Screenshot" title="Screenshot" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Glz!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7114a156-0ca4-47ae-adb7-0575725ce3d9_665x961.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Glz!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7114a156-0ca4-47ae-adb7-0575725ce3d9_665x961.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Glz!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7114a156-0ca4-47ae-adb7-0575725ce3d9_665x961.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4Glz!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7114a156-0ca4-47ae-adb7-0575725ce3d9_665x961.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Yemen time is seven hours ahead of our time. It was around 9 PM when they collapsed this apartment complex with an airstrike simply because one of their targets were there, and he was there &#8212; assuming it was a he &#8212; because his girlfriend was there. For this everyone was killed. 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This is the only part that should be truly sensitive to the public. The callousness of this display. How can the <em>&#8220;Pro-Life&#8221; party</em> then go on to celebrate death in this manner, this should be the most unsettling display that this administration has expressed. It&#8217;s truly heartbreaking, but this isn&#8217;t the story because Jeffrey Goldberg&#8217;s pro war, pro murder stance inches to the verge of Hitlerism. He never <em>seen</em> a war he wasn&#8217;t sycophantically in favor of.</p><p>There is no peace candidate coming our way, it seems we are doomed to kill until we reach the ultimate moment and kill the human race as a whole, I hope I&#8217;m not right, but the bombs are still dropping.</p><p>Thank you for reading!</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9b39f62-dd60-45ab-af4a-247b927b5511_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;e5f0ea11-8a44-4b12-9f1d-b6b526df1511&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> Editor-in-Chief <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Freedom Manifesto&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:368081,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0713a6ae-3f57-4fdf-8fc7-241d89b85795_768x768.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;b97be221-4af9-4385-b114-f1ebcdd8dac2&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p><div id="youtube2-gACMlxD14BM" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;gACMlxD14BM&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/gACMlxD14BM?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The Signal incident is what happens when you have the most unqualified Secretary of Defense we&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; Kelly <a href="https://x.com/SenMarkKelly/status/1904878146068902146">posted on X</a>. &#8220;We&#8217;re lucky it didn&#8217;t cost any servicemembers their lives, but for the safety of our military and our country, Secretary Hegseth needs to resign.&#8221;</strong></p><p><strong>Several top Democrats have already demanded Hegseth and other national security leaders resign or that Trump fire them &#8212; including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Whip Katherine Clark, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.), Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.).</strong></p><p><strong>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer stopped short of calling for Hegseth or other top officials&#8217; resignations in a floor speech Wednesday but called on Trump to provide Congress with the unredacted Signal chat, including messages sent after Goldberg left the channel. He said &#8220;many outstanding questions are simply not answered&#8221; by the latest Atlantic report.</strong></p><p><strong>&#8220;It is appalling,&#8221; Schumer said. &#8220;Worst of all, it confirms our darkest assumptions about mishandling of sensitive military operations.&#8221;</strong></p><p><strong>&#8220;What is the administration hiding by not releasing the full and complete transcript of this text chain?&#8221; Schumer continued. &#8220;If no classified information was shared, the administration should have no issue with the full transcript being shared with senators.&#8221;</strong></p><p><strong>Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) issued some of the sharpest criticism from Hill Republicans. The Nebraska Republican sits on the Armed Services Committee and is a former U.S. Air Force officer.</strong></p><p><strong>&#8220;The White House is in denial that this was not classified or sensitive data,&#8221; Bacon said. &#8220;They should just own up to it and preserve credibility.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear and Loathing in the Oval Office: Mr. Zelenskyy has Cashed his Check]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ukraine Minerals Deal is a Carrier Pigeon for Endless War Policies, CHANGE MY MIND!]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-the-oval-office</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-the-oval-office</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:26:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">This is what Google Gemini gave me when I asked for Ukraine versus the American people</figcaption></figure></div><p>This <a href="https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/articles/2025/02/26/7205922/">Ukraine minerals deal</a> is exploitation of an ally in their time of need, says corporate media and National Security pundits. </p><p>European leaders:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;French President Emmanuel Macron posted: &#8216;There is an aggressor: Russia. There is a victim: Ukraine. We were right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago - and to keep doing so.&#8221;&#8217;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said the Netherlands supports Ukraine &#8216;now more than ever&#8217;, adding: &#8216;We want a lasting peace and an end to the war of aggression started by Russia. For Ukraine and its people, and for Europe.&#8217;&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;Germany's outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote that &#8216;no one wants peace more than the citizens of Ukraine&#8217;, with his replacement-in-waiting Friedrich Merz adding that &#8216;we stand with Ukraine&#8217; and &#8216;we must never confuse aggressor and victim in this terrible war.&#8217;&#8221; <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9n5jq42pdo">All according to the BBC.</a></em><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9n5jq42pdo"> </a></p></blockquote><p>These rare earth minerals are a <em>prima facie</em> security agreement, and a way for the American people to get <em>something</em> for the $350 billion dollars in taxes sent to fund this war, says President Trump and officials in his administration.</p><p>But if we follow-through with this deal what exactly are we agreeing to? Are we gonna promise a<a href="https://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/History/polandbetrayal.htm"> security agreement and then back out when they need us like Britain and France did to Poland in WWII</a>? Or allow ourselves to be dragged in like the<a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=7eeb294425278e083b755003257baf578e6aac4d20970d309743ae5de12bb9d3JmltdHM9MTc0MTMwNTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=lend-lease+agreement+that+drug+us+into+WWII&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9lbmN5Y2xvcGVkaWEudXNobW0ub3JnL2NvbnRlbnQvZW4vdGltZWxpbmUtZXZlbnQvaG9sb2NhdXN0LzE5MzktMTk0MS9sZW5kLWxlYXNlLWFjdA&amp;ntb=1"> </a><em><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=7eeb294425278e083b755003257baf578e6aac4d20970d309743ae5de12bb9d3JmltdHM9MTc0MTMwNTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=lend-lease+agreement+that+drug+us+into+WWII&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9lbmN5Y2xvcGVkaWEudXNobW0ub3JnL2NvbnRlbnQvZW4vdGltZWxpbmUtZXZlbnQvaG9sb2NhdXN0LzE5MzktMTk0MS9sZW5kLWxlYXNlLWFjdA&amp;ntb=1">Lend-Lease Agreement </a></em><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=7eeb294425278e083b755003257baf578e6aac4d20970d309743ae5de12bb9d3JmltdHM9MTc0MTMwNTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=lend-lease+agreement+that+drug+us+into+WWII&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9lbmN5Y2xvcGVkaWEudXNobW0ub3JnL2NvbnRlbnQvZW4vdGltZWxpbmUtZXZlbnQvaG9sb2NhdXN0LzE5MzktMTk0MS9sZW5kLWxlYXNlLWFjdA&amp;ntb=1">did</a> to the U.S. in the same war?</p><p>If we agree to this security agreement, what kind of security are we talking? </p><p>Parents, are you down with your draft-age son and daughter going to war with Russia?</p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Declaration of Liberty is a reader-supported publication. 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All the way through the meeting and that&#8217;s what led to the blow-up, &#8220;<em>What is this <strong>diplomacy</strong>, <strong>J D?&#8221;</strong></em></p><div id="youtube2-7pxbGjvcdyY" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;7pxbGjvcdyY&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;1998&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7pxbGjvcdyY?start=1998&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><blockquote><p><em><strong>ZELENSKYY: </strong>Yes. But during 2014 till 2022, was the situation the same, that people have been dying on the contact line. Nobody stopped him, that we had conversations with him, a lot of conversations, my bilateral conversation and we signed with him, me like a new president in 2019. I signed with him the deal. I signed with him. Macron and Merkel. We signed ceasefire. Ceasefire. All of them told me that he will never go. We signed him. Guest contract. Guest contract, yes, but after that he broken this cease fire. He killed our people and he didn&#8217;t exchange prisoners. We signed the exchange of prisoners, but he didn&#8217;t do it. What kind of diplomacy J.D., you are speaking about? What do you mean?</em></p></blockquote><p>Look, Vladimir Putin is <em>not</em> a good guy by any means, he had other options than invading Ukraine, but Zelenskyy is fu*king lying. He&#8217;s not a <em>good guy</em> either. He&#8217;d allow the whole world to be blown up and the end of the human race rather than stuff down his pride and reach out for peace.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DRbY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c20e798-4cd6-44b1-989a-326099b87b8d_2048x1367.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DRbY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c20e798-4cd6-44b1-989a-326099b87b8d_2048x1367.jpeg 424w, 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data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3c20e798-4cd6-44b1-989a-326099b87b8d_2048x1367.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:972,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;When It Comes to Bearing Bad Tidings, Putin Is Nowhere to Be Found ...&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="When It Comes to Bearing Bad Tidings, Putin Is Nowhere to Be Found ..." title="When It Comes to Bearing Bad Tidings, Putin Is Nowhere to Be Found ..." 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Zelenskyy is proclaiming, as he does to <em>everyone,</em> that Putin won&#8217;t respect <em>any</em> kind of diplomacy when it has been documented for years that the Ukrainian side has been the real bottleneck to every peace settlement that has been attempted between these neighboring countries. It is actually clear&#8212;and maybe Zelenskyy was not aware of this being it was on Poroshenko, his predecessor&#8212;that Ukraine continued fighting following the signing of the Minsk peace agreements. In the pro-Ukrainian&#8212;probably USAID-funded&#8212;<em><a href="https://euromaidanpress.com/2015/02/14/dmytro-yarosh-right-sector-fight-complete-liberation-ukraine-russian-occupants/">EuroMaidan Press&#8217;</a></em><a href="https://euromaidanpress.com/2015/02/14/dmytro-yarosh-right-sector-fight-complete-liberation-ukraine-russian-occupants/"> </a><strong><a href="https://euromaidanpress.com/2015/02/14/dmytro-yarosh-right-sector-fight-complete-liberation-ukraine-russian-occupants/">Yuriy Yatsyshyn </a></strong><a href="https://euromaidanpress.com/2015/02/14/dmytro-yarosh-right-sector-fight-complete-liberation-ukraine-russian-occupants/">says</a>:</p><blockquote><p><em>The Right Sector views the agreements reached with the Kremlin-controlled separatists as contrary to the Constitution of Ukraine and reserves the right to carry on military action, its leader Dmytro Yarosh wrote on his Facebook page Friday.</em></p><p><em>The agreements signed in Minsk have no legal force, contradict the Constitution, and, therefore, aren&#8217;t legally binding on Ukrainian citizens. Besides, Russia and President Putin aren&#8217;t going to observe them anyway, Mr. Yarosh points out.</em></p><p><em>Mr. Yarosh also appealed in his post to President Poroshenko to engage the US and Great Britain in the next round of peace talks, as these two states follow clear-cut anti-Kremlin policies, unlike Germany and France.</em></p><p>&#8230;Thus, if the Ukrainian army is ordered to pull back heavy artillery and vehicles and observe a ceasefire, the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps will continue fighting in line with its own campaign planning, until complete liberation of Ukrainian lands from Russian occupants, the Right Sector leader assures.</p><p>The Right Sector is calling on the Ukrainian people, authorities and government agencies, the Armed Forces and military volunteer organizations to consolidate efforts in the struggle for Ukraine&#8217;s sovereignty against the Kremlin empire, Ukraine&#8217;s perpetual enemy.</p></blockquote><p>The statement above is being made under the premise of the Minsk Peace deal. The deal Zelenskyy said Putin refused to follow, but these are statements made by the leader of <em>&#8220;The Right Sector&#8221;</em>, the least radical of the Ukrainian nationalist and neo-Nazi groups in the fight. Svoboda and Azov being the most notorious. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0F4b!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9022cded-dcc5-4049-8411-fa692edf2b5e_1200x675.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0F4b!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9022cded-dcc5-4049-8411-fa692edf2b5e_1200x675.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0F4b!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9022cded-dcc5-4049-8411-fa692edf2b5e_1200x675.jpeg 848w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2015/07/21/ukraine-right-sector-rallies-against-government-in-kyiv">Ukraine Right Sector rallies against government in Kyiv</a></figcaption></figure></div><h2><em>Why does this matter?</em> </h2><p>The Ukrainian government is fu*king occupied by Right Sector. Whether you believe the truth<a href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/interference-the-anatomy-of-regime"> (It was a US-backed coup)</a> or not, what is not in dispute is that when it came to the<a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=a214bc189524e7740853adcd05201afa9c68f42d718323d30f7bcc979afbb04dJmltdHM9MTc0MTMwNTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=Right+Sector+and+Neo-Nazi+Svoboda+Party+took+occupation+of+the+government&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucG9saXRpY28uZXUvYXJ0aWNsZS91a3JhaW5lLWZhci1yaWdodC1tZW5hY2UtcmFkaWNhbC1taWxpdGFudHMtdWx0cmFuYXRpb25hbGlzdHMv&amp;ntb=1"> overthrowing of &#8220;democratically elected&#8221; Ukrainian President Yanukovych in 2014, the &#8220;far-right&#8221; group Right Sector and Neo-Nazi Svoboda Party took occupation of the government.</a> And when Russia, Germany, France, and Ukrainian President Poroshenko got together to put forward the Minsk Peace deal, the Nazi factions of the Ukrainian government refused to stop fighting, they said &#8220;Fuck that agreement! Get the US in here, they&#8217;ll get a better deal!&#8221; Who knew we had so much street cred with Nazi&#8217;s? </p><p>Ukraine does have an unprecedented nazi problem. Unlike any country in the world that I am otherwise aware of. There is <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=0b394931c3f6a1cb77fadb82c0baf8aad7be1b68fdcc78e243a842682b08dcd9JmltdHM9MTc0MTMwNTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=the+Azov+Battalion&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmlyc3Rwb3N0LmNvbS9leHBsYWluZXJzL3J1c3NpYS11a3JhaW5lLXdhci1jb250cm92ZXJzaWFsLWF6b3YtYnJpZ2FkZS11cy1taWxpdGFyeS1haWQtMTM3ODE3OTUuaHRtbA&amp;ntb=1">the Azov Battalion</a>, <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=2dc9d309ee6300e853fd4d182b1a03d56c3a35632054e38b8c087f3341ff300dJmltdHM9MTc0MTMwNTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=Right+Sector&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmJjLmNvbS9uZXdzL3dvcmxkLWV1cm9wZS0yNzE3Mzg1Nw&amp;ntb=1">Right Sector</a>, <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=2877b7926e213f1071d9ecd0b7c7f0445d2ae21fede08fb73060473dd89f1d69JmltdHM9MTc0MTMwNTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=C-14+ukraine&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmVsbGluZ2NhdC5jb20vbmV3cy91ay1hbmQtZXVyb3BlLzIwMTkvMDgvMDkveWVzLWl0cy1zdGlsbC1vay10by1jYWxsLXVrcmFpbmVzLWMxNC1uZW8tbmF6aS8&amp;ntb=1">C14</a>, and the <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=9bdacd2c8a3eff157fe985f2dea8b05bedfcf9839445ffccf195cad791db9c5eJmltdHM9MTc0MTMwNTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=Svoboda+Party&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmJjLmNvbS9uZXdzL21hZ2F6aW5lLTIwODI0Njkz&amp;ntb=1">Svoboda Party</a> to name a few. And they are the few involved in the Ukrainian defense department, this is why when Putin first invaded Ukraine in 2022 it was only to my soft western ears that his <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ukraine-has-nazi-problem-vladimir-putin-s-denazification-claim-war-ncna1290946">&#8220;Denazification</a> of Ukraine&#8221; excuse seemed totally absurd. I know outraged liberals like to call people nazi&#8217;s, but they are not, <em>actually</em>. Nazis were a thing that came and gone, ceased to exist past WWII, right? Nope. In fact, they didn&#8217;t even leave the continent. And we, here in the Western Hemisphere, love these fu*king nazis! Apparently, the line is killing Russians in place of Jews, <em>that seems to be acceptable</em>.</p><blockquote><p><em>Many societies, including Russia, have far-right and even racialist militias like Azov and C14. But how many of them outright integrate these forces into their militaries? And how many have a parliament run by them, where even <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-azov/ultra-nationalist-ukrainian-battalion-gears-up-for-more-fighting-idUSKBN0ML0XJ20150325/">presidents live in fear of fascist mobs </a>outside their doors? How many of <a href="https://x.com/ChristopherJM/status/1055507370871271428">their leaders get invited to speak at official U.S. government events</a>, like when C14&#8217;s Serhiy Bondar spoke about the group at the U.S.-sponsored America House Kiev? How many socialize with America&#8217;s political elite, like when in the summer of 2018 Svoboda&#8217;s Parubiy was brought to Washington, D.C., at least twice to visit House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. McCain, and be warmly received by Mike Pompeo&#8217;s State Department?</em> </p><div id="youtube2-bjK1yv-1IO8" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;bjK1yv-1IO8&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/bjK1yv-1IO8?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p><em>It is also important to understand why this coup led to catastrophe. It was the end of compromise between major factions. The ethnic Ukrainian nationalists who had seized power were determined to make the majority of the people bow to their will or get the hell out if they did not like it. When the east resisted, it was the vanguard of the neo-Nazi right who did not hesitate to wage war against their own population, further solidifying the division between them. <a href="https://fom.coe.int/en/alerte/detail/52442747">Ukrainian Nazis also threatened to murder Bellingcat&#8217;s</a> Oleksiy Kuzmenko and Michael Colborne for their journalism on this issue in a way that really showed a lack of appreciation for the nuance with which both men had treated the subject in their writing. &#8212;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Provoked-Washington-Started-Catastrophe-Ukraine/dp/1733647376">Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine</a></em></p></blockquote><p>Several years later the war in the Donbas is still raging on, Putin, of all people, makes a peace offer which is rejected by U.S. foreign policy stooges:</p><blockquote><p><em>In September 2017, Vladimir Putin proposed a deal to bring in blue-helmet UN peacekeepers to stand on the border zone separating Kiev&#8217;s forces from the Donbas rebels. Though the Germans thought the proposal looked promising, the Americans and British rejected the deal. They claimed Putin&#8217;s plan was too limited, insisting that peacekeepers must be deployed to the entirety of the Donbas&#8212;including the international border that Kiev no longer controlled&#8212;or nothing.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211101042548/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-peacekeepers-iduskcn1bt0p5/">[842] </a></em></p><p><em>But James Sherr of the Royal Institute for International Affairs explained what they were really worried about: not lives, but leverage. He said the Russians knew the U.S. could not accept their proposal as first presented. &#8220;A radical question therefore arises: supposing his ultimate gambit is to meet the West&#8217;s terms? A full ceasefire comes into effect, UN peacekeepers deploy throughout the territory, and, to all intents and purposes, Russian troops and &#8216;volunteers&#8217; depart.&#8221; He was worried this would be &#8220;the perfect trap&#8221; because it &#8220;would transform the target of pressure from Russia to Ukraine.&#8221; Up until then, he said, <strong>Kiev had resisted holding elections, despite the terms of Minsk II, under the theory that the Russians&#8217; presence made a fair vote impossible.</strong> <strong>&#8220;Take away the occupation and the conflict, and you take away the argument. You also take away the argument for maintaining (non-Crimea related) sanctions and hand financial responsibility for the welfare of the territories to Kyiv.&#8221;</strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220901062319/https://www.chathamhouse.org/2017/10/donbas-peacekeepers-proposal-classic-putin-gambit">[843] </a>In other words, if they came to an agreement to stop the fighting and remove alleged Russian soldiers from the battlefield, that would ruin Kiev&#8217;s excuse to continue to ignore the Minsk peace deals. &#8212;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Provoked-Washington-Started-Catastrophe-Ukraine/dp/1733647376">Provoked</a></em></p></blockquote><p><em><strong>THIS. IS. EVERYTHING! </strong></em>By the way, the excerpts from <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Scott Horton&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:2016908,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/95bb0561-503b-4d83-8304-05f3d5a895f1_4501x4500.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;c6643ad0-cc4e-47b1-bd9e-1cc1a873882b&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>&#8217;s book <em>Provoked</em> and the last two sources he quotes, American, foreign policy &#8220;establishment&#8221; sources, were scrubbed from the internet. Fortunately for us and unfortunately for the scrubber, <em><a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> </em>ensures<em> </em><strong>nothing </strong>is ever truly scrubbed, and you can find them <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211101042548/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-peacekeepers-iduskcn1bt0p5/">Here (&#8220;Refused&#8221; Russian peace proposal)</a> and<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220901062319/https://www.chathamhouse.org/2017/10/donbas-peacekeepers-proposal-classic-putin-gambit"> Here (Why it&#8217;s refused)</a>. </p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-the-oval-office?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-the-oval-office?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share Declaration of Liberty&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share Declaration of Liberty</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>So, back to the present:</p><p>If we sign this &#8220;Minerals-Security Deal&#8221; with Ukraine we are signing up to go to war. These people will never allow there to be peace in the region. It&#8217;s like admitting a country into NATO that is currently at war. If they did that it would mean immediately invoking Article 5 and sending all NATO allies to war:</p><blockquote><p><em><a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm#:~:text=Every%20participating%20country">Article 5 provides that if a NATO Ally</a> is the victim of an armed attack, each and every other member of the Alliance will consider this act of violence as an armed attack against all members and will take the actions it deems necessary to assist the Ally attacked.</em></p></blockquote><p> This is why another NATO rule logically follows, that &#8220;no country can join NATO while they are at war,&#8221; due to Article 5 clashing with<a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_17120.htm#:~:text=The%20%EE%80%80Parties%EE%80%81%20undertake,"> Article 8</a>:</p><blockquote><p><em>Each Party declares that none of the international engagements now in force between it and any other of the Parties or any third State is in conflict with the provisions of this Treaty, and undertakes not to enter into any international engagement in conflict with this Treaty.</em></p></blockquote><h2>My Position, As A Peace-Loving American</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-6s!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa641f515-e015-48d1-80e5-503aea4af51c_1600x900.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-6s!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa641f515-e015-48d1-80e5-503aea4af51c_1600x900.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-6s!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa641f515-e015-48d1-80e5-503aea4af51c_1600x900.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-6s!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa641f515-e015-48d1-80e5-503aea4af51c_1600x900.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-6s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa641f515-e015-48d1-80e5-503aea4af51c_1600x900.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-6s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa641f515-e015-48d1-80e5-503aea4af51c_1600x900.jpeg" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a641f515-e015-48d1-80e5-503aea4af51c_1600x900.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Happy Flag Day! | Council on Foreign Relations&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Happy Flag Day! | Council on Foreign Relations" title="Happy Flag Day! | Council on Foreign Relations" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-6s!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa641f515-e015-48d1-80e5-503aea4af51c_1600x900.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-6s!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa641f515-e015-48d1-80e5-503aea4af51c_1600x900.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-6s!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa641f515-e015-48d1-80e5-503aea4af51c_1600x900.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-6s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa641f515-e015-48d1-80e5-503aea4af51c_1600x900.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>I&#8217;ve been wanting to write about this spat </em>since it happened, but I wasn&#8217;t sure what my feelings were about it, but after a few days thinking and listening to other takes on it and asking people at work what they thought about it, I realize the only position I could possibly take on this is fu*k Zelenskyy and those minerals.<em> </em></p><p>We are American&#8217;s. We want to live happy, peaceful lives. Have fun, raise families, and retire in peace. If Ukraine wants to be at war forever, they can keep the shit. We can&#8217;t let them drag us into this!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9W8D!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc018303-9b2a-4947-a4c6-a917058c2342_1220x733.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9W8D!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc018303-9b2a-4947-a4c6-a917058c2342_1220x733.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9W8D!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc018303-9b2a-4947-a4c6-a917058c2342_1220x733.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9W8D!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc018303-9b2a-4947-a4c6-a917058c2342_1220x733.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9W8D!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc018303-9b2a-4947-a4c6-a917058c2342_1220x733.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9W8D!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc018303-9b2a-4947-a4c6-a917058c2342_1220x733.jpeg" width="1220" height="733" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fc018303-9b2a-4947-a4c6-a917058c2342_1220x733.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:733,&quot;width&quot;:1220,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;USA Peace Flag 3x5ft American Peace Sign Flag Protest Flag 100D&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="USA Peace Flag 3x5ft American Peace Sign Flag Protest Flag 100D" title="USA Peace Flag 3x5ft American Peace Sign Flag Protest Flag 100D" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9W8D!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc018303-9b2a-4947-a4c6-a917058c2342_1220x733.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9W8D!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc018303-9b2a-4947-a4c6-a917058c2342_1220x733.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9W8D!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc018303-9b2a-4947-a4c6-a917058c2342_1220x733.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9W8D!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc018303-9b2a-4947-a4c6-a917058c2342_1220x733.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>We already know Zelenskyy is going to use this to his advantage immediately. He&#8217;s been all but begging us to join them with boots on the ground against Russia for three years now, and what else could we possibly do to ensure Ukraine&#8217;s security, <em>but </em>that? We had the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html">CIA training Ukrainians and giving them intelligence</a> since the Obama administration. <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=254e9bbd33cb1934f0cf7086802073866877c67b9829544bda0ceba0dc19bd73JmltdHM9MTc0MTMwNTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=We%e2%80%99ve+given+ukraine+every+weapon+we+have+to+offer&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmJjLmNvbS9uZXdzL3dvcmxkLWV1cm9wZS02MjAwMjIxOA&amp;ntb=1">We&#8217;ve given them every weapon we have to offer</a>, even some that were <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=13a629d7780cb7bbc608e8b9394d4cdfd6c6d59e9352b7846b458ae77ce02abdJmltdHM9MTc0MTMwNTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=US+cluster+bombs+in+ukraine&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmJjLmNvbS9uZXdzL3dvcmxkLWV1cm9wZS02NjEzMzUyNw&amp;ntb=1">considered war crimes to use</a>, we&#8217;ve even supplied them with F-16&#8217;s and the training to operate them, <em><strong>what other security are we guaranteeing them?! </strong></em> This is how WWII commenced. Britain and France guaranteed security to Poland and when Germany invaded, taking heed to the &#8220;war guarantee&#8221;, they declared war on Germany. They failed to act before preserving Poland and it was quite the disaster. Maybe they would have anyways, and maybe that was right. But if the plan is to avoid WWIII than maybe we should avoid taking the exact same steps that led to WWII. </p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a5e0d220-0d86-458e-8ac3-5892754f6603_800x637.webp&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6b0d2454-6f1a-4e49-9390-346c2bc20639_1280x1160.webp&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/626a214d-06b4-46aa-b189-61771b0747f7_1280x1060.webp&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4068d569-c231-44bf-a48d-908c9928a98e_1280x1136.webp&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2e102d6c-9c3d-4a80-828b-69462183083d_1280x1048.webp&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d598e99c-6d62-4e86-9c63-8dd964d64ae0_1280x1156.webp&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7191cbbe-9162-41cc-9ad1-71facf9cd801_800x695.webp&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/44dcdd0f-46ae-46bb-ac64-fe7eee7e65b6_800x1475.webp&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/79a9a3c5-3350-476d-a46b-85508c36a979_800x1475.webp&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4c190202-d614-4931-b6fb-4d570d848fd0_1456x1454.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><div id="youtube2-OvV0SG4THJg" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;OvV0SG4THJg&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/OvV0SG4THJg?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-the-oval-office?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-the-oval-office?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share Declaration of Liberty&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share Declaration of Liberty</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h3><em><strong>&#8220;Nukes or NATO&#8221;, says unhinged Ukrainian Comedian</strong></em></h3><p>Also, I did a bit of a survey here at my job&#8212;lucky for them&#8212;asking thirty every day, working people, if they were willing to go to war with Russia to protect minerals in Ukraine and 0% said they would. No one is willing to go fight this war, so what exactly are we agreeing to? <em>Conscripted </em>boots on the ground? Nukes? <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/volodymyr-zelensky-demands-nukes-to-end-war-with-russia/ar-AA1ypylc">Zelenskyy&#8217;s been begging for nukes</a>. With the hate that man has in his heart, if we gave him a nuke tonight, he&#8217;d drop it on Moscow by morning and it would be <em>devastating!</em></p><h2>Continuity of Endless War</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EAXF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5eb0aaa-c875-4228-9b56-a7d4b2400cef_1600x775.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EAXF!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5eb0aaa-c875-4228-9b56-a7d4b2400cef_1600x775.jpeg 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p><em><a href="http://syriatimes.sy/u-s-launched-201-out-of-the-248-armed-conflicts-since-the-end-of-wwii/">&#8220;Since the end of World War II</a>, there have been 248 armed conflicts in 153 locations around the world. The United States launched 201 overseas military operations between the end of World War II and 2001, and since then, others, including Afghanistan and Iraq.&#8221;<br>The report adds, &#8220;The proportion of civilian deaths and the methods for classifying deaths as civilian are debated, but civilian war deaths constitute 85% to 90% of casualties caused by war, with about 10 civilians dying for every combatant killed in battle.&#8221;</em></p><p><em><a href="http://syriatimes.sy/u-s-launched-201-out-of-the-248-armed-conflicts-since-the-end-of-wwii/">Swanson notes, &#8220;A top defense of war i</a>s that it must be used to prevent something worse, called genocide. Not only does militarism generate genocide rather than preventing it, but the distinction between war and genocide is a very fine one at best.&#8221;<br>The report future notes &#8220;The United States is responsible for 41% of the world&#8217;s total military spending. The next largest in spending are China, accounting for 8.2%; Russia, 4.1%; and the United Kingdom and France, both 3.6%. . . . If all military . . . costs are included, annual [US] spending amounts to $1 trillion&#8221;.<br>In other words, America has apparently adopted a &#8220;total power standard,&#8221; spending more on military than most of the rest of the world combined: &#8220;The United States spent more on its military than the next 13 nations combined in 2011,&#8221; the report says.</em></p></blockquote><p>Does it seem like a good idea to dive balls deep into another war?! Every generation, every <em>single </em>one has been devastated by these horrible wars, look at the comparisons for suicidal ideation before and after the military:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ShZ-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa88ba7c-ae94-41af-95c5-325482d87591_1200x1200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ShZ-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa88ba7c-ae94-41af-95c5-325482d87591_1200x1200.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ShZ-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa88ba7c-ae94-41af-95c5-325482d87591_1200x1200.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ShZ-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa88ba7c-ae94-41af-95c5-325482d87591_1200x1200.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ShZ-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa88ba7c-ae94-41af-95c5-325482d87591_1200x1200.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ShZ-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffa88ba7c-ae94-41af-95c5-325482d87591_1200x1200.jpeg" width="1200" height="1200" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><p> In<a href="https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/docs/data-sheets/2024/2024-Annual-Report-Part-2-of-2_508.pdf"> part two of the report</a>, the &#8220;<em>Key Findings&#8221;</em> were:</p><ul><li><p>Suicide was the 12th-leading cause of death for Veterans in 2022. Suicide was the 2nd-leading cause of death for Veterans under age 45-years-old. </p></li><li><p> There were 6,407 Veteran suicide deaths in 2022, three more than in 2021. </p></li><li><p> In 2022, there were 271 suicides among female Veterans (80 fewer than in 2021) and 6,136 among male Veterans (83 more than in 2021). </p></li><li><p>There were 47,891 suicides in 2022 among all U.S. adults in 2022, on average 131.2 per day. These included on average 17.6 Veteran suicides per day, of which 7.0 per day were among Veterans who received VHA care in 2021 or 2022 and 10.5 were among other Veterans. </p></li><li><p>In 2022, the unadjusted rate of suicide for Veterans was 34.7 per 100,000 (up from 34.0 per 100,000 in 2021). </p></li><li><p>It was 13.5 per 100,000 for female Veterans (down from 17.6 per 100,000 in 2021) and 37.3 per 100,000 for male Veterans (up from 35.9 per 100,000 in 2021). </p></li><li><p>In 2022, for female Veterans unadjusted and age-adjusted suicide rates were lower than in each of the 5 prior years. For female non-Veteran adults unadjusted and age-adjusted suicide rates in 2022 exceeded those of the prior 2 years. </p></li><li><p>From 2021 to 2022, age-adjusted rates increased by 1.6% for male Veterans and by 1.8% for male non-Veteran adults. </p></li><li><p>For both male Veterans and male non-Veteran U.S. adults, unadjusted and age-adjusted suicide rates were higher in 2022 than in all other years included in this report, 2001-2022. </p></li><li><p>In 2022, unadjusted suicide rates were highest among Veterans between ages 18- and 34-years-old, followed by those aged 35- to 54-years-old. </p></li><li><p>In 2022, suicide was the 4th-leading cause of Veterans&#8217; years of potential life lost. </p></li><li><p>Among U.S. adults who died from suicide in 2022, firearms were more commonly involved among Veteran deaths (73.5%) than among non-Veteran deaths (52.2%).</p></li></ul><p>How sad is this. They are forced into this terrible barbaric fight to the death against people they really don&#8217;t know. Have no <em>actual</em> reason to hate. At most, a synthetic hatred manufactured to help some rich guy&#8217;s corporate interests, maybe they know this, maybe they don&#8217;t, but they <em>all</em> get it eventually, then after surviving that hell over there, the trauma of it in <em>way too many cases, </em>leads them to take their own lives. And we&#8217;re now looking for more!? Stop it. This. Is. 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Ron Paul, R-Texas said: </p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We&#8217;re under great threat because we occupy so many countries. We&#8217;re in 130 countries. We have 900 bases around the world. We&#8217;re going broke. The purpose of al-Qaeda was to attack us, invite us over there, where they can target us. And they have been doing it. They have more attacks against us and the American interests per month than occurred in all the years before 9/11. But we&#8217;re there, occupying their land. And if we think that we can do that and not have retaliation, we&#8217;re kidding ourselves. We have to be honest with ourselves. What would we do if another country, say China, did to us what we do to all those countries over there?</em></p><p><em>&#8220;So, this whole idea that the whole Muslim world is responsible for this and they&#8217;re attacking us because we&#8217;re free and prosperous, that is just not true. Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda have been explicit. They have been explicit, and they wrote and said that we attacked&#8212;we attacked America because you had bases on our holy land in Saudi Arabia, you do not give Palestinians a fair treatment, and you have been bombing&#8212;I didn&#8217;t say that, I&#8217;m trying to get you to understand what the motive was behind the bombing. At the same time, we had been bombing and killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis for 10 years. Would you be annoyed? If you&#8217;re not annoyed, then there&#8217;s some problem.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>This all but ensures conflict, if we are not going to shut some of those down, does anyone think it&#8217;s a great idea to add security agreements to a country at war with the only country that rivals us in <em>bombs that could make the whole world go BOOM!?</em></p><p>Mr. Trump, we elected you to <em><strong>&#8220;Stop the killing!&#8221; Not increase it.</strong></em></p><p>My kneejerk position on this was, &#8220;Hey, at least we&#8217;re <em>actually </em>getting something back for the tax dollars we are working our asses off for, but I took a second to think about it, &#8220;played out the tape&#8221;&#8212;as they say in 12-step&#8212;and came to this question, &#8220;are we really going to commit <em>our </em>boys to get killed supporting a country that is refusing peace talks against a nuclear superpower who is <em>already </em>winning the war?!&#8221; Fu*k no! </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-the-oval-office/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-the-oval-office/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Declaration of Liberty is a reader-supported publication. 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Do We Put Him Down or Let Him Run Amok!?</h3><p>We must reject the idea of <em>any</em> security agreements with Ukraine <em>FULL STOP! </em>It&#8217;s bad enough we have to worry about the NATO countries, we can&#8217;t worry about Ukraine too. Which brings me to the next issue, and it&#8217;s one that I haven&#8217;t shut up about since I learned the &#8220;<a href="https://archive.org/details/2022-02-26-grebulon-nuland-pyatt-leaked-ukraine-2014-phone-conversation-complete-with-subtitles-480">deets.</a>&#8221; </p><p>Zelenskyy is <em>our</em> creation. By <em>our</em> I mean Washington&#8217;s, as<a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=provoked+by+scott+horton&amp;adgrpid=1345804699728030&amp;hvadid=84113067181619&amp;hvbmt=bp&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=88757&amp;hvnetw=o&amp;hvqmt=p&amp;hvtargid=kwd-84113904702801%3Aloc-190&amp;hydadcr=22564_13494464&amp;mcid=6c7ad65a64b53db8ad65f073fcc4d27d&amp;msclkid=480a20d1497c1b93f0f2471d1cbb586b&amp;tag=mh0b-20&amp;ref=pd_sl_81d5r3pgec_p"> <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Scott Horton&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:2016908,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/95bb0561-503b-4d83-8304-05f3d5a895f1_4501x4500.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;7633e50b-aa23-470a-8306-1602f2249f4c&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> outlines in his new book </a><em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=provoked+by+scott+horton&amp;adgrpid=1345804699728030&amp;hvadid=84113067181619&amp;hvbmt=bp&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=88757&amp;hvnetw=o&amp;hvqmt=p&amp;hvtargid=kwd-84113904702801%3Aloc-190&amp;hydadcr=22564_13494464&amp;mcid=6c7ad65a64b53db8ad65f073fcc4d27d&amp;msclkid=480a20d1497c1b93f0f2471d1cbb586b&amp;tag=mh0b-20&amp;ref=pd_sl_81d5r3pgec_p">Provoked</a>. Built off of like 100,000 pieces of primary source evidence that makes such an airtight case Galileo couldn&#8217;t refute it, and Houdini couldn&#8217;t escape it&#8212;though they try.</em></p><p>Every presidential administration since George H.W. Bush all the way through Biden has perpetuated and led Ukraine to where they are today. As Author/Professor <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;John J. Mearsheimer&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:11197444,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F67feac20-c8d8-4519-b7d5-b16bf0717c51_1063x1063.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;42e9d16f-8ae9-4d31-916e-eb2345f6257b&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> stated, <em>&#8220;<a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ukraine-mearsheimer-told-us-so-in-2014/">We&#8217;re guiding Ukraine down the &#8216;Prim Rose&#8217; path</a>&#8221; </em>to war with Russia. </p><div id="youtube2-JrMiSQAGOS4" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;JrMiSQAGOS4&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;154&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/JrMiSQAGOS4?start=154&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>From the first agreement, <a href="https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/pcw/108224.htm">known as the &#8220;2+4&#8221; Talks with Mikhail Gorbachev that we would take NATO &#8220;not one inch&#8221;</a> past the line dividing East and West Germany toward Russia&#8217;s border if Gorbachev allows East and West to reunify after the fall of the USSR, all the way through like five different Western-backed revolutions <em>(<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4532539.stm">Rose</a>, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tulip-Revolution">Tulip</a>, and <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Orange-Revolution">Orange Revolution</a> to name a few)</em> the <em>most recent being</em> the coup d&#8217;&#233;tat of duly elected Ukraine President Victor Yanukovich in 2014 (the &#8220;so-called revolution of dignity), to the final straw which was, it seems, a delivery of Western weapons of war with the purpose of killing Russians. This war has been a Washington creation, since the very beginning.</p><h3><em><strong>Doesn&#8217;t that mean we should back Ukraine till the end? Since we got them into the position they are in?!</strong></em></h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F8G-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feafaf342-66f0-42c1-a334-91e046ceea5d_610x482.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F8G-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feafaf342-66f0-42c1-a334-91e046ceea5d_610x482.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F8G-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feafaf342-66f0-42c1-a334-91e046ceea5d_610x482.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F8G-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feafaf342-66f0-42c1-a334-91e046ceea5d_610x482.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F8G-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feafaf342-66f0-42c1-a334-91e046ceea5d_610x482.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F8G-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feafaf342-66f0-42c1-a334-91e046ceea5d_610x482.jpeg" width="610" height="482" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eafaf342-66f0-42c1-a334-91e046ceea5d_610x482.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:482,&quot;width&quot;:610,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (1941).&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (1941)." title="President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease bill to give aid to Britain and China (1941)." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F8G-!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feafaf342-66f0-42c1-a334-91e046ceea5d_610x482.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F8G-!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feafaf342-66f0-42c1-a334-91e046ceea5d_610x482.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F8G-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feafaf342-66f0-42c1-a334-91e046ceea5d_610x482.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F8G-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feafaf342-66f0-42c1-a334-91e046ceea5d_610x482.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>NO!!! Haven&#8217;t you heard two wrongs don&#8217;t make a right? The only position we, as Americans should take, is peace, period. And keep our dirty noses out of it. Unless we&#8217;re willing to fight a war on our side of the ocean, it&#8217;s time to stay out. We&#8217;ve done enough damage. When it comes to the possibility of nuclear war the games are over, done! All the &#8220;conventional wisdom&#8221; in the world means <em><strong>NOTHING! </strong></em>We cannot humor these fu*king stakes! These chances cannot even be joked about. Whatever it takes to make peace or GTFO <em><strong>MUST</strong></em> be done <em><strong>immediately!</strong></em></p><p>Should we expect payback for the $350 billion dollars we&#8217;ve sent to Ukraine to fight their war. Well, since WWII is what every neocon Warhawk invokes as justification for every war of the last century, what happened with the weapons and aid we sent to Britain to fight off Hitler? Actually, we demanded every penny paid-in-full! <a href="https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/britain-only-settled-debts.html">Britain didn&#8217;t finish paying us back until 2006. </a>Sixty-one years. It seems war, and lawyers never forget a bill. </p><p>WWII was, after all, <em>the most &#8220;just&#8221; war </em>in history, right? No one says Eisenhower or Truman were &#8220;exploiting allies.&#8221;</p><p>But if it means that we must still cling on to this vassal state whose military is formed by neo-Nazi&#8217;s who <em><strong>do not want peace</strong></em> in order to get that money back, <em><strong>Fu*k IT! </strong></em>Let. Them. Keep. It! If we need to account for it just pull it from the &#8220;Condoms in Troubadour Fund&#8221; they&#8217;ll never miss it!</p><p>As much criticism being held against the Biden Administration for their policies that led to the prolonging of this Ukraine-Russia war, and I hold the same criticism, Donald Trump is headed down the same path of taking us step by step closer to nuclear annihilation. When is it going to stop? I hope soon, we&#8217;ve got to pull back from the brink, the end of the human race and all that we&#8217;ve evolved to do is simply a button push away. Who is going to stop the escalation? Donald Trump? Zelenskyy? Putin? It sure as hell won&#8217;t be the U.N. or Keir Starmer. Not Boris Johnson. J.D. Vance? Someone has <em>got</em> to see the light, before the horizon lights up, so bright, brighter than anything ever imagined, as if instead of getting blinded by pointing your eyes to the sun, the sun is blinded by pointing its eyes to us, followed by a mushroom cloud. The choice is now.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/gif&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bd78c565-107c-48f3-912b-fb734e5e524a_636x288.gif&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/gif&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dc1b8e91-f5af-42f0-9f81-08b9dbf22c1d_500x242.gif&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d0807534-e072-4856-aa59-56dd41e25a49_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>Thank you for reading. </p><p>This is <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9b39f62-dd60-45ab-af4a-247b927b5511_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;7b8c631c-aa95-4b82-8a33-af0e1b877161&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, Editor-in-Chief of <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Declaration of Liberty&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:368081,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1d5e1ef4-ac2b-4ce2-ac9f-46384acf6c05_597x597.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;2d765edc-f02d-4894-be49-e2b313b7b6bb&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-the-oval-office?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-the-oval-office?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share Declaration of Liberty&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share Declaration of Liberty</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-the-oval-office/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/fear-and-loathing-in-the-oval-office/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><div class="directMessage button" data-attrs="{&quot;userId&quot;:31666706,&quot;userName&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;canDm&quot;:null,&quot;dmUpgradeOptions&quot;:null,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}" data-component-name="DirectMessageToDOM"></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interference: The Anatomy of "Regime Change" in the Age of "Congressional Oversight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[10 easy steps to overthrow a government without starting a war:]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/interference-the-anatomy-of-regime</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/interference-the-anatomy-of-regime</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:29:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/3cktmS-yaxM" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>**This piece is to congratulate the United States and whoever is left of Al-Qaeda after the news that came out this morning of the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad by &#8220;Rebel Forces&#8221;. Remember, any time they refer to &#8220;rebel forces&#8221;. What they mean is US+NATO/NGO&#8217;s/CIA-Trained forces, that is what we literally do. I&#8217;ll explain how but first, let&#8217;s take trip to 1962 and look at the situation on the ground.</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fe_8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74f81a56-4b18-4caa-a473-a61c4da29806_290x174.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fe_8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74f81a56-4b18-4caa-a473-a61c4da29806_290x174.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fe_8!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74f81a56-4b18-4caa-a473-a61c4da29806_290x174.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fe_8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74f81a56-4b18-4caa-a473-a61c4da29806_290x174.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fe_8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74f81a56-4b18-4caa-a473-a61c4da29806_290x174.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fe_8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74f81a56-4b18-4caa-a473-a61c4da29806_290x174.jpeg" width="628" height="376.8" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/74f81a56-4b18-4caa-a473-a61c4da29806_290x174.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:174,&quot;width&quot;:290,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:628,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Former Defense Secretary McNamara is dead&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Former Defense Secretary McNamara is dead" title="Former Defense Secretary McNamara is dead" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fe_8!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74f81a56-4b18-4caa-a473-a61c4da29806_290x174.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fe_8!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74f81a56-4b18-4caa-a473-a61c4da29806_290x174.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fe_8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74f81a56-4b18-4caa-a473-a61c4da29806_290x174.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fe_8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74f81a56-4b18-4caa-a473-a61c4da29806_290x174.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h1>Ah, The Good Ol&#8217; Days&#8230;</h1><p>Kennedy couldn&#8217;t believe what had came across his desk. Another attempt to replace Castro. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/26/fidel-castro-cia-cigar-assasination-attempts">After the last failure I thought they might give up</a>. We&#8217;ll never have a <em>lasting peace if we keep waging war. </em>We need to regroup, rethink.</p><p>John had been mulling this over all evening when his <em>Sec. of Def. </em>Robert Mcnamara, stopped in to present him with<em> </em>the memo, as he was about to call it a night. </p><p>The memo read <em><strong><a href="https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1244#relPageId=14">&#8220;TOP SECRET: Operation Northwoods"</a>.  </strong></em>Approved by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mcnamara went through it with him. </p><p>John started thinking, this must be a joke, some kind of test. I thought they would get the idea after the bay of pigs, we&#8217;re looking for peace here, not war.</p><p>They didn&#8217;t. The memo laid out a plan to <strong>stage a terror campaign, in Miami, Washington, DC, and elsewhere, as a pretext to invade Cuba. Ships would be bombed, planes hijacked, and innocent Americans killed producing </strong><em><strong>&#8220;casualty lists&#8221;</strong></em><strong> which </strong><em><strong>&#8220;would cause a helpful wave of national indignation&#8221;</strong></em><strong> with the Cubans taking the blame and </strong><em><strong>manufacturing consent</strong></em><strong> of the public, to go to war with Cuba, and tear down the Communist regime, </strong>as John sat listening, he grew more and more furious! </p><p>&#8220;This is too far. They already defied me at the <em>Bay of Pigs, </em>now they&#8217;re just playing with me.&#8221; </p><p>Without another word, John picks up his phone, directs the operator to the Joint Chiefs office, the Chairman answers, &#8220;<em>Yes, Mr. President?&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;The memo I just received, Operation Northwoods, did you approve this?&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;Ummm&#8230; Yes, Mr.</em> <em>President, it seemed like a solid plan&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;The answer is no.&#8221; </em>He said with all the disdain he could muster. He starts shredding the paper the memo was written on,<em> &#8220;can you hear that sound? That&#8217;s this memo and your job being shredded to bits, you are no longer needed here, pack your things and be gone by morning,&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;Yes, Mr. President.&#8221; </em>He says grimly. John hangs up the phone.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y2l7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1d947f-e983-47a1-b98f-187483b813a1_530x283.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y2l7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1d947f-e983-47a1-b98f-187483b813a1_530x283.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y2l7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1d947f-e983-47a1-b98f-187483b813a1_530x283.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y2l7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1d947f-e983-47a1-b98f-187483b813a1_530x283.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y2l7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1d947f-e983-47a1-b98f-187483b813a1_530x283.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y2l7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1d947f-e983-47a1-b98f-187483b813a1_530x283.jpeg" width="530" height="283" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fe1d947f-e983-47a1-b98f-187483b813a1_530x283.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:283,&quot;width&quot;:530,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y2l7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1d947f-e983-47a1-b98f-187483b813a1_530x283.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y2l7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1d947f-e983-47a1-b98f-187483b813a1_530x283.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y2l7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1d947f-e983-47a1-b98f-187483b813a1_530x283.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!y2l7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe1d947f-e983-47a1-b98f-187483b813a1_530x283.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><h3>The Previous Year, April 1961:</h3><p>Previous to Operation Northwoods, there were numerous plans to get rid of Castro, the most detrimental to the Kennedy Admin had taken place a year earlier in April 1961. See, not all Cubans were happy with the election of Fidel Castro. Some anti-Castro Cuban exiles had headquartered in Mexico and formed the <em>Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF), </em>and they were ready to take their country back from the &#8220;Authoritarian Communist Regime&#8221; of Fidel Castro, and the CIA had just the plan to benefit us <em>and</em> them. They had been training them in Guatemala and Florida for a surprise attack on Castro.</p><p>Their plan was to arm those rebels with American weaponry, build them up until they&#8217;re ready to <em>take the castle,</em> and then, with the backing of the United States Military, would invade Cuba from the southwest coast, the <em>Bay of Pigs,</em> and when they started to get overwhelmed by the Cuban military, the United States Air Force will already be on standby, and will come in from the air and blow Fidel&#8217;s army to shit and the DRF would take the capitol and throw Castro out on his ass, there&#8217;s just one problem.<em> </em></p><div><hr></div><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f850becb-cbd4-48d2-a549-7bd47dcbaf99_898x548.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c7817642-3c7a-428e-b718-1b5a1deba4d7_1280x720.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f44d0ec7-61aa-41ed-ba24-d1b52d515d49_480x305.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d2e0c113-bda4-4b22-acb2-b4c5f694f1ab_307x279.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;They couldn't hide from public scrutiny only 90 miles off the coast&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5d892232-283a-4ce1-8da0-0334700093a4_1456x1456.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>President Kennedy turns down the hallway towards the oval office and sees his CIA Director, Alan Dulles, walking towards him, they meet in the middle.</p><p>Kennedy speaks first, &#8220;Alan, I don&#8217;t feel right about the &#8216;bay of pigs&#8217; thing, have you seen the New York Times? We&#8217;ve already lost the element of surprise.&#8221;</p><p>He&#8217;s referring to April 7, 1961, <a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/americas/040761cuba-invasion.html">the newspaper published a page-one article</a> reporting that &#8220;United States experts&#8221; were training an invasion force of Cuban exiles in Guatemala and Florida. This is one week before the planned invasion.</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe what I&#8217;m reading! Castro doesn&#8217;t need agents over here. All he has to do is read our papers!&#8221; <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=R63nCwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA37&amp;lpg=PA37&amp;dq=%22all+he+has+to+do+is+read+our+papers%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=Quit_z22OA&amp;sig=ACfU3U3wVYUToBG9vtSvSy5m5bc3ssBADg&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi-tfnI-IXiAhWid98KHb9JAUcQ6AEwAXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=%22all%20he%20has%20to%20do%20is%20read%20our%20papers%22&amp;f=false">Kennedy snapped</a>. Although the invasion would lack the element of surprise, neither the CIA nor the White House called it off.</p></blockquote><p>Going on with the invasion as they did, things quickly failed on many levels. Main one for Kennedy was the deniability to the public.</p><blockquote><p>Having failed to wipe out the Cuban air force, the operation encountered further difficulty when a planned ruse backfired. One of the bombers that took off from Nicaragua landed at Miami International Airport with its pilot claiming to be a Cuban air force defector. CIA operatives, however, had painted the bomber to resemble one of Castro&#8217;s and riddled its engine cover with bullet holes to make it appear that it had survived combat.</p><p>The American hand in the operation, however, was quickly detected by reporters who noted the plane&#8217;s fresh paint job and the placement of machine gun barrels in the bomber&#8217;s nose and not mounted on the wings as on Cuban warplanes.</p><p>&#8220;Immediately the entire world knew they were CIA-backed pilots,&#8221; Rasenberger says. &#8220;Kennedy realized any illusion of plausible deniability was gone. He could no longer pretend the Americans weren&#8217;t behind it.&#8221;</p><p>The president responded on April 16 by cancelling a second round of bombings planned for the following day, which left Cuban air defenses intact for when the invasion force arrived in the Bay of Pigs the following morning. &#8220;The moment that Kennedy canceled the second round of bombings on Castro&#8217;s air fleet the operation was basically doomed, and everybody knew it,&#8221; Rasenberger says.</p><p>Further difficulties came when Castro&#8217;s aircraft sank two supply ships that carried food, medical supplies and ammunition. An additional failure of a CIA reconnaissance team to spot a radio station on the beach allowed it to remain in operation during the invasion and broadcast details of the attack across Cuba.</p><p>With the invasion floundering, Kennedy refused to send in Marines stationed in <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/puerto-rico-history">Puerto Rico</a> or a large naval force that stood at the ready outside Cuban territorial waters.</p></blockquote><p>After this failure, Kennedy addressed the nation and took full blame for turnout of the <em>Bay of Pigs</em>, from his view the CIA had totally defied him by going through with it. When he hung up the phone, he looked at his staffer sitting in the room with him and said, &#8220;<em>Let this be known</em>, I am going to smash the CIA into a million little pieces and scatter it to the wind!&#8221; He then got Dulles on the phone and told him, &#8220;Write your resignation letter, you&#8217;re done here.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h23Z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71c3ab74-d467-4ad0-a360-7be89d568b07_686x385.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h23Z!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71c3ab74-d467-4ad0-a360-7be89d568b07_686x385.jpeg 424w, 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It&#8217;s a best-case-scenario for &#8220;Regime-Changers&#8221;. A<a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/ahmad-chalabi-rip/"> little fake intelligence here</a>, <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584600903502615#d1e232">ex-Military-contributor there,</a> add a couple bullshit slogans (<em>You&#8217;re with us or you&#8217;re with the terrorists</em>), and voila, military recruitment is up and American&#8217;s&#8212;the <em>good</em> ones anyway&#8212;are ready, willing, and looking for a fight! <em>&#8220;Never let a good crisis go to waste, </em>right?</p><p>See, the failure in the Bay of Pigs invasion was basically, <em>you don&#8217;t shit where you eat</em>. Cuba was too close for us to invade in secret without being noticed by the press and their cover was blown (since back then the press was less of a mouthpiece for the powerful, not yet). The issue, they decided was <em>covert</em> regime change, but if they could do it overtly, it wouldn&#8217;t be an issue. There can&#8217;t be oversight of something <em>not</em> being hidden.</p><p>It all came to a head during the Reagan Administration, when the <em>Iran-Contra Affair</em> unfolded. See, what happened was:</p><ul><li><p>There was a Communist government, democratically elected (but not democratic enough for us) in Nicaragua called the Sandinista&#8217;s, and there&#8217;s a <a href="http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000201100001-8.pdf">right-wing death cult, oops, my bad, what I meant was, group of </a><em><a href="http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000201100001-8.pdf">&#8220;democratic rebel&#8217;s&#8221;</a></em><a href="http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000201100001-8.pdf"> called the Contras</a>, who the CIA is arming and training to overthrow the &#8220;Communist&#8221; Sandinista government of Nicaragua.</p></li><li><p>At the same time an Iranian terrorist group has American hostages. Iran said they&#8217;ll get the hostages freed if we sell them weapons.</p></li><li><p>Both Operations become covert simultaneously:</p><ul><li><p> Iran was subject to an <em>arms embargo</em> making it illegal to sell them weapons.</p></li><li><p> Congress cut off funds to the Contras.</p></li></ul></li><li><p>Reagan and the CIA made the plan to use the money from the Iranian arms deal, to continue funding the Contras</p></li><li><p>Under the <a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Boland_Amendment">Boland Amendment</a>, further funding of the Contras by legislative appropriations was prohibited by Congress, but the Reagan administration figured out a loophole by secretively using non-appropriated funds instead.</p></li><li><p>The idea of using non-appropriated funds would open the door for a whole new world and change the nature of regime changes forever!</p></li></ul><p>During the Reagan administration it was realized that the press and the populace was becoming too aware of these regime changes. They needed a way to do this that wasn&#8217;t <em>so</em>&#8230;controversial. The solution was a laundry list of pro-democracy activist organizations or as we now call them <em>Non-Government Organizations</em> (NGO&#8217;s)<em>. Because </em>Communism is still a problem, right? Everyone likes democracy, right? Wouldn&#8217;t the world be better if we changed these <em>problematic </em>countries to Liberal Democracies. So, these democratic institutions proliferated to support democracy around the world. Some examples of these NGO&#8217;s are the <em>National Endowment for Democracy, United States Agency for International Development, or the National Democratic Institute. </em>These NGOs are basically the wallets for regime change. They provide the funds, that feed the overthrow of governments around the world, with the stated plan to proliferate democracy far and wide. And they solve the problem of congressional oversight. Congress funding pro-democratic organizations is a much easier task than saying, <em>&#8220;Well, Mr. Congressman, we&#8217;re gonna go topple this here government and we&#8217;d like you to approve me using the American taxpayer&#8217;s money to do it&#8221;.</em> No, no, no! How about this: <em>&#8220;Mr. Congressman, we need some money turn this struggling country towards a better life, in our image, just like the good book says, just a little money for a brand-new liberal democracy. Thank you, sir. We&#8217;ll keep you posted </em>(Never!)<em> just where and how this money gets spent on democracy.&#8221;</em> See, much less messy, on paper, on the ground however, things turn dark <em>real quick!</em></p><p>The<a href="https://www.ned.org/apply-for-grant/en/"> NGO&#8217;s</a> job is to find grants, through philanthropic organizations like George Soros&#8217; <em>Open Society Organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (things like that), </em>and in large part funded by our government.</p><p>In order to make it even less controversial, as regime change used to be done by the CIA covertly, these NGO&#8217;s give every grant publicly or overtly (nowadays they post it on their site). David Ignatius explains this in the Washington Post in 1991, in an unbelievable article called, <strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230427095325/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/09/22/innocence-abroad-the-new-world-of-spyless-coups/92bb989a-de6e-4bb8-99b9-462c76b59a16/">INNOCENCE ABROAD: THE NEW WORLD OF SPYLESS COUPS.</a> </strong>If that&#8217;s not overt enough for ya, I just don&#8217;t know what to tell ya. He goes on to say,</p><blockquote><p><em>The great democratic revolution that has swept the globe over the past few years has been a triumph of overt action. The CIA old boys spent a generation fantasizing about this sort of global anti-communist putsch. But when it finally happened, it was in the open. There were no secret paramilitary armies, and there was almost no bloodshed. The key operatives in the conspiracy turned out to be telephones, televisions and fax machines.</em></p></blockquote><p>What does he mean by <em>that? Let&#8217;s get into it.</em></p><h2>10 Easy Steps to Overthrow a Government Without Starting a War (On Day 1):</h2><div><hr></div><p><em>*They already have the template down, to use this here at home. A populist winning the election who hates the elites and the intelligence community. They topple democratically elected governments for less than that all the time</em></p><p><em>**This is drawn from knowledge I&#8217;ve gained reading everything I could get my hands on about &#8220;Color Revolutions&#8221;, the New-Age sterilized term for government overthrow. Enjoy! </em></p><div><hr></div><div id="youtube2-zUCC19UpQmg" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;zUCC19UpQmg&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/zUCC19UpQmg?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p><em>*Music from my youth.</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-xd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40540fda-a57c-4c18-8d75-c7e4f398b1b9_6460x3480.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-xd!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40540fda-a57c-4c18-8d75-c7e4f398b1b9_6460x3480.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-xd!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40540fda-a57c-4c18-8d75-c7e4f398b1b9_6460x3480.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-xd!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40540fda-a57c-4c18-8d75-c7e4f398b1b9_6460x3480.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-xd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40540fda-a57c-4c18-8d75-c7e4f398b1b9_6460x3480.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O-xd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40540fda-a57c-4c18-8d75-c7e4f398b1b9_6460x3480.png" width="1456" height="784" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/40540fda-a57c-4c18-8d75-c7e4f398b1b9_6460x3480.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:784,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;r/foreignpolicy - 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Remember the old adage&#8212;<em>Never let a crisis go to waste&#8212;</em> at which time you would use this to your advantage (see Libya, Syria, and Ukraine). </p></li><li><p>Use the infrastructure and funding from the pro-democracy NGO&#8217;s, such as NED (National Endowment for Democracy)&#8212;what&#8217;s described as the <em>sugar daddy</em> for regime change&#8212;the NDI (National Democratic Institute, USAID (United States Agency for International Development), or IRI (International Republican Institute), to broadcast through the state-run media like <em>Freedom House</em>, or <em>Radio Free Liberty, or CNN </em>stories that shed a negative light on the <em>ruling party</em>, make them seem as corrupt as possible, genocidal even, plant sources, interviews in these stories that give the stories credibility. Make it clear that their sins are unforgivable. This is the most important part of any good regime change. Propaganda+Unrest=Regime Change.</p></li></ol></li><li><p><em>&#8220;They have been doing in public what the CIA used to do in private -- providing money and moral support for pro-democracy groups, training resistance fighters, working to subvert communist rule.&#8221;</em></p><ol><li><p><em> </em>Moral support should come from authority figures, that the <em>propaganda consumer</em> doesn&#8217;t know to hate (Victoria Nuland, John McCain, Chris Murphy, did I mention John McCain?). It&#8217;s important resistance fighters, or paramilitary groups seem unaccountable to anyone, they can&#8217;t seem to be on one side or the other, they are fierce revolutionaries, and they will be the guys who <em>actually</em> go in to remove the ruler,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGm492qVEzA"> Qaddafi video</a>. In Operation Timber Sycamore&#8212;which was more of an <em>old-fashioned</em> CIA-led coup&#8212;they used members of the Nusra Front&#8212;linked to Al-Qaeda and a branch of ISIS&#8212;who we are supposedly still at war with, to overthrow Asad, which <em>unfortunately </em>was a failed mission.</p></li></ol></li><li><p>Use the NGO money to provide or otherwise acquire a venue to hold the protests they invite speakers to give speeches promoting democracy from the resistance groups and heads of the regime change arm. John McCain, and Victoria Nuland spoke in Maidan, and Kamala Harris at the BLM rally here, Giuliani at J6. This sends the signal that they are not alone. The <em>interested party </em>has their back. </p></li><li><p>Host elections with NGO money to vote out regime, give the illusion of Democracy.</p></li><li><p>When step 4 doesn't work, and it usually doesn't, arm the resistance with American weapons. Then send in resistance leaders to negotiate with the regime, asking for them to step down, and new elections to take place&#8212;remember it's all about the illusion of Democracy&#8212;all negotiations and elections of course, hosted/funded by the NGO&#8217;s.</p></li><li><p> Meanwhile the unrest in the streets is escalating, and the state-run media is reporting on it. </p></li><li><p>Always portray the street opposition as the good guys in <em>our western-civ-sensibility-type-of-way. </em>Forming statements in slogan-form, like<em> &#8220;Rebel forces are in the fight of their life in this Revolution of Dignity&#8221;, or </em>this one that just came out Sunday, Dec. 8th: <em>&#8220;Syrians cheer fall of Asad, Region Reacts&#8221;. </em>Basically it&#8217;s (Insert &#8220;Dictator&#8221;), the ruling regime must <em>always </em>be a dictator who doesn&#8217;t believe in Democracy, or &#8220;doesn&#8217;t want &#8220;free and fair elections&#8221;, or <em>Imprisons Journalists</em>. This reminds them of the Hitlers and Stalins of the past. It is also helpful to give the movement a name, for media dissemination, in Ukraine, they called it the <em>EuroMaidan Movement, or Revolution or the Revolution of Dignity, </em>or consider this <em>Black Lives Matter&#8230;. </em>But these rebels aren&#8217;t <em>Antifa</em> or the <em>Proud Boys, </em>instead of throwing milkshakes and fists, these rebels throw missiles and hand grenades</p><ol><li><p>Note: Don&#8217;t forget to defame &#8220;rational-speak&#8221;, anyone getting too close to the truth publicly, you must defame them as harshly as possible, all outlets on the attack, just headline after headline, <em>PUTIN-PUPPET, ASSAD-TOADIE, PUTIN-PUPPET, ASSAD-TOADIE,</em> like a new form of &#8220;ad hominem symphony&#8221;!</p></li></ol></li><li><p>When elections fail, the rebels must rush the capitol before the regime has a chance to regroup, and expel the regime with all force necessary, whether it&#8217;s the Qaddafi example, or Yanukovych, it&#8217;s time for them to go.</p></li><li><p>Now it&#8217;s time to announce their victory. Western leaders give statements announcing their approval. The &#8220;Non-Government Press&#8221; runs positive propaganda pieces announcing the new government. This leaves it clear to the <em>fleeing authorities</em> that <em>there is a new Sheriff in town.</em></p></li><li><p>Congratulations, you just brought an uninterested party into your <em>sphere of influence</em>. They are now Democratic, by the <em>&#8220;most democratic means possible.&#8221;</em> Now it&#8217;s time to pop champagne, give speeches and organize the government to fit your interest. I'm sure the <em>entire </em>population, and neighboring countries are happy with this choice.</p></li></ol><div id="youtube2-3cktmS-yaxM" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;3cktmS-yaxM&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/3cktmS-yaxM?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h2>TO BE, OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION</h2><p>Correctly stated, that <em>is </em>the question, is it not? In our time since 1776, militarism has increased in a manner as insidious as the parasites in the 1998 film <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faculty">The Faculty</a></em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faculty"> </a>and as devastating as the <em>bugs </em>in the film rendition of Robert A. Heinlin&#8217;s <em><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201/">Starship Troopers.</a> </em>As shitty as it is to say, the bugs are us. In a <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Free Press&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:114101724,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c2250d3e-e4d0-4723-a28d-092ec9be38d0_1500x1500.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;d28714f0-2081-477e-b36d-aa99ee9f17d5&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> debate recently, Bret Stephens called it &#8220;<a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/our-next-live-debate-should-the-us">upsetting&#8221; to hear said that &#8220;America goes around the world causing disasters and starting wars&#8221;</a> and it <em>should </em>be upsetting, especially to someone like him who has <em>never</em> seen a war he didn&#8217;t like but is full of excuses when asked to&#8212;as <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Lee Fang&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1239256,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/leefang&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a3fad268-da94-4bca-99fe-d0046abecdd2_874x874.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;4e62b0fa-2b03-4916-ae19-643e3e76ce8a&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> put it&#8212;to &#8220;put some skin in the game&#8221; and enlist himself, but that is simply the reality of what we are faced with. We can&#8217;t stop doing it. We&#8217;ve convinced ourselves that our system is superior to <em>all</em> others, and the suggestion it could be better is met with insults, they call you <em>diluted, utopian, irrational, have no idea what you&#8217;re saying! </em>But in the same breath will proclaim that we are superior, and <em>everyone </em>wants to be us. </p><p>The first regime change was committed in 1904, as outlined by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0805078614/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Q4Riwb0M_JKghrm2woZcqyfnIyE8Fc04b0HNUBcD_FMdwbyNNcRwrEQW4_dZmj0ao3f0qUX28VAZUzXW1TvZS_rg4lbZq7Bb2ufYq9W3a68ZixjcnYszsFft0EvHTdKT2GRbIvVivyXDCsisSGhnENw9grEux7vZ_tZSrU7wEnQm1JMFlmSRzGxLhQahza51aA1GYkaHpwBJ1OUkcb8GhQ.ibDeTF69v1s4pH1QkjI6LeXjrGqAG6p4ePZvcL3IrYM&amp;qid=1733775082&amp;sr=8-1">Stephen Kinzer in his book </a><em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0805078614/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Q4Riwb0M_JKghrm2woZcqyfnIyE8Fc04b0HNUBcD_FMdwbyNNcRwrEQW4_dZmj0ao3f0qUX28VAZUzXW1TvZS_rg4lbZq7Bb2ufYq9W3a68ZixjcnYszsFft0EvHTdKT2GRbIvVivyXDCsisSGhnENw9grEux7vZ_tZSrU7wEnQm1JMFlmSRzGxLhQahza51aA1GYkaHpwBJ1OUkcb8GhQ.ibDeTF69v1s4pH1QkjI6LeXjrGqAG6p4ePZvcL3IrYM&amp;qid=1733775082&amp;sr=8-1">Overthrow</a>: America&#8217;s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, </em>and we&#8217;ve not slowed down once. The proliferation of American culture has been the supreme goal of every geopolitical operation of the last hundred+ years, whether they like it or not. <em>That&#8217;s Irrational!</em></p><p>Thank you for reading! <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jordan Lee Canter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31666706,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9b39f62-dd60-45ab-af4a-247b927b5511_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;35c5000b-fa92-4a87-80f2-cd613f328850&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> Editor-in-Chief <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Declaration of Liberty&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:368081,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1d5e1ef4-ac2b-4ce2-ac9f-46384acf6c05_597x597.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;3b27c622-11bb-4b59-9e89-2a9f2343dea7&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ce97c606-b6b9-4846-a06b-eaff53accb14_189x267.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/39e8ee82-a6e0-47a9-9325-243ab8d161a9_342x147.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9a5a0d80-d3ef-40ba-b42d-fcc18bfedf31_180x279.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Two on the outside is Starship Troopers Propaganda; And the middle is what we look like to Muslims when we put bases in their holy land and overthrow their leaders;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3c80249c-4559-4ab6-9d66-41141ee84e1c_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have Our Public Institutionalists Become Institutionalized? PART II, The Woke Right]]></title><description><![CDATA[Institutions of learning and propagandists of war can't help but to submit to the "experts" in the age of doing your own Research.]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-institutionalization-of-the-woke</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-institutionalization-of-the-woke</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 22:42:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/O4m_EL9Dj2U" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>James Lindsay has been one of these institutionalized souls. He came to prominence over the Grievance Studies Affair, wherein he was kind of my fucking hero, but after railing against <em>safe spaces, </em>and <em>wokeism, </em>and <em>critical race theory</em> on college campuses, you&#8217;d think him to be the last one to criticize someone for <em>platforming</em> people with opinions he doesn&#8217;t agree with, but then I see where he&#8217;s tweeting at <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Karlyn Borysenko&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:9736887,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d2b245a8-8949-462f-9979-6f50a15cf383_1281x1281.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;f0a79ec2-0161-4eba-97a9-85a127579aad&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> things like &#8220;<em>elevating Nick Fuentes&#8221;</em> by letting him appear on her show.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OnhG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6a03176-f51c-442e-b3a9-a4760c8696d8_425x155.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OnhG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6a03176-f51c-442e-b3a9-a4760c8696d8_425x155.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OnhG!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6a03176-f51c-442e-b3a9-a4760c8696d8_425x155.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OnhG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6a03176-f51c-442e-b3a9-a4760c8696d8_425x155.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OnhG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6a03176-f51c-442e-b3a9-a4760c8696d8_425x155.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OnhG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6a03176-f51c-442e-b3a9-a4760c8696d8_425x155.png" width="425" height="155" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a6a03176-f51c-442e-b3a9-a4760c8696d8_425x155.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:155,&quot;width&quot;:425,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OnhG!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6a03176-f51c-442e-b3a9-a4760c8696d8_425x155.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OnhG!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6a03176-f51c-442e-b3a9-a4760c8696d8_425x155.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OnhG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6a03176-f51c-442e-b3a9-a4760c8696d8_425x155.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OnhG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6a03176-f51c-442e-b3a9-a4760c8696d8_425x155.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Like what the fuck is this anti-free speech shit right here? Remember that, very recently, there was times when he <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/james-lindsay-permanently-banned-from-twitter-after-calling-harvard-instructor-a-child-sexualization-specialist">was denied a </a><em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/james-lindsay-permanently-banned-from-twitter-after-calling-harvard-instructor-a-child-sexualization-specialist">platform</a></em> for exercising his 1st Amendment right. People were <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=8816511e56d6ac3a57a757cb8cfc5de18febf455da304d2606edcfa953972f0cJmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=%22Platforming%22+james+lindsay&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9hY3Rpb25uZXR3b3JrLm9yZy9wZXRpdGlvbnMvZGVtYW5kLXBzdS1hZG1pbi1kZW55cGxhdGZvcm0tdG8tbmVvZmFzY2lzdHMtamFtZXMtbGluZHNheS1hbmQtYWxleC1zdGVpbj9UaGVyZeKAmXNhbGl0dGxlc2VsZWN0b3JiZWxvd3RoZeKAnGFkZHlvdXJuYW1l4oCdYnV0dG9udG9vcHRvdXRvZmVtYWlscy5UaGFua3lvdSEhISEh&amp;ntb=1">critici</a>zed <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=8b82ed592ccbc69f6d8de9ad7ed5131a6ba096a8d9bf17d693719a76c6e1ef94JmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=%22Platforming%22+james+lindsay&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93dGhyb2NrbW9ydG9uLmNvbS8yMDIyLzAyLzIxL2phbWVzLWxpbmRzYXktYW5kLXRoZS1kYW5nZXJzLW9mLWFudGktd29rZW5lc3Mv&amp;ntb=1">for sticking their necks out there and having</a> <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=211b8a645f77007e9cc79aabe2f3d0afa1368f601d76e17924e7b1a1aadddfd8JmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=%22Platformed%22+james+lindsay&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9nbGFhZC5vcmcvc21zaS9hbnRpLWxnYnRxLW9ubGluZS1oYXRlLXNwZWVjaC1kaXNpbmZvcm1hdGlvbi1ndWlkZS8&amp;ntb=1">him on. </a>How quickly we forget.</p><p> Karlyn lays out how he&#8217;s harassed her and tried to get her deplatformed, and plagiarized her work for months in the following piece: </p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:148943264,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://karlyn.substack.com/p/james-lindsay-has-been-harassing&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:340260,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Actively Unwoke&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e460c77-8727-4c29-ba3e-faa49277694d_309x309.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;James Lindsay has been harassing me for months. 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It's time he put up or shut up and debate me.</div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">If you value my work, please consider a $8/month or $80/year subscription. I&#8217;m funded entirely by you&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">2 years ago &#183; 20 likes &#183; 3 comments &#183; Karlyn Borysenko</div></a></div><p>I hope <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/2020/07/woke-wont-debate-you-heres-why/">he&#8217;ll practice what he preaches</a> and <a href="https://karlyn.substack.com/p/ep-59-why-im-challenging-james-lindsay">debate her. </a>He is the one who wrote an entire article called, <em><strong>&#8220;<a href="https://newdiscourses.com/2020/07/woke-wont-debate-you-heres-why/">No, the Woke Won&#8217;t Debate You. Here&#8217;s Why.&#8221;</a></strong></em></p><p>We&#8217;ll see&#8230; It&#8217;s real shitty of him but my criticism of him goes a little deeper. See, there&#8217;s lots you could say about the <em>new atheists</em>, but no one can really say that they flip-flopped in their disbelief. </p><p>Richard Dawkins, however, s<a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=4a36f22b1f2296561db3370736571bef4c2b406c34daf467b7dcbbe58629309cJmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=richard+dawkins+cultural+christian&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmNyZWdpc3Rlci5jb20vY25hL2ZhbW91cy1hdGhlaXN0LXJpY2hhcmQtZGF3a2lucy1zYXlzLWhlLWNvbnNpZGVycy1oaW1zZWxmLWEtY3VsdHVyYWwtY2hyaXN0aWFu&amp;ntb=1">eems to have taken a flip</a>-floppy <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=907310425b25580e654b67c6778e3576bb85ac554714cc0fe8cd828d11f510a2JmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=richard+dawkins+cultural+christian&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucHJlbWllcmNocmlzdGlhbml0eS5jb20vb3Bpbmlvbi9yaWNoYXJkLWRhd2tpbnMtd2FudHMtdG8tYmUtYS1jdWx0dXJhbC1jaHJpc3RpYW4tYnV0LXRoZXJlcy1uby1zdWNoLXRoaW5nLzE3NDU5LmFydGljbGU&amp;ntb=1">position.</a> He seems to want to keep his cake and eat it too. He says he doesn&#8217;t believe in Christianity but he&#8217;s a <em><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=e8dce974bb7fcf583015ac09f9405801db637fa71f50010ced3057389493bc44JmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=richard+dawkins+cultural+christian&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9tYW5oYXR0YW4uaW5zdGl0dXRlL2FydGljbGUvcmljaGFyZC1kYXdraW5zLWN1bHR1cmFsLWNocmlzdGlhbg&amp;ntb=1">cultural Christian</a>&#8212;whatever the fuck that means, is that what I am?&#8212;</em><a href="https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&amp;q=richard+dawkins+dissident+dialogues&amp;&amp;mid=2413EB9B4195B46F30E52413EB9B4195B46F30E5&amp;&amp;FORM=VRDGAR">but then laments the beliefs </a>of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, for <em>being too smart to believe in something so stupid,</em> but he&#8217;s, like Sam Harris, is also a believer <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=1472d06a95acfaca1eb48b90b350c148c5e8b8b68dd9b4e71d9d42f0e199f068JmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=richard+dawkins+%22zionist%22&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWxqYXplZXJhLmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDE1LzIvMTUvdGhlLWlycmF0aW9uYWwtaGF0cmVkLW9mLW5ldy1hdGhlaXN0cy8&amp;ntb=1">in the Zionist project</a> which says their claim on Palestine is proven by the bible. It&#8217;s so damn contradictory.</p><p>In the months after Hitchens became <em>terminally ill</em> he had a debate on <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjKJ92b9Y04">Is there an afterlife? </a></em> Not long before he passed away. He held his position till the bitter end.<em> </em>As far as I&#8217;ve heard Dennet didn&#8217;t express a change of heart either. In a<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWpm2NOF2Zw&amp;t=402s"> late podcast with Jordan Peterson</a> he expresses his belief that <em>the history of ethics is a history of secularization and pulling away from unscientific &#8216;New Testament&#8217; thinking</em>. Maybe they both were secretly <em>saved and baptized </em>near the end, but I doubt it, and there&#8217;s no evidence pointing to this, and neither has James Lindsays. </p><h4>James Lindsay and the New McCarthyism</h4><p>After <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=2c052fc639328b4a085d545dd640086021d0442f99ac303f7a68ddef5e9404c0JmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=james+lindsay&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9yZWxpZ2lvbm5ld3MuY29tLzIwMjEvMDUvMTgvamFtZXMtbGluZHNheS1zb3V0aGVybi1iYXB0aXN0cy1jcnQtYWwtbW9obGVyLWhvYXgtbmV3LWRpc2NvdXJzZXMtYmV0aC1tb29yZXJhY2Utb2ZhbGxvbi8&amp;ntb=1">starting as an author in the </a><em><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=2c052fc639328b4a085d545dd640086021d0442f99ac303f7a68ddef5e9404c0JmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=james+lindsay&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9yZWxpZ2lvbm5ld3MuY29tLzIwMjEvMDUvMTgvamFtZXMtbGluZHNheS1zb3V0aGVybi1iYXB0aXN0cy1jcnQtYWwtbW9obGVyLWhvYXgtbmV3LWRpc2NvdXJzZXMtYmV0aC1tb29yZXJhY2Utb2ZhbGxvbi8&amp;ntb=1">new atheist</a></em><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=2c052fc639328b4a085d545dd640086021d0442f99ac303f7a68ddef5e9404c0JmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=james+lindsay&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9yZWxpZ2lvbm5ld3MuY29tLzIwMjEvMDUvMTgvamFtZXMtbGluZHNheS1zb3V0aGVybi1iYXB0aXN0cy1jcnQtYWwtbW9obGVyLWhvYXgtbmV3LWRpc2NvdXJzZXMtYmV0aC1tb29yZXJhY2Utb2ZhbGxvbi8&amp;ntb=1"> </a>movement, James Lindsay is now making an entire career off of<a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=c2b6e1f30ba3c30ba8dacbe242b3291f2947d164b603c97d45d2b6c87c1ea907JmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;u=a1L3ZpZGVvcy9yaXZlcnZpZXcvcmVsYXRlZHZpZGVvP3E9amFtZXMrbGluZHNheStzcGVha2luZytlbmdhZ2VtZW50cysyMDIzJm1pZD00RTIxNDNCRDc5RDI1RUFFNUM0NTRFMjE0M0JENzlEMjVFQUU1QzQ1JkZPUk09VklSRQ&amp;ntb=1"> speaking engagements at churches and counseling pastors</a> and taking on an almost religious obsession against wokeness and communism and <em>queer theory</em>. They&#8217;re trying to create another institution with anti-wokeness and anti-communism as the basis to replace religion. Subverting churches and pastors with this fearmongery. <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=7dd726c118a7f74dfb8e4a4840686c0ee97c2e0ca3f0e9a9def928af1a77f7b7JmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=james+lindsay+speaking+engagements+2023&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly92aXZlazIwMjQuY29tL3BvZGNhc3QvdGhlLWFydC1vZi10aGUtY3VsdHVyZS13YXItcmV2ZWFsaW5nLXRoZS1zdHJhdGVnaWVzLW9mLXRoZS1sZWZ0LXdpdGgtamFtZXMtbGluZHNheS10aGUtdml2ZWstc2hvdy8&amp;ntb=1">Like a New McCarthyism</a>, he&#8217;s convincing people there&#8217;s communists <em>everywhere! </em>This is the <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=d53927512296b28a2563cf689931eafdfd3aede5d9d9bb30871996462068c331JmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;u=a1L3ZpZGVvcy9yaXZlcnZpZXcvcmVsYXRlZHZpZGVvP3E9amFtZXMrbGluZHNheStjcml0aWNpc20mbWlkPUUzODI0MTM4OUU1MTEwMDIxNkJBRTM4MjQxMzg5RTUxMTAwMjE2QkEmRk9STT1WSVJF&amp;ntb=1">institution he loves</a>, an old <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=97f5c797aa3978da7d45654b2e9c8db99833b1b33dca565ec4d7c59e9af7c58fJmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;u=a1L3ZpZGVvcy9yaXZlcnZpZXcvcmVsYXRlZHZpZGVvP3E9amFtZXMrbGluZHNheStjcml0aWNpc20mbWlkPThDOEI2OEUwN0M0N0NCMjFFN0FGOEM4QjY4RTA3QzQ3Q0IyMUU3QUYmRk9STT1WSVJF&amp;ntb=1">relic of the </a><em><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=97f5c797aa3978da7d45654b2e9c8db99833b1b33dca565ec4d7c59e9af7c58fJmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;u=a1L3ZpZGVvcy9yaXZlcnZpZXcvcmVsYXRlZHZpZGVvP3E9amFtZXMrbGluZHNheStjcml0aWNpc20mbWlkPThDOEI2OEUwN0M0N0NCMjFFN0FGOEM4QjY4RTA3QzQ3Q0IyMUU3QUYmRk9STT1WSVJF&amp;ntb=1">Cold War </a></em>and the <em>Vietnam War, </em>he&#8217;s keeping the institution and fearmongering of <em>Anti-Communism</em> alive and well!<em> </em> He has a new documentary out called <em><a href="https://beneathsheepsclothing.movie/">Beneath Sheeps Clothing </a></em><a href="https://beneathsheepsclothing.movie/">about Kamala Harris</a> being a <em>secret Marxist</em> that&#8217;s plan is to institute communism into America. You can save your money, Kamala Harris doesn&#8217;t suck because she&#8217;s a secret Communist that wants to destroy your institutions, <a href="https://time.com/7005282/kamala-harris-ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-alliance/">she sucks because she&#8217;s </a>a <a href="https://www.google.com/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=009175551005644198388:y7jofgda1mg&amp;q=https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/08/12/kamala-harris-continues-support-for-israels-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinians-in-gaza/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjqsv3-7ZuJAxXbw_ACHeohKmMQFnoECAgQAg&amp;usg=AOvVaw0zNjeYinMEBWwuHgg6pKDU">warmongering</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=009175551005644198388:y7jofgda1mg&amp;q=https://original.antiwar.com/jd_hester/2024/09/10/cheney-backs-harris-the-war-hawks-blessing-reveals-continuity-in-foreign-policy/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi0xr-M7puJAxWrmokEHUuBIhY4ChAWegQIBRAC&amp;usg=AOvVaw3MMm1rcGExoAJOeZAmDenr">milquetoast,</a> Democrat that promises <em><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=27f5317f22247099541c52055a1826253d8e893658870b86a4a9f659fbfe45eaJmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=obamas+change+never+happened&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucG9saXRpZmFjdC5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZS8yMDEyL3NlcC8wMS9iYXJhY2stb2JhbWFzLXRvcC0xMC1wcm9taXNlcy1icm9rZW4ta2VwdC8&amp;ntb=1">more of the same</a></em> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/the-decline-and-fall-of-hope-and-change/283454/">bullshit</a> that&#8217;s failed us our entire lives. And the GOP is no better, who as <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=a3dce2c8dc9b0319185cf6bd237421b1c48a81a9d6534c04473f60d0d1e47a6eJmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=liberty+lockdown+clint+russell&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vYy9MaWJlcnR5TG9ja2Rvd24&amp;ntb=1">Clint Russel of Liberty Lockdown</a> said in a brilliant exchange with Vivek Ramaswamy, <em>&#8220;The GOP <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=d676e354f11838c8bc71216f1610079b87fb69049c16efe8d7b5c59776d49de0JmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=clint+russell+debate&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYy1zcGFuLm9yZy92aWRlby8_NTM1NjkzLTEvdml2ZWstcmFtYXN3YW15LWRlYmF0ZXMtbGliZXJ0YXJpYW4tcGFydHktdmljZS1wcmVzaWRlbnRpYWwtbm9taW5lZQ&amp;ntb=1">runs around talking like they&#8217;re Ron Paul then governing like they&#8217;re John McCain&#8221;</a>.</em> </p><p>Jeez, maybe if there were some communists to give some pushback against these partisan hacks on both sides, they wouldn&#8217;t be able to continue with their <em>business-as-usual</em> approach to <em>everything!</em> That&#8217;s ok, I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll get it<em> </em>2-minutes after were too close to a nuclear confrontation to pull back from the brink and we <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=b3b97a7a607fa64245dd7bc19dfabf1c8fbc54659c39f23e8c2ec7e39515a092JmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=nuclear+war+a+scenario&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9OdWNsZWFyLVdhci1TY2VuYXJpby1Bbm5pZS1KYWNvYnNlbi1lYm9vay9kcC9CMENCR1dNRlNO&amp;ntb=1">now have 6-minutes to respond </a>and just hours away from the last heartbeat on earth. Because we are close. </p><p>By the way, how can you tell someone is a Communist? Wait a minute, they&#8217;ll tell you. They love telling you that <em>they&#8217;re Communists,</em> they love talking about it, it&#8217;s their whole identity (a joke I heard somewhere, I can&#8217;t remember where). </p><p>I don&#8217;t have much else to say about James Lindsay, I used to look forward to his appearances on Joe Rogan, but I couldn&#8217;t get <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=9999f7b37509b270fef48ca77a87661a678d40de8bb0837df1c239f21f4f1db8JmltdHM9MTcyOTI5NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;u=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&amp;ntb=1">through the last one</a>, like, dude you&#8217;re <em>still</em> going on about <em>queer theory? </em>WTF are we talking about still, how much more can really be said about this shit, and all of this goes double for Konstantin Kisin.</p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Konstantin Kisin&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:13247845,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7f97d20-5cba-46fc-afb7-7ef847898449_2051x2052.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;4521c363-a265-414e-abfa-5f6d2238ea93&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> made a video a week or so after his <em>Woke Right </em>video which he, by the way, plagiarized from us, by us I mean fans of Dave Smith, because he <em>is</em> the <em>Woke Right</em>, he&#8217;s their fucking spokesperson. The <em>Free Speech Warriors</em> that are only for free speech that they agree with, as soon as it is against one of their <em>institutions</em> all that is out the window. They're against the redress of grievances, just ask them about protests. You can&#8217;t criticize war, be it in Israel or Ukraine, they support Anti-Semitism laws, and hate-speech, all this is the <em>woke</em> doctrine and earn them the title of the <em>Woke Right. </em></p><div id="youtube2-O4m_EL9Dj2U" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;O4m_EL9Dj2U&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/O4m_EL9Dj2U?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Konstant Kisin&#8217;s entire video claims to be &#8220;Breaking thing down to first principles&#8221; like he did at the <em>Dissident Dialogues</em> as the moderator. As the moderator, he couldn&#8217;t even <em>pretend </em>to be objective. <a href="https://youtu.be/_M15lTZ41dM?si=SvKBhPd2GV__PZk4">I&#8217;ll link it here </a>but it&#8217;s horrific and hard to watch. Jake Klein, <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Briahna Joy Gray&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:14233295,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ba481661-f9e3-4184-aab3-41ac6b282d75_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;f1bb1c2e-c297-4e9e-8006-bc8ea8fa6992&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>&#8217;s debate partner did a follow-up video explaining and disproving all the lies from this debate and it is a masterclass: </p><div id="youtube2-ZjjaOZ7NYpo" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;ZjjaOZ7NYpo&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ZjjaOZ7NYpo?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>His first principles, if you break down Kisin&#8217;s entire video is <em>War is Moral, so let&#8217;s compare which gang has a bigger monopoly on killing children&#8230; </em></p><p>Ok, so the entire premise of this video is hilariously disingenuous, the idea that he&#8217;s been sitting on the fence this whole time, dude,<a href="https://youtu.be/iAsL8rKCbag?si=yPda0a83afXMoxyB"> the debate he moderated</a>, the people <a href="https://youtu.be/mdCsjV84BH0?si=USV0ya9Aq_SOVc7r">he had on his show</a> from <a href="https://youtu.be/vQMdUeEX4PI?si=VHQuRPZs8htbstqU">both</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/z-AmRRb84Us?si=oz2oRXpRT4Zx2xxe">sides,</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/CilUfkIcLsU?si=jTjcXGO_6O7C-WJj">you can very</a> clearly see where his bias is, and that&#8217;s ok, I have plenty of biases, war is one of them. I WANT ALL WAR TO STOP RIGHT NOW, DEFUNDED, DENUCLEARIZED, AND BRING THOSE PEOPLE HOME! I want NATO dismantled, and peace between America and Russia, Iran and Israel, China and Taiwan, and America with all, that&#8217;s my bias, but throughout this entire video he makes the claim that he&#8217;s coming at this from first principles, he actually just says the phrase <em>&#8220;first principles&#8221; </em>over and over. <em><strong>Dude, just because you have makeup and a funny British accent doesn&#8217;t make your words change definitions, no matter who told you otherwise. </strong></em>That&#8217;s why this had to be a part 2, because I&#8217;m coming at a different argument. Although, his institution that he believes in is the most nefarious of them all, NATO, and the Military-Industrial Complex. To him, they can do no wrong. He literally wrote a piece, on the old George W. Bush propaganda line, <em>why do they hate us? Well, of course, they hate us for our freedom. </em>His piece is based on an article in a <a href="http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://legacy.gscdn.nl/archives/images/dabiq15.pdf">magazine called </a><em><a href="http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://legacy.gscdn.nl/archives/images/dabiq15.pdf">Dabiq</a>, </em>the name of the article is <em>Why We Hate You &amp; Why We Fight You, </em>and they explicitly say that they hate all non-believers of Islam, but their main gripe is us waging war on the <em>caliphate</em>. Now, I am not siding with terrorists here, but if that&#8217;s the type of crazy they are, why would we put military bases in their back yard. Fuck them, leave those fucking people alone. Keep them from committing terrorism here by leaving them alone over there, but I digress. Back to Mr. Kisin&#8217;s &#8220;1st principles.&#8221;</p><h3>First Principles&#8212;What are they?</h3><p>Okay, to come at something from first principles, would mean to reduce it to the point that it can&#8217;t be reduced any farther, like simplifying fractions. To break a conflict down to first principles you wouldn&#8217;t do this by comparing it to other wars, and deciding &#8220;they were okay, so this is okay.&#8221; You must define your first principles.</p><p>He has since then made a response video to Dave Smith with the claim that <em>he did state the 1st principles that the rest of his argument derived from</em>, that is <em>October 7th was wrong,</em> that&#8217;s his first principles. This is such an absurd straw man. No serious person is saying the<em> </em>October 7th attack was right. I&#8217;m here to argue that there is no such thing as a moral attack, especially one in which we lose innocent civilians, man, woman, or child. That&#8217;s my first principles, that the rest of my arguments derive from, war is evil, full stop. By the way, I must point out that it&#8217;s not clear how many people were killed by either side that day because there has been so many fantastical lies that Israeli Press has exposed from that day. One of them being they enacted the <em>Hannibal Directive, </em>The Hannibal Directive, explained below by <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/11/3/whats-the-hannibal-directive-a-former-israeli-soldier-tells-all">Al Jazeera, is a way to keep any of Israel&#8217;s enemies </a>from having something to gain leverage against the Israelis, leverage to maybe, trade for freedom?</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>The directive, also known as the Hannibal Procedure or Hannibal Protocol, is an Israeli military policy that stipulates the use of maximum force in the event of a soldier being kidnapped, said Shaul.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>&#8220;You will open fire without constraints, in order to prevent the abduction,&#8221; he said, adding that the use of force is carried out even at the risk of killing a captive soldier.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>To me, the most egregious thing about this directive is that it&#8217;s a requirement in Israel to serve in the military:</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>The State of Israel requires every Israeli citizen over the age of 18 who is Jewish, Druze or Circassian to serve in the Israel Defense Forces.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>So, these people are forced to serve and then if they get in a tight spot where they might be captured, other soldiers will <em>kill</em> them before they let them get captured!</p><blockquote><p><em><strong><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/program/featured-documentaries/2016/10/7/the-hannibal-directive">The order was last executed during the 2014 Gaza War</a> &#8211; known in Israel as Operation Protective Edge. During that conflict, more than 2,000 Palestinians and 72 Israelis were killed.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>On Friday August 1, 2014, at Rafah in the south of Gaza, the Israeli Army invoked the Hannibal Directive to try to stop Hamas fighters from fleeing with a captured Israeli officer.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>The unprecedented ferocity of the action that followed cost the lives of at least 135 civilians &#8211; 75 of them children.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>That was the last time, because this order was so controversial it was decided to cut it from the playbook in 2016. Let&#8217;s see what the Pro-Israeli publication, Haaretz has to say about this&#8230;</p><h1><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-07/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-ordered-hannibal-directive-on-october-7-to-prevent-hamas-taking-soldiers-captive/00000190-89a2-d776-a3b1-fdbe45520000">IDF Ordered Hannibal Directive </a>on October 7 to Prevent Hamas Taking Soldiers Captive</h1><blockquote><p><em><strong>'There was crazy hysteria, and decisions started being made without verified information': Documents and testimonies obtained by Haaretz reveal the Hannibal operational order, which directs the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken into captivity, was employed at three army facilities infiltrated by Hamas, potentially endangering civilians as well.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>I want to be very clear about this, I am against war from all sides. Every person who died that day was killed by evil on either side. Just pointing out some facts from that day that are now clear.</p><p><em>Back to 1st Principles&#8230;</em></p><p>So, October 7th <em>was</em> obviously wrong, from all sides, because 10/7 was blowback for the blockade by Israel since 1967. They&#8217;ve had them trapped by land, air, and sea. They won&#8217;t even allow them to go out too far on the water to fish. They control how many calories are allowed in, what kind of food, and they frequently round up a few, kill some, take some prisoner every few months, they call it <em>Mowing the Lawn!</em></p><div id="youtube2-x6IhvbJ0W7g" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;x6IhvbJ0W7g&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/x6IhvbJ0W7g?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p><em>The clip above is an excellent explanation of exactly what I&#8217;m trying to say from someone who has been there.</em></p><p>This is from an article by <em><a href="https://fpif.org/destroying-the-lawn-in-gaza/">Foreign Policy in Focus:</a></em></p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Ever since it withdrew its settlements in 2005, Israel has periodically attacked Gaza. This shelling of locations throughout the narrow strip of land gave rise to the Israeli expression &#8220;mowing the lawn.&#8221; In other words, Israel was bombing Gaza on a regular basis to &#8220;maintain order.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>I must move on&#8230;</p><h3>No More 9/11&#8217;s&#8230;.</h3><p>If you&#8217;re first principles are <em>How many 9/11&#8217;s was this? First off, </em>that hasn&#8217;t been reduced far enough, it&#8217;s still at like 3rd or 4th principles. Secondly, you&#8217;ve lost the <em>fucking plot! </em>But, hey, I&#8217;ll humor it, let&#8217;s take a look-see at it. Mr. Kisin says, according to <em>first principles</em>, Israels 9/11 was about 12 times worse than 9/11. When 9/11 happened it was, 2,977 of 285 million=out to .001044561% of our population, and we launched an extremely unjust war and killed a million Iraqis, 10s of millions across the middle east. On Oct. 7th, the <em>Al Aqsa Flood, </em>the loss <em>was 1200</em> of about 9 million= out to .013%, and yes by this logic, this equals out to the equivalent to about 12.445 9/11 attacks, that seems really bad, so let&#8217;s keep on this line. The current conservative estimate of dead civilians in Gaza is 40K, 60% woman and children, okay, so that&#8217;s 40,000 killed of a population of 2 million, right? That equals out to 2% of the population and get this, equals out to be 153 9/11 attacks. That&#8217;s a lot of melted iron! By the way, <em><strong>none of this is relevant!</strong></em> Ask a mother of any of the children lost in either of the three attacks who mattered more and she&#8217;s gonna say, <em>My fucking kid! </em>Because you don&#8217;t talk <em>fucking</em> numbers, with human <em>fucking</em> lives! Are you <em>out</em> of your mind? Or Dave Smith used this comparison, if a family of 4 loses one of their children it&#8217;s not less fucked up then a family of 3. Losing someone is losing someone and fucked no matter how many were there and that&#8217;s just <em>not</em> a moral argument.</p><p>So, let&#8217;s go back to the <em>first principle thinking.</em></p><p>If we were going to really break this down to <em>first principles,</em> to decide if this is a just war, you&#8217;d have to decide? Firstly, a war is between 2 nations, or 2 states or 2 militaries, and the Palestinians <em>never</em> had a state. This is a fight between the top gang in a prison. </p><p>How about we reduce it like this? Is <em>any </em>war moral? What decides that? Well, war is&#8212;on a <em>first principles basis&#8212;</em>Mass killing as a method of extortion, to extort something either from you personally or the nation such as resources, or land, and it&#8217;s almost never what they say it&#8217;s for, i.e. Democracy, <em>Nation-Building, Human Rights violations, WMD.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>The first principles that I derive the rest of my arguments from is war is evil. Violence is evil. Extortion is a form of violence against a person or property, and if your country is going to take the moral high ground and be the <em>civilized</em> ones then you have a duty <em>not</em> to be more violent than the terrorists. Anyways, when you break down the morality of violence to first principles you get 2 things, property rights and non-aggression. You belong to you, so self-defense falls along those lines. If someone is not violating your property, or aggressing against you, then you have no right to aggress against them! Does extortion fall along these lines? Yes. Does killing fall along these lines? Yes. </p><p>This endless support for these wars is an institution in its own. Konstantin is in love with many of these institutions of war. Maybe it&#8217;s <em><a href="https://www.menshealth.com/uk/health/a42175436/short-man-syndrome/">little-man syndrome</a>,</em> I don&#8217;t know, but he&#8217;s crazy about <a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_139339.htm">NATO</a> and the American war machine, which <a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_139339.htm">NATO benefits off of</a>. </p><h3>Killing is Wrong, Violence is Wrong&#8212;How do you Know?</h3><p>The bottom-line of war, and it can&#8217;t really be reduced no farther than this, killing is wrong? Why? Who decides? I believe, before the laws, before the <em><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a></em><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights">, </a>there&#8217;s something else inside of us, something instinctual that screams out when confronted with the loss of human life. I&#8217;ve felt it, and I&#8217;m sure many others have too. It&#8217;s an erratic, emotional feeling, that comes over you. I seen it in the EMT&#8217;s who were there for my father when he was sick, for they could see things were much more dire than I could see. I remember the fright and desperation when I&#8217;d found a loved one hanging himself, and I had to cut him down before it was too late. I felt the same feeling when a girlfriend had overdosed, and I had to figure out CPR real fucking fast, because I had no clue what to do, I started blowing air into her lungs to get oxygen to her. (<em>Disclaimer: They both lived) </em>Of course, these are biased accounts. I loved these people, and maybe I&#8217;m just sensitive, but when those first responders got there to give her Narcan, I watched as all three, grown, bearded, burly men cried silently together. Giving her air from a bag I see big tears rolling down all three of their faces. I really couldn&#8217;t believe it, but they felt it too. In that moment, they didn&#8217;t care <em>who </em>she was, she was a human being that needed their help, and whatever <em>that</em> is inside of us, that instinct to preserve human life at <em>all</em> costs. I don&#8217;t know what it is, but whatever that is, it&#8217;s real, and it&#8217;s there. </p><p>When you break down a conflict to <em>first principles,</em> war <em>must</em> be opposed at <em>all </em>costs, and I mean <em>all costs!</em> By the way, if you can&#8217;t have peace there, go somewhere else! Maybe 75 years later, it&#8217;s time to move on. Fuck Israel, it&#8217;s hot and dry, too many cactuses. Life is too damn short, come here, leave those people alone, <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/27/key-findings-about-us-immigrants/">we have 22,000,000 undocumented immigrants here</a>, we&#8217;d love to have some documented Jews, come to Kentucky, I&#8217;m pretty sure we&#8217;re Jew-free, or maybe I just don&#8217;t know any. It&#8217;s like walking up a sidewalk, you see someone ahead who obviously looks to be acting erratic, you don&#8217;t high-tale it towards him, you cross the street to avoid any bullshit! What I&#8217;m saying is <em>cross the street! **I bet that&#8217;ll be a controversial statement, hahahahaha!**</em></p><p>Konstantin Kisin is <em>the</em> modern Neoconservative. This is how they start; this is the trajectory. They start out as Liberals, then become moderates, then become free speech warriors who are <em>Classically Liberal&#8212;so far this could be me&#8212;</em>they continue to pelt you with all the <em>issues</em> you love to support, but if you pay attention, right when you think you have an actual, independent thinker here, they&#8217;ll dropped a couple corporate talking points, <em>Israel has a right to defend itself&#8230;. we must protect Ukraine from an &#8216;Unprovoked&#8217; war&#8230;. why are y&#8217;all being so racist (that was a new one)? I&#8217;m gonna leave you with this. </em></p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Scott Horton&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:2016908,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/95bb0561-503b-4d83-8304-05f3d5a895f1_4501x4500.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;a3a3454d-5335-45a8-a43c-8d6f8818b02e&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> of Anti-War.com, was on <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Trish Wood is Critical&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:276141,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/trishwood&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a93658f3-df3c-4b15-9b91-784aae062d24_140x140.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;93b9dac2-2d31-4c6f-ac2b-4fa731642267&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> is Critical a couple weeks ago, <a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-149569790?r=iuq6q&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">and after 2 hours of laying out how these people who are so good on so many issues flip</a> when it comes to war, Scott explains how people like <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Bari Weiss&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:2067309,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dcefd577-0400-48d6-96c8-cde128a32ebe_6000x4000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;e8596dca-184e-4921-98e9-c3cd6c81ef29&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> and <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Konstantin Kisin&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:13247845,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7f97d20-5cba-46fc-afb7-7ef847898449_2051x2052.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;d60fc3fc-6152-4ac7-adb9-47ac40072e74&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> and <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Benjamin Shapiro&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:246857705,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2d4ed259-9907-441c-a9b7-e5c03f4b15d4_516x481.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;e13c6e44-f2f1-4ca0-af4a-c6a986c4f8ea&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Scott Horton: Well, I mean, as far as these very powerful American influencers, you know, this could be my bias, but I think that this is a smart way to look at these people. Bari Weiss and Ben Shapiro as probably the two most prominent. </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Trish Wood: Yeah. </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>SH: You know what they are? They're kittens and donuts. That's what they are. I read this great article one time&#8212;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>TW: What does that mean&#8212; </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>SH: &#8212;about an Israeli foreign ministry influence operation on Facebook. And it was a web page, a Facebook page about kittens and donuts. And that was what they posted. Cute little kittens. You can see them now, can't you? Little kittens and donuts. Oh, everybody loves donuts. Sugar, sweet, yummy and bright colors.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>SH: Kittens and donuts, kittens and donuts, kittens and donuts. And then every 175th post, every seven weeks, they would say, we sure love Israel so much and stand with Israel. They protect gay rights, don't you know? Some Israel PR.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>SH: And you see now, the entire purpose of that Facebook page was just to flick a little Hasbara in your eye. It was never about the kittens. They were jerking your chain. It was the Israeli foreign ministry, not some sweet lady who just likes kittens. It was an influence op to trick you into thinking that people who like kittens, like I like kittens also like Israel, I guess Israel must like kittens too. And just that to me, like ought to piss you off just in the first place that they can, they treat you with that much contempt. If that is what they are trying to do to influence your mom's opinion, right?</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>SH: Like how dare they, first of all, but then secondly, Ben Shapiro and Bari Weiss. That's what they are. They're kittens and donuts. Ben Shapiro gets up there and says, &#8220;no, young lady, you're not really a boy. Give me a break. You can't ask people to stop believing in reality and instead believe in your delusion instead.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>SH: &#8220;We're not going to go along with that. That's crazy.&#8221; So, people go, &#8220;yeah, that sounds right. This guy is rational.&#8221; </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>SH: And then he goes, &#8220;oh, we love Israel so much. They're great.&#8221; Blah, blah, blah. And you go, &#8220;well, wait a minute. What do these things have to do with each other?&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>SH: I mean, if anything, you can see them now. They're the wokest of all! You can't say anything about Israel or Shapiro himself. The same guy who made millions, who made his entire career going to campuses and saying, &#8220;no, crybaby, you can go to your safe space, but I don't have to respect that.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>SH: &#8220;And I don't have to respect your nonsense and all your PC,&#8221; you know, &#8220;new speak terminology and force everyone to give in to your thing.&#8221; &#8220;Free speech. You can't stop me.&#8221; All of this. And then as soon as all this stuff breaks out in Israel, all of a sudden, who wants speech codes on campus?</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>SH: Who wants to restrict protests and restrict speech and claim, quite and wholly, and totally disingenuously, that everyone who disagrees with him about Israel, is just a Jew hating anti-Semite. That's their motive. &#8220;You know how they are. They hate Jews.&#8221; &#8220;Hey, look, here's one example of one stupid student said one stupid thing, wah, wah, wah.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>SH: And all of a sudden now who's crying in a safe space and demanding that everyone else see it through those same eyes too. And what does that have to do with Israel? In terms of the overall, like the rest of his message, free markets and anti-wokeism and all these things.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>I wish I could find this article online; I looked everywhere. It&#8217;s been scrubbed, I&#8217;m sure. This describes these people <em>so</em> well. None of them, does it describe better though, than <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Konstantin Kisin&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:13247845,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff7f97d20-5cba-46fc-afb7-7ef847898449_2051x2052.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;b19ca853-7eed-416b-a0dd-551c45df580d&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>. You feel like he&#8217;s a rational actor when he has on all these guests supporting free speech, and anti-wokism, and the like, he comes at it from the perspective that he&#8217;s from a communist country and he knows what this leads to. Then he sprinkles in some war here, a little war over there, by the way, Dave Rubin is one of these guys too. He started his own Free Speech platform, Locals then as soon as someone has something to say about Israel, he&#8217;s right back to calling for speech codes. These people are propagandists of the highest level, and they must be seen as such. Dr. Fauci, Peter Hotez, Sam Harris, James Lyndsay, Mr. Kisin, Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss, and many more. You will know them by their fruit! </p><p>They&#8217;ve become institutionalized. They lived so long depending on these institutions, they will abandon <em>all</em> principles at the drop of a dime if anyone was to threaten them. Be Aware!</p><p>Thank you for reading, if you haven&#8217;t already, please subscribe below! 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Just Asking Questions….]]></title><description><![CDATA[How "Establishment" Charlatans are the New "Institutionalized"]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/have-our-public-intellectuals-become</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/have-our-public-intellectuals-become</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:21:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/jeMux1GjA7Y" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Our institutions have ill behooved themselves and we are left to pick up the pieces.</em></p><p>I had a plan of attack, to take aim at James Lindsay, Konstantin Kisin, Sam Harris, and other &#8220;anti-woke&#8221; woke evangelists for their love of all things institutional, and I still plan to, but I must include the <em>Vaccine-Evangelists too.</em> They fit the description, they must be destroyed, think Bill Gates, Peter Hotez, for <em>the love of God, BILL NYE?</em> I might leave Bill Nye out, for the sake of my childhood. And I can only get surfacy with Gates&#8230;<em>today</em>. Because there&#8217;s whole books to be said about that <em>Eel</em>. </p><p>There&#8217;s an ideology lying right beneath the surface, that all of these people follow. The basis of this ideology is &#8220;<em>don&#8217;t trust people, trust institutions.&#8221;</em> You can see it in their outrage any time someone threatens to expose one of their precious institutions. This is why, to most of them, there is no threat worse than Donald Trump, even though the other side have threatened our civil rights in<a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-150434808?r=iuq6q&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web"> just as egregious</a>, and<a href="https://www.racket.news/p/my-speech-in-washington-rescue-the"> in some</a> ways <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/house-committee-rips-state-department">worse</a> than him. He threatens their institutions, he must be <em>destroyed!</em></p><h4>The New-Atheists Are VERY Religious, They Just Serve Different Gods </h4><div><hr></div><p><em>If you don&#8217;t know who the new-atheists are, they were a group of intellectuals in the early 2000&#8217;s who wrote many books against religion. Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennet, and Christopher Hitchens were known as the &#8220;Four Horsemen&#8221; of this Anti-Theist movement. They believed, not only is religion bad, but it should also, not be tolerated after 9/11. They believed 9/11 happened because of religious fundamentalism, and they&#8217;re at least halfway right. Bin Laden and his cohorts were religious fundamentalists who believe if they die as martyrs, they will be rewarded in the afterlife. It&#8217;s also true that 9/11 was blowback for Iraq war 1, bombing the middle east all through the 90&#8217;s, and using the Mujahadin against the Soviet Union then claiming the win when it fell, but I digress. They also believe, essentially, that it&#8217;s dumb, like believing in Santa Claus. There were many waves of this New-Atheist movement, James Lindsay was in one of them, Kyle Kylinski in another. Many charlatans got a start here. I&#8217;ve been fans of all of them at different moments. This is not one of those moments&#8230;.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>So, I am not the most religious person, I very much <em>believed</em> in the <em>New-Atheist Movement</em>, which is a big part of the bone I have to pick with this group. I always had trouble finding faith in something that didn&#8217;t <em>seem</em> real. I couldn&#8217;t touch it, couldn&#8217;t really explain it and no one else could either. It seemed illogical to spend my life following something I didn&#8217;t believe in. I, now, have been through, and seen many things that has led me to believe that there is a power out there greater than our own that we don&#8217;t quite understand. Maybe not a God, but something. I&#8217;m starting to think very highly of the Jordan Peterson position on this, <em>even if you don&#8217;t believe or you&#8217;re not sure or you lack faith, if you at least live your life like you <strong>do</strong> believe, you <strong>will live a better life. </strong></em>So, that&#8217;s the position I currently subscribe to, it&#8217;s not like it calls on you to do something so radically different, all it asks of you is to do your best to be a <em>good</em> person. It&#8217;s not like <em>any</em> of the 10 <em>Commandments </em>are bad rules to follow. Except for <em>&#8220;having no other Gods before me&#8221;</em>. That one&#8217;s kinda rough. Maybe it&#8217;s bad to <em>worship</em> anything, but if you must worship something, maybe the one that says to <em>Love Thy Neighbor</em> probably isn&#8217;t the worst. It&#8217;s a good standard. The subjects of this piece also have Gods that they worship above no others, and theirs are <em>not </em>also saying, <em>Thou Shalt Not Kill, </em>theirs say, <em>thou shalt not kill, unless we tell you too, and it benefits the state, or advances science, or pharmaceutical companies, or the Washington Establishment, or the Military-Industrial Complex, or the Israel Lobby, or the Anti-Disinformation Complex, the Think Tanks promoting war policies and eroding our civil rights from within. Thou shalt covet thy neighbor&#8217;s oil deposits. </em>I&#8217;m sure God would&#8217;ve told Moses all of this, but he was late for a meeting. </p><p>I&#8217;ve come to understand that all of these people are televangelists, grifters, charlatans, and liars, of the internet age, and they&#8217;re all selling institutions as the new religion that we should all follow.</p><p>Also, I am not here to support religion. I loathe their institutions, just as well as the institutions of war. I am not a Communist, but I would like to see our failed institutions replaced with something better. In fact, the internet is doing that for us as we speak. I am simply seeing a phenomenon in which these public intellectuals&#8212;who I&#8217;ve always endeared&#8212;have a blind spot for the evil committed by these institutions, they so very much cherish.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>I feel like, because I am almost completely sold on Libertarianism being the only philosophically sound political ideology for someone with my beliefs. I must say that anyone can and should follow or worship at the heel, if you must, any religion or belief system that you want, I want everyone to have full freedom to do whatever they want to as long as it&#8217;s not violent and doesn&#8217;t interrupt anyone&#8217;s property rights or remove anyone&#8217;s ability to make their own choices. I&#8217;m just introducing another argument when making that choice.</em></p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/have-our-public-intellectuals-become?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/have-our-public-intellectuals-become?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><h3>                              The God-Shaped Hole</h3><p>17th century French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher, Blaise Pascal once said, <em>&#8220;<strong>There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ</strong>&#8221; </em>I believe that this hole exists in every one of us. It&#8217;s our need to exist, our yearning to continue, our longing for continuity. Their position is that it&#8217;s stupid, unscientific, illogical to feel this yearning. This causes a crisis of meaning. You wonder why? What&#8217;s the point of this when one day it just ends. I&#8217;ve been struggling with this for years now. You can&#8217;t tell me these people don&#8217;t have that same hole; Theirs is filled by institutions. Now, my goal is not to take that away from them, in fact my only goal, ever, is exploring the ideas bouncing around in my head and putting them to words in the most interesting way that I can. The people in the world need something to fill that void, and if we trust in them, we&#8217;ll never see progress in society. In fact, with the current crisis overseas, <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=02efeddb7dfc57d0a009e645822bbe33046e488938af7998a4b0087ee474b3f0JmltdHM9MTcyOTIwOTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=change+in+nuclear+policy&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vd29ybGQvYmlkZW4tYXBwcm92ZWQtc2VjcmV0LW51Y2xlYXItc3RyYXRlZ3ktZm9jdXNpbmctY2hpbmVzZS10aHJlYXQtbmV3LXlvcmstdGltZXMtMjAyNC0wOC0yMC8&amp;ntb=1">there&#8217;s a chance</a> that<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-ramps-up-nuclear-training-amidst-doctrine-changes/ar-AA1rK1ik?ocid=BingNewsSerp"> blindly trusting these people</a> could <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=174d50eac5c3d6f99af491dc8ce687fdee4416c043b6ff653ca0cbb355214774JmltdHM9MTcyOTIwOTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=ukraine+american+long+range+missile&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmJjbmV3cy5jb20vbmV3cy93b3JsZC91a3JhaW5lLXVzZXMtbG9uZy1yYW5nZS1hdGFjbXMtcnVzc2lhLWZpcnN0LXRpbWUtcmNuYTE0ODMwOQ&amp;ntb=1">lead to the</a> end <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=ad0fcab9daa3fc5ab433bffc123ef8efbe2e493f06c6d054d0b097823ba98be1JmltdHM9MTcyOTIwOTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;u=a1L3ZpZGVvcy9yaXZlcnZpZXcvcmVsYXRlZHZpZGVvP3E9bnVjbGVhcit3YXIrZW5kK29mK3RoZSt3b3JsZCZtaWQ9QzcyMEU2QjBENDYxQTgzMkE2RjhDNzIwRTZCMEQ0NjFBODMyQTZGOCZGT1JNPVZJUkU&amp;ntb=1">of the hum</a>an race. </p><p>I think if they ever came to terms with the way these institutions that they lift up, oh so religiously, have failed us in such fundamental ways, they might not survive. <a href="https://shawshank.fandom.com/wiki/Brooks_Hatlen#:~:text=Brooks%20found%20a%20crow%20hatchling">Like the librarian from </a><em><a href="https://shawshank.fandom.com/wiki/Brooks_Hatlen#:~:text=Brooks%20found%20a%20crow%20hatchling">Shawshank Redemption</a>, Brooks Hatlen, </em>who couldn&#8217;t survive on the outside and <em>&#8220;decided not to stay&#8221; </em>it could very well be a mass suicide, the likes of which has not been seen since, say Jonestown. </p><div id="youtube2-jeMux1GjA7Y" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;jeMux1GjA7Y&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;12&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jeMux1GjA7Y?start=12&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>All my life we&#8217;ve talked about people being <em>institutionalized. </em>My cousin, who was unfortunately a huge role model in my life and led me down some dark paths, was <em>institutionalized</em>, as we called it. From spending more time in prison than at home. Not <em>really</em> unfortunate, I learned some hard lessons from him that I couldn&#8217;t have gotten anywhere else. The <em>institutionalized, </em>eventually, start to feel safer locked away than they do in freedom. You don&#8217;t need to do anything for yourself, for so long, the world changed so much, without you. You no longer know how to get by the way you were raised to. The institution you called home, kept you safe for so long.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>Meanwhile, my cousin came home from doing a bid<br>Gave the man an iPhone and he didn't know what it is. &#8212;<a href="https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&amp;q=jelly+roll%2c+%e2%80%9csmoking+section&amp;&amp;mid=39340D202806B539E78039340D202806B539E780&amp;&amp;FORM=VRDGAR">Jelly Roll, &#8220;Smoking Section</a>&#8221; This was so perfect, I had to include it.</p></div><p>Sam Harris is self-proclaimed <em>unabashed elitist. </em>When he says this at the intro of his podcast episode with Michael Shellenberger, <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Bari Weiss&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:2067309,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dcefd577-0400-48d6-96c8-cde128a32ebe_6000x4000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;8b3d5f77-a090-4ad7-9635-920e495d0384&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, and <em>twin to Satan</em> <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Renee DiResta&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:320897,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1e84c461-1ed4-489c-8798-cbb54e5f6e9a_1170x1170.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;649d16ef-fd2e-421b-b903-146db03170c1&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>. Name of the episode is <em><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/tVeL5HX4uDY?si=mQm3DR4g2tZm_H3K&amp;t=203">episode Social Media &amp; Public Trust: A Conversation with Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger, and Renee DiResta</a>.  </strong></em>His argument for this is about calling a plumber, here&#8217;s the quote:</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8230;.in this conversation at various points is a tension between, what is often thought of as elitism and populism, and I should say up front in that particular contest, I am an unabashed elitist. But that doesn't mean what most people think it means, for me it has nothing to do with class, or even formal education, it has to do with an honest appreciation for differences in competence, wherever those differences matter. </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Now, when I call a plumber, I have called him for a reason, the reason is I have a problem I can't solve, right? I don't know a damn thing about Plumbing, so when my house is flooding with sewage backing up from the street, and the plumber arrives that man is my God. Jesus never received looks of Greater admiration than I have cast upon my plumber, in a time of need, and so it is with a surgeon or a lawyer or an airline pilot. Whenever there is an emergency, there is such a thing as expertise, and we are right to want it because the alternative is ignorance and incompetence, and needless suffering, and untimely death, without plumbers we live in our own filth, and we've been doing that online for many years now, and it's getting disgusting. Of course, I'm not saying that we should blindly trust &#8220;experts&#8221; and I'm not saying experts haven't failed us in shocking ways, but we are shocked against a background assumption that expertise is a real thing, and that our institutions have a responsibility to provide it. If you didn't think expertise was real then there would be no basis to be disappointed when our most esteemed institutions fail to function and of course, there are whole fields of pseudo-expertise. I've often criticized organized religion for this, let me ask a Catholic bishop about the Holy Spirit or about the problem of human evil, and you will get a lot of fake knowledge aimed at your brain. We could add a few branches of the humanities here, along with scientific results that don't replicate, but are still widely believed. And there are surely situations where real experts, thinking about real problems can have their thinking distorted by bad incentives, it is absolutely true that institutions become corrupt, all of this is true and yet none of this suggests that the solution to our problems is for everyone to just, quote, &#8220;do their own research&#8221;, of course, now we have chat GPT, which would seem to make doing your own research more promising, eventually I think it will. I think that many things will become like chess, what's the best next move in a game of chess? Should you ask the best human player on earth, or should you ask a computer the answer? Now, is you should ask a computer.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>This angers me on so many levels, first off because it was so fucking well said, he addresses all of my issues here, but knowing who Sam Harris<em> is, </em>all of his arguments get completely destroyed, and the bit about <em>&#8220;Doing your own Research&#8221; </em>is the most infuriating to me. First off, you being an <em>elitist </em>is not reduced by recognizing that you&#8217;re not a plumber, I&#8217;ll call a plumber in a heartbeat if I am out of my depth, however, they don&#8217;t always fix the problem, and I would <em>never</em> denigrate someone else for researching how to do something and trying to do it themselves. Sam would. They&#8217;re not gods and they&#8217;re not doing something you couldn&#8217;t get off your ass and learn to do yourself if that&#8217;s what you chose. I have a foot-wide hole in my living room ceiling to prove that sometimes they know as much as you. Not taking a shot at plumbers, just the argument is so damn weak. This is so crazy, Sam Harris has made his entire career on giving his take on things he is not an expert of, he came to fame originally for his views on religion, and how it is illogical and leads to radicalization, but that&#8217;s not <em>his</em> education, his entire shtick is &#8220;<em>making sense</em>&#8221; but makes no fucking sense. He claims there&#8217;s an entire <em>field of pseudo-expertise</em> and then proceeds to be the biggest purveyor of pseudo-science. He has on Renee Diresta in this podcast with Michael Shellenberger and Bari Weiss. I love Michael Shellenberger, when he says something, he&#8217;s always prepared to defend it. Every podcast appearance he does turns into a debate, and when he&#8217;s introduced to better ideas, he changes his position. In this podcast <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jay Bhattacharya&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:17722900,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff3692d86-2081-4ffb-9efc-1038add261f8_1512x2016.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;c5a3f8d6-841b-4d12-a06f-0544132ee1da&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> comes up and Sam Harris claims the <em><a href="https://gbdeclaration.org/">Great Barrington Declaration</a> </em>was wrong, and maybe it was but at least they were having the conversation. We&#8217;re still facing the unintended consequences of this period. Sam Harris isn&#8217;t, he&#8217;s already rich. He doesn&#8217;t have to worry about inflation in the supermarket. The GBD was written by the <em>3 fringe </em>epidemiologist&#8217;s, in the emails below, received 940,000+ signatures supporting it, 16,000+ of those signatures by <em>Medical &amp; Public Health Scientists, 47,000+ </em>were<em> Medical Practitioners</em> and the rest were <em>Concerned Citizens. </em>The whole idea was Focused Protection, after we figured out that people with comorbidities and elderly people were the most in danger, we should protect them and continue with society back to normal. Which really wasn&#8217;t a crazy proposition, it was simply something to be debated. Sam criticized him as being a pseudo-scientist, following in the footsteps of his friends in the Public Health institution of the NIH and NIAID, Dr. Fauci and Francis Collins. He also said Dr. Jay was wrong about the rate of death from COVID when I do believe <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jay Bhattacharya&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:17722900,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff3692d86-2081-4ffb-9efc-1038add261f8_1512x2016.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;5343af49-629c-462b-a3c6-1ad3afc553ee&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> might&#8217;ve been the first one to get it right. When confronted with this he said, yea, but it was dangerous to say it at the time. I&#8217;m sorry, but it is never safer to lie to the people then tell them the truth. I know this is all real convenient to say now that the danger has passed, but the most liberty should always be the standard. </p><p>In 2009, Sam wrote an Op-Ed in the NYT, criticizing Obama for his appointment of Francis Collins as the Director of the NIH. He was afraid that Collins&#8217; religion would get in the way of his ability to be the Director because of Sam&#8217;s inability to &#8220;<em><strong>entrust the future of biomedical research in the United States to a man who sincerely believes that a scientific understanding of human nature is impossible?&#8221;</strong></em>  Because Dr. Collins had <em><strong>&#8220;written that &#8220;science offers no answers to the most pressing questions of human existence&#8221; </strong>and that <strong>&#8220;the claims of atheistic materialism must be steadfastly resisted.&#8221;&#8221; </strong></em>12 years later, Sam Harris was ready to go to bat for Dr. Collins no matter what he said. How could he not see that Dr. Collins had the ability to disregard science and attack people regardless of whether they were right or wrong? Remember, this is the same Francis Collins:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0ofb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4427bf6b-c7cd-48a3-b067-a5f503f559e3_687x403.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0ofb!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4427bf6b-c7cd-48a3-b067-a5f503f559e3_687x403.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0ofb!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4427bf6b-c7cd-48a3-b067-a5f503f559e3_687x403.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0ofb!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4427bf6b-c7cd-48a3-b067-a5f503f559e3_687x403.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0ofb!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4427bf6b-c7cd-48a3-b067-a5f503f559e3_687x403.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0ofb!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4427bf6b-c7cd-48a3-b067-a5f503f559e3_687x403.png" width="687" height="403" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4427bf6b-c7cd-48a3-b067-a5f503f559e3_687x403.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:403,&quot;width&quot;:687,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:100698,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0ofb!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4427bf6b-c7cd-48a3-b067-a5f503f559e3_687x403.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0ofb!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4427bf6b-c7cd-48a3-b067-a5f503f559e3_687x403.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0ofb!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4427bf6b-c7cd-48a3-b067-a5f503f559e3_687x403.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0ofb!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4427bf6b-c7cd-48a3-b067-a5f503f559e3_687x403.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>That was now okay with Sam. He attacked friends and colleagues, simply for suggesting, maybe we shouldn&#8217;t stop asking questions. Dr. Collins was a part of one of his cozy institutions he loves <em>so</em> much, they can do no wrong. This is like, let&#8217;s say Sam&#8217;s house is flooding, he calls a plumber, the plumber shows up and starts working on the problem but, the almighty <em>National Institute of Plumbing</em> shows up to say, <em>I don&#8217;t agree with the way that you are plumbing! There needs to be a devastating takedown of this &#8216;Fringe&#8217; plumber! </em>And Sam says, <em>he&#8217;s with the NIP and he says this is wrong. Even though what you did worked and seems to make more sense than what he said about it, he must be right because, well, he&#8217;s with the N.I.P. </em>I don&#8217;t know about Sam Harris but I&#8217;m from the school of <em>Question Everything, especially authority and most definitely authoritative institutions. No sir! You&#8217;ve got to tell me why before I go with anything! But that&#8217;s not Sam.</em></p><p>During COVID I lost all faith in Sam Harris. I know I&#8217;m not alone in this. Whoever didn&#8217;t lose him over his Trump-Derangement Syndrome, surely did for his vaccine evangelism and now, for his position on the War in Gaza. His positions on every war have been atrocious. To be against any Arab in any war they land themselves in is definitely his wheelhouse. I was furious at Ben Affleck when I seen his Sam v. Ben, Real Time showdown but I&#8217;m starting to believe there was something to it. He&#8217;s the most anti-religious person out there, unless it&#8217;s a state whose claim on the land is from the Bible and maintains a religious majority by force. Yes, I&#8217;m on Israel now. The Israel-Palestine conflict seems to be a strange one for him to take the religious side on. He grew up in a Jewish family, sure, but he rejects the idea of religion at its core, and when you boil down the Israel-Palestine conflict, their basis for having a claim to that land is a claim from the bible, that the land belongs to the Jewish people. Yes, they were expelled by the Romans which is bad, and in the outset of the Holocaust the land was given back to the Jews by the British. Also bad, they didn&#8217;t have the authority to do that. It was already inhabited by a people who&#8217;d farmed that land for many generations by then. Although I&#8217;m leaving out a lot of blood and mayhem, many of their reasons for continuing to fight for that land was a biblical belief that it was their land. That was definitely what the &#8220;Religious Zionists&#8221; believed. So, with that being said, it&#8217;s pretty crazy for <em>the </em>Atheist&#8217;s Atheist Sam Harris to take this position. That&#8217;s all I got today, there is however, a lot more to say about Sam. He deserves a stand-alone piece, so I won&#8217;t spend the next 5,000 words picking on Sam, there&#8217;s others.</p><p>First Renee, I just have a few things to say about her. She is the head of the Censorship-Industrial Complex, and was director of the now-deceased prolific censorship outfit the Stanford Internet Observatory, who <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Walter Kirn&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:5584330,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/972df81c-16fb-4e10-a426-608ab7a9e747_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;7637dbd1-f389-4830-ad89-c26f29d3258e&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> described in his magnificent novelist fashion, <a href="https://x.com/i/status/1735156869537095744">well I&#8217;ll just put the whole quote below</a>:</p><blockquote><p><em>The Stanford Internet Observatory, is the only observatory I know of, that has offensive capabilities to shoot down stars and planets&#8230;</em></p></blockquote><p>It was an excellent appearance, <a href="https://x.com/i/status/1735156869537095744">everyone should watch it</a> and keep in mind, everything he says is true, everything she says is a lie. She&#8217;s another overly confident propagandist. Joe Rogan had her on 5 years ago and to my dismay, is <em>still</em> repeating propaganda that <em>she</em> fed him. &#8220;<em>19 out of 20 Christian Facebook groups are actually Russian troll farms.&#8221; </em><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Public&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:279400,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/public&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bb408664-f4e7-402b-9a4a-9bc9d94c6889_680x680.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;f99f3f21-083e-495e-9f15-88727b8aa0c3&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> did a lot better on her than I could, she&#8217;s a very complicated demon.</p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:112463258,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.public.news/p/why-renee-diresta-leads-the-censorship&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:279400,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Public&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbb408664-f4e7-402b-9a4a-9bc9d94c6889_680x680.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Why Renee DiResta Leads The Censorship Industry&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;Since the 2016 elections, politicians, journalists, and many others have raised the alarm about &#8220;foreign election influence&#8221; and &#8220;disinformation,&#8221; demanding greater &#8220;content moderation&#8221; by social media platforms. 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It is too easy, they argued, for foreign and malign actors to q&#8230;</div><div class="embedded-post-cta-wrapper"><span class="embedded-post-cta">Read more</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">3 years ago &#183; 630 likes &#183; 79 comments &#183; Michael Shellenberger</div></a></div><p>I can probably lump together, Peter Hotez &amp; Bill Gates. I have to wonder what Bill Gates actual motive is for what he does. We can&#8217;t talk about Bill Gates today without talking about Jeffrey Epstein, and we can&#8217;t talk about Jeffrey Epstein without acknowledging that in that case, every single institution of enforcement that we were told we should trust let us fucking down. When you gather all the evidence, accounts, statements, history as a few have done, you clearly see that it couldn&#8217;t be anything but a Mossad-backed blackmail scheme. Where they get rich, powerful people, into compromising positions, get it on camera, and then they own them. Bill Gates was one of two things and they&#8217;re both bad, purveyor or victim, but enough about that, like Mr. Gates said, &#8220;<em><strong>Well, he&#8217;s dead now&#8230;&#8221;  </strong></em>if you&#8217;re interested in hearing more about that <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Martyr Made Substack&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:408190,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/martyrmade&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/79734ade-a21d-4441-bd1f-1923800c498d_794x794.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;45a90a0a-a5d1-4117-a160-828e5758cfcb&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> did an excellent <a href="https://subscribe.martyrmade.com/p/epstein-the-full-series-pts-1-3?r=iuq6q&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">5-hour podcast</a> on the subject, where he doesn&#8217;t only explain the Jeffrey Epstein story, he also explains how it&#8217;s actually more plausible than most think because it&#8217;s happened before. <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Ryan Dawson's Anti-neocon Report&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:436513,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/ryandawson&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9b5d8c55-4151-4bb2-8da7-83f2274ba172_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;8362dea2-dd72-4a60-a59f-ab29105150f0&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> has done a lot of the original reporting and researching so that we can see the big picture, and Whitney Webb wrote 2 books, <em>One Nation Under Blackmail Vol. 1 &amp; 2</em> that lays out a history, starting with organized crime in the 1920&#8217;s and the founding of the CIA in the 1940&#8217;s and the direct line all the way through to Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. </p><div id="youtube2-LNAwUxZ5nfw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;LNAwUxZ5nfw&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LNAwUxZ5nfw?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>I can&#8217;t say a lot about Bill Gates without losing all credibility in my piece and that says a lot in its own. The cases of people like him are always vague and circumstantial, they&#8217;re that way by design. Bill Gates spent $319 million dollars, buying the media to make sure no airtight stories are written about him. In fact, he paid them off, starting with Journalism instructors paying off the schools that teach them, to the institutions that publish them: </p><blockquote><p><em><strong>While other billionaires&#8217; media empires are relatively well known, the extent to which Gates&#8217;s cash underwrites the modern media landscape is not. After sorting through over 30,000 individual grants, MintPress can reveal that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has made over $300 million worth of donations to fund media projects.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>The extent of it is fucking unreal, it&#8217;s too much to include here. I&#8217;ll <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-show-bill-gates-has-given-319-million-to-media-outlets/278943/">link it here</a>. It was also covered very well by the <em>Columbia Journalism Review </em>in an article with a very fitting headline <em><strong><a href="https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php">Journalism&#8217;s Gates Keepers</a>. </strong></em>Just read how this article starts, it&#8217;s un-fucking-real:</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Last August, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/747610085/in-seattle-a-move-across-town-could-be-a-path-out-of-poverty">NPR</a> profiled a Harvard-led experiment to help low-income families find housing in wealthier neighborhoods, giving their children access to better schools and an opportunity to &#8220;break the cycle of poverty.&#8221; According to researchers cited in the article, these children could see $183,000 greater earnings over their lifetimes&#8212;a striking forecast for a housing program still in its experimental stage.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>If you squint as you read the story, you&#8217;ll notice that every quoted expert is connected to the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, which helps fund the project. And if you&#8217;re really paying attention, you&#8217;ll also see the editor&#8217;s note at the end of the story, which reveals that NPR itself receives funding from Gates.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>NPR&#8217;s funding from Gates &#8220;was not a factor in why or how we did the story,&#8221; reporter Pam Fessler says, adding that her reporting went beyond the voices quoted in her article. The story, nevertheless, is one of hundreds NPR has reported about the Gates Foundation or the work it funds, including myriad favorable pieces written from the perspective of Gates or its grantees.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Jeez, I guess we know who <em>didn&#8217;t</em> get a grant!</p><h3>             The Vaccine-Evangelist</h3><p>When you listen to the words that these guys speak, they speak in absolutes, like <em>don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;ve already done the thinking for you!  </em>A lot of the time you look a little further into it and realize, they don&#8217;t fucking know either. Dr. Fauci stated that, <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s easy to criticize, but they&#8217;re really criticizing science because I represent science.&#8221;</em> He actually&#8212;I just realized&#8212;said this in many forms hundreds of times in interviews, he <em>loves</em> this <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s very dangerous, Chuck, because a lot of what you&#8217;re seeing as attacks on me quite frankly are attacks on science.&#8221;</em> I&#8217;m getting bombarded by memories of Dr. Fauci&#8217;s &#8220;The Science&#8221; moments as I&#8217;m researching him. I think I&#8217;ll do a separate piece soon just on Fauci. A few quick things however, I just seen the context of that quote, he&#8217;s lying about doing <em>gain-of-function </em>research and he&#8217;s saying his &#8220;<em>don&#8217;t wear masks</em>&#8221; to &#8220;<em>wear masks</em>&#8221; flub at the beginning of the pandemic was him &#8220;<em>Following the Science&#8221;. The</em> science changed so his position changed. I remember this oh so well, that wasn&#8217;t at <em>all</em> what happened. He <em>lied </em>to us, plain and simple. He used his position as an <em>expert </em>against us. What he said behind the scenes was they were worried that there wasn&#8217;t going to be enough PPE for the medical workers. So, instead of saying, &#8220;don&#8217;t buy masks right now, save them for the medical workers&#8221;, he lied to us. He caused confusion and chaos when all we wanted was the truth. March 8th, 2020, Fauci appeared on <a href="https://youtu.be/PRa6t_e7dgI?si=0TkSE9_EN3EsiVXO">60 Minutes</a>, his position was clear, masks don&#8217;t work, <em>&#8220;Right now in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks.&#8221;</em> Then claiming that because the <em>&#8220;facts changed, the science changed&#8221;</em> as they do, <a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/08/24/fact-checking-fact-checkers-what-do-studies-say-about-masks-and-covid-19-15754">Fauci then said</a>, <em>&#8220;It was only when it became clearer masks did help and that presymptomatic and asymptomatic spread was common, that it made sense to encourage people to wear them&#8230;&#8221; </em>This is what was public. This, <a href="https://reason.com/2021/06/04/performative-pandemic-panic/">however, was not:</a></p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection,&#8221; Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wrote in February 2020 in one of <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nataliebettendorf/fauci-emails-covid-response">thousands of emails obtained by BuzzFeed News</a>. &#8220;The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep[ing] out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you. I do not recommend that you wear a mask, particularly since you are going to a very low risk location.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p><em>You can find all 3,234 pages of emails obtained by Buzzfeed News by FOIA Lawsuit <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20793561-leopold-nih-foia-anthony-fauci-emails">here.</a></em></p><p>By the way, just a one more point on Fauci, Dr. Fauci being the Director of the NIAID, held the contracts on biological weapons research for the United States military which is what made him the highest paid official in the United States Government, see reporting done by <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Meryl Nass&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:18819082,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd66623aa-ebf8-4ffa-bc8c-bfa56a44811f_960x1280.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;89daa07c-7fd9-4c0b-ab47-6b47fbc5f8a0&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> &amp; <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Sam Husseini&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1999517,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97857e76-38f4-40a2-a2bf-980ecbbd1d8f_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;178818bf-6cca-435a-b5fd-573ae1bc35f6&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> for more on this. <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Meryl Nass&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:18819082,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd66623aa-ebf8-4ffa-bc8c-bfa56a44811f_960x1280.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;ed047db7-a07e-4446-abde-6a5c2ab70919&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> was the one who broke the story on Anthrax in the 90&#8217;s and has <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=29dc4ee9ea79649faadebce670f834534a7102c40810d5d7234ba350d6da3740JmltdHM9MTcyOTIwOTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=meryl+nass+biological+weapons&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9wdWJtZWQubmNiaS5ubG0ubmloLmdvdi8xMTk4ODQzMy8&amp;ntb=1">studies in</a> scie<a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=8eedb530c858a506e022507c6e1af27fb1387b8945accf41c594d3418b0373ebJmltdHM9MTcyOTIwOTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=meryl+nass+biological+weapons&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2NpZW5jZWRpcmVjdC5jb20vc2NpZW5jZS9hcnRpY2xlL2Ficy9waWkvUzA4OTE1NTIwMDU3MDA1MDc&amp;ntb=1">ntific journal</a>s on this and Fauci <em>is</em> wrapped all in it.</p><p>Aaaaaaand&#8230;.. <a href="https://blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2024/06/12/wapo-finally-admits-wcw-was-right-about-faucis-beagle-tests/">#BeagleGATE. I&#8217;m just gonna link it</a>. It&#8217;s quite honestly the worst story you could imagine &#8220;Mr. Science&#8221; being involved in. Thank God for the strong stomachs and excellent investigations by the animal rights activists&#8217;, <a href="https://www.whitecoatwaste.org/">The </a><em><a href="https://www.whitecoatwaste.org/">White Coat Waste Project</a>. </em>It may very well be worse than developing a biological weapons program.</p><p>Still couldn&#8217;t come up with a better lie, of course, he was used to being believed without question.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFo7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef0cc5c4-6b95-4a88-b20f-84176990de74_201x138.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFo7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef0cc5c4-6b95-4a88-b20f-84176990de74_201x138.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFo7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef0cc5c4-6b95-4a88-b20f-84176990de74_201x138.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFo7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef0cc5c4-6b95-4a88-b20f-84176990de74_201x138.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFo7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef0cc5c4-6b95-4a88-b20f-84176990de74_201x138.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFo7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef0cc5c4-6b95-4a88-b20f-84176990de74_201x138.webp" width="307" height="210.77611940298507" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ef0cc5c4-6b95-4a88-b20f-84176990de74_201x138.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:138,&quot;width&quot;:201,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:307,&quot;bytes&quot;:3154,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFo7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef0cc5c4-6b95-4a88-b20f-84176990de74_201x138.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFo7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef0cc5c4-6b95-4a88-b20f-84176990de74_201x138.webp 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFo7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef0cc5c4-6b95-4a88-b20f-84176990de74_201x138.webp 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WFo7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef0cc5c4-6b95-4a88-b20f-84176990de74_201x138.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>                             &#8230;&amp; THIS GUY</h3><p>Just in case you forgot he existed, I&#8217;m here to jog your memory. Peter Hotez, Vaccine-Evangelist, has appeared on the <em>Joe Rogan Experience</em> twice. Both times Joe was extremely grateful for him coming on. It was a good appearance. Joe gave him a little hell for not promoting nutrition as well as vaccines, but it was overall a very agreeable, non-contentious interview. He should&#8217;ve been grateful to Joe, honestly, for getting to speak on what, at the time, was the biggest platform in the world, but none of that matters when there is a threat against one of his beloved institutions. Be it the institution of science or war. They work hand-in-hand. Now in both appearances Hotez denigrated Robert Kennedy, Jr. so much that Joe took RFK for a bad guy. Several years later, after Joe finally had RFK, Jr. on, Peter Hotez tweeted out to one of his followers that Joe was a Neo-Fascist for &#8220;Platforming&#8221; the vaccine skeptic, RFK Jr, and complained that Spotify was still allowing him on their platform. Joe replied in an amazingly worded tweet that I can&#8217;t seem to find anywhere (thanks big tech censorship gods) and then this:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BICS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98092b50-0d40-4b04-9145-e4dc587f5440_637x680.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BICS!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98092b50-0d40-4b04-9145-e4dc587f5440_637x680.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BICS!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98092b50-0d40-4b04-9145-e4dc587f5440_637x680.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BICS!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98092b50-0d40-4b04-9145-e4dc587f5440_637x680.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BICS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98092b50-0d40-4b04-9145-e4dc587f5440_637x680.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BICS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98092b50-0d40-4b04-9145-e4dc587f5440_637x680.jpeg" width="475" height="507.06436420722133" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/98092b50-0d40-4b04-9145-e4dc587f5440_637x680.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:680,&quot;width&quot;:637,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:475,&quot;bytes&quot;:72094,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BICS!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98092b50-0d40-4b04-9145-e4dc587f5440_637x680.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BICS!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98092b50-0d40-4b04-9145-e4dc587f5440_637x680.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BICS!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98092b50-0d40-4b04-9145-e4dc587f5440_637x680.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BICS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98092b50-0d40-4b04-9145-e4dc587f5440_637x680.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>After this tweet went viral, influencers from all over started adding to the pot to the point that it was at nearly $3 Million dollars, to debate someone who Hotez had claimed many times was an idiot, and he is an acclaimed, authored expert, right? Sure, some people are experts in their field, but when it comes to speaking publicly, they&#8217;re in over their heads. I couldn&#8217;t, but that&#8217;s not the case at all. He&#8217;d been appearing on <em>every </em>news show, purporting to be <em>the </em>expert we should <em>all</em> be listening to, but when it comes to defending his expertise, as a public-facing intellectual he refused to show. Imagine how much <em>science </em>they could have done with <em>all</em> that money. If he&#8217;s into helping people as he constantly states, why not? Very soon, Peter Hotez would start to be seen as the charlatan he is. I mean, the dude, during the lockdowns, before appearing on the news, would put on this fucking white lab coat! To create the feel of confidence. That he&#8217;s in the lab when he&#8217;s doing his appearance from his home computer, this was a psyop to make you feel like you could trust, <em>&#8220;Oh, yay! Guy in lab suit on da news! He must know what he is saying, errrr right? He&#8217;s so serious he forgot to take off his lab jacket!&#8221;</em></p><p>Guy in Lab Coat: <em>Yes, science, see me doing science, see, lab coat, I must be doing science right?</em></p><p>On August 27th, 2021, as reported via Twitter by <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Silent Lunch, The David Zweig Newsletter&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:470155,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/davidzweig&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2396d49c-d05a-4a71-9e7c-d85d6fb341a4_816x816.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;5108f4bf-7bcc-43f4-b9b9-dc9f86bd20f3&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> of the <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The Twitter Files&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1581677,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/twitterfiles&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eb1fbab9-ecce-453b-bfb2-961df9323507_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;3e82df87-00fc-49d1-aefd-7df5cdc78ca6&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> fame, David tweeted, <em><strong>Not sharing opinion on the Rogan/Hotez/RFK debate </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>But I will share this: Hotez said kids needed to mask, and as evidence for this claim cited a study of an outbreak in a school &#8230; *with a mask mandate* </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Many other issues with his tweet but I&#8217;ll leave it at that</strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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He simply hates when people put on lab coats in their living room to appear on Corporate media via Zoom and makes confident statements, puts on their obvious costume to add to that confidence &#8220;I&#8217;m a scientist, see the lab coat?&#8221; You can believe anything I say because I&#8217;ve done the work for you!&#8221;  To spread obvious propaganda, from the very beginning. This person is no different then the hundreds of military men, and state department clowns that the corporate news channels had on night after night in the run-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom. They have all admitted it was a sham, even John McCain on his deathbed, but the propaganda was so rich that I argued with a friend as recent as last week to convince him it was a sham. He still believes it. He is them.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>This is getting way too long, going to make the rest a part 2. Coming later this evening or tomorrow morning. Thank you for reading&#8230;&#8230;</p><p>Next Part will be on the &#8220;Woke Right&#8221; who seem to be in full swing today. 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