<?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: DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans]]></title><description><![CDATA[Politics inside the oh, so, banal window of Overton.]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/s/democrips-and-rebloodlicans</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: DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans</title><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/s/democrips-and-rebloodlicans</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:55:50 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[jordanlee2liberty@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[jordanlee2liberty@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[jordanlee2liberty@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[jordanlee2liberty@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Opposing the War Parties]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's time for a regime change, against the regime changers]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/opposing-the-war-parties</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/opposing-the-war-parties</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 06:31:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/FmIRYvJQeHM" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From a reader:</p><blockquote><p><em>Q: Can you help me understand, &#8220;Opposing the War parties,&#8221;</em></p><p><em>Does that have any limitations. I hear the slogan often, but I don&#8217;t readily buy in.</em></p><p><em>If Israel received the support from the US that it does from Canada (my home country) it would long ago ceased to exist.</em></p><p><em>As, I&#8217;ve indicated, I come very close to loathing Sam Harris. I agree with him however on the issue of Israel/Gaza/Hamas. Of the &#8220;New Atheists&#8221; Hitch was my favorite, although he could employ sophism reflexively. A statement I bookmarked from him years ago (I&#8217;m not sure it originated with him) was, &#8220;There are certain regimes that are impervious to unassisted overthrow from within.&#8221; And the same case could be made for Israel in the middle East. They are a sitting duck without outside aid.</em></p><p><em>Please, help me understand what &#8220;Opposing the War parties,&#8221; would entail.</em></p></blockquote><h2>In the style of Rothbard&#8217;s <em><a href="https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QaffnYTDn-bn1H2rzb1LFtFuHlVTz4QGwmFBQcKQ0xzIkaMBHV_ZEfBR_MyWB6z4HNCP3ai-fgPNMOs09FgTyfz0v756dQmo7lDWM9JCJrAccU8SUCuA2po4-zM88EcaorW9RN-_1cLbwVcIE1HFVrKSlhYUK9HXChKP49EQnRha9fWNE3wenHC3W9_0HaYWpxEVH6NT6nPfpDBollifbteZof7VALhbgWdMIXdhEwdj--Z1PubzJUZQUktsBFnbHU9aBJXV">&#8220;Anatomy of the State&#8221;</a></em> Here&#8217;s What the War Parties <em>are</em> <em>Not:</em></h2><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.&#8221;</p><p>&#8212;Murray N. Rothbard, Anatomy of the State</p></div><p>Both parties of the American two-party system reflect to their constituents that, in return for their vote, they will carry out various tasks important to that voter&#8212;upholding law and order, protecting citizens, and representing the beliefs of the people in the government. The people vote for them; therefore, they vote for us. When legislation, spending, and of course, war, are litigated, the people we choose to represent us&#8212;be it left, right, or center&#8212;are chosen to carry out the &#8220;will of the people&#8221;. Our interests are represented by these people. That&#8217;s what our country was founded upon, and how the Constitution was framed.</p><p>A constitutional republic, &#8220;if you can keep it,&#8221; as Benjamin Franklin cautiously answered Dr. James McHenry at the close of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. When asked if the delegates had created a monarchy or a republic, Franklin emphasized that the nation&#8217;s survival as a representative democracy depends on the active, informed involvement of its citizens to maintain it, rather than it being self-actuating.</p><p>This has never been the result, not my generations, my fathers, or my grandfather, who was hit by a kamikaze pilot in WWII, and started a cycle of addiction that rampaged through my family, ending with me. Obliging me to feel the need to name this publication after him, <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;ca2499b1-7cd9-4837-8d89-10d7a53b1bdb&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>. </p><p>Consider <a href="https://cdn.mises.org/anatomy-of-the-state.pdf?_gl=1*3lwhst*_gcl_au*NDUxOTUwNzcxLjE3NzE2OTk2MjUuMTk5ODQxNjU5Mi4xNzcxNzQzODkwLjE3NzE3NDQwNDQ.*_ga*MjA3NjA1MTMzNS4xNzcxNjk5NTky*_ga_MC3JLVEDHF*czE3NzE5OTAzMTckbzQkZzAkdDE3NzE5OTAzMTgkajU5JGwwJGgxNjI0MTAyMDky">Murray Rothbard&#8217;s description of the state</a>:</p><blockquote><p><em>If &#8220;we are the government,&#8221; then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also &#8220;voluntary&#8221; on the part of the individual concerned.</em> <em>If the government has incurred a huge public debt which must be paid by taxing one group for the benefit of another, this reality of burden is obscured by saying that &#8220;we owe it to ourselves&#8221;;</em> <em>if the government conscripts a man, or throws him into jail for dissident opinion, then he is &#8220;doing it to himself&#8221; and, therefore, nothing untoward has occurred.</em> <em>Under this reasoning, any Jews murdered by the Nazi government were not murdered; instead, they must have &#8220;committed suicide,&#8221; since they were the government (which was democratically chosen), and, therefore, anything the government did to them was voluntary on their part.</em> <em>...We must, therefore, emphasize that &#8220;we&#8221; are not the government; the government is not &#8220;us.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>They are not actually carrying out the interests of their constituents. They are elected to office after wasting more money&#8212;for most representatives&#8212;than the voters in their district make in a year, COMBINED! If they are one of the &#8220;lucky&#8221; souls to make it across the finish line ahead of the pack, they&#8217;ve been bought and sold more times than Frederick Douglass. They&#8217;ve broken more laws than Bernie Madoff, and their allegiance belongs to the entrenched interests of the donor class.</p><p>This is why every so-called &#8220;representative of the people,&#8221; by the time they make it to office, fall in line with Tucker Carlson&#8217;s observation at the 2024 RNC: </p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Let&#8217;s pay attention </strong>to what people actually want. And the lack of interest in that question in Washington is something that ultimately drove me out of the city after 35 years.</em></p><p><em><strong>Lawmakers stepping over the prostrate bodies of their fellow citizens&#8212;ODing on drugs&#8212;to go cast votes to send money to some foreign country.</strong></em></p><p><em>Actually, we&#8217;ve lost more Americans from drugs in the past four years than we lost in World War Two, our bloodiest war. More than we lost in World War 2. Does anybody care? It is pathetic.</em></p><p><em>And do you hear a single word from Washington about doing anything about it?</em></p><p><em>We know where the drugs are coming from. We know the supply routes, the US military spent billions bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail.</em></p><p><em>You don&#8217;t see our commander-in-chief suggesting that we use our military to protect our country, or the lives of its citizens. No, that&#8217;s for Ukraine. </em></p><p><em>And it&#8217;s too much, actually, it&#8217;s too insulting.</em></p><p><em>It&#8217;s a middle finger in the face of every American. It&#8217;s a very clear statement which is unmistakable <strong>and that is, we don&#8217;t care about you</strong>.</em> </p></blockquote><p>These are the moderate corporatists who make it into office, and we don&#8217;t get an option to the contrary; we have zero choice. Russell Dobular of <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Due Dissidence&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:31762868,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C05J!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3b85684e-f019-4518-883d-1ec387f7e85a_1920x1920.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;ba44e6fa-f74a-4d7a-b3d6-5ad8dd4f2db9&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>spoke at the Rage Against the War Machine rally pre-election, and his words cut<a href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/they-raged-against-the-war-machine"> like a hot razor through warm butter:</a></p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Bob Dylan, late in his career... recorded the forgettable blues tune &#8216;Gotta Serve Somebody&#8217;. The conceit was that no matter who you are, laborer or King, you have to bend the knee to something, or someone.</em> <em>...And as the election approaches, like a meteor set to strike the last of our illusion of &#8216;American Exceptionalism&#8217;, with its choice between a &#8216;half-bright narcissist and a Deep State hologram&#8217;, we can see formerly sturdy knees hit the dirt, one by one, and formerly sensible mouths speaking the most ridiculous justifications for their service to one of these two exemplars of social collapse.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>Nothing changes unless everything changes, and nothing has changed in a long time. We&#8217;ve been stagnant, paralyzed, spinning in the mud&#8212;stuck on ice in rear-wheel drive on an incline, and for all our next-level technological advancement, we&#8217;ve not advanced an inch. The names have changed, hairstyles and music sound different, prices have risen, and the bombs are bigger, but the parties still drop them on children in the name of peace and human rights.</p><p>Hunter S. Thompson wrote in his famous <em>Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail &#8216;72</em>&#8212;credited by George McGovern aide Frank Mankiewicz as being &#8220;the least accurate, but most truthful campaign book to be written on the 1972 race&#8221;&#8212;a passage fitting for today&#8217;s subject and the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/1cilt2d/hunter_s_thompson_and_the_1972_election_sounds/">banality of our democratic processes:</a></p><blockquote><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the real issue this time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Beating Nixon! It&#8217;s hard to even guess how much damage those bastards will do if they get in for another four years.&#8221; I nodded. The argument was familiar. I had even made it myself here and there, but I was beginning to sense something very depressing about it. How many more of these goddamn elections are we going to have to write off as lame but &#8216;regrettably necessary&#8217; holding actions? And how many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me, and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with, a chance to vote for something? <em>Instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils... I understand, along with a lot of other people, that the big thing, this year, is beating Nixon.</em> <em>But that was also the big thing, as I recall, twelve years ago in 1960&#8212;and as far as I can tell, we&#8217;ve gone from bad to worse to rotten since then, and the outlook is for more of the same.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p><em>&#8220;More of the same,&#8221; </em>that&#8217;s what he remembered way back then, as if Barry Goldwater was just running for office yesterday. </p><p>During every conflict since Paul Revere&#8217;s ride, the ruling party, hungry for flesh and blood, bites at the bit to send your children to die. The party on the bench begrudgingly cheerleads, knowing their chance is right around the corner.</p><p>     </p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r6YX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca1e5447-d145-4657-abef-70cdef5a21d3_299x168.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r6YX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca1e5447-d145-4657-abef-70cdef5a21d3_299x168.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r6YX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca1e5447-d145-4657-abef-70cdef5a21d3_299x168.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r6YX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca1e5447-d145-4657-abef-70cdef5a21d3_299x168.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r6YX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca1e5447-d145-4657-abef-70cdef5a21d3_299x168.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r6YX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca1e5447-d145-4657-abef-70cdef5a21d3_299x168.jpeg" width="299" height="168" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ca1e5447-d145-4657-abef-70cdef5a21d3_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;Democrats and Republicans ...&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="Democrats and Republicans ..." title="Democrats and Republicans ..." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r6YX!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca1e5447-d145-4657-abef-70cdef5a21d3_299x168.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r6YX!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca1e5447-d145-4657-abef-70cdef5a21d3_299x168.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r6YX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca1e5447-d145-4657-abef-70cdef5a21d3_299x168.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r6YX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca1e5447-d145-4657-abef-70cdef5a21d3_299x168.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4><em>Our </em>political parties Do NOT: </h4><ul><li><p><strong>Organize varied and sometimes competing interests into coalitions.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>Unite people to achieve common political goals. </strong>They divide us into hating and sometimes killing our neighbors.</p></li><li><p><strong>Help voters learn about candidates and elected officials. </strong>In fact they pretend they have no opposition and weaponize the courts to ensure they don&#8217;t.</p></li><li><p><strong>Encourage civic participation. </strong>Increase cynicism so the last thing we care about is voting.</p></li></ul><p><em><strong>They are not like us and it&#8217;s high time the two-faced coin of politics are replaced.</strong></em></p><div><hr></div><h1>The Parties Oppose Peace, We Should Oppose Them</h1><p>The Great War, unwanted by any nation&#8212;even Germany&#8212;was unexpected until it burst devastatingly upon Europe. At its height, it was by far the largest, bloodiest, cruelest, and most savage war in history. Winston Churchill wrote:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;All the horrors of all the ages were brought together, and not only armies but whole populations were thrust into the midst of them... Every outrage against humanity or international law was repaid by reprisals&#8212;often of a greater scale and of longer duration.</em> <em>...Merchant ships and neutral ships and hospital ships were sunk on the seas and all on board left to their fate or killed as they swam.</em> <em>Every effort was made to starve whole nations into submission without regard to age or sex.</em> Cities and monuments were smashed by artillery. Bombs from the air were cast down indiscriminately. <em>Poison gas in many forms stifled or seared their bodies.</em> <em>...When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>And he was <em>for</em> the war. He had been dreaming of it since he was a young child. As had FDR; many little boys did, since they were fed hearty portions of war slop propaganda from the womb. Churchill knew that the fastest way to political advancement lay in active service, complaining that the world was growing too &#8220;sensible and pacific&#8221;.</p><p>This bloodlust would later be highly useful for Churchill when he needed the US to join World War II as an ally. While America was staying out of it&#8212;as we should have&#8212;he befriended Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Together, they utilized his position as a war correspondent to publish disinformation campaigns in American newspapers as a psychological operation to drag us into the conflict. This is not a controversial story; mainstream historians cite this as a successful use of covert disinformation against a population. As History.com notes, they used fake news, forged maps, and sabotaged groups to help FDR pass interventionist legislation like Lend-Lease.</p><p>Notice how they use the word &#8220;isolationist&#8221; every time they describe these opponents? It is not &#8220;isolationist&#8221; to oppose the destabilization, destruction, and pillaging of villages and populations; it&#8217;s being a &#8220;good neighbor&#8221;. These people were bipartisan anti-warriors. That didn&#8217;t stop the bipartisan war parties from treating them as scum, slandering them as Nazis and anti-Semites.</p><p>Murray Rothbard noted in <em>For a New Liberty</em>:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Isolationism was coined as a smear term to apply to opponents of American entry into World War II... If not actively pro-Nazi, &#8216;isolationists&#8217; were at the very least narrow-minded ignoramuses ignorant of the world around them, in contrast to the sophisticated, worldly, caring &#8216;internationalists&#8217; who favored American crusading around the globe.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>As Rothbard outlines, the greatest yield of the First World War was the Second World War, germinated by the appalling consequences of 1918. And from the Second World War came a rash of wars&#8212;chief among them the Cold War, alongside dozens of other conflicts across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Between 1945 and the present moment, war has been the rule, and peace the exception.</p><p>The evils of this paradigm are plenty. Wars, regime changes, and genocides top the terrible list of things the government does with its monopoly on violence, fully supported by the Republican-Democrat paradigm. But the corruption doesn&#8217;t end there.</p><p>Donald Trump, with his technocratic-deep state-neocon administration who he picked through painstakingly rigorous &#8220;review&#8221; of all their past awfulness&#8217;, even his most hopeful cabinet members turned straight to the dark side upon confirmation, but the other option is equally as twisted. </p><p>Take Hillary Clinton's infamous defense of a rapist in 1975, where she later laughed on tape about passing a polygraph and the crime lab's accidental destruction of DNA evidence. Or consider the John Podesta emails released by Julian Assange regarding the Uranium One deal. As Russian interests gradually took control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States, millions of dollars were donated to the Clinton Foundation by individuals directly connected to the deal.</p><div><hr></div><div id="youtube2-FmIRYvJQeHM" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;FmIRYvJQeHM&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/FmIRYvJQeHM?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><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The prosecutor called me a few years ago, he said he had a guy who had been accused of rape, and the guy wanted a woman lawyer,&#8221; said Clinton in the interview. &#8220;Would I do it as a favor for him?&#8221;</em></p><p><em>The case was not easy. In the early hours of May 10, 1975, the Springdale, Arkansas police department received a call from a nearby hospital. It was treating a 12-year-old girl who said she had been raped.</em></p><p><em>The suspect was identified as Thomas Alfred Taylor, a 41-year-old factory worker and friend of the girl&#8217;s family.</em></p><p><em>And though the former first lady mentioned the ethical difficulties of the case in Living History, her written account some three decades later is short on details and has a far different tone than the tapes.</em></p><p><em>&#8220;It was a fascinating case, it was a very interesting case,&#8221; Clinton says in the recording. &#8220;This guy was accused of raping a 12-year-old. Course he claimed that he didn&#8217;t, and all this stuff&#8221; (<a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/audio-hillary-clinton-speaks-of-defense-of-child-rapist-in-newly-unearthed-tapes/">LISTEN HERE</a>).</em></p><p><em>Describing the events almost a decade after they had occurred, Clinton&#8217;s struck a casual and complacent attitude toward her client and the trial for rape of a minor.</em></p><p><em>&#8220;I had him take a polygraph, which he passed &#8211; which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs,&#8221; she added with a laugh.</em></p><p><em>Clinton can also be heard laughing at several points when discussing the crime lab&#8217;s accidental destruction of DNA evidence that tied Taylor to the crime.</em></p><div id="youtube2-e2f13f2awK4" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;e2f13f2awK4&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/e2f13f2awK4?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></blockquote><div><hr></div><blockquote><h3><em><a href="https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/press-release">The Podesta Emails; Part One</a></em></h3><p><em>Today WikiLeaks begins its series on deals involving Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta. Mr. Podesta is a long-term associate of the Clintons and was President Bill Clinton&#8217;s Chief of Staff from 1998 until 2001. Mr. Podesta also controls the Podesta Group, a major lobbying firm and is the Chair of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington DC-based think tank. Part 1 of the Podesta Emails comprises 2,060 emails and 170 attachments and focuses on Mr Podesta&#8217;s communications relating to nuclear energy, and media handling over donations to the Clinton Foundation from mining and nuclear interests; 1,244 of the emails reference nuclear energy. The full collection includes emails to and from Hillary Clinton.</em></p><p><em>In April 2015 the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OVA.L6GY.PNlrQoSL6aMy&amp;smid=url-share">New York Times published a story</a> (link not paywalled) about a company called &#8220;Uranium One&#8221; which was sold to Russian government-controlled interests, giving Russia effective control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for the production of nuclear weapons, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of US government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off the deal was the State Department, then headed by Secretary Clinton. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) comprises, among others, the secretaries of the Treasury, Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce and Energy.</em></p><p><em>As Russian interests gradually took control of Uranium One millions of dollars were donated to the Clinton Foundation between 2009 and 2013 from individuals directly connected to the deal including the Chairman of Uranium One, Ian Telfer. Although Mrs Clinton had an agreement with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors to the Clinton Foundation, the contributions from the Chairman of Uranium One were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons.</em></p><p><em>When the New York Times article was published the Clinton campaign spokesman, Brian Fallon, strongly rejected the possibility that then-Secretary Clinton exerted any influence in the US goverment&#8217;s review of the sale of Uranium One, describing this possibility as &#8220;baseless&#8221;.</em></p><p><em>Mr Fallon promptly sent a memo to the New York Times with a rebuttal of the story (<a href="https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails//emailid/1489">Podesta Email ID 1489</a>).</em></p><p><em>In this memo, Mr Fallon argued: &#8220;Apart from the fact that the State Department was one of just nine agencies involved in CFIUS, it is also true that within the State Department, the CFIUS approval process historically does not trigger the personal involvement of the Secretary of State. The State Department&#8217;s principal representative to CFIUS was the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs. During the time period in question, that position was held by Jose Fernandez. As you are aware, Mr. Fernandez has personally attested that &#8220;Secretary Clinton never intervened with me on any CFIUS matter.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>What the Clinton campaign spokesman failed to disclose, however, was the fact that a few days before sending his rebuttal to the New York Times, Jose Fernandez wrote on the evening of the 17 April 2015 to John Podesta following a phone call from Mr Podesta (<a href="https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails//emailid/2053">Email ID 2053</a>): &#8220;John, It was good to talk to you this afternoon, and I appreciate your taking the time to call. As I mentioned, I would like to do all I can to support Secretary Clinton, and would welcome your advice and help in steering me to the right persons in the campaign&#8221;.</em></p><p><em>Five days after this email (22 April 2015), Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon wrote a memo to the New York Times, declaring that &#8220;Jose Fernandez has personally attested that &#8216;Secretary Clinton never intervened with me on any CFIUS matter&#8217;,&#8221; but Fallon failed to mention that Fernandez was hardly a neutral witness in this case, considering that he had agreed with John Podesta to play a role in the Clinton campaign.</em></p><p><em>The emails show that the contacts between John Podesta and Jose Fernandez go back to the time of internal Clinton campaign concern about the then-forthcoming book and movie &#8220;Clinton Cash&#8221; by Peter Schweizer on the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation.</em></p><p><em>In an email dated 29 March 2015 (<a href="https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails//emailid/2059">Email ID 2059</a>), Jose Fernandez writes to Podesta: &#8220;Hi John, I trust you are getting a brief rest after a job well done. Thanks no doubt to your recommendation I have joined the CAP [Center for American Progress board of trustees, which I&#8217;m finding extremely rewarding.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>Julian Assange</em></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 Lee Canter Report&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 Lee Canter Report</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/opposing-the-war-parties?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/opposing-the-war-parties?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><p>The money the "philanthropic" Clinton Foundation raked in from back-room defense industry deals represents the generational wealth of ten lifetimes. Fortunately for them, no one will be left to tell the tale after the human race is wiped away by nuclear holocaust. </p><p>And if you need more on why to oppose the <em>center right, just keep in mind, <strong>these are their people:</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/4cec7ab5-7672-43c2-9ebf-7ab2867dfef1_1024x640.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/09209051-3166-49d1-8909-ff0de68ecd6e_275x183.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d2fab987-75e6-4afa-861d-3dc3589d3e8b_275x183.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/96bb7cbd-beca-41f5-9772-21e41fd7ba4b_201x251.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a33ae748-7b3d-47dd-a5df-b471eb2898d7_275x183.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/39795fee-6c60-41cb-baba-8b55daa2cb1a_275x183.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3193798f-73b3-4100-977f-d051d4b6b99d_300x168.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/676cf3af-59f8-41de-b763-82e7cc865a72_128x128.webp&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2b8aaacf-20e0-40d2-886a-0bc1250bfe9b_120x120.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;ICK!&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/3389f100-cc7e-4c13-8d1b-dc2f56a6ace4_1456x1454.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>And them&#8230;</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/efb68908-37be-4385-84aa-88f658f1f720_360x248.webp&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/webp&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/61b77f87-c6aa-4478-8382-7c7d3ce1849e_669x459.webp&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0dad6209-0ae3-4b78-9029-7f30d834ebd5_120x120.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0c894a67-540e-422d-86c9-3afac005a608_299x168.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2ad35e0a-fa44-4969-bafc-8d02b7aa78dc_300x168.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bbb3bd90-b9f2-4bfb-9acd-09d00fc3064c_275x183.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97ecac73-6de2-46f5-b12d-b9d0c4246ed4_194x259.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/116858d6-d02e-4b74-a95b-32e9101492c6_277x182.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/39129d14-4b16-4093-941f-0b5b6d6b701c_120x120.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;And lest we forget....&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/7396301b-38e4-4fe9-9dd5-b713abf5c7d2_1456x1454.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>Now, back to the question&#8230;.</p><h2>Opposing the War Parties and What That Entails:</h2><p> First off, limitations. My limitation for the opposition to war is at, or within, the borders of the United States. Our military should not be put in danger for anything that is not a direct threat to our borders. In that same spirit, it is time to disband NATO; Europe has been fully modernized and should take care of themselves.</p><p>Let&#8217;s look at the entire &#8220;War on Terror&#8221;. We did Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s bidding; his play was to provoke us into a war to bankrupt us and bleed us dry of our military and resources, just as the Mujahideen had done to the Soviet Union with our weapons, funding, and training. He told us this explicitly. Al Qaeda leadership endorsed the &#8220;1,000 wound policy&#8221; to bleed America to the point of bankruptcy by forcing us to spread out our forces and expend tremendous resources.</p><p><em>&#8220;Israel could not have existed without our support.&#8221;</em> Maybe that was true in 1948 right after the founding of Israel, but I don&#8217;t believe that is true now. Looking into their actions over the last 70 years, they wouldn&#8217;t have the capacity to be quite so violent and ruthless, and would have been forced to make peace a lot sooner with their neighbors, if they didn&#8217;t have the backing of the biggest bully on the block.</p><p>After all the times they&#8217;ve betrayed us, we should&#8217;ve abandoned them long ago. They&#8217;ve targeted and murdered our servicemen (the U.S.S. Liberty), stolen our nuclear secrets (NUMEC), and passed that technology to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. That is aiding our enemy during a time of war.</p><p>As for Sam Harris&#8217; position on Israel: The attack on October 7th was barbaric, but it didn&#8217;t come out of nowhere. The people of Palestine have been held captive since 1967. It is Israeli policy to periodically round up Palestinian families and imprison them indefinitely without charges&#8212;they call it &#8220;Mowing the Lawn&#8221;. They&#8217;ve been &#8220;putting Gaza on a diet&#8221; for years by mathematically restricting the number of calories they let into the region. When Palestinians attempted to protest these conditions during the &#8220;Great March of Return,&#8221; IDF snipers started killing and maiming the most vulnerable in the group.</p><p>Then comes the Abraham Accords. Although Arab nations surrounding Israel had promised to pressure Israel for a two-state solution, signing this treaty all but guaranteed that Palestine would never be free. This signaled to them that all was lost. This is the context that led to the biggest attack on Israel in its 75 years of existence.</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 Lee Canter Report 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>I don&#8217;t disagree with self-defense. If someone breaks into my home, that&#8217;s prima facie intent to harm my family, and I will lawfully eliminate that threat. However, if they get away, and instead of contacting authorities I decide to handle it myself&#8212;hunting them down and killing them&#8212;that is premeditated murder. What if I don&#8217;t stop there? What if I continue and kill their entire family, and everyone of the same genealogy? That is serial murder. You definitely don&#8217;t get to claim to be the victim at that point. I&#8217;d call it terrorism. Yet, if you commit the same acts in the name of a foreign nation-state, intelligence agency, or the White House, well, that&#8217;s just &#8220;war,&#8221; and &#8220;war is hell,&#8221; right?</p><p>So, what do I mean when I speak of &#8220;opposing the war parties?&#8221;</p><p>In the 1920s, those against war and big government were considered to be on the left. That flip-flopped after FDR and the New Deal. The original &#8220;America First&#8221; movement was vehemently attacked by FDR and his supporters as anti-Semitic, appeasers, and pro-Nazi.</p><p>In short, when the left holds power, they become vicious war hawks to &#8220;save democracy and human rights.&#8221; When the right holds power, they become fascistic imperialists to maintain &#8220;peace through strength.&#8221; Both sides of that coin are total bullshit. They are cash grabs and corruption born from the military-industrial complex. They make our families less safe, our homes less safe, and the only way out is to trash them both and follow the Constitution exactly the way it was written.</p><p>A constitutional republic. That&#8217;s the only way we can keep it.</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/8278de67-045a-411e-8b17-7aa1770e1e47_1592x1592.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;8bab2995-0cf7-4a99-b86a-e45fbf967e56&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;f9f96fba-2de7-4e1e-9ebc-66eb6c161912&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are We the Germans?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A question every American should be asking right now.]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/are-we-the-germans</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/are-we-the-germans</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:24:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AE86!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ec94e53-d11f-46aa-b04e-26003f6af3ee_1024x559.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="youtube2-ToKcmnrE5oY" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;ToKcmnrE5oY&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/ToKcmnrE5oY?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 British comedy duo of yesteryear That Mitchell and Webb Look asked <em>&#8220;Are we the baddies?&#8221;</em>  The question I am asking is close to that. Philosophically in line, anyways. After Donald Trump&#8217;s leaked messages from Macron just ahead of the WEF in Davos, I took a scroll through the comment section below as one does, under the video by Breaking Points and was hit with a deluge of comments that left me wondering during the rise of the National Socialists in Germany pre-WWII, are people looking at us the same as the global community looked at the Germans?  Getting a strange feeling that maybe we have been here before. </p><p>Now, please understand I am not calling Donald Trump a Nazi. I am not sure there is an ideology to explain him. I&#8217;m also not saying that the Nazi&#8217;s were good, they were definitively bad. But all of German society were judged for what the minority at the top did, and we are right around the corner from that. </p><p>I consider WWII the founding of the American empire and an evil unlike anything unleashed on the world since the fuhrer himself. I totally denounce the so-called lessons learned from WWII as legitimate. The idea that anything less than all-out war is the only way to deal with people like this and the <em>actual</em> evil is appeasement is patently absurd. And the post-war liberal consensus should be sent to the dustbin of society.</p><p>But, <em>now</em> more than <em>ever</em> these are exactly the beliefs of all of those who base their entire worldview on WW2 for fear another Holocaust could be right around the corner. Due to this fear we could easily see Americans treated like the new Germans and Donald Trump as the Fuhrer.</p><p>You see, we never know how things look to other countries, but when Donald Trump does things that has his most sycophantic supporters raising an eyebrow we must remember that <em>the world is watching</em>.</p><p>Consider this, Germany after World War One went through an &#8220;affordability crisis,&#8221; as we are here today, which was hyp<code>erinflation from the sanctions/blockade regime plac</code>ed on Germany by the V<code>ersaille</code>s treaty. Hitler used this. <strong>Offering himself</strong> as the one man who could fix it all with &#8220;global Jewry&#8221; placed as the enemy causing these omens on the German people.</p><p>Sound familiar?</p><p>Now, this comparison is obviously lazy at best, and hysterical at worst, but we mustn&#8217;t forget how history tends to rhyme. America, as a nation, are on a suicide mission. More militarism, more spending, more aggression, and if we don&#8217;t see that we do so at our own peril.</p><p>In the following I will outline some more ways there seems to be a throughline between the rise and fall of the National Socialists Germany and the current appearance of Donald Trump as the President of the United States.</p><p>Please understand that I am personally guilty of all these delusions.</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 Lee Canter Report&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 Lee Canter Report</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" 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They believed he was a &#8220;transactional&#8221; figure who could be &#8220;tamed&#8221; by the institutions or appeased with specific concessions (The Munich Agreement). They mistook ideological fanaticism for rational bargaining. </p><p><a href="https://www.capitaleconomics.com/blog/trump-institutions-and-deafening-silence-markets">You can draw a direct line to how global leaders and the GOP establishment initially viewed the &#8220;Current Regime.&#8221;</a> The belief was that the &#8220;adults in the room&#8221; (Generals, career bureaucrats) or the weight of the office itself would constrain the impulses. <a href="https://www.fairobserver.com/world-news/us-news/deadly-institutional-collapse-america-watches-as-inhumanity-triumphs/">This is the </a><strong><a href="https://www.fairobserver.com/world-news/us-news/deadly-institutional-collapse-america-watches-as-inhumanity-triumphs/">hubris of the establishment</a></strong><a href="https://www.fairobserver.com/world-news/us-news/deadly-institutional-collapse-america-watches-as-inhumanity-triumphs/"> believing they can ride the tiger without being eaten.</a> Clearly displayed in the murder of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.</p><p>I believed the <em>checks and balances </em>of the other branches would hold the executive to account, of course I should&#8217;ve seen that the government as a whole is an administration of corruption and force and would do nothing to hold them back.</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 Lee Canter Report&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 Lee Canter Report</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/are-we-the-germans?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/are-we-the-germans?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>The &#8220;Bulwark&#8221; Justification</h3><p><strong>Then: </strong>Many Western leaders (and even US industrialists) hesitated to stop Hitler early on because they saw him as a necessary <strong>bulwark against Communism</strong>. They tolerated the brutality because they feared the Soviet Union more.</p><p><strong>Now:</strong> You see a similar dynamic where global leaders (like Orb&#225;n in Hungary or the Silicon Valley factions within the US) align with the current regime not because they love the chaos, but because they view it as the only effective <strong>bulwark against &#8220;Globalism&#8221; or &#8220;Wokeism.&#8221;</strong> </p><p>There is also the faction of Western leaders like Macron in France who is at the beckon call when it comes to <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/1/khamenei-warns-us-of-regional-war-if-iran-is-attacked">war with Iran</a>, &#8220;totally in line&#8221; with<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/who-is-abu-mohammed-al-golani-the-leader-of-syrias-insurgency-that-toppled-assad"> putting al-Qaeda in leadership in Syria</a>. But couldn&#8217;t imagine he might <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74x4m71pmjo">go for Greenland nex</a>t. The enemy of my enemy is my &#8220;Strongman&#8221; right?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qhrl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fac7adf-5aae-4d47-aca7-f2ebdd813537_664x1380.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qhrl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fac7adf-5aae-4d47-aca7-f2ebdd813537_664x1380.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qhrl!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fac7adf-5aae-4d47-aca7-f2ebdd813537_664x1380.png 848w, 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on his Truth Social network, revealing a private message from Emmanuel Macron." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qhrl!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fac7adf-5aae-4d47-aca7-f2ebdd813537_664x1380.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qhrl!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fac7adf-5aae-4d47-aca7-f2ebdd813537_664x1380.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qhrl!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fac7adf-5aae-4d47-aca7-f2ebdd813537_664x1380.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qhrl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4fac7adf-5aae-4d47-aca7-f2ebdd813537_664x1380.png 1456w" 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Therefore, conservatives must support a &#8220;strongman&#8221; (Trump) not because they like his character, but because the alternative is &#8220;national death.&#8221;</p><p>In recent statements (like President of the Claremont Institute <a href="https://www.claremont.org/statement-on-president-donald-trumps-victory/">Ryan Williams&#8217; post-victory declaration)</a>, they frame the current term as a <strong>&#8220;Counter-Revolution&#8221;</strong> necessary to dismantle the &#8220;Administrative State.&#8221; This mirrors the 1930s logic: <em>We must use extreme measures because the enemy (Communism then / &#8220;Wokeism&#8221; now) will destroy us if we don&#8217;t.</em></p><p>But, as we see with the picks for his administration that are directly from the &#8220;deep state&#8221; the &#8220;Counter-Revolution&#8221; seems to be against us, not for us.</p><p>The United States is drifting into the status of a &#8220;Rogue Superpower&#8221; in the eyes of the world, creating the conditions for a coalition to form against it&#8212;just as the Allies eventually coalesced against Germany.</p><h2>How They See Us</h2><p>In the 1930s, Germany was seen as a state that could not be bound by treaties&#8212;it tore up the Versailles Treaty, rearmed, and ignored the League of Nations.</p><p>Today, much of the &#8220;Global South&#8221; (BRICS nations) now view the U.S. similarly: as a power that weaponizes the financial system (sanctions) and ignores international law when it suits them with wars of intervention.</p><p>When the world decides a superpower is no longer a &#8220;stabilizer&#8221; but a &#8220;predator,&#8221; they stop seeking integration and start seeking <strong>containment</strong>.</p><h4>The Economic &#8220;Stalingrad&#8221; (De-Dollarization)</h4><p>Germany&#8217;s fall wasn&#8217;t just military; it was the total collapse of an autarkic economy that tried to survive alone.</p><p>The U.S. relies on the dollar being the global reserve currency. If the world (China, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia) decides the U.S. is too unstable or dangerous&#8212;just as nations eventually cut off trade with the Axis&#8212;they will accelerate <strong>de-dollarization</strong>.</p><p>If the dollar loses reserve status, the U.S. can no longer print money to fund its debt. The result isn&#8217;t just a recession; it&#8217;s a standard-of-living collapse that would rival the post-war ruin of Europe. The &#8220;Fall&#8221; here is economic hyperinflation and infrastructure decay.</p><p>The most terrifying parallel is the <strong>disconnect</strong>. In 1940 Berlin, citizens were enjoying the spoils of conquest, largely unaware of the hatred building against them across Europe.</p><p>The &#8220;Normalcy Bias&#8221; we are facing domestically is fatal. We believe we are the &#8220;Good Guys&#8221; because that is the domestic narrative, while the rest of the world sees a destabilizing force. When the bill comes due, the American populace will be completely unprepared for the hostility and the hardship, because we never did the hard part and looked in the mirror.</p><p>Look at the official joint statements from recent BRICS summits. They explicitly talk about &#8220;multipolarity&#8221;&#8212;which is diplomatic code for &#8220;ending U.S. hegemony.&#8221;</p><p>Which is good. We do live in a multipolar world. Long gone, are the days when we acted as the world police, but if we continue to weaponize our financial system against the other poles of the world we are going to face a collapse ourselves, or worse.</p><p>What I am arguing is that the United States is currently experiencing a &#8220;Soft Encirclement.&#8221; The world isn&#8217;t invading with armies; they are invading with <strong>ledger entries</strong> and <strong>trade agreements</strong> that exclude the U.S.</p><p>Just as we did with NATO encircling Russia.</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 Lee Canter Report is a reader-supported publication. For more existential risks 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><h1>&#128201; The Local Consequence</h1><div id="youtube2-qkAEozief-8" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;qkAEozief-8&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/qkAEozief-8?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 might seem like something that could not reach outside of DC, but that is just not true. Anything that affects them, affects us in the middle class a hundred times worse with no one able to hear our calls for help. The &#8220;Fall&#8221; won&#8217;t look like explosions; it will look like <strong>insolvency</strong>. In 1945, Germany&#8217;s currency was worthless. In a U.S. &#8220;De-Dollarization&#8221; scenario, the dollar doesn&#8217;t disappear, but it loses the &#8220;Exorbitant Privilege&#8221; of being the global default. Then prices collapse.</p><p><strong>The Global Shift:</strong> Central banks are quietly dumping dollars for gold. In 2024&#8211;2025, central bank gold buying hit historic highs (over 1,000 tonnes/year). They are building a &#8220;lifeboat&#8221; while the U.S. is still on the ship.</p><p><strong>The Domestic Reality:</strong></p><p><strong>&#8220;Wal-Mart&#8221; Inflation:</strong> If the dollar loses reserve status, it depreciates massively. Everything imported (electronics, clothes, car parts) doubles or triples in price. The &#8220;cheap goods&#8221; era that masked American poverty ends overnight.</p><p>Cities like Louisville and states like Kentucky where I live, hold massive &#8220;unfunded liabilities&#8221; for public pensions. They rely on issuing bonds (debt) to pay this.</p><p>If global investors stop buying U.S. debt (Treasuries) because they don&#8217;t trust the dollar, interest rates skyrocket. Local governments can no longer afford to borrow. <strong>Result:</strong> Municipal services are slashed, and pension checks stop clearing. It&#8217;s not a war zone; it&#8217;s the sudden, brutal evaporation of the middle class&#8217;s safety net. </p><h3>The Psychological Encirclement</h3><p>To prove the &#8220;Rogue State&#8221; narrative, we don&#8217;t look at what <em>we</em> say; we look at what <em>they</em> say. The language has shifted from &#8220;Competition&#8221; to &#8220;Containment&#8221; just as we had against communism back in the Cold War days.</p><p>The editors of The New Indian Express noted this January, Washington has ceased to be a partner and has become a 'volatility risk,' forcing the world's largest democracy to seek 'strategic autonomy' from us.</p><p><strong>&#127464;&#127475; Beijing (</strong><em><strong>Global Times</strong></em><strong>): The &#8220;Chaos Agent&#8221; Narrative</strong></p><p><em>The Rhetoric:</em> Recent editorials have shifted from calling the U.S. a &#8220;rival&#8221; to labeling it a <strong>&#8220;source of global instability.&#8221;</strong></p><p>They are framing U.S. foreign policy (sanctions, tariffs) not as &#8220;strength,&#8221; but as <strong>&#8220;weaponization.&#8221;</strong> They argue that the U.S. is &#8220;abusing&#8221; its financial position, which justifies their push for a &#8220;multipolar&#8221; (i.e., non-U.S.) world.</p><p>Interestingly, they have even framed U.S. influence on Europe as leading to &#8220;civilizational erasure&#8221;&#8212;positioning themselves as the defenders of sovereignty against American cultural/political imperialism.</p><p><strong>&#127470;&#127475; New Delhi (</strong><em><strong>The Hindu</strong></em><strong> / Indian Policy Circles): The &#8220;Unreliable&#8221; Partner</strong></p><p>India is the ultimate &#8220;swing state.&#8221; Their commentary has moved toward <strong>&#8220;Strategic Autonomy.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Editorials highlight &#8220;diplomatic setbacks&#8221; and U.S. <strong>&#8220;unilateralism.&#8221;</strong> The sentiment is that the U.S. changes its mind every 4 years (or every tweet), making it impossible to trust with 20-year security deals. They aren&#8217;t anti-American, but they are <em>hedging</em>&#8212;buying Russian oil and trading in rupees&#8212;because they see the U.S. as volatile.</p><p><strong>&#127463;&#127479; The &#8220;BRICS&#8221; Fortress (The Global South):</strong></p><p><em>The Mechanism:</em> The &#8220;Insulation&#8221; Strategy. The BRICS summits are no longer just photo-ops; they are building a <strong>parallel financial plumbing</strong> (alternative swift systems, local currency settlements).</p><p><em>The Parallel:</em> Just as nations insulated themselves from a collapsing Germany in the 30s, the Global South is building a firewall against the <strong>&#8220;weaponized dollar.&#8221;</strong></p><div><hr></div><p>We, the American people are living in a <strong>&#8220;Truman Show&#8221; of stability.</strong></p><p><strong>The Illusion:</strong> We think we are sanctioning <em>them</em>.</p><p><strong>The Reality:</strong> They are slowly sanctioning <em>us</em>&#8212;by exiting our financial system.</p><p>When the exit is complete, the U.S. is left with $35+ trillion in debt and no one to buy it. That is the &#8220;Economic 1945.&#8221;</p><p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Thank you for reading. We could be approaching a tougher season than anything recently experienced. Buckle up and cling tight to your loved ones.</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;841a73a8-03b7-48b0-b0c2-d4fc14784900&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> editor-in-chief of the <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;17b16b11-d606-4009-98ff-d83183286da7&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats Care About Whistleblowers Again Now That They're not the Ones Getting "Blown" Part Two]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joe Biden's America]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/democrats-care-about-whistleblowers-75e</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/democrats-care-about-whistleblowers-75e</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:28:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/BBWZggYofYw" 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_!KPV1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e3e1dac-72fa-48b2-8d76-1f12d7312aee_270x180.jpeg" 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And now that they are out of power, they are expressing these <em>insane</em> symbols of sympathy. You motherfucker&#8217;s, where were you at during COVID when this was happening:</p><blockquote><p><em>In <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/22/us-news/explosive-emails-show-top-nih-adviser-deleted-records-used-secret-back-channels-to-help-fauci-ecohealth-evade-covid-transparency/">a shocking trove of emails</a> obtained by the subcommittee, Fauci&#8217;s former senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. David Morens, admitted to using a private account to evade Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests about EcoHealth&#8217;s Wuhan grant, claimed he deleted records related to it &#8212; and said he helped his boss to do the same through a &#8220;<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/30/us-news/house-covid-panel-demands-access-to-faucis-private-email-cell-phone-records-ahead-of-testimony/">secret back channel</a>.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;At one point, Dr. Morens said that he never talked to Tony Fauci about the Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance,&#8221; Wenstrup said in reference to <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/22/us-news/explosive-emails-show-top-nih-adviser-deleted-records-used-secret-back-channels-to-help-fauci-ecohealth-evade-covid-transparency/">Morens&#8217; congressional testimony of May 22</a>, in which he confirmed the emails were sent but dismissed them as &#8220;jokes.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;But he did do that, and we have the proof of that now, and he talks about how he did,&#8221; he added of the more than 30,000 records Morens handed over.</em></p><p><em>When asked whether <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/08/news/dr-anthony-fauci-arrives-for-first-day-of-interview-with-house-covid-panel/">Fauci&#8217;s two-day transcribed interview from January</a> with the COVID subcommittee also included false claims about not being &#8220;involved&#8221; in EcoHealth&#8217;s funding of gain-of-function research, Wenstrup would only say: &#8220;Somebody&#8217;s not telling the truth.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>Fauci, 83, said at the time that he did not &#8220;recall any specific interaction&#8221; with Daszak before the pandemic &#8212; and denied having &#8220;back-and-forth discussions&#8221; with EcoHealth&#8217;s president.</em></p><p><em>But the Morens emails reveal the ex-Biden White House medical adviser expressing &#8220;concern&#8221; for Daszak and the suspension of EcoHealth&#8217;s research grant.</em></p></blockquote><p>They were too busy maligning dissenting views to make the other side seem like the <em>enemy. They also called this&#187; disinformation:</em></p><blockquote><p><em>A top adviser at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) deleted records critical to uncovering the origins of COVID-19 &#8212; and used a &#8220;secret back channel&#8221; to help Dr. Anthony Fauci and a federal grantee that funded <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/15/us-news/hhs-halts-grants-for-nonprofit-ecohealth-that-funded-gain-of-function-research-in-wuhan/">gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China</a>, evade transparency.</em></p><p><em>NIH senior adviser Dr. David Morens improperly conducted official government business from his private email account and solicited help from the NIH&#8217;s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) office to dodge records requests, according to <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SSCP-Staff-Memo_Morens-5.22.pdf">emails revealed in a memo</a> by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which The Post obtained Wednesday.</em></p><p><em>&#8220;[I] learned from our foia [sic] lady here how to make emails disappear after I am foia&#8217;d [sic] but before the search starts,&#8221; Morens wrote in a Feb. 24, 2021, email. &#8220;Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail [sic].&#8221;</em> </p></blockquote><p>The CIA intervened to protect Hunter Biden from an IRS whistleblower, by the way, the guy wasn&#8217;t, like, robbing him or committing some kind of violence against him, that&#8217;s not the protection he needed, the CIA protected him from the IRS telling the truth:</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>(<a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-03-21%20JDJ%20JC%20to%20CIA.pdf">r)evealed</a></strong> that a whistleblower disclosed to the Committees that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) intervened to stop the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from interviewing Patrick Kevin Morris, an associate of Hunter Biden.<br><br>According to the whistleblower, in August 2021, when IRS investigators were preparing to interview Kevin Morris, the CIA intervened to stop the interview. The CIA allegedly summoned two DOJ officials to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia for a briefing regarding Mr. Morris. At that meeting, it was communicated that Mr. Morris could not be a witness in the investigation. It is unknown why or on what basis the CIA allegedly intervened to prevent investigators from interviewing Mr. Morris. However, these allegations track with other evidence that shows how the DOJ deviated from its standard investigative practices during the investigation of Hunter Biden.</em></p></blockquote><p><em>Or else, right? What if he defied them and testified anyways? It&#8217;s the fucking CIA; That&#8217;s a threat in its own. In the words of the &#8220;<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1866424/schumer-warns-trump-intel-officials-have-six-ways-from-sunday-at-getting-back-at-you/">great&#8221; Chuck Schumer</a>, &#8220;Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community &#8212; they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.&#8221;</em></p><p>On November 4, 2022, a 1,050-page <em>Republican Staff Report</em> from the <em>Committee on the Judiciary, </em>in the<em> U.S. House of Representatives </em>was released titled <em>&#8220;<a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/hjc_staff_fbi_report.pdf">FBI WHISTLEBLOWERS: WHAT THEIR DISCLOSURES INDICATE ABOUT THE POLITICIZATION OF THE FBI AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT&#8221;</a> </em>which explained, after an investigation on this topic, that not only had the FBI become a tool of political power supporting the &#8220;democrat elite&#8221;, but they had also retaliated politically and <em>personally</em> against whistleblowers exposing this corruption. </p><p>That report contained a page that was basically the same premise that Chuck Schumer put out there which brought me down this road three days ago:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Pg_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9acfc75f-5310-4eba-8986-56b09fabd5d8_645x880.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Pg_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9acfc75f-5310-4eba-8986-56b09fabd5d8_645x880.png 424w, 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In both ways, the FBI is fueling the Biden Administration&#8217;s narrative that domestic violent extremism is the biggest threat to our nation. </p></li></ul></li><li><p> <strong>The FBI is abusing its counterterrorism authorities to investigate parents who spoke at school board meetings.</strong> </p><ul><li><p>Whistleblowers disclosed how, shortly after the National School Boards Association urged President Biden to use the Patriot Act against American parents, the FBI Counterterrorism Division set up a special <em>&#8220;threat tag&#8221;</em> to track school board-related cases. Whistleblowers provided evidence of how the FBI opened investigations into one mom for allegedly telling a local school board <em>&#8220;we are coming for you&#8221;</em> and a dad simply because he <em>&#8220;rails against the government&#8221;</em> and <em>&#8220;has a lot of guns.&#8221;</em></p></li></ul></li><li><p><strong>The FBI has abused its foreign intelligence authorities to spy on American citizens, including people associated with the campaign of President Trump in 2016.</strong> </p><ul><li><p>These facts have been documented in Inspector General reports and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions, but there is little indication the FBI has changed&#8212;or is willing to change&#8212;course. </p></li></ul></li><li><p><strong>The FBI is clearing the Bureau of employees who dissent from its woke, leftist agenda.</strong> </p><ul><li><p>The FBI is actively seeking to &#8220;purge&#8221; FBI employees holding conservative views&#8212;or, in President Biden&#8217;s view, those who are a &#8220;threat to American democracy&#8221;1&#8212; because they hold conservative views. The FBI has even taken retaliatory actions against at least one whistleblower who has spoken out. </p></li></ul></li><li><p> <strong>Whistleblowers have explained how the FBI&#8217;s &#8220;political meddling&#8221; &#8220;is dragging the criminal side [of the Bureau] down&#8221; as resources are &#8220;pulled away&#8221; from real law enforcement duties</strong>. </p><ul><li><p>As a prime example, one whistleblower described how he was <em>&#8220;told that child sexual abuse material investigations were no longer an FBI priority and should be referred to local law enforcement agencies&#8221;</em> so that he could work on a Washington directed politically charged case instead. Such a mis-prioritization is not only a dereliction of duty, but it is a grave disservice to the victims of crimes that do not advance the FBI&#8217;s political agenda </p></li></ul></li></ul></blockquote><p>In a subsequent report on May 18, 2023, named &#8220;FBI WHISTLEBLOWER TESTIMONY HIGHLIGHTS GOVERNMENT ABUSE, MISALLOCATION OF RESOURCES, AND RETALIATION&#8221; Interim Staff Report of &#8220;Committee on the Judiciary&#8221; and the &#8220;Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government&#8221; (Jim Jordan&#8217;s Committee), they found:</p><blockquote><ul><li><p>The FBI&#8217;s Washington Field Office (WFO) pressured a field office in Boston, Massachusetts, to open investigations on 138 individuals who traveled to Washington, D.C., to exercise their First Amendment rights on January 6, 2021, with no specific indication that these people were involved in any way in criminal activity. </p><ul><li><p>The only basis for investigating these people was that they shared buses to Washington with two individuals who entered restricted areas of the Capitol that day. </p></li><li><p>Rather than limiting the investigation to just the two people who entered restricted areas, the WFO instructed the Boston Field Office to open investigations on all 140 individuals who attended the political rally. </p></li></ul></li><li><p> In response to the WFO&#8217;s pressure to open investigations into all 140 individuals, the Boston Field Office asked the WFO for more evidence, including video from the Capitol, to properly predicate the investigations. </p><ul><li><p>The WFO provided pictures of the two individuals inside the Capitol; however, the WFO refused to provide video evidence from the Capitol out of fear it would disclose undercover officers or confidential human sources inside the Capitol. </p></li></ul></li><li><p>Shortly after the events of January 6, 2021, Bank of America (BoA) <strong>provided the FBI with confidential customer data&#8212;voluntarily and without any legal process</strong>. </p><ul><li><p>BoA gave WFO a list of individuals who had made transactions in the Washington, D.C. area using a BoA product between January 5 and January 7, 2021. </p></li><li><p>Individuals who had previously purchased a firearm with a BoA product were reportedly elevated to the top of the list</p></li></ul></li><li><p>FBI leadership pressured agents to reclassify cases as domestic violent extremism (DVE) and even manufactured DVE cases where they may not otherwise exist, while manipulating its case categorization system to create the perception that DVE is organically rising around the country.</p></li><li><p><strong>The FBI dispenses cash bonuses to local field office leadership for meeting certain arbitrary metrics and performance goals.</strong> </p><ul><li><p>This bonus structure creates perverse incentives for the FBI to utilize law-enforcement tools and resources where they may not be needed or appropriate in order for FBI leadership to benefit financially.</p></li></ul></li></ul></blockquote><p>The four FBI whistleblowers who testified to these disclosures are &#8212;<em>Special Agents</em>: Garret O&#8217;Boyle and Stephen Friend; <em>Supervisory Intelligence Analyst:</em> George Hill; and <em>Staff Operations Specialist:</em> Marcus Allen.</p><p>In 2023, Congressman Jim Jordan&#8217;s <em>Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, </em>and we got to meet the <em>men behind the disclosures</em>, and they did not disappoint. They are solid, principled, hard-working Americans who believe in the Constitution. During their time in the FBI, they seen a shift in the culture of the FBI towards a more politicized, more partisan bureau. The Bureau was being used as a ploy for political gain, as it had been during the early years of the FBI, with J. Edgar Hoover at the helm. </p><p>They each spoke out independent of each other, through the correct <em>&#8220;legal channels</em>,&#8221; expressing all of the different nefarious ways, that the FBI was violating the trust of the American people and their vows to uphold the <em>Constitution of the United States. </em></p><p><em>So, of course the Democrats in this committee loved</em> and <em>respected</em> these four men and there was a fruitful discussion between both sides, and through this hearing they fostered solutions to reform the FBI, right? </p><p>Unfortunately, not. In this hearing, at every opportunity the democrats <em>smeared and</em> <em>attacked </em>these men <em>relentlessly! But first, what kind of pushback did they receive at the FBI?</em></p><blockquote><p>A recurring theme is that the FBI has violated federal whistleblower protection laws and abused its security clearance review process to hamstring the brave agents who exercise their right to make protected disclosures to Congress or who dared to question agency leadership.</p><ul><li><p><em>Special Agent</em> O&#8217;Boyle made protected disclosures to his <em>Supervisory Special Agent</em> about potentially illegal activity, and the FBI transferred him to a new unit that required him to move his family across-country. </p><ul><li><p>When O&#8217;Boyle arrived for his first day, the FBI placed him on unpaid, indefinite suspension, effectively rendering his &#8220;family homeless&#8221; and leaving them without any personal effects&#8212;including his young children&#8217;s clothing&#8212;because these items were in FBI storage.</p></li></ul></li><li><p>Likewise, in Special Agent Friend&#8217;s case, the FBI suspended his security clearance after making protected disclosures. </p><ul><li><p>This suspension rendered Friend unable to fulfill his duties as a special agent&#8212;thus, the FBI suspended him indefinitely. </p></li><li><p>While on suspension, the FBI refused to allow Friend to obtain outside employment, leaving his family without income. </p></li></ul></li><li><p>In <em>Staff Operations Specialist</em> Allen&#8217;s case, the FBI suspended his security clearance for simply performing duties of his job&#8212;conducting case-related research using open-source news articles and videos and sending his search results to his task force colleagues.</p></li></ul></blockquote><p>So, what did they <em>actually</em> do? They pushed back when they were told to surveil parents at PTO meetings. They were pressured to reclassify these parents as <em>&#8220;Domestic Terrorists&#8221;.</em> The FBI turned parents into <em>&#8220;Timothy McVeigh&#8217;s!!&#8221;</em></p><p>And instead of trying to get to the bottom of it, the democrats said they were, basically, traitors. Accused them of spreading <em>&#8220;Putin Propaganda&#8221;, </em>real ugly shit. And said that the <em>agency, they were there to blow the whistle on said they were NOT whistleblowers, therefore it must be right. </em></p><p>Seeing Democrats, the party of <em>&#8220;Fuck the man&#8221;, </em>now submitting to the FBI in a whistleblower case, is pretty embarrassing. This is what they were up to when <em>they</em> were in power. </p><p>Maybe that&#8217;s the point. The party in power is always the most oppressive. We&#8217;ll have to see how the new Trump administration handles shit like this, but it seems they&#8217;ve flipped. No matter what the issue is the democrats in Congress are the new <em>scolds. </em></p><p>We&#8217;ll see if now that Trump is in office, the Republicans will now be the scolds. We'll see. We&#8217;ll close on this, the speech that really stole the day was Ms. CAMMACK, with this fiery speech: </p><div id="youtube2-jEL8PsG7b6k" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;jEL8PsG7b6k&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/jEL8PsG7b6k?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>So, I think it&#8217;s clear we have a pattern here.</em></p><p><em>If you speak up about the abuses you are seeing as an agent or are sharing information that may not fall in line with the FBI&#8217;s political narrative, you will be suspended without pay, have your security clearance revoked, and your life will be turned upside-down. </em></p><p><em>It&#8217;s pretty clear what the MO is: </em></p><p><em>If you don&#8217;t comply, they will retaliate. </em></p><p><em>If you don&#8217;t agree with the political agenda, you get suspended. </em></p><p><em>They do it in such a way to deter others from speaking up and speaking out. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the weaponization of government. That <strong>is</strong> the weaponization of government.</em></p><p><em>That is why we are here today.</em></p><p><em> Not because we have a political agenda.</em></p><p><em>Not because we are here to go over events of the past.</em></p><p><em>We want to fix it. </em></p><p><em>We have to expose it, stop it, and prevent it from happening again. That is why we are here. </em></p><p><em>These men are whistleblowers. </em></p><p><em>The gentlemen who came before us in previous hearings, they were journalists. </em></p><p><em>Just because you don&#8217;t address them as such does not mean that they are not who they say they are. They have been retaliated against. Regardless of your party affiliation, this behavior is unacceptable, and we need to stop it. Republicans, Democrats, independents alike, this is a concern we should all share. This is the weaponization of government. It is our job, our constitutional duty, to stop it. With that, I yield back.</em>  </p></blockquote><p>You can see why people vote for her,<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/the-fall-of-debbie-wasserman-schultz/493019/"> Debbie Wasserman Schultz,</a> however, not so much. </p><div id="youtube2-Zgox47HPX4M" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Zgox47HPX4M&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/Zgox47HPX4M?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 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/democrats-care-about-whistleblowers-75e?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/democrats-care-about-whistleblowers-75e?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/p/democrats-care-about-whistleblowers-75e/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/democrats-care-about-whistleblowers-75e/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&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><h3>And Finally! The Press or the Police, WHO ARE YOU?</h3><div id="youtube2-BBWZggYofYw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;BBWZggYofYw&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/BBWZggYofYw?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>Jack Teixeira, infamously known as the <em>&#8220;Discord Leaker&#8221;, was</em> in the National Guard in the Guardsmen and obviously did work in the Pentagon. Very young, maybe 18, or 20, was stealing documents, the documents showed that actually Ukraine wasn't doing as well as was being reported by corporate media, and officials who definitely knew better. As a brag or to show off, I guess, Jack was posting these documents in his Discord, which is an online chat room, people build their own little Discord communities, it's really big in the gaming world. </p><p>So, he&#8217;s not a whistleblower, but he is posting newsworthy documents online and any reporter worth their salt is gonna take the information, write a story on it, maybe the FBI will catch wind of your story and investigate, but no, not our media. Our media refused to report on it, besides the more independent outlets. The NYT &amp; the Washington Post, <a href="https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Review_Bellingcat_Untraceable.pdf">with Russiagate sycophants at Bellingcat,</a> however, joined the authorities in the search for the kid, which led to his arrest and subsequent 15-year sentence in Federal prison. The outlets who did this also made statements behind the scenes rejecting what they called the<a href="https://youtu.be/jEL8PsG7b6k?si=ahLt1xGbLa4yqp7J"> &#8220;Pentagon Papers Principle&#8221;,</a> which is &#8220;if it's newsworthy, print it!&#8221; </p><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Matt Taibbi&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:263053,&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%2Fb60afa88-bdf9-4916-8f80-e74791478593_2000x2000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;304cf539-fb23-4c63-824c-5e1f27564a06&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>  covered this at the time:</p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:115452190,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.racket.news/p/the-press-is-now-also-the-police&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:1042,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Racket 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%2F08203cc3-d968-423d-9018-171dfad63a26_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Press is Now Also the Police&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;Back from vacation I made the mistake of scanning the news and was shocked by the media&#8217;s ongoing orgy of self-congratulation and Two-Minutes-Hating, in response to the capture of &#8220;Pentagon Leaker&#8221; Jack Teixeira. 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Glenn Greenwald has already covered a lot of this on&#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; 2214 likes &#183; 789 comments &#183; Matt Taibbi</div></a></div><blockquote><p><em>It&#8217;s an awful look for the press. This isn&#8217;t tracking down a serial killer or exposing Enron&#8217;s fraud. The alleged &#8220;crime&#8221; here is releasing true information, information that belongs to the American public and is secret only by official designation. At most, a newspaper might decide not to publish such information, but to help jail the leaker? It&#8217;s nuts. Reporters are supposed to be interested in everything and listen to information without judgment, like doctors, yet the whole industry is working itself into a moral frenzy because a bunch of overgrown Minecraft enthusiasts were privately passing around a few truths like a joint. </em></p><p><em>The papers even made a show of using huge newsroom posses to effect capture. One 1400-word Times piece, &#8220;A Quick Guide to what the Leaked U.S. Intelligence Documents Say,&#8221; was credited to 13 people: lead writer Eric Nagourney, with contributions from Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, Julian E. Barnes, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Michael Schwirtz, David E. Sanger, Ivan Nechepurenko, Anton Troianovski, Aric Toler, Christiaan Triebert, Malachy Browne and Chris Buckley.</em></p><p><em>The fascinating name was Toler&#8217;s. In &#8220;Finding the Pentagon Leaker&#8221;, the Times identified the figure who apparently did most of the sleuthing only as &#8220;a freelance reporter who works with us,&#8221; but provided a <a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/author/arictoler/">hyperlink </a>showing his day job: director of &#8220;research and training&#8221; for the absurd<a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/bellingcat-intelligence-agencies-launders-talking-points-media/276603/"> intel community cutout Bellingcat. </a></em></p><p><em>For the Times, this symbolized a complete turnaround from just 12 years ago, when it partnered with Julian Assange to print &#8220;The War Logs,&#8221; a far more damaging set of leaks. Just one of those Wikileaks-based stories, &#8220;Pakistan Aids Insurgency in Afghanistan, Reports Assert,&#8221; was probably more impactful than all the Teixeira docs combined. It described how officials in Pakistan, an ostensible American ally receiving over $1 billion from the U.S. for aid in fighting &#8220;militants,&#8221; was holding &#8220;secret strategy sessions&#8221; with the Taliban, to help organize &#8220;networks&#8230; that fight against American soldiers.&#8221; </em></p></blockquote><p>He goes on to say, <em>&#8220;the fact remained that the 2010 Times emphasized the newsworthiness of the leaks, not the crime of leaking.&#8221; </em></p><p>Glenn does great work on this too:</p><div id="youtube2-PxDp6U29tKc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;PxDp6U29tKc&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/PxDp6U29tKc?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>But in the case of Jack Teixeira, they dismissed all journalistic integrity and played <em>vigilante justice</em> helping the authorities, in this case the FBI, nab the guy. When pondering how they came to this decision it&#8217;s suitable to ask two questions, why would they do this? And how, would they justify it? The <em>&#8220;why</em> in this, if I was to guess&#8212;and what other choice is tyer the documents hurt the war effort, and the media is owned, at least in part, by the Military-Industrial Complex.</p><p>The same time that FBI resources were being committed to a nationwide manhunt in search of the &#8220;Discord Leaker&#8221;, the corporate press was running cover for them. Publishing hit pieces on anyone who dared to do stories on the contents of those documents, no matter how newsworthy it was. And if that wasn't infuriating enough, not a day after Mr. Jack was in custody they started publishing stories on the documents themselves. Check out the timeline,</p><ul><li><p>Documents hit independent news showing that what we were being told about Ukraine wasn't so.</p></li><li><p>Corporate media teams up with intelligence community cutout Bellingcat and the FBI to point out the perpetrator. In the meantime, attacking independent news outlets who reported on the documents. </p></li><li><p>Jack Teixeira is located and arrested thanks to a collab of corporate news, intelligence community, and FBI.</p></li><li><p>Those same agencies, then, start reporting on the documents that they had attacked independent media for talking about. </p></li></ul><p>Corporate news is always a steppingstone for the powerful, always, this is why when they're bought by people like Jeff Bezos or Roger Ailes, the news coverage doesn't change. They were already handling the news in a way that bows down to the Bezos, and Soros of the world. Their agenda was already baked in, or they wouldn't have become successful. But this dynamic is changing, the people are awake to this nonsense and finally have a vote. Whether it be through buying subscriptions, sharing an article, whatever. The people are choosing what media they want to follow and repeatedly it comes down to this. Who is telling them the truth. Who is saying what they actually feel, <em>and</em> who is writing from a script, carefully dulled, demoralized, and fact-checked by their corporate masters. And as you should expect the former <em>crushes</em> the latter. It&#8217;s what I&#8217;m looking for, it&#8217;s what we&#8217;re <em>all</em> looking for. This is pretty far from where this piece started, but we knew the answer to that anyways, right? If Democrats end up in power they&#8217;ll return to prosecuting whistleblowers. That&#8217;s the name of the game. </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;51884c1b-b0b1-4797-9cf1-cacf331daa9b&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;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:null,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;4136fd6d-93cc-4417-8ccf-1ce496496535&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats Care About Whistleblowers Again Now That They're not the Ones Getting "Blown" Part ONE; And a Haphazard Rosenberg Weave]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blowing the Whistle on the Whistleblower Fraud; Unforgettable capers of the espionage act;]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/democrats-care-about-whistleblowers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/democrats-care-about-whistleblowers</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 23:51:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YoUa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F738955fb-9366-458b-9a57-3498ab66884e_680x357.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" 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If you have witnessed in your life or workplace, any cases of <s>Schumer</s>CORRUPTION, <s>Warner</s>WASTE, <s>Wasserman-Schultz</s>FRAUD, or <s>Plaskett&#8217;s</s>ABUSE, click on the image listed above.</figcaption></figure></div><p>In the days of Bush/Cheney, you couldn&#8217;t find a stronger champion of whistleblowers, and those who leak secrets to expose the wrongdoing of officials in power than the liberal democrats in opposition of the war state. We would&#8217;ve killed to have the disclosures that the democrats are <em>now </em>complaining about. It was a long tradition going back to my personal hero, Daniel Ellsberg. A National Security Analyst who worked in the Pentagon and helped write the words spoken by Robert McNamara to sell the Vietnam War to the American people. </p><p>He&#8217;d become disillusioned with the war after seeing behind the curtain, the disregard for human life and unapologetic ability to lie without restraint, from the people in Washington, DC. While holding a position at the Washington think tank, the RAND Corporation, Dan took part in writing what would later be coined the &#8220;Pentagon Papers&#8221; for McNamara. Of which he would go on to leak to the press when it seemed there was no way out of the Vietnam War. It would become the &#8220;story of the century&#8221; and he would be labeled the &#8220;Most dangerous man in America&#8221; by Henry Kissinger, who was the <em>National Security Adviser </em>under Richard Nixon. He would be arrested, charged, and indicted under the <em>Espionage Act of 1917, however</em>, due to improper treatment of Dan&#8217;s rights the case would eventually be dismissed. </p><p><em>The Espionage Act</em> was originally created to stop interference with military operations or recruitment, to prevent insubordination in the military, and to prevent the support of enemies of the United States during wartime. In later years, however, it has been used against those who leak secrets to the press and other organizations/entities in furtherance of transparency, to protect the governments lies and constitutional violations.</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/democrats-care-about-whistleblowers?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/democrats-care-about-whistleblowers?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><h2>The Year is 1952, &#8220;A Soviet-Communist Whistleblower, Walks into a Daycare to Pick up Their Child&#8221;, Said NO ONE EVER!</h2><p>I learned recently about the <em>Espionage Act</em> being used to sentence Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death, and it seems they were <em>absolutely</em> innocent. After the fall of the Soviet Union the archives were scoured with a fine-tooth comb, no Julius or Ethel Rosenberg <em>ever</em> worked for the Soviet Union. They <em>were</em> communists, no doubt, but there is a Communist Party today. It&#8217;s just a political ideology. There has been no evidence in 75 years, and you <em>know</em> the Russians would <em>love</em> to be able to prove that the American government executed a man and his wife, a mother and father, who were innocent of the crimes against them, and were now withholding it from the American people. It would be on RT News <em>every day! </em>It&#8217;s never been proven because it didn&#8217;t happen. </p><p>Besides the absence of evidence in 75-years, a few things give me pause and make me surer of their innocence. For one) they had a child, no mother would do this, it&#8217;s so unnatural, it&#8217;s the reason police interrogators target mother&#8217;s first, all they have to threaten is to take your child away. There is nothing a mother wouldn&#8217;t do for their child, unless their minds are broken, and that bond exists in 99.3% of woman. Two) this couple fought for their innocence until their final moment of life, never gave up hope. They believed someone would come forward with evidence exonerating them. People rarely accept they are gonna die until it&#8217;s over. We naturally believe, especially if we&#8217;re &#8220;innocent&#8221;, &#8220;yea, but that won&#8217;t happen to me!&#8221; It&#8217;s the reason I&#8217;m still smoking cigarettes after watching my father die a slow, and contemporary death. I&#8217;m quitting soon! They believed themselves to be innocent! And we know this because, three) if they gave up someone bigger than them, they would&#8217;ve gotten out. Now, I know gangster's, hardened criminals, I&#8217;ve studied organized crime and crime figures, I wanted to be one! Even them, people who have been raised from the dirt to <em>never</em> tell, taught that a &#8220;man who tells on another man, is not a man at all&#8221;, when faced with death, they <em>always </em>tell. 10 years, 20 years, Life, you can have life in prison and be moderately happy. Different kind of happy, but happy, nonetheless, but death breaks all will, especially, the man knowing his wife, mother of his children will die, or vice versa, the woman. Knowing that her husband, the father of her child will die. The only way no one talked to save anyone&#8217;s lives, including their own, is because they didn&#8217;t know anything. Put all those things together, we did some grimy shit to them people. This was written in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/weekinreview/nation-rosenbergs-50-years-later-yes-they-were-guilty-but-what-exactly.html">NYT on the 50th anniversary</a> of their deaths:</p><blockquote><p>(t)o justify the death penalty, which was invoked to press the Rosenbergs to confess and implicate others, the government left the impression that the couple had handed America's mightiest weapon to the Soviets and precipitated the Korean War.</p><p>RECORDS of the grand jury that voted the indictment remain sealed. But we now know the Soviet cables decoded before the trial provided no hard evidence of Ethel's complicity. And Mr. Greenglass has recently admitted that he lied about the most incriminating evidence against his sister. The government's strategy backfired. Ethel wouldn't budge. The Rosenbergs refused to confess and were convicted.</p><p>&#8220;She called our bluff,&#8221; William P. Rogers, the deputy attorney general at the time, said shortly before he died in 2001.</p><p>&#8220;They had the key to the death chamber in their hands,&#8221; Mr. Kilsheimer says. &#8220;They never used it.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>I know I&#8217;ve traveled a long way from democrat whistleblower prosecutions, but this really <em>is </em>something.</p><p><em>The Nation</em> published a piece on January 2nd, last month, headlined, <em><strong><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/biden-ethel-rosenberg-pardon-exonerate/">President Biden Should Pardon Ethel Rosenberg: </a>A newly released classified document shows that the National Security Agency knew Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy&#8212;and that the government executed her anyway. </strong></em>They <em>knew! Yea, sure he should &#8220;Pardon&#8221; her. The woman they murdered three-quarters of a century ago. They should be God damned ashamed of themselves! </em>Has anyone visited the Rosenberg family, what&#8217;s left of them?! We should be personally kissing their asses as long as America exists! We murdered American citizens, <em>innocent</em> American citizens. Tel They <em>did not</em> have evidence of their guilt if they did, we would know it by now. This is why in criminal law,<strong> </strong><em><a href="https://www.lawinfo.com/resources/criminal-defense/what-is-blackstone-s-formulation-in-criminal.html#does_blackstone8217s_formulation_apply_in_civil_cases">Blackstone&#8217;s ratio</a></em><a href="https://www.lawinfo.com/resources/criminal-defense/what-is-blackstone-s-formulation-in-criminal.html#does_blackstone8217s_formulation_apply_in_civil_cases"> is such a good precedent</a>. Which is: <em>&#8220;It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.&#8221;</em></p><p>The Nation has linked the cables that suggest that the NSA knew of the Rosenberg&#8217;s innocence, so, let&#8217;s look at the evidence&#8230;   &#8230;   &#8230;   &#8230;   &#8230;   &#8230;   &#8230;   &#8230; <em>(my dial-up dots)</em> </p><div><hr></div><p>Hmm&#8230; According to these documents I may have a bit of egg on my face. It seems I might be wrong&#8230; But I was making some really good points, right???? <em>I</em> thought I was. The article started by saying &#8220;the NSA knew she was <em>not </em>a spy.&#8221; Well, the point still stands, surely, she wouldn&#8217;t have committed suicide, practically, if she could&#8217;ve told the truth to get to live! What madness would that be!? Maybe, my worldview, so rooted in modernity can&#8217;t fathom this. The idea that anyone could or would choose an ideology over the life of their children is absurd. What does this really say about the Rosenberg&#8217;s or the Communist Party of which they solicited their lives? What does it say about the culture in post-WW2 America? And what does it say about the world in which we live now? First, the documents:</p><div><hr></div><p>Here&#8217;s what they knew, Julius, her husband, <em><strong>was</strong></em> a spy for the KGB, the &#8220;<em>Soviet-CIA,&#8221; </em>and according to the <a href="https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/venona/dated/1944/21sep_recruitment_by_rosenbergs.pdf">cable from the KGB in Moscow</a> (they use strange codewords but there is a code key at the bottom so I will fill them in):</p><blockquote><p>LIBERAL [LIBERAL is Julius Rosenberg] recommended the wife of his wife's brother, Ruth GRRENGLASS (testified against the Rosenberg&#8217;s), with a safe flat in view (safe house). She is 21 years old, a Townswoman [GOROZhANKAJ (Meaning-American Citizen)], a GYMNAST [FIZKUL'TURNITsA (Probably a Member of the Young Communist League)] since 1942. She lives on STANTON [STANTAUN] Street. LIBERAL and his wife (Ethel Rosenberg) recommend her as an intelligent and clever girl.</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hJjY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97af4118-2a6b-4167-8f1f-89f7771d40eb_804x966.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hJjY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97af4118-2a6b-4167-8f1f-89f7771d40eb_804x966.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hJjY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97af4118-2a6b-4167-8f1f-89f7771d40eb_804x966.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hJjY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97af4118-2a6b-4167-8f1f-89f7771d40eb_804x966.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hJjY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97af4118-2a6b-4167-8f1f-89f7771d40eb_804x966.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hJjY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97af4118-2a6b-4167-8f1f-89f7771d40eb_804x966.png" width="804" height="966" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97af4118-2a6b-4167-8f1f-89f7771d40eb_804x966.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:966,&quot;width&quot;:804,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:951767,&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/$s_!hJjY!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97af4118-2a6b-4167-8f1f-89f7771d40eb_804x966.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hJjY!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97af4118-2a6b-4167-8f1f-89f7771d40eb_804x966.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hJjY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97af4118-2a6b-4167-8f1f-89f7771d40eb_804x966.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hJjY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97af4118-2a6b-4167-8f1f-89f7771d40eb_804x966.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>Now, it&#8217;s odd that <em>innocent </em>Ethel Rosenberg is recommending someone to the KGB and offering up her sister-in-law&#8217;s home as a safe house. So, what is it they&#8217;re doing with the KGB? Here&#8217;s a hint: Codeword ENORMOUS is the American Atomic Energy lab, working on the &#8220;atom&#8221; bomb. Sheesh! It gets worse. The next cable is a profile of Ethel Rosenberg, by the KGB:</p><blockquote><p>Information on LIBERAL's [Julius] wife [Ethel]. Surname that of her husband, first name ETHEL, 29 years old. &#183; Married five years. Finished secondary school. A FELLOWCOUNTRYMAN [ZEMLYaK] (Member of the Communist Party) since 1938. Sufficiently well-developed politically. Knows about her husband's work and the role of METR[v] and NIL[vi]. In view of delicate health does not work. Is characterized positively and as a devoted person.</p></blockquote><p>A member of the Communist Party. &#8220;Well-developed politically.&#8221; Knows about her husband's work. Would work too if she was in better health. A &#8220;devoted person.&#8221; All according to the KGB. This lady had just joined the party in &#8216;38, this was &#8216;44. Six years later her life was ruined forever! She probably met this Julius <em>in</em> the Communist Party, or maybe they joined together, but six years later they were already stealing secrets, well, he was, and she knew about it, but would rather die than tell. Dark. I was told a few days ago that it turned out they were <em>both</em> innocents. According to these documents, from sources that appear to be valid, <em>he </em>was guilty as sin, and she, was&#8230;&#8230;Not. No, I&#8217;d have to say she&#8217;s still innocent. She might be guilty of not telling, but that&#8217;s <em>compelled</em> speech. We don&#8217;t sentence people to execution for <em>not</em> telling anything. Well, actually, we do it for much less than that, but not <em>legally!</em> </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IbGZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba98b826-a632-4d17-aeaa-28b3740743e9_830x913.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IbGZ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba98b826-a632-4d17-aeaa-28b3740743e9_830x913.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IbGZ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba98b826-a632-4d17-aeaa-28b3740743e9_830x913.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IbGZ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba98b826-a632-4d17-aeaa-28b3740743e9_830x913.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IbGZ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba98b826-a632-4d17-aeaa-28b3740743e9_830x913.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IbGZ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba98b826-a632-4d17-aeaa-28b3740743e9_830x913.png" width="830" height="913" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ba98b826-a632-4d17-aeaa-28b3740743e9_830x913.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:913,&quot;width&quot;:830,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:691276,&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/$s_!IbGZ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba98b826-a632-4d17-aeaa-28b3740743e9_830x913.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IbGZ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba98b826-a632-4d17-aeaa-28b3740743e9_830x913.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IbGZ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba98b826-a632-4d17-aeaa-28b3740743e9_830x913.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IbGZ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba98b826-a632-4d17-aeaa-28b3740743e9_830x913.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>What does this say about the world <em>they</em> were a part of and the world we live in now? They didn&#8217;t have much regard for their children, did they?  When these two decided to throw their lives away, quite literally, for a political party, did anyone ask, &#8220;hey, uhhhh, who&#8217;s gonna babysit?!&#8221; Whose gonna tell the kid that &#8220;mommies never coming home because she chose the government over you&#8230; but you should grow up with lots of self-worth.&#8221; I wonder who <em>he</em> voted for in 2024. If he&#8217;s a &#8220;Kamala Kid&#8221; I&#8217;ll die right now! </p><p>How could their love for the Communist Party reach so much deeper than the life that they created together. </p><p>I&#8217;ve asked the question a time or two, &#8220;what was <em>really</em> so bad about the Communist Party? They can&#8217;t be as bad as they say.&#8221; But if this couple was willing to <em>actually</em> die then turn over evidence on them. No regard for children, no regard for their own lives, maybe we were correct to want it nowhere around. <em>&#8220;Containment?&#8221; No, </em>I see no evidence that a Communist Party in Vietnam or Nicaragua would lead to one here, but it seems the Soviet Communist Party was <em>fucked up!</em>  These people were so fanatically dedicated to the <em>party</em> they gave up personal principles, which brings me back on subject to the two parties who love whistleblowers when they&#8217;re not the ones in power.</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/?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/democrats-care-about-whistleblowers?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/democrats-care-about-whistleblowers?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h2>Democrats and Whistleblowers. </h2><p>Since morphing into the party most critical to whistleblowers after decades of bad policies disenfranchised Republicans from militarism, Democrats care about whistleblowers again! Senate Democrats rolled out a <a href="https://t.co/pjm1tb4VDt">new portal for whistleblowers on their .gov Tweeted out by Chuck Schumer </a>or as I like to call him &#8220;Yuck&#8221; Schumer or Chuck &#8220;Raw-Burger&#8221; Schumer.</p><div id="youtube2-o0XSdhELBj4" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;o0XSdhELBj4&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/o0XSdhELBj4?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.propublica.org/article/sealing-loose-lips-charting-obamas-crackdown-on-national-security-leaks">ProPublica did a great report about the &#8220;Crackdown</a> on National Security Leaks&#8221; under Obama, compared to previous administrations in 2013.</p><blockquote><p><em>Despite promises <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/426/increase-protections-for-whistleblowers/">to strengthen protections</a> for whistleblowers, the Obama administration has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/us/politics/math-behind-leak-crackdown-153-cases-4-years-0-indictments.html?pagewanted=1">launched an aggressive crackdown</a> on government employees who have leaked national security information to the press.</em></p><p><em>With charges filed against NSA leaker Edward Snowden this June, the administration has brought a total of seven cases under the Espionage Act, which dates from World War I and criminalizes disclosing information &#8220;<a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793">relating to the national defense</a>.&#8221; Prior to the current administration, there had been <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/business/media/white-house-uses-espionage-act-to-pursue-leak-cases-media-equation.html">only three known cases</a>resulting in indictments in which the Espionage Act was used to prosecute government officials for leaks.</em></p><p><em>The administration has also targeted journalists. In May, it was revealed that the Department of Justice had secretly <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/govt-obtains-wide-ap-phone-records-probe">seized AP reporters&#8217; phone records</a>while investigating a potential CIA leak, and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-peek-into-a-justice-department-leak-probe/2013/05/19/0bc473de-be5e-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html">targeted</a>a Fox News reporter as part of a criminal leak case (outlined below). No journalist <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/eric-holder-james-rosen-93100.html">has been charged</a>with a crime. But the news prompted an outcry that Obama&#8217;s hard line on leaks could have a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/05/20/leak-investigations-are-indeed-having-a-chilling-effect/">"chilling effect"</a> on investigative reporting that depends on inside sources. (In response, the Justice Department <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/us/holder-to-tighten-rules-for-obtaining-reporters-data.html">issued new guidelines </a>limiting when journalists&#8217; records can be sought.)</em></p><p><em>A spokesman for the Department of Justice told us the government &#8220;does not target whistleblowers.&#8221; <strong>(<a href="http://www.propublica.org/special/sealing-loose-lips-charting-obamas-crackdown-on-national-security-leaks#dod">Read their full statement.</a>) </strong>As they point out, government whistleblower protections shield only those who raise their concerns through the proper channels within their agency&#8212;not through leaks to the media or other unauthorized persons.</em></p></blockquote><p>They are, as of 2013, I got some new ones to follow:</p><blockquote><p><strong>April 2010: Thomas Drake indicted</strong></p><p><em>(Drake was the first to try to blow the whistle on what Snowden would later expose, and his treatment was Snowden&#8217;s reason to go directly to the media. Thomas Drake went through the &#8220;proper&#8221; channels and was indicted for it)</em></p><div id="youtube2-JU6ghAlfsD8" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;JU6ghAlfsD8&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/JU6ghAlfsD8?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>National Security Agency employee Thomas Drake was charged with violating the Espionage Act for retaining classified documents for <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_mayer">&#8220;unauthorized disclosure.&#8221;</a> He was suspected to have leaked information on the agency&#8217;s surveillance program TrailBlazer. The case against Drake began under the Bush administration - FBI agents raided his house in 2007.</p><p><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/323707-drake-indictment.html">Read the indictment</a>.</p><p><strong>May 2010: Shamai Leibowitz convicted</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bE1H!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbfb69548-191c-4977-bf90-a67c0013e79b_100x100.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bE1H!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbfb69548-191c-4977-bf90-a67c0013e79b_100x100.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bE1H!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbfb69548-191c-4977-bf90-a67c0013e79b_100x100.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bE1H!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbfb69548-191c-4977-bf90-a67c0013e79b_100x100.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bE1H!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbfb69548-191c-4977-bf90-a67c0013e79b_100x100.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bE1H!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbfb69548-191c-4977-bf90-a67c0013e79b_100x100.jpeg" width="100" height="100" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bfb69548-191c-4977-bf90-a67c0013e79b_100x100.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:100,&quot;width&quot;:100,&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/$s_!bE1H!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbfb69548-191c-4977-bf90-a67c0013e79b_100x100.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bE1H!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbfb69548-191c-4977-bf90-a67c0013e79b_100x100.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bE1H!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbfb69548-191c-4977-bf90-a67c0013e79b_100x100.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bE1H!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbfb69548-191c-4977-bf90-a67c0013e79b_100x100.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><em>Shamai Leibowitz FBI translator</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Leibowitz, a linguist and translator for the FBI, <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37721.html">pleaded guilty to leaking classified information</a> to a blogger. He was sentenced to 20 months in prison. At the time of his sentencing, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/us/06leak.html?pagewanted=all">not even the judge</a> knew exactly what he had leaked, though <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/why-i-published-us-intelligence-secrets-about-israels-anti-iran-campaign/1316550301">later disclosures</a> indicated it was FBI wiretaps of conversations between Israeli diplomats about Iran.</p><p><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/323919-liebowitz-order.html">Read the order</a>.</p><p><strong>June 2010: Bradley (Now Chelsea) Manning arrested</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h1Ca!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc53e8df6-2df8-49ae-ac9c-94c5c4c3473d_100x100.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h1Ca!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc53e8df6-2df8-49ae-ac9c-94c5c4c3473d_100x100.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h1Ca!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc53e8df6-2df8-49ae-ac9c-94c5c4c3473d_100x100.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h1Ca!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc53e8df6-2df8-49ae-ac9c-94c5c4c3473d_100x100.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h1Ca!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc53e8df6-2df8-49ae-ac9c-94c5c4c3473d_100x100.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h1Ca!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc53e8df6-2df8-49ae-ac9c-94c5c4c3473d_100x100.jpeg" width="100" height="100" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c53e8df6-2df8-49ae-ac9c-94c5c4c3473d_100x100.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:100,&quot;width&quot;:100,&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/$s_!h1Ca!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc53e8df6-2df8-49ae-ac9c-94c5c4c3473d_100x100.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h1Ca!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc53e8df6-2df8-49ae-ac9c-94c5c4c3473d_100x100.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h1Ca!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc53e8df6-2df8-49ae-ac9c-94c5c4c3473d_100x100.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!h1Ca!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc53e8df6-2df8-49ae-ac9c-94c5c4c3473d_100x100.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><em>Chelsea (Bradley) Manning, Army intelligence analyst</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Chelsea (Bradley) Manning, a 22-year Army Private, <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/">was arrested after he told someone online</a> that he was the source for Wikileaks&#8217; biggest gets, including <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/wikileaks-unredacted-cables/">a quarter-million State Department cables</a>.</p><p>It will be more almost two years before he is ultimately charged <a href="http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/23/bradley-manning-charged/">in a military court</a>. In February 2013, (s)he pleaded guilty to providing files to Wikileaks, but not to violating the Espionage Act and other charges. Courts have maintained an unprecedented level of secrecy over the case, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/business/media/in-wikileaks-trial-a-theater-of-state-secrecy.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ref=bradleyemanning">withholding documents</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/bradley-manning-judge_n_3314460.html?utm_hp_ref=politics">allowing witnesses to testify in secret</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/323928-manning-charge-sheet.html">READ THE CHARGES</a> <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/323929-manning-additional-charges.html">AGAINST MANNING</a>.</p><p><strong>August 2010: Stephen Kim indicted</strong></p><p><em>Stephen Kim, State Department analyst</em></p><p>Kim, an analyst working under contract with the State Department, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/27/steven-kim-state-department-contractor-charged-leak_n_697734.html">was indicted</a> for giving classified information to Fox News about North Korea. His case is still pending. In a July 2013 ruling in the case, a federal judge said the government <a href="http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/07/prosecutors-burden/">did not need to show</a> that the information leaked could have damaged national security &#8211; just that Kim knew it could and willfully leaked the information.</p><p><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/323708-kim-indictment.html">Read the INDICTMENT.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-peek-into-a-justice-department-leak-probe/2013/05/19/0bc473de-be5e-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html">The Washington Post reported in May 2013</a> that Fox News journalist James Rosen was investigated in the Kim case. The Department seized Rosen&#8217;s phone records and emails and tracked his &#8220;comings and goings from the State Department.&#8221; Rosen was not charged with a crime, but an FBI investigator wrote that there was evidence he was a &#8220;co-conspirator.&#8221;</p><p><a href="http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/local/affidavit-for-search-warrant/162/">READ THE AFFIDAVIT.</a></p><p><strong>December 2010: Jeffrey Sterling indicted</strong></p><p><em>Jeffrey Sterling, CIA officer</em></p><p>Sterling, a CIA officer, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010604001.html">was charged with leaking information</a> about the CIA&#8217;s efforts against Iran&#8217;s nuclear program. His case is still pending.</p><p><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/323711-sterling-indictment.html">Read the indictment</a>.</p><p>New York Times reporter James Risen <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/us/25subpoena.html">was ordered to testify in </a>Sterling&#8217;s trial. Prosecutors believed Kim had leaked material to Risen for his book, &#8220;State of War.&#8221; Risen fought the subpoena, arguing that it was his First Amendment right to protect his source&#8217;s confidentiality. In July 2013, Risen <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/us/in-major-ruling-court-orders-times-reporter-to-testify.html?pagewanted=all">lost that fight</a>, when a federal appeals court said there was no &#8220;reporters&#8217; privilege&#8221; that could allow him not to testify.</p><p><strong>Jun. 2011: Case against Thomas Drake dropped</strong></p><p>Drake <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/09/thomas-drake-nsa-whistleblower_n_873740.html">pled guilty to a minor charge</a>, not under the Espionage Act, and served no prison time. The government had decided that they <strong>could not prosecute him without revealing details about the documents he supposedly leaked.</strong> Critics saw the government&#8217;s withdrawal as a sign that they had overreached in using the Espionage Act.</p><p><strong>January 2012: John Kiriakou charged</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y4Q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8f87ed7-b184-43ec-8429-06c91e0f54a8_100x100.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y4Q!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8f87ed7-b184-43ec-8429-06c91e0f54a8_100x100.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y4Q!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8f87ed7-b184-43ec-8429-06c91e0f54a8_100x100.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y4Q!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8f87ed7-b184-43ec-8429-06c91e0f54a8_100x100.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y4Q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8f87ed7-b184-43ec-8429-06c91e0f54a8_100x100.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y4Q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8f87ed7-b184-43ec-8429-06c91e0f54a8_100x100.jpeg" width="100" height="100" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e8f87ed7-b184-43ec-8429-06c91e0f54a8_100x100.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:100,&quot;width&quot;:100,&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/$s_!0Y4Q!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8f87ed7-b184-43ec-8429-06c91e0f54a8_100x100.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y4Q!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8f87ed7-b184-43ec-8429-06c91e0f54a8_100x100.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y4Q!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8f87ed7-b184-43ec-8429-06c91e0f54a8_100x100.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Y4Q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8f87ed7-b184-43ec-8429-06c91e0f54a8_100x100.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><em>John Kiriakou, former CIA officer</em></figcaption></figure></div><h3><em><strong>&#8220;There are some things we should not do, even in the name of national security.&#8221; &#8211;John Kiriakou</strong></em></h3><p>John Kiriakou was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/us/ex-cia-officer-john-kiriakou-accused-in-leak.html?ref=us">charged with leaking information</a> about the interrogation of an Al Qaeda leader and disclosing the name of a CIA analyst involved. Kiriakou gave an interview on ABC News in 2007 detailing the Bush administration&#8217;s use of waterboarding in interrogating terrorist suspects.</p><p><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/documents/kiriakou-complaint.pdf">Read the criminal complaint.</a></p><p><strong>October 2012: John Kiriakou convicted</strong></p><p>Kiriakou <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/former-cia-officer-pleads-guilty-in-leak-case.html">pleaded guilty</a> to disclosing the name of a covert CIA officer. He was convicted of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, the first under the law in 27 years. In January, Kiriakou <a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-01-25/local/36539090_1_john-kiriakou-cia-officers-intelligence-identities-protection-act">was sentenced</a> to 2 1/2 years in prison.</p><p><strong>June 14, 2013: Edward Snowden Charged</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nDSi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bcc1e14-3956-49d5-86d9-92b2f2660962_100x100.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nDSi!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bcc1e14-3956-49d5-86d9-92b2f2660962_100x100.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nDSi!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bcc1e14-3956-49d5-86d9-92b2f2660962_100x100.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nDSi!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bcc1e14-3956-49d5-86d9-92b2f2660962_100x100.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nDSi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bcc1e14-3956-49d5-86d9-92b2f2660962_100x100.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nDSi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bcc1e14-3956-49d5-86d9-92b2f2660962_100x100.jpeg" width="100" height="100" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7bcc1e14-3956-49d5-86d9-92b2f2660962_100x100.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:100,&quot;width&quot;:100,&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/$s_!nDSi!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bcc1e14-3956-49d5-86d9-92b2f2660962_100x100.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nDSi!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bcc1e14-3956-49d5-86d9-92b2f2660962_100x100.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nDSi!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bcc1e14-3956-49d5-86d9-92b2f2660962_100x100.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nDSi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bcc1e14-3956-49d5-86d9-92b2f2660962_100x100.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><em>Edward Snowden, Former NSA Contractor</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Edward Snowden, who <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-data-collection-faq">leaked documents about the NSA&#8217;s secret surveillance programs</a>, was <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/edward-snowden-charged-nsa-93179.html">charged</a> with theft of government property and two counts of disclosing information under the Espionage Act &#8211; charges which together carry a penalty of up to 30 years in prison.</p><p><a href="http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/world/us-vs-edward-j-snowden-criminal-complaint/496/">SEE THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT</a></p><p><strong>July 30, 2013: Bradley Manning Convicted</strong></p><p>A military tribunal judge <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/30/bradley-manning-trial-verdict-live">found Manning not guilty</a> of aiding the enemy &#8211; the most serious charge against him. He was found guilty of multiple counts under the Espionage Act and five counts of theft, among other charges. He could spend decades in prison.</p></blockquote><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/democrats-care-about-whistleblowers?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/democrats-care-about-whistleblowers?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><h2>Trump Year's 1.0:</h2><p>During Trump&#8217;s 1st term as president, his administration, according to James Risen, Author and<a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/12/23/assange-snowden-whistleblower-pardons-espionage/"> National Security Reporter at </a><em><a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/12/23/assange-snowden-whistleblower-pardons-espionage/">The Intercept, </a>&#8220;</em>During Trump&#8217;s four years in office, his administration has arrested and charged eight government officials in leak cases. That is almost equal to the record nine (or 10, depending on how you count) leak prosecutions conducted by the Obama administration over eight years.&#8221;&#8212;James Risen.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uIKy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf01cf19-1411-40e5-8e3c-bc74484d814d_110x142.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uIKy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf01cf19-1411-40e5-8e3c-bc74484d814d_110x142.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uIKy!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf01cf19-1411-40e5-8e3c-bc74484d814d_110x142.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uIKy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf01cf19-1411-40e5-8e3c-bc74484d814d_110x142.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uIKy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf01cf19-1411-40e5-8e3c-bc74484d814d_110x142.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uIKy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf01cf19-1411-40e5-8e3c-bc74484d814d_110x142.jpeg" width="110" height="142" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/af01cf19-1411-40e5-8e3c-bc74484d814d_110x142.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:142,&quot;width&quot;:110,&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/$s_!uIKy!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf01cf19-1411-40e5-8e3c-bc74484d814d_110x142.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uIKy!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf01cf19-1411-40e5-8e3c-bc74484d814d_110x142.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uIKy!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf01cf19-1411-40e5-8e3c-bc74484d814d_110x142.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uIKy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faf01cf19-1411-40e5-8e3c-bc74484d814d_110x142.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Reality Winner</figcaption></figure></div><ul><li><p>Reality Winner&#8212;coolest name ever&#8212;&#8221;Winner was arrested in 2017 and accused of anonymously leaking an NSA document disclosing that Russian intelligence was seeking to hack into U.S. election voting systems. That document was <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/08/23/reality-winner-sentenced-nsa-russia-election-hacking/">allegedly leaked to The Intercept</a>, which had no knowledge of the identity of its source. (The Intercept&#8217;s parent company supported Winner&#8217;s legal defense through the First Look Media&#8217;s <a href="https://www.pressfreedomdefensefund.org/">Press Freedom Defense Fund</a>, which I direct.) She pleaded guilty in the case in 2018 and was sentenced to more than five years in prison, the longest sentence ever imposed in a case involving a leak to the press.&#8221;</p></li><li><p>&#8220;James Wolfe, the director of security for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, was charged in 2018 with making false statements to the FBI in connection with a leak investigation into a Washington Post story revealing that the government had obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to monitor Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hUZk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F523c7b37-4cf8-4d94-8f7a-740d7a3d6f78_253x180.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hUZk!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F523c7b37-4cf8-4d94-8f7a-740d7a3d6f78_253x180.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hUZk!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F523c7b37-4cf8-4d94-8f7a-740d7a3d6f78_253x180.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hUZk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F523c7b37-4cf8-4d94-8f7a-740d7a3d6f78_253x180.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hUZk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F523c7b37-4cf8-4d94-8f7a-740d7a3d6f78_253x180.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hUZk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F523c7b37-4cf8-4d94-8f7a-740d7a3d6f78_253x180.jpeg" width="253" height="180" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/523c7b37-4cf8-4d94-8f7a-740d7a3d6f78_253x180.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:180,&quot;width&quot;:253,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:8290,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image result for James Wolfe, the director of security for the Senate Select Committee&quot;,&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="Image result for James Wolfe, the director of security for the Senate Select Committee" title="Image result for James Wolfe, the director of security for the Senate Select Committee" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hUZk!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F523c7b37-4cf8-4d94-8f7a-740d7a3d6f78_253x180.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hUZk!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F523c7b37-4cf8-4d94-8f7a-740d7a3d6f78_253x180.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hUZk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F523c7b37-4cf8-4d94-8f7a-740d7a3d6f78_253x180.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hUZk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F523c7b37-4cf8-4d94-8f7a-740d7a3d6f78_253x180.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">James Wolfe</figcaption></figure></div><p></p></li><li><p>&#8220;Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, a senior adviser at the Treasury&#8217;s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, was charged with disclosing reports about financial transactions related to people under scrutiny in the Trump-Russia inquiry, including former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort. She <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/treasury-department-employee-natalie-mayflower-sours-edwards-arrested-for-allegedly-leaking-files-on-paul-manafort-rick-gates-maria-butina">leaked</a> the information to BuzzFeed News.&#8221; Which oddly enough, is what corporate media and democratic congressionalist alike are <em><strong>!!!EXCLAIMINGiii</strong></em> that Elon Musk is going to do with the &#8220;personal data&#8221; he has access to at the Treasury Department! I&#8217;ll be damned, that&#8217;s already illegal. </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/$s_!U7b_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d9c2df4-3b04-4952-89a5-62d3a8c486e6_780x450.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!U7b_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d9c2df4-3b04-4952-89a5-62d3a8c486e6_780x450.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!U7b_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7d9c2df4-3b04-4952-89a5-62d3a8c486e6_780x450.jpeg 848w, 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lawyer, Michael Cohen, including information about how a company owned by Cohen received $500,000 from a company with ties to a Russian oligarch. The Trump Justice Department recommended prison time for Fry, but in 2020, a federal judge instead gave Fry probation and ordered him to pay a $5,000 fine.&#8221;</p></li><li><p>Now the important ones, to me anyways: &#8220;FBI agent Terry Albury, who was arrested in 2018 and charged with leaking information about the <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/04/21/terry-albury-fbi-race-whistleblowing/">systemic racial biases</a> at<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/10/18/terry-albury-sentencing-fbi/"> the bureau</a>, which were <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/03/28/minnesota-fbi-agent-whistleblower-leak/">reported by The Intercept</a>.&#8221; WHAT!? &#8220;Racial biases&#8221; doesn&#8217;t sound <em>classified?</em>  &#8220;Detailing secret guidelines for the FBI&#8217;s use of informants and the surveillance of journalists and religious and ethnic minority and immigrant communities. The documents formed the basis for a series of articles in <em>The Intercept</em> called &#8220;The FBI's Secret Rules&#8221;, That makes more sense, but for a damn good disclosure!</p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7yry!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9f9ad96-f1a6-40cd-b1c7-d57251c2b476_220x268.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7yry!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9f9ad96-f1a6-40cd-b1c7-d57251c2b476_220x268.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7yry!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9f9ad96-f1a6-40cd-b1c7-d57251c2b476_220x268.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7yry!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9f9ad96-f1a6-40cd-b1c7-d57251c2b476_220x268.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7yry!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9f9ad96-f1a6-40cd-b1c7-d57251c2b476_220x268.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7yry!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9f9ad96-f1a6-40cd-b1c7-d57251c2b476_220x268.jpeg" width="220" height="268" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f9f9ad96-f1a6-40cd-b1c7-d57251c2b476_220x268.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:268,&quot;width&quot;:220,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Thumb&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Thumb" title="Thumb" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7yry!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9f9ad96-f1a6-40cd-b1c7-d57251c2b476_220x268.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7yry!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9f9ad96-f1a6-40cd-b1c7-d57251c2b476_220x268.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7yry!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9f9ad96-f1a6-40cd-b1c7-d57251c2b476_220x268.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7yry!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9f9ad96-f1a6-40cd-b1c7-d57251c2b476_220x268.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">Agent Terry Albury</figcaption></figure></div><p>&#8212;He received a 4-year sentence. For more check out: <a href="https://theintercept.com/series/the-fbis-secret-rules/">The Intercept&#8217;s </a><em><a href="https://theintercept.com/series/the-fbis-secret-rules/">&#8220;The FBI&#8217;s Secret Rules&#8221;,</a> it&#8217;s quite a rabbit hole to go down.</em></p><ul><li><p>Daniel Hale was also arrested in 2019, charged with leaking information about the U.S. military&#8217;s use of drones to conduct targeted assassinations, also allegedly to The Intercept. Known as the Drone Whistleblower, exposed that 90% of deaths by drone strike are non-combatants. Received 45 months in prison for his disclosures in 2021 resulting in the <em><a href="https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/">&#8220;Drone Papers&#8221;</a></em><a href="https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/"> </a>and the book <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Complex-Governments-Warfare-Program/dp/1501144138">The Assassination Complex: </a></em>Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program<em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Complex-Governments-Warfare-Program/dp/1501144138">.</a></em>  </p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kMCC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa7684f-602d-4030-92e2-73e6c879d54b_155x200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kMCC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa7684f-602d-4030-92e2-73e6c879d54b_155x200.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kMCC!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa7684f-602d-4030-92e2-73e6c879d54b_155x200.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kMCC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa7684f-602d-4030-92e2-73e6c879d54b_155x200.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kMCC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa7684f-602d-4030-92e2-73e6c879d54b_155x200.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kMCC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa7684f-602d-4030-92e2-73e6c879d54b_155x200.jpeg" width="155" height="200" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2aa7684f-602d-4030-92e2-73e6c879d54b_155x200.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:200,&quot;width&quot;:155,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;See more images of Daniel Hale&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="See more images of Daniel Hale" title="See more images of Daniel Hale" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kMCC!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa7684f-602d-4030-92e2-73e6c879d54b_155x200.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kMCC!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa7684f-602d-4030-92e2-73e6c879d54b_155x200.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kMCC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa7684f-602d-4030-92e2-73e6c879d54b_155x200.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kMCC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aa7684f-602d-4030-92e2-73e6c879d54b_155x200.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Daniel Hale &#8220;Drone Whistleblower&#8221;</figcaption></figure></div><ul><li><p>That was only six, Julian Assange, however, was arrested during this period after spending eight years in refuge at the Ecuadorian Embassy in Central London, where the CIA, headed by Mike Pompeo, had him under illegal wiretap, surveillance, and had plans to &#8220;kidnap and assassinate Assange&#8221; right out of the embassy in London. We know this because they were leaked to the press. These plans were a <em>big</em> reason that the MAGA world pushed so hard against Pompeo being let back into the Trump Administration this time. If not for those leaks, we might have another &#8220;Pompeo CIA&#8221; right now.</p><p></p><ul><li><p>Feb. 5, 2016: Assange claims &#8220;total vindication&#8221; as the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention finds that he has been unlawfully detained and recommends he be immediately freed and given compensation. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond calls the finding &#8220;frankly ridiculous.&#8221;</p></li><li><p>April 6, 2017: Ecuador&#8217;s president-elect, Lenin Moreno, warns Assange that as a condition of asylum granted in 2012, he is not allowed to meddle in politics following comments on Twitter.</p></li><li><p>May 19, 2017: Swedish prosecutors drop their investigation into rape allegation against Assange, and the European arrest warrant is withdrawn because there is no prospect of bringing Assange to Sweden. British police say he is still wanted for jumping bail in 2012.</p></li><li><p> September 2018: Ecuador&#8217;s president says his country and Britain are working on a legal solution to allow Assange to leave the embassy in &#8220;the medium term.&#8221;</p></li><li><p> October 2018: Assange seeks court injunction pressing Ecuador to provide him basic rights he said the country agreed to when it first granted him asylum.   </p></li><li><p>November 2018: A U.S. court filing that appears to inadvertently reveal the existence of a sealed criminal case against Assange is discovered by a researcher. No details are confirmed.</p></li><li><p> April 2, 2019: Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno blames WikiLeaks for recent allegations of corruption.</p></li><li><p> April 5, 2019: A senior Ecuadorian official says no decision has been made to expel Assange from the London embassy despite rumors he could be kicked out soon.</p></li><li><p> April 11, 2019: London police arrest Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy for breaching bail conditions in 2012, as well as on behalf of U.S. authorities, shortly after Ecuador&#8217;s government withdrew his asylum status.</p></li><li><p>After spending the next five years, quite honestly being tortured to death in isolation at Bel Marsh Supermax, and the <em>entire</em> world watching in horror besides a <em>few rogue bloodless lifeforms, </em>someone got in Biden&#8217;s ear and got across to him how <em>really bad</em> this looks politically, and they gave him a plea bargain. Essentially, not saying they were <em>wrong</em> but accepting they had to say something.</p></li></ul></li></ul><h2>2020 and ON! Part Two&#8230;.</h2><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;7acbc01a-26d2-45db-8391-eb19a2a83da9&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;d7c2ce04-19fd-419c-a4f9-fef5a5fc8542&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bipartisan Fraud of USAID]]></title><description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s being missed as the scam of the century is unearthed]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/usaid-and-the-two-party-industrial</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/usaid-and-the-two-party-industrial</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 03:14:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/kPihC7UQ9jk" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YJox!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44df74ba-70c0-4867-9641-d3cfb954a82b_680x594.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><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><em>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 <strong>years, </strong>replied:</em></p><blockquote><p><em>Which job was it? I<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/06/21/feds-u-s-taxpayer-funds-helping-irrigate-fertilize-afghan-opium-funding-taliban/">rrigating heroin crops in Afghanistan</a>? <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/486983/usaid-wont-give-details-on-4-67-million-grant-to-wuhan-lab-collaborator-ecohealth-alliance/">Cooking up freak monster viruses in</a> Wuhan? <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_AIDOAAO1200053_7200_-NONE-_-NONE-">Writing psyop propaganda screeds for Internews</a>? <a href="https://www.public.news/p/both-usaid-and-the-cia-were-behind?r=iuq6q&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false">Publishing dirt on US politicians for OCCRP</a>? <a href="https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/the-censorship-logs-us-government-censorship-empire/">Operating regime change work from an HIV clinic </a>in Latin America? Which one, Vindman?</em></p></blockquote><p><em>Alexander Vindman was a member of the National Security Council, who later testified against Donald Trump, then later joined USAID. Guilty? Innocent? You make the call.</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p>"There are no thieves or thugs out here. We are members of Congress."</p></div><p>They met in a conference room, somewhere you might find in a warehouse office, with a view that fell somewhere on the edge of obscure but professional. <br>He wore a tag that read "USAID" with smaller letters under it, just barely intelligible that read "United States Agency for International Developement", in a suit that matched the tag, just barely on the edge of obscurity and professionalism.<br>It's very funny to think about the secrecy of this meeting. They print their name "USAID" on everything, now what's with all the secrecy, he thought. He was soon to find out.<br>They sat across from each other and laid out his plan, "See you have a government that is not willing to, well, for lack of a better word 'Play Ball' with United States interests."<br>"Yes, sir. See, our leader's don't agree with your system of govenance being imposed on us, we got a good thing, our people are at peace, why would we change everything now?"<br>"Well, because it's not a democracy, and you want aid, right? If your system was working so well, how did you end up in debt to us?"<br>"It wasn't supposed to be a debt, we thought we were granted that money. We thought you all wanted to help."<br>"We only help democracy's and it's not non-punitive, we want something for our help. Now, someone else in your government is going to take this deal, so are you in or are you out? Because you won't want to be on the wrong side when America gets what they want. Gaddaffi ring a bell? Assad? Milosevich? Know that with or without you, we get what we want."<br>"Jeez. I thought you did 'foreign aid.'"<br>"We are aiding you, you just don't realize it, what's good for US interests, I assure you, is in your interest. Final offer..."<br>"Yes. I'm in. What do you need me to do?"</p><div><hr></div><p>&#8220;U.S.A.I.D. is made up of fraudsters and radical left lunatics,&#8221; says President Donald J. Trump.</p><p>&#8220;USAID is a wholly <em>unresponsive</em> organization and has been a problem since I was in Congress,&#8221; says Secretary of State Marco Rubio.</p><p>&#8220;USAID is a foreign aid program that makes sure children has food on their tables,&#8221; say Democrats in Congress.</p><p>&#8220;What Trump and Musk have done is not only wrong, it's illegal," said Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia during a news conference outside USAID headquarters. "USAID was established by an act of Congress, and it can only be disbanded by an act of Congress. Stopping this will require action by the courts and for Republicans to show up and show courage and stand up for our country.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;USAID's programs are authorized by <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/congress">Congress</a> in the Foreign Assistance Act. The agency's programs focus on improving global health, alleviating poverty, and providing emergency relief in response to natural disasters or conflict as well as enhancing education and strengthening democratic institutions abroad,&#8221; according to Newsweek.</p><p>&#8220;On behalf of the American people, we promote and demonstrate democratic values abroad and advance a free, peaceful, and prosperous world&#8230; In support of America's foreign policy, the U.S. Agency for International Development leads the U.S. government's international development and disaster assistance through partnerships and investments that save lives, reduce poverty, strengthen democratic governance, and help people emerge from humanitarian crises and progress beyond assistance,&#8221; the agency's mission statement states.</p><p>But this is all half-truths and outright lies, whatever it takes to keep <em>their</em> pockets full and keep their imperialist agenda intact. </p><p><em>Imperialist agenda? </em>Well, what&#8217;d you think? This was a <em>foreign aide agency????</em></p><p>In fact, the closest anyone came to saying the truth about USAID, was <em>&#8220;Ukraine Freedom Fighter&#8221;</em> Chris Murphy who said, &#8220;USAID fights terrorist groups all across this world making sure that we address the underlying causes that lead to terrorism. USAID chases China all around the world, making sure China doesn't monopolize contracts for critical minerals and port infrastructure all around the world. It supports freedom fighters everywhere in this world, up until yesterday, delivering firewood, for instance, to the brave Ukrainian defenders on the eastern front.&#8221;</p><p>Old Chris got a little carried away towards the end, but he said the <em>quiet part out loud. &#8220;Freedom Fighters&#8221; eh? </em>Like the Contra&#8217;s in the 80&#8217;s? Or al Qaeda affiliate Al Nusra in Syria in 2012? How about the Azov Battalion in Ukraine? Or what about those <em>freedom fighters </em> that sodomized Gaddafi in Lybia? He didn&#8217;t misppeak, those were all American Central Intelligence Agency-funded and armed regime changes, and they all had funding from USAID, because USAID and the CIA are one and the same.</p><div id="youtube2-qALIeY4trks" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;qALIeY4trks&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/qALIeY4trks?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&#8217;m here to tell you, they&#8217;re <em>all</em> right! And they&#8217;re <em>all</em> wrong, but <em>that&#8217;s not why I hold the position that I do, well, Chris Murphy&#8217;s statement is, but the former are all simply holding water for the latter. Up front, let me be clear, I believe USAID should be shattered into a million pieces and scattered to the wind! Feed the hungry kids, no doubt, but not in sacrifice of their culture and their security. Let&#8217;s talk about it&#8230;</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 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><h2>What Am I Rambling About?! </h2><p>If you&#8217;ve paid even a cursory mind to the news about the recent <em>overthrow of the USAID &#8220;program</em>,&#8221; you must be wondering, like everyone else, why in the hell are they spending millions for &#8220;sex changes in Guatemala?&#8221; It sure as hell ain&#8217;t because they&#8217;re worried about &#8220;trans rights&#8221;. It&#8217;s, no doubt, the same reason China has fentanyl factories in Mexico, actually. Anyone still under the delusion that our tax dollars are being used, at least mostly, for good causes, must feel a tinge of righteous indignation when they hear the shit that USAID funds are being directed to.  </p><p>Here&#8217;s a good one, farming in Afghanistan! I&#8217;m sure we are &#8220;just worried about farmer's, right??&#8221; What are they growing? Tomatoes? <em>Negative. </em>They&#8217;re making heroine. Oh, well, they literally say &#8220;<em>For equipment used in the cultivation of poppy&#8217;s and production of heroin.&#8221;  The shit isn&#8217;t even hidden. </em>I have friends serving 20 years in prison for selling the shit that our tax dollars are helping them produce! I guess you could say it&#8217;s worse for the people closer to production, like addiction to smoking is worse the closer you get to tobacco patches, but New Yorker&#8217;s die of lung cancer <em>everyday!</em></p><p>So, no, I don&#8217;t like my tax dollars being spent THERE to produce the very drugs killing my friends HERE. You could almost say that USAID in that single act has done more overall to destabilize our own country than <em>anything</em> China or Russia could <em>ever </em>do to us. The Democrats that disagree, I&#8217;m sorry, I can&#8217;t bunk up with you.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!anHY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3042ddf-178d-4e09-b834-e5a1db3c8961_865x485.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!anHY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3042ddf-178d-4e09-b834-e5a1db3c8961_865x485.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!anHY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3042ddf-178d-4e09-b834-e5a1db3c8961_865x485.png 848w, 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This list is like, Republican catnip! It&#8217;s all the stuff they&#8217;ve been screaming about for a decade, in black and white, while they were being called <em>old</em> or just <em>not with it, </em>or <em>behind in the times.</em> I fucking hate it! The liberal values that once reigned supreme, free speech, protecting the environment, protecting those not as well off as you, and opposing imperialism, are long gone and the republican side, well, the ball is in their court. I can&#8217;t cosign this bullshit!</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/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/usaid-and-the-two-party-industrial?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/usaid-and-the-two-party-industrial?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h2>On the Other Side of the Coin</h2><p>Why is no one talking about this organization funding military campaigns and imperialist projects abroad?!  HEY! ELON! How much money is going to funding regime change wars?! I know it is! But it&#8217;s being stuffed further down into obscurity.</p><p>How do I know?</p><p>They made Marco Rubio the <em>&#8220;Acting Director of USAID!!!&#8221;  Fools! </em>This is like a henhouse being saved from a pack of wolves by one hungry wolf who wants it all for himself! By the way, our tax dollars are the chicken in this analogy, and Rubio is &#8220;one hungry wolf&#8221;.</p><p>Under the guise of shuttering the thing, they&#8217;ve pass it on to the most imperialistic neocon in the administration. This is like removing the stupid  programs and  preserving the dangerous and most offensive of these programs. You think Marco Rubio disagrees with <em>anything</em> happening at USAID? The NED? The NDI? The IRI? NO! He helped to fund them! He said, &#8220;it&#8217;s a completely unresponsive agency,&#8221; from his time when he was in Congress. That&#8217;s his problem with them; they are not <em>doing enough! WTF!</em></p><p>Then he contacts Guatemala to grant assurances, like &#8220;don&#8217;t worry, once this crazy guy gets done, it&#8217;ll be under my purview, and we&#8217;ll be <em>back in business,&#8221; </em>turning their male soldiers into females. Everything America does is in <em>our</em> interest, the handwringing from both sides is infuriating. Even funding the War in Ukraine! </p><p>Many State Department and Pentagon officials have come out with statements very explicitly alluding that funding the war in Ukraine with weapons instead of seeking peace is in America&#8217;s interest because it keeps Russia weak, and since Russia kicked USAID out of their country in 2012 they don&#8217;t have <em>that</em> weapon to use against them, and it turns out, egg on our face, Putin was right on this one. Listen to Rubio talking to his friends:</p><p><em>&#8220;I know it's hard to ask for patience. I know it's hard to ask for trust,&#8221;</em> Rubio said, according to a partial transcript of his meet-and-greet with embassy staff that was obtained by ABC News.</p><p>If he really thought them to be <em>a problem,</em> why would he owe them trust. It <em>is </em>simply this, he is one of them! Plain and simple:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rDhR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8168c5f9-0e16-4892-b2e2-213efcd57883_591x186.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rDhR!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8168c5f9-0e16-4892-b2e2-213efcd57883_591x186.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rDhR!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8168c5f9-0e16-4892-b2e2-213efcd57883_591x186.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rDhR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8168c5f9-0e16-4892-b2e2-213efcd57883_591x186.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rDhR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8168c5f9-0e16-4892-b2e2-213efcd57883_591x186.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rDhR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8168c5f9-0e16-4892-b2e2-213efcd57883_591x186.png" width="591" height="186" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8168c5f9-0e16-4892-b2e2-213efcd57883_591x186.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:186,&quot;width&quot;:591,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:24159,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rDhR!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8168c5f9-0e16-4892-b2e2-213efcd57883_591x186.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rDhR!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8168c5f9-0e16-4892-b2e2-213efcd57883_591x186.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rDhR!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8168c5f9-0e16-4892-b2e2-213efcd57883_591x186.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rDhR!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8168c5f9-0e16-4892-b2e2-213efcd57883_591x186.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div id="youtube2-7Iyre-qTsds" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;7Iyre-qTsds&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;86&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/7Iyre-qTsds?start=86&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Look I hate when CNN is right, but well, a broken clock is right twice a day, eh?</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;The Russians are dying. It&#8217;s the best money we&#8217;ve ever spent.&#8221; &#8212;Lindsey Graham </p></div><p>And then there&#8217;s this, which you&#8217;ll understand why this is important later in this piece:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08IN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb08f0ff-83f6-420f-a5dc-fc9e82be2834_1158x274.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08IN!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb08f0ff-83f6-420f-a5dc-fc9e82be2834_1158x274.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08IN!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb08f0ff-83f6-420f-a5dc-fc9e82be2834_1158x274.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08IN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb08f0ff-83f6-420f-a5dc-fc9e82be2834_1158x274.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08IN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb08f0ff-83f6-420f-a5dc-fc9e82be2834_1158x274.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08IN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb08f0ff-83f6-420f-a5dc-fc9e82be2834_1158x274.png" width="1158" height="274" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/db08f0ff-83f6-420f-a5dc-fc9e82be2834_1158x274.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:274,&quot;width&quot;:1158,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:40954,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08IN!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb08f0ff-83f6-420f-a5dc-fc9e82be2834_1158x274.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08IN!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb08f0ff-83f6-420f-a5dc-fc9e82be2834_1158x274.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08IN!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb08f0ff-83f6-420f-a5dc-fc9e82be2834_1158x274.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08IN!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb08f0ff-83f6-420f-a5dc-fc9e82be2834_1158x274.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p><strong>Washington, DC</strong> &#8211; The International Republican Institute (IRI) issued the following statement on the nomination of Senator Marco Rubio as the next U.S. Secretary of State:</p><p>&#8220;IRI congratulates Senator Rubio on his historic nomination as the 72<sup>nd</sup> U.S. Secretary of State. Throughout his service in the Senate, he has been one of America&#8217;s foremost advocates for freedom and democracy around the world, and he has played an invaluable role as a member of IRI&#8217;s board of directors. We wish him every success in the confirmation process and as our next Secretary of State.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>IRI is the <em>International Republican Institute, </em>the Republican arm of the NGO-Industrial Complex. The Democrats have one too, the <em>National Democratic Institute, or NDI, </em>and I guess the NED and USAID are bipartisan. As far as function, it&#8217;s not totally clear that they don&#8217;t all serve the same purpose. They fund the same programs, and put a pin in that, right here, it&#8217;ll be clear by the end of this. This is why I can&#8217;t help but find both sides of this detestable! So, in a world, quite literally <em>dying</em> for change, we ended up with Marco Rubio. A rosary-like symbol for &#8220;more of the same, business as usual, elite consensus.&#8221; Exactly what 73 million America's voted against! Someone finally has the balls to snoop around in one of these archaic institutions, looking for the fraud, and they put the lead fraudster watching the gate They have got a wolf in the hen house, and it ain't Elon Musk.<em> </em></p><div id="youtube2-kPihC7UQ9jk" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;kPihC7UQ9jk&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/kPihC7UQ9jk?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 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/usaid-and-the-two-party-industrial?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/usaid-and-the-two-party-industrial?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><h2>The &#8220;Kamala Effect&#8221;</h2><p>I&#8217;m once again finding myself having what I call the &#8220;Kamala Effect&#8221;.</p><p>When Kamala Harris became the Democrats candidate for president, the Republican&#8217;s called her a leftist fanaticist, a radical left lunatic, a Communist, I, on the other hand hated her because she <em>lacked</em> compassion, I thought she was too middle of the road, she flip-flopped with the breeze, and voting for her would be voting for the same failed system, more of the same Neoliberal bullshit practices of stepping over homeless people on the sidewalk to go vote to save Ukrainians by sending them more weapons to kill each other with. </p><p>She shuttered a program to bring Catholic priests who&#8217;d sexually abused children to justice, when the work was already done, she just had to continue it when she took over as AG in California in the 2000&#8217;s, then when the victim&#8217;s and victim&#8217;s attorneys reached out to her for the files that the previous AG collected on this, because they were at least gonna get those demons civilly, they purposefully protected those child molester priests. I don&#8217;t know why, and by the way neither do the victims, if there was some lobby group, or other entity applying pressure on her not to comply with them, I don&#8217;t know, I do know the <em>Catholic Church of San Francisco </em>was very powerful in the early 2000&#8217;s. Following that she made many ugly moves increasing her influence, while turning the area into the <em>police state </em>that caused the liberal reform blowback that you see there today. </p><p>She had thousands of people arrested with her &#8220;tough on crime&#8221; mantra for simple possession of marijuana, then joked about smoking to Charlamagne on the Breakfast Club. Which, hey, we all make mistakes, but then after becoming somewhat of a leftist superstar in Congress, as a presidential candidate she went back to the &#8220;Tough on Crime&#8221; mantra from her early career like she&#8217;d learned <em>nothing! </em>And then ran a white-washing campaign of the single most hated family&#8212;from all sides&#8212;in American history, the Cheney&#8217;s!</p><p>Then you look at Donald Trump&#8230; and he&#8217;s insulting people by calling them <em>&#8220;Palestinian's&#8221; </em>because in his wacko boomer brain <em>that&#8217;s </em>an insult, but the Democrats <em>totally </em>missed that, not a word of it! Because someone in Ohio <em>might&#8217;ve </em>grilled something that looked dog-ish. If she took a strong stance against war she might&#8217;ve won.</p><p>That&#8217;s the <em>Kamala Effect. </em>In all the criticism's from either side it&#8217;s never the <em>actual</em> problem with them. </p><p>This is the same effect. On the right, they&#8217;re going crazy about USAID funding DEI programs and whatnot, now I don&#8217;t like them either, but that&#8217;s not the problem with USAID. USAID is an NGO, used to promote what we call <em>soft power.  Interference. Destabilizing the region. Funding protests. &#8220;Freedom fighters.&#8221; Propaganda. Then keep the protest fed and let nature take its course Here I wrote an article about it a month ago:</em> </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;f583ec1c-3cf0-41bf-9fe5-eb03b94fb96d&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;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&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://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9b39f62-dd60-45ab-af4a-247b927b5511_400x400.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;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:152418620,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:5,&quot;comment_count&quot;:4,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Declaration of Liberty&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%2F1d5e1ef4-ac2b-4ce2-ac9f-46384acf6c05_597x597.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>The Republicans&#8217; problem with USAID is, it&#8217;s a &#8220;lunatic radical left organization&#8221; which I&#8217;m sure is partly true, but <em>not</em> the important part. They don&#8217;t say a word about it organizing &#8220;Pro-Democracy Rallies&#8221; worldwide or training, arming and funding <em>&#8220;freedom fighters&#8221;</em> (<em>cough*cough* </em>Regime Change), and it&#8217;s not because they aren&#8217;t doing them. So, one side wants it reduced to shambles, the other side wants <em>nothing at all</em>, who is worse here?!</p><p>Too much change or none at all. I&#8217;d bet, if you asked the guy building a campfire inside an abandoned house to stay warm, he&#8217;d say none at all is worst!</p><p>This is why both sides are doomed to be a line in a rotting history book on a thrift store shelf somewhere. Democrat's, they&#8217;re already there. Republicans are on their way. I hope they tear up enough of these imperialistic organizations on their way down that we can build a better society, free markets, and peace. <em>That&#8217;s</em> the way.</p><p>But, a <em><strong>humanitarian aid organization? They turned humanitarian aid against the humanitarian.You demons. Americans are good people, so they knew they could hide a scam behind helping other people and we&#8217;d fall for it. How evil ARE these monsters!</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/usaid-and-the-two-party-industrial/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/usaid-and-the-two-party-industrial/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/usaid-and-the-two-party-industrial?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/usaid-and-the-two-party-industrial?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><h3>But while We&#8217;re Still Here, Let&#8217;s Talk the USAID Disclosures </h3><div class="pullquote"><p>If you wanna know who America&#8217;s next enemy is, look at who we&#8217;re funding right now.</p><p>&#8212;Dave Smith</p></div><p>So, USAID, I don&#8217;t know why, I don&#8217;t know how, but they really, really, like Ukraine. Ukraine is kind of <em>owned</em> by US NGO&#8217;s, such as USAID. </p><p><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-map-counties-most-money-2025073">According to Newsweek</a>, <em>&#8220;USAID disbursed $72 billion in fiscal year 2023, the most recent full year for which information is available. The most aid&#8212;more than $16 billion&#8212;was sent to Ukraine that year.&#8221;</em></p><p>Listen to how they <em>denounced Zelensky in 2020 for his making a move toward the implementation of the Minsk Agreements, </em>the peace treaty between<em> </em>Russia and Ukraine:</p><blockquote><p><em><a href="https://uacrisis.org/uk/75229-pryamij-dialog-ordlo">We, the undersigned civil </a>society organizations, think tanks and representatives of civil society, express our indignation at the latest decisions of the Ukrainian delegation in Minsk concerning ways and mechanisms for resolving the armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia in the Donbas.</em></p></blockquote><p>One of the signees of this denouncement:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RwJk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84a27c4d-cede-474c-ac60-a203555f1bd1_827x240.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RwJk!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84a27c4d-cede-474c-ac60-a203555f1bd1_827x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RwJk!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84a27c4d-cede-474c-ac60-a203555f1bd1_827x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RwJk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84a27c4d-cede-474c-ac60-a203555f1bd1_827x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RwJk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84a27c4d-cede-474c-ac60-a203555f1bd1_827x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RwJk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84a27c4d-cede-474c-ac60-a203555f1bd1_827x240.png" width="827" height="240" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/84a27c4d-cede-474c-ac60-a203555f1bd1_827x240.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:240,&quot;width&quot;:827,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:17429,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RwJk!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84a27c4d-cede-474c-ac60-a203555f1bd1_827x240.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RwJk!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84a27c4d-cede-474c-ac60-a203555f1bd1_827x240.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RwJk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84a27c4d-cede-474c-ac60-a203555f1bd1_827x240.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RwJk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84a27c4d-cede-474c-ac60-a203555f1bd1_827x240.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>&#8220;NGO &#8220;Internews-Ukraine&#8221;&#8221; </em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T41z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feea68d1f-cf54-4e33-87d5-03483c337f4e_1172x444.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T41z!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feea68d1f-cf54-4e33-87d5-03483c337f4e_1172x444.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T41z!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feea68d1f-cf54-4e33-87d5-03483c337f4e_1172x444.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T41z!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feea68d1f-cf54-4e33-87d5-03483c337f4e_1172x444.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T41z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feea68d1f-cf54-4e33-87d5-03483c337f4e_1172x444.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T41z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feea68d1f-cf54-4e33-87d5-03483c337f4e_1172x444.png" width="1172" height="444" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/eea68d1f-cf54-4e33-87d5-03483c337f4e_1172x444.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:444,&quot;width&quot;:1172,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T41z!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feea68d1f-cf54-4e33-87d5-03483c337f4e_1172x444.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T41z!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feea68d1f-cf54-4e33-87d5-03483c337f4e_1172x444.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T41z!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feea68d1f-cf54-4e33-87d5-03483c337f4e_1172x444.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!T41z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feea68d1f-cf54-4e33-87d5-03483c337f4e_1172x444.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><figcaption class="image-caption">I don&#8217;t know who is now running WikiLeaks but, it&#8217;s nice to see a report from them.</figcaption></figure></div><blockquote><p><em>USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has &#8220;worked with&#8221; 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training&#8221; over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives. The operation claims &#8220;offices&#8221; in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN. Bourgault&#8217;s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at http://archive.org.</em></p><p><em>Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted. IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows).</em></p></blockquote><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:156801328,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/usaid-gave-472-million-to-internews&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:1119676,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Courageous Discourse&#8482; with Dr. Peter McCullough &amp; John Leake&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%2F3a25f862-497b-4686-90d6-4f81cc3edd11_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;USAID Gave $472 Million to \&quot;Internews Network\&quot; NGO&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;Our Founding Fathers understood the extreme hazard of allowing the state to create and disburse public funds without budget and oversight restraints. 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The inevitable outcome is that the men who hold state power will give money to their friends&#8212;that is, to influential persons and organizations who will, in turn, support and even augment the power of those&#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; 175 likes &#183; 42 comments &#183; John Leake</div></a></div><p>Also, in Ukraine, which <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Aaron Mat&#233;&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1109249,&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/7b2a5055-caa2-4d5c-a239-48697afdb3f0_2613x3280.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;4fd8b4da-189a-4d66-abde-61992ca5123c&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> covers excellently:</p><blockquote><p><em>As the Maidan protests were swelling in December 2013, senior State Department Victoria Nuland disclosed that &#8220;democracy promotion&#8221; came with a hefty price tag. The US government, Nuland bragged, has &#8220;invested more than $5 billion&#8221; to help pro-Western &#8220;civil society&#8221; groups achieve a &#8220;secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.&#8221; By its own count, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a US government-funded organization that works closely with USAID after being spun out of the CIA, reported spending over $20 million on 65 Ukrainian projects in 2013-14. This investment gave the US &#8220;a shadow political structure of media and activist groups that could be deployed to stir up unrest when the Ukrainian government didn&#8217;t act as desired,&#8221; veteran journalist Robert Parry, who helped expose the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s, <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2014/02/27/a-shadow-us-foreign-policy/">observed</a>.</em></p><p><em>Because of Trump&#8217;s funding freeze, the extent of that shadow media structure has newly come to light. According to <a href="https://rsf.org/en/usa-trump-s-foreign-aid-freeze-throws-journalism-around-world-chaos">Reporters Without Borders</a>, USAID is the &#8220;the primary donor&#8221; for the nine out of 10 Ukrainian media outlets that rely on foreign funding. The head of one such outlet, Detector Media, told the Washington Post that &#8220;more than 50 percent&#8221; of the media organizations that receive foreign money are &#8220;dependent on American assistance.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>The Post <a href="https://x.com/aaronjmate/status/1888263134219002253/photo/1">headlined</a> its story &#8220;Independent media in Russia, Ukraine lose their funding with USAID freeze.&#8221; According to the Post&#8217;s editorial standards, a foreign media outlet can presumably remain &#8220;independent&#8221; even while funded by the most powerful state in the world. To shore up its narrative, the Post argued that these US-funded outlets have &#8220;produced work often critical of their governments,&#8221; including the US client in Kyiv. Yet these same outlets have often promoted the US government&#8217;s agenda in Ukraine at the country&#8217;s expense.</em></p></blockquote><p><a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2025/02/07/republicans-transgender-dance-bangladesh/">The Grayzone reported that not </a>ONLY was USAID funding things like, &#8220;Sex Changes in Guatemala&#8221;, the <em>International Republican Institute</em> was funding <em>&#8220;Transgender Dance in Bangladesh&#8221;. This is EVERYTHING! </em>Because what you must understand to understand why:</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14344255/trump-millions-dei-foreign-aid-programs-funding.html">$47,000</a> for a &#8220;transgender opera&#8221; in Colombia</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14344255/trump-millions-dei-foreign-aid-programs-funding.html">$32,000</a> for a &#8220;transgender comic book&#8221; in Peru</p></li><li><p><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/19/feds-dump-millions-in-one-latin-american-country-to-fund-sex-changes-lgbt-activism/">$2 million</a> for sex changes and &#8220;LGBT activism&#8221; in Guatemala</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign-policy/2865305/usaid-watchdog-tax-dollars-terrorism-tied-ngo-biden-sent-more-cash/">Hundreds of thousands of dollars</a> for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations &#8212; even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/486983/usaid-wont-give-details-on-4-67-million-grant-to-wuhan-lab-collaborator-ecohealth-alliance/">Millions</a> to EcoHealth Alliance &#8212; which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/22/usaid-paid-meals-went-syrian-terrorists/">&#8220;Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria&#8221;</a></p></li></ul><p>Is, although it sounds like a bunch of woke nonsense, the <em>International Republican Institute </em>was funding the <em>same thing! WHY?! The party who openly disagrees with things like &#8220;Drag Queen Story Time&#8221;, and transgender surgeries, would they now fund &#8220;Transgender dance in Bangladesh?&#8221; Wait for it&#8230;</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/?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" 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participate in social change activities to eventually bring changes to politics.&#8221;</strong></h3></blockquote><p>And if your reaction is offense, know this: The same things are being funded by, you guessed it, USAID, aaaaaaand the <em><a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=f69a03e32f24ae6a2e04436b4ae447af">National Democratic Institute.</a></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SM7z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96e41a4f-9da7-40fd-b58d-9d107fd0e31c_977x157.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SM7z!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96e41a4f-9da7-40fd-b58d-9d107fd0e31c_977x157.png 424w, 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SM7z!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96e41a4f-9da7-40fd-b58d-9d107fd0e31c_977x157.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SM7z!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96e41a4f-9da7-40fd-b58d-9d107fd0e31c_977x157.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SM7z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96e41a4f-9da7-40fd-b58d-9d107fd0e31c_977x157.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">USAID to Bangladesh</figcaption></figure></div><blockquote><p><em>For years, the Republican Party-aligned International Republican Institute&#8217;s (IRI) agenda in Bangladesh has been dominated by ethnic minority and transgender issues, with leaked documents revealing the Institute sponsored &#8220;the largest published survey of LGBTI people in Bangladesh&#8221; and that a full 24% of the 1,868 Bangladeshis who participated in IRI programs in 2019 and 2020 were transgender.</em></p><p><em>The IRI&#8217;s cultural activities were conducted with explicitly subversive objectives, aiming to recruit socially excluded groups as regime change activists. They mirrored the US government&#8217;s machinations in Cuba, where, as <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2021/07/25/cubas-cultural-counter-revolution-us-govt-rappers-artists-catalyst/">The Grayzone reported</a>, USAID funded rappers, artists, and &#8220;desocialized and marginalized youth&#8221; to undermine the country&#8217;s socialist government.</em></p><p><em>Since its founding in 1983, the congressionally-funded IRI has been run by Republican politicians and operatives dedicated to the cause of &#8220;democracy promotion&#8221; abroad. IRI&#8217;s Chairman, Sen. Dan Sullivan, is a vehement opponent of same sex marriage who <a href="https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/09/25/sen-sullivan-signs-letter-with-other-republicans-denouncing-proposed-federal-protections-for-transgender-athletes/">signed on to a GOP letter</a> calling to restrict the participation of transgender youth in sports. While many of the <a href="https://www.iri.org/who-we-are/">institute&#8217;s board members</a> are Never Trump Republicans like Sen. Mitt Romney, the board also includes Sen. Tom Cotton, a top Trump ally who <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-statement-on-courts-blocking-of-arkansas-transgender-youth-law">strongly opposes</a> transgender medical interventions for youth.</em></p></blockquote><p>So, with that being said, obviously the <em>IRI </em>is not funding <em>Transgender Dances</em> to promote trans people, and if the <em>National Endowment for Democracy (NED)</em>, and USAID, are funding the exact same things, why makes anyone think that they are aiding these people?! These organizations are <em>actively</em> working to destabilize them.  </p><p>USAID is being used around the world as a front for &#8220;AID&#8221;, it&#8217;s even in its name. It was created by the Kennedy administration in 1961. It wasn&#8217;t for foreign aid back than either. It was for <em>International Development</em>, well, in 1961, the age of &#8220;Containment&#8221;, which turned out to be a failed mission. In order to contain communism, they had to &#8220;develop&#8221; democracies, so when we talk about international development, we mean shatter their system, whatever it may be, and replace it with a democracy. Regardless of whether that works for their culture or not, we are superior, so we know what&#8217;s best!    </p><p>The <em>National Endowment for Democracy</em> the regime change arm of the government was awarded $348 Million dollars to <em>endow</em> democracy worldwide.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N7aC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9bb3109d-621f-4cba-9e08-d4bc9c52520e_640x354.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N7aC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9bb3109d-621f-4cba-9e08-d4bc9c52520e_640x354.png 424w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Scott talks about the NED in <em>Provoked:</em></p><blockquote><p><em>The color-coded revolutions were essentially U.S. coups d&#8217;&#233;tat dressed up as local &#8220;uprisings,&#8221; primarily against Russian-leaning states in their near abroad. Backed by the CIA, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), National Endowment for Democracy (NED), National Democratic Institute (NDI), International Republican Institute (IRI) and friendly, supposedly private non-governmental organizations (NGOs) like Serbian Otpor, the Soros Foundation, Open Society Foundation, International Renaissance Foundation and the Atlantic Council, they have had quite a few successes. <a href="https://taz.de/!1554681/">[1104]</a> </em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em><a href="https://taz.de/!1554681/">[a]s well as 7,000 delegates from non-governmental organizations </a>(NGOs). The term still has the image of a certain critical distance from the respective powers. But in Bangladesh, for example, the NGOs that are springing up like mushrooms there have long been derisively called "next-to-government organizations." Population policy in particular has long been largely made by NGOs. In Cairo, the spectrum of NGOs will be huge: from small alternative associations with critical or subversive claims to influential lobby organizations, churches and industry-financed private foundations such as the German Foundation for World Population.</em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>Allen Weinstein, a co-founder of the NED, told the Washington Post&#8217;s David Ignatius in 1991, &#8220;A lot of what we do today was done covertly twenty-five years ago by the CIA.&#8221; Ignatius added, &#8220;When [Cold War-era] covert activities surfaced (as they inevitably did), the fallout was devastating. The CIA connection, intended to protect people and organizations from public embarrassment, had precisely the opposite effect.&#8221; However, &#8220;The biggest difference is that when such activities are done overtly, the flap potential is close to zero. Openness is its own protection.&#8221;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/09/22/innocence-abroad-the-new-world-of-spyless-coups/92bb989a-de6e-4bb8-99b9-462c76b59a16/"> [1105] </a></em></p><p><em>Horton, Scott. Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine (pp. 315-316). The Libertarian Institute. Kindle Edition.</em> </p></blockquote><p>So, these NGO&#8217;s became the new <em>thing</em>, when the <em>Church Committee </em>disclosures, named after liberal Congressman Frank Church, who was the head of the Subcommittee that exposed Project MKULTRA, MKNAOMI, Project CHAOS, and the assassination programs of the CIA and FBI, well now that the cat was out of the bag, they needed a new way to carry out these operations. Insert-The National Endowment for Democracy, International Republican Institute, National Democratic Institute, and wouldn&#8217;t you know it, the United States Agency for International Development.</p><p>The point of these NGO&#8217;s was to do in the light what used to be done in the dark, but most of it, the real nefarious stuff, well, USASpending.gov can&#8217;t say, <em>funding the enemy in a time of war</em> or <em>Propaganda promotion through media,</em> which brings up the media side of the disclosures.</p><p>An article just published by <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;cc91067c-ca68-422c-a96a-52caa0aff1c8&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, shows that a media outlet Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project&#8217;s (OCCRP) reporting was used in the 2019 impeachment of Donald Trump. The CIA analyst that reported the phone call that the president made to Zelensky relied on reporting done by the OCCRP <a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/occrp-budget-funding-us-government-usaid">revealed</a> by <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Drop Site News&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:2510348,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/dropsitenews&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d02a3749-a1f0-4749-a762-d0b01ebedb26_647x647.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;ea4a29e4-2112-4b16-8f67-7466b88adc4a&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> last year. This OCCRP doesn&#8217;t do reporting like normal news outlets, their reporting is done with the plan of <em>Interference:</em></p><blockquote><p><em>The journalistic collaboration <a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/occrp-budget-funding-us-government-usaid">revealed</a> that OCCRP&#8217;s original funding came from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the State Department, and quotes a USAID official who says, &#8220;Drew&#8217;s just nervous about being linked with law enforcement,&#8221; referring to Sullivan. &#8220;If people who are going to give you information think you&#8217;re just a cop, maybe it&#8217;s a problem.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>OCCRP does not operate like a normal investigative journalism organization in that its goals appear to include interfering in foreign political matters, including elections, aimed at regime change. Sullivan <a href="https://dalek.zone/w/xjUjomMZxRCvp3Z3Gtk9sT?start=0s">told NDR</a> that his organization had &#8220;probably been responsible for five or six countries changing over from one government to another government&#8230; and getting prime ministers indicted or thrown out.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>If you didn&#8217;t catch that, they are funded by&#8230;. Guess who? USAID!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2bx_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a7bea4a-e776-4d94-b360-30048590c3d6_882x203.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2bx_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a7bea4a-e776-4d94-b360-30048590c3d6_882x203.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2bx_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a7bea4a-e776-4d94-b360-30048590c3d6_882x203.png 848w, 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Do you know how much I could do here at <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;034b5f10-ba31-4c56-85bb-d1f5bc87fcfc&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> with $3 mill? Well, right now I&#8217;m working with a $50 budget, so, according to my calculations, if managed correctly, the scientific answer would be, a FUCK TON! </p><p>By the way, this OCCRP threatened to sue <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;3d7af8ac-a7f2-4692-9115-efd88b53d996&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> just for writing the damn story. Michael goes further into it:</p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:156560594,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.public.news/p/both-usaid-and-the-cia-were-behind&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;Both USAID And The CIA Were Behind The Impeachment Of Trump in 2019&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on December 18, 2019, after a White House whistleblower went public with evidence that Trump abused his powers by withholding military aid to Ukraine in order to dig up dirt on his rival, Joe Biden. 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</svg></div><span class="embedded-post-cta">Listen now</span></div><div class="embedded-post-meta">a year ago &#183; 1231 likes &#183; 82 comments &#183; Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag</div></a></div><p><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Matt Taibbi&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:263053,&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%2Fb60afa88-bdf9-4916-8f80-e74791478593_2000x2000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;57cc5398-8c97-417c-a45f-cf3c6653bb43&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> cover&#8217;s USAID&#8217;s dealings at Politico as brilliantly as anyone ever could:</p><blockquote><p>The problem isn&#8217;t that Politico<em> </em>&#8220;sells&#8221; $<a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/fa0cefae-7cfb-881d-29c3-1bd39cc6a49e-C/latest">8 million a year</a> in services to agencies like USAID and the DoD and the Departments of Energy and Commerce and the Interior and so on. It&#8217;s that when a USAID contractor like Peter Daszak&#8217;s EcoHealth Alliance gets dragged into a public controversy as it did when <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20793561-leopold-nih-foia-anthony-fauci-emails/">Anthony Fauci&#8217;s emails</a> became public in 2021, Politico<em> </em>instantly ran &#8220;<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/04/fauci-attacks-personal-conspiratorial-491896">Attacks on Fauci grow more intense, personal and conspiratorial</a>,&#8221; a story containing the following elements:</p></blockquote><ul><li><p>Described EcoHealth Alliance as &#8220;a nonprofit studying coronavirus origins,&#8221; mentions NIH funding but not the <a href="https://p2.predict.global/">USAID PREDICT</a> project that <a href="https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/scientists-who-authored-article-denying-lab-engineering-of-sars-cov-2-privately-acknowledged-possible-lab-origin-emails-show/">linked American researchers to the Wuhan Institute of Virology</a>;</p></li><li><p>Said Fauci&#8217;s emails had become a &#8220;a new touchstone for conspiracy theorists,&#8221; and that Daszak thanked Fauci for &#8220;dismissing lab leak theories early in the pandemic.&#8221;</p></li><li><p>Quoted &#8220;GMF Digital,&#8221; a suite of <a href="https://www.gmfus.org/news/german-marshall-fund-launches-digital-new-deal-initiative-create-internet-supports-democracy">social media trackers</a> formed by the same German Marshall Fund that created the <a href="https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/hamilton-dashboard/">infamous Hamilton 68 dashboard</a>, as saying &#8220;Targeting Fauci erodes trust in scientific institutions&#8221;;</p></li><li><p>Quoted the Bully Pulpit Initiative, founded by Barack Obama chief digital strategist <a href="http://bully%20pulpit%20interactive/">Andrew Bleeker</a>, in saying &#8220;Republicans or conservative interests&#8221; spent over $300,000 in a month on ads attacking Fauci;</p></li><li><p>Quoted Ron Klain, Joe Biden&#8217;s chief of staff, as saying &#8220;No one had more credibility with the public&#8221; than Fauci;</p></li><li><p>Quoted &#8220;Priorities USA, a top Democratic super PAC,&#8221; as saying Republicans were trying to &#8220;divide and distract&#8221; Americans with &#8220;misinformation.&#8221; (This was a story about Fauci&#8217;s real, FOIA-produced emails).</p></li></ul><blockquote><p>Politico<em> </em>in a short period of time <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2021/05/19/experts-weigh-in-on-the-wuhan-lab-leak-hypothesis-492915">ran</a> <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/future-pulse/2022/11/04/cross-examining-the-lab-leak-theorists-00065103">scads</a> of <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/15/wuhan-lab-trump-officials-covid-494700">articles</a> <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/29/who-probe-coronavirus-lab-leak-unlikely-478322">pooh-poohing</a> the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/04/republicans-covid-origin-theory-491825">lab leak</a> theory as a Trumpian fantasy, and spent years <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/20/donald-trump-inauguration-day-news-updates-analysis/fauci-biden-pardon-00199293">fellating</a> <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/03/fauci-congress-covid-hearing-00161287">Fauci</a> and &#8220;<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/30/us-right-to-know-covid-lab-leak-00155011">profiling</a>&#8221; anyone who dared criticize Daszak or EcoHealth. This is irritating, but one could chalk it up to organic editorial disposition. The real issue is the sourcing merry-go-round.</p></blockquote><p>I implore anyone and everyone to read that article, it&#8217;s <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Matt Taibbi&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:263053,&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%2Fb60afa88-bdf9-4916-8f80-e74791478593_2000x2000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;8d097e52-9d6d-4a27-9730-2004ee4c6df2&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> at his very best!</p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:156696507,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.racket.news/p/the-media-is-busted&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:1042,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Racket 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%2Fff30b966-68ca-4ccf-a191-f364522753bd_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Media is Busted&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;From the New York Post:&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-02-08T00:35:43.340Z&quot;,&quot;like_count&quot;:2745,&quot;comment_count&quot;:917,&quot;bylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:263053,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Matt Taibbi&quot;,&quot;handle&quot;:&quot;taibbi&quot;,&quot;previous_name&quot;:&quot;The Fine Print&quot;,&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%2Fb60afa88-bdf9-4916-8f80-e74791478593_2000x2000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;www.Racket.news&quot;,&quot;profile_set_up_at&quot;:&quot;2021-05-20T13:28:02.741Z&quot;,&quot;publicationUsers&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:11572,&quot;user_id&quot;:263053,&quot;publication_id&quot;:1042,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;admin&quot;,&quot;public&quot;:true,&quot;is_primary&quot;:true,&quot;publication&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:1042,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Racket News&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;taibbi&quot;,&quot;custom_domain&quot;:&quot;www.racket.news&quot;,&quot;custom_domain_optional&quot;:false,&quot;hero_text&quot;:&quot;News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. 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Well, we&#8217;ve located the <em>deep state, </em>that&#8217;s who these NGO&#8217;s are. When we talk about the <em>deep state, </em>an unelected body, using influence and money, propaganda, using dark tactics to subvert entire populations under the guise of activism and humanitarian aid. Using street protests to push out elected officials. If that&#8217;s not the deep state, I don&#8217;t know what is! Democrats are yelling about hungry children, Republicans are yelling about DEI, but neither one of them exist. In the meantime, we&#8217;ve handed the keys right back to the wolves, goodbye scared chickens, goodbye.</p><p>Thank you for reading! Have a beautiful day!</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;80d76070-4068-4eb7-8702-25ec8131290e&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;96c52e89-5d1e-4a85-9b78-dead39af750a&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confirmation Week is a Mutha, Part Two (CONFIRM THOSE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS NOW!)]]></title><description><![CDATA[KA$H Takes the Stage, and RFK Jr, DAY TWO]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/confirmation-week-is-a-muther-part</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/confirmation-week-is-a-muther-part</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:38:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/0YPoHEUlFNw" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>**If you missed <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/jordanlee2liberty/p/confirmation-dais-is-a-mutha-part?r=iuq6q&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true">part one you can find it here </a>or click the link below.</em></p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;1cef30b0-e5f3-4a2e-b416-945d67c2a9c0&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;First let&#8217;s talk about Congress and the Senate itself. Here&#8217;s my opinion, I&#8217;ve never heard in my life such a shameless group of squawking old birds in my life like the women and men of our Senate. 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If you think, well Donald Trump won&#8217;t let that happen, they did it before, they did it to Roger Stone, while Trump was in office, they did it to Steve Bannon, and they did it to Peter Navarro. They threatened our own </em><span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Matt Taibbi&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:263053,&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%2Fb60afa88-bdf9-4916-8f80-e74791478593_2000x2000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;00673080-e7d4-4767-8e0c-dc9bc467ea13&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, <em>when</em> THEY<em> were mistaken, that&#8217;s one of the reasons they ask the same question over and over. They want to catch the witness changing their answers, and they want a clip of </em>them<em> saying the thing that people want to know, or they think they want to know, they all post the clips on social media and add them to their fundraising &amp; campaigning messages. I get them from Rand Paul&#8217;s campaign all the time. That&#8217;s also why they ask witnesses to commit to things, because when they commit to it under oath, it is legally binding.</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;You fool!&#8221; I snorted. &#8220;If Teddy Roosevelt were alive today, he&#8217;d be so ashamed of this country, he&#8217;d slit his own wrists&#8230;</p><p>&#8220;It would be easy to say that we owe it all to the Bush Family, from Texas, but that would be too simplistic. They&#8217;re only errand boys for the vengeful, bloodthirsty, cartel of raving Jesus freaks, and super-rich money mongers who have ruled this country for at least the last twenty years, and arguably for the past two hundred! They take orders well, and they don&#8217;t ask too many questions. <strong>The real power in America, is held by a fast-emerging new oligarchy of pimps and preachers, who see no need for Democracy, or fairness, or even trees! Except, maybe the ones in their own yards&#8230;</strong></p><p><strong>Their ideal solution to all the world&#8217;s problems, would be another one-hundred-year war&#8230;</strong></p><p>Freedom was yesterday in this country; Its value has been discounted. The only freedom we truly crave today, is freedom from dumbness&#8230;</p><p>Hunter S. Thompson, 2001, Kingdom of Fear</p></div><h2>KA$H PATEL CONFIRMATION SPEARING</h2><div id="youtube2-0YPoHEUlFNw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;0YPoHEUlFNw&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;3578&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/0YPoHEUlFNw?start=3578&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div class="pullquote"><p>Things are bad, there&#8217;s no denying it. The FBI has gravely abused it&#8217;s power, threatening not only the rule-of-law, but the very foundations of self-government at the root of our democracy, but this isn&#8217;t the end of the story. Change <strong>is</strong> possible at the FBI and desperately needed. The fact is that we need a federal agency that investigates federal crimes, and that agency will always be a risk of having its powers abused. So, we must be constantly on guard, instituting reforms, removing wrongdoers, and erecting guardrails to stop the politicization of the FBI. Enacting these reforms won&#8217;t be easy, but curbing the rise of government tyranny never is. We must always remember that no matter how much corrupt actors have twisted our government, America is ruled by the people, and We have the authority and obligation to take our country back. </p><p>Ka$h Patel, Government Gangsters</p></div><p>I don&#8217;t know much about this guy except what I read in his book, <em>Government Gangster&#8217;s. </em>I must admit the gall it has to take to write <em>that </em>book and then take <em>the</em> position he took of reforming the FBI to protect the people, Kash Patel is who we need in this position. It&#8217;s time for the FBI to feel some of the scrutiny it has placed on the American people since its inception. They need a gangster from the opposition&#8217;s side to go in there and tear some shit up. The same FBI that murdered 83 innocent people in Waco, Texas, fucking burned them alive. Locked them in a box and sentenced them to death, woman, children, and innocent men, the same FBI that did that, is the same FBI that blackmailed Dr. Martin Luther King, surveilling him for a year before killing him, is the same FBI that framed a sitting president for Treason, the same FBI who surveilled parents at PTO meetings, the same FBI who surveilled Christians who dared to attend church during COVID, Muslims going to Mosques, whistleblowers who spoke out against civil rights abuses, the list is <em>LONG! This</em> is the same FBI that Kash Patel is stepping into, daring to make a change. God bless him, he&#8217;s just the autistic intellectual we need. They are gangsters for the government, he&#8217;s a gangster for the people, my prayers are with him, it&#8217;s gonna be tough.</p><ul><li><p>The Hearing starts with Senator Grassley (Chairmen). He does an 8 Mile and says literally every smear they&#8217;re about to hit him with and explains why they&#8217;re untrue. </p></li></ul><div id="youtube2-p9wyv-Ah9q4" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;p9wyv-Ah9q4&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/p9wyv-Ah9q4?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><ul><li><p>Then Durbin, ranking member, and first squawking hen. Pretty horrible, his line of questioning was basically blaming Kash for Trump pardoning the J6 defendants. One of his grievances was one of the J6 defendants, who had abused a child, but that had nothing to do with January 6th. If this man had abused a child&#8230;why was he out of prison to attend the riot??? It wasn&#8217;t a pardon, how&#8217;d he get out of prison? Regardless, he is dead now. He got pulled over, resisted arrest, and was killed by a cop. A coworker told me about this when it happened, and he asked the same thing I was thinking, &#8220;Do you think it had something to do with him getting pardoned? Makes me wonder. He then went on to call him a racist for appearing on a questionable podcast.</p></li></ul><div id="youtube2-kNNAeuBM7j8" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;kNNAeuBM7j8&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/kNNAeuBM7j8?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><ul><li><p>Senator Whitehouse, same thing, all about pardons, but it pissed me off especially because he used Ross Ulbricht&#8217;s pardon, and used the lies that were made up about Ross as a weapon:</p></li></ul><div id="youtube2-bFYGF6Ko16E" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;bFYGF6Ko16E&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/bFYGF6Ko16E?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 feel I should make a couple points on Ross&#8217; behalf: </p><p>What Ross did, pure and simple, was made a website where he could sell things, otherwise not available, and being an early believer in Bitcoin, the transactions would be done with Bitcoin to make them untraceable. A decentralized marketplace, if you will. He started it by selling psilocybin mushrooms that he grew himself in his closet. He set it up so that people could rate and review different buyers and sellers for an incentive to do good business. Kind of how it is on the streets, if someone sells you fake shit, you don&#8217;t go back to them. Anyways, there was rules, even the <em>Silk Road</em> had a <em>Terms of Service</em>, one of them being, you <em>could not</em> list any items that <em>&#8220;harm or defraud&#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/$s_!waBl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5089c8ad-2612-4237-a98b-ceff76eeb36e_963x321.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!waBl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5089c8ad-2612-4237-a98b-ceff76eeb36e_963x321.png 424w, 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They, without any evidence, claimed he was part of a <em>murder-for-hire scheme</em>, and while they were busy stealing money from <em>Silk Road, </em>another department stepped in and busted him, they used the <em>&#8220;Murder-for-Hire&#8221;</em> accusation to keep him from getting out on bail, when it came down to trial time, no one had any evidence supporting those, <em>most salacious </em>accusations, so they disappeared, but regardless, to make an example out of him, the Judge sentenced him to <em>Two Consecutive Life Sentences, plus Fourty Years.</em> By the way, the FBI agents who were stealing money, and a big part of who made this so bad for him, were arrested for wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, and obstruction and <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-dea-agent-sentenced-extortion-money-laundering-and-obstruction-related-silk-road">were sentenced to 78 months in federal prison</a>. For more on this case, a great site with all the primary documents, just a great source, <a href="https://freeross.org/misinformation/">click here.</a> Now, back to our regular programming:</p><ul><li><p>Amy Globe-Butcher, known for one dumb joke she tells everywhere, being a hysterical monster, and pushing censorship far and wide! Also, from part one, she&#8217;s in the big five of being bought and paid for by Big Pharma, so there is that&#8230;  </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nqhd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87fbdc53-9c06-4359-b8ea-9d91e71a3f09_880x428.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nqhd!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87fbdc53-9c06-4359-b8ea-9d91e71a3f09_880x428.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nqhd!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87fbdc53-9c06-4359-b8ea-9d91e71a3f09_880x428.png 848w, 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Every time we looked, we seemed to find her; she&#8217;s the&#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; 1031 likes &#183; 347 comments &#183; Matt Taibbi</div></a></div><p>Also, if Taibbi says <em>&#8220;You Suck&#8221;, then YOOOOOOU SUHCKKKK!!!! The following is Amy requesting that Amazon bans&#8230;&#8230;..Wait, who?! Rumble and us here, our very own Substack!!! TO THE GULAG! THE HAGUE WITH THAT GREMLIN-FACED BITCH! No, cut her in half, straight down the middle, and put her left side in the Hague, and right side to the Gulag!</em></p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:138300163,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.racket.news/p/amy-klobuchar-you-suck&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:1042,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Racket 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%2F8bd10f40-ad4f-44e7-8f76-34e577f3a3eb_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Amy Klobuchar, You Suck&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;Minnesota Senator and Hindenburg presidential candidacy Amy Klobuchar sent a letter (h/t ReclaimTheNet.org) to Jeff Bezos demanding that he enjoin Alexa from citing &#8220;unvetted sources,&#8221; specifically Substack and Rumble. 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No hell is hot enough for this person&#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; 2496 likes &#183; 949 comments &#183; Matt Taibbi</div></a></div><div id="youtube2-JDhHefNKRuw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;JDhHefNKRuw&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/JDhHefNKRuw?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>Ugh! I really dislike that woman. </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/confirmation-week-is-a-muther-part?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/confirmation-week-is-a-muther-part?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><h2>An Ugly, Dirty, Dark Consensus</h2><p>Our nation's capital is stocked with the dirtiest, most corrupt creatures to ever grace the swamp sludge, and seem to be darker and more nefarious than the most cynical of us, idealistic souls, could have ever imagined. How do they get elected, I mean really. This is why Epstein was able to <em>pull the wool</em> for such a long time, with his blackmail operation. These people are so dirty, they thought he was a <em>good guy! </em></p><p>They get these people to give up on principles that was once the backbone of who they were. It&#8217;s a fucking hazing ritual, I hope Tulsi, Kash, and Bobby know this, in fact I know they do. I heard enough between the three to get the feeling that they knew it would be like this and were ready. They make all of the nominees give up something crucial to who they are for this confirmation, they know that they&#8217;re getting zero support from the blue side no matter what they say. They&#8217;ve simply gotta play nice enough to get the Republicans who are <em>too moderate for their own good, </em>to join in with the rest of the red team and they&#8217;ve got this ship sunk. </p><p>Why else would these people still be so hung up on Edward Snowden? The Snowden story was big damn near 15 years ago, no one cares anymore, everyone I know, veterans, and all, considered Snowden to be a hero. As do I. Why are these people still in such a panic over this? Someone is either telling them to be or this is simply how they wield power, by degrading the person they are attempting to wield power over. Stanford Prison Experiment type shit.</p><p>And <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=d886a04b47aee4412678d40d5c569b3f472389d53c1ace987ac76ecae9aede0aJmltdHM9MTczODYyNzIwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=702+of+FISA%2c&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW50ZWwuZ292L2ZvcmVpZ24taW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlLXN1cnZlaWxsYW5jZS1hY3QvMTIzNy1maXNhLXNlY3Rpb24tNzAyIzp-OnRleHQ9SW4lMjAyMDA4JTJDJTIwQ29uZ3Jlc3MlMjBlbmFjdGVkJTIwU2VjdGlvbiUyMDcwMiUyMG9mJTIwdGhlLHNoYXJlJTIwZm9yZWlnbiUyMGludGVsbGlnZW5jZSUyMGluZm9ybWF0aW9uJTIwYWJvdXQlMjBuYXRpb25hbCUyMHNlY3VyaXR5JTIwdGhyZWF0cy4&amp;ntb=1">Section 702 of FISA</a>, or support for FISA period, seems to be such a dug-in belief in Congress, completely bipartisan, I started to believe it myself. Tulsi flipped on it, I thought, well she cares about freedom, how can I pretend to know more than her about this? I heard for two days from every Senator that 702 had been reformed for the better and was a wonderful program by the more authoritarian types, maybe they all knew something I didn&#8217;t, then it came to Mike Lee, arguably the most well-educated on the constitution out of <em>all of them</em>. He&#8217;s literally a constitutional scholar, and he&#8217;s the only one to express a negative view of 702. Then Kash chimes in, citing the exact number of American complaints over the abuses and misuses of 702, that&#8217;s when I learned all I needed to know about these hearings. Just like <em>any</em> job interview, the point is to say whatever you have to, to get the job. Make the interviewer happy so he/she lets you advance in the hiring stage. What you <em>actually</em> believe can be worked out once you get the job. The point is to get your foot in the door, then there is lots of work to be done. Maybe it won&#8217;t come up, but you can&#8217;t change shit from the sidewalk! What I&#8217;m trying to say is FISA, still bad. Enough of my rambling, on to Bobby, part two.</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/?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/confirmation-week-is-a-muther-part?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/confirmation-week-is-a-muther-part?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><h2>RFK Jr.-Day TWO:</h2><div id="youtube2-mV0gb4blkjQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;mV0gb4blkjQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;918&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/mV0gb4blkjQ?start=918&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> </em>It was refreshing hearing Senator Kim mentioning Medication-Assisted Therapy for opiates and Bobby having a clear understanding of it, being that, without it, I might not be here today, it&#8217;s towards the end of the hearing, I couldn't find a clip of it, but hat&#8217;s off to Senator Rand Paul. Right at the beginning, after the <em>Chairman-Ranking Member/Good Cop-Bad Cop</em> routine that it seems every one of these hearings do. Very proud to be represented by him as my Senator here in Kentucky. He stole the hearing, to me anyways.</p><div id="youtube2-vjdkA-6Vy6k" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;vjdkA-6Vy6k&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/vjdkA-6Vy6k?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>I think the discussion over vaccines is so oversimplified and dumbed down that we never get to<strong> </strong>real truths, and its why people up here are so separated from real people at home. So, we talk about Hepatitis B, it's a terrible disease, &#8220;it could lead to liver failure&#8221;, the chairman said, but the reason you have distrust from people at home, and why they don't believe anything you say, and they don't believe government at all! Is you're telling your&#8212;my kid to take a hepatitis B vaccine when he's one day old! You get it through drug use, and sexually transmitted, that's how you get Hepatitis B, but you're telling me my kid has to take it at one day old!? You're not, that's not science, and so every person with a bit of Common Sense, even people who don't resist vaccines&#8212;I vaccinated all my kids, I believe vaccines are one of the modern miracles, beyond all pale, &#8220;The Speckled Monsters&#8221; is a great book about the introduction of the smallpox vaccine in 1720, into our country&#8212;All miracles, but I'm not, one size fits all, it's not all or nothing, I chose to wait on my hepatitis B vaccine and&#8212;we did it, when they went to school. Does that make me an awful person? Does that make me an antivaxxer? Because I questioned the government dictate of whether I do it&#8212;and I'm not speaking for anybody else, I'm only speaking for myself, but for goodness sakes, let's have an honest debate about these things! The covid vaccine, if you ask me my opinion, there&#8217;re reporters who run, up and down the soil, and they say, &#8220;you still antivaccine?&#8221; No, I'm Pro vaccine, but on the covid vaccine, and on the covid illness, there was a thousand-fold or more difference between the elderly and children, if you don't acknowledge that you're committing malpractice&#8230;</p><p>&#8230;the science actually shows that no healthy child in America died from covid, look it up, no <strong>healthy child died from covid&#8230;</strong></p><p>&#8230;. the risks of the disease were real and much greater than the vaccine, but if you ask me, &#8220;should my healthy six-month old get it?&#8221; See, these are the nuances you're unwilling to talk about, because there's such a belief in <strong>submission!</strong> Submit to the government, do what you're told, there is no discussion! There ought to be a debate, you're not going to let him have the debate, you're just going to criticize him and say, &#8220;it is this&#8221; and &#8220;admit to it or we're not going to appoint you&#8221;, but it's more complicated than that&#8230;</p></blockquote><p><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;fccd361d-81bc-4b33-a575-da02894a384f&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, who attended this hearing as a journalist, and discussed it afterwards on his weekly show with <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Matt Taibbi&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:263053,&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%2Fb60afa88-bdf9-4916-8f80-e74791478593_2000x2000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;4fb64f6e-8ced-4ee2-8848-c93aa8255032&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, and in an appearance on the <a href="https://youtu.be/DlE9ny_hvyM?si=54tUNpz0i_MuIK3r">Dark Horse Podcast w/ Brett Weinstein</a>, described seeing the degree of shilling for Big Pharma as tracking perfectly with the amount of their campaign contributions on opensecrets.org from the industry they were defending, and after pouring through these hearings several times and comparing them to OpenSecrets open secret, I can attest to that fully and completely. Top spots going to Bernie Sanders, Ron Wyden, Elizabeth Warren, and Amy Globe-Butcher falling right behind them, and the rest of the Democratic party, and Republican centrists come after the <em>big four.</em></p><div id="youtube2-KZ2g1RV4Zl4" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;KZ2g1RV4Zl4&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/KZ2g1RV4Zl4?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://youtu.be/KZ2g1RV4Zl4?si=3iUnU8U1WN24S9lg"> Also, Nicole Shanahan has bottomless pockets and she&#8217;s coming </a>for all their asses.</p><p>Something else that I wouldn&#8217;t have realized if it wasn&#8217;t for <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;878a9002-d703-4d23-8e38-5c8cc7a011b9&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>&#8217;s analysis of what he saw that day in the hearing. It should have been obvious after the many of these that I have watched, is this was an act. Not for the person being confirmed either, this for each and every one of those Senators on the dais was one of their very limited opportunities to campaign. To solicit for their donors, and one of the things their donors are buying for their money. Pharmaceutical donors, a vote against Kennedy protects their interests, weapons/defense companies, you can fucking bet bought that vote against Tulsi. Their line of questioning. How often do they get this many eyes on them. There&#8217;s not that many political junkie&#8217;s out there that watch congressional hearings with surround sound, a bag of popcorn, and a notepad, like the new season of <em>Squid Game </em>just dropped. It&#8217;s very limited, and the Super Bowl, like we had this go around, well this was their biggest event in ages!</p><p>By the end of this hearing, after two days of being polite and respectful, and doing his best to play ball, even when most of these people are nasty human beings, treating him like dirt. Accusing him of grift and graft, racism, antisemitism, rape, murder, there&#8217;s not an accusation they <em>didn&#8217;t </em>make about this guy! If he was guilty of everything they accused him of, he&#8217;d be in fucking prison. You could say, &#8220;he&#8217;s rich! He could pay his way out!&#8221; But I&#8217;m sorry, rich criminals don&#8217;t go after those richer than them! If he was guilty of all they accused him of, all his money would not save him!</p><p>Senator Alsobrooks called him a racist and accused him of having a &#8220;watchlist&#8221;. Ugh! &#8220;I ask the questions!&#8221; Fuck that lady for-ever! </p><div id="youtube2-UOyjjY-E2YY" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;UOyjjY-E2YY&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/UOyjjY-E2YY?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>Then Bernie, day two, I am continuously heartbroken by this man. He invokes Andrew Wakefield, who was the most controversial researcher on vaccines, then this exchange happens:</p><blockquote><p>You said you would not be happier if you were proved wrong. Uh, Mr. Chairman, I asked to put into the record 16 studies done by, uh, scientists and doctors all over the world saying that vaccines do not cause autism. Are you happy with that?</p></blockquote><p>And then goes on to demand a <em>yes or no </em>answer! That&#8217;s the <em>most </em>infuriating part of all of these hearings, they do it all of the time, they get someone in who is <em>actually </em>smart, unlike them, then ask them complicated questions and demand a <em>yes or no answer! </em>I&#8217;d go to jail for contempt, it&#8217;s the only honorable way to walk away from these snakes! I&#8217;d continue yelling my answer at the top of my lungs over top of them speaking if they cut me off with that <em>yes or no</em> bullshit. It makes me sooooooo fucking mad!!!! </p><p>Anyways, this last exchange is at the end of the second grueling day with these ghouls and Bobby gets <em>his</em> soundbite in this time:</p><blockquote><p><em>Bobby: I'm going to make America healthier than other countries in the world right now&#8212;</em></p><p><em>Bernie: &#8212;Will you guarantee to do what every other major country does. It's a simple question Bobby&#8212; </em></p><p><em>Bobby: &#8212;and by the way, Bernie, you know, the, the problem of corruption is not just in the federal agencies, it's, it's in Congress too. Almost all the members of this panel are accepting, including yourself, or accepting millions, millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry, and protecting their interests&#8212;</em></p><p><em>***Cheers From the Crowd***</em></p><p><em>Bernie &#8212;no, no, no, I thought that that would, no, no, no. I ran for president like you. I got millions and millions of contributions. They did not come from the executives, not one nickel of PAC money from the pharmaceutical industry, they came from workers. </em></p><p><em>Bobby: In 2020, you were the single largest receiver of pharmaceutical money&#8212;</em></p><p><em>Bernie: (yelling over top of Bobby so we can&#8217;t hear him, but we heard him) &#8212;from workers all over this country. Workers. not a nickel from corporate PACs</em></p><p><em>Bobby: Bernie, you were the single largest accepter of pharmaceutical dollars&#8212;</em></p><p><em>Bernie: Yeeea, from workers in&#8212;</em></p><p><em>Bobby: $1.5 Million.</em></p><p><em>Bernie: Yea, out of 200 million. Alright.</em></p><p>Bernie literally gave in that Bobby was right. This was my Jump up and down <em>TOUCHDOWN moment</em> in this hearing. By the way, I love the sentiment of &#8220;Medicare for all&#8221;, but the idea that Bernie is expecting RFK Jr to make that happen in a Republican Administration is insane. You know who could have made it happen? Bernie! On like 10 other occasions when he conceded the chance to Obama, Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, he had so many chances to push Medicare for ALL in and he conceded to the powerful for <em>whatever it is that the string-pullers have on him</em>. He&#8217;s been a let down to the American people who believed in him for decades, now he expects Robert Kennedy to storm into the White House and demand something that, is one of <em>his</em> talking points, but he wouldn&#8217;t do himself. Thanks Bernie.</p></blockquote><div id="youtube2-tFE8md196zo" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;tFE8md196zo&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/tFE8md196zo?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'll end this with the words of the wise <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;fbdf6446-6b4c-4401-87e3-763e807a31fe&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>:</p><blockquote><p>Don't grow cynical. The time is now. Much is coming to light. This nomination drama expresses on a human scale a much larger, more consequential struggle that will affect you, your family, and your neighbors for years and decades to come. I am here in DC, missing my home in Montana, because when it was time to get on a plane ten days ago, I realized that by staying a bit longer I could provide a valuable service to those who aren't here. I could get in the rooms, talk to the people, observe the behavior, catch the moods. It's a somewhat sealed world, our capital, and this is a time of genuine stress and change here and, I can assure you, opportunity. Remarkable people have emerged who are seeking leadership positions despite a retrenched and arrogant opposition that will do almost anything to wield its power. And you can make a real difference in this push, I can tell you this for a fact tonight. So do it. Don't lose heart. The door is open. Tomorrow, do something&#8212;place a call, perhaps&#8212;to open it further. Can't you see the brightness? That's our future on the other side.</p></blockquote><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;ce2a9799-19df-46c9-ae20-0735d0c58d8d&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;851fccad-9e7a-40e4-bb76-9d9ac8a4dcfe&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confirmation Week is a Mutha, Part One (CONFIRM THOSE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS NOW!)]]></title><description><![CDATA[RFK Day One and Tulsi Snipes the Opposition]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/confirmation-dais-is-a-mutha-part</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/confirmation-dais-is-a-mutha-part</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:57:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f770330-4339-4188-ae97-5484bc193652_546x466.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>First let&#8217;s talk about Congress and the Senate itself. Here&#8217;s my opinion, I&#8217;ve never heard in my life such a shameless group of squawking old birds in my life like the women and men of our Senate. It&#8217;s a damn shame.  </p><p>I was under the illusion that when people appear in front of Congress it&#8217;s, ya know, formal, maybe a bit professional. First off, this is how far out of the know I was, I didn&#8217;t know civilians appeared in front of congress. I was seriously into the history of the mob at one point, it fascinated me, but that great scene with Sam &#8220;Teets&#8221; Battaglia (that I seem to not be able to find anywhere), when he pleads the fifth 60 times in a row, <em>&#8220;I refuse to answer on the grounds that my answer might tend to incriminate me.&#8221; </em>I had NO clue why he was in front of those people. I&#8217;ve been to court plenty of times, but NEVER like that. </p><div id="youtube2-XklNqPP3W8s" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;XklNqPP3W8s&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/XklNqPP3W8s?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>That was the most education I had about these Senate Hearings; I catch every one of them now. The first of them I watched was the <em>Twitter File Hearings</em> with our own Michael Shellenberger of <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/public">Public</a>, and <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Matt Taibbi&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:263053,&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%2Fb60afa88-bdf9-4916-8f80-e74791478593_2000x2000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;1d626026-51e8-4c11-b34e-7716a7cd5d7d&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> of <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;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:null,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;049ebc05-c3b5-48f4-b751-f4359adacb53&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, and it was the most infuriating display I&#8217;d ever seen. I read and listened to, still do, everything they do. I knew what their positions were, how they prepared even. They wanted Democrats to understand that this was a bipartisan effort from them, and to see that this government-coercive censorship is <em>not</em> a partisan problem, it&#8217;s a problem that both sides should be leery of. If you think the next president could be a dictator, why would you leave him/her with the power to coerce social media companies into censoring <em>&#8220;True speech&#8221;. </em>It&#8217;s the same argument we used to make when Obama passed the <em>National Defense Authorization Act&#8217;s (NDAA) of 2012 </em>provision allowing indefinite detention for anyone <em>&#8220;who are part of or substantially support Al Qaeda, the Taliban or associated forces engaged in hostilities against the United States&#8221;</em>  due to, Section 1021(b)(2) of the law allows for detention of citizens and permanent residents taken into custody in the U.S. on <em>&#8220;suspicion of providing substantial support&#8221;</em> to groups engaged in hostilities against the U.S., such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The NDAA arms the U.S. military with the ability to imprison indefinitely journalists, activists and human-rights workers based on vague allegations. From <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Chris Hedges&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:80857913,&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/db789394-2d22-471c-b3a7-16b3d7e6c9a1_364x426.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;77d1e25a-9f8a-4396-ba92-c2ce945a77e1&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> v. Obama,</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;f1d9f4fe-53c0-454f-8a3b-b2ec8480d958&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This is part 4 of an ongoing series, not sure how long I&#8217;ll carry it, maybe till ever, if I run out of persecution to talk about however, maybe the world is heading in the right direction, but as of now the number is not finite, more are being persecuted every day, as long as there are those that keep telling the truth. If you would like to read the oth&#8230;&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Persecution of Truth-Tellers Ch. 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The provisions &#8211; which were negotiated by a small group of members of Congress, in secret, and without proper congressional review &#8211; are inconsistent with fundamental American values.</em></p></blockquote><p>Anyways, that Twitter Files Congressional Hearing blew my mind. I realized, &#8220;Oh! The Democrats here are fucking demons! How did I not know this! I thought they were the good guys. The good guys don&#8217;t treat people like this&#8230;&#8221;</p><h2>You&#8217;ll Never &#8220;RECLAIM THAT TIME!&#8221;</h2><p>Stephen Lynch defended the FBI, then started affirming that Russiagate was real!</p><div id="youtube2-qVG-6J0Xz9A" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;qVG-6J0Xz9A&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/qVG-6J0Xz9A?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>Debbie Wasserman Schulz aligned Matt with rapists and murderers??? And Hamas?</p><div id="youtube2-L-1eGjh6tu4" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;L-1eGjh6tu4&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/L-1eGjh6tu4?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>Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the ex-chair of the Democratic National Committee. She was forced to resign when the <em>DNC Email Dump</em> happened in 2016, revealing that due to the DNC going bankrupt Hillary Clinton had been practically keeping the DNC functional with her personal funding, in return for getting the nomination in 2016. Bernie was the winner, but Hillary Clinton and Wasserman Schultz colluded to take it from him. By the way, he would&#8217;ve won. When all of this hit the public, in a big mess, millions of Bernie voters came to the Trump side for a protest vote, when after <em>all that</em> happened, Bernie still endorsed Hillary Clinton. He could&#8217;ve went independent like Bobby did but he chose to bend the knee to the Democratic party. With that, went his support to the other side. </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/jv7SF6gvvLU?si=qR86znlUm2zHALVm">Also, Debbie Wasserman Schultz</a> is th<a href="https://finbold.com/politician-makes-27-return-in-two-weeks-from-suspicious-trade/">e largest inside trader in Congress.</a></p><div id="youtube2-ckw1PJ9e94I" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;ckw1PJ9e94I&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/ckw1PJ9e94I?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>Sylvia Garcia &amp; Stacey Plaskett tries to trap Matt with a question about sources, and then Sylvia, asks about their &#8220;threesome&#8221;. You should really watch the video above!  </p><div id="youtube2-bFg2jZ6ibXg" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;bFg2jZ6ibXg&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/bFg2jZ6ibXg?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-vEeaVOzqwAY" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;vEeaVOzqwAY&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/vEeaVOzqwAY?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 Stacey Plaskett, calls Matt a &#8220;so-called journalist&#8221; and Elon Musk&#8217;s &#8220;public scribes&#8221;. Simultaneously, forgetting to mention that she&#8217;d been <a href="https://youtu.be/HnwMEXLMylA?si=Tssp2Iv9PLmAIP0p">Jeffrey Epstein's Scribe</a>&#8230;</p><div id="youtube2-RW_-z3aIWwI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;RW_-z3aIWwI&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/RW_-z3aIWwI?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-Gl2mGmhctS0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Gl2mGmhctS0&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/Gl2mGmhctS0?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&#8217;ve been hooked ever since, our elected officials host a daytime trash show, adjacent to Jerry Springer. It&#8217;s like upside-down world! The Democrats were such monsters in all of those clips, now listen to the Republican, how understanding and willing to listen, actually willing to have a discussion:</p><div id="youtube2-FNj_asppG98" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;FNj_asppG98&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/FNj_asppG98?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>Crazy right?? I yield back&#8230;</em></p><p>Let&#8217;s talk about this week, and the confirmation hearings! No Epstein Associate&#8217;s or Hillary fixers, but plenty of psychotic moments to go around!   </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/confirmation-dais-is-a-mutha-part?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/confirmation-dais-is-a-mutha-part?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><h2>Robert F. Kennedy Jr-DAY ONE</h2><div id="youtube2-WbktalzSNe8" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;WbktalzSNe8&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/WbktalzSNe8?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>First things first, take a look at the chart below and remember the names on it:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lbu7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f770330-4339-4188-ae97-5484bc193652_546x466.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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This must be the <em>good cop, bad cop routine.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Senator Wyden-Democrat-Fourth Level of HELL!!!</em>-Come&#8217;s in <em>hot</em> calling him a <em>baby killer! </em>And <em>not </em>because he supports Israel! It&#8217;s an old bullshit story. There was a measles outbreak on some island country, a couple kids died from the measles vaccine, so the people became hesitant to take it, and Kennedy visited around that time. </p><p>Wyden&#8217;s Welcome:</p></li></ul><blockquote><p><em>Committee staff have examined thousands of pages of statements, books, and transcripts, in a review of his record. The receipts show that Mr. Kennedy has embraced conspiracy theories, quacks, charlatans, especially when it comes to the safety, and efficacy of vaccines. He has made it his life's work to sew doubt and discourage parents from getting their kids life-saving vaccines. It has been lucrative for him and put him on the verge of immense power. This is the profile of someone who chases money, and influence, wherever they lead. Even if that may mean the tragic deaths of children and other vulnerable people.</em></p></blockquote><div id="youtube2-EZ_jAFyKzRY" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;EZ_jAFyKzRY&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/EZ_jAFyKzRY?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>Well, that wasn&#8217;t very nice Wy-dumb. Very quickly, the idea that RFK jr is doing <em>all</em> this for money is demented, and frankly stupid, main one being this guy is a Kennedy, and a successful one at that! He doesn&#8217;t have to pull scams to make money. That&#8217;s something you might say about, well, me! He&#8217;d make so much more money if he shut up. How about some <strong>RFK Jr</strong> <em><strong>FACTS:</strong></em></p><ul><li><p>We all know Bobby&#8217;s father and uncle died. Bobby became addicted to heroin. He was out there till he was in his 30&#8217;s, damn near 40&#8217;s. He got clean and got into the 12-Step Program. By the way, part of AA and 12-Step is you do things for people, they believe when you&#8217;re helping someone else, you&#8217;re helping yourself.</p></li><li><p>He goes to law school, becomes a lawyer.</p></li><li><p>Has a deep love of nature, gets into environmental science.</p></li><li><p>Listen to these words, this is <em>who this guy is! For all of you fucking psycho&#8217;s out there, read this:</em></p></li></ul><blockquote><p><em>I went to work for commercial fishermen on Hudson River, in</em></p><p><em>1983, when I first got sober, and um, I wanted to do something with my life that, I, you know, that I felt drawn to, </em></p><p><em>and I'd always been an outdoors person. </em></p><p><em>I've always been a fisherman, and outdoors, wildlife, kayaking, and all that stuff, and I went to work for a commercial</em></p><p><em>fisherman on the Hudson River. </em></p><p><em>We began suing polluters, they purchased a patrol boat, and began patrolling the river, and we sued. I was there; We sued over 500 polluters; We forced polluters to <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=6f4bea0e91b9ae3f6f8616e24e2f70676bf59eee9f1912f828180ebb2f93e590JmltdHM9MTczODI4MTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=spend+almost+five+billion+dollars+on+remediation+at+Hudson&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucG91Z2hrZWVwc2llam91cm5hbC5jb20vc3RvcnkvdGVjaC9zY2llbmNlL2Vudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjIvMDQvMTMvaHVkc29uLXJpdmVyLXNjZW5pYy1odWRzb24tc2F5cy1nZW5lcmFsLWVsZWN0cmljLW93ZXMtYmlsbGlvbnMvNzMwMTA3MTAwMS8&amp;ntb=1">spend almost five billion dollars on remediation at Hudson</a>, and today you know, partially as a result of our work, <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=13224750db7115484371f10ededdfb8a4bbee5fd9c4b1c72b3ae0ed343b6ff9dJmltdHM9MTczODI4MTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=the+Hudson+is+now+the+richest+waterway+in+the+North+Atlantic!+It+produces+more+biomass+per+gallon%2c+more+pounds+of+fish+per+acre%2c+than+any+other+waterway+in+the+Atlantic+Ocean!&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9ueXBvc3QuY29tLzIwMDQvMDUvMDIvaHVkc29uLWh5cG9jcmlzeS8&amp;ntb=1">the Hudson is now the richest</a></em></p><p><em><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=13224750db7115484371f10ededdfb8a4bbee5fd9c4b1c72b3ae0ed343b6ff9dJmltdHM9MTczODI4MTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=the+Hudson+is+now+the+richest+waterway+in+the+North+Atlantic!+It+produces+more+biomass+per+gallon%2c+more+pounds+of+fish+per+acre%2c+than+any+other+waterway+in+the+Atlantic+Ocean!&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9ueXBvc3QuY29tLzIwMDQvMDUvMDIvaHVkc29uLWh5cG9jcmlzeS8&amp;ntb=1">waterway in the North Atlantic! It produces more biomass per gallon, more pounds of fish per acre, than any other</a></em></p><p><em><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=13224750db7115484371f10ededdfb8a4bbee5fd9c4b1c72b3ae0ed343b6ff9dJmltdHM9MTczODI4MTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=the+Hudson+is+now+the+richest+waterway+in+the+North+Atlantic!+It+produces+more+biomass+per+gallon%2c+more+pounds+of+fish+per+acre%2c+than+any+other+waterway+in+the+Atlantic+Ocean!&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9ueXBvc3QuY29tLzIwMDQvMDUvMDIvaHVkc29uLWh5cG9jcmlzeS8&amp;ntb=1">waterway in the Atlantic Ocean!</a> North of the Equator! The miraculous resurrection, when I first started working on the</em></p><p><em>Hudson, it caught fire, it was dead, it was dead water, or zero dissolved oxygen for 20 miles north of New York City, 20 miles</em></p><p><em>south of Albany, no life in it! </em></p><p><em>Joe: It caught fire, it was that polluted. </em></p><p><em>Bobby: It caught fire, it would turn colors every week depending on what color they were painting the trucks at the GM plant in Terrytown, you know. It was really, my father toured it in 1967, and it was just, it was regarded as a national joke! </em></p><p><em>Well, today it's an international model for ecosystem protection,</em></p><p><em>and miraculous resurrection. It's the only waterway in the North Atlantic that still has strong spawning stocks of all of its historical species of migratory fish. Of the Anadromous fish,</em> <em>like striped bass, sturgeon, and herring, alewives, um, blue crab, etcetera. Um, and the uh, and the miraculous resurrection of Hudson inspired the creation of new River Keepers we copyrighted the name, and we started helping these other groups get started, and today it&#8217;s the biggest water protection group in the world! So, we have 350 water keepers, each one has a patrol</em></p><p><em>boat, each one patrols their local waterway, and they sue polluters, and we're in 46 countries. </em></p><p><em>Oh, in 2005, I was representing a bunch of, uh, water Keepers</em></p><p><em>all over the United States, and in the provinces of Canada, suing coal burning power plants, and cement kilns, for discharging Mercury. Two years before, like <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=bff50f2b197f2012cb75e60e75e92aa2d12de0aca849b846ab4e734f29914cd6JmltdHM9MTczODI4MTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=2003%2c+the+National+Academy+of+Sciences+and+the+FDA+report%2c+like+a+five-year+study%2c+every+freshwater+fish+in+America+%22levels+of+mercury%22&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXdnLm9yZy9yZXNlYXJjaC9wY2JzLWZhcm1lZC1zYWxtb24&amp;ntb=1">2003, the National Academy of Sciences and the FDA, had published a report, like a five-year study, that showed that every freshwater fish in America had</a></em></p><p><em><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=bff50f2b197f2012cb75e60e75e92aa2d12de0aca849b846ab4e734f29914cd6JmltdHM9MTczODI4MTYwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=2003%2c+the+National+Academy+of+Sciences+and+the+FDA+report%2c+like+a+five-year+study%2c+every+freshwater+fish+in+America+%22levels+of+mercury%22&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZXdnLm9yZy9yZXNlYXJjaC9wY2JzLWZhcm1lZC1zYWxtb24&amp;ntb=1">dangerous levels of mercury</a> in its flesh. </em></p><p><em><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db52.pdf">CDC simultaneously published a study that showed that one out of every six American women had levels high enough in her Core Blood, that her child could have some kind of intellectual</a></em></p><p><em><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db52.pdf">deficiency like lost IQ,</a> etcetera, and where's the Mercury coming from? The<a href="https://intlpollution.commons.gc.cuny.edu/coal-fired-power-plants-the-mercury-factory-and-the-future/"> Mercury was largely coming from coal burning power plants.</a> &#8212;Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</em></p></blockquote><div id="youtube2-9WdruazPyO4" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;9WdruazPyO4&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/9WdruazPyO4?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>That guy is who we&#8217;re dealing with. Before we move on, let&#8217;s take another look at that ole screamer Senator Wyden:</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v3p-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e2e6c6a-9b65-45d8-b858-20962ca9a6c1_702x103.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v3p-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e2e6c6a-9b65-45d8-b858-20962ca9a6c1_702x103.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v3p-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5e2e6c6a-9b65-45d8-b858-20962ca9a6c1_702x103.png 848w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Elizabeth Warren:</p><div id="youtube2-iGIWFIwkBR4" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;iGIWFIwkBR4&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/iGIWFIwkBR4?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 one starts off great, almost humorous, then it goes off the rails when Kennedy, whether right or wrong, perceives that she&#8217;s trying to get him to commit that he won&#8217;t sue drug companies, which is what Kennedy does. It&#8217;s quite hypocritical for her to do this, see, her big issue is banks and finance companies, financiers and what-not, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/elizabeth-warren-and-the-wells-fargo-scam">and as a lawyer she&#8217;s reigns them in by suing them</a>, it&#8217;s how she made a name. Just the same, Robert F. Kennedy Jr made a name doing the same thing, suing polluters to get them to follow the rules or get bankrupted out of existence, and he plans to do the same against drug companies who put the American people in harm&#8217;s way. By the way, that big charade at the end, where she lays out every possible conflict of interest that he could use to leverage these <a href="https://medium.com/@nic__carter/marc-andreessen-and-the-cfpb-debunking-the-debanking-debunkers-33e934442647">lawsuits are ALL conflicts of interests that she </a><em><a href="https://medium.com/@nic__carter/marc-andreessen-and-the-cfpb-debunking-the-debanking-debunkers-33e934442647">does</a></em><a href="https://medium.com/@nic__carter/marc-andreessen-and-the-cfpb-debunking-the-debanking-debunkers-33e934442647"> leverage using her </a><em><a href="https://medium.com/@nic__carter/marc-andreessen-and-the-cfpb-debunking-the-debanking-debunkers-33e934442647">Consumer Finance Protection</a></em><a href="https://medium.com/@nic__carter/marc-andreessen-and-the-cfpb-debunking-the-debanking-debunkers-33e934442647"> </a><em><a href="https://medium.com/@nic__carter/marc-andreessen-and-the-cfpb-debunking-the-debanking-debunkers-33e934442647">Bureau, </a></em><a href="https://medium.com/@nic__carter/marc-andreessen-and-the-cfpb-debunking-the-debanking-debunkers-33e934442647">that has taken to </a><em><a href="https://medium.com/@nic__carter/marc-andreessen-and-the-cfpb-debunking-the-debanking-debunkers-33e934442647">debanking </a></em><a href="https://medium.com/@nic__carter/marc-andreessen-and-the-cfpb-debunking-the-debanking-debunkers-33e934442647">startup companies whose political views she is against,</a> as Marc Andreesen and Mark Zuckerburg both referenced to Joe Rogan. </p><p>Bernie Sanders:</p><div id="youtube2-_0dc9b4g4xU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;_0dc9b4g4xU&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/_0dc9b4g4xU?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 class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Le32!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2f03e86-517f-4cac-87ca-8278f58aad45_493x679.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Le32!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2f03e86-517f-4cac-87ca-8278f58aad45_493x679.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Le32!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2f03e86-517f-4cac-87ca-8278f58aad45_493x679.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Le32!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2f03e86-517f-4cac-87ca-8278f58aad45_493x679.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Le32!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2f03e86-517f-4cac-87ca-8278f58aad45_493x679.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Le32!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2f03e86-517f-4cac-87ca-8278f58aad45_493x679.jpeg" width="493" height="679" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f2f03e86-517f-4cac-87ca-8278f58aad45_493x679.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:679,&quot;width&quot;:493,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:43736,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Le32!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2f03e86-517f-4cac-87ca-8278f58aad45_493x679.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Le32!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2f03e86-517f-4cac-87ca-8278f58aad45_493x679.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Le32!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2f03e86-517f-4cac-87ca-8278f58aad45_493x679.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Le32!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2f03e86-517f-4cac-87ca-8278f58aad45_493x679.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">Here&#8217;s from 2020</figcaption></figure></div><p>Those were the big ones that were to note. Elizabeth Warren took $126,056 from the <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/elizabeth-warren/industries?cid=N00033492&amp;cycle=2024">pharmaceutical industry just in 2024.</a> That paired with the way she got so upset towards the end; I wonder if it&#8217;s more than just money she&#8217;s afraid to lose. <em>Hey Liz! Blink twice if they have your puppy hostage!</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WdiX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F333c6e85-a0bf-4e41-a490-303abf35a0a1_603x309.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WdiX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F333c6e85-a0bf-4e41-a490-303abf35a0a1_603x309.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WdiX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F333c6e85-a0bf-4e41-a490-303abf35a0a1_603x309.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WdiX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F333c6e85-a0bf-4e41-a490-303abf35a0a1_603x309.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WdiX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F333c6e85-a0bf-4e41-a490-303abf35a0a1_603x309.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WdiX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F333c6e85-a0bf-4e41-a490-303abf35a0a1_603x309.png" width="603" height="309" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/333c6e85-a0bf-4e41-a490-303abf35a0a1_603x309.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:309,&quot;width&quot;:603,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:16814,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WdiX!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F333c6e85-a0bf-4e41-a490-303abf35a0a1_603x309.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WdiX!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F333c6e85-a0bf-4e41-a490-303abf35a0a1_603x309.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WdiX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F333c6e85-a0bf-4e41-a490-303abf35a0a1_603x309.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WdiX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F333c6e85-a0bf-4e41-a490-303abf35a0a1_603x309.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>Ron Wyden with his show of calling bobby a kid-killer, jeez! Oh, but you can see why, more money, gets a bigger show of support and just in <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/ron-wyden/industries?cid=N00007724&amp;cycle=2024">2024 Ron Wyden took $182,450 from corporate PAC&#8217;s in the pharmaceutical industry, and $169,063 from individual pharmaceutical </a>executives adding up to $351,513, this sure tells it all doesn&#8217;t it?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ivpt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff87658a0-618c-4d5e-8f74-5eeb37ca63e2_597x331.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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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><h2>Tulsi Gabbard, Take A BOW&#8230;</h2><div id="youtube2-1uPo3tiJNo0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;1uPo3tiJNo0&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;1364&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/1uPo3tiJNo0?start=1364&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 father wanted me to be into football so badly as a kid, and I wanted to love it the way he loved it, but I just couldn&#8217;t. The way he jumped up in the air yelled <em>&#8220;Go, go, go!&#8221; </em>when his team <em>The Tennessee Volunteers</em> were going for a touchdown, I wanted that! Well, this politics thing, I found my sport! When Tulsi Gabbard said, <em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t hate America, I hate Al Qaeda!&#8221; </em>She dropped Operation Timber Sycamore on them! By the time she said that I was already on my feet yelling <em>&#8220;Go, go, go!&#8221; And through my fists in the air! It was a moment of glory! Tulsi Gabbard, take a bow!  </em></p><div id="youtube2-EgV01YKz2xw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;EgV01YKz2xw&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/EgV01YKz2xw?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>Senator Mark Kelly: In 2016 you said &#8216;the U.S. is providing direct and indirect support to terrorist groups in order to overthrow the Syrian government.&#8217; In 2019 and the Democratic presidential debate stage, you said of President Trump, &#8216;this current president is continuing to betray us. We were supposed to be going after Al Qaeda. But over years now, not only have we not gone after Al Qaeda, our president is supporting Al Qaeda</em>.&#8217;</p><p><em>Tulsi Gabbard: As someone who enlisted in the military specifically because of Al Qaeda's terrorist attack on 9/11 and committing myself and my life to doing what I could to defeat these terrorists, it was shocking and a betrayal to me and every person who was killed on 9/11, their families, my brothers and sisters in uniform. When as a member of Congress, I learned about President Obama's dual programs that he had begun really to overthrow the regime of Syria and being willing through the CIA's Timber Sycamore program that is now been made public of working with and arming and equipping Al Qaeda in an effort to overthrow that regime. Starting yet another regime change war in the Middle East. DOD train and equip program. Again, under President Obama, is widely known, looked at, and studied that resulted in over half a billion dollars being used to train who they called "moderate rebels" but were actually fighters working with and aligned with Al Qaeda's affiliate on the ground in Syria. All to move forward with the regime change and not acknowledging what was obviously at the time and impartially has borne true which was a regime change war in Syria, much like in Iraq, toppling of Qaddafi and Mubarak, would likely result in the rise of Islamist extremists like Al Qaeda taking power. I shed no tears for the fall of the Assad regime, but today we have an Islamist extremist who is now in charge of Syria, as I said, who danced on the streets to celebrate the 9/11 attack, who ruled over Idlib with an Islamist extremist governance, and has already begun to persecute and kill and arrest religious minorities like Christians in Syria. Why that should be acceptable to anyone is beyond me</em>.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>&#8220;Every American deserves to know that people in our own government were providing support to our sworn enemy Al Qaeda. That should not be acceptable by anyone,&#8221; she subsequently concluded.</p><p>If you don&#8217;t know <a href="https://warontherocks.com/2016/07/the-logic-for-shoddy-u-s-covert-action-in-syria/">what Tim</a><a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/new-intel-chief-slams-policy-syria">ber S</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/world/middleeast/cia-syria-rebel-arm-train-trump.html">ycamore was</a>, it sure as hell wasn&#8217;t a logging gig, here it is being explained by the premier democrat establishment turned to our side by&#8230;You know, THEM:</p><div id="youtube2-CPnbAS4anow" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;CPnbAS4anow&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/CPnbAS4anow?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 the squawking and hand wringing about Edward Snowden, and Section 702 of FISA, Syria, vaccines, these people are a disgrace to the offices they hold, and a disgrace to their constituents. In Tulsi&#8217;s hearing, after her opening statements where she made clear that she disagrees with the way in which Edward Snowden had given up the stolen documents that exposed the NSA&#8217;s abuses against American&#8217;s, explained that she had changed her position on FISA after recent reforms to the law, and her trip to Syria was done out of concern for the American troops, who we used to care about, she, obviously, still does, they went on to bring up Syria 33 times. They said &#8220;Snowden&#8221;: 58 times! And they mentioned her position on Section 702 of FISA: 28 times. Just the same in RFK Jr&#8217;s hearing in front of the Finance Committee, the <em>&#8220;most important of the two hearings&#8221;</em> according to those with an understanding of this sort of thing. Bobby, in his opening statement, went into this with grace, expecting both sides to care about American&#8217;s health and making us <em>&#8220;Healthy Again&#8221;</em>. He conceded immediately that he had no intention of taking any vaccines away, he just wants more &#8220;safety testing done&#8221;, &#8220;all of his children are vaccinated&#8221;, he was conceding to level with all of their worries and leave the vaccines alone, but they went on to bring up vaccines: 91 times! 91 times! Every one of them asked the same questions over and over, not because there was something they didn&#8217;t understand, but because they needed a good clip of them personally asking the same question for campaigning and those <em>annoying fucking text messages, Tik Tok, YouTube, Instagram, anywhere they can post them to bleed $omething else out of the American people! </em>These people are shameless old shrews! Impeach them all! Conscript new ones! That&#8217;s replace &#8216;em using draft cards. President too! If you <em>want</em> to be a politician, you are damaged beyond repair and should be locked away from society! Only a real psychopathic monster <em>signs up</em> for that job but <em>actively</em> campaigning for it too?! Are there six hundred Ted Bundys in DC trying to trick woman into their vans? Maybe not, but they&#8217;ll sure kill for a $10,000 check from Pfizer! </p><p>All that aside, just a brilliant performance. RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, excellent performances.</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;8715f886-9d88-457a-b658-a273f546e3c5&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;d4572ed6-cc80-4c65-8bb7-86b918964ba0&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What About the Children? How Can You be Okay with the Children Being Separated from Their Parents? Short Answer: I'm NOT. Long Answer Below:]]></title><description><![CDATA[The moral reality of mass deportation]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/what-about-the-children-how-can-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/what-about-the-children-how-can-you</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 22:20:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff843fb8d-6448-455f-a2ae-6de011ea40a3_1183x414.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was confronted today with the question, what about the children getting separated from the parents? I said, <em>&#8220;well they don&#8217;t get separated from their parents.&#8221;</em></p><p>She said, <em>&#8220;well where do they go?&#8221; </em>I reached for an answer and didn&#8217;t find one. I almost said, <em>&#8220;they go with the parents.&#8221; </em></p><p>But that&#8217;s not true, I know that&#8217;s not true. I&#8217;ve been in jail twice with someone waiting to get deported. He didn&#8217;t have children out there to be separated from, he was pretty young himself, but they wouldn&#8217;t have had the children in the jail with him. </p><p>Actually, the first time I met him he was already there when I got to the jail cell, waiting to be deported because he didn&#8217;t have papers, which came up when he skipped a stop sign and was arrested for D.U.I. When I got there, he&#8217;d already been there for a few months, then one day he was gone. As I understand it, they took him across the border and dropped him off. About two months later he comes walking back into cell, a sheepish grin as he walked in, eyes to the floor, like damn, and everyone remembered him, and greeted him immediately. He was one of us, a regular fuck-up that couldn&#8217;t keep out of places like this. </p><p>The police had found him camped out in the woods with goat cooking on the fire he&#8217;d built. A local farmer had contacted authorities to report that two Spanish guys had stolen a goat. They only found one; He was arrested and this time&#8212;because they priced the goat at over $300 dollars making it a felony theft&#8212;he had to wait out his charges before they&#8217;d put him on the list for deportation. They eventually&#8212;after six months waiting on a court date&#8212;brought him to court and worked out a plea bargain of <em>Five years&#8212;Suspended sentence as long as remains in his country of origin.</em></p><p>He was actually pretty great. He didn&#8217;t know much English, but he was funny, and bright, and a damn good card player. He had a girlfriend here who already had citizenship. </p><p>One day she came to visit, and the guards came to the door, <em>&#8220;Morales visit.&#8221; (by the way, that&#8217;s pronounced more-al-ez, it looks like more-ales). </em>We all looked around, someone hollered at them from their bunk, <em>&#8220;we don&#8217;t got no Morales in here.&#8221;</em></p><p>The guard looked back down at his paper, <em>&#8220;yes, you do, now Morales if you don&#8217;t get up right now, I&#8217;m going down there to tell your visitor you denied the visit. <strong>MORALES VISIT!</strong>&#8221;</em></p><p>He realizes they&#8217;re calling for him and pops up out of his bunk. We&#8217;re all confused because everyone who was there when he left the first time remembered it clearly. It was a rather dramatic scene. SWAT suits and <em>actual </em>suits no one had seen before at the cell door, with whichever Deputy Jailer was on call that night. He pops the door, looks down at the paper in hand and calls out, <em>&#8220;Gomez, Juan Gomez, pack up your things, you&#8217;re leaving out of here.&#8221; </em></p><p>Now fast-forward to visit time, the guard calls out, <em>&#8220;Morales, visit.&#8221;</em></p><p>This piqued everyone&#8217;s interest, he comes back to his bunk to grab his orange top&#8212;you&#8217;re not allowed to leave the cell without orange tops and bottoms&#8212;and someone asks, <em>&#8220;hey, wasn&#8217;t your name Gomez last time?&#8221; </em></p><p>He understands <em>this</em> English, smiles and says, <em>&#8220;Gomez, Diaz, Morales <strong>WHAT-ever.&#8221; </strong></em>The whole room erupted in laughter. </p><p>Later we learned Morales is his real name. He said, <em>&#8220;Morales is me, Morales, Diaz is twenty-four, Gomez is twenty-six.&#8221; </em>It was another funny moment. Those were the three identities he used to get around.</p><p>We&#8217;d play spades and he&#8217;d say, <em>&#8220;Pinche Gringo.&#8221; </em>Which I later learned is like the n-word for Americans or white people in general. It&#8217;s like when a Jew calls you <em>Goyim.</em> So, it&#8217;d translate to you <em>&#8220;Fucking White guy&#8221; or &#8220;Fucking American.&#8221;</em></p><p>Someone asked him one time while we were playing a game of spades, <em>&#8220;How long did it take you to back here to America?&#8221; His answer blew my mind!</em></p><p>He said, <em>&#8220;three days to America, ten days to Kentucky, eighteen days back in Hodgenville, now, fucky yail (that's how it sounded when he said &#8220;fucking jail&#8221; it was &#8220;fuckee yai-l&#8221;)&#8221;</em></p><p>It was very funny when he said it, but with further thought un-fucking-believable. I wouldn&#8217;t even know how to go about doing some shit like that! Would I hitchhike? Hop a train? Walk the whole way? Mexico is like 2,000 miles away! If nothing else, he was determined.</p><h3>The Modern Times Underground Railroad</h3><p>See, Hodgenville was kind of a hub for illegal immigration. Mainly because the police were few. They were much too busy regulating the natives. </p><p>Truth be told, I couldn&#8217;t walk down the street holding a beer without being stopped, unlike here in Louisville where people smoke crack and shoot up on the sidewalks in front of everyone. </p><p>Hodgenville is a small compact town. You could walk clear across the town from one furthest point to the other in just a couple hours. The police were completely preoccupied with the drug problem&#8212;also coming from the south, up what <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChkCcT_zrDhYmnLfrwsi3AA">Mariana Van Zeller</a> coined<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2170061/"> the </a><em><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2170061/">Oxycontin Express</a>, they</em> had no time to waste bothering a group of people that went to work every day and bothered no one, and that&#8217;s who these people were, they bothered no one. </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>It was something like a modern <em>Underground Railroad</em> for illegal immigrants. I knew of several houses (one of them pictured below) where they stayed in large groups, as something of a base for those drifting in from down south seeking refuge, they&#8217;d find it there. One of them was my friend, Chris, who was illegal as hell, been deported many times and had children in Florida and California. Because of this railroad he&#8217;d drift into Hodgenville, stay for like six months, then back to west coast or down to the south. My father and I would buy weed from him for an extraordinarily low price, make money hand over fist, then he&#8217;d drift off and we&#8217;d blow the little extra money we made on drugs. One of those times we sold to a &#8220;friend&#8221; who was wearing a wire, bringing that bit to an end and leading to our arrests. </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. 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>Houses, like the one pictured below, became safehouses for illegal immigrants. One of them would befriend someone or become romantically involved with them, and they'd become sympathetic to their plight, and after a long string of saying &#8220;yes&#8221; to relatives and friends of her partner, the home would then be overflowing with Spanish people from <em>south of the border</em>. Before I knew the deal, I would walk past this house every day and there would always be five or six Mexicans standing outside. They were never mean or menacing in anyway but had that language barrier so mostly I just waved and kept walking.  </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BT5R!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb5f9ba2-417c-4298-aaaf-b4e76f49398d_954x402.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BT5R!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb5f9ba2-417c-4298-aaaf-b4e76f49398d_954x402.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BT5R!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb5f9ba2-417c-4298-aaaf-b4e76f49398d_954x402.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BT5R!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb5f9ba2-417c-4298-aaaf-b4e76f49398d_954x402.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BT5R!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb5f9ba2-417c-4298-aaaf-b4e76f49398d_954x402.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BT5R!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb5f9ba2-417c-4298-aaaf-b4e76f49398d_954x402.png" width="954" height="402" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/db5f9ba2-417c-4298-aaaf-b4e76f49398d_954x402.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:402,&quot;width&quot;:954,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:800041,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BT5R!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb5f9ba2-417c-4298-aaaf-b4e76f49398d_954x402.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BT5R!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb5f9ba2-417c-4298-aaaf-b4e76f49398d_954x402.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BT5R!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb5f9ba2-417c-4298-aaaf-b4e76f49398d_954x402.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BT5R!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdb5f9ba2-417c-4298-aaaf-b4e76f49398d_954x402.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><figcaption class="image-caption">This was one of the &#8220;safehouses&#8221; back then. Not sure if it&#8217;s still like that, I haven&#8217;t been there in 15 years.</figcaption></figure></div><p>The people advocating for this would go as far as helping them get there, providing shelter, a job, transportation, they would make it possible for these people to start a life here, then there was the <em>Efficiency Apartments (that was literally the name of the place).</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_!t3bq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff843fb8d-6448-455f-a2ae-6de011ea40a3_1183x414.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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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" 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I lived in the corner apartment and didn&#8217;t have a job, my mom was paying my rent from Canada and for side money I asked the landlord if he had any work for me and he said, <em>&#8220;sure, can you hang drywall?&#8221;</em></p><p>I said, <em>&#8220;absolutely!&#8221; </em>Even though I&#8217;d never done it in my life. He asked me to tear out and replace the drywall in all of these apartments one at a time, and with 0 experience I just started doing it and by the time I was halfway through, about six months later, I was something like a damn professional.</p><div><hr></div><p>Barry, the Efficiency Apartment landlord, did not care about identification to rent from him, in fact, he barely knew our names, so this was ideal for illegal immigrants. At one point every apartment here was filled with illegal immigrants, like seven or eight to an apartment. They were very nice and respectful, they would simply work and come home and send everything they didn&#8217;t need to live back home in Mexico. </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">Subscribe to Declaration of Liberty if you&#8217;re ready to change the world, one sentence at a time. We can do this together. Subscribe because I&#8217;ll never lie to you, like they do to us! I believe we&#8217;re ready for the truth and her at D.O.L. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re seeking out. Liberty &amp; Truth.</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 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/what-about-the-children-how-can-you?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/what-about-the-children-how-can-you?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><p>There weren&#8217;t many jobs, or any to tell the truth, this is why I left town is because there was just no work. We had one factory in town, and it was hard to get on there because they would hire illegal immigrants and could get away with paying them less. The factory was <em>Nationwide Uniform. </em>A sewing factory where they made uniforms. You would get paid minimum wage until your training period was up and then you would get paid based on your production which a lot of the time would put you well below the minimum wage, this is why they hired mostly illegal immigrants that couldn&#8217;t argue for, at least the minimum. Meanwhile, drugs were decimating the town, those that couldn&#8217;t find work would turn to crime, it was just the way it was, I can&#8217;t tell you how many of my school mates went on to live successful lives, but I can tell you, at least for those that stayed, there wasn&#8217;t many. The last I&#8217;d heard everyone was on drugs, the girls I crushed on when I was in school, a lot of them have turned to prostitution, the place has just been decimated. Now, I&#8217;m not saying the illegal immigrants are the cause of this, but they are a piece of the puzzle. I mean, I was a drug addict when I lived there <em>and</em> when I left, it wasn&#8217;t like I got away from the town and everything was <em>happily ever after.</em> In fact, I came to the city of Louisville and have not had a single day that I wanted to work and had nowhere to work, that&#8217;s the plus side, and would&#8217;ve been great if I stayed with that, but went through the dark underbelly of the city, and crossed bridges and waterways with no obvious way out. I ran with dark circles who did things that still give me nightmares at night. There&#8217;s a world out there darker than you can imagine, it grips you and invites you in, but you gotta resist because you might not make it out. I made it out, but just by the skin of my teeth.</p><h3>Conclusion&#8212;The Question is &#8220;Do Kids Get Separated from Their Parents During Mass Deportation?&#8221;</h3><p>It seems to me the answer is <em>&#8220;yes, they do.&#8221; </em>Next question, <em>&#8220;Is this right?&#8221; &#8230;&#8221;I don&#8217;t think so.&#8221;</em></p><p>Just doing a quick search on what happens to the children:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5YrY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5d47b23-62fd-419c-a4aa-8d7a1bb5df23_684x2522.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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After all, they don&#8217;t put children in detention centers, </em>but this is the same as if <em>anybody</em> gets arrested for breaking <em>any </em>law. If you don&#8217;t have a plan for them, they do. Foster care, group home, etc. </p><div class="pullquote"><p>I remember so vividly, so clearly, my father says to me, &#8220;Jordan, mommy and daddy might have to go away for a while.&#8221;</p><p>I ask, &#8220;why? What happened?&#8221;</p><p>My Father said, &#8220;Mommy and Daddy were bad, and they might be sending us to jail. Where would you like to go to stay?&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Ummmm&#8230;&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;You could go to stay with Aunt Gerri in Kentucky. It&#8217;s great up there! It&#8217;s country and hills and really pretty, and Aunt Gerri will get you anything you want. Or you could stay with Uncle Matt and Aunt Susie. They live close to the beach, and have an inground poo&#8212;&#8221;</p><p>I immediately blurted out, &#8220;I wanna stay with Uncle Matt and Aunt Susie&#8212;&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;Are you sure? Why not Aunt Gerri?&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;The beach&#8221;, I said, but I was really afraid of going all the way to Kentucky. It was such a big change. At six years old, though, I had no clue that in two months, my life would change indefinitely, and things would never be the same&#8230; </p></div><p>When I was six years old, my mother and father both went to prison. It broke up our family, practically indefinitely, forever. My mother was deported to Canada. This is what government does. </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/what-about-the-children-how-can-you?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/what-about-the-children-how-can-you?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><h2>It&#8217;s the Government Stupid&#8230;</h2><p>Michael Malice said <a href="https://youtu.be/VrV1LTD89JQ?si=EnSn4inVcWrhjX6T&amp;t=557">recently in an interview with Emily Jashinsky</a>, <em>&#8220;When government works well it's still oppressive, I mean, you know what government working well means? It's having more IRS agents, it means making sure no one gets away with not paying their taxes, that's efficient government.&#8221;</em></p><div id="youtube2-VrV1LTD89JQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;VrV1LTD89JQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;557&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/VrV1LTD89JQ?start=557&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 what are taxes? Taxes are money that is stolen from your paychecks, enforced by the barrel of a government gun.</p><p>With that being said, this is simply the nature of the government. Government immigration policy working well is there being a tall enough, impenetrable wall that no one could get through or go under as the cartels like to do.</p><p>When you break the government&#8217;s laws, one of their punishments for you is separating you from your children. It&#8217;s just part of it. </p><p>Its efficiency comes from the threat of force, and the universal understanding that you can&#8217;t resist that force. That&#8217;s government working well. It&#8217;s having enough beds in the foster system for all the children who were separated from their parents when their parents were deported. </p><p>The same as when anyone else broke any other numerous laws that the government has at its disposal to enforce compliance.</p><p>Now for my partisan pitch: This is why the only laws we should recognize are the <em>Non-Aggression Principle and Private Property Rights, </em>because any law outside of those two laws are redundant, and if a law doesn&#8217;t logically follow from those two laws <em><strong>They. Are. Tyrannical. Oppressive. Against. Freedom.</strong></em> and simply there for the government&#8217;s benefit. Anything morally important, logically follows those principles, all else is bullshit!</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/what-about-the-children-how-can-you?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/what-about-the-children-how-can-you?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><p>So&#8230;</p><p>What happens to children of illegal immigrants if both parents get deported? The same thing that happens to the children of legal citizen's when both parents are arrested, for, say, running an illegal food stamp fraud ring, or selling drugs illegally. It&#8217;s one of their punishments for breaking their laws, and crossing the border illegally is as illegal as stealing a wallet, or trafficking cocaine. </p><p>These threats of mass deportation <em>are</em> oppressive, but oppression is what they do. I&#8217;ve seen children separated from their parents over a pack of rolling papers. I don&#8217;t like the laws, but the illegal immigrants are not being treated any different than any other American citizen. Arrests, kidnapping, breaking families apart is simply a well-oiled, smooth-running government bureaucracy. It&#8217;s unfortunate, tyrannical, oppressive, but frankly, the status quo here, and most other countries. We have an answer to this problem, but they&#8217;ll never accept it. Thank you for reading&#8230;</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;3ff34c27-2b3c-4eb8-9fb1-e29c4900315f&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;244f58b2-5ecc-4a8b-8ae4-c2b1786f257a&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biden and the Bio-Coverup of a Bio-Criminal]]></title><description><![CDATA["Because us 50-year government vets gotta stick together!"--Joe Biden to Fauci]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/biden-and-the-bio-coverup-of-a-bio</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/biden-and-the-bio-coverup-of-a-bio</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 06:04:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/JBqXYpO1QpE" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;The Romans had a saying, &#8220;Quis Custodiet Custodem?&#8221;&#8212;Who will watch the watchmen? The wry question applies patly to the case of Joe McCarthy. The Senator who is now the chairman of the Senate&#8217;s key watchdog committee is the Senator who most needs watching&#8221;</p><p>I.F. Stone, A NONCONFORMIST HISTORY OF OUR TIMES: The Haunted Fifties, 1953-1963</p><p>Sound familiar??? Wait, there&#8217;s more&#8230; A couple paragraphs later in the McCarthy chapter:</p><p>&#8220;Newly brought to light in this report is the $20,000 note signed for McCarthy by the Washington representative of Pepsi-Cola at a time when the Senator&#8217;s bank account in Wisconsin was overextended. Pepsi-Cola was then lobbying for decontrol of sugar and McCarthy was chairman of a Senate subcommittee&#8212;on sugar!&#8221;</p><p>I.F. Stone</p><p>Izzy goes on to point out how after McCarthy&#8217;s anticommunism attack on the Senate and the State Department, contributions and donations flowed in to &#8220;fight communism&#8221; when he was in dire straits with the bank over his gambling problems. He walked so Nikki Haley and Joe Biden could run. The first influence peddling scheme, in Washington, is born. </p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zRmr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3102762a-e11e-4114-a7ea-a8a04b9e5d28_299x168.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zRmr!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3102762a-e11e-4114-a7ea-a8a04b9e5d28_299x168.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zRmr!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3102762a-e11e-4114-a7ea-a8a04b9e5d28_299x168.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zRmr!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3102762a-e11e-4114-a7ea-a8a04b9e5d28_299x168.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zRmr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3102762a-e11e-4114-a7ea-a8a04b9e5d28_299x168.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zRmr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3102762a-e11e-4114-a7ea-a8a04b9e5d28_299x168.jpeg" width="429" height="241.04347826086956" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3102762a-e11e-4114-a7ea-a8a04b9e5d28_299x168.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:168,&quot;width&quot;:299,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:429,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Biden pardons Fauci, Milley and members ...&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Biden pardons Fauci, Milley and members ..." title="Biden pardons Fauci, Milley and members ..." srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zRmr!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3102762a-e11e-4114-a7ea-a8a04b9e5d28_299x168.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zRmr!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3102762a-e11e-4114-a7ea-a8a04b9e5d28_299x168.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zRmr!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3102762a-e11e-4114-a7ea-a8a04b9e5d28_299x168.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zRmr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3102762a-e11e-4114-a7ea-a8a04b9e5d28_299x168.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>A 50-year reign of lies, wars, bribery, backroom deals, censorship, racism, and authoritarian technocracy, that would make George Orwell blush, all culminated in a flurry of pardons, as late as <em>while President Trump was being sworn in! Sheeeeew! That was close. </em>But these weren&#8217;t just <em>any </em>pardons, these were <em>blanket </em>pardons, that spanned an entire <em>decade! </em> January 1st, 2014, to January 20th, 2025. A curious starting point, and a more-than-curious move, since blanket pardons have never been issued in America&#8217;s 250-year history. </p><p>Especially to people who weren&#8217;t otherwise known as criminal&#8217;s, not publicly anyways, I already thought they were <em>all</em> criminals, but damn! Something to understand about pardons is you could deny one, unless of course, you feel you need it, right? That&#8217;s what they said about Snowden. Just come on home and stand trial if you believe what you did was right, right? Yea, didn&#8217;t see him rushing home either. In fact, according to case law, part of accepting a pardon is incrimination. If you accept a pardon, it means you are accepting incrimination. </p><p>Where do we begin?</p><p><em>Well&#8230;.</em></p><p>Well, Joe Biden was like the John Gotti of the last four years, so let&#8217;s talk about his Under-Boss Anthony Fauci, let's start with him, why issue <em>him</em> a pardon? Not to mention a <em>blanket pardon</em> reaching all the way to 2014? Well, let us look no further than the hearings in front of the Covid-19 Select Subcommittee. </p><div id="youtube2-JBqXYpO1QpE" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;JBqXYpO1QpE&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/JBqXYpO1QpE?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>Dr Fauci continuously defended his record, to a doctor no less, Dr. Rand Paul, now senator from my home state of Kentucky, makes me proud, Dr Fauci, under oath lied to everyone, at every appearance. </p><p>See, 2014 was a very interesting year in American history, Joe Biden was the Vice President, he was also the point man, or <em>czar, </em>if you will, for Ukrainian Policy under Obama. It was the year of the Coup in Ukraine, a puzzle piece that brought to them the war they&#8217;re fighting today. By the way, new numbers from that war, 700K casualties on the Ukrainian side, a million on the Russian side&#8230;</p><div><hr></div><p><em>In an article that became much too large, and much too off point I gave the history of bioweapons &#8220;Defense&#8221; as they like to call it. It&#8217;s still in the editing department and will be out shortly.</em></p><div><hr></div><p>Also, that year there was an outbreak of E Bola that was blamed on a child playing with bats in Guinea, but that was very much from a lab, much like the Wuhan Institute of Virology, stationed in Sierra Leone. Due to this outbreak <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/us-halts-funding-new-risky-virus-studies-calls-voluntary-moratorium">President Obama put an end to </a><em><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/us-halts-funding-new-risky-virus-studies-calls-voluntary-moratorium">Gain-of-Function </a></em><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/us-halts-funding-new-risky-virus-studies-calls-voluntary-moratorium">research funding from the United States government.</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>But they didn&#8217;t stop, they never do. That&#8217;s why this pardon <em>must</em> reach all the way to 2014 for him too.</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/biden-and-the-bio-coverup-of-a-bio?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/biden-and-the-bio-coverup-of-a-bio?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/01/25/dr-anthony-fauci-the-highest-paid-employee-in-the-entire-us-federal-government/">According to Forbes Anthony Fauci, was the highest paid employee in the U.S. federal government</a>. Higher than the president. Every senator. No position paid higher. He received a $150,000/year raise in salary at the same time that he was actively breaking the fucking law. At any given time, he was under the command of $6 billion dollars in funding. If you wanted <em>your</em> project funded, you had to come through him. He was also a true believer in <em>Gain-of-Function research</em>. So, when there was a pause to this funding he was, under no circumstance, stopping. He just simply moved it to China, to the new Biosafety Level-4 (BSL-4) lab in Wuhan. This also meant that, when accidents happen, like they eventually did, he was <em>most</em> to blame, and he was <em>most</em> to gain from the cover-up that eventually happened. You do know there was a cover-up, right?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fN0W!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76d3c729-80a3-4e7e-9f9d-8cf56563a35a_552x357.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fN0W!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76d3c729-80a3-4e7e-9f9d-8cf56563a35a_552x357.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fN0W!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76d3c729-80a3-4e7e-9f9d-8cf56563a35a_552x357.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fN0W!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76d3c729-80a3-4e7e-9f9d-8cf56563a35a_552x357.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fN0W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76d3c729-80a3-4e7e-9f9d-8cf56563a35a_552x357.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fN0W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76d3c729-80a3-4e7e-9f9d-8cf56563a35a_552x357.png" width="552" height="357" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/76d3c729-80a3-4e7e-9f9d-8cf56563a35a_552x357.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:357,&quot;width&quot;:552,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:28938,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fN0W!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76d3c729-80a3-4e7e-9f9d-8cf56563a35a_552x357.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fN0W!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76d3c729-80a3-4e7e-9f9d-8cf56563a35a_552x357.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fN0W!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76d3c729-80a3-4e7e-9f9d-8cf56563a35a_552x357.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fN0W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76d3c729-80a3-4e7e-9f9d-8cf56563a35a_552x357.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>The Wuhan Cover-Up</h2><p>I very much remember being absolutely obsessed with this. Everything I was hearing was telling me one thing, but <em>all</em> the people I trusted were telling me something else. I have a deeply ingrained bias, that makes me fucking hate the government, authorities, people in charge. No, it&#8217;s not a hatred. I hate very few people. I hate Dick Cheney, and my freshman teacher who said, &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t amount to shit.&#8221; I have a revulsion of rules, and my knee jerk reaction is not to follow them. With that being said, I always believed, despite my aversion to them, that the government was good and had our best interests at heart. I came out the other side of this as a god damn revolutionary! I want the NIAID, to be a line in a history book, that no one teaches anymore, long forgotten. Bye. </p><p>So, what happened. I kept hearing how great Josh Rogin was on this. I wasn&#8217;t crazy involved. I tried to follow the news, but I was new. I didn&#8217;t really know who to follow. I thought I needed to buy his book to find out anything. I got my news from Joe Rogan and The Breakfast Club, what can I say.</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/biden-and-the-bio-coverup-of-a-bio?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/biden-and-the-bio-coverup-of-a-bio?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 id="youtube2-aHz9d84PYuc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;aHz9d84PYuc&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/aHz9d84PYuc?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 you can&#8217;t see the video above, here&#8217;s the gist: In 2018, U.S. Embassy officials in China visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology several times. Cables were sent back to Washington with the message that they had inadequate safety protocols. This is alarming because this being a BSL-4, means it has the highest safety rating. Level 4 is the top. Josh Rogin was ridiculed endlessly as everyone was who believed in the lab leak at the time. </p><p>Dr. Fauci, in the craziness that was the Trump Administration between 2016-2020 was able to get GOF <a href="https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-17-071.html">research removed from the pause in 2017.</a> <a href="https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-17-071.html">Here is the report declaring this</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_!gVsg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd04911bc-b90e-4dc6-8faf-96606b658cba_1216x725.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gVsg!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd04911bc-b90e-4dc6-8faf-96606b658cba_1216x725.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gVsg!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd04911bc-b90e-4dc6-8faf-96606b658cba_1216x725.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gVsg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd04911bc-b90e-4dc6-8faf-96606b658cba_1216x725.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gVsg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd04911bc-b90e-4dc6-8faf-96606b658cba_1216x725.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" 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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, here he is asserting that <em>NONE OF THIS EXISTS!</em></p><div id="youtube2-y6mvj4gkI0Q" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;y6mvj4gkI0Q&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/y6mvj4gkI0Q?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>Just one more time, here he is bragging about doing Gain-of-function research, planning it:</p><div id="youtube2-wkanm7-95QM" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;wkanm7-95QM&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/wkanm7-95QM?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, here he is saying it doesn&#8217;t exist:</p><div id="youtube2-Pa1xTqis_5s" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Pa1xTqis_5s&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/Pa1xTqis_5s?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; 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It&#8217;s like the older you get, the gayer you get&#8230;.hahahahahahahaha! </p><p>As a matter of a fact, the video's above are case closed, plain and simple, Dr. Rand Paul lays him out. It&#8217;s Un-fucking-believable! 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its review of COVID-19 origins, the House Oversight Committee&#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; 757 likes &#183; 286 comments &#183; Matt Taibbi, Alex Gutentag, and Michael Shellenberger</div></a></div><blockquote><p>The former director of the US National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the US government&#8217;s response to the coronavirus pandemic, visited CIA headquarters to &#8220;influence&#8221; its review of COVID-19 origins, the House Oversight Committee <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/wenstrup-reveals-new-allegations-that-dr-fauci-potentially-influenced-cia-covid-19-origins-investigation/">reported</a> yesterday.</p><p>Last month, Committee Chair Brad Wenstrup made <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/cia-allegations-connected-covid-19-origins/story?id=103162133">headlines</a> when he revealed that seven CIA analysts &#8220;with significant scientific expertise&#8221; on the agency&#8217;s COVID-19 Discovery Team (CDT) received performance bonuses after changing a report to downplay concerns about a possible lab origin of the virus.</p><p>Now, a months-long investigation by Racket and Public, which included interviews with the CIA whistleblower behind last month&#8217;s revelations and others in a position to know, reveals that Fauci not only visited the CIA but also pushed the <a href="https://public.substack.com/p/top-scientists-misled-congress-about">controversial</a> &#8220;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9">Proximal Origin of SARS CoV-2&#8221; paper</a>, published by Nature Medicine, in meetings at the State Department and the White House.</p></blockquote><p>He gave them fucking BONUSES! Not out of his own pocket mind you, the deepest pockets in the Federal Government. That&#8217;s how deep this cover-up went. He went as far as visiting the CIA to offer them fucking bribes to keep them from blowing his cover. What. A. World! </p><p>Now, two hours ago this comes out,</p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:155804351,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.public.news/p/cia-says-covid-likely-originated&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;CIA Says Covid Likely Originated From Lab In Tacit Admission Of Illegal Cover-Up&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;For years, scientists, government officials, and journalists called the idea that Covid-19 leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China a &#8220;conspiracy theory.&#8221; The lab leak hypothesis, they claimed, was &#8220;xenophobic,&#8221; &#8220;racist,&#8221; &#8220;destructive,&#8221; &#8220;prejudiced,&#8221; and &#8220;thoroughly debunked.&#8221; When Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton said in January 2020, &#8220;We still don&#8217;t know where the coronavirus originated,&#8221; the media swooped in to characterize his statements as &#8220;fringe.&#8221; Cotton was &#8220;playing a dangerous game,&#8221; said CNN. He was acting &#8220;Just like the Soviet propagandists who tried to convince the world that the CIA invented AIDS,&#8221; tweeted Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum.&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-01-27T01:36:38.911Z&quot;,&quot;like_count&quot;:314,&quot;comment_count&quot;:49,&quot;bylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:6616244,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Alex Gutentag&quot;,&quot;handle&quot;:&quot;alexgutentag&quot;,&quot;previous_name&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%2F16ea2485-4b6a-4cab-a734-f3af64e8b4a6_712x712.jpeg&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Journalist. 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He was acting &#8220;Just like the Soviet propagandists who tried to convince the world that the CIA invented AIDS,&#8221; tweeted Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum&#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; 314 likes &#183; 49 comments &#183; Alex Gutentag and Michael Shellenberger</div></a></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i6dh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F73466290-d047-4889-853b-20181a28163f_648x347.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>This cover-up, it just blows my fucking mind every time I go through it. I don&#8217;t like the idea of sending people to prison, maybe I&#8217;m a softy, but I kinda feel bad for the guy, but dammit, if I did something like this, and went to the extent that he did to cover it up, nobody would <em>feel bad</em> for me. I&#8217;d be in jail for my, what, he&#8217;s 80, at best, last two decades of life.</p><p>This guy was a government worker for 50 years, became a defense contractor for bioweapons research for the Department of Defense, botched the AIDS crisis on extraordinary levels, pushed drugs that he was invested in personally that turned out to be deadly, that is AZT, yea, <a href="https://blog.independent.org/2022/05/16/conflicts-interest-national-institutes-health/">he was paid $350 million in royalties for it and it was nearly as deadly as AIDS</a>, then was involved in the Anthrax attacks, although, it&#8217;s not clear to what extent. Now, he funds the lab that causes COVID and starts covering it up from day one. Repeatedly perjured himself over and over and over again, while he&#8217;s having email conversations admitting that he doesn't believe what he&#8217;s saying publicly, not to mention the fucking royalties he receives from the vaccines he pushed on us, <em>and</em> he was meeting with the fucking CIA&#8217;s medical team to offer them bribes at the taxpayer&#8217;s expense, DUDE! Biden might&#8217;ve got you a pardon, but who&#8217;s gonna save you from hell?!</p><div id="youtube2-8eIcYDryrn0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;8eIcYDryrn0&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;130&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/8eIcYDryrn0?start=130&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>Who will Sa-a-a-ve your soul&#8230;&#8212;Jewel</em></p><p>Thank you for reading! Bio-weapons history coming later this week. </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;0fdc5882-0123-4f50-98f3-ebeb5859a277&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;8eca8838-982d-472a-8392-8c792251adf1&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[He Might Be Right; Biden's Farewell and Farewell to Biden...]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Elon v Harris Bet; Then Breaking News as I type that I just couldn't miss;]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/he-might-be-right-bidens-farewell</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/he-might-be-right-bidens-farewell</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:02:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/T8vmhmilluM" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:154870781,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-elon&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:471923,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Sam Harris&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%2Fc08194ac-5a99-42fb-b27a-4a1d29723922_635x635.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Trouble with Elon&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;I didn&#8217;t set out to become an enemy of the world&#8217;s richest man, but I seem to have managed it all the same. Until this moment, I&#8217;ve resisted describing my falling out with Elon Musk in much detail, but as the man&#8217;s cultural influence has metastasized&#8212;and he continues to spread lies about me on the social media platform that he owns (Twitter/X)&#8212;it seems &#8230;&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-01-15T18:22:09.762Z&quot;,&quot;like_count&quot;:4833,&quot;comment_count&quot;:754,&quot;bylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:2045807,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Sam Harris&quot;,&quot;handle&quot;:&quot;samharris&quot;,&quot;previous_name&quot;:&quot;Sam Harri&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1b54c524-760d-4aeb-a2ee-d8ee40e0563a_635x635.jpeg&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:null,&quot;profile_set_up_at&quot;:&quot;2022-03-09T18:40:46.479Z&quot;,&quot;publicationUsers&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:2701215,&quot;user_id&quot;:2045807,&quot;publication_id&quot;:471923,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;admin&quot;,&quot;public&quot;:true,&quot;is_primary&quot;:false,&quot;publication&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:471923,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Sam Harris&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;samharris&quot;,&quot;custom_domain&quot;:null,&quot;custom_domain_optional&quot;:false,&quot;hero_text&quot;:&quot;Sam Harris is the author of five NYT bestsellers, host of the Making Sense podcast, and creator of the Waking Up app.&quot;,&quot;logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c08194ac-5a99-42fb-b27a-4a1d29723922_635x635.png&quot;,&quot;author_id&quot;:2045807,&quot;theme_var_background_pop&quot;:&quot;#FD5353&quot;,&quot;created_at&quot;:&quot;2024-05-30T00:00:00.000Z&quot;,&quot;rss_website_url&quot;:null,&quot;email_from_name&quot;:&quot;From Sam Harris&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Sam Harris&quot;,&quot;founding_plan_name&quot;:&quot;Founding Member&quot;,&quot;community_enabled&quot;:true,&quot;invite_only&quot;:false,&quot;payments_state&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:null,&quot;explicit&quot;:false,&quot;is_personal_mode&quot;:false}}],&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;utm_campaign&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="EmbeddedPostToDOM"><a class="embedded-post" native="true" href="https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-elon?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_campaign=post_embed&amp;utm_medium=web"><div class="embedded-post-header"><img class="embedded-post-publication-logo" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HozL!,w_56,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc08194ac-5a99-42fb-b27a-4a1d29723922_635x635.png"><span class="embedded-post-publication-name">Sam Harris</span></div><div class="embedded-post-title-wrapper"><div class="embedded-post-title">The Trouble with Elon</div></div><div class="embedded-post-body">I didn&#8217;t set out to become an enemy of the world&#8217;s richest man, but I seem to have managed it all the same. Until this moment, I&#8217;ve resisted describing my falling out with Elon Musk in much detail, but as the man&#8217;s cultural influence has metastasized&#8212;and he continues to spread lies about me on the social media platform that he owns (Twitter/X)&#8212;it seems &#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; 4833 likes &#183; 754 comments &#183; Sam Harris</div></a></div><p>Just really quickly, if at all possible, a few observations about Elon. </p><p>Now, obviously, neither of these people know who I am. I am simply a fan of <em>intellectuals,</em> and I&#8217;ve followed what they do, and who they are. I&#8217;ve also written many words of criticism of them both, Sam receiving the brunt of the criticism for <em>obvious</em> reasons, but what I know of them both, I had no clue that they were at a time friends, but Sam&#8217;s constant attack on Elon personally, and Elon&#8217;s attack on Sam personally, now make sense, only a friend would attack someone so passionately. Sam and Elon are anything but dispassionate, in spite of their oddly different monotone voices.</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. 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><blockquote><p><em>I bet that anyone who knows us both knows that I am telling the truth.</em></p></blockquote><p>I agree that this must be true, but what I&#8217;ve learned about Elon, is if anyone close to Elon depends on him in <em>any way</em>, I would urge you <em>not</em> to tell him when he&#8217;s wrong. </p><p>In Walter Isaacson's excellent book <em>Elon Musk</em>, I learned a few things about what it takes to be on the level that Elon is with everything, in painstakingly brutal ways he just throws people in the trash extremely easily, never to talk to them again or even acknowledge their existence. Something else I learned is I would <em>never </em>want to work for this guy. The job of being someone&#8217;s boss, hiring/firing, and what-not, you must understand what&#8217;s happening when you fire someone from their job, <em>you are taking their ability to survive in the world! To feed their children!</em> That should be handled with care, Elon doesn&#8217;t believe that. He throws them in the trash when they get the wrong answer to look for a new toy. Maybe that&#8217;s why, <em>I am where I am and he is where he is</em>, but what&#8217;s <em>that</em> <em>really</em> worth. Not enough to me I&#8217;d wager. People make mistakes, I believe making mistakes and learning from them are how people grow, Elon believes they don&#8217;t make mistakes, they <em>are</em> the mistake.</p><p>I've been in the position where it was my job to determine whether someone can come back from a mistake, and I&#8217;ve made both choices. I&#8217;ve always regretted not working with the person who fucked up, and quite honestly, I always ended up with someone worse.</p><p>My philosophy is <em>we all make mistakes, let&#8217;s work through them and try to figure it out</em>. After reading about Elon and seeing how he moves, it seems his philosophy is <em>NEEEEEXT! Unless he fucks up, then it&#8217;s who&#8217;s gonna take the blame for this, </em>instead of <em>how can we fix this? </em></p><p>Once again, this is a <em>Hundred-aire criticizing a Billionaire, </em>of course I&#8217;m not gonna agree. For transparencies sake, I use an anon account on X because I got a permanent ban the first year of his take-over&#8212; Follow me at <a href="https://x.com/Right2bareWords">Right2BareWords on X</a> or <em>Censorship Watch</em>&#8212;and I started writing after being so blown away by the censorship exposed in <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;2db386e7-12d0-4ba9-85a8-3d2f1f436791&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> and inspired by the writing of everyone involved, and reading <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Martin Gurri&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:54854075,&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%2F4c9a6e71-4a1b-4021-bb0b-517ac682f4ab_144x144.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;dc4fb1f5-f366-4c57-bb7c-7f1f719d9320&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>&#8217;s <em>Revolt of the Public </em>and <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Jacob Siegel&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:73092463,&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%2Feb31b946-36e5-4b98-b8ac-1f6ebfb6b4a3_1050x700.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;ce16e3db-fe05-4603-8113-d1c831b0f1f1&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>&#8217;s <em><a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation">A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century</a> </em>and then for Elon to start censoring my favorite writer and hero, <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Matt Taibbi&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:263053,&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%2Fb60afa88-bdf9-4916-8f80-e74791478593_2000x2000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;e2a37f3e-61ed-4e1b-8f25-fd34c195f619&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, censoring Substack articles, because of one move he didn&#8217;t agree with, attacking every single Substack writer, whether they acknowledge it or not, he is. I&#8217;ve truly soured on the guy. I really hope he does great work in his DOGE endeavor; I believe in it, I hope he cuts them where it hurts, without hurting the American people. I wish him the best, but the free speech advocate he is sold as, he is not. Anyone saying he is, has simply <em>not</em> been censored by him yet. Now, to other news&#8230;</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/he-might-be-right-bidens-farewell?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/he-might-be-right-bidens-farewell?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/p/he-might-be-right-bidens-farewell/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/he-might-be-right-bidens-farewell/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&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><h2>BREAKING NEWS PRESIDENT BIDEN-HOWER&#8217;S FAREWELL ADDRESS!!!</h2><div id="youtube2-T8vmhmilluM" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;T8vmhmilluM&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/T8vmhmilluM?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><ul><li><p>Okay, very clearly <em>&#8220;Ceasefire&#8221; &#8220;My Administration&#8221; </em>I don&#8217;t care <em>who</em> gets the shit!</p></li><li><p>&#8220;(b)ut whether we lead by the example of our power, or the power of our example&#8230;&#8221; <em>Cute but means nothing, &#8220;he said the same thing backwards, and the same thing was said backwards by him&#8221;, see. Speech writers are through, they know the jig is up. COME ON PEOPLE! IT&#8217;S HIS FINAL ADDRESS TO AMERICA! RELITIGATED ENDLESSLY! Jeez!</em></p></li><li><p>&#8220;we've created nearly 17 million new jobs, more than any other single Administration, in a single term&#8230;&#8221; <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/08/21/nx-s1-5084178/us-fewer-jobs-biden-initially-reported">Hmm&#8230;</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Fg53!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32cbdee1-c245-47ee-a5cf-166dc56d2f78_854x1036.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Fg53!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F32cbdee1-c245-47ee-a5cf-166dc56d2f78_854x1036.png 424w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Oh, well that&#8217;s interesting, are all these mysterious new jobs in the government?</p><blockquote><p><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/10/biden-jobs-government-bureaucrats-record/">President Joe Biden</a> is ending his term with a record number of government workers on taxpayer-funded payrolls, new jobs data reveals.</p><p>The number of state, federal and local government employees has <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USGOVT">risen</a> to new highs during Biden&#8217;s presidency, totaling about 23.5 million as of December, <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USGOVT">according</a> to Federal Reserve Economic Data updated with the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) jobs data released Friday. Under the Biden-Harris administration, the U.S. first <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/03/08/govt-jobs-records-gains-biden-unemployment-up/">broke the record</a> of total government jobs in February 2024, despite overall unemployment <a href="https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2024/unemployment-rate-at-3-9-percent-in-february-2024.htm#:~:text=The%20unemployment%20rate%20rose%20by,by%20334%2C000%20to%206.5%20million.">ticking up</a> the same month.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>We strengthened NATO, and Ukraine is still<strong> </strong>free&#8230;</p></blockquote><p>Ukraine is conscripting men in their 40&#8217;s and up because they can&#8217;t sacrifice anymore 20-year-olds without collapsing their population. That&#8217;s right, so many people have been killed that they&#8217;re worried the Ukrainian people might become fucking extinct. That&#8217;s a war that&#8217;s Joe Biden personally helped to exacerbate. That&#8217;s how fucking free Ukraine is, also they are due for an election as of last year. Their armies are slaves to conscription and their leader is a dictator clinging to power. The Ukrainians are <em>anything </em>but <em>free!</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/he-might-be-right-bidens-farewell?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/he-might-be-right-bidens-farewell?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><h2>Okay, this is dark!</h2><p>At 7:42, the lights go out. </p><p>For this guy whose first attempt at the presidency getting completely derailed by plagiarizing a beloved figure in Robert F. Kennedy, JFK, and Neil Kinnock, of the British Labour Party, Watch this:</p><div id="youtube2-fmuAB5MqP0Y" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;fmuAB5MqP0Y&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/fmuAB5MqP0Y?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>Then he ends by plagiarizing fucking Eisenhower&#8217;s address, the most famous address in presidential speech history, and co-opting his own term for whatever this shit looks like to him. He&#8217;s like, &#8220;Oh, the internet got someone elected! We <em>must</em> stop it!&#8221; He&#8217;s only upset because they&#8217;ve <em>lost</em> control, and his old ass doesn&#8217;t understand it. <em>Okay Joe, ***speaking slowly*** this is &#8220;The In-ter-net&#8221; it&#8217;s what gives us freedom's that you &#8220;can&#8217;t&#8221; control. It&#8217;s okay Joe, don&#8217;t be upset, it&#8217;s all for the best, your people have controlled our lives for far too long. Do you understand &#8220;too long&#8221;? It&#8217;s what you, and Pelosi, and Mitch McConnell did, stayed too long&#8230;</em></p><p>I love this fearmongering he&#8217;s doing, oh no! The <em>Tech-Bro Oligarchy</em> as opposed to what? A corporate oligarchy that&#8217;s <em>been </em>here marched in by him and his cohorts. Or worse yet, the military occupation that&#8217;s had control of Washington, DC, and in turn all of us for generations?!</p><p>Look, I love his words about workers and all that but it&#8217;s <em>real</em> fucking rich coming from a Washington insider who helped build the machine of oppression that Washington, DC is. A 50-year career! 50 years! Some people, a lot of people, <em>don&#8217;t see 50-years because of the system that you helped create Joe!</em></p><p>Make no mistake, this is one last run on our 1st amendment rights. No administration did <em>more</em> to suppress freedom, and prosecute free speech since&#8230; maybe Nixon, with Kissinger on his side, and this is one last call to censor American&#8217;s speech. Here, just scan one of these, it&#8217;s all there:</p><h3><a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/final-report-weaponization-federal-government">Final Report:</a> The Weaponization of the Federal Government</h3><blockquote><p>December 20, 2024</p><p><strong><a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases">Press Release</a></strong></p><p><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C.</strong> &#8211; Today, the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released its final 17,000-page staff report detailing the Select Subcommittee's findings about the Biden-Harris Administration's weaponized federal government.</p><p>Read part one of the final staff report <strong><a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2024-12/Part-1-Final-Weaponization-Report-Compilation.pdf">here</a></strong>.</p><p>Read part two of the final staff report <strong><a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2024-12/Part-2-Final-Weaponization-Report-Compilation.pdf">here</a></strong>.</p><p>Read part three of the final staff report <strong><a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2024-12/Part-3-Final-Weaponization-Report-Compilation.pdf">here</a></strong>.</p><p>Read part four of the final staff report <strong><a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2024-12/Part-4-%28Appendix%29-Final-Weaponization-Report-Compilation.pdf">here</a></strong>.</p><p>Through its oversight and investigations, the Select Subcommittee found numerous instances of the federal government being weaponized against the American people. For example, the Select Subcommittee: :</p><ul><li><p>Highlighted censorship by Big Tech that led to Mark Zuckerberg admitting Facebook was pressured by the Biden-Harris White House to censor Americans.</p></li><li><p>Empowered whistleblowers to come forward and have their voices heard despite retaliation by the Department of Justice and the FBI.</p></li><li><p>Protected the First Amendment, leading to the dissolution of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and other organizations that worked to censor Americans' speech.</p></li><li><p>Revealed the weaponization of federal law enforcement against the American people, leading to important policy changes from the Department of Justice and IRS.</p></li><li><p>Uncovered evidence that the Biden campaign coordinated with 51 former intelligence officials to interfere in the American electoral system weeks before the 2020 presidential election by signing the statement calling Hunter Biden's laptop disinformation. </p></li></ul></blockquote><p>He goes on to say:</p><blockquote><p>A dangerous concentration of power, in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people, the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America, of extreme wealth, power, and influence, that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead&#8230;</p></blockquote><p>And their names are Black Rock, Vanguard, State Street, and a new one, <a href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/a-housing-crisis-in-three-acts-act?r=iuq6q">Amherst Holding's</a>. <em>Oh, that&#8217;s not who you&#8217;re talking about?</em> </p><blockquote><p>American leadership and technology is an unparalleled source of innovation that can transform lives. We see the same dangers of the concentration of technology, power, and wealth. You know, (in his) farewell address, President <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCEOgamC1p0&amp;list=TLPQMTcwMTIwMjXQPl0X_i4Y4A&amp;index=1&amp;pp=gAQBiAQB">Eisenhower spoke of the dangers of the Military-Industrial Complex</a>. He warned us then about, and I quote, &#8220;the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power&#8221;, end of quote. Six days&#8212;six decades later, I'm concerned about the potential rise of a Tech-Industrial Complex, that could pose real dangers for our country, as well.</p></blockquote><p><em>This is telling, very telling, after what we&#8217;ve known since </em><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;8e29c6a2-7df1-4448-82d3-37e10e6e0882&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <em>came out, we&#8217;ve known about the censorship being dealt by the federal government under the Biden Administration, and with this turn by Zuckerberg, now everyone knows. Anyone who wants to believe it anyways.</em></p><blockquote><p>Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation, and disinformation, enabling the abuse of power&#8230;</p></blockquote><p><em>Yes! From you and your administration! Dude, we're finally able to see the real truth on the issues of the day. Not just what they want us to know! &#8220;We The People&#8221; are not buried by mis- and disinformation, these Washington bugs are being buried by the truth. The average American is simply smarter than the average politician. They just can&#8217;t wrap their minds around that. He is still thinking like he did in the 70&#8217;s when he started. I mean, obviously, he&#8217;s still plagiarizing speeches!</em></p><blockquote><p>The Free Press is crumbling, editors are disappearing, social media is giving up on factchecking, the truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit, we must hold the social platforms<strong> </strong>accountable to protect our children, our families, and their (Sic) very democracy from the abuse of power. </p></blockquote><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><em>If anyone is not aware, this is a veiled threat. Extortion, using children and families as the bait, and section 230, which makes a social media company able to operate without being sued for anything a user says that might be defamatory. What has been exposed for the past 3 years and as recently as Zuckerberg&#8217;s video and podcast appearance on the JRE is that the Biden Administration has been threatening Twitter/X, Facebook/Meta, and Google/Youtube, that if they <strong>do not</strong> take down posts that are against their narrative that they will strip the platform of it&#8217;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230">Section 230 immunities</a>, if the posts are not censored, and even sends <strong>lists of posts they want censored and American users they want censored. Not misinformation, factually accurate information.</strong> This is against the law. It is <a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/the-media-in-the-united-states/censorship-by-proxy">government</a> <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=948226">censorship by proxy </a>and has been, for a very long time, a legal precedent that the government isn&#8217;t allowed to do this.</em></p><blockquote><p>Meanwhile artificial intelligence is the most consequential technology of our time, perhaps of all time. Nothing offers more profound possibilities, and risk for our economy, and our security, our society, for very&#8212; for humanity. Artificial intelligence even has the potential to help us answer my call, to end cancer, as we know it, but unless safeguards are in place AI could spawn new threats to our rights, our way of life, to our privacy, how we work, and how we protect our nation. We must make sure AI is safe, and trustworthy, and good for all humankind. In the age of AI, it's more important than ever that the people must govern&#8230;and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!</p></blockquote><p><em>I&#8217;ll end with this. So, now they&#8217;d like control of AI. Let me put this &#8220;on the record&#8221; as one does, <strong>there is nothing more dangerous to OUR economy, our security, our society, and humanity, than for the government of ANY administration taking full control of Artificial Intelligence, NOTHING! </strong></em></p><p>A wise man, by the name of Michael Malice, once said, <strong>&#8220;When government works well, it's still oppressive. I mean, you know what government </strong><em><strong>working well</strong></em><strong> means, it's having more IRS agents, (to arrest people) it means, making sure no one gets away with </strong><em><strong>not</strong></em><strong> paying their taxes (That they&#8217;re forced to pay), that's efficient government.&#8221;</strong></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>Nothing is worse than <em>them</em> taking this control. <a href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/a-housing-crisis-in-three-acts-act?r=iuq6q">I recently wrote about AI in the hands of a real estate tycoon.</a> Imagine it in the hands of the most murderous gang in world history, the United States Federal Government. Thank you for reading&#8230; </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;a8a6bf71-4901-460f-84da-9d70f9ad939f&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;b7fd7a9c-69ef-4541-ba15-1f515d84cdbc&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p><div id="youtube2-0VWb384lfsE" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;0VWb384lfsE&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/0VWb384lfsE?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></p><p> </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. 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[I'm Running Out of Outrage]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good thing???]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/im-running-out-of-outrage</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/im-running-out-of-outrage</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:49:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P8e7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7824ee34-41cd-4143-9c77-9647862aaf36_500x334.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After the news of an <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-the-biden-and-trump-teams-worked-together-to-get-the-gaza-ceasefire-and-hostages-deal-done/ar-AA1xgEf1?ocid=BingNewsSerp">Israel/Gaza cease-fire negotiated by Donald Trump</a>, I might run out of issues in one week&#8217;s time.</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/world/julian-assange-plea-deal-hearing-intl/index.html">Free Julian Assange,</a> <em>check.</em></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8p95x04z8o">Stop murdering Palestinians</a>, <em>check. </em></p><p>If he carries out<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/can-trump-deliver-on-his-promise-to-end-russia-s-invasion-of-ukraine/ar-BB1rsmSc?ocid=BingNewsSerp"> his promised end to the Russia/Ukraine War</a>, and <a href="https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/in-one-week-donald-trump-will-decide-ross-ulbrichts-fate">pardons Ross Ulbricht</a>, also promised, dude can do whatever he wants in my book. He already fixed online censorship, with his <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-meta-went-maga-inside-mark-zuckerbergs-reset-with-donald-trump/ar-BB1r9hWB?ocid=BingNewsSerp">Zuckerberg pressure campaign </a>working.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P8e7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7824ee34-41cd-4143-9c77-9647862aaf36_500x334.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P8e7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7824ee34-41cd-4143-9c77-9647862aaf36_500x334.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P8e7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7824ee34-41cd-4143-9c77-9647862aaf36_500x334.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P8e7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7824ee34-41cd-4143-9c77-9647862aaf36_500x334.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P8e7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7824ee34-41cd-4143-9c77-9647862aaf36_500x334.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P8e7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7824ee34-41cd-4143-9c77-9647862aaf36_500x334.png" width="500" height="334" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7824ee34-41cd-4143-9c77-9647862aaf36_500x334.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:334,&quot;width&quot;:500,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&#8216;I don&#8217;t apologize anymore,&#8217; 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Oh Tulsi. Tulsi, Tulsi, Tulsi, you&#8217;re breaking my heart. </p><div id="youtube2-Li5vl8wASIQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Li5vl8wASIQ&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/Li5vl8wASIQ?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-NavdYrgW8EQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;NavdYrgW8EQ&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/NavdYrgW8EQ?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-tj9-cAxykmw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;tj9-cAxykmw&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/tj9-cAxykmw?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><h3>AND THIS ONE IS GUT WRENCHING&#8230;</h3><div id="youtube2-Li5vl8wASIQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Li5vl8wASIQ&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/Li5vl8wASIQ?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>More on this, <em>all of this,</em> later, just a late-night thought, had crossed my mind. By the way, all those in support of <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/pclob-report-reveals-new-abuses-fisa-section-702#:~:text=Unfortunately%2C%20intelligence%20agencies%20have%20used%20legal%20loopholes%20to,%E2%80%9Cbackdoor%E2%80%9D%20searches%20for%20Americans%E2%80%99%20private%20communications%20every%20year.">FISA Sec. 702</a>, that&#8217;s <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4012650-fbi-misused-surveillance-tool-fisa-section-702/">used to spy on millions </a>of Americans every year, just keep this in mind&#8230;</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/im-running-out-of-outrage?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/im-running-out-of-outrage?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><h1><a href="https://politicalmoonshine.com/2020/04/04/does-fisa-works-both-ways/">FISA WORKS BOTH WAYS&#8230; </a></h1><p>One in edit, will be out tomorrow. 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;541b289f-4cca-497b-8a5b-f88bca54acf3&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;03f32843-f815-418d-8854-f3658372ebc2&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did Castro's Son Just Quit His Job???]]></title><description><![CDATA[What Justin Tru-did this time???]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/did-castros-son-just-quit-his-job</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/did-castros-son-just-quit-his-job</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:47:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Osk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa518f0b-cb1d-410e-b3be-886ca94689fb_562x842.png" 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/$s_!SFg1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd71a6547-9981-463a-9c3e-dcfb85b8caaf_129x150.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SFg1!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd71a6547-9981-463a-9c3e-dcfb85b8caaf_129x150.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SFg1!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd71a6547-9981-463a-9c3e-dcfb85b8caaf_129x150.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SFg1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd71a6547-9981-463a-9c3e-dcfb85b8caaf_129x150.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SFg1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd71a6547-9981-463a-9c3e-dcfb85b8caaf_129x150.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SFg1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd71a6547-9981-463a-9c3e-dcfb85b8caaf_129x150.jpeg" width="444" height="516.2790697674419" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d71a6547-9981-463a-9c3e-dcfb85b8caaf_129x150.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:150,&quot;width&quot;:129,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:444,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image result for Fidel Castro Justin Trudeau. Size: 129 x 150. Source: www.barnhardt.biz&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="Image result for Fidel Castro Justin Trudeau. Size: 129 x 150. Source: www.barnhardt.biz" title="Image result for Fidel Castro Justin Trudeau. Size: 129 x 150. Source: www.barnhardt.biz" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SFg1!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd71a6547-9981-463a-9c3e-dcfb85b8caaf_129x150.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SFg1!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd71a6547-9981-463a-9c3e-dcfb85b8caaf_129x150.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SFg1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd71a6547-9981-463a-9c3e-dcfb85b8caaf_129x150.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SFg1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd71a6547-9981-463a-9c3e-dcfb85b8caaf_129x150.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Normally I adhere to very strict provisions of <em>never</em> sticking my nose into other people&#8217;s politics, but since Canada is <em>my </em>country, (Don&#8217;t believe that? Ask my mother, <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Cathy&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:44346279,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/592efefe-d3cd-4668-8805-1672952991dd_144x144.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;a60a0135-aef7-43e5-b235-b32ad844a452&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, where she lives!) I&#8217;d like to talk about <em>my</em> Prime Minister,  my favorite PM by the way. Of all my other PM&#8217;s, he is the best. </p><h2><em>&#8220;Justin Tru-DONT&#8217;s that Justin Tru-DID!&#8221;</em> </h2><p>But first let's answer the internet&#8217;s favorite question about the paternity <em>of</em> Dear Leader.</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/2821576/margaret-trudeau-ted-kennedy-affair/">1st piece of evidence:</a> Margaret Trudeau was a <em>wild girl! </em> She had an affair with American Senator Ted Kennedy. Luckily, he didn&#8217;t <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaquiddick_incident">murder her by driving her off a bridge</a> into a pond and leave her there.</p><blockquote><p><a href="https://people.com/justin-trudeau-father-pierre-trudeau-both-ended-marriages-as-prime-minister-7569547">Margaret met Pierre</a> when she was just 18 years old while he was 47. After a secret romance, they wed in 1971, while Pierre was already in office. Justin was born nine months later. Margaret, now 74, revealed in <a href="https://clicks.trx-hub.com/xid/pmc_0aaa4_sheknows?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fdp%2F1443431842%3Ftag%3Dskaffiliate-20%26linkCode%3Dogi%26th%3D1%26psc%3D1%26language%3Den_US%26asc_source%3Dweb%26asc_campaign%3Dweb%26asc_refurl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.sheknows.com%252Fentertainment%252Farticles%252F2821576%252Fmargaret-trudeau-ted-kennedy-affair%252F&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sheknows.com%2Fentertainment%2Farticles%2F2821576%2Fmargaret-trudeau-ted-kennedy-affair%2F&amp;ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&amp;event_type=click&amp;trx-iid=iid1736259044118ggc">her 2015 memoir</a> <em>The Time of Your Life</em> that she had a brief romance with Ted Kennedy, the youngest Kennedy sibling and brother of former president <a href="https://www.sheknows.com/tags/jfk/">John F. Kennedy</a>. Of their first meeting, <a href="https://chatelaine.com/living/ted-kennedy-jack-nicholson-and-more-juicy-bits-from-margaret-trudeaus-new-book/">Margaret wrote</a>: &#8220;Sex is a basic instinct, and sexual attraction can be incredibly powerful. I remember the first time I met Teddy Kennedy. We were at a state dinner in New York. I would later come to know him as a very kind, thoughtful person. But that evening, I felt such a pull toward him that we couldn&#8217;t even stand within a couple meters of one another. Pierre was not amused.&#8221;</p></blockquote></li></ul><p>Also, Jack Nicholson:</p><blockquote><p>Margaret&#8217;s memoir also revealed a fling with actor <a href="https://www.sheknows.com/tags/jack-nicholson/">Jack Nicholson</a> about a year after separating from Pierre. &#8220;The only man I ever dated who enjoyed freedom as much as I did was Jack Nicholson. He was a wonderful, funny, truly free man. He understood that marriage and monogamy were simply not ideally suited to his life as a movie star. How I loved my time with him,&#8221; she wrote of their fling.</p></blockquote><p>And left her husband Pierre to go partying with <em>The Rolling Stones</em>, where <em>who knows what happened!</em></p><p>Next Piece, the stunning pictures:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Osk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa518f0b-cb1d-410e-b3be-886ca94689fb_562x842.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Osk!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa518f0b-cb1d-410e-b3be-886ca94689fb_562x842.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Osk!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa518f0b-cb1d-410e-b3be-886ca94689fb_562x842.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Osk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa518f0b-cb1d-410e-b3be-886ca94689fb_562x842.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Osk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa518f0b-cb1d-410e-b3be-886ca94689fb_562x842.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Osk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa518f0b-cb1d-410e-b3be-886ca94689fb_562x842.png" width="562" height="842" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/aa518f0b-cb1d-410e-b3be-886ca94689fb_562x842.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:842,&quot;width&quot;:562,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;r/pics - Justin Trudeau and Fidel Castro (a response to Prince Harry and Dianna's instructor)&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="r/pics - Justin Trudeau and Fidel Castro (a response to Prince Harry and Dianna's instructor)" title="r/pics - Justin Trudeau and Fidel Castro (a response to Prince Harry and Dianna's instructor)" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Osk!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa518f0b-cb1d-410e-b3be-886ca94689fb_562x842.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Osk!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa518f0b-cb1d-410e-b3be-886ca94689fb_562x842.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Osk!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa518f0b-cb1d-410e-b3be-886ca94689fb_562x842.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1Osk!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faa518f0b-cb1d-410e-b3be-886ca94689fb_562x842.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><figcaption class="image-caption">Right-Fidel Castro; Left-Justin Trudeau;</figcaption></figure></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!58n7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71db7b65-7f80-48a2-a8bf-3c3a474ef2d6_400x225.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!58n7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71db7b65-7f80-48a2-a8bf-3c3a474ef2d6_400x225.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!58n7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71db7b65-7f80-48a2-a8bf-3c3a474ef2d6_400x225.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!58n7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71db7b65-7f80-48a2-a8bf-3c3a474ef2d6_400x225.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!58n7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71db7b65-7f80-48a2-a8bf-3c3a474ef2d6_400x225.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!58n7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71db7b65-7f80-48a2-a8bf-3c3a474ef2d6_400x225.png" width="400" height="225" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/71db7b65-7f80-48a2-a8bf-3c3a474ef2d6_400x225.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:225,&quot;width&quot;:400,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;What is the Fidel Castro-Justin Trudeau conspiracy theory?&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="What is the Fidel Castro-Justin Trudeau conspiracy theory?" title="What is the Fidel Castro-Justin Trudeau conspiracy theory?" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!58n7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71db7b65-7f80-48a2-a8bf-3c3a474ef2d6_400x225.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!58n7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71db7b65-7f80-48a2-a8bf-3c3a474ef2d6_400x225.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!58n7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71db7b65-7f80-48a2-a8bf-3c3a474ef2d6_400x225.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!58n7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71db7b65-7f80-48a2-a8bf-3c3a474ef2d6_400x225.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><ul><li><p>3rd piece of evidence: These pictures were taken during an official visit with Pierre Trudeau.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_g!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7997c54-e09f-48f9-8b4d-8bcaec3166a2_1024x731.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_g!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7997c54-e09f-48f9-8b4d-8bcaec3166a2_1024x731.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_g!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7997c54-e09f-48f9-8b4d-8bcaec3166a2_1024x731.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_g!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7997c54-e09f-48f9-8b4d-8bcaec3166a2_1024x731.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_g!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7997c54-e09f-48f9-8b4d-8bcaec3166a2_1024x731.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_g!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7997c54-e09f-48f9-8b4d-8bcaec3166a2_1024x731.jpeg" width="1024" height="731" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e7997c54-e09f-48f9-8b4d-8bcaec3166a2_1024x731.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:731,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (right) alongside his wife Margaret (centre) and Cuban President Fidel Castro in 1976. Photo: AP&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="Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (right) alongside his wife Margaret (centre) and Cuban President Fidel Castro in 1976. Photo: AP" title="Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (right) alongside his wife Margaret (centre) and Cuban President Fidel Castro in 1976. Photo: AP" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_g!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7997c54-e09f-48f9-8b4d-8bcaec3166a2_1024x731.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_g!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7997c54-e09f-48f9-8b4d-8bcaec3166a2_1024x731.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_g!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7997c54-e09f-48f9-8b4d-8bcaec3166a2_1024x731.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Aa_g!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7997c54-e09f-48f9-8b4d-8bcaec3166a2_1024x731.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></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Sbq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8812fb5d-3e56-4af3-a217-a322a9dc7e56_1024x879.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Sbq!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8812fb5d-3e56-4af3-a217-a322a9dc7e56_1024x879.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Sbq!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8812fb5d-3e56-4af3-a217-a322a9dc7e56_1024x879.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Sbq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8812fb5d-3e56-4af3-a217-a322a9dc7e56_1024x879.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Sbq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8812fb5d-3e56-4af3-a217-a322a9dc7e56_1024x879.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Sbq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8812fb5d-3e56-4af3-a217-a322a9dc7e56_1024x879.jpeg" width="1024" height="879" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8812fb5d-3e56-4af3-a217-a322a9dc7e56_1024x879.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:879,&quot;width&quot;:1024,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Margaret Trudeau smiles as Cuban President Fidel Castro holds her youngest son Michel after the Trudeaus arrived in Havana, Cuba, in 1976. Photo: AP&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="Margaret Trudeau smiles as Cuban President Fidel Castro holds her youngest son Michel after the Trudeaus arrived in Havana, Cuba, in 1976. Photo: AP" title="Margaret Trudeau smiles as Cuban President Fidel Castro holds her youngest son Michel after the Trudeaus arrived in Havana, Cuba, in 1976. Photo: AP" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Sbq!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8812fb5d-3e56-4af3-a217-a322a9dc7e56_1024x879.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Sbq!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8812fb5d-3e56-4af3-a217-a322a9dc7e56_1024x879.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Sbq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8812fb5d-3e56-4af3-a217-a322a9dc7e56_1024x879.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Sbq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8812fb5d-3e56-4af3-a217-a322a9dc7e56_1024x879.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">Fidel and Miss Trudeau while Castro holds Michel Trudeau</figcaption></figure></div><ul><li><p>4th piece of evidence: Dates.</p></li></ul><p>Justin Trudeau's Date of Birth: December 25th, 1971 (Christmas!)</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-65!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49d80890-0410-470f-8132-03a185721422_689x293.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-65!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49d80890-0410-470f-8132-03a185721422_689x293.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-65!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49d80890-0410-470f-8132-03a185721422_689x293.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-65!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49d80890-0410-470f-8132-03a185721422_689x293.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-65!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49d80890-0410-470f-8132-03a185721422_689x293.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-65!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49d80890-0410-470f-8132-03a185721422_689x293.png" width="689" height="293" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/49d80890-0410-470f-8132-03a185721422_689x293.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:293,&quot;width&quot;:689,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:92384,&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/$s_!G-65!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49d80890-0410-470f-8132-03a185721422_689x293.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-65!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49d80890-0410-470f-8132-03a185721422_689x293.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-65!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49d80890-0410-470f-8132-03a185721422_689x293.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G-65!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F49d80890-0410-470f-8132-03a185721422_689x293.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>Now, when did that visit to Cuba take place?</p><div id="youtube2-La5h6mW-fWA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;La5h6mW-fWA&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/La5h6mW-fWA?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>Damn.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C5YA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c231fb8-ce19-4837-aa55-fb552b8f2143_683x133.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C5YA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c231fb8-ce19-4837-aa55-fb552b8f2143_683x133.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C5YA!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c231fb8-ce19-4837-aa55-fb552b8f2143_683x133.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C5YA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c231fb8-ce19-4837-aa55-fb552b8f2143_683x133.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C5YA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c231fb8-ce19-4837-aa55-fb552b8f2143_683x133.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C5YA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c231fb8-ce19-4837-aa55-fb552b8f2143_683x133.png" width="683" height="133" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9c231fb8-ce19-4837-aa55-fb552b8f2143_683x133.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:133,&quot;width&quot;:683,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&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="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C5YA!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c231fb8-ce19-4837-aa55-fb552b8f2143_683x133.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C5YA!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c231fb8-ce19-4837-aa55-fb552b8f2143_683x133.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C5YA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c231fb8-ce19-4837-aa55-fb552b8f2143_683x133.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C5YA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c231fb8-ce19-4837-aa55-fb552b8f2143_683x133.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Uh-Oh&#8230;</figcaption></figure></div><p> DAMN!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" 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Crushed. </strong></em></p><p>It looks like the visit from the pictures was in &#8216;76, 5 years after Justin was born, but then again, when did <em>Back to the Future</em> come out?! Maybe? </p><h2>Margie Trudeau</h2><p>No doubt, his Momma was an unruly one. She is now a public speaker and a Mental Health Advocate, as she considers the <em>antics</em> in her life a result of declining mental health. She&#8217;s <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=ae9b1f72286121c7f8d8d981e78e766687c5899f152c98478580c222a38a328aJmltdHM9MTczNjI5NDQwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=margaret+trudeau+books&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9CZXlvbmQtUmVhc29uLU1hcmdhcmV0LVRydWRlYXUvZHAvMDQ0ODIzMDM3Mg&amp;ntb=1">written</a> <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=1fc5fbaf923e5ce0a6d5a1339a92f5c5559aa519c7cd39484fa9df820cfa51b6JmltdHM9MTczNjI5NDQwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=margaret+trudeau+books&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYW1hem9uLmNvbS9DaGFuZ2luZy1NeS1NaW5kLU1hcmdhcmV0LVRydWRlYXUvZHAvMDA2MjA2NDg3OA&amp;ntb=1">several</a> memoirs about her life and the effect it had on her mental. She now gives public speeches about mental health in general, during which she advocates for&#8230;. Less&#8230; fun? It sounds like she had the greatest &#8220;Mental Health Decline&#8221; in history. Some people lose their home and talk to trees. Murder their roommate and drive him around the city. This lady fucked a Senator, Jack Nicholson, and partied with the fucking <em>Rolling Stones! </em>Quite the crisis&#8230;  </p><div id="youtube2-i1b0vhLEE8s" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;i1b0vhLEE8s&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/i1b0vhLEE8s?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 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/did-castros-son-just-quit-his-job?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/did-castros-son-just-quit-his-job?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><h2>So, What About Justin?</h2><p>Well, Justin <em>might&#8217;ve</em> fucked Ted Kennedy too&#8230; Wouldn&#8217;t that be great? Now, that would be <em>the</em> story! If Justin resignation was actually him succumbing to blackmail from him having an affair with Ted Kennedy. It&#8217;s also why he and his wife separated and why he was seen dancing at a Taylor Swift concert, on the <em>Era&#8217;s Tour</em>. That would be the funniest, most on-the-nose, news story in ages! </p><p>So, Justin Trudeau has made the decision to resign from his post as Prime Minister of Canada after 9 years <em>holding space</em> in the Prime Minister&#8217;s office. It turns out he <em>was </em>getting blackmailed, but by his own party, akin to college football coaches getting a moving truck parked in front of their home when they have a bad season. Canada&#8217;s had a <em>bad </em>season.</p><p>This comes after scrutiny for things like the resignation of Chrystia Freedland after her being critical of his inability to deal with another 4 years of Trump, which strikes me as funny, people here are talking about moving there to get away from Trump, and leaders there are feuding with each other over the guy! </p><div id="youtube2-aUPbg-twlmU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;aUPbg-twlmU&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/aUPbg-twlmU?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>At the peak of Justin&#8217;s reign as Prime Minister, his Approval Rating was at 65%, it has, as of <em>before</em> his resignation speech, reached an all-time-low of 16%. Second only to Dick Cheney in terribility (13%) after instituting a <em>Torture Program.</em></p><p>So, how could this happen? He didn&#8217;t kill a million Iraqis or open &#8220;Black Sites&#8221; which were secret prisons used for torture. Well, it seemed to happen pretty quickly:  </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>So, according to my sources in Canada (Mom), &#8220;In general, people aren&#8217;t happy with him, for much the same reasons as the Americans.&#8221; </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>Like James Carville, the Neoliberal Godfather used to say, <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s the economy, stupid.&#8221;</em></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/did-castros-son-just-quit-his-job?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/did-castros-son-just-quit-his-job?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>In Hamilton, ON, Canada, where my mom is gas is at $6.40 a gallon, eggs are $4.50 and up, and Becel, which I had to Google and turns out to be margarine, have risen from $6 to $9! Fucking butter! It used to be $1.50. It was the cheapest thing you would buy in a grocery store outing! How does this happen? No doubt, the same way it happened here. </p><p>I tracked down a few months ago, that our current inflation problem here in the US was caused by the $4.3 Trillion dollars we printed and injected into the economy during Covid with the CARES Act, by the Trump Administration and the American Rescue Plan, by the Biden Administration, while producing 0 goods or services thanks to the lockdowns. Besides what was being produced by the largest corporations in the world, but they weren&#8217;t spending the money back into the economy, they were putting it into their pockets. It seemed strange at the time, that the government could just produce money from thin air like that. It <em>seemed </em>strange because it was. The government <em>can</em> conjure up the money from thin air, but it&#8217;s extremely shortsighted. It seems like every Western country got by during Covid the same way and Canada was no different. </p><h3>Speech Crimes &amp; Other Things Orwell Warned Us About</h3><blockquote><p>You know what the job of reporters is? The job of reporters is to go out and say, <em>&#8220;why are you on the streets?&#8221;</em>, <em>&#8220;What brought you here?&#8221;</em>, <em>&#8220;Why are you here with your kids?&#8221;</em>, <em>&#8220;Well, you've got a bouncy castle in the middle of Ottawa, that's a bit strange.&#8221;</em> Ask them questions, just find out the story, but you know what? The government didn't want that in Canada. </p><p>Your prime minister decided in advance that these people were, oh what did he do, all the modern, uh, excommunications, they were <em>Nazis</em>, or they were white supremacists, they were <em>anti</em>semites, they were probably homophobes, they were misogynists, they were probably transphobes&#8217;, etc, etc, etc. </p><p>He did all the things you do in the modern political age if you want to just, defenestrate somebody who's awkward to you, and then he brings in the <em>Emergency Powers Act.</em> </p><p>Now, at such a time what would the mainstream media do? It would question it; it would question it. The Canadian mainstream media did not! The Canadian mainstream media acted as an amen chorus of the Canadian government. </p><p>I will give you a couple of examples, but ladies and gentlemen, I could go on for hours with examples of this. </p><p>You had a CBC host describing the <em>Freedom Convoy</em> as a quote, <em>&#8220;feral mob&#8221;</em>, you had a Toronto Star columnist saying, quote&#8212;sorry for the language&#8212;<em>&#8220;(I)t's a homegrown hate farm that was then Jet fueled by an American right-funded rat fucking operation&#8221;</em>, Jesus, they can't even write at these papers anymore. CBC said that<em> &#8220;two indigenous women were so scared to go outside in Ottawa because of racist violence&#8221;</em>, didn't bother to mention that indigenous drummers had led the truckers in an <em>&#8220;O&#8217; Canada&#8221;</em> rendition. The National Observer said that &#8220;the many black and Indigenous Freedom Convoy supporters were in fact duped by the truckers&#8221;. <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-trucker-convoy-shows-how-canadians-are-being-sucked-into-larger/">A Globe and Mail</a> reporter said, <em>&#8220;my 13-year-old son told me to tell protesters &#8216;I'm not a Jew&#8217;, out of fear of antisemitic violence&#8221;</em>, without mentioning that one of the leaders of the Convoy was himself Jewish. </p><p>Now, why is this so rancid? Utterly, utterly rancid and corrupt?! <strong>B</strong>ecause in this country your media, your mainstream media, is funded by the government. <em><strong>A totally corrupted system!</strong></em> </p><p>In 2018, oh election year, coincidence, the Canadian media was given $595 million dollars over five years, the Toronto Star estimated it was going to be getting $3 million dollars from the government, in the first half of the year. It went on and on. So you see, the government in Canada can tell people to, to, they can tell the banks to shut down people's bank accounts, oh yeah, your government can do that, and if you're happy with that, just think about what would happen if the shoe was on the other foot. </p><p>The government <em>can</em> do that, but in Canada, they can also tell the media what to do! And the media does the bidding of the Canadian government, that isn't a free society's media! I've seen unfree countries all my life but this, in a developed liberal democracy like Canada, is a disgrace! </p><p><strong>We're not saying don't read the mainstream media, we're just saying don't trust them</strong></p></blockquote><div id="youtube2-nvaf7XOOFHc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;nvaf7XOOFHc&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;1472&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/nvaf7XOOFHc?start=1472&amp;rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_3kg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc928d87-82bb-4e49-8ea3-75f635500662_644x112.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_3kg!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc928d87-82bb-4e49-8ea3-75f635500662_644x112.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_3kg!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc928d87-82bb-4e49-8ea3-75f635500662_644x112.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_3kg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc928d87-82bb-4e49-8ea3-75f635500662_644x112.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_3kg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc928d87-82bb-4e49-8ea3-75f635500662_644x112.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_3kg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc928d87-82bb-4e49-8ea3-75f635500662_644x112.jpeg" width="644" height="112" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fc928d87-82bb-4e49-8ea3-75f635500662_644x112.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:112,&quot;width&quot;:644,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:20673,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_3kg!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc928d87-82bb-4e49-8ea3-75f635500662_644x112.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_3kg!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc928d87-82bb-4e49-8ea3-75f635500662_644x112.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_3kg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc928d87-82bb-4e49-8ea3-75f635500662_644x112.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_3kg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc928d87-82bb-4e49-8ea3-75f635500662_644x112.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>That was taken from the <em>Munk Debates. </em>Famously held in Canada, and that was Douglas Murray in his opening of a debate that made history, changing more minds than any Munk Debate <em>ever. </em>The subject, <em>&#8220;Be it resolved, do not trust the Mainstream Media&#8221;</em> and Murray opened his scathing rebuke on Canada. </p><p>Douglas started here because it was the <em>worst case</em> of government corruption at the time in any western country. And it was led by the government-funded <em>mainstream media.</em> No one seen it coming. Lots of otherwise free thinking individuals already believed America to be a <em>freedom-free corridor</em> it&#8217;s authoritarian policies post-9/11, but Canada, our great neutral iceberg to the North, they can&#8217;t take a ride down Hitler Highway! But it seemed it did, all under the guise of progressivism, and the help of the Emergencies Act.</p><h2>The Freedom Convoy</h2><p>Starting January 22nd, 2022, and running until February 23rd, The Freedom Convoy was a pro-bodily autonomy movement, against vaccine mandates during the Covid years. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aDlm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9eafe18c-09e3-4cb8-8453-3a77a905c97f_735x238.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aDlm!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9eafe18c-09e3-4cb8-8453-3a77a905c97f_735x238.png 424w, 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&#8220;antisemites&#8221;, even though the main organizer was Jewish, as &#8220;far-right&#8221;, although there was an extremely diverse group of viewpoints, and as &#8220;antivaxxer&#8217;s&#8221; although <em>most </em>of them were up-to-date on all their vaccinations, including COVID. </p><div id="youtube2-AAOGkd2Xpv8" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;AAOGkd2Xpv8&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/AAOGkd2Xpv8?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>Using this slander, he was able to Garner support to pass the <em>Emergencies Act</em>, and that&#8217;s when things took a quite nefarious turn. </p><p>Trudeau in front of Parliament:</p><blockquote><p><em>The invocation of the &#8220;Emergencies Act&#8221; is something that is extremely serious, and that we have taken extremely seriously. I&#8212; it followed specific steps that we're taking, that will continue in this house, that followed consultation with the premiers, and it gives the tools in a proportionate and responsible way to the officers of jurisdiction, to be able to end these illegal blockades. This will be a moment that will be studied in the history books, and what people will see was the conservatives never stop playing personal partisan politics.</em></p></blockquote><p>Yes, Justin. It most definitely <em>will </em>be studied but not for the reasons <em>you </em>think!</p><p>After the Emergencies act was passed Trudeau used its precedent to shut these protests down via force. But that&#8217;s not the most unprecedented move that was made. Using police to break up protest movements via force is routine. What he did next however, was not. He started attacking them financially, and not <em>just</em> them, anyone who donated to their movement, their cause. </p><p>People at home in say, Michigan, or California, Florida, Hawaii, literally anywhere globally that see a YouTube video, like the channel <em><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=bfec4cbdd558a225ec939291224e5555ee74068da403ea47f7ead3db2eff1657JmltdHM9MTczNjI5NDQwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=Ottawalks&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vYy9PdHRhd2Fsa3M&amp;ntb=1">Ottawalks</a></em>, which was an Ottawa based YouTube channel that live streams walks around town, and gained prominence when the protests took off, those walks became global news. I watched them every night. If I decided to donate money to the trucker&#8217;s protest, which had a link in the description, not only would they intercept the money before it gets to the movement, but also the person donating would <em><strong>HAVE THEIR ACCOUNT FROZEN, AS IF THEY WERE CRIMINALS AND MADE THEIR MONEY BY CRIMINAL MEANS! </strong></em> </p><p>I would&#8217;ve donated to this in a heartbeat if I&#8217;d had the money at the time. This happened to people like me, who live paycheck to paycheck. Who seen a movement they believed in, had $5 they could spare, and chose to donate to it. 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!quId!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35d000b2-38d2-45d9-bb99-96a32362c28a_895x205.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!quId!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35d000b2-38d2-45d9-bb99-96a32362c28a_895x205.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!quId!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35d000b2-38d2-45d9-bb99-96a32362c28a_895x205.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The next step is living downtown, in a donated tent, eating at soup kitchens to survive. Oh, and your job? <em>That&#8217;s</em> gone. Imagine trying to explain to payroll at your job that no financial institution will allow you to bank with them and now you need paper checks issued every week. You&#8217;ll lose that job <em>so</em> damn fast! As soon as you get it out of your mouth, <em>&#8220;Well, I donated money to a movement that&#8217;s being accused of antisemitism, and white supremacy. They're not, but the Canadian government&#8212;&#8221;</em>. That&#8217;s as far as you&#8217;d get. The Emergencies Act gave Justin Trudeau&#8217;s administration <em>this </em>authority.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REA3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb1f6a3ba-59f2-49d1-a6c5-4e309ed0eb9f_977x439.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REA3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb1f6a3ba-59f2-49d1-a6c5-4e309ed0eb9f_977x439.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!REA3!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb1f6a3ba-59f2-49d1-a6c5-4e309ed0eb9f_977x439.png 848w, 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By the way, <em>I</em> supported it. I was <em>all in</em> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests">George Floyd movement</a>. I live in <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Breonna_Taylor">Louisville, KY, Breonna Taylor</a> was fucking huge, she lived in the same part of town as me, not the same neighborhood, but close, and I was infuriated by it. I used to buy chicken from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests">David McAtee, the barbecue man</a> that got killed by the police during the protests. I left there 30 mins before it happened, the National Guard came in hard to enforce curfews, and he was killed. What I <em>was </em>against in all that was the same government that was not only <em>okay</em> with that,<a href="https://lifehacker.com/how-to-donate-to-a-local-bail-fund-for-protestors-1843827832"> was also </a><em><a href="https://lifehacker.com/how-to-donate-to-a-local-bail-fund-for-protestors-1843827832">promoting</a> <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/george-floyd-protests-bail-funds-police-brutality-black-lives-matter-1008259/">donation platforms that would pay bail for protestors</a> and sometimes let out criminals who would go on to commit murders in my community.</em> By the way, <em>nothing happened to the people who donated to that cause, our government here, media, your government there, the media, supported that movement, so they faced 0 repercussions. I am just saying&#8230; </em></p><p>Then, <em>this happened&#8230;</em></p><div id="youtube2-yM9KsovJnj0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;yM9KsovJnj0&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/yM9KsovJnj0?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 class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t31U!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ce07333-4498-46c6-9366-315b7b66b52d_807x35.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t31U!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ce07333-4498-46c6-9366-315b7b66b52d_807x35.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t31U!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ce07333-4498-46c6-9366-315b7b66b52d_807x35.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t31U!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ce07333-4498-46c6-9366-315b7b66b52d_807x35.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t31U!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ce07333-4498-46c6-9366-315b7b66b52d_807x35.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t31U!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ce07333-4498-46c6-9366-315b7b66b52d_807x35.png" width="807" height="35" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5ce07333-4498-46c6-9366-315b7b66b52d_807x35.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:35,&quot;width&quot;:807,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:18658,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t31U!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ce07333-4498-46c6-9366-315b7b66b52d_807x35.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t31U!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ce07333-4498-46c6-9366-315b7b66b52d_807x35.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t31U!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ce07333-4498-46c6-9366-315b7b66b52d_807x35.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t31U!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5ce07333-4498-46c6-9366-315b7b66b52d_807x35.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><div id="youtube2-_PvTxrBaly0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;_PvTxrBaly0&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/_PvTxrBaly0?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; 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Collapses in on Itself</h2><p>Everyone who was paying attention at the time <em>knew</em> that this was an attack on freedom. As of January 2024, the courts agreed too.</p><blockquote><p><em>In a landmark ruling, a Federal Court judge ruled Tuesday that the Liberal government unconstitutionally and unjustifiably invoked the Emergencies Act in response to ongoing Freedom Convoy blockades in early 2022.</em></p></blockquote><h2>Online Harms Act</h2><p>In my <a href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/2024-recap-welcome-to-america-the?r=iuq6q">recent recap I went through this</a>, so I&#8217;ll be quoting directly from that, but the point is, another step Trudeau took towards the next season of the <em>Back Mirror </em>happened earlier this year with the <em>Online Harms Act:</em></p><div id="youtube2-cWIrNhqn1nU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;cWIrNhqn1nU&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/cWIrNhqn1nU?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>Obviously, everyone agrees about child exploitation on the internet, but that&#8217;s already illegal. This creates a commission, not in a courthouse setting where you&#8217;d expect to lose your civil rights, but a damn commission, like a board meeting, who decides what is <em>harmful, and </em>if it pertains to you. Plus, It has infrastructure to reward informing on other people and sets up a fund to pay them for it. a snitch line! <em>I can&#8217;t imagine anyone would abuse that&#8230; Also, it raises the penalty for &#8220;online harm&#8221; from 5 years which is already crazy, up to a life sentence, for &#8220;possible, alleged hate speech&#8221; and it goes retroactively to things you might&#8217;ve said in the past. Consider this, one of Louis CK&#8217;s, obviously joking, but very offensive pedophile jokes&#8230; hate speech? Exploiting children? It&#8217;s just a joke, its words, does he get charged by this &#8220;Ombudsman&#8221;, under this bill? He could.</em></p></blockquote><p>Through <em>all</em> of this Justin&#8217;s approval rating gets lower and lower and lower.</p><p>Check out this!</p><div id="youtube2-CGtSekJ9s8k" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;CGtSekJ9s8k&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/CGtSekJ9s8k?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-O400b6-5Eus" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;O400b6-5Eus&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/O400b6-5Eus?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>Let&#8217;s be honest, the only reasonable time for a leader of a country to even possess tickets to <em><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/music/taylor-swift-s-eras-tour-brought-in-a-record-2-billion-plus/ar-AA1x2lq4?ocid=BingNewsSerp">Taylor Swift&#8217;s Era&#8217;s Tour</a></em> is if he&#8217;s buying them for a poor family whose daughter&#8217;s dream was to see Taylor Swift, after he&#8217;s provided them with everything else, they need to be self-sufficient.</p><p>After all of this, pressure mounting on Trudeau, a monumental scene took place a couple weeks ago on Canada&#8217;s Senate floor. His own party calling for him to resign from his own party. </p><div id="youtube2-VvYPaEO_4gQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;VvYPaEO_4gQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;458&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/VvYPaEO_4gQ?start=458&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>Don&#8217;t forget Trudeau honoring a soldier who fought Russians during WW2, <em><strong>from the German side!</strong></em></p><div id="youtube2-JsilnLnyWCA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;JsilnLnyWCA&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/JsilnLnyWCA?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-trvykhceTds" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;trvykhceTds&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/trvykhceTds?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>And banning handguns because children were killed in America&#8230; With a rifle!</strong></em></p><div id="youtube2-qDthXiLMYis" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;qDthXiLMYis&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/qDthXiLMYis?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>But he did win that boxing match that one time&#8230;right????</p><div id="youtube2-XuSpZ3_5pTc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;XuSpZ3_5pTc&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/XuSpZ3_5pTc?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-PBThlIGUHAI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;PBThlIGUHAI&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/PBThlIGUHAI?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>Basically, the same backlash that caused the seat change here in America is happening there and is happening everywhere. There&#8217;s a populist takeover happening in every Western country. A &#8220;<em>for the people&#8221; </em>movement. Whoever seems more <em>for the people </em>is who is coming out on top. And the most disconnected, elitist figures are being pushed out. The left had better <em>get familiar</em> if they plan to have a future in leadership. I&#8217;d love to see the <em>Anti-War, Pro-Freedom wing of the Libertarians</em> replace the Progressive Party, at least they are against war,  because the <em>technocratic, pro-genocide, globalist elite wing </em>of the Democratic Party, is just<em> not cutting it, and the entirety of the populace agrees.</em></p><p>Thank you for reading&#8230;</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;f352c380-10e8-4664-beb8-345efec84f7d&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <em>Editor-in-Chief </em><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;883f433b-6689-4b0c-81ac-6a86948b4c88&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Queen and King Neocon OUT in Trump Admin Thanks to the Influence of Anti-War Voices from the Right and the Libertarian Party, But Who is Next?]]></title><description><![CDATA[This might be the only administration to reject neocon influence in modern times **FINGERS CROSSED**]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/queen-and-king-neocon-out-in-trump</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/queen-and-king-neocon-out-in-trump</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:43:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/DPt-zXn05ac" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>*Since I wrote this more news has come out about Marco Rubio joining the administration and Lee Zeldin, I&#8217;ve not seen anything too bad about Zeldin, but Marco Rubio is without a doubt owned by the deep state. Marco Rubio has argued and is owned for and by the pharmaceutical industry. Some worrisome picks, to say the least, but if I&#8217;m honest for a moment, I must accept that this is part of the process. Every presidential administration lines their cabinet with dunces. Passing on Haley, passing on Pompeo, are still big wins. They are murderous demons and have no place in any administration. </em></p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Nikki Haley will send your son or daughter to war so that she can buy a new house.&#8221; &#8212;Vivek Ramaswamy, to her face at the Republican Primary</p><p>&#8220;I know it's <strong>election day and everyone's just all in </strong>for their people and I understand that, but I just hope you guys keep this in mind, okay, you know how much you hate Whoopie Goldberg, who's praising Liz Cheney, right now? Okay, Liz Cheney IS Hillary Clinton IS Nikki Haley IS Mike Pompeo IS all of the Neocon Warhawks, they're exactly the same! And just so you understand, who the Neoconservatives are. The Neoconservatives are the American Vanguard of the Israeli Lobby, that's who they are! Okay. Now you may know that, or you may not know that, but I promise you, go read some books about it and I'm right! Fuck all of these wars! America is not threatened by anyone, okay! We have two giant oceans around us, a gigantic nuclear Arsenal, and the most badass military force in the history of the world! No one poses a threat to us, the idea that anyone can even convince you that &#8220;Iran&#8221; poses some &#8220;threat&#8221; to the United States of America! The country that doesn't have nuclear weapons or an Air Force capable of delivering them here, if they were to develop them?  All these wars are bullshit! Fuck the wars, support peace, and free markets, and <strong>Laissez-faire</strong> government, and prosperity. That's the key to American success, it's why we're the greatest country in the world! And man, listen, even if Trump does win today, and I really hope he wins, I hope he wins&#8230; within the next half hour so I can go get some sleep, but even if Trump wins, I hope you guys know, that's just the beginning. That's the very beginning of the fight to save this country! <strong>And the next step is keeping all of the Warhawks out of Donald Trump's Administration. </strong>Liz Cheney should be launched to the freaking Moon and never allowed back in America, and we got a <strong>rocket expert on our team now!&#8221; &#8212;Dave Smith, Election Night w/ Patrick Bet-David+Friends</strong></p><p>&#8220;I think now till January 20th, the real the pressure should be on, on Trump to do better on the appointments, than he did last time. He's got a lot of better people around him, than he ever had in 2016, or 2020, but he was floating out Mike Pompeo as the Secretary of Defense, and he did have Mike Pompeo speak at his final campaign event, and just to be clear, <strong>Mike Pompeo is Liz Cheney's pick for Defense Secretary, it's Hillary Clinton's pick for Defense Secretary and so much of this will be lost if he puts that guy in there.</strong> This time he needs to keep all of the Lindsey Graham&#8217;s and the Mike Pompeo&#8217;s and all of these guys away from his <strong>administration! Bring in the </strong>non-interventionists! Man no one wants to fight these stupid Wars anymore, and that's what you ran on, and won on!&#8230;.he's just got to keep those people away from him, man, and that really was his failure in his first term, and look, I do understand him saying, I don't know, he was an outsider, he had never been, he had never lived in Washington DC. He didn't know these people, but he's had a lot of time, this is eight years later, and he's got a great core of people around him, and those are the people to take advice from! It's like <strong>Mr. President if you're listening right now, talk to Rand Paul! Rand Paul will tell you who to put in those positions, talk to Thomas Massie! </strong>I just saw he floated Thomas Massie for&#8230; I can't remember, what uh, position it was, but that's great put those guys in there! These are the &#8220;America First&#8221; guys okay, and it's not Mike Pompeo, it's not the war machine, dude and it's also, you know, look his rhetoric was so great on Ukraine, through the election, and when he had the courage to just say, like no, I want the dying to stop! That was one of the best moments of the entire campaign, but his rhetoric on Israel has been very bad! and the other thing that you can't get <strong>around is that, like listen, you can love </strong>Isr2ael all you want to, and you can pledge to help defend them or whatever, but <strong>Netanyahu is John McCain!&#8221; &#8212;Also, Dave Smith, Post-Election JRE</strong></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/queen-and-king-neocon-out-in-trump?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/queen-and-king-neocon-out-in-trump?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/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><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/db525820-22b7-4729-8e6b-56384e034335_184x249.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9b6b5e10-c195-4175-983b-193f16b23762_153x206.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/553c224b-aa85-46e1-a851-62ae2f81eaab_1000x632.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e2a8a86-30a6-439d-bd03-64404a97b1f7_184x184.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a2379825-e30b-4243-a076-a41d9f2eff03_184x184.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e9eb887a-ac3c-4c89-815e-f11bcb94c311_259x185.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0419a2cc-4ef1-496f-b710-59d56831038c_232x180.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3dded3f3-1524-440d-82a4-4371f2d01670_319x228.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Villains of the last quarter century, and the next quarter to come.&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/fe55e8f4-314e-4ce2-a794-f01b38b2b78e_1456x1700.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>So thankful for the push of anti-war people and policies into the incoming Trump Administration. I am ecstatic that someone as close to the administration as Dave Smith, being friends to several advisors to the President, and even his son. WSJ might hate it, but I love it! I&#8217;m happy there is even this kind of talk, but then to see things implemented, it seems we&#8217;re truly in a new age.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sEK1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfaeb7f8-a91f-49bd-83cb-52c1f76c276b_652x127.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sEK1!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfaeb7f8-a91f-49bd-83cb-52c1f76c276b_652x127.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sEK1!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfaeb7f8-a91f-49bd-83cb-52c1f76c276b_652x127.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sEK1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfaeb7f8-a91f-49bd-83cb-52c1f76c276b_652x127.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sEK1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfaeb7f8-a91f-49bd-83cb-52c1f76c276b_652x127.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sEK1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfaeb7f8-a91f-49bd-83cb-52c1f76c276b_652x127.png" width="652" height="127" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cfaeb7f8-a91f-49bd-83cb-52c1f76c276b_652x127.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:127,&quot;width&quot;:652,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Image" title="Image" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sEK1!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfaeb7f8-a91f-49bd-83cb-52c1f76c276b_652x127.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sEK1!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfaeb7f8-a91f-49bd-83cb-52c1f76c276b_652x127.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sEK1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfaeb7f8-a91f-49bd-83cb-52c1f76c276b_652x127.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sEK1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfaeb7f8-a91f-49bd-83cb-52c1f76c276b_652x127.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">BTW, &#8220;One online MAGA acolyte&#8221; is the Libertarian, Anti-War, and Expert on Geopolitics and Comedy, Dave Smith. Fuck Wall Street Journal.</figcaption></figure></div><p>How fucking amazing is that.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Wb3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2a7985f-bcf3-43bb-98b5-ad6c0ef0fab6_1302x436.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Wb3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2a7985f-bcf3-43bb-98b5-ad6c0ef0fab6_1302x436.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Wb3!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2a7985f-bcf3-43bb-98b5-ad6c0ef0fab6_1302x436.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Wb3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2a7985f-bcf3-43bb-98b5-ad6c0ef0fab6_1302x436.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Wb3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2a7985f-bcf3-43bb-98b5-ad6c0ef0fab6_1302x436.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Wb3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2a7985f-bcf3-43bb-98b5-ad6c0ef0fab6_1302x436.png" width="1302" height="436" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f2a7985f-bcf3-43bb-98b5-ad6c0ef0fab6_1302x436.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:436,&quot;width&quot;:1302,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:187117,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Wb3!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2a7985f-bcf3-43bb-98b5-ad6c0ef0fab6_1302x436.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Wb3!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2a7985f-bcf3-43bb-98b5-ad6c0ef0fab6_1302x436.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Wb3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2a7985f-bcf3-43bb-98b5-ad6c0ef0fab6_1302x436.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Wb3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2a7985f-bcf3-43bb-98b5-ad6c0ef0fab6_1302x436.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" 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 can&#8217;t tell you how good of news this is. Just a few notes about who these 2 are, for memories sake.</p><h3>Mike Pompeo:</h3><ul><li><p>Was Liz Cheney&#8217;s pick for Secretary of Defense (Any questions?)</p></li><li><p>Served as Director of the CIA and Secretary of State in Trump&#8217;s 1st term.</p></li><li><p>Devised the plan to have Julian Assange and oversaw the wiretapping and surveillance of Julian while he was receiving asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Caused Julian&#8217;s removal so that he could be arrested and held by the US.</p></li><li><p>Mike Pompeo supported the reauthorization of <em>Section 702 of FISA</em> as recently as <em>this year</em>! FISA stands for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Section 702 is the section that allows <em>warrantless spying and wiretaps, </em>which is used to spy on the enemies of every administration. It was used to spy on leftwing journalists and antiwar activists under Bush, the same under Obama, it was used to spy on the Trump campaign before he was even nominated as the Republican candidate in 2015,  </p></li><li><p>Donald Trump wanted to declassify the JFK files and Pompeo stopped him for fear of what they would expose (The CIA?)</p></li><li><p>Also, the declassification of the MLK files.  </p></li><li><p>A Neoconservative Warhawk that shapeshifts as the neocons do to whatever <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/mike-pompeo-hypocrisy/">position most supports his ambitions. </a></p></li><li><p>Called Donald Trump an &#8220;authoritarian leader&#8221; until he seen a position in the administration, then flipflopped to being some kind of &#8220;trusted servant&#8221;. He is the <em>deep state</em> pick and was backed by the military-industrial complex.</p></li></ul><p>Pompeo had <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/03/13/how-mike-pompeo-went-from-one-of-trumps-biggest-critics-to-one-of-his-biggest-fans/">dismissed</a> the reality TV star&#8217;s candidacy as a media sideshow, saying &#8220;It&#8217;s time to turn down the lights on the circus.&#8221; Then convinced Donald that he was loyal. Enough that Trump on Rogan called him a &#8220;Good guy&#8221;. Thankfully other voices are bleeding through.</p><div id="youtube2-DPt-zXn05ac" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;DPt-zXn05ac&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/DPt-zXn05ac?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><ul><li><p>Enough said&#8230;...</p></li></ul><h2>Nikki Haley, let&#8217;s talk about this psycho witch:</h2><ul><li><p>Nikki was appointed to the position of Ambassador to the UN under Trump.</p></li><li><p>She had, as a beautiful salary to someone like me, a salary of $185,000 per year. Her parents&#8217; finances were a mess, they owed like a million dollars and were going to lose their home. Nikki Haley, with the notoriety that came from being in a white house cabinet position, following Dick Cheney&#8217;s blueprint she resigned for the &#8220;Private Sector&#8221; in 2018, less than 2 years later</p></li><li><p> Cashing in on her WH fame she started doing speeches for companies like Barclays and organizations such as the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, a think tank akin to AIPAC, who provided her with more money in a day than Haley had previously earned in a year.</p></li><li><p>She made $2.3 million from 11 talks she gave in 2022, spreading her &#8220;Warhawk&#8221; talking points, I mean seriously, what else does this monster that signs missiles that <em>will</em> kill children have to say. We seen her at the Republican Primaries last year. She&#8217;s kind of an empty vessel.</p></li><li><p>She received 2 book deals that she has since completed based on her position (and yes, <em>I am</em> jealous, I have more to say than that monster)</p></li><li><p>As a state legislator and candidate for governor, Ms. Haley supported a 2009 economic development package for <a href="https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/BA">Boeing</a> Co. valued at as much as $900 million that helped land the company&#8217;s <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-to-consolidate-787-dreamliner-production-in-south-carolina-11601567332?mod=article_inline">787 Dreamliner production facility</a> in this city. A few years later, as governor, she signed into law an additional $120 million for the aerospace company as part of an expansion.</p></li><li><p>Then, some years later she was given a seat on the Board of Directors for Boeing.</p></li><li><p><a href="https://jacobin.com/2024/01/nikki-haley-boeing-political-expenditures">While serving on the board of Boeing in 2020</a>, GOP presidential candidate and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley helped kill an initiative designed to force the company to more comprehensively disclose its spending to influence politicians and safety regulators, government filings show.</p></li><li><p>Nikki&#8217;s Haley was previously a well-paid board member to Boeing, the company that makes the F-15 and profits handsomely from foreign weapon sales to foreign countries and forever wars. &#8212; <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Lee 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The news today is the appointment of Elise Stefanik, a Republican from Congress who I&#8217;m sure people knew of, but she hit recent news with her cross-examination of the 2 university presidents in front of Congress. I know the clips looked really bad for old El Presidente&#8217;s, but when you set aside emotion and take on what they actually said, Stefanik is calling for censorship of antiwar protestors, and after the recent censorship regimes of the recent administrations we need the closest to free speech absolutists as possible! This shit cannot fly! She spends her entire time slot, almost in a fit of anger trying to trap these ladies into saying that students are &#8220;calling for the genocide of Jews&#8221; by saying &#8220;from the river to the sea&#8221;. This is at the end of 5-hours of grilling these ladies and they answered correctly, as the constitution permits, listen to this:</p><div id="youtube2-oklC-xpSOWc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;oklC-xpSOWc&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;18257&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/oklC-xpSOWc?start=18257&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>Cornbluff says, &#8220;when targeted at individuals, not making public statements&#8221; (chanting, such as &#8220;all cops are bastards&#8221;)</p><p>And Elise does this thing that I could never handle, and the Democrats in Congress did it to <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Matt Taibbi&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:263053,&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%2Fb60afa88-bdf9-4916-8f80-e74791478593_2000x2000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;979a23a8-1441-4d03-b392-05b2e40082ff&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> and Michael Shellenberger, they ask a serious question that needs nuance and say, &#8220;yes or no&#8221;. I yell at the screen when I hear it, it infuriates me, it&#8217;s a disingenuous way to suppress speech and in this hearing the other side is doing it. </p><p>Elise: <em>Yes or no, calling for the genocide of Jews does not constitute bullying or harassment?</em></p><p>The correct answer is as long as you&#8217;re not telling someone to do something, or inciting them to do it, it is protected speech under the first amendment, so when she says, <em>if it&#8217;s not actionable, no. </em>That is the constitutionally correct answer, but the right turn into censorious liberals, calling for hate speech controls when it comes to Israel. So, what became of that hearing? Speech codes, unconstitutional speech codes:</p><blockquote><p> <em>The House of Representatives passed a <a href="http://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/927/text">resolution</a> on December 13 that stated, &#8220;President Magill has resigned, and the other Presidents should follow suit.&#8221; Federal elected officials have repeatedly called on university leaders to arrest and punish student protesters, with Speaker Mike Johnson even <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/24/mike-johnson-columbia-national-guard-00154199">demanding</a> the deployment of the National Guard. Although less direct than the Russian model, Congress&#8217;s use of investigations, public hearings, and the leverage of funding to achieve its aim counts as state censorship, nonetheless. Why does censorship at private, Ivy League universities pose a threat to free speech more broadly? First, academic freedom translates the abstract ideal of free speech into societal practice by providing a relatively open and democratic forum for different viewpoints. Second, pro-Palestinian protesters on campus already risk being doxxed and blacklisted from future academic or professional endeavors. Official censure from the university, which impacts students&#8217; educational disciplinary records, immigration status, and access to on-campus housing, has a chilling effect on speech.</em></p></blockquote><p>After this 5-hour hearing it was decided that any criticism of the Israeli Government is hate speech and against the law. Saying things like &#8220;the Jews killed Jesus&#8221; which is actually said in the Bible, I was taught that shit in Sunday school, is hate speech and also against the law. In the time that we live in we <em>cannot </em>afford a single censorious voice in leadership. Every single Western country now has censorship laws on the books, and maybe right now it&#8217;s okay, because it&#8217;s censoring the voices <em>you</em> don&#8217;t like, but right around the corner you might just find that the next voice censored is <em>yours. So, circling back&#8230;</em></p><p>I can&#8217;t describe how amazing it is to hear every intelligent voice in the movement against war policies all staking a position and that position making it to the president-elect and him acting on it, but there&#8217;s others that will show themselves eventually and maybe someone in earshot to Trump can get his attention, but if anyone was paying attention Elise Stefanik should have been on that list. We&#8217;ll see how the next 70 days go. It has the potential to be a trajectory changing moment. It could be a global turn towards peace and prosperity, or down the road to perpetual war and destruction, but at least there&#8217;s an option. The other route had <em>no other option! Perpetual war or perpetual war.</em></p><p>Thank you for reading <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;e187b605-caa4-468f-90c3-d6aae23b35f8&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, <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;3827ef97-3214-4fa5-af5c-4fb92bae9cba&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, Editor-in-Chief</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reminder of Who Kamala Harris is...]]></title><description><![CDATA[When given the chance to protect young boys who were sexually molested, she chose not to.]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/reminder-of-who-kamala-harris-is</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/reminder-of-who-kamala-harris-is</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 04:08:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SQRh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F862ffc89-9887-4271-8db6-795f23bc1561_686x386.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Original reporting by <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Lee 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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">This Picture was too PERFECT not to use.</figcaption></figure></div><p>According to the <em><a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/kamala-harris-trying-run-her-prosecutorial-record">Heritage Foundation</a></em> &#8220;Harris&#8217; record shows that she is soft on crime and committed to coddling criminals at the expense of victims and our communities.&#8221; In this story she simply ignored it completely, maybe in spite of her predecessor&#8217;s work, or maybe because she simply didn&#8217;t care about <em>boys</em> getting molested. Maybe this was the Genesis of this <em>soft on crime</em> mantra I keep hearing about. Ignore children being molested by priests. </p><p>Regardless of the reason, it happened. Her predecessor Terence Hallinan, considered a radical in his time, was the one considered to be the <em>soft-on-crime District Attorney of San Francisco</em> throughout the 90&#8217;s:</p><blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/02/07/kamala-harris-san-francisco-district-attorney-crime/">The 1990s were</a></strong><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/02/07/kamala-harris-san-francisco-district-attorney-crime/">&nbsp;among the </a>most&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nap.edu/read/18613/chapter/4#41">punishing</a>&nbsp;decades in&nbsp;the recent&nbsp;history of American justice. Zealous prosecutors competed to put the most people behind bars, and politicians were eager to pass new laws to extend sentences. In San Francisco, Terence Hallinan was one of the only prosecutors in America bucking the trend.</p><p>A legendary&nbsp;civil rights activist, defense attorney, former city supervisor, and an outspoken advocate for marijuana legalization, Hallinan rode a wave of discontent and squeaked by in his election to become San Francisco district attorney in 1995. He swiftly fired senior prosecutors&nbsp;in order to hire more minorities and reformists. He instructed his deputies to avoid the practice of objecting to a proposed juror for a criminal trial &#8212; an unusual stance that weakened the hand of the DA&#8217;s office &#8212;&nbsp;to avoid&nbsp;empaneling all-white juries.</p></blockquote><p>This guy sounds like a <em>Rush Limbaugh Republican&#8217;s</em> worst nightmare. He believed &#8220;sex work was a public health problem&#8212;not a criminal offense. Drug use was a victimless crime, had very 2020 left-wing positions. Very ahead of his time, very, shall I say, <em>Progressive?</em></p><blockquote><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/02/07/kamala-harris-san-francisco-district-attorney-crime/">Many in San Francisco view the campaign </a>as a defining moment for Harris, who carefully cultivated a base of support among police officers, domestic violence advocates, wealthy donors, and a diverse range of local officials and community leaders&nbsp;who had bristled at Hallinan&#8217;s leftist politics and&nbsp;abrasive style.</p><p>Despite starting the race as a relatively unknown candidate against an incumbent viewed as a radical icon, Harris vaulted over&nbsp;Hallinan and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.smartvoter.org/2003/12/09/ca/sf/race/2/">easily won</a>&nbsp;a runoff election. The race launched Harris&#8217;s political career, which culminated in her announcement last month at a rally in Oakland to seek the Democratic Party&#8217;s presidential nomination.</p></blockquote><p>This is very telling of what kind of chameleon Kamala Harris is. <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Lee Fang&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:24270217,&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/0151246d-d6fb-4306-b87a-db62e2ff47ed_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;f4678fc1-d1bb-4cac-99ef-2223a72d1237&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> wrote this, kinda taking the premise, that she&#8217;s posing as a progressive, with policies that are&#8230; not so much. Now to dispel her the talking point that she&#8217;s too Progressive she&#8217;s running on this &#8220;Tough Girl, Lock em&#8217; up, Throw Away the Key, Prosecutor.&#8221; I think Lee Fang proved that she&#8217;s neither, she&#8217;s a shapeshifting politician that shifts from shape to shape through the political landscape to whichever shape benefits her at the moment. 2 weeks ago, I was distraught over the embrace in her campaign of the Neoconservative shapeshifters of the past, now I get it she is a fellow shapeshifter herself.</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>After all her talk of helping victims of Domestic abuse as a Prosecutor, there was a group she left out:</p><div id="youtube2-7sVswKxx9dw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;7sVswKxx9dw&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/7sVswKxx9dw?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 video was brought to you by <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Leighton Woodhouse&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1335044,&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%2Fcd908abe-aeaa-417c-aa4a-a8a0cb3c533d_225x225.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;e1851cef-d3f4-4b6a-a378-f4cecfbf9b1d&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>. Please follow his work if you don&#8217;t already, he&#8217;s excellent.</p><p>When Kamala Harris &#8216;ousted&#8217; Hallinan with her tough-on-crime campaign Hallinan was in the process of prosecuting sexual predators in the Catholic Church, they were all but ready to go to trial.</p><blockquote><p><em>When Harris became San Francisco district attorney in 2004, she took over an office that had been working closely with survivors of sexual abuse&nbsp;to pursue cases against the Catholic Church. The office and the survivors were in the middle of a legal battle to hold predatory priests accountable, and Harris inherited a collection of personnel files involving allegations of sexual abuse by priests and employees of the San Francisco Archdiocese, which oversees church operations in San Francisco, and Marin and San Mateo counties.</em></p></blockquote><div class="pullquote"><p><strong>&#8220;It went from Terence Hallinan going hundred miles an hour, full speed ahead, after the Catholic Church to Kamala Harris doing absolutely nothing.&#8221;</strong></p></div><blockquote><p><em>The files had been compiled by investigators working under the direction of Terence Hallinan, the radical district attorney who Harris ousted in a <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/02/07/kamala-harris-san-francisco-district-attorney-crime/">contentious</a> election campaign. Hallinan&#8217;s team had prosecuted cases of abuse that had occurred decades earlier and had gathered evidence as part of a probe into widespread clergy sexual misconduct.</em></p><p><em>Just six months before&nbsp;Harris took office, a U.S. Supreme Court decision overturned a California law that had&nbsp;retroactively eliminated the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution of child molestation cases. That shifted the focus to holding predators among the clergy accountable through civil cases and through a broader effort to bring attention to predators who had been shielded by the church.</em></p></blockquote><p>So, after all these years living with this abuse, they were finally going to face justice, and then nothing&#8230;</p><p>Maybe lobbyist at the Catholic Church had gotten to her? That <em>is</em> how politics work, or maybe there was something else that we can&#8217;t see, but the absolute facts in the case is Hallinan had this teed up, all she had to do was swing, she didn&#8217;t swing. </p><p>After seeing that she wasn&#8217;t going to do <em>anything</em>, or at least suspecting it, he tried to take action himself and get the <em>public records</em> of the clergy abuse, and her office would not release it.</p><blockquote><p>In her seven years as district attorney, Harris&#8217;s office did not proactively assist in civil cases against clergy sex abuse and ignored requests by activists and survivors to access the cache of investigative files that could have helped them secure justice, according to several victims of clergy sex abuse living in California who spoke to The Intercept.</p><p>&#8220;It went from Terence Hallinan going hundred miles an hour, full speed ahead, after the Catholic Church to Kamala Harris doing absolutely nothing and taking it backwards hundred miles an hour,&#8221; said Joey Piscitelli, a sexual assault survivor, who a <a href="https://www.leagle.com/decision/incaco20080821025">jury found</a> had been molested as a student while attending Salesian College Preparatory, a Catholic high school in Richmond, California.</p><p>Piscitelli had met with Hallinan&#8217;s office to discuss his case and the ongoing investigation into the church. But, he said, when Harris took over, his access to the office was shut off and his requests for clergy abuse files were ignored. Piscitelli resorted to handing out flyers and picketing outside the district attorney&#8217;s office on San Francisco&#8217;s McAllister Street.</p></blockquote><p>The Catholic Church in San Francisco turns out is a very powerful entity. There&#8217;s no doubt in my mind that this was an influence in her decision <em>not </em>to follow-through with this case. </p><p><em>WAIT, THERE&#8217;S MORE&#8230;.</em></p><blockquote><p>Dominic De Lucca, a Burlingame, California, resident who says he was raped by a local priest when he was 12 years old, also said he was shocked that Harris declined to aggressively pursue clergy abuse cases and refused to release the files. &#8220;I remember Kamala Harris,&#8221; said De Lucca. &#8220;She didn&#8217;t want to have any meetings.&#8221; He went on, &#8220;She wanted the public to think this is an issue that happened years ago, that it doesn&#8217;t happen anymore. Let&#8217;s just move on.&#8221;</p><p>Terence McAteer, a resident of Nevada City, California, says he was raped as a child by Austin Peter Keegan, an infamous San Francisco priest. McAteer said he sees no value in Harris&#8217;s decision to conceal the clergy abuse files, which had been used to indict his abuser but remain secret to this day. &#8220;Why not tell the story?&#8221; said McAteer. &#8220;I have no problem with my file being released. I don&#8217;t have any great secrets. It&#8217;s already in the newspaper. I think the whole cloak of secrecy with the Catholic Church needs to be exposed.&#8221;</p><p>Kevin V. Ryan, the former U.S. Attorney for Northern California who worked with Hallinan&#8217;s office on the clergy abuse cases, also agreed that the files should be disclosed. &#8220;Credible allegations in my opinion should be released,&#8221; said Ryan. &#8220;I think they should be made public and I think it&#8217;s necessary not only for accountability but for the healing process to begin.&#8221;</p><p>Several survivors of clergy abuse&nbsp;said they believed that Harris had declined to release the files in deference to the Catholic Church, which has historically held sway as a major political force in San Francisco.</p><p>&#8220;The Roman Catholic Church is very powerful, and I think they didn&#8217;t want to step on any toes, especially in San Francisco,&#8221; said De Lucca, citing the influence of former Archbishop William Levada, who oversaw the archdiocese when Harris&nbsp;was district attorney.</p></blockquote><p>These are all people who, it was her job to deliver justice, and to all of them she failed!</p><p>This is really an excellent piece, I just wanted to highlight it since we&#8217;re so close to the election, but <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;b6975116-aa85-4ac8-b326-50d5555be306&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> goes into the history of the Catholic Church&#8217;s influence in San Francisco, he even gets a quote from the Great David Talbot, writer of the infamous <em>The Devil&#8217;s Chessboard</em> so for more on this story <a href="https://www.leefang.com/?utm_source=global-search">check it out:</a> <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/kamala-harris-san-francisco-catholic-church-child-abuse/">HERE</a>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/reminder-of-who-kamala-harris-is?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/reminder-of-who-kamala-harris-is?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p>I keep hearing this critique of her that she&#8217;s &#8220;soft on crime&#8221;, &#8220;To the left of Bernie&#8221;, she did have good Progressive positions, I guess, when she lost the Primary after the second debate, and now that she&#8217;s in there and has accepted every corporate buck she could get her hands on, her positions have done a <em>full flop.</em> </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FZzY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e1a205-e8c8-489f-ab36-27e92c930f17_212x237.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FZzY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e1a205-e8c8-489f-ab36-27e92c930f17_212x237.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FZzY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e1a205-e8c8-489f-ab36-27e92c930f17_212x237.jpeg 848w, 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FZzY!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e1a205-e8c8-489f-ab36-27e92c930f17_212x237.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FZzY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e1a205-e8c8-489f-ab36-27e92c930f17_212x237.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FZzY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2e1a205-e8c8-489f-ab36-27e92c930f17_212x237.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">I think this wraps up my position on her.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Under her watch, <em>her </em>lawyers actually argued against the release of eligible nonviolent prisoners from California's overcrowded prisons &#8212; because the state wanted to keep them as a labor force. Not like, her lawyers representing her, did this in a different case. As Attorney General of California, her lawyers that work for her did this. Her reaction was, &#8220;I was shocked.&#8221; Not &#8220;you&#8217;re fucking fired, get out of my office&#8221; just shocked. They were essentially calling for them to be kept as <em>slave labor</em> like the good old <em><a href="https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/13th-amendment">13th Amendment</a> </em>calls for.</p><p>So, that&#8217;s 2 shapes right there, the next shape she&#8217;s shifted to is laughing with Charlemagne about smoking weed after locking people up for marijuana, that&#8217;s a shape.</p><div id="youtube2-kKMwua-_jlQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;kKMwua-_jlQ&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/kKMwua-_jlQ?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>That was definitely a <em>shape, hahahahahahaha!</em></p><div id="youtube2-S6-UC8yr0Aw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;S6-UC8yr0Aw&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/S6-UC8yr0Aw?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, there&#8217;s this one where she flat out, calls Joe a racist, I mean, I agree but I&#8217;m not running out to join his fucking club.</p><div id="youtube2-n8lssB93xIs" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;n8lssB93xIs&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/n8lssB93xIs?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>But she does&#8230; </p><p>And the win!!!!! ***<em>KAMALA IS EVOLVING***</em></p><div id="youtube2-Ppm4QtAAOzs" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Ppm4QtAAOzs&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/Ppm4QtAAOzs?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>Gahhhh! All these videos are <em>so</em> staged, they make my soul cringe! Has this lady <em>ever </em>had a natural moment, <em>EVER!!!</em></p><p>Let&#8217;s fast-forward some time, they hide her in the attic for 3 <sup>1/2</sup> years. </p><p>4 years of the <em>disastrous</em> Biden-Harris Administration. Now, she&#8217;s shifting again&#8230;</p><div id="youtube2-6S5MzlQcYIs" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;6S5MzlQcYIs&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/6S5MzlQcYIs?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>Ha! She just described Joe&#8217;s debate failure as a &#8220;difference in <em>style-points&#8230;&#8221; </em>Good job Anderson Cooper. The CIA has taught you well&#8230;</p><p>Kamala Harris, <em><strong>FINAL FORM!!!!!</strong></em></p><div id="youtube2-REciDqfLlnM" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;REciDqfLlnM&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/REciDqfLlnM?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-HLYLP-msPfs" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;HLYLP-msPfs&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/HLYLP-msPfs?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>She picks Tim Walz as her Running mate, an authoritarian Governor from Minnesota who set up &#8220;snitch lines&#8221; for citizens to tell on anyone who was breaking &#8220;lockdown orders&#8221; during the Covid-19 pandemic.</p><div id="youtube2-mb5zZAI38T4" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;mb5zZAI38T4&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/mb5zZAI38T4?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="youtube2-80DaR2CVNNk" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;80DaR2CVNNk&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/80DaR2CVNNk?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 asked about taxpayers paying for transgender surgery who are illegal immigrants who are also in prison, by Bret Baier, she replied, &#8220;I will follow the law&#8230;&#8221; You know, the law that the <em>White House </em>passes&#8230; </p><p>I truly can&#8217;t wait for this election to be over, so I know which <em>war criminal </em>I will be writing about next. Because no matter how well Trump governs, there will be plenty to write about, and if she wins, no matter how well she dodges and hides, and delegates her duties to the <em>deep state</em>, there will be plenty to write about in a Harris-Walz Administration. It&#8217;s like being in a new relationship and you haven&#8217;t had your first fight yet, and you&#8217;re stuck wondering, what&#8217;s it gonna be? Thank you for reading.</p><p><em><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;6c50f103-fa5f-4786-ad9a-2dab4056d049&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span><strong> 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;f6fb544b-353b-49cf-8bfe-9c6e659a3fd4&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> </strong></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[They Deserve to LOSE for this! ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The ticket of compassion and empathy is now supporting the rehabilitation of the Neoconservative Movement]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/they-deserve-to-lose-for-this</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/they-deserve-to-lose-for-this</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 12:28:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aNNI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff27a606c-f879-42cf-9764-4078d9ff345a_680x552.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>I&#8217;m writing a piece on the &#8220;Harvesters of Sorrow&#8221; the &#8220;<a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-services-benefits/medical-assistance-dying.html">Medical Assistance in Dying</a>&#8221; cult, but then I seen something that I couldn&#8217;t ignore now here I am, back to politics and war. Speaking of </em>War<em>, I&#8217;m currently reading Bob Woodward&#8217;s new book by the same name, &#8220;WAR&#8221;. The book is basically split between our actions with Ukraine then Israel. I have so much to say about this book, so it&#8217;s going to be my first book review, it will be 2 parts, Ukraine, then Israel. If we ever have peace, what in the hell will I talk about&#8230;. maybe, birthday parties, or cotton candy, happy things&#8230;. </em></p><p><em>One more thing, I started writing this before the JRE episode came out, now that it&#8217;s out, I&#8217;d like to say a couple things. It&#8217;s overly clear that Donald Trump didn&#8217;t learn his lesson the last time about his cabinet picks. He can't help to uplift, in this episode, the same type of people that I'm addressing the Kamala Harris campaign embracing in this piece. When this comes up Joe says to him, &#8220;Neocons?&#8221; Trump says, &#8220;Yea, Neocons but also&#8230;&#8221; Then he says, &#8220;Yea, Jon Bolton is crazy but interesting thing is, he&#8217;s a good person to have behind you, because people think, they got Jon Bolton, they&#8217;ll really bomb us&#8221;. I detest this view. Peace through fear?! No has ever said, and &#8216;peace through strength&#8217; IS peace through for and makes us ALL less safe. A scared man will fucking kill you!  With nuclear bombs?!  They&#8217;ll kill us all if we back them in the corner, and that&#8217;s what someone like Jon Bolton, someone like Dick Cheney, someone like Mike Pompeo does. </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">Declaration of Liberty 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><em>Donald Trump, at one point said, &#8220;I think the FBI is 95% good&#8221;, God I resented that comment. What a stupid thing for him to say. What fucking FBI are you talking about?! I&#8217;m in the middle of reading G-Man by Beverly Gage, which she won a Pulitzer for, not that all Pulitzer&#8217;s are deserved but this one was a good pick, I took a break from it because it&#8217;s so long but, something you realize quickly, is the FBI was founded on corruption, Bureaucracy,  racism, and the need to stay relevant. They&#8217;re the police that needs defunding. Oh, by the way Donald, THEY FUCKING FRAMED YOU FOR TREASON! They&#8217;re not 95% good, they&#8217;re 95% bad. They&#8217;ve lied to the people who fund them at the beginning and never stopped lying! One more thing&#8212;for now&#8212;when Joe asked, &#8220;why not the JFK files&#8221;, he said a few things about this, after Joe pulled it out of him, the main thing I held onto was, &#8220;Some good people, real good people said there are people still alive and addresses that could be exposed.&#8221; Who? &#8220;<strong>I was met with, from good people, I mean you know good people, people that were well-meaning. Mike Pompeo was one of them, he's a good person&#8230;&#8221;</strong> <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html">Mike Pompeo is a monster, he is the worst of the worst. He was the decision-maker in arresting Julian Assange, </a>not for hacking or sexual misconduct like they wanted us to believe, or anything actual. For doing the work of being a journalist. For digging shit up and publishing it. Because Julian got his hands on something that embarrassed the &#8216;Agency&#8217;. Which was in the infamous Vault 7, handbooks for technology that the CIA possessed which gives them the capability to take over the controls of someone&#8217;s vehicle, any vehicle, connected to a network. They can take over the controls and drive the thing remotely,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LSY3wVuASg"> which is what they might&#8217;ve done to the Journalist </a></em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LSY3wVuASg">Michael Hastings</a><em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LSY3wVuASg">,</a> <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fweyFCFKcp0">who said he was breaking a story, that people would want to kill him for </a>and the night before he left town he drove his car into a tree at over 100 MPH, no curve, on a straight stretch, sped up to over 100 and swerved into the tree, he died on impact. He&#8217;d asked a girlfriend that he was on the outs with if he could use her car because he didn&#8217;t trust his just a couple days before his death. Intelligence advocates said, &#8220;They couldn&#8217;t do it&#8221;, Julian proved they could. Vault 7 also proved that encryption means nothing for these demons, &#8220;These techniques permit the CIA to bypass the encryption of WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Weibo, Confide and Cloackman by hacking the &#8216;smart&#8217; phones that they run on and collecting audio and message traffic before encryption is applied.&#8221; So, they had Julian removed and arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy, but the <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-cia-want-julian-assange-killed-1917171">plot thickens, Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA </a>under <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html">the Trump Administration, had plans before he was arrested to assassinate him.</a> He was going to kill the guy for breaking stories that were embarrassing to them. Pompeo said at what appears to be a press conference, &#8220;It&#8217;s time to call out Wikileaks for what it really is, a non-state hostile intelligence service, often embedded by state actors like Russia.&#8221; Even Obama, with his &#8216;War on Whistleblowers&#8217; seen Wikileaks work as protected by the 1st Amendment. Yea, Donald, &#8216;Good guy&#8230;&#8217; I have other issues, such as, calling Joe and Kamala &#8216;Palestinians&#8217; as a slur, which no doubt keeps AIPAC happy, but this is just referring to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBMoPUAeLnY&amp;list=PLk1Sqn_f33KuWf3tW9BBe_4TP7x8l0m3T">JRE episode</a>. </em></p><p><em>Now, Onward and UP!</em></p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;I worked for George Bush. I'm proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most controversial things we did, that people didn't like and - and criticized us for, things like the terror surveillance program or the enhanced interrogation techniques, were things that allowed us to save lives.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.&#8221; </p><p>&#8220;I believe very deeply in the proposition that what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. It was hard to do. It took a long time. There were significant costs involved&#8221;</p><p>Dick Cheney</p><p>&#8220;A neo-conservative is an opponent of Communism but a supporter of socialism and internationalism.&#8221;</p><p>John F. McManus</p></div><p>One thing to make sure you take away from this, is these people are <em>Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.</em> Somebody stop them before they <em>kill again!</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UEC9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15342aba-0ccc-45ba-9340-ba099405a8e7_280x155.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UEC9!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15342aba-0ccc-45ba-9340-ba099405a8e7_280x155.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UEC9!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15342aba-0ccc-45ba-9340-ba099405a8e7_280x155.webp 848w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Mike Pence signing artillery shells that is bound for an innocent child in Palestine.</figcaption></figure></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/33ca20e3-2936-414d-ab8b-ad749da83435_194x259.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4bfddb18-016d-4c3d-8907-049ad1d530c5_1200x675.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Nikki Haley, Republican Writing \&quot;Finish Them\&quot; to Israel; Josh Shapiro, Democrat signs his name to missiles that will no doubt kill innocent children in Ukraine;&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/77dcdde9-8bfa-46a5-8e19-8b5bdc8f89ee_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>For a moment I&#8217;d like to go through some history of the Neoconservative movement, a movement Dick Cheney, and the most<em> War happy </em>of the White House Administrations and Think-Tank-Money-for-Policy-Complexes have been a part of. The Neoconservative movement have been a group of ideological <em>shapeshifters </em>over the years. Shifting to whichever political party they could garner the most power from. They started out as Trotskyists, named after Leon Trotsky, the 2nd in charge Vladimir Lenin after the October Revolution in Russia in the early 1900&#8217;s No surprise that they are today the lead water carriers of the rise of Russo-phobia in the western world. They slowly took up arms with the Democratic party as Democrats who supported the Vietnam War but were also supporters of the Civil Rights movement. They were cold warriors and believed in <em>containment</em> with logically followed their support of the <em>war in Vietnam. </em>Between the Nixon and Reagan Administrations when they felt that the better <em>haters of Communism </em>and Russia in general, they started shifting towards the Republican Party. These guys, for the most part, had grown up in the <em>New York Slums, </em>they didn&#8217;t have money to support their movement, and the early think tanks were very <em>W.A.S.P.ey institutions</em>, and weren&#8217;t open to Jewish admittance. I&#8217;m working on a deep dive into the history of this movement from an Anti-War perspective because it seems all of the other histories I&#8217;ve read were overly sympathetic to the <em>baby killers. </em>So they started accepting money from weapons and defense companies to start their own think tanks under the premise that they could get policy enacted that supported these companies of war. That&#8217;s where the founding of things like the <em>American Enterprise Institute. </em>And the <em>Project for a New American Century</em> came about. The founders of this movement, although a generation removed, you&#8217;ll recognize their names from the war policies of the last 30 years, The <em>Kagan&#8217;s, the Kristols, the Frum&#8217;s, the Perle&#8217;s, Podhoretz, and Cheney&#8217;s. </em>By the way, I&#8217;m sure these entire clans are not evil in each of these families. I don&#8217;t mean to stain them all with this <em>warmongering brush</em> but the bad ones know who they are. It is also, not limited to just these people. Donald Rumsfeld was one, Victoria Nuland or Kagan if she&#8217;s given up her infamously evil name for the other infamously evil name. John McCain, also. I thought the best move Donald Trump ever made was his disrespect of John McCain. That man was pure evil. You can see how these people are now shapeshifting back to Democrat now that the Dems are the new supporters of war. Robert Kagan, the blood thirsty monster, resigned as <em>Editor</em> of the <em>Washington Post </em>in protest of them, taking an actual journalistic principle for once and <em>not</em> endorsing a side.</p><p>The LA Times, in an even more principled move, also decided <em>not </em>to endorse a candidate, but not because their billionaire owner said so, they did it because they don&#8217;t like Trump and both candidates are leaning towards war. Only one side however has even considered the position of <em>Denuclearizing</em> and sorry to tell you, it ain&#8217;t the left. </p><p>Harris and Walz, are bragging about endorsements from Dick and his cohorts. I said this in a Note yesterday, and feel it should be said again, Walz told Jon Stewart that this gives &#8220;Libertarians and Conservatives permission to vote for the Democrats.&#8221; This does nothing of the sort. This is simply sending the message to the Military-Industrial Complex that we play ball, and they have nothing to worry about if we win.</p><p>Even <a href="https://youtu.be/OBz1_nQpKHM?si=WAniiqZtn-t1vNnf">Jon Stewart knew this </a><em><a href="https://youtu.be/OBz1_nQpKHM?si=WAniiqZtn-t1vNnf">Cheney love</a></em> was fucking disgusting. The amount of damage they have caused in the last half a century is downright inconceivable, if we are ever going to move on to a more peaceful world, these people are going to <em>have</em> to go. Let the whole world know that we&#8217;re sorry for the last century, we&#8217;d been co-opted by demons and this will never happen again. America might have to be treated like Germany after WW2 for a while. We need pacification ro sweep the courts, acceptance in <em>Congress </em>and <em>The White House,</em> that we are <em>not </em>the worlds policeman, and <em>not</em> the global superpower, anymore. Isolationism is the only way forward.</p><p>Now, the Democrats are here&#8212;so grateful for their support&#8212;to rehabilitate mass murderers, rehabilitate the <em>Cheney </em>name, the Neoconservative movement, <em><strong>Blood-soaked Monsters of the state. </strong>If she was as happy to have a working persons support, as she is to have the support of the entire Neocon movement, she might win, but she doesn&#8217;t, so she won&#8217;t.</em></p><div id="youtube2-Gmpg-3QcHhw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Gmpg-3QcHhw&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/Gmpg-3QcHhw?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 interviewer at this event makes an interesting choice to tee them both up to talk about war and isolationism. Why? Maybe because Harris was endorsed and is now campaigning with the most prolific war hawks in history? Could be. No doubt this interviewer knew what question to ask first. What else <em>would </em>you ask a Cheney about? Civil Rights? Economic Policy? Fuck no, her name is synonymous with war. And Harris expresses her <em>excellent recall of 5<sup>th</sup> Grade history </em>and then still manages to bring it back to <em>Donald Trump BAD! </em> It&#8217;s so infuriating, while you sit next to the daughter of one of the most blood-soaked monsters of the 21st century, you have the fucking nerve to come back to Donald Trump being the worst, why you say? Because he&#8217;s an isolationist, a fucking isolationist, could you imagine how much better off the world would be if Dick Cheney had died from his first <a href="https://theweek.com/articles/496391/cheneys-5-heart-attacks-how-rare">heart attack in 1964</a><em>? Two years before Liz was born </em>:-) Maybe someone else from Haliburton would&#8217;ve profited millions off of the <em>No-Bid Contracts</em> received to rebuild the oil infrastructure that we blew up, but I have a feeling that him and his cabal of demons were the single factor that made it all possible, no proof on that, just a feeling. In this interview/Town Hall/love fest, whatever it was, they take a real anti-trump position here. They complain that he&#8217;s an <em>Isolationist, </em>which is a very strange thing to complain about when your normal complaint is he's a <em>Fascist</em>, or <em>Literally Hitler! </em>Not that she&#8217;s sitting next to this Blood-Soaked Monster, he&#8217;s an <em>Isolationist?! </em>It&#8217;s hilariously disingenuous.</p><p>Donald Trump&#8217;s isolationism might be the most endearing thing about him. He doesn&#8217;t like killing. He&#8217;s a New York Realtor, not a tough guy. Harris is a California Liberal from Canada. Not tough either. Donald acts on <em>instinct</em> and she says what she&#8217;s told to say. Both equally bad techniques. <em>America&#8217;s Best</em> right? <em>Unburdened by what has been&#8230;</em></p><p>The great writer, <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Caitlin Johnstone&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:14779628,&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/7ddb5cf9-f1e7-4f70-bb79-a93767dab429_960x960.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;6ddc223f-e419-4baf-953d-40758099c374&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, who is the most prolific anti-war writer of our time said in her piece <em><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/tag/caitlin-johnstone/">Trump Party Vs Cheney Party</a></em><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/tag/caitlin-johnstone/">:</a></p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;In our nation&#8217;s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,&#8221; said the former vice president<a href="https://x.com/ryanjreilly/status/1832167720579727412"> in a statement</a>, adding, &#8220;As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution. That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>Above partisanship, this monster has the nerve to take the moral high ground on <em>defending the constitution </em>of all things. The same person who would start an institution of torture, literally torture, and hold random Arab prisoners at secret <em>black sites</em> against their will. And she had a whole section in her book with him defending this. No hearing, no due process, just the brown of their skin and the accent of their land as the excuse for why they are being taken hostage.</p><blockquote><p><em>Cheney was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century">charter signatory</a> to the notorious neoconservative think tank <a href="https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/project_for_the_new_american_century/">Project for the New American Century</a>, and as vice president <a href="https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/dick-cheney/">played a leading role</a> in the George W Bush administration&#8217;s soaring warmongering, militarism and authoritarianism, including most famously the invasion of Iraq.</em></p><p><em>He has the blood of <a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/03/19/the-staggering-death-toll-in-iraq_partner/">millions of people</a> on his hands, and he should be living out the rest of his miserable life in a cage.</em></p><p><em>His daughter Liz is an <a href="https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/elizabeth-cheney/">equally bloodthirsty warmonger</a> who has spent her career pushing for mass military slaughter at every opportunity.</em></p><p><em>After the Israeli assault on Gaza began last year, <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/sotu/date/2023-10-22/segment/01">she went on CNN</a> to declare that all deaths which occur in the onslaught are &#8220;the responsibility of Hamas,&#8221; that protests against Israel&#8217;s actions are &#8220;anti-Semitic&#8221; in nature, and that the U.S. should escalate against Iran and Ansar Allah of Yemen because of their oppositional posture toward Israel.</em></p><p><em>The Cheney&#8217;s join a growing list of formerly Republican warmongers who are migrating to the Democratic Party in droves to support Harris. Last month <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/185309/kamala-harris-republican-staffers-endorsement-mccain-romney-bush">hundreds of staffers</a> who served under Republicans George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25071901-bush-mccain-and-romney-alumni-for-harris-statement">signed a letter </a>endorsing Harris, saying that &#8220;re-electing President Trump would be a disaster for our nation.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>&#8220;Abroad, democratic movements will be irreparably jeopardized as Trump and his acolyte JD Vance kowtow to dictators like Vladimir Putin while turning their backs on our allies,&#8221; the group writes, adding, &#8220;We can&#8217;t let that happen.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>It is here worth noting that contrary to the narratives circulated in both mainstream Democrat-aligned media and mainstream Republican-aligned media, Donald Trump actually spent his entire term <a href="https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/25-times-trump-has-been-dangerously-hawkish-on-russia-ada915b07f97">ramping up aggressions against Russia</a> and helped <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/03/28/re-visiting-russiagate-in-light-of-the-ukraine-war/">pave the way to the war in Ukraine.</a></em></p></blockquote><p>When she says millions of deaths on his hands, it was actually millions. Here&#8217;s reporting by Medea Benjamin, peace activist of <em>Code Pink, writing for Salon:</em></p><blockquote><p><em>March 19 marks 15 years since the U.S.-UK invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the American people have no idea of the enormity of the calamity the invasion unleashed. The U.S. military has refused to keep a tally of Iraqi deaths. General Tommy Franks, the man in charge of the initial invasion, bluntly told reporters, &#8220;We don&#8217;t do body counts.&#8221; One&nbsp;<a href="https://surveys.ap.org/data/Ipsos/national/2007-02-16%20AP%20Iraq-soldiers%20topline.pdf">survey</a>&nbsp;found that most Americans thought Iraqi deaths were in the tens of thousands. But our calculations, using the best information available, show a catastrophic estimate of 2.4 million Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion.</em></p></blockquote><p> I recently seen a podcast where <a href="https://youtu.be/vV_WDBqE8VI?si=8r5KhlJ8dLLepjQP">Tucker and Mark Halperin</a> talk in depth about the Cheney&#8217;s. Mark believes that it&#8217;s not an act of greed for the Cheney&#8217;s. More a philosophical belief that <em>we, America, should be the world&#8217;s policeman.</em> Mark&#8217;s father was Morton Halperin. The guy who landed on <a href="https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/exhibits/show/watergate/nixon-s-enemies-list">Nixon&#8217;s </a><em><a href="https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/exhibits/show/watergate/nixon-s-enemies-list">enemies list</a></em> because he leaked that Nixon and Kissinger had been bombing Cambodia to the NYT, and that day, the FBI began tapping Halperin's phones at Kissinger's direction. The Nixon administration bugged Halperin's home phone, without a warrant for 21 months starting in 1969. I wrote about this in <a href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/persecution-of-truth-tellers-part-5ba?r=iuq6q">my piece on </a><em><a href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/persecution-of-truth-tellers-part-5ba?r=iuq6q">Daniel Ellsberg</a></em><a href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/persecution-of-truth-tellers-part-5ba?r=iuq6q"> and the </a><em><a href="https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/persecution-of-truth-tellers-part-5ba?r=iuq6q">Pentagon Papers.</a> The </em>greatest anti-war activist to ever live. Mark Halperin was with ABC News. He&#8217;s a Washington insider. I&#8217;m not sure if he&#8217;s in the position to be able to tell the truth about the Cheney Dynasty so he could be wrong about this.</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;edc4a1cb-1eb8-4fa0-a5eb-8a7e1ef16da3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This is part five in a series of profiles where the subject was persecuted for the crime of telling the truth, when it would&#8217;ve been way more convenient to lie.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:null,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;sm&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Persecution of Truth-Tellers Part V&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://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9b39f62-dd60-45ab-af4a-247b927b5511_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:null}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2024-06-15T03:50:44.305Z&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%2F4565c651-5da5-45ca-901d-17b12b6b3bcc_1290x858.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/persecution-of-truth-tellers-part-5ba&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:145661090,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:1,&quot;comment_count&quot;:0,&quot;publication_id&quot;:null,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Declaration of Liberty&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%2F1d5e1ef4-ac2b-4ce2-ac9f-46384acf6c05_597x597.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>In a profile by the <em><a href="https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/dick-cheney/">Militarist-Monitor</a></em><a href="https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/dick-cheney/"> they said:</a></p><blockquote><p><em>&nbsp;In 2015, Cheney and his daughter Liz released a book titled Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America. A Washington Post review described the book as &#8220;part history of America&#8217;s role in the world since World War II, part assault on Obama&#8217;s record on foreign and defense policy, and part relentlessly militaristic to-do list for the next commander in chief.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>The Post said of the book&#8217;s to-do list for the next president: &#8220;Obama&#8217;s successor must junk the [Iran nuclear] deal, they argue&#8212;just one of many items a new president must get to right away. Their list is a throwback. It features a massive military buildup, including new missile-defense systems, more nuclear weapons and a force prepared to wage war in multiple geographic locations simultaneously. The Cheneys also call for the restoration of National Security Agency&#8217;s surveillance authorities, the return of &#8216;enhanced&#8217; interrogation of terrorism suspects, the deployment of thousands of military &#8216;advisors&#8217; to battle the Islamic State and a halt to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. They also advocate aggressive actions against rival nations, such as sending troops to NATO countries that border Russia, in order to &#8216;signal American determination.&#8217;&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>And now, this is who the Democratic nominee has campaigning with her. <em><strong>Are you fucking kidding me!?</strong></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">Declaration of Liberty is a reader-supported publication. 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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> Cheney stepped down as <em>Secretary of Defense </em>when Clinton won in 1993, and made his bid in the <em>private sector</em>, Cheney joined the <em><a href="https://www.aei.org/">American Enterprise Institute</a> which later on, </em>during the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush">George W. Bush</a> administration, was regarded <em>&#8220;as the intellectual command post of the neoconservative campaign for <a href="https://www.aei.org/articles/the-chalabi-story/">regime change in Iraq</a>,&#8221;</em> and policymaking in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2019/jan/23/free-market-thinktanks-tobacco-industry">favor of the tobacco-industry</a>. He was on the board of the <em>Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), from &#8216;89 until he became Director from &#8216;93 to &#8216;95</em> at the <em>CFR. </em>In an article for the <em><a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Washington_Post">Washington Post</a></em>, <em>Richard Harwood</em> described the membership of the CFR as <em>&#8220;the nearest thing we have to a ruling establishment in the United States&#8221;</em>. Real <em>masters of the universe </em>vibes from both of these places, they&#8217;re considered being in the <em>Private Sector,</em> but I can&#8217;t imagine how, these think tanks write the policy that gets voted in by the <em>public sector,</em> but they&#8217;re populated by people no longer in or that couldn&#8217;t get elected to the <em>public sector. </em>Kamla Harris, after this loss, is headed for the <em>think tank industry, </em>I&#8217;m sure. It&#8217;s where all the demons and losers end up. </p><p>Jeez, the Cheney&#8217;s are a political dynasty, getting their endorsement was as close to <em><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=f7cd139769e62e837726fbd84dd940cad857f96e37f02ff0693143eb1a061796JmltdHM9MTcyOTcyODAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=kissing+the+ring&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ3J1bmdlLmNvbS8zNjYxOTMvdGhlLXRydWUtbWVhbmluZy1iZWhpbmQta2lzc2luZy10aGUtcG9wZXMtcmluZy8&amp;ntb=1">kissing the damn ring</a> as we have in the modern world!</em></p><p>So, Bush Sr. goes into Iraq, and Cheney is his <em>Secretary of Defense, so in 1994</em>, this interview comes out&#8230; </p><div id="youtube2-w75ctsv2oPU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;w75ctsv2oPU&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/w75ctsv2oPU?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 you don&#8217;t have time to watch it, here&#8217;s what he says:</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>[If] we'd gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn't have been anybody else with us. There would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq. Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it&nbsp;&#8211; eastern Iraq&nbsp;&#8211; the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you've got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey. It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq. The other thing was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact we were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146 Americans killed in action, and for their families&nbsp;&#8211; it wasn't a cheap war. And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>You hear this, see this, knowing what happened, this was a very good answer. He knew this answer in 1994, <em>what changed?!</em></p><h1><em><strong><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/us/a-closer-look-at-cheney-and-halliburton.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Uk4.-C1i.33OnXUzTyQRG&amp;smid=url-share">A Closer Look at Cheney and Halliburton</a></strong></em></h1><ul><li><p><strong>By <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-e-rosenbaum">David E. Rosenbaum</a></strong></p></li></ul><p><strong>Sept. 28, 2004</strong></p><blockquote><p>WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 - Senator John Kerry has suggested, though never explicitly stated, that the Bush administration has an improper relationship with Halliburton, the company where Dick Cheney was chief executive from 1995 until he left in 2000 to run for vice president.</p><p>The Bush campaign maintains that Mr. Cheney has cut his ties with Halliburton and that the administration has given the company no special treatment.</p><p>WHAT KERRY SAYS</p><p>At a community center in Albuquerque on Sept. 17, Mr. Kerry declared: "Dick Cheney's old company Halliburton has profited from the mess in Iraq at the expense of American troops and taxpayers. While Halliburton has been engaging in massive overcharging and wasteful practices under this no-bid contract, Dick Cheney has continued to receive compensation from his former company."</p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>After listing some instances of Halliburton overcharging alleged by Pentagon auditors, Mr. Kerry asserted: "While Dick Cheney claims that he has gotten rid of all of his financial interests in Halliburton, he's actually received $2 million in bonuses and deferred compensation from his former company since taking office in 2001. And the independent Congressional Research Service found that under federal ethics law, Dick Cheney did have a lingering financial interest in Halliburton."</em></p><p>After listing some instances of Halliburton overcharging alleged by Pentagon auditors, Mr. Kerry asserted: "While Dick Cheney claims that he has gotten rid of all of his financial interests in Halliburton, he's actually received $2 million in bonuses and deferred compensation from his former company since taking office in 2001. And the independent Congressional Research Service found that under federal ethics law, Dick Cheney did have a lingering financial interest in Halliburton."</p></blockquote><p>Now, some more reporting by the Independent from a whistleblower <em>in Haliburton:</em> </p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Halliburton, the world's largest military private contractor, has made at least $8bn (&#163;4.3bn) in war-torn Iraq - doing everything from washing American troops' laundry to setting up vital oil supplies. Now, a critically well-placed army employee says contracts were unfairly awarded to Halliburton, whose chief executive used to be US Vice-President Dick Cheney.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Halliburton, the world's largest military private contractor, has made at least $8bn (&#163;4.3bn) in war-torn Iraq - doing everything from washing American troops' laundry to setting up vital oil supplies. Now, a critically well-placed army employee says contracts were unfairly awarded to Halliburton, whose chief executive used to be US Vice-President Dick Cheney.</strong></em></p><p>Bunnatine Greenhouse, the highest-ranking civilian in the US Army Corps of Engineers, saw the contracts handed to Halliburton pass over her desk. She objected to all of them on the grounds that the government was being too generous to the Texas-based company. Now she might lose her job.</p><p>The army tried to demote her last autumn after her performance ratings swung from excellent to sub-standard. An alternative offered to the 60-year-old, who followed her husband into the army, is a swift retirement.</p><p>According to Ms Greenhouse, who is hanging on to her job under American laws that protect whistleblowers, her superiors want her out because she is "a stickler for the rules". She hopes to stay on at the corps until she is ready to retire, even though many of her colleagues "treat me like I have the plague".</p><p>Having worked in government and army procurement for 23 years, she says her duty has been clear as the principal assistant responsible for contracting, known as the Parc. "In a time of war on terrorism, we as a government have to make sure there is a fairness, there is an integrity, and that there is an arm's length approach in the business of contracting," she said.</p><p>But when it came to Halliburton and its subsidiary Kellogg Brown &amp; Root, whose services range from oil and gas to meeting all of soldiers' living needs, Ms Greenhouse found her commanders did not share her vision.</p><p>Time and again, there was little or no competition for the huge contracts the US administration awarded, and repeatedly, it seemed that senior army people were stepping in to overrule her attempts to make KBR accountable.</p><p>On top of that, there was a "revolving door", with senior army employees joining Halliburton. These included Tom Quigley, who had previously done Ms Greenhouse's job, and Chuck Dominy, a three-star general who is now Halliburton's chief lobbyist on Capitol Hill.</p><p>Halliburton, which Mr Cheney led from 1995 to 2000, has a long history of working for the US government in far-flung parts of the world. But it was the war on terror which really expanded its fortunes from government projects. It also focused critics' minds on how close Halliburton continued to be to Mr. Cheney and his coterie of hawkish colleagues in Washington.</p></blockquote><p> <strong><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/oh-what-a-lovely-war-on-terror-it-s-been-for-halliburton-530025.html">Oh what a lovely war on terror it's been for Halliburton</a></strong></p><p>Ms. Greenhouse witnessed a meeting 3 weeks before the invasion of Iraq of plans to start bidding on who would fix the oil fields, and no other companies were present for these talks, but Halliburton was already present. This is the, highest-ranking civilian in the US Army Corps of Engineers, and they are trying to be rid of her because she&#8217;s a <em>stickler for the rules?! </em>What motherfuckers! </p><p>But this isn&#8217;t about them, I keep forgetting that. This is about the blood-soaked monsters who marched us into the most failed war in American history, maybe world history, still, fucking <em>still</em> sticking their ugly noses into our politics after they fucking destabilized <em><strong>AN ENTIRE HEMISPHERE!!</strong></em></p><p>The VP Walz said to Jon Stewart, &#8220;Well it&#8217;s not like we&#8217;ll be turning to them for advice on foreign policy!&#8221;</p><p>Well, <em><strong>what fucking else would they do it for?! Geopolitics is all the Cheney&#8217;s have EVER cared about!  Of course they are going to affect policy. YOU HAVE NO POLICIES ON WAR! At least DJT has policies on war, his policy is </strong></em><strong>&#8220;</strong><em><strong>Cut the shit out!&#8221; God this is so frustrating! </strong></em></p><p>So, on one side we have a bombastic old man that says some wild shit sometimes and invited a Kennedy (Former Democrat) with a rough voice and promiscuous past but is an environmental lawyer, anti-war activist, who's against institutional capture by the Public-Private Revolving Door and wants to <em>Make America Healthy Again, </em>into his Administration. </p><p>On the other side we have a candidate, where just as much as the other candidate says <em>everything</em> this candidate says <em>nothing, </em>has no plan to stop the wars, in fact, decries the evils of <em>isolationism</em>, boy, where has this lady been since the 50&#8217;s, and invited a <em>fucking Cheney</em>(Former Republican)<em>, not any Cheney <strong>The Cheney,</strong></em> and not just <em>invited, EMBRACED, into her campaign! </em>The same way Trump Robert Kennedy. Liz Cheney has been the <em>actual by</em>product and embodiment of the <em>revolving door that causes the institutional capture </em>that is one of RFK Jr&#8217;s top issues, and if you ask me the lead cause of the corruption in our institutions, into her campaign. These people want nothing but war, they benefit from war, they profit off of war.</p><p>Not to mention, <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=939c2cc5c94dddfc4b85cd38773d042ba2fb06a7c68d3a21e51285805a2c727eJmltdHM9MTcyOTcyODAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=disinformation+dozen+racket+news&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmFja2V0Lm5ld3MvcC9kYW8tcHJpemUtYWNjZXB0YW5jZS1zcGVlY2g&amp;ntb=1">the Administration who is most responsible</a> for the <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=bd65b1754622dadb525e58d5c7f3d7a6d6e53375ac04d0680f98d2377fc2855dJmltdHM9MTcyOTcyODAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=disinformation+dozen+racket+news&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmFja2V0Lm5ld3MvcC9yZXBvcnQtb24tdGhlLWNlbnNvcnNoaXAtaW5kdXN0cmlhbA&amp;ntb=1">Censorship Industrial Complex</a>, uncovered by <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Matt Taibbi&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:263053,&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%2Fb60afa88-bdf9-4916-8f80-e74791478593_2000x2000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;4dda043d-6118-465e-bef1-d3b11a19b46d&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <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;9cc6b758-76cd-4a00-b542-5adb36ffcc7b&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> Michael Shellenberger <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Lee Fang&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:24270217,&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/0151246d-d6fb-4306-b87a-db62e2ff47ed_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;141110d5-55fc-4e9d-9658-a6c50ef5a93b&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;The DisInformation Chronicle&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:264299,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/disinformationchronicle&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2eaeb5bc-230a-43db-8551-9f977cdbcd4a_500x500.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;8afc0cce-4de7-43d2-9207-e3c1095a4263&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>  and many others, and by the way, it ain&#8217;t <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=ba7e510a3a9ac4a7f9de8a6afce29300e22f0dfeb4396feada2c7aa226e276f6JmltdHM9MTcyOTcyODAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=reagan+censorship&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYnVzaW5lc3NpbnNpZGVyLmNvbS8zNS15ZWFycy1wbXJjLXJvY2stbHlyaWNzLXNlbmF0ZS10aXBwZXItZ29yZS1mcmFuay16YXBwYS0yMDIwLTk&amp;ntb=1">Reagan doing the censoring</a> these <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=68639a614ec11b826e537248d704d6b5ed0f595917e5ea23f7ff42753d05b2f8JmltdHM9MTcyOTcyODAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=reagan+censorship&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMTk4My8xMi8xNi91cy9yZWFnYW4tY2Vuc29yc2hpcC1wYWN0LXJlbWFpbnMtdW5zaWduZWQtYnktbW9zdC1nb3Zlcm5tZW50LW9mZmljaWFscy5odG1s&amp;ntb=1">days, </a>the new censors tried to, damn near censor out of existence, the whole other party.</p><p> They had a group called the <em><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=e1e71df3535559b88769283fe326f818d75324030dc5c3089757c9c531329fa0JmltdHM9MTcyOTcyODAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=disinformation+dozen+racket+news&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmFja2V0Lm5ld3MvcC9hbi1pbnNpZGVycy1ndWlkZS10by1hbnRpLWRpc2luZm9ybWF0aW9u&amp;ntb=1">Disinformation Dozen</a></em><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=e1e71df3535559b88769283fe326f818d75324030dc5c3089757c9c531329fa0JmltdHM9MTcyOTcyODAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=248e27af-458d-6b68-12e3-345d44ef6a51&amp;psq=disinformation+dozen+racket+news&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmFja2V0Lm5ld3MvcC9hbi1pbnNpZGVycy1ndWlkZS10by1hbnRpLWRpc2luZm9ybWF0aW9u&amp;ntb=1"> </a>that they were trying to deplatform on <em>all </em>levels. A group who transcended party lines, which is proof they want conservatives gone but they&#8217;ll settle for anyone pushes the establishment line.</p><h3>Who Hates DeMOCKracy, Them or Us?</h3><p>Subverting our election process, in the last 2 years was <em>so</em> fucking egregious. They didn&#8217;t even have a Primary! (the anti-democratic republicans who will &#8220;do anything Trump says no matter what&#8221; even had a primary), rescheduling primaries, telling the DNC to disqualify primary opponents that campaign in the same state as the Primary, Hillary put money in the DNC in 2016 to fix the race against Bernie Sanders, this was proven in an email leak that caused the resignation of Debbie-TheTerrible-Wasserman Schultz. Honestly, the unintended consequences of this, I believe, was how Hillary lost. She wasn&#8217;t supposed to be the Democratic nominee in 2016, it was Bernie&#8217;s, the people wanted Bernie, and because they didn&#8217;t get it, a lot of those people who were screwed by the DNC then became trump voters in protest. Keep in mind, although they might do something different once they are in office, the <em>Anti-War </em>candidate always wins. George W. was against war when he won, then he added half of the Neoconservative movement to his cabinet&#8212;egged on by Dick Cheney btw&#8212;9/11 happened and the Neocons got their war. Obama ran an amazing campaign, which was also Anti-War in comparison to the <em>blood-soaked pig</em> John McCain, and he won. John McCain was <em>actually </em>running on keeping troops in Iraq for <em>100 YEARS!!! </em></p><p>Not locking Debbie Wasserman-Schultz for using her power to abuse her position at the DNC, and cheating Bernie Sanders in 2016 is really where we are at. Only the poor and middle class pay for things like this, the rest have a good old politician in their pocket. It&#8217;s the oldest trope but becomes truer by the day. And Stacey Plaskett, Jeffery Epstein&#8217;s personal contact in Congress. These people carry around the moniker of empathy and compassion and serve it to you on a platter of corruption, suppression and censorship.  </p><p>If you believe that these are good people, watch the following hearing, listen to the Democrats and listen to the Republicans, and tell me which one is treating their guests fairly:</p><div id="youtube2-eMDjfP1gk60" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;eMDjfP1gk60&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/eMDjfP1gk60?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's horrific, and made me realize that Trump's bombastic language is not that far off from the &#8220;norms&#8221;.</p><p>The <em>Corporate Democrats</em> have crushed the reputation of the Democratic Party.  Because the Democratic party has strayed so far from the party of liberty and freedom, and towards authoritarianism and pushed the sentiment that the <em>good </em>Democrats are <em>&#8220;Right-Wingers&#8221;</em> that they don&#8217;t even want the name anymore. The <em>good Democrats and good Republicans, mostly, go by &#8220;Independant.&#8221;</em> The only reason this became a pejorative was because The Republican Party was always the authoritarians that wanted speech codes, and war. Now the <em>Establishment Republicans</em> and the <em>Establishment Democrats </em>are the very same strain of authoritarian. It&#8217;s time them both to go. It&#8217;s time for a Populist movement that care about life, enough of these fucking <em>death cults.</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">Declaration of Liberty 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[Next up in "I wish I'd Thought of This" News. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Censored from the internet. Now available courtesy of the WAYBACK MACHINE]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/next-up-in-i-wish-id-thought-of-this</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/next-up-in-i-wish-id-thought-of-this</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 22:11:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/147900349/8c36a162fb0f92cd2c75154af8ad152b.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Working on laying out the Russiagate story from the beginning after reading 500 articles and listening to 1000 podcasts and interviews to get a grasp of it. I&#8217;m going to try to retell the whole story from the beginning in one piece thanks to the excellent reporting of <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Matt Taibbi&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:263053,&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%2Fb60afa88-bdf9-4916-8f80-e74791478593_2000x2000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;677de52e-ba11-4bb6-9c02-cab42ff67f00&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Aaron Mat&#233;&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:1109249,&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/7b2a5055-caa2-4d5c-a239-48697afdb3f0_2613x3280.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;08e518e1-bb2e-4e88-8b6b-52be29693335&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Glenn Greenwald&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:18792891,&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/68e53278-804a-41b7-a693-64adb40e669a_1121x1082.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;27577f88-56d4-4599-8366-14ab234e6a66&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Michael Tracey&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:303188,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;pub&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/mtracey&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ae797a32-2c30-43c2-8c8e-5097f6acf9ef_256x256.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;9a8076d4-a3b1-4c20-be91-3aeb9aa70664&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;UndeadFOIA&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:93305164,&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%2Fe535afc7-d02a-4182-9b9d-d09830c2a550_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;8c4526fd-e5be-4873-a29f-17de21b7435a&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> <strong>and many, many more</strong>. <em><strong>Coming Soon.</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/next-up-in-i-wish-id-thought-of-this?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/next-up-in-i-wish-id-thought-of-this?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p> I heard Robbie Martin on an old episode of <a href="https://mediaroots.org/">Media Roots Radio</a> from <a href="https://soundcloud.com/media-roots/mueller-time-fail-5-years-of-putin-hysteria-real-goal-of-russiagate?utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_campaign=wtshare&amp;utm_medium=widget&amp;utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fmedia-roots%252Fmueller-time-fail-5-years-of-putin-hysteria-real-goal-of-russiagate">2019</a> about Russiagate, mention a video on <em>George W. Bush&#8217;s new painting hobby and the Ghost of an Iraqi Child that Won&#8217;t Stop Following Him</em>, that was put together by <em><a href="https://theonion.com/">The Onion</a></em>, when they were still good. I found the website when I searched, it was listed like it was there, so I clicked and&#8230;. broken link, found it on Twitter&#8230;.X&#8230;. broken link, so I copied the link, headed to the <em><strong>Wayback Machine </strong></em>@ the <em><strong>InternetArchive.com </strong></em>and it let me download it, so here it is, back into circulation you go! </p><p>Also, while I&#8217;m at it check out Robbie Martin&#8217;s, brother to Abby Martin, documentary <em><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/OSXuzix0dnk?si=lhWO_wsSBg1ouJ-C">A Very Heavy Agenda Part 2: How We Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The New Neocons</a>, </strong></em>which lays out how our Neoconservative-run government is marching us towards war with Russia. Enjoy! </p><p></p><p><em>Oh how gay, it&#8217;s age-restricted but you can watch it by following this link <a href="https://youtu.be/OSXuzix0dnk?si=lhWO_wsSBg1ouJ-C">right here.</a></em></p><div id="youtube2-OSXuzix0dnk" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;OSXuzix0dnk&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/OSXuzix0dnk?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>Jordan Lee, Editor-in-Chief, Declaration of <s>war</s>Liberty</strong></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Take-out Attempt on Donald Trump]]></title><description><![CDATA[A job is a job and incompetence is incompetence]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-take-out-attempt-on-donald-trump</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/the-take-out-attempt-on-donald-trump</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:14:14 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/W0I0bO10BuQ" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Since there is already extensive coverage of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump I was gonna keep my nose out of it but, I just can&#8217;t.</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/cc63733b-ecbe-4153-ad47-20cb550df2d4_275x183.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/89fd61cf-37ae-4568-b0a0-d4020596c4c0_299x168.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9df9cea6-3a6a-42cb-84b9-bd6556feb0b0_300x168.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/e764705d-0b61-43bb-b68d-644b27d8b054_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p>So far, we&#8217;ve heard it all. Every possible take. We&#8217;ve heard the Police was told to stand down, <a href="https://japantoday.com/category/world/us-right-takes-aim-at-women-secret-service-agents-who-protected-trump">DJT was given incompetent Secret Service people on purpose</a>,<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/07/17/secret-service-trump-rally-shooting-homeland-security-investigation/">Secret Service was told police could not watch building used by Trump rally shooter</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/07/17/secret-service-trump-rally-shooting-homeland-security-investigation/">he was supposed to have more Secret Service</a> but was not given enough people on purpose, this<a href="https://mainemorningstar.com/2024/07/17/blaming-democratic-rhetoric-for-shooting-maine-republicans-join-call-for-unity/"> is the left&#8217;s fault for exaggerating the existential risk</a> to the country if he wins and being threatening with rhetoric like this:</p><blockquote><p><em><strong><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/07/17/trump-assassination-attempt-biden-bullseye/74407508007/">On July 8, on a phone call with donors, Biden said, &#8220;We&#8217;re done talking about the debate, it&#8217;s time to put Trump in a bull's-eye.&#8221;</a></strong></em></p></blockquote><p>The police spotted <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-assassination-attempt-investigation-continues-new-details/story?id=112020474">Thomas Crooks 20 minutes prior to the shooting on the roof</a> and did nothing, also, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/media/secret-service-agents-women-trump-shooting/index.html">one that I found pretty funny is the three woman</a> who <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/right-wing-conspiracy-dei-secret-service-women-blame-trump-shooting/">helped in leading the former President to the escape vehicle and very humorously looks</a> to each other with this stern look and nods as if they are some kind of &#8220;police comedy&#8221; from the 90&#8217;s with Chris Farley, or even better, the <em>always funny</em> <em><strong><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247745/">&#8220;Super Troopers&#8221;</a></strong></em> and one of them just can&#8217;t get that damn gun in the holster, <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/lippincott/p/the-secret-service-is-a-clown-organization?r=iuq6q&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">that they are </a><em><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/lippincott/p/the-secret-service-is-a-clown-organization?r=iuq6q&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">diversity hires</a></em><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/lippincott/p/the-secret-service-is-a-clown-organization?r=iuq6q&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web"> and shouldn&#8217;t have taken a &#8220;</a><em><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/lippincott/p/the-secret-service-is-a-clown-organization?r=iuq6q&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">mans job</a></em><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/lippincott/p/the-secret-service-is-a-clown-organization?r=iuq6q&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">&#8221;</a>&#8230;..I told someone at work about this and they, as if reading my mind said, &#8220;what is this, the 1940&#8217;s?&#8221; I also heard, at my work, &#8220;I wish he wouldn&#8217;t have missed.&#8221; Which was an ugly take, but a take nevertheless. I don&#8217;t believe they feel that way, truly, that&#8217;s just the cool thing to say in some &#8220;friend groups&#8221; but, if they weren&#8217;t so isolated from that world they&#8217;d never say something like that.</p><p>There&#8217;s also, actual footage showing that the Police Sniper had him in his scope but waited until he got 8 shots off to take him out which Kyle Kylinski talks about below:</p><div id="youtube2-W0I0bO10BuQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;W0I0bO10BuQ&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/W0I0bO10BuQ?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>We&#8217;ve also heard people like Destiny saying the innocent father who was killed in the crossfire protecting his family, the same way the Secret Service protected trump, deserved to die because he was a Trump supporter. For this Destiny was demonitized on X, and suspended from Kick till what looks to be August 1st, 2024.</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/the-take-out-attempt-on-donald-trump?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-take-out-attempt-on-donald-trump?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 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/419b8ee7-4aca-4d20-a6d3-72aa1679cbc6_1080x1747.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b373c08b-a925-4add-b015-77576bd01876_360x329.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9ba87768-a8f7-4a07-9a94-66a2431a18d6_496x680.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ae2688d9-0ccf-45d8-a393-b36908b2c77d_665x797.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/09faa471-d4d3-4221-9040-f7900162e97d_671x802.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9089623f-3478-46f1-83ab-a712787f0dec_288x360.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f52f3ecd-c9f9-41b5-8d6a-d04ce073efda_680x674.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/033aff0a-a89c-4e6b-b213-99e5cffad172_1456x1946.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p><strong> I must say that I am against him facing any repercussions for his words under any circumstance, no matter how despicable they may be. I might </strong><em><strong>hate your speech</strong></em><strong> but it&#8217;s not </strong><em><strong>hate speech. </strong></em><strong>As Voltaire, the French philosopher said </strong><em><strong>&#8220;I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it&#8221;.</strong></em></p><p>He&#8217;s had to defend this in several debates and as a true excercise in the marketplace of ideas it&#8217;s very obvious who is in the wrong when he tries to defend his words. </p><div id="youtube2-gt_CipOPPs0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;gt_CipOPPs0&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;1888&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/gt_CipOPPs0?start=1888&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, here&#8217;s what it seems like from my vantage point. There was obvious incompetence from all the law enforcement involved in this. They absolutely had the guy in their scope, the police sniper, but from that far away it seems they were trying to figure out if he was friend or foe. </p><p>After all these years of accusing police of being too quick to shoot he must&#8217;ve been waiting for the right moment, waiting to make absolutely sure that he was a foe and not a friend. Just imagine if that had not been a guy who was mentally ill, attempting to take out the, soon to be, 47th President of the United States and was actually a sniper for the Secret Service or the local Sheriffs Dept. and they took him out simply based on not knowing where all their guys were at, it would be totally fucked but, this is why they should&#8217;ve been collaborating a little better and known where all the <em>friendly shooters</em> were stationed and also if they had people on that roof way back there, why wouldn&#8217;t they have someone on the roof closer to Donald Trump&#8217;s head. They could see that roof, therefore they knew it was empty, until it wasn&#8217;t.</p><p>We also gotta remember that this is their <em>job</em>, which you would think that would mean they&#8217;d take it more serious but, from my own experience people just don&#8217;t. I spent 11-years in a factory where everyday I would train new people to do whatever job they were hired to do and, everyday I watched various workers in various ways trying to get away with doing as little as possible and, counting down the minutes till that bell rings and they can get outta there, by the way, I would&#8217;ve rather been at home too, I also count down the minutes. I&#8217;ve never had a job that was as important as this but, I imagine people are still people and a job is still a job and when it comes to work, what I do know is there&#8217;s A LOT of incompetence. Even the most capable are very capable of being incompetent. </p><p>Some people take their job very serious, no matter what the job is, I like to think that&#8217;s the category I fall into. I take my job VERY serious. I work at a factory that makes plastic liners for food service companies and I even take that <em>very</em> serious, though no ones lives are on the line. I take this Substack very serious. At my factory job I work with a majority of people who couldn&#8217;t give two fucks about it, and a very few who, like me, care about doing a good job, and thats the way it is everywhere I&#8217;ve been. You have a few who treat the job like the difference between life and death. The rest, are on the prowl, looking for anyway they can get out of work. Most fast food places I go to nowadays fuck up even the smallest orders, a girl growled at me for walking up to the counter to place an order while she was scrolling through Tik Tok! The Papa Johns near me fucks up literally every order we get from them, even for a tip. The Kroger pharmacy I go to forgot to tell me my medicine is not in stock even after I went up there three times to see if it was ready, and the grocery store puts up signs that things are on sale and doesn&#8217;t log the sale into the system and it rings up at full price. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s fucked up to compare the United States Secret Service to Papa Johns and what-not but, I believe their incompetence that day came from the same place. <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/fly-by-the-seat-of-pants">Just flying by the seat of their pants</a>. </p><p>Now two families have lost their fathers. If someone had intercepted Thomas Crooks, maybe he could&#8217;ve gotten help. After some time in an institution and some therapy, he could&#8217;ve come home, well, and been a wonderful father to his children and husband to his wife, and Corey Comperatore could continue being the<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/us-news/corey-comperatores-widow-reveals-his-final-words-before-he-was-killed-at-trump-rally/"> amazing father to his children that I&#8217;m sure he was, and husband to his wife</a>, but death is final. One died mentally ill, obviously, and the other protecting his family as any man should.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYOS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdd33edba-2ed3-426b-887b-ed96baba8c9f_1200x1800.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYOS!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdd33edba-2ed3-426b-887b-ed96baba8c9f_1200x1800.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYOS!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdd33edba-2ed3-426b-887b-ed96baba8c9f_1200x1800.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYOS!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdd33edba-2ed3-426b-887b-ed96baba8c9f_1200x1800.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYOS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdd33edba-2ed3-426b-887b-ed96baba8c9f_1200x1800.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYOS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdd33edba-2ed3-426b-887b-ed96baba8c9f_1200x1800.jpeg" width="346" height="519" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dd33edba-2ed3-426b-887b-ed96baba8c9f_1200x1800.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1800,&quot;width&quot;:1200,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:346,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Corey Comperatore &quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="Corey Comperatore " title="Corey Comperatore " srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYOS!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdd33edba-2ed3-426b-887b-ed96baba8c9f_1200x1800.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYOS!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdd33edba-2ed3-426b-887b-ed96baba8c9f_1200x1800.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYOS!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdd33edba-2ed3-426b-887b-ed96baba8c9f_1200x1800.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vYOS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdd33edba-2ed3-426b-887b-ed96baba8c9f_1200x1800.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">Corey Comperatore, 50, the married father and fire fighter killed while protecting his family.</figcaption></figure></div><p>I don&#8217;t know what to make of Crooks being a registered Republican. That tells me this man was simply, mentally ill, that&#8217;s all there is to it. However, with Trump being an existential threat to our country, according to every Corporate Media Pundit there&#8217;s no doubt that if you believe them you could find justification to take Donald Trump out. Especially after Biden&#8217;s recent <em>shitting of all beds.</em> There must be a better way they could go after this guy that doesn&#8217;t make him seem like <em>actual Hitler</em>. He&#8217;s done some wild shit, he&#8217;s no saint, why is <em>that</em> the only way to criticize him? Beat him on his merit instead of making up fear porn about him. </p><p>But they can&#8217;t because, they subverted every primary so no one better had a chance, and their candidate, President Joseph R. Biden, is <em>SO fucking bad</em>, that they have <em>NO </em>choice but to make the other the other guy the worst thing that&#8217;s <em>EVER</em> happened, now I&#8217;m hearing he&#8217;s actually going to step down. After all that,  they ruined their credibility with the American people, they could&#8217;ve came with better policies but they off the same warmongering neoliberal bullshit and paint him as a dictator instead of going after the things he has actually done. That&#8217;s how lives get lost, who wouldn&#8217;t kill hitler if they had the chance? The Democrats are going to lose and they fucking deserve it, we deserve Donald Trump, with all that he entails.</p><p><em><strong>                                  Jordan Lee Canter, Editor-in-Chief, Declaration of <s>War</s>Liberty</strong></em></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all know Trump has told some lies, but to think Biden isn't the same kind of liar.....]]></title><description><![CDATA[The lies of Joe Biden]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/we-all-know-trump-has-told-some-lies</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/we-all-know-trump-has-told-some-lies</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2024 18:55:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/w_FSdVMuBI0" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="youtube2-w_FSdVMuBI0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;w_FSdVMuBI0&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:&quot;1658&quot;,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/w_FSdVMuBI0?start=1658&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>&#8220;Donald Trump is a dangerous man who cannot tell the difference between truth and reality&#8221; Ummmmmmm&#8230;&#8230; DID THE OTHER GUY SAY <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/papua-new-guinea-james-marape-joe-biden-uncle-cannibals-comment/">HIS UNCLE GOT EATEN BY CANNIBALS?!</a> And <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/video-joe-biden-son-beau-lost-life-iraq-viral-1751433">his son died in Iraq?</a></p><p> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/politics/fact-check-joe-biden-claim-arrested-defending-civil-rights/index.html">And he was arrested during a protest for civil rights?</a> <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/apr/29/joe-biden/joe-biden-repeats-false-tale-that-he-got-arrested/">He even brought his mother into this lie</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. 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><blockquote><p><em><strong>In an April 26 interview on "The Howard Stern Show," Biden told the talk radio star that he got arrested decades ago while protesting in defense of civil rights.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Biden said his mother encouraged him to accept Barack Obama&#8217;s invitation to be his 2008 running mate by reminding him of the stance Biden took while young when a civil rights flare-up happened in the suburban Delaware community of Lynnfield, near where Biden&#8217;s family lived at the time.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Biden said that his mother said: "&#8216;Remember when they were desegregating Lynnfield, the neighborhood? There was a Black family moving in and there was people were down there protesting; I told you not to go down there and you went down, remember that? And you came and got arrested standing on the porch with a Black family? And they brought you back, the police?&#8217; And I said, &#8216;Yeah, Mom, I remember that.&#8217;"</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Biden said his mother used the moment to point out that all these years later Biden had the chance to help Obama become the first Black U.S. president.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p><strong>And he took whole sections of speeches spoken by the late Robert F. Kennedy and Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock? </strong></p><div id="youtube2-hEL1098WV24" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;hEL1098WV24&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/hEL1098WV24?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 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/we-all-know-trump-has-told-some-lies?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-all-know-trump-has-told-some-lies?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><strong><a href="https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-biden-amtrak-e79af0cd7015ea3d559609817cceb144">Or an Amtrak conductor congratulating Biden for flying over 1 million miles</a> as vice president visiting his sick mother &#8212; after the conductor had died and his mother had passed?<a href="https://apnews.com/article/cd977f7ff301993f7976974ba07c5495#"> He also said he graduated in the top half </a>of his class in law school and the he had <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/09/22/biden-academic-claims-inaccurate/932eaeed-9071-47a1-aeac-c94a51b668e1/">3 degrees in political science</a>, all not true.  <a href="https://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/38586">He said in 2008, a helicopter he was riding in was &#8220;forced down&#8221; near Osama bin Laden&#8217;s lair in Afghanistan. Actually, it was just waiting out a sands</a>torm. </strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/20/bidens-claim-that-his-great-grandpop-was-coal-miner/">Claimed to be a coal miner and from a family of coal miners.</a></strong> </p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Of particular note, Kinnock had referred to his ancestors, Welsh coal miners, &#8220;who could work eight hours underground and then come up and play football.&#8221; In Biden&#8217;s telling, it became: &#8220;My ancestors, who worked in the coal mines of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours.&#8217;&#8217;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-lahaina-maui-wildfires-survivors-gets-it-small-house-fire-2023-8">Having his house &#8220;burn down with my wife in it,&#8221;</a> to the victims of the Maui Widfire!!!</strong></p><blockquote><p><em><strong>When <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a> met with survivors of the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/maui-wildfires-service-cell-service-landlines-down-hawaii-2023-8">Maui wildfires</a> on Monday, he told them that he could relate to them because he and First Lady Jill Biden knew what it was like to lose a home to a fire.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>But the fire in question was described by the <a href="https://www.firehouse.com/home/news/10516121/lightning-sparks-fire-at-bidens-house">Associated Press</a> at the time as "a small fire that was contained to the kitchen," with the Delaware fire chief indicating that it was under control in 20 minutes.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>During Biden's visit to Maui, where the devastating wildfires have killed at least 114 people, he made a 13-minute speech to a group of survivors in Lahaina &#8212;the city <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lahaina-maui-wildfire-what-went-wrong-climate-colonialism-2023-8">destroyed by flames</a>, with<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/maui-wildfires-lahaina-wooden-house-spared-among-rubble-2023-8"> nearly every building to ash and rubble.</a></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>&#8220;I don't want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, what it's like to lose a home,&#8221; he said, <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/08/21/remarks-by-president-biden-at-community-engagement-with-residents-impacts-by-wildfires/">according to remarks published by The White House.</a></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>He referred to an incident in 2004, when he was a senator for Delaware, and in Washington, DC, to appear on &#8220;Meet The Press.&#8221; Biden described how lightning struck a pond by his Delaware home, hitting a wire, and coming up underneath his home into the heating and air conditioning ducts.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>&#8220;To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my &#8216;67 Corvette, and my cat,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;But all kidding aside, I watched the firefighters, the way they responded.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Biden has in the past been accused of <a href="https://archive.ph/Mv8aN#selection-549.61-549.111">embellishing the house-fire story.</a></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>He <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&amp;v=633292758042518">once said</a> that he knew what it was like to have &#8220;had a house burn down with my wife in it.&#8221; Last year, he also told survivors of Hurricane Ian in Florida that he &#8220;lost an awful lot of&#8221; his Delaware home in the fire, <a href="https://archive.ph/Mv8aN#selection-545.38-545.80">per The New York Times.</a></strong></em></p></blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/10/03/remarks-by-president-biden-on-hurricane-fiona-response-and-recovery-efforts/">growing up in the Puerto</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/05/biden-jewish-greek-puerto-rican/">Rican community,</a></strong></p><blockquote><p><em><strong>And so I &#8212; I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically.&nbsp; And so, we &#8212; and we came here for a long time, both for business and pleasure, since you&#8217;re part of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and Delaware is as well.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p><strong><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/24/politics/fact-check-biden-driving-18-wheeler/index.html">and once being the driver</a> of <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/03/joe-biden/no-joe-biden-wasnt-tractor-trailer-driver/">&#8220;an 18-wheeler&#8221;.</a></strong></p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Biden has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/politics/fact-check-biden-false-claims-first-year-2021/index.html">repeatedly embellished or invented</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/politics/fact-check-biden-amtrak-grandfather-pittsburgh-bridge-debt/index.html">biographical tidbits</a>. In 2021, he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-18-wheeler-truck/">claimed</a>&nbsp;during a tour of a Mack Trucks facility: &#8220;I used&nbsp;to drive an 18-wheeler, man,&#8221; then added, &#8220;I got to.&#8221; At a separate 2021 event, he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/03/joe-biden/no-joe-biden-wasnt-tractor-trailer-driver/">told</a>&nbsp;college students studying truck technology, &#8220;I used to drive a tractor-trailer,&#8221; adding,&nbsp;&#8220;I only did it for part of a summer, but I got my license anyway.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p><em><strong>These lies weren&#8217;t a one off thing, they are now and have consisted throughout his entire career.</strong></em></p><p><strong>He told the mothers of the 13 soldiers killed in Afghanistan because of his ill-conceived pullout in 2021 that he could feel their pain because his son, Beau Biden, had also died in the war. </strong></p><div id="youtube2-N0W0i1JnhN0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;N0W0i1JnhN0&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/N0W0i1JnhN0?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><strong><a href="https://nypost.com/2024/06/28/us-news/gold-star-families-react-after-biden-denies-troop-deaths-under-his-watch/">At debate with Trump on June 27, one of his many lies, include not having any military deaths during his term in office. </a></strong></p><blockquote><p><em><strong>Kin of the 13 US troops killed in Afghanistan during President Biden&#8217;s disastrous 2021 withdrawal told The Post on Friday they were infuriated &#8211; but not surprised &#8211; by the disrespect he showed in falsely claiming at Thursday&#8217;s debate that no service members died overseas under his watch.</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>This guy cheated his way through law school,<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/09/18/biden-admits-plagiarizing-in-law-school/53047c90-c16d-4f3a-9317-a106be8f6102/"> proven,</a> and it worked, so he cheated his way through everything else too. To say Joe Biden and Donald Trump have a different relationship with the truth is to say that they are also two middle-aged guys in the prime of their life. </p><p>They are the same. </p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/14/biden-nearly-died-an-aneurysm-risky-surgery-changed-his-life/">One&#8217;s just declining faster, probably due to, true story, </a><strong><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/14/biden-nearly-died-an-aneurysm-risky-surgery-changed-his-life/">the brain surgery he had following his 1988 humiliation</a>. I know it was a long time ago, but there is zero chance that the trauma of having your head cut open has no effect on his mental acuity in the future. My mother just had to have her knee reconstructed over trauma to her knee playing softball years later. This shit matters. </strong></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. 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[Declaration of Divorce]]></title><description><![CDATA[From all those who oppose freedom!]]></description><link>https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/declaration-of-divorce</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/declaration-of-divorce</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan Lee Canter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:03:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0ac9e7d9-bbdd-454b-b61b-4d58ede31da8_225x225.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bc6b43c2-8f26-45d9-926e-b60760bf77e7_225x224.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9adf6540-a0f2-4bd2-883e-c24ce6aee919_273x184.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f3c1fde8-63ff-4a3b-95f8-2d021a56dbb0_202x249.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6d86d152-4415-45de-974b-e6f902cb8d20_300x168.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0e25e095-2cf5-4765-aea9-e38c656566ab_380x133.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/8be42a10-4a47-4da9-b5d9-5ce725da4823_1456x1210.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p>Now for a topic that&#8217;s old news, I am perpetually, and physically might I add, late to writing on every topic that makes my soul steam, but late is better than never. Catching up on my Reason Magazines that I subscribed to in print, although I read Reason online, and the magazines are there, hissing at me to open them. So I&#8217;m thumbing through Feb &#8217;24, I get Robby Soave&#8217;s piece, God bless him, on the Harvard Pres&#8217; that&#8217;s too passive for her own damn good, and the Congress psycho, who must have decades of domestic abuse built up in her, <strong>to the point that it is just boiling over with every word</strong>, it&#8217;s just, well insane! This <strong>Roxanne</strong>, or <strong>Claudine Gay</strong>, whichever, they&#8217;re both just as forgettable, but she&#8217;s not&#8230;..wrong. I just rewatched the video and she as plain as day says, <strong>&#8220;that type of hateful speech is personally abhorrent to me&#8221; </strong>and <strong>&#8220;I've heard that thoughtless</strong>, <strong>reckless and, hateful language on our </strong>campus&#8221; and she continues by saying &#8220;we Embrace a commitment to free expression, even of views that are objectionable, offensive, hateful, it's when that speech crosses into conduct that violates our policies against <strong>bullying, and harassment&#8221;. Which is a solid statement. The question in between each of these statements get crazier and crazier in tone, like I would walk three blocks out of my way to avoid passing this psychopath on the sidewalk. She is oozing hatred, (or maybe it&#8217;s psychopathy)regardless it scares me, it&#8217;s scary, and very misplaced. Now this Harvard lady is obviously, according to reporting following this incident, isn&#8217;t of the utmost integrity, but that&#8217;s not my issue here. Just watch the video:</strong></p><div id="youtube2-5f-E6LiYReM" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;5f-E6LiYReM&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/5f-E6LiYReM?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 class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://jordanlee2liberty.substack.com/p/declaration-of-divorce?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/declaration-of-divorce?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><p>What she&#8217;s obviously saying is, if they&#8217;re not actually committing these acts, who gives a fuck what they are saying?!?! They went from &#8220;genocide on cops&#8221;, in other words, to &#8220;genocide on Jews&#8221;. Either way, it&#8217;s as she said, &#8220;Not actionable&#8221;. There is definitely an ideological bend on this. Since Miss Gay would without a doubt support the firing of Bret Weinstein for not wanting segregation implemented at the school where him and Heather Heying held a <strong>Tenured Position </strong>and in the same breath claim <em><strong>First Amendment </strong></em>whenthe students chant, <em><strong>From the river to the sea</strong></em>. All bullshit aside, Miss Gay and UPenn's Elizabeth Magill, were not in the wrong, this is freedom of speech, if you watch in this video below, these ladies answer in a very balanced way,</p><div id="youtube2-5VtAZBvmzcQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;5VtAZBvmzcQ&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/5VtAZBvmzcQ?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>Stefanie,</strong> The Gentlewoman from New York.</em> says the specific terms she&#8217;s referring to is &#8220;From the river to the sea&#8221; and &#8220;Chants for intifada&#8221; which refers to the Palestinians rising up to be freed. There&#8217;s a podcast called <em><strong>Electronic Intifada </strong></em>no one calls them &#8220;Genocider&#8217;s&#8221;, putting that aside too. As long as it&#8217;s not targeted at individuals, that sounds kind of like the First Amendment, and Stefanie is just cracking over this, we should not have someone in Congress who is this psychotic, they are being calm and respectful and that fucking lady is losing her shit. And she did that thing, that makes me so fucking mad, the Democrats did it to Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger and RFK, jr, and I&#8217;m sure others and she&#8217;s doing it here, ask them something supposedly important, and follow it with <em><strong>&#8220;Yes or No&#8221;, and when you don&#8217;t like the answer, cut them off with, &#8220;It&#8217;s a Yes or No question&#8221;. I cannot explain how furious it makes me, they would arrest me for contempt because I would lose my shit just like she is, WHO THE FUCK DO THESE PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE! WE ELECT THEM, WE GIVE THEM THEIR POWER, WITHOUT US THEY&#8217;D BE BAGGING FUCKING GROCERIES, THEIR NOT SMART, NOT EVEN A LITTLE, EVERY ONE OF THEM JUST CAUGHT THE RIGHT WAVE AND RODE IT IN. ALL THREE OF THOSE LADIES MIGHT BE PIECES OF DIRT BUT THEY SHOWED UP TOOK TIME OUT OF THEIR DAY, THEIR NOT FUCKING GANGSTERS OBVIOUSLY, And this attitude is totally Bipartisan, like I said the Democrats, or whatever they are, that piece of dirt Debbie Waserman Schultz, was dismissed from the Chair of the Democratic National Committee when she rigged the Primary so Bernie Sanders would lose, as our hero Julian Assange exposed, and the other Stacy Plaskett well, what did she do&#8230;.</strong></em></p><div class="embedded-post-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;id&quot;:131448615,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.leefang.com/p/house-democrat-worked-for-epsteins&quot;,&quot;publication_id&quot;:1239256,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Lee Fang&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%2Fa3fad268-da94-4bca-99fe-d0046abecdd2_874x874.png&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;House Democrat Worked for Epstein's Tax and Political Fixer&quot;,&quot;truncated_body_text&quot;:&quot;Democratic Del. Stacey Plaskett, a representative of the U.S. Virgin Islands in Congress, has distanced herself from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, claiming she was completely &#8220;unaware&#8221; of his donations. 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Stacey Plaskett, a representative of the U.S. Virgin Islands in Congress, has distanced herself from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, claiming she was completely &#8220;unaware&#8221; of his donations. However, recent court filings shed light on a much closer relationship between Plaskett and Epstein than previously known&#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; 535 likes &#183; 94 comments &#183; Lee Fang</div></a></div><p><em><strong>And this lady Stefanie, or whatever her name is, who alway takes the moral highground, is against censorship, and blah blah blah, here she is using the same tactic in support of censorship. What the fuck is going on here!? One of favorite people in media, Joe Rogan, even fell for this shit, I had to skip past that on the &#8220;Protect Our Parks 10&#8221; episode, I couldn&#8217;t take it, it makes me so mad, but I don&#8217;t expect Joe who has like 7 jobs to get EVERYTHING right, he does, however, get enough right! I don&#8217;t give a shit what those kids said, they are college students, trying to find their way, they&#8217;re speaking out for something they believe in and if that ain&#8217;t America I DON&#8217;T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS!</strong></em></p><h3>I think it&#8217;s time to reject the current system as a whole, The Democratic Party and The Republican Party are one in the same, they use identity politics to separate themselves from each other and keep us fighting, and when it comes down to the things that really matter like World Peace and Civil Rights, they both want censorship and perpetual war! What EVER it takes to quiet dissent, and keep the money pouring in. When push comes to shove they are lock-step with each other, towing the line of the oligarchs in the defense companies and whichever Lobby is filling their pockets. It&#8217;s a fucking racket and we keep falling for it. Is this fucking America or what? What happen to Freedom? Do we care about that anymore? What happened to the Liberals who cared about compassion? What happened to the conservatives that cared about tax cuts and the troops? They say both sides have went too far to the extremes, I think they have came too close together and now we just have a big blob of orwellian corporatism, evolving rapidly into an authoritarian nightmare. That&#8217;s spreading worldwide.</h3><p><strong>So who&#8217;s on the Independant ticket? I know I sound cynical but I&#8217;m really not, I am probably too optimistic, I believe we can come together as a whole and make things better. We have to stop voting for these idiots who don&#8217;t have our best interests at heart. Maybe robots can replace them, lol, I mean how could they suck more, it&#8217;s not possible. </strong></p><p><em><strong>As it stands we have 535 people in Congress right now, think about this, WE HAVE FIVE-HUNDRED-AND-THIRTY-FIVE Nikki Haley&#8217;s(Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley) looking out for our best interest. Just think about it&#8230;..</strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XcRi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec9c01bd-dc87-4318-ac96-9673585201ed_275x183.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XcRi!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec9c01bd-dc87-4318-ac96-9673585201ed_275x183.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XcRi!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec9c01bd-dc87-4318-ac96-9673585201ed_275x183.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XcRi!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec9c01bd-dc87-4318-ac96-9673585201ed_275x183.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XcRi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec9c01bd-dc87-4318-ac96-9673585201ed_275x183.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XcRi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec9c01bd-dc87-4318-ac96-9673585201ed_275x183.jpeg" width="461" height="306.77454545454543" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ec9c01bd-dc87-4318-ac96-9673585201ed_275x183.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:183,&quot;width&quot;:275,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:461,&quot;bytes&quot;:11424,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XcRi!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec9c01bd-dc87-4318-ac96-9673585201ed_275x183.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XcRi!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec9c01bd-dc87-4318-ac96-9673585201ed_275x183.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XcRi!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec9c01bd-dc87-4318-ac96-9673585201ed_275x183.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XcRi!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec9c01bd-dc87-4318-ac96-9673585201ed_275x183.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>That look is how we feel about it too Nikki.</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p><em><strong>Jordan Lee Canter, editor-in-chief, Declaration of <s>WAR</s>Liberty</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/declaration-of-divorce?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/declaration-of-divorce?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>