Bret Weinstein has been talking about, what he calls, our Cartesian Crisis for years which probably goes as far back, or at least we can spot its origins, in the Wilsonian propaganda campaign during WW1, and refined through the contributions of men like Edward Bernays, Jacque Ellul, and Walter Lippmann. Nearly all that we think we know about the world comes to us from people we have never met. Journalism is corrupt beyond recognition because it's designed to support narrative rather than fact. The only truth is inside the covers of the Bible.
Which Bible? Which translation? WHO OWNS the copyright to that Bible?.... Roman Catholic Bible, or Protestant Bible?.... The Bible also contains untruths....
I assume you've never read one translation all the way through. There are also reference publications that break down languages and word meanings to help clarify understanding of the passages. It's not a hard endeavor.
I've even read the apocryphal books. But the truth can be gleaned from every one of them if you understand the purpose of the biblical account. It has only one message, along with the history that led to it. One important point that almost all Bibles point to is the fall of the Jewish system and the loss of spiritual protection for that nation. Jews today don't buy that, but the fact remains that the ancient Jewish system was completely destroyed, not a stone on a stone is left. There is no longer a physical representation of God's protection of any nation; it's all spiritual. No nation has any protection, not even the US.
The Rabbi Hillel was able to distill the message of the Torah, down to one statement... And Jesus echoed those same sentiments in the New Testament, as well. People often lose sight of the big picture of holy scriptures, while focusing upon minutia. The core message of all the great religions is essentially the same. It behooves us to remember that.
The Old Testament has a bunch of rules specific to the requirements of the ancient Israelites, to conform to the terms of Covenants, that are seemingly transactional. But encoded within those books are also the immutable and ancient laws of commerce, which the New Testament reiterates. The Quran seems to continue in that tradition.
Children of Abraham, fighting over his inheritance, does little to recommend any of them as being legitimately righteous.
Yes, this is true. The Old Testament and the Torah are a physical, or earthly, template representing a spiritual future Kingdom, designed for all humans, not just a class or those with certain DNA. That transfer has long passed, effectively after 70 CE, when Rome was allowed to annihilate the ancient Jewish system.
The Hebrew Christian Congregation was in chaos because they struggled with melding their old Jewish beliefs with the new Word of Christians. This is where the apostle Paul intervened, being a lawyer and a Hebrew scholar. He explained how the old Hebrew structure pictured the New Covenant replacing the old Abrahamic agreement.
The Bible's message would be much more difficult to understand without Paul's exposition. It is worth taking a hard look at its chapters.
Abrahamism, - meaning Judaism, Islam, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, etc., are ALL TAINTED by the BLOOD LIBEL of male infant genital mutilation, female genital mutilation, and so-called "honor killings", etc., The WHOLE TREE is rotten, and bears rotten bitter fruit....
Correct. The sins of the U.S. do not afford it any more spiritual protection than that of Israel. "I mean to make some of Satan's assembly, those self-styled Jews who are not really Jews but frauds, come and fall down at your feet; they will learn of my love for you in that way." (Revelation 3:9)
You would like a book called The War Against Humanity by Anonymous Patriot.
WOW, Phil. When you put it like that, I must agree.... But you're evading my larger question about Copyrighted Bibles....You'd say they have "no protection now"?...And it's "all Spiritual"?....Yup, agreed.
It's not invading; it's not really understandable what you mean. Some Bibles have an incredible amount of work to faithfully translate each original word's meaning into a modern language. Who wants to read the King James Bible? It's filled with the King's politics, and a miserable language. If some group wants to work out a better way to read the Bible for the Masses, I have no problem having a copyrighted version. As long as it's accurate enough. I think the important part of the discussion is for people to read it. I'm more concerned about that. Every group has its own take on Scripture, but to me, there are just a few major themes worth understanding. I don't like quibbling over small stuff. If readers understand that we are in an era of spirituality, not the old Jewish system of temples and festivals, and that all humanity is invited into a relationship with God, not just a nation.
So many churches preach this idea that a new temple will be built, and it is a physical new Jerusalem in Israel. It's all propaganda. And, a big reason for this stupid war.
Can you share the biblical untruths with us you speak about? The Roman Catholic bible includes some of the books that are in the apocrypha (14 additional books left out of the Hebrew bible, the old testament) where the protestant bible does not. see this https://www.christianity.com/wiki/bible/what-are-the-apocryphal-books-and-do-they-belong-in-the-bible.html The King James and New King James translations are some of the translations that use the Textus Receptus for the Greek text of the New Testament where most of the more modern translations use the Nestle-Aland Greek for their New Testament translation. See https://equipthesaints.church/2020/08/01/greek-texts-and-textual-differences-in-bible-translations/ But even with those differences "they contain the same teachings and present the same gospel" and "Doctrine is not hindered by the differences".
Gen. 1 informs the reader that he lives under a great dome which was established by placing a rakia (firmament) in the waters and draining the portion of the mayim under the rakia to make a void. This rakia is called the shamayim (heaven) and appears to be the heaven to which Elijah and Jesus ascensed, or so the Bibles lead us to believe.
Gen. 1 also states that the Moon, Sun, and other stars were affixed to the rakia (or shamayim), the dome which prevents us from drowning in the torahs' scheme of things. The image conjured up is difficult to reconcile with relevant facts. By the time of the Maccabean revolt more than 100 years before Jesus, Greek science had determined that we live on a great spheroidal object.
Some Greeks established also that the Sun is located at a much greater distance from the Earth than the Moon. If Genesis were correct, then the Sun would be at a trivially greater distance from Earth than the Moon during a solar eclipse. Of course, the Greeks were on the right track. During an eclipse, the Sun remains more than 100× farther away than the Moon. So, Genesis' cosmology is trash, and the erroneousness places every sect of Avrahamism into a category called Fiction.
I could go on if you like about Biblical untruths. For instance, consider verse 27 of Gen. 1. It insists that the first humans, male and female, were made in the image and likeness of elohim, aka God. This is an astonishing claim given the usual assumption that elohim is eternal, perfect, bodiless, omnipotent, and omniscient. Do you know any people who bear any similarity at all to such a being?....Neither do I. Not even Adam and Eve were like that.
Obviously you do not believe the bible is the word of God. Do you believe the historical account of Christ, his claim to be God and his death and resurrection or do you believe that is all fiction as well? Maybe you are with Pontius Pilate and his question to Jesus when he said what is truth! Or maybe you believe that Pilate was a fictitious character as well.
Obviously what you, I, all persons living today believe is the word of God in ANY Bible version is the word that was passed down by many humans over two-three+ millennia. And been subjected to human errors, biases, rewrites, agendas. The Bible we read has made it through the filters of fallen men. And ALL men are fallen. Whether or not they are/were seen as holy, righteous and true conveyers of the unvarnished, unedited, straight from source word of God.
Maybe you think differently. And somehow by God's graces the word has been immune to the designs of fallen men? I don't think or believe that. I have eyes, ears, a brain and the gift of discernment that God gave me. And have seen fallen, wicked fallen men atop the world's great religions, wearing the skinsuit of holy, righteous men. Imposing their own Satanic agenda as though it is the word of God on followers. And know that similarly wicked, Satanic men have had their hands in the manuscripts and translations of previous renditions of the words of God.
Not one Bible today has passed unadulterated through 2,000-3,500 years of fallen men. The earliest Hebrew and Aramaic versions are closest to God's words. But even they have a lost in translation error within, what did they really mean when written versus what the words mean today. Much like the Constitution no longer reflects the plain language the Founders wrote it in, words reinterpreted to today's understanding of them. Innocent mistranslations and not so innocent mistranslations.
To state this fact of man isn't to question the word of God, or to be a Pontius Pilate figure/character. It is common sense. It is discernment. God's gift. Denial isn't a river in Egypt.
I would agree with your beliefs if I had not read so much on the bible and the history of how it has been preserved both old and new testament alike. How the Hebrew scholars copied the text to preserve it etc never mind the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls and then the thousands of new testament letters that exist. So I cannot agree with your thinking on how it has been corrupted. I do believe in a sovereign God and in man's depravity and in Jesus Christ who quoted from many books in the old testament and also in the Apostles who did the same.
It's btw that Jesus wasn't qualified by the situation of Israel or his paternal ancestry to be Israel's mashiach. Elijah had not returned. The hearts of Israel's fathers sons had not been reconciled. The gospels do not show paternal ancestry of Jesus from David but, instead, make the husband of Mary out to be a cuckold.
Notice also an implication of the cosmos in which we live. Its features make the departure and return of Elijah and Jesus impossible. You can't return to an Earth you never left from a heaven which does not exist. So the messiah prophesy can't be fulfilled. Ever. The Jews, too, await in vain.
Who is more likely to have believed that the Earth is round like a sphere and rotating? Who is more likely to have read and understood Aristarchos of Samos and Eratosthenes? One of Israel's fanatics who believed the drivel of Genesis 1 OR Pilate, the urbane administrator who, even with the evident bias of the Gospels, comes across as the superior man among the two of them?
Mary, I might expand truth to things we can test and repeat. I've talked with Mr. Weinstein about the Cartesian Crisis which echos Plato's cave and earlier insights into 'reality'. We have a triple layer of illusion to manage these days; one is the information filtered and fed to us by entities with agendas, another is AI which can present illusion so convincing we cannot distinguish it from that which is real, and finally is the veil of the senses (Which is what Descartes was grappling with) where all our experience is mediated by nerves which transmit them to the brain for interpretation. The Bible points to truths that are universal to all who achieve deep insight into God, Spirit, Tao, Nirmanakaya, etc. Those truths are pointed towards inner experience/realization that cannot be corrupted. Good luck out there.
West's Cartesian Crisis is due to its obsession with mind and its indifference, until very recently, to consciousness. As regards "the only truth is inside the covers of the Bible" -biblical criticism has classified its errors as auditory, visual, exegetical, and deliberate. There are questions there that are evident. Narrative functions not only on the journalistic level.
However, the same Bible also speaks of the truth within! If we rehearse access to this tiny speck of God in our own hearts, we can get the answers to our questions and we DO recognize truth, (in)justice, love and everything devoid of love and care. Alas, the question, "WHICH Bible" (which was predictable) becomes immaterial.
I have read all of your columns, I believe, and notice of late the drift to gaslight one key fact: Shia Islam in general and the Iranian version of it holds to the goal of eliminating Jews, Israel, the US and most of the West by whatever means are necessary and as long as it takes.
One would think the atrocities of Oct 7 would unmistakably signal the reality of what we face. But instead, Mr. Leake prefers to ignore it and claim instead it is we who ignore reality.
I like Malone, but he really misses some important data points. What he describes could have also be applied to the Continental Army in the revolutionary war of 1776. This rag tag outfit infuriated the Brits because they were using guerilla tactics unknown to a conventional army. It's common when Goliath faces the guy with a sling shot. Whose mind really needs expansion, Nasty?
"One would think the atrocities of Oct 7 would unmistakably signal the reality of what we face."
A perfect example of what Leake is talking about--tribal thinking and alternate realities. One small example: Did Hamas behead 40 babies? Apparently not, as the Israeli government press office confirmed to Le Monde that there were never 40 decapitated babies in Kfar Aza or any other kibbutz. Then there's the widespread concern inside Israel that there was a standdown, and the admission by Israeli officials that Israelis were killed by IDF in some places under the Hannibal Directive or similar orders to prevent them being taken hostage. Indeed, it seems Hamas' goal with the attack was to take hostages that could be exchanged for some of the 10,000 Palestinians held by Israel under deplorable conditions. Two-thirds of Hamas' hostages were returned alive.
Of course it isn't only Israelis and Oct. 7. Truth is the first victim of any war. Look at how Trump lied about the double- or triple-tap missile strike on the girls school in Iran. Plus, the West has been exploiting, invading, and occupying Iran since 1908. As economist Murray Rothbard wrote, governments are criminal gangs writ large.
Don't ever get trapped in a wet paper bag. Your thinking capacity is summed up in the Neocon propaganda from whatever news organization you follow. The Oct 7 was allowed to happen. They gave Netanyahu the ability to destroy Gaza. Think, man, stop believing the shit they are spewing.
What about the synagogues in Iran? Israel just bombed one the other day. I’d say there’s one country dead set on eliminating their neighbors and it’s not Iran.
I think Mr. Leake might have written this article with people like you in mind. How do you know Shia Islam is dedicated to the destruction of Israel, can you cite some evidence? Israel is on record stating they wish, like Donald Trump, to destroy them and wipe them off the face of the earth. That is a Zionist position and it is well documented. Your comment shames all informed people with a knowledge of history. Mr. Leake just wrote about trusting news and the news we get from the M.E. has generally been propaganda.
Cosmo, you know that Islam is determined to convert or kill all non-muslims. It is the rest of us versus them. Are you one of us or one of them spreading propaganda?
Anyone who talks "Zionism" is a propagandist, by definition, Cosmo. You are clearly "One of them". You ae to be ignored as an activist. Shout your negative messages into an empty vacuum.
How so, please show me where I can find that definition? One of them? You mean a decent human being with compassion and a set of principals and knowing right from wrong who has studied history and the tenets of all three major Monotheistic religions to know that Islam and Judaism are two sides of the same coin.
The world is a complicated place. Using loaded terms like Zionism is not productive. This term is favored by people who are agitating. Take it somewhere else. The world doesn't need it.
Cosmo, surely you must have just awoken to world events? I'm neither a Zionist or pacifist. Read and become a little more enlightened than you appear to be...
Instead of using someone else to make your argument why not make one in your own words and philosophy. I find guys like you tedious.. You tell me to read more and I can assure you I have likely read far more than you have given your stunted thinking and limited ability to express those thoughts in a cogent argument and in your own words.
Before you make him a deity of your "beliefs", trying to obsolve the depravity that we've become. Remember that this guy was former CIA...Please comprehend what John is trying to help folks like you with. Until the sheep like you; wake up to the clear propaganda as your link, the futher we fall...Yikes
You make zero sense but go on believing a CIA guy that confirms your biases..Psych eval... what does that even mean man? Not apologetic to have the god given gift of discernment, that you evidently don't have. Keep spreading the hasbara...It appears to be doing well for you
I assume when you refer to atrocities of Oct 7th, you're talking about Netanyahu's financial support of Hamas and his stand down order that resulted in the killing of his own people?
I'm sorry - but that's complete nonsense, of Darbyite/Dominionist/Dispensationalist variety. "Israel" mean sthe Jewish people, and not the Zionist AbomiNation State, founded by Satanists as a recognized entity, in 1948. Torah-faithful Judaism has always rejected the Zionist Heresy as a Satanic rebellion against G-d, and a rejection of the Torah, from its start. https://www.jewsnotzionists.com/Historical_Documents/TheRabbisSpeakOut.htm
You REALLY should look into what actually occurred on October 7th, and not rely upon all of the nonsense that you've been fed, by Zionist-controlled media. There's 0 credible evidence of a single rape that day. There were 2 babies that died - not 40. Neither were beheaded, nor put into an oven. One was shot through a wall, as what appears to be the result of a stray bullet, most likely from the gun of a Palestinian militant. The other baby, was killed along with the rest of his family, and their captors - while the captors tried to negotiate some kind of release for safe passage deal, with the Zionist military which had the house surrounded. Following "the(ir) Hannibal Directive", the Zionists fired a tank round into the living room, killing everyone, rather than making any kind of deal.
And that's an important dynamic to understand about the events of that day - which the Zionists have never allowed to be independently investigated. Of the "1200" Zionist settler-colonists killed that day - it looks like 80% were killed by the Zionist Military. That was the conclusion of a retired Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, when reviewing the available evidence. Burned out cars with charred skeletons can't be accomplished with small arms - that's the result of Hellfire Missiles and Apache Helicopters, to which no Palestinian has access.
Your claims about Islam and Shia Islam are bogus. Islam regards Jews and Christians as "people of the book", and descendants of Abraham. The largest Jewish population in the region, aside from stolen/occupied Palestine, is in Iran. And the Zionists just bombed one of their Synagogues, becuse Zionists have always HATED real Jews, going back to the days of Herzl and Jabotinsky.
You're living inside a highly crafted information bubble, and it's replete with falsehoods. John Leake has written nothing untrue or unreasonable. It's only a wilfully ignorant, cult-mentality, that would allow anyone to think otherwise.
And by now, one would think that the propaganda and false information you're parroting after drinking the kool-aid out of the toilet of lies, would have become obvious with just a little bit of research and historical accuracy. Alas, your preference for false narratives shows the raging desire to remain an NPC in the matrix.
Great article. I’m sorry you are getting such push back from readers. Living outside the US it is probably easier to see the rot inside. The relationship the US government has with its people and the world is that of an abusive spouse, where the abused excuses the abuser’s behavior and even shoulders the blame for the abuse. In the end government is meant to serve the people. If it fails to do this, it fails its social contract. People pay for government and should expect service that reflects this for the people and country. This problem is not confined to the US, although it is certainly accentuated in the US at this moment in time, but seen in numerous other places around the world. As an abused people we need to take ownership of the abuse and heal ourselves to heal our communities.
Keep speaking your mind, and ignore the complainers. They’re the same people who (rightly) condemned leftists for years for blindly following The Party, now demanding the same blind loyalty of us.
John, I have to agree with these statements you made: "People who feel under pressure by hostile strangers take threats seriously, even if the threats are likely mere bluffs. " and "The greatest challenge for every individual and nation is learning to recognize that other people don’t see you as you see yourself. "
And I have been wondering about the extent to which John´s statement: "Since I was a boy, I have been in the habit of questioning everything and every authority, which resulted in considerable disciplinary problems at school, summer camp, and Sunday school," is/can be true, meaning whether "everything" in this statement included religion, as it is there precisely that tribal identity is the strongest and rarely questioned, much less investigated.
The foundational basis of Socratic inquiry is challenging underlying beliefs in an effort to find the truth. It appears to me that you've decided Trump is the problem and you're assembling arguments to justify that belief.
That being said, I can't read your mind; I don't have solid evidence for that thesis. Correlation does not prove causation. Maybe you're right about Trump but it's fairly evident your mind is made up.
Is this what Trump promised. John helped him get elected as did many of us, but Trump’s disregarded all his promises and doesn’t seem to care about MAGA, MAHA or any of the folks who got him into office.
Good piece, John. Sometimes you outdo yourself. You bring a not-frequently-encountered cultural/historical quality in your contributions to the larger conversation. And tribal people will inevitably misinterpret that.
I sense your knuckles don't allow for a more expansive vocabulary while dragging across the keyboard or are you grunting dictation into a microphone and that's what it could translate?
I don't give a shit about your comfortability or anything else about you. So take your condescending TDS, Jabbed and Boosted No Kings life and stick it up your proverbial rectum.
I haven't had time to read this entire column. Gotta get in the mushroom woods, morel season is short. I did read enough to ask you one question: Are you on a campaign to lock yourself in as one of the smartest and most insightful writers in the world? More and more with every great column? Well, that's what you are doing. Thanks for another winner.
Your "questioning everything" ideals appears to subside when it comes to certain aspects of the party that requires questioning ie Biden's dementia, Kamala's parents background, Biden, and his son foreign financial intrigues, Jan 6th, the list is actually endless. You don't seem to grasp human nature. Probably because you spent more time with Kipling than you did with The Bible.
Most of my columns between 2022 and 24 were highly critical of Biden-Harris. If you had bothered reading any of them, you would know that you are being a knucklehead. I have consistently criticized the criminality, insanity, and dementia of the Dem establishment.
You know who uses the Bible to justify killing innocents? Demons and false prophets. Keep pointing out the irrationality of our current political and elite class. I enjoy seeing the stories of history that demonstrate humanity has always struggled with tribalism, religious warfare and narcissistic pursuits of material gains.
One would think it would be obvious that for the money being spent on foreign wars America could literally subsidize the production of every type of good its people desire and virtually cut off all need to export its jobs overseas, or come up with incentives to get rid of corrupt judges that do the unthinkable and release criminals over and over again back into society, or figure out how to combat the constant abuses of our First Amendment such that we are inundated with non-stop pro-Israeli and anti-American propaganda (like we see in your substack). But, no. People come here to beat the drums of war against who - African nations slaughtering their own people or European nations like the UK who have completely abandoned all manner of democracy and free speech - nope. Enemies of Israel. Exclusively.
The signs are everywhere yet those who see the signs see them through two lenses: pro-Israel or anti-American. Is the ownership of Paramount and by extension CBS news (incl the propaganda slop 60 Minutes) pro-Israel or anti-American? How about the ownership of TikTok?
It doesn't really matter what the occassional zealot in these forums posts. The cat is out of the bag. Iran is the cock of the walk in the Middle East and the world's eyes have been opened to the truth about Israel. Instead of showing any sort of recognition of these facts or any humility by Bibi's crew they just screech the same old song of the left-wing loon: Racism! Racism! Racism! Sun up until sundown. The world has now recognized this for what it is. Loon-acy.
It's simple. The Iran negotiators bragged about their stash of uranium. then bragged about the ability to make 11 nukes in short order.
On day one of the negotiations.... they threaten us.
What would you do? Pull a Jimmy Carter and get walked over?
Wait and see what happens? Not against Iran, they've proved their terrorist stripes.
Trump has reacted. Our military has responded with precision, with minimal innocents killed/injured. The Iranian public wants to see the ho bag regime gone.... they need to be gone, they threatened us and scatter shot ALL their neighbors from day one - and with the mobile launchers we haven't hit, they still spray bombs at their neighbors.
Why do supposed Americans, support Iran, by dissing Trump?
" Iran is the cock of the walk in the Middle East and the world's eyes have been opened to the truth about Israel."
So, Iran are the good guys now? They just killed ~30,000 of their own citizens, for speaking their minds.
All you ladies out there -- would you enjoy living in Iran? Did you notice, the human shields they put around their energy installations, were mostly women. Seems they don't treat females equally, wouldn't you agree?
They used little school girls as a human shield... about 170 of them were killed. Keep cheering for Iran - for those that do, move there.
The negotiators - who didn't try to kill the other side's negotiators with sneak attacks like Trump's regime has done on multiple times now with Russia and Iran - had their good-faith disclosures of having non-weapons-grade uranium twisted by this administration in order to convince war mongers like you and Lindsey Graham that USIsrael has some sort of God-given right to police the world and decide who gets to have what. You really think the majority (key in a democracy) are buying your regurgitated, neocon garbage that has done nothing but make America poor and the rest of the world a hot mess for decades? It isn't.
Iran is not the good guys. Neither are the Africans, the Venezuelans or the Mexicans. Or the Americans. The obvious elephant in the room, though, is that only the Americans have attacked foreign countries at a clip of about one a year for thirty years, its CIA fomenting unrest using NGO money funneled through various taxpayer-sponsored schemes. Go watch Mike Benz to see how disgusting groups like USAID and the Center for Democracy proudly publish their manifestos and video presentations outlining how to overthrow governments and put "boots on the ground" into places it wants to take over. And I'm not even going to get into the weaponization of the US Dollar to the point that it has now become toxic and more and more nations want nothing to do with it. Does the US think it can force the entire world to use the dollar? Get real.
You won't even engage with this list of well-documented facts (again, Mike Benz shows all of the receipts on all of this in addition to Bush+Obama+Biden+Trump all bragging about it) because a) you probably work for one of these thuggish, low-brow organizations and b) you support this sort of colonial empire-building despite the obvious evidence over the past thirty years of America getting weaker and weaker and weaker.
It doesn't matter. The world order has changed and the unipolar world is over. Iran who, prior to being bombed, was making about $35 a barrel on oil, paying about $22 per barrel in tariffs, and not collecting any money on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, is now making about $100 per barrel and paying $2 per barrel in tariffs and is charging $2M per ship for safe passage.
Tell me again how any of this has helped America or Israel instead of just carrying on with name-calling and living in Lady Lindsey fantasy land. Despite your red-faced tirades people like Mr. Leake and I (and Col Douglas MacGregor, Jeffrey Sachs, Robert Barnes and others) are, in good faith, trying to inform you and give you information that is not straight from the swamp, trusting that you have enough of a brain and desire for truth that you might see you are being manipulated.
Again, though, if you are just one of the droogs then it is understandable why you've super-glued your fingers into your ears. It's your job.
How grand - all these proclamations and no links/references.
I remember when Tricky Dick was our potus... and had my eyes open, through Nam, the horseshit in Central America, Iraq, etc. All that happened... yes.
Your smear attempts confirm your weak p.o.v. of today's world events. Not saying your wrong about everything - whereas you burp out your spittle of smears - and say nothing. stfu, or not.
You say they bragged, I say they informed Trump's administration threats do not faze them. Key word here is they could make! This gives deceit on the part of Israel as they have been stating they are two weeks away for decades. They have pushed them to the brink by accusations of terrorism while Israel is the terorrist in the region as they also pay for Hamas, ISIS, and Al Qaeda.
Trump is reacting, yes, to the demands of Zionists who want to steal Iran's resources without encountering a strong opponent. Zionist is just another name for criminal.
30,000 dead is more lies out of Israel, and Trump's people.
The US alliance with Israel has made us a pariah and we are enabling genocide. This is why over 60% of Americans oppose Israel's ethnic cleansing and genocidal mania.
"If you had bothered....." Apparently he didn't read your articles from 2022-2024.
So, it's his fault, he didn't read your articles then... right?
Question; if he had read those articles, would he still be a knucklehead? or since he didn't, he's a knucklehead.... right?
Pompous juvenile punk, smart ass speak, from you, Leake. Do you speak to strangers that way in person? If you did, you wouldn't have any teeth left, in your punk mouth.
Why are you black pilling, the current admin?
Forget the historic wars, TODAY drones, nukes and inter continental ballistic missiles dominate the action. Crazed terrorists in Iran don't act like any historic foe - they didn't have the tools to wipe out hundreds of thousands in a few strikes - or a single nuke strike or thousands of drones targeting thousands of targets.
Your holier than thou attitude, whether you're right or wrong, is sickening.
Your propaganda "facts" such as 30k killed? Where did that number come from? Your "daddy" as of the last few weeks upped it again to now 45k. I've been asking several of your ilk to explain exactly, where does this hyperbolic 30k or now 45k come from? You write all the ministry of truth propaganda. Your ilk are clearly hypnotised barnyard animals, who feed from the slop troughs at the ministry of truth. My ilk has discernment. The barnyard animals that you roll with, clearly/evidently have zero. Identified from your ministry of truth slop filled rants...Questioning "your" rulers is Patriotic. Following all the slop your fed...Is pathetic
#1 - You're not American. What country are you from?
#2 - You offer zero facts, references, solutions or suggestions. You tell me, how many Iranians were murdered by the regime.
#3 - You think women are 2nd class citizens - were you glad to see all the women being used as human shields around the energy installations the other day?
You're a weak excuse, for an ankle biter. You have nothing else.
btw, your smears are so 2020. Get ready to lose more elections... that is if, you're an American.
I know he takes swings at Americans that have a different opinion - or the ones that.
John has gone from very (very) good historic analysis... to TDS, to IDS or B(ibi)DS or all of the above.... In the meantime, Iran used mostly women (dressed in black with their scarved heads) the other day, as human shields around their energy installations. See how they treat females? The EXACT opposite of western culture.
After Iran killing ~30,000 of their own citizens, we need to listen to an Iranian sympathizer?
TDS is found in people like you. You are so deranged by Trump's lies you cannot discern he has betrayed his voters and the USoA.
You should spend some time learning about other cultures, and religions and you will find Judaism and Islam are two sides of the same coin and Christian Zionists are Israel's useful idiots.
You stated that you thought he would follow through and destroy Iranian civilization. Own that statement.
It's one thing for an American to sense that the president is using New Yawker hyperbole, and it's quite another to be an IRGC sitting in the Zone contemplating the game of cosmic chicken.
The IRGC is going to meet the deadline if for no other reason than to buy time--forget whether he truly believes the warning or not. You sit in your living room with a predisposition to hate Trump. Therefore, your view of Trump's actions is biased, and your ability to relate to acute danger of bombardment is nonexistent. It stands to reason that your analysis would be jaded, or at least faulty.
Trump was serious in this sense: major difficulty would ensue in Iranian daily life if forced to follow through. He would not put life in Iran on the bubble, but he would drop the quality of life a definite material amount--as necessary to impede IRGC operations and also raise the pressure among civilians to act.
As to wanting to be your own man, you do understand Bastiat's rationale for government, don't you? Our system of govt is not set up to respect your desire. But, it's the world you live in, so figure out how to navigate it. Long story short, Trump is a benefit to your desired state of autonomy. If you don't understand that, then you are agitating counter to your desires.
Sure sounds and feels like a breakdown in common ground, at the same time elites and billionaires are intent on stealing the actual commons! (Even our carbon emissions are/were being considered) Permitting these same billionaires to own mainstream media is one giant factor precipitating distrust of whatever agenda-based fantasies spills out across the airwaves, aka polluting w propaganda. These symptoms are the handwriting of serious future disaster?
The Supreme Court has ruled that false statements of fact are not automatically excluded from protection, especially in political speech, because protecting some lies ensures "breathing room" for open and vigorous public debate. I did a search...
False statements about public officials or government, if not made with "actual malice" (knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard for the truth), as established in New York Times v. Sullivan (1964).
Intentional lies about military honors, as in United States v. Alvarez (2012), where the Court struck down the Stolen Valor Act, ruling that the government must show a specific harm beyond falsity to justify punishment.
Satire, parody, or hyperbolic statements unlikely to be believed, such as in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988).
We are all against the bluster and lies on these Truth Social posts. Especially the Easter Sunday post. Completely unacceptable by any authority figure. I just didn’t believe it for a minute. It would have been a war crime that almost no military officer would agree to carry out. Not sure if we even had the fire power left to try it. Plus it would further tank the economy. At least we finally live in a time when authority figures are not trusted by either party. They never deserved trust (with a few exceptions in every era). I understand going on the record against the Easter Sunday post. Just not giving it an ounce of credibility. Now we have to ask ourselves what is the next step? Give up on our empire and leave the Middle East and NATO. The western hemisphere can be self sufficient. Focus on domestic issues. It will be painful, but we are better off in the long run accepting a multipolar world. Free ourselves from those bleeding us abroad.
I haven't found the difference between an epistemic crisis and an existential crisis. I suppose I would guess an epistemic crisis is where we are uncertain of the underlying Gnosis (e.g., Knowledge) whereas perhaps an existential crisis occurs when Gnosis is subverted by Globalist misinformation (e.g., the Plandemic).
I suppose I have become inured to Trumps pompous statements over the past 10 years. 'We may have to destroy the Iranian civilization' appears to be more bluster -- perhaps to bring the Iranians to the negotiation table. If it were up to me I would have first threatened to destroy all of their Mosques as destroying their gas/electric facilities might serve to turn the Iranian's against us.
My main reason for supporting the invasion of Iran goes along these lines: 1) Iran cannot be allowed Nuclear Weapons or ICBMs, 2) it may destroy Iran's Islamic proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthi's, and 3) The Iranian people want to be liberated from the Islamic Theocracy in Iran. But the overarching reason is Political Islam must be neutralized because it is fully incompatible to the individual's inalienable rights to both practice a religion and yet to be protected from any singular religious ideology. The pattern has been obvious since the 1st Hijra in 622 AD. I cover all of this in much more detail in my recent series of essays:
The Urgent Need for Global De-Islamification: Free 460 page series on why Islam is dangerous.
I find a lot of support for my views on Social Media. But for some odd reason Social Media has decided to censor my voice. I find it odd because I really don't engage in hate speech toward anyone.
Yeah I got permanently suspended from Facebook 01/06/2026 and X 04/05/2026. I'm surprised by X suspending me because I have been writing about "The Urgent Need for Global De-Islamification since early December 2026 till present. Surprised because Musk basically supports what is in the essays. So why are Tucker, X, Facebook suddenly against the criticism of Political Islam? Money? Blackmail? Muslim Groups being able to censor content on Social Media Platforms? Whatever is happening is not organic and suggests a powerful individual or group is behind all of this. I can't believe that Tucker has reversed his views on Islam. Makes no sense to me.
The Urgent Need for Global De-Islamification: Free 460 page series on why Islam is dangerous.
If the world must rid us of Islam should the world also rid ourselves of Zionism? They are not part of any solution that can be detected and they do not stand on a higher moral ground with an excess of humility and compassion for those who are not of the tribe.
I think Islam is much more of a threat than Zionism. But I would favor getting rid of all Halal and Kosher foods nationwide. In both cases they slit the animals throat and let it bleed to death. The "bolt method" is much more humane.
which is good for you not to consume blood. The animals
feel
very little
pain. The bolt, however, often doesn’t do enough of a zap, at
first
blow or second or third. They often get it in the wrong place which makes them hurt and fall, but not die. They are this over and over and become panicked. Then there’s the thing if us consumers consuming blood.
I've watched the bolt method and there is no doubt it is more humane than cutting their throats and letting the bleed to death. If you had to choose to be killed by the bolt or by having your throat slit . . . which would you choose? Watch the video.
I'm just guessing, but I think you're probably being censored simply for your truth-telling, and not for a narrow, ideological reason.... X just closed my account without warning, notice or chance to appeal. Yahoo is also using AI to censor comments as innocent as using the word "Hollyweird"!.... Sometimes, censorship happens because that's what censors do....
Thanks for writing Bill. And yes I think the increasing use of AI Agents is responsible for the increasing deplatforming of largely Anti-Globalist voices. These Social Media Platforms were primarily constructed to pacify, monitor and manage us serfs. And it is so weird. Facebook has been notorious for shutting down Stop 5g, the Canadian Trucker protest groups etc. But somehow they allow young leftists to organize disruptive street events and mass gatherings in Daytona, Fort Lauderdale etc. The censorship needs to stop. Our 6th Amendment Rights should be protected on Social Media. When you get deplatformed you should be made aware of the post that led to the punishment and the person, bot or whoever demanded your deplatforming. When I got banned from both X and Facebook they never bothered to cite the post that led to the deplatforming. What a crock . . .
After all all, Social Media was largely paid for by OUR tax dollars. And I can't even tell you how many have written me lately, saying "I was just permanently banned as well." This is both dangerous and an affront to our First Amendment Rights. As George Washington once said (and of course Google will say he didn't, LOL):
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Quotes really don't spread because of who said them. They spread because they expose a hidden truth that the masses understand.
John, I see you drifting into the nether world of disturbing intellectual masturbation. You clearly have no understanding of our leader, Donald Trump, and his art of the deal in resolving a serious conflict between civilizations. You need to take some medication to calm down, and let the process play out. We don't need a bunch of pretend conservatives playing doubting Thomas. I'm about to drop you if you continue down this path, which exemplifies RINO ideas. RINOs need to go extinct. This is a time for decisive action, not pollyanna backseat driving from someone who is undoubtedly several steps behind. Trump plays 5 dimensional chess. Your thinking is linear. You don't belong in the game. You pretend intellectualism is unworthy.
Yeah yeah. Trump is the new Messiah. We get all that insanity. Dude, you're here because of the bioweapon terror. Yet you fail to realize your Messiah still pushes that shit; he believes he saved millions through Operation Warp Speed and now known military campaign. See the dots connected?
Bret Weinstein has been talking about, what he calls, our Cartesian Crisis for years which probably goes as far back, or at least we can spot its origins, in the Wilsonian propaganda campaign during WW1, and refined through the contributions of men like Edward Bernays, Jacque Ellul, and Walter Lippmann. Nearly all that we think we know about the world comes to us from people we have never met. Journalism is corrupt beyond recognition because it's designed to support narrative rather than fact. The only truth is inside the covers of the Bible.
Which Bible? Which translation? WHO OWNS the copyright to that Bible?.... Roman Catholic Bible, or Protestant Bible?.... The Bible also contains untruths....
King James was a fraud. Ethiopian Bible holds many truths.
I assume you've never read one translation all the way through. There are also reference publications that break down languages and word meanings to help clarify understanding of the passages. It's not a hard endeavor.
You assume wrong, Phil.... And, since you're here, have YOU ever read a NON-copyrighted Bible?....All "Bibles" are NOT the same....
I've even read the apocryphal books. But the truth can be gleaned from every one of them if you understand the purpose of the biblical account. It has only one message, along with the history that led to it. One important point that almost all Bibles point to is the fall of the Jewish system and the loss of spiritual protection for that nation. Jews today don't buy that, but the fact remains that the ancient Jewish system was completely destroyed, not a stone on a stone is left. There is no longer a physical representation of God's protection of any nation; it's all spiritual. No nation has any protection, not even the US.
The Rabbi Hillel was able to distill the message of the Torah, down to one statement... And Jesus echoed those same sentiments in the New Testament, as well. People often lose sight of the big picture of holy scriptures, while focusing upon minutia. The core message of all the great religions is essentially the same. It behooves us to remember that.
The Old Testament has a bunch of rules specific to the requirements of the ancient Israelites, to conform to the terms of Covenants, that are seemingly transactional. But encoded within those books are also the immutable and ancient laws of commerce, which the New Testament reiterates. The Quran seems to continue in that tradition.
Children of Abraham, fighting over his inheritance, does little to recommend any of them as being legitimately righteous.
Yes, this is true. The Old Testament and the Torah are a physical, or earthly, template representing a spiritual future Kingdom, designed for all humans, not just a class or those with certain DNA. That transfer has long passed, effectively after 70 CE, when Rome was allowed to annihilate the ancient Jewish system.
The Hebrew Christian Congregation was in chaos because they struggled with melding their old Jewish beliefs with the new Word of Christians. This is where the apostle Paul intervened, being a lawyer and a Hebrew scholar. He explained how the old Hebrew structure pictured the New Covenant replacing the old Abrahamic agreement.
The Bible's message would be much more difficult to understand without Paul's exposition. It is worth taking a hard look at its chapters.
Abrahamism, - meaning Judaism, Islam, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, etc., are ALL TAINTED by the BLOOD LIBEL of male infant genital mutilation, female genital mutilation, and so-called "honor killings", etc., The WHOLE TREE is rotten, and bears rotten bitter fruit....
Yes, among some sweet, divine fruits, too....
Correct. The sins of the U.S. do not afford it any more spiritual protection than that of Israel. "I mean to make some of Satan's assembly, those self-styled Jews who are not really Jews but frauds, come and fall down at your feet; they will learn of my love for you in that way." (Revelation 3:9)
You would like a book called The War Against Humanity by Anonymous Patriot.
WOW, Phil. When you put it like that, I must agree.... But you're evading my larger question about Copyrighted Bibles....You'd say they have "no protection now"?...And it's "all Spiritual"?....Yup, agreed.
It's not invading; it's not really understandable what you mean. Some Bibles have an incredible amount of work to faithfully translate each original word's meaning into a modern language. Who wants to read the King James Bible? It's filled with the King's politics, and a miserable language. If some group wants to work out a better way to read the Bible for the Masses, I have no problem having a copyrighted version. As long as it's accurate enough. I think the important part of the discussion is for people to read it. I'm more concerned about that. Every group has its own take on Scripture, but to me, there are just a few major themes worth understanding. I don't like quibbling over small stuff. If readers understand that we are in an era of spirituality, not the old Jewish system of temples and festivals, and that all humanity is invited into a relationship with God, not just a nation.
So many churches preach this idea that a new temple will be built, and it is a physical new Jerusalem in Israel. It's all propaganda. And, a big reason for this stupid war.
Can you share the biblical untruths with us you speak about? The Roman Catholic bible includes some of the books that are in the apocrypha (14 additional books left out of the Hebrew bible, the old testament) where the protestant bible does not. see this https://www.christianity.com/wiki/bible/what-are-the-apocryphal-books-and-do-they-belong-in-the-bible.html The King James and New King James translations are some of the translations that use the Textus Receptus for the Greek text of the New Testament where most of the more modern translations use the Nestle-Aland Greek for their New Testament translation. See https://equipthesaints.church/2020/08/01/greek-texts-and-textual-differences-in-bible-translations/ But even with those differences "they contain the same teachings and present the same gospel" and "Doctrine is not hindered by the differences".
Gen. 1 informs the reader that he lives under a great dome which was established by placing a rakia (firmament) in the waters and draining the portion of the mayim under the rakia to make a void. This rakia is called the shamayim (heaven) and appears to be the heaven to which Elijah and Jesus ascensed, or so the Bibles lead us to believe.
Gen. 1 also states that the Moon, Sun, and other stars were affixed to the rakia (or shamayim), the dome which prevents us from drowning in the torahs' scheme of things. The image conjured up is difficult to reconcile with relevant facts. By the time of the Maccabean revolt more than 100 years before Jesus, Greek science had determined that we live on a great spheroidal object.
Some Greeks established also that the Sun is located at a much greater distance from the Earth than the Moon. If Genesis were correct, then the Sun would be at a trivially greater distance from Earth than the Moon during a solar eclipse. Of course, the Greeks were on the right track. During an eclipse, the Sun remains more than 100× farther away than the Moon. So, Genesis' cosmology is trash, and the erroneousness places every sect of Avrahamism into a category called Fiction.
I could go on if you like about Biblical untruths. For instance, consider verse 27 of Gen. 1. It insists that the first humans, male and female, were made in the image and likeness of elohim, aka God. This is an astonishing claim given the usual assumption that elohim is eternal, perfect, bodiless, omnipotent, and omniscient. Do you know any people who bear any similarity at all to such a being?....Neither do I. Not even Adam and Eve were like that.
Obviously you do not believe the bible is the word of God. Do you believe the historical account of Christ, his claim to be God and his death and resurrection or do you believe that is all fiction as well? Maybe you are with Pontius Pilate and his question to Jesus when he said what is truth! Or maybe you believe that Pilate was a fictitious character as well.
Obviously what you, I, all persons living today believe is the word of God in ANY Bible version is the word that was passed down by many humans over two-three+ millennia. And been subjected to human errors, biases, rewrites, agendas. The Bible we read has made it through the filters of fallen men. And ALL men are fallen. Whether or not they are/were seen as holy, righteous and true conveyers of the unvarnished, unedited, straight from source word of God.
Maybe you think differently. And somehow by God's graces the word has been immune to the designs of fallen men? I don't think or believe that. I have eyes, ears, a brain and the gift of discernment that God gave me. And have seen fallen, wicked fallen men atop the world's great religions, wearing the skinsuit of holy, righteous men. Imposing their own Satanic agenda as though it is the word of God on followers. And know that similarly wicked, Satanic men have had their hands in the manuscripts and translations of previous renditions of the words of God.
Not one Bible today has passed unadulterated through 2,000-3,500 years of fallen men. The earliest Hebrew and Aramaic versions are closest to God's words. But even they have a lost in translation error within, what did they really mean when written versus what the words mean today. Much like the Constitution no longer reflects the plain language the Founders wrote it in, words reinterpreted to today's understanding of them. Innocent mistranslations and not so innocent mistranslations.
To state this fact of man isn't to question the word of God, or to be a Pontius Pilate figure/character. It is common sense. It is discernment. God's gift. Denial isn't a river in Egypt.
I would agree with your beliefs if I had not read so much on the bible and the history of how it has been preserved both old and new testament alike. How the Hebrew scholars copied the text to preserve it etc never mind the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls and then the thousands of new testament letters that exist. So I cannot agree with your thinking on how it has been corrupted. I do believe in a sovereign God and in man's depravity and in Jesus Christ who quoted from many books in the old testament and also in the Apostles who did the same.
It's btw that Jesus wasn't qualified by the situation of Israel or his paternal ancestry to be Israel's mashiach. Elijah had not returned. The hearts of Israel's fathers sons had not been reconciled. The gospels do not show paternal ancestry of Jesus from David but, instead, make the husband of Mary out to be a cuckold.
Notice also an implication of the cosmos in which we live. Its features make the departure and return of Elijah and Jesus impossible. You can't return to an Earth you never left from a heaven which does not exist. So the messiah prophesy can't be fulfilled. Ever. The Jews, too, await in vain.
Who is more likely to have believed that the Earth is round like a sphere and rotating? Who is more likely to have read and understood Aristarchos of Samos and Eratosthenes? One of Israel's fanatics who believed the drivel of Genesis 1 OR Pilate, the urbane administrator who, even with the evident bias of the Gospels, comes across as the superior man among the two of them?
Do you believe the historical account of Christ, his claim to be God and his death and resurrection or do you believe that is all fiction as well?
Check out @sir escanor..
Mary, I might expand truth to things we can test and repeat. I've talked with Mr. Weinstein about the Cartesian Crisis which echos Plato's cave and earlier insights into 'reality'. We have a triple layer of illusion to manage these days; one is the information filtered and fed to us by entities with agendas, another is AI which can present illusion so convincing we cannot distinguish it from that which is real, and finally is the veil of the senses (Which is what Descartes was grappling with) where all our experience is mediated by nerves which transmit them to the brain for interpretation. The Bible points to truths that are universal to all who achieve deep insight into God, Spirit, Tao, Nirmanakaya, etc. Those truths are pointed towards inner experience/realization that cannot be corrupted. Good luck out there.
Thank you, yes. See my comment,.above.
Which bible, Mary Ann?
https://www.malone.news/p/geneva-convention-and-forever-wars?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d1a854d-ab11-47b3-8a1f-668a1efc82c5_762x576.png&open=false
West's Cartesian Crisis is due to its obsession with mind and its indifference, until very recently, to consciousness. As regards "the only truth is inside the covers of the Bible" -biblical criticism has classified its errors as auditory, visual, exegetical, and deliberate. There are questions there that are evident. Narrative functions not only on the journalistic level.
This is too bleak. But I agree that “journalism” must fundamentally be reformed.
However, the same Bible also speaks of the truth within! If we rehearse access to this tiny speck of God in our own hearts, we can get the answers to our questions and we DO recognize truth, (in)justice, love and everything devoid of love and care. Alas, the question, "WHICH Bible" (which was predictable) becomes immaterial.
1 AD PsyOp. Read Roman history and what they did as its society fragmented.
Right on Target John - Thank you!
I have read all of your columns, I believe, and notice of late the drift to gaslight one key fact: Shia Islam in general and the Iranian version of it holds to the goal of eliminating Jews, Israel, the US and most of the West by whatever means are necessary and as long as it takes.
One would think the atrocities of Oct 7 would unmistakably signal the reality of what we face. But instead, Mr. Leake prefers to ignore it and claim instead it is we who ignore reality.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-892314
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-858885
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-847599
https://www.malone.news/p/geneva-convention-and-forever-wars?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d1a854d-ab11-47b3-8a1f-668a1efc82c5_762x576.png&open=false
Indeed...John is so blinded by his expansive view of ancient history he can't see what's currently in front of him...now.
and you do?
Expand your mind Cosmo:
https://www.malone.news/p/geneva-convention-and-forever-wars?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d1a854d-ab11-47b3-8a1f-668a1efc82c5_762x576.png&open=false
I like Malone, but he really misses some important data points. What he describes could have also be applied to the Continental Army in the revolutionary war of 1776. This rag tag outfit infuriated the Brits because they were using guerilla tactics unknown to a conventional army. It's common when Goliath faces the guy with a sling shot. Whose mind really needs expansion, Nasty?
Cosmo, double up on the Adderall and go back, read slowly with current events in mind....
I suggest you take your own advice.
Handle says it all
You bet your ass Die…leftover from linebacker days.
"One would think the atrocities of Oct 7 would unmistakably signal the reality of what we face."
A perfect example of what Leake is talking about--tribal thinking and alternate realities. One small example: Did Hamas behead 40 babies? Apparently not, as the Israeli government press office confirmed to Le Monde that there were never 40 decapitated babies in Kfar Aza or any other kibbutz. Then there's the widespread concern inside Israel that there was a standdown, and the admission by Israeli officials that Israelis were killed by IDF in some places under the Hannibal Directive or similar orders to prevent them being taken hostage. Indeed, it seems Hamas' goal with the attack was to take hostages that could be exchanged for some of the 10,000 Palestinians held by Israel under deplorable conditions. Two-thirds of Hamas' hostages were returned alive.
Of course it isn't only Israelis and Oct. 7. Truth is the first victim of any war. Look at how Trump lied about the double- or triple-tap missile strike on the girls school in Iran. Plus, the West has been exploiting, invading, and occupying Iran since 1908. As economist Murray Rothbard wrote, governments are criminal gangs writ large.
Don't ever get trapped in a wet paper bag. Your thinking capacity is summed up in the Neocon propaganda from whatever news organization you follow. The Oct 7 was allowed to happen. They gave Netanyahu the ability to destroy Gaza. Think, man, stop believing the shit they are spewing.
Thanks, Phil! I agree! Israeli soldiers came forward to tell the truth about that day when they were removed from their border station!?!
What about the synagogues in Iran? Israel just bombed one the other day. I’d say there’s one country dead set on eliminating their neighbors and it’s not Iran.
I think Mr. Leake might have written this article with people like you in mind. How do you know Shia Islam is dedicated to the destruction of Israel, can you cite some evidence? Israel is on record stating they wish, like Donald Trump, to destroy them and wipe them off the face of the earth. That is a Zionist position and it is well documented. Your comment shames all informed people with a knowledge of history. Mr. Leake just wrote about trusting news and the news we get from the M.E. has generally been propaganda.
Cosmo, you know that Islam is determined to convert or kill all non-muslims. It is the rest of us versus them. Are you one of us or one of them spreading propaganda?
So, is Zionism sans conversion. What propaganda?
Anyone who talks "Zionism" is a propagandist, by definition, Cosmo. You are clearly "One of them". You ae to be ignored as an activist. Shout your negative messages into an empty vacuum.
How so, please show me where I can find that definition? One of them? You mean a decent human being with compassion and a set of principals and knowing right from wrong who has studied history and the tenets of all three major Monotheistic religions to know that Islam and Judaism are two sides of the same coin.
The world is a complicated place. Using loaded terms like Zionism is not productive. This term is favored by people who are agitating. Take it somewhere else. The world doesn't need it.
Cosmo, surely you must have just awoken to world events? I'm neither a Zionist or pacifist. Read and become a little more enlightened than you appear to be...
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Instead of using someone else to make your argument why not make one in your own words and philosophy. I find guys like you tedious.. You tell me to read more and I can assure you I have likely read far more than you have given your stunted thinking and limited ability to express those thoughts in a cogent argument and in your own words.
Before you make him a deity of your "beliefs", trying to obsolve the depravity that we've become. Remember that this guy was former CIA...Please comprehend what John is trying to help folks like you with. Until the sheep like you; wake up to the clear propaganda as your link, the futher we fall...Yikes
It appears that you've already "fallen" in some way? Can you say psych eval?
You make zero sense but go on believing a CIA guy that confirms your biases..Psych eval... what does that even mean man? Not apologetic to have the god given gift of discernment, that you evidently don't have. Keep spreading the hasbara...It appears to be doing well for you
I assume when you refer to atrocities of Oct 7th, you're talking about Netanyahu's financial support of Hamas and his stand down order that resulted in the killing of his own people?
Your vivid imagination enables you to say things that exist only in your head.
I seriously wish it weren't true
I'm sorry - but that's complete nonsense, of Darbyite/Dominionist/Dispensationalist variety. "Israel" mean sthe Jewish people, and not the Zionist AbomiNation State, founded by Satanists as a recognized entity, in 1948. Torah-faithful Judaism has always rejected the Zionist Heresy as a Satanic rebellion against G-d, and a rejection of the Torah, from its start. https://www.jewsnotzionists.com/Historical_Documents/TheRabbisSpeakOut.htm
https://youtu.be/v9q4e9zmTL0
https://NKusa.org
You REALLY should look into what actually occurred on October 7th, and not rely upon all of the nonsense that you've been fed, by Zionist-controlled media. There's 0 credible evidence of a single rape that day. There were 2 babies that died - not 40. Neither were beheaded, nor put into an oven. One was shot through a wall, as what appears to be the result of a stray bullet, most likely from the gun of a Palestinian militant. The other baby, was killed along with the rest of his family, and their captors - while the captors tried to negotiate some kind of release for safe passage deal, with the Zionist military which had the house surrounded. Following "the(ir) Hannibal Directive", the Zionists fired a tank round into the living room, killing everyone, rather than making any kind of deal.
And that's an important dynamic to understand about the events of that day - which the Zionists have never allowed to be independently investigated. Of the "1200" Zionist settler-colonists killed that day - it looks like 80% were killed by the Zionist Military. That was the conclusion of a retired Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, when reviewing the available evidence. Burned out cars with charred skeletons can't be accomplished with small arms - that's the result of Hellfire Missiles and Apache Helicopters, to which no Palestinian has access.
Your claims about Islam and Shia Islam are bogus. Islam regards Jews and Christians as "people of the book", and descendants of Abraham. The largest Jewish population in the region, aside from stolen/occupied Palestine, is in Iran. And the Zionists just bombed one of their Synagogues, becuse Zionists have always HATED real Jews, going back to the days of Herzl and Jabotinsky.
You're living inside a highly crafted information bubble, and it's replete with falsehoods. John Leake has written nothing untrue or unreasonable. It's only a wilfully ignorant, cult-mentality, that would allow anyone to think otherwise.
How about the atrocities committed October 8, 2023-present BY Israel on innocent civilians?
Absolute Hasbara propaganda rubbish. Who bombed the synagogue of Tehran? There is a large community of Jews in Iran, free to worship.
And by now, one would think that the propaganda and false information you're parroting after drinking the kool-aid out of the toilet of lies, would have become obvious with just a little bit of research and historical accuracy. Alas, your preference for false narratives shows the raging desire to remain an NPC in the matrix.
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-silent-drift-of-western-institutions
Great article. I’m sorry you are getting such push back from readers. Living outside the US it is probably easier to see the rot inside. The relationship the US government has with its people and the world is that of an abusive spouse, where the abused excuses the abuser’s behavior and even shoulders the blame for the abuse. In the end government is meant to serve the people. If it fails to do this, it fails its social contract. People pay for government and should expect service that reflects this for the people and country. This problem is not confined to the US, although it is certainly accentuated in the US at this moment in time, but seen in numerous other places around the world. As an abused people we need to take ownership of the abuse and heal ourselves to heal our communities.
Keep speaking your mind, and ignore the complainers. They’re the same people who (rightly) condemned leftists for years for blindly following The Party, now demanding the same blind loyalty of us.
Hard pass.
John, I have to agree with these statements you made: "People who feel under pressure by hostile strangers take threats seriously, even if the threats are likely mere bluffs. " and "The greatest challenge for every individual and nation is learning to recognize that other people don’t see you as you see yourself. "
And I have been wondering about the extent to which John´s statement: "Since I was a boy, I have been in the habit of questioning everything and every authority, which resulted in considerable disciplinary problems at school, summer camp, and Sunday school," is/can be true, meaning whether "everything" in this statement included religion, as it is there precisely that tribal identity is the strongest and rarely questioned, much less investigated.
The foundational basis of Socratic inquiry is challenging underlying beliefs in an effort to find the truth. It appears to me that you've decided Trump is the problem and you're assembling arguments to justify that belief.
That being said, I can't read your mind; I don't have solid evidence for that thesis. Correlation does not prove causation. Maybe you're right about Trump but it's fairly evident your mind is made up.
Is this what Trump promised. John helped him get elected as did many of us, but Trump’s disregarded all his promises and doesn’t seem to care about MAGA, MAHA or any of the folks who got him into office.
Good piece, John. Sometimes you outdo yourself. You bring a not-frequently-encountered cultural/historical quality in your contributions to the larger conversation. And tribal people will inevitably misinterpret that.
Very kind, thanks for your moral support.
LOL
I sense your knuckles don't allow for a more expansive vocabulary while dragging across the keyboard or are you grunting dictation into a microphone and that's what it could translate?
So you go right to insults huh?
That's for you to figure out, I am comfortable knowing you can at least string a short, but readable sentence together. That's a start. LoL
I don't give a shit about your comfortability or anything else about you. So take your condescending TDS, Jabbed and Boosted No Kings life and stick it up your proverbial rectum.
I haven't had time to read this entire column. Gotta get in the mushroom woods, morel season is short. I did read enough to ask you one question: Are you on a campaign to lock yourself in as one of the smartest and most insightful writers in the world? More and more with every great column? Well, that's what you are doing. Thanks for another winner.
LMFAO!
Because John we have come to know YOU.
Your "questioning everything" ideals appears to subside when it comes to certain aspects of the party that requires questioning ie Biden's dementia, Kamala's parents background, Biden, and his son foreign financial intrigues, Jan 6th, the list is actually endless. You don't seem to grasp human nature. Probably because you spent more time with Kipling than you did with The Bible.
Most of my columns between 2022 and 24 were highly critical of Biden-Harris. If you had bothered reading any of them, you would know that you are being a knucklehead. I have consistently criticized the criminality, insanity, and dementia of the Dem establishment.
You know who uses the Bible to justify killing innocents? Demons and false prophets. Keep pointing out the irrationality of our current political and elite class. I enjoy seeing the stories of history that demonstrate humanity has always struggled with tribalism, religious warfare and narcissistic pursuits of material gains.
One would think it would be obvious that for the money being spent on foreign wars America could literally subsidize the production of every type of good its people desire and virtually cut off all need to export its jobs overseas, or come up with incentives to get rid of corrupt judges that do the unthinkable and release criminals over and over again back into society, or figure out how to combat the constant abuses of our First Amendment such that we are inundated with non-stop pro-Israeli and anti-American propaganda (like we see in your substack). But, no. People come here to beat the drums of war against who - African nations slaughtering their own people or European nations like the UK who have completely abandoned all manner of democracy and free speech - nope. Enemies of Israel. Exclusively.
The signs are everywhere yet those who see the signs see them through two lenses: pro-Israel or anti-American. Is the ownership of Paramount and by extension CBS news (incl the propaganda slop 60 Minutes) pro-Israel or anti-American? How about the ownership of TikTok?
It doesn't really matter what the occassional zealot in these forums posts. The cat is out of the bag. Iran is the cock of the walk in the Middle East and the world's eyes have been opened to the truth about Israel. Instead of showing any sort of recognition of these facts or any humility by Bibi's crew they just screech the same old song of the left-wing loon: Racism! Racism! Racism! Sun up until sundown. The world has now recognized this for what it is. Loon-acy.
Funny how racist supremacists like Netanyahoo always cry racism or antisemitism to deflect from their innate depravity.
It's simple. The Iran negotiators bragged about their stash of uranium. then bragged about the ability to make 11 nukes in short order.
On day one of the negotiations.... they threaten us.
What would you do? Pull a Jimmy Carter and get walked over?
Wait and see what happens? Not against Iran, they've proved their terrorist stripes.
Trump has reacted. Our military has responded with precision, with minimal innocents killed/injured. The Iranian public wants to see the ho bag regime gone.... they need to be gone, they threatened us and scatter shot ALL their neighbors from day one - and with the mobile launchers we haven't hit, they still spray bombs at their neighbors.
Why do supposed Americans, support Iran, by dissing Trump?
" Iran is the cock of the walk in the Middle East and the world's eyes have been opened to the truth about Israel."
So, Iran are the good guys now? They just killed ~30,000 of their own citizens, for speaking their minds.
All you ladies out there -- would you enjoy living in Iran? Did you notice, the human shields they put around their energy installations, were mostly women. Seems they don't treat females equally, wouldn't you agree?
They used little school girls as a human shield... about 170 of them were killed. Keep cheering for Iran - for those that do, move there.
The negotiators - who didn't try to kill the other side's negotiators with sneak attacks like Trump's regime has done on multiple times now with Russia and Iran - had their good-faith disclosures of having non-weapons-grade uranium twisted by this administration in order to convince war mongers like you and Lindsey Graham that USIsrael has some sort of God-given right to police the world and decide who gets to have what. You really think the majority (key in a democracy) are buying your regurgitated, neocon garbage that has done nothing but make America poor and the rest of the world a hot mess for decades? It isn't.
Iran is not the good guys. Neither are the Africans, the Venezuelans or the Mexicans. Or the Americans. The obvious elephant in the room, though, is that only the Americans have attacked foreign countries at a clip of about one a year for thirty years, its CIA fomenting unrest using NGO money funneled through various taxpayer-sponsored schemes. Go watch Mike Benz to see how disgusting groups like USAID and the Center for Democracy proudly publish their manifestos and video presentations outlining how to overthrow governments and put "boots on the ground" into places it wants to take over. And I'm not even going to get into the weaponization of the US Dollar to the point that it has now become toxic and more and more nations want nothing to do with it. Does the US think it can force the entire world to use the dollar? Get real.
You won't even engage with this list of well-documented facts (again, Mike Benz shows all of the receipts on all of this in addition to Bush+Obama+Biden+Trump all bragging about it) because a) you probably work for one of these thuggish, low-brow organizations and b) you support this sort of colonial empire-building despite the obvious evidence over the past thirty years of America getting weaker and weaker and weaker.
It doesn't matter. The world order has changed and the unipolar world is over. Iran who, prior to being bombed, was making about $35 a barrel on oil, paying about $22 per barrel in tariffs, and not collecting any money on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, is now making about $100 per barrel and paying $2 per barrel in tariffs and is charging $2M per ship for safe passage.
Tell me again how any of this has helped America or Israel instead of just carrying on with name-calling and living in Lady Lindsey fantasy land. Despite your red-faced tirades people like Mr. Leake and I (and Col Douglas MacGregor, Jeffrey Sachs, Robert Barnes and others) are, in good faith, trying to inform you and give you information that is not straight from the swamp, trusting that you have enough of a brain and desire for truth that you might see you are being manipulated.
Again, though, if you are just one of the droogs then it is understandable why you've super-glued your fingers into your ears. It's your job.
How grand - all these proclamations and no links/references.
I remember when Tricky Dick was our potus... and had my eyes open, through Nam, the horseshit in Central America, Iraq, etc. All that happened... yes.
Your smear attempts confirm your weak p.o.v. of today's world events. Not saying your wrong about everything - whereas you burp out your spittle of smears - and say nothing. stfu, or not.
Did you offer links to verify your claims? You are simply spewing disinformation and propaganda.
You say they bragged, I say they informed Trump's administration threats do not faze them. Key word here is they could make! This gives deceit on the part of Israel as they have been stating they are two weeks away for decades. They have pushed them to the brink by accusations of terrorism while Israel is the terorrist in the region as they also pay for Hamas, ISIS, and Al Qaeda.
Trump is reacting, yes, to the demands of Zionists who want to steal Iran's resources without encountering a strong opponent. Zionist is just another name for criminal.
30,000 dead is more lies out of Israel, and Trump's people.
The US alliance with Israel has made us a pariah and we are enabling genocide. This is why over 60% of Americans oppose Israel's ethnic cleansing and genocidal mania.
think what you will.
"If you had bothered....." Apparently he didn't read your articles from 2022-2024.
So, it's his fault, he didn't read your articles then... right?
Question; if he had read those articles, would he still be a knucklehead? or since he didn't, he's a knucklehead.... right?
Pompous juvenile punk, smart ass speak, from you, Leake. Do you speak to strangers that way in person? If you did, you wouldn't have any teeth left, in your punk mouth.
Why are you black pilling, the current admin?
Forget the historic wars, TODAY drones, nukes and inter continental ballistic missiles dominate the action. Crazed terrorists in Iran don't act like any historic foe - they didn't have the tools to wipe out hundreds of thousands in a few strikes - or a single nuke strike or thousands of drones targeting thousands of targets.
Your holier than thou attitude, whether you're right or wrong, is sickening.
You are the reason for his post but unfortunately don't have the self awareness to even realize...He wrote this post for you and your ilk...
My ilk? I'm your fucking neighbor... what about your ilk?
Please explain..........or not.
He needs to be an asshole, for me?
You live in Iran?
Your propaganda "facts" such as 30k killed? Where did that number come from? Your "daddy" as of the last few weeks upped it again to now 45k. I've been asking several of your ilk to explain exactly, where does this hyperbolic 30k or now 45k come from? You write all the ministry of truth propaganda. Your ilk are clearly hypnotised barnyard animals, who feed from the slop troughs at the ministry of truth. My ilk has discernment. The barnyard animals that you roll with, clearly/evidently have zero. Identified from your ministry of truth slop filled rants...Questioning "your" rulers is Patriotic. Following all the slop your fed...Is pathetic
That you follow/defend Iran, explains things.
#1 - You're not American. What country are you from?
#2 - You offer zero facts, references, solutions or suggestions. You tell me, how many Iranians were murdered by the regime.
#3 - You think women are 2nd class citizens - were you glad to see all the women being used as human shields around the energy installations the other day?
You're a weak excuse, for an ankle biter. You have nothing else.
btw, your smears are so 2020. Get ready to lose more elections... that is if, you're an American.
If you are, what state do you live in?
you in mommy's basement, nasty key board boy?
But John, you MUST CHECK one of the two boxes. You’re not allowed to leave this dichotomy! Lol
Your comment clearly indicates you haven't come to know, John.
I know he takes swings at Americans that have a different opinion - or the ones that.
John has gone from very (very) good historic analysis... to TDS, to IDS or B(ibi)DS or all of the above.... In the meantime, Iran used mostly women (dressed in black with their scarved heads) the other day, as human shields around their energy installations. See how they treat females? The EXACT opposite of western culture.
After Iran killing ~30,000 of their own citizens, we need to listen to an Iranian sympathizer?
Isn't that exactly what you are doing, hypocrite?
TDS is found in people like you. You are so deranged by Trump's lies you cannot discern he has betrayed his voters and the USoA.
You should spend some time learning about other cultures, and religions and you will find Judaism and Islam are two sides of the same coin and Christian Zionists are Israel's useful idiots.
Wonderful! Hope you feel better.
I don't hate jews. There you have it.
There it is, the brain dead response of the MAGAtard insinuating that someone you disagree with must be a hater. You are so droll and witless.
No you turd.
I have lots of U.S. Jewish friends - Fuck off.
You stated that you thought he would follow through and destroy Iranian civilization. Own that statement.
It's one thing for an American to sense that the president is using New Yawker hyperbole, and it's quite another to be an IRGC sitting in the Zone contemplating the game of cosmic chicken.
The IRGC is going to meet the deadline if for no other reason than to buy time--forget whether he truly believes the warning or not. You sit in your living room with a predisposition to hate Trump. Therefore, your view of Trump's actions is biased, and your ability to relate to acute danger of bombardment is nonexistent. It stands to reason that your analysis would be jaded, or at least faulty.
Trump was serious in this sense: major difficulty would ensue in Iranian daily life if forced to follow through. He would not put life in Iran on the bubble, but he would drop the quality of life a definite material amount--as necessary to impede IRGC operations and also raise the pressure among civilians to act.
As to wanting to be your own man, you do understand Bastiat's rationale for government, don't you? Our system of govt is not set up to respect your desire. But, it's the world you live in, so figure out how to navigate it. Long story short, Trump is a benefit to your desired state of autonomy. If you don't understand that, then you are agitating counter to your desires.
At least somebody knows what they're talking about here. Contrary to our author who can't get passed his desires narrative.
Why read his articles then?
Sure sounds and feels like a breakdown in common ground, at the same time elites and billionaires are intent on stealing the actual commons! (Even our carbon emissions are/were being considered) Permitting these same billionaires to own mainstream media is one giant factor precipitating distrust of whatever agenda-based fantasies spills out across the airwaves, aka polluting w propaganda. These symptoms are the handwriting of serious future disaster?
Allowing Zionists to use our media to peddle their lies is the real problem.
Does the 1st Amendment apply equally to Zionists and Pro-Palestinians?
It should, but does it? Does our media provide all views and does our media peddle lies more than truth and what is the reason for that?
The Supreme Court has ruled that false statements of fact are not automatically excluded from protection, especially in political speech, because protecting some lies ensures "breathing room" for open and vigorous public debate. I did a search...
False statements about public officials or government, if not made with "actual malice" (knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard for the truth), as established in New York Times v. Sullivan (1964).
Intentional lies about military honors, as in United States v. Alvarez (2012), where the Court struck down the Stolen Valor Act, ruling that the government must show a specific harm beyond falsity to justify punishment.
Satire, parody, or hyperbolic statements unlikely to be believed, such as in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988).
We are all against the bluster and lies on these Truth Social posts. Especially the Easter Sunday post. Completely unacceptable by any authority figure. I just didn’t believe it for a minute. It would have been a war crime that almost no military officer would agree to carry out. Not sure if we even had the fire power left to try it. Plus it would further tank the economy. At least we finally live in a time when authority figures are not trusted by either party. They never deserved trust (with a few exceptions in every era). I understand going on the record against the Easter Sunday post. Just not giving it an ounce of credibility. Now we have to ask ourselves what is the next step? Give up on our empire and leave the Middle East and NATO. The western hemisphere can be self sufficient. Focus on domestic issues. It will be painful, but we are better off in the long run accepting a multipolar world. Free ourselves from those bleeding us abroad.
I haven't found the difference between an epistemic crisis and an existential crisis. I suppose I would guess an epistemic crisis is where we are uncertain of the underlying Gnosis (e.g., Knowledge) whereas perhaps an existential crisis occurs when Gnosis is subverted by Globalist misinformation (e.g., the Plandemic).
I suppose I have become inured to Trumps pompous statements over the past 10 years. 'We may have to destroy the Iranian civilization' appears to be more bluster -- perhaps to bring the Iranians to the negotiation table. If it were up to me I would have first threatened to destroy all of their Mosques as destroying their gas/electric facilities might serve to turn the Iranian's against us.
My main reason for supporting the invasion of Iran goes along these lines: 1) Iran cannot be allowed Nuclear Weapons or ICBMs, 2) it may destroy Iran's Islamic proxies (Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthi's, and 3) The Iranian people want to be liberated from the Islamic Theocracy in Iran. But the overarching reason is Political Islam must be neutralized because it is fully incompatible to the individual's inalienable rights to both practice a religion and yet to be protected from any singular religious ideology. The pattern has been obvious since the 1st Hijra in 622 AD. I cover all of this in much more detail in my recent series of essays:
The Urgent Need for Global De-Islamification: Free 460 page series on why Islam is dangerous.
https://brucecain.substack.com/
I find a lot of support for my views on Social Media. But for some odd reason Social Media has decided to censor my voice. I find it odd because I really don't engage in hate speech toward anyone.
Yeah I got permanently suspended from Facebook 01/06/2026 and X 04/05/2026. I'm surprised by X suspending me because I have been writing about "The Urgent Need for Global De-Islamification since early December 2026 till present. Surprised because Musk basically supports what is in the essays. So why are Tucker, X, Facebook suddenly against the criticism of Political Islam? Money? Blackmail? Muslim Groups being able to censor content on Social Media Platforms? Whatever is happening is not organic and suggests a powerful individual or group is behind all of this. I can't believe that Tucker has reversed his views on Islam. Makes no sense to me.
The Urgent Need for Global De-Islamification: Free 460 page series on why Islam is dangerous.
https://brucecain.substack.com/
Censorship of Free Speech and Muslim Immigration
https://brucecain.substack.com/p/censorship-of-free-speech-and-muslim
Pat Condell: An early British voice warning against Political Islam
One of my favorite commentators and comedians
https://brucecain.substack.com/p/pat-condell-an-early-british-voice
If the world must rid us of Islam should the world also rid ourselves of Zionism? They are not part of any solution that can be detected and they do not stand on a higher moral ground with an excess of humility and compassion for those who are not of the tribe.
I think Islam is much more of a threat than Zionism. But I would favor getting rid of all Halal and Kosher foods nationwide. In both cases they slit the animals throat and let it bleed to death. The "bolt method" is much more humane.
Oh, you may not believe this if you
watched it. They swoop up the animals
quickly and slit their throats, and bleed
them,
which is good for you not to consume blood. The animals
feel
very little
pain. The bolt, however, often doesn’t do enough of a zap, at
first
blow or second or third. They often get it in the wrong place which makes them hurt and fall, but not die. They are this over and over and become panicked. Then there’s the thing if us consumers consuming blood.
No bueno.
I've watched the bolt method and there is no doubt it is more humane than cutting their throats and letting the bleed to death. If you had to choose to be killed by the bolt or by having your throat slit . . . which would you choose? Watch the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7wUY3jnSNM
Islam is not in control of our president and congress, Zionism is and that is an existential threat.
Well said
I'm just guessing, but I think you're probably being censored simply for your truth-telling, and not for a narrow, ideological reason.... X just closed my account without warning, notice or chance to appeal. Yahoo is also using AI to censor comments as innocent as using the word "Hollyweird"!.... Sometimes, censorship happens because that's what censors do....
Thanks for writing Bill. And yes I think the increasing use of AI Agents is responsible for the increasing deplatforming of largely Anti-Globalist voices. These Social Media Platforms were primarily constructed to pacify, monitor and manage us serfs. And it is so weird. Facebook has been notorious for shutting down Stop 5g, the Canadian Trucker protest groups etc. But somehow they allow young leftists to organize disruptive street events and mass gatherings in Daytona, Fort Lauderdale etc. The censorship needs to stop. Our 6th Amendment Rights should be protected on Social Media. When you get deplatformed you should be made aware of the post that led to the punishment and the person, bot or whoever demanded your deplatforming. When I got banned from both X and Facebook they never bothered to cite the post that led to the deplatforming. What a crock . . .
After all all, Social Media was largely paid for by OUR tax dollars. And I can't even tell you how many have written me lately, saying "I was just permanently banned as well." This is both dangerous and an affront to our First Amendment Rights. As George Washington once said (and of course Google will say he didn't, LOL):
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Quotes really don't spread because of who said them. They spread because they expose a hidden truth that the masses understand.
John, I see you drifting into the nether world of disturbing intellectual masturbation. You clearly have no understanding of our leader, Donald Trump, and his art of the deal in resolving a serious conflict between civilizations. You need to take some medication to calm down, and let the process play out. We don't need a bunch of pretend conservatives playing doubting Thomas. I'm about to drop you if you continue down this path, which exemplifies RINO ideas. RINOs need to go extinct. This is a time for decisive action, not pollyanna backseat driving from someone who is undoubtedly several steps behind. Trump plays 5 dimensional chess. Your thinking is linear. You don't belong in the game. You pretend intellectualism is unworthy.
Yeah yeah. Trump is the new Messiah. We get all that insanity. Dude, you're here because of the bioweapon terror. Yet you fail to realize your Messiah still pushes that shit; he believes he saved millions through Operation Warp Speed and now known military campaign. See the dots connected?