I agree with the comments below. As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, seeing elation approaching sexual pleasure in Graham's reaction is the product of a sick mind. Graham served with distinction as a Judge Advocate in combat zones. Nobody, least of all those who have served take pleasure in the killing war brings. Mr. Leake having never served would not know that.
I beg to differ. My Command Sergeant Major husband has said that there were ALWAYS one or two people in every battalion he commanded who enjoyed killing.
I don't see elation at the news of killing. (Defaming a dead man is twisted, by the way. You would do well as a podcast partner with Candace Owens.) I see a man elated at how well his country's military is doing at destroying a terrorist regime's ability to export killing to other regions of the world. As usual, Mr. Leake, you only see events through the prism of your own skewed worldview.
Unfortunately, you fail to see what the U.S. has been doing round the world to other countries. Mostly smaller countries, and mostly poor third world countries. Who’s the bully? One day, all this is gonna come back on us because of what our military industrial complex has done to piss off the world. Not good.
A brief investigation reveals the US has killed thousands of middle easterners for every single westerner Iran has killed over the last 3 or 4 decades. We are the terrorists. You've drunk the kool-aid. By now you should be able to tell when you've been manipulated by propaganda. What, after COVID, Iraq's WMDs, and so many other examples will it take to wake some up?
James…let’s wait for this war to end and see how things turn out for the American people before you (and Lindsey’s ghost) start taking your victory laps. OK with you?
Please at least get a BA in psychology, or better yet, go into therapy, before lay-psychoanalyzing Mr. Graham's supposed feelings of elation. It seems to me you are the one with elation at trashing this man who cannot defend himself. Even if you don't agree with him or his politics, can't you respect the dead for a whole week? I think this is part of our larger problem.
POTUS Trump said about Robert Mueller's death: "Good! I'm glad he's dead. It means he can no longer hurt innocent people." Many people feel the same about Lindsay Graham and are still celebrating at how he can now longer hurt innocent people.
As regards your advice to John Leake, he seems very well informed. I'm sure he can get all the back up he needs by running Lindsey Graham's known behaviors and verbalizations through multiple AI with instructions to rank him on each of the dark tetrad characteristics of narcissism, psychopathy, sadism and Machiavellianism.
Yet they do. About 30% of the population is completely impenetrable by facts and evidence, no matter how unassailable. Only about 10-15% try to weigh evidence impartially and reach rational conclusions. The rest lie on a spectrum between. Nothing can be done to reach some of these commenters. If their thought leaders switch sides, they will too, on a dime, and forget everything they believed before.
And I am lying awake at night worried that Netanyahu will use Israeli nukes as a way of blackmailing the U.S. "If you don't support us, we will roll out the nukes as our defense." That is scary.
You should have started worrying in the 50s when the U.S. did a coup d'etat against Iran's democratically elected government and installed the Shah. The rest was inevitable.
John, supporting war is a test of true Christianity. The template of Christianity was the first-century Christians who remained neutral in politics and wars.
Not only are most of the major Christian churches not neutral, but they were recruiting stations in both world wars and openly support zionism, a major reason the US is so closely tied to the Middle East and Israel.
How does a Christian reconcile their Christianity, which means to be Christ-like, and their support for war?
Notice how Dr. Paul is an army of one? No one else is piling on for headlines or God forbid, accountability. Sadly, Trump can’t admit he got played.
So, business as usual in the Swamp. What is the Swamp’s business? A Grand Bargain between parties:
Democrats will vote unlimited monies to Republicans to destroy foreign cities with bombs and planes and Republicans will vote unlimited monies for Democrats to destroy American cities with money and Democrats.
Iran was never going to blow us up. Although I couldn't blame them now. If the government propagandists and lying media told me my neighbor was plotting to kill me, should I bust in his door and kill him first? You've been lied to. Wake up.
You don’t have to blow up other countries in order to not have socialism here. Just look around now. More Lefties are okay and advocating for socialism now than ever! Our uniparty government is steering the masses to accept it. And they are! That isn’t because Iran is blowing us off the map ma’am. That is social engineering from within.
That type of paranoia has been occurring long before any of us were alive. 'We have to destroy other humans because they "could" do us harm.' Maniacal musings.
The reality is that the US government has been conducting coups and fabricating wars long before the IRGC existed. The CIA/MI6 conducting the 1953 coup in Iran lead to the creation of the Savak secret police. The domino effect that led to the 1978 Iranian revolution and the Ayatollah's taking control. Just as the US/UK military/intel helped in supporting Saddam Hussein in the Iran/Iraq War. The creation of the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan that evolved into Al Qaeda. Operation Gladio and the covert operations in Europe by CIA using the Sicilian mafia.
It is important to understand historic events and what has occurred in putting us in the situation we are in today. Looking at the world through rose color glasses is what has allowed this to happen and why some Americans still fall for these propaganda ruses. Just like the lie that Covid just occurred naturally and wasn't part of a gain of function research that 'accidentally' released upon the population, and then was covered up by the very people telling you to trust them about another countries nuclear threats. At some point you have to face reality and realize you are being lied to on a daily basis.
WE (i.e., the US CIA and UK MI6) overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953 so that their oil could be seized by British Petroleum and its US partnering firms. WE then installed a puppet tyrant over the population who ruled over the country for the next 24 years until a religious and student revolt overthrew these puppets and seized control of their own government. After settling with the US in 1980 - returning our "diplomats" and getting their assets freed they have screamed and yelled at us, but they have made no direct attacks on the US or its citizens unless they were dumb enough to travel to Iran. For 24 straight years, our intelligence community has repeatedly reported that Iran has no nuclear weapon and is not close to getting one. Only Israel has declared this to be the case, repeatedly emphasizing that they would have a bomb in the next few weeks or months, on more occasions than I can count. In the interim Israel has pressed America to go to war with five of their 7 enemy nations over the last 23 years and our leadership has sent American money, soldier and weapons to do their bidding - providing exactly zero return for the US people. We have now created war #6 for Israel and it is beyond our capability to defeat this foe w/o the use of nuclear weapons. The petrodollar has now been fully compromised and is in open decline as is our economy, not to mention os of the world's economies. Five months ago, Iran allowed oil to flow freely and peaceful commerce to move forward without interruption. At Israel's intense urging and blackmailing, WE have destroyed that. Iran is not capable of blowing us up, they have neither the bomb nor the delivery system to blow us up. Start reading valid sources of information and turn off you TV. There is nothing patriotic about what we have done and our entire nation is substantially more vulnerable because our leadership has listened to Israeli lies. The Iranian monster is not at our door. If they are at Israel's door.....I don't care. They are a forign country that has been a parasite on the American jugular for the 70+ years of their existence.
No other country attacked us on 9/11. It was part of the same agenda that is taking place right now. Without 9/11 we wouldn’t have the Patriot Act, which was that start of the surveillance state, censorship, indefinite detention, searches without consent etc. It laid the groundwork for things like ICE, Venezuela and crackdowns on citizens who dissent. Every major planned event (false flag) gives them the rationale to take away our civil liberties all under the guise of improving our safety and protection!
The bombing was in select areas away from civilians. So, it is OK with you that literally hundreds of servicemen and women were killed by Iran over the years, we found their missiles that could go 4000 miles headed for Europe, they constantly refer to us as "Big Satan" and have clearly stated a plan to wipe us out, they killed 30,000 of their own citizens and hung a 20 year old who was a wrestler for speaking out? Your opinions are your opinions, John. Because we live in a country that has free speech, you can state them. But when you virtue signal, we are here to call you out on it. Just like Mamdani. Just like the twenty somethings who never had a Civics course, a history course, or even know the difference between Socialism, Communism and Nazism. We will throw the mud right back in your face. How about reporting that Lyndsay Graham's net worth was just a little over $1 million,(including his home), unlike these other Congressmen and women who are multimillionaires and then go on to be lobbyists and make more money? Did you know that he just returned from Ukraine to help end that debacle? You are an embarrassment.
You seem to have learned nothing from the covid scam, or the GFC (house prices never go down), or the Iraq wars (Iraq wants to nuke the US). That everything the government tells you is a lie.
Everywhere that Graham went, and especially if small boys went missing at about that time, should be searched with cadaver dogs.
The US has produced over 3,000 documented serial killers. It's a nation of sick, sadistic malignant narcissists and psychopaths. It commits war crimes in every war it starts. Rex Heuermann, the registered Republican and staunch POTUS Trump supporter, aka the Gilgo Beach or Long Island Serial Killer who used a planning document to meticulously plan his kills in such a way that he had maximum "play time" to torture and dismember innocent young women is very much like Lindsey Graham and is the archetypal American.
John Leake has no doubt tapped into a very important variable when it comes to mind viruses.
I believe he is correct in the observation that there are those who delight in mayhem and death, including Lindsey Graham. The virus of psychopathy that infects humanity was captured well in Snakes in Suits, a book about psychopaths in the boardroom.
Leake's comment on Hitchens (someone I did not particularly like) was helpful. Leake wrote, "At one point in the interview, he made the startling statement that the Great Powers waged war not because conflict resolution was so hard, but because the men running the belligerent countries simply wanted war." So true. And Hitchens' analysis of the damage done to Christianity, a faith that seemed cut loose from its moorings, was also good analysis. I sometimes worry that Christians, of which I am one, no longer understand their faith beyond third grade catechism or Sunday School.
The question that remains is what is the nature of the soil, the mind dirt, in which mind viruses thrive. At risk of being self serving and repetitive, I think Leake and others might enjoy a little speculative fiction on that topic that I put into a short story, The Rescue. https://firstimagefilms.com/the-rescue-story/
Lindsay Graham loved all the perpetual WARS and killings he promoted. Russia ended him but niot the destruction he supported, Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity. " Beware of the Military Industrial Complex" President Col. Dwight Eisenhower. Trump isn't that smart; he is controlled by IT leading the world into massive destruction; depopulation.
I 100% agree, but at the same time, be aware of the POLICE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX as well. Just like the MIC spearheads never ending wars, the POLICE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX does the same THING - example never ending drug war. The "drug war", makes EVERYONE a potential suspect AND it makes the "Pablo Escobars" of the world very happy men by creating incentives for insane profits. I don't understand why more people can't see this {the "war on drugs"} is a GAME - the "cartels" automatically assume whatever percentage of interception be it 10%, 20%, 30% {I don't know the exact % because I'm not in that world - but I think I can make an educated guess} I'm guessing 30% interception - but the "cartels" know the exact %, they aint stupid, so they set their prices accordingly and make insane profits THANKS to dumbass ORDER following POS evil bastard POLICE !! "I don't make the laws DUHHHH - I only enforce them Duhhhh". As you can tell, I DESPISE the police. THEY SUCK !! They are hypocrites. They're NOT "anti drug" because if they were ACTUALLY "anti drug", they would have arrested those nurses that gave people CV19 shots. What's the difference in heroin shot and CV19 shot ?? Both will eventually GIT CHA. And for the record because this happens EVERY time, NO, I do NOT use street drugs. I also do NOT use pharma prescribed drugs and I don't smoke ciggies and I don't drink alcohol. But I DO understand supply and demand and black markets and know a little bit about Al Capone.
Don't forget Hilary Clinton's cackling laugh about the killing of Ghaddafi, "We came, we saw, he died, HAH HAH HAH". Yes, demons are real and walk among us.
Yeah, we’ve been the world’s bully for decades. Americans are being used for their resources so globalist billionaires can play war games and profit mightily. They don’t give a shit if Iran kills Americans or anyone else. All this is about the investments they made in weapons manufacturing, old weapons they needed to use up to make room for new ones, profiting off those investments, making new back door deals, pushing fear porn to usher in the surveillance state, and on & on! You and me do not matter to them! If you want something other than socialism, you better not vote for the uniparty that is our sold out psychopathic government.
I'm confused, is this Peter McCulloughs substack or a political commentator? Is there a way to just get the real Dr. Peter McCulloughs substack posts? If I wanted other opinions that have nothing to do with medical wisdom, I know where to find it.
Do not be confused. Peter McCullough battled the COVID bioweapon attack and stood tall against the villains who injured and murdered so many. For that he must be recognized as not only a medical professional but also as a culture warrior.
John Leake has admirably supported McCullough's work with insights and research into the villainy that McCullough and others fought. His presence on this trio substack is not only warranted but greatly appreciated.
Let us not be bitter over areas with which we might disagree. It is time for us all to put our shoulders to the wheel to repel the evil.
Voyeurism. Vicariousness. Munchkin-hosing by proxy.
And it’s monkey see-do fractal: Put the lime in the coconut & it’s all over but for the monkey-fist calling in the mourning … such a silly wo/man.
The fodder that follows the orders is chips off the same old cheesehead block.
Fondues is paid cuz molten fondeus ex machina is the featured recipe, not the bugmen that can be metamorphosed otherwise —wisdom is definitely other in this bunch of sour raisins detre— let alone new & improved & better.
Based on an assessment of written history of the human species, I have come to the opinion that killing is a normal behavior that people everywhere have tried to unsuccessfully control by various means. All other species kill mostly for sustenance. Man has a lot of other motivations that have been, and are expressed through operas, novels, films, and other means. Psychopathology enters into the picture only on a very limited basis. The French painter George Roualt named one of his works, "Man is Wolf to Man." I think that captures it perfectly.
I agree with the comments below. As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, seeing elation approaching sexual pleasure in Graham's reaction is the product of a sick mind. Graham served with distinction as a Judge Advocate in combat zones. Nobody, least of all those who have served take pleasure in the killing war brings. Mr. Leake having never served would not know that.
I beg to differ. My Command Sergeant Major husband has said that there were ALWAYS one or two people in every battalion he commanded who enjoyed killing.
I don't see elation at the news of killing. (Defaming a dead man is twisted, by the way. You would do well as a podcast partner with Candace Owens.) I see a man elated at how well his country's military is doing at destroying a terrorist regime's ability to export killing to other regions of the world. As usual, Mr. Leake, you only see events through the prism of your own skewed worldview.
Unfortunately, you fail to see what the U.S. has been doing round the world to other countries. Mostly smaller countries, and mostly poor third world countries. Who’s the bully? One day, all this is gonna come back on us because of what our military industrial complex has done to piss off the world. Not good.
You believe all that terrorist nonsense! The only terrorist is the US Government
A brief investigation reveals the US has killed thousands of middle easterners for every single westerner Iran has killed over the last 3 or 4 decades. We are the terrorists. You've drunk the kool-aid. By now you should be able to tell when you've been manipulated by propaganda. What, after COVID, Iraq's WMDs, and so many other examples will it take to wake some up?
You do not "defame" a POS like Graham by refusing to acknowledge how evil he was after he has improved the world by leaving it.
I should have said "by acknowledging" not "by refusing to..." but I think everyone knows what I meant.
James…let’s wait for this war to end and see how things turn out for the American people before you (and Lindsey’s ghost) start taking your victory laps. OK with you?
Please at least get a BA in psychology, or better yet, go into therapy, before lay-psychoanalyzing Mr. Graham's supposed feelings of elation. It seems to me you are the one with elation at trashing this man who cannot defend himself. Even if you don't agree with him or his politics, can't you respect the dead for a whole week? I think this is part of our larger problem.
POTUS Trump said about Robert Mueller's death: "Good! I'm glad he's dead. It means he can no longer hurt innocent people." Many people feel the same about Lindsay Graham and are still celebrating at how he can now longer hurt innocent people.
As regards your advice to John Leake, he seems very well informed. I'm sure he can get all the back up he needs by running Lindsey Graham's known behaviors and verbalizations through multiple AI with instructions to rank him on each of the dark tetrad characteristics of narcissism, psychopathy, sadism and Machiavellianism.
I'm sure you are right.
HUMANS do not get joy from killing!!!
DEMONS, on the other hand, DO!!!
Individuals need to stop living in a Child's CARTOON, and comprehend that LITERAL DEMONS.......DO......EXIST; and DO take human form!
Not all who walk this planet (NOT including animals), are HUMAN!!
Stop living in your FAKE, cartoon 'reality' and come to the comprehension.......
DEMONS WALK AMONG US!
And, no.....I am NOT some 'religious wing-nut'.
One does NOT have to be 'religious' to SEE the EVIL that is all around us.
Would you rather wait for them to blow us off the map?
I've been lying awake at night since 1992 when Netanyahu first stated that Iran would soon have a nuke and use it on us.
40+ years he’s been saying that! People are so brainwashed to believe our lying politicians and media. 🙄
Yet they do. About 30% of the population is completely impenetrable by facts and evidence, no matter how unassailable. Only about 10-15% try to weigh evidence impartially and reach rational conclusions. The rest lie on a spectrum between. Nothing can be done to reach some of these commenters. If their thought leaders switch sides, they will too, on a dime, and forget everything they believed before.
And I am lying awake at night worried that Netanyahu will use Israeli nukes as a way of blackmailing the U.S. "If you don't support us, we will roll out the nukes as our defense." That is scary.
You should have started worrying in the 50s when the U.S. did a coup d'etat against Iran's democratically elected government and installed the Shah. The rest was inevitable.
Hahahahaha, me too!
😑1992! Sleep deprivation obviously needs addressing before you pen any more self indulgent waffle about war and killing.
John, supporting war is a test of true Christianity. The template of Christianity was the first-century Christians who remained neutral in politics and wars.
Not only are most of the major Christian churches not neutral, but they were recruiting stations in both world wars and openly support zionism, a major reason the US is so closely tied to the Middle East and Israel.
How does a Christian reconcile their Christianity, which means to be Christ-like, and their support for war?
Very rarely have I met an American who professes to be a Christian who understands Christianity.
now that the American and Israelis armies are 'joined forces', maybe that won't happen...?
Turn off the Idiot Box, Ann, and EDUCATE yourself!
Your ENEMY is NOT 'over there'.......your ENEMY resides in the District of Criminals!
Stop PARROTING what a bunch of PEDOPHILES are spewing!
Or do you make excuses for them, too?
Are you part of the Satan-worshiping Death Cult, like those in D.C.??
Do you 'get off' on all of the DEAD CHILDREN in Gaza/West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, ect.....like that Satan-worshiping homo, Lady Lindsey??
Sounds like you DO!
Outstanding article!
Notice how Dr. Paul is an army of one? No one else is piling on for headlines or God forbid, accountability. Sadly, Trump can’t admit he got played.
So, business as usual in the Swamp. What is the Swamp’s business? A Grand Bargain between parties:
Democrats will vote unlimited monies to Republicans to destroy foreign cities with bombs and planes and Republicans will vote unlimited monies for Democrats to destroy American cities with money and Democrats.
Clot shot deaths? Win-win.
For those who have an attention span longer than a gnat.......
A REAL JOURNALIST (Patrick Henningsen), along with Scott Ritter.......
RETURN OF McCARTHYISM- Scott Ritter & Patrick Henningsen - THE WORLD THIS WEEK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=salsOltzDSU&t=7864s
Trump’s M.O.U. Games Reveal Real US-Israeli Agenda With Iran
HENNINGSEN
JUL 27, 2026
https://patrickhenningsen.substack.com/p/trumps-mou-games-reveal-real-us-israeli?publication_id=5267403&post_id=208681808&isFreemail=true&r=19j00e&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Iran was never going to blow us up. Although I couldn't blame them now. If the government propagandists and lying media told me my neighbor was plotting to kill me, should I bust in his door and kill him first? You've been lied to. Wake up.
What’s it like to be so brainwashed, you have lost your ability to think clearly???
To each their own opinion. I am friends with a number who fled socialist & communist countries & I do not want it here. Subject closed.
You don’t have to blow up other countries in order to not have socialism here. Just look around now. More Lefties are okay and advocating for socialism now than ever! Our uniparty government is steering the masses to accept it. And they are! That isn’t because Iran is blowing us off the map ma’am. That is social engineering from within.
But you're gonna get it anyway...
"We have met the enemy and he is us"
That type of paranoia has been occurring long before any of us were alive. 'We have to destroy other humans because they "could" do us harm.' Maniacal musings.
The reality is that the US government has been conducting coups and fabricating wars long before the IRGC existed. The CIA/MI6 conducting the 1953 coup in Iran lead to the creation of the Savak secret police. The domino effect that led to the 1978 Iranian revolution and the Ayatollah's taking control. Just as the US/UK military/intel helped in supporting Saddam Hussein in the Iran/Iraq War. The creation of the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan that evolved into Al Qaeda. Operation Gladio and the covert operations in Europe by CIA using the Sicilian mafia.
It is important to understand historic events and what has occurred in putting us in the situation we are in today. Looking at the world through rose color glasses is what has allowed this to happen and why some Americans still fall for these propaganda ruses. Just like the lie that Covid just occurred naturally and wasn't part of a gain of function research that 'accidentally' released upon the population, and then was covered up by the very people telling you to trust them about another countries nuclear threats. At some point you have to face reality and realize you are being lied to on a daily basis.
WE (i.e., the US CIA and UK MI6) overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953 so that their oil could be seized by British Petroleum and its US partnering firms. WE then installed a puppet tyrant over the population who ruled over the country for the next 24 years until a religious and student revolt overthrew these puppets and seized control of their own government. After settling with the US in 1980 - returning our "diplomats" and getting their assets freed they have screamed and yelled at us, but they have made no direct attacks on the US or its citizens unless they were dumb enough to travel to Iran. For 24 straight years, our intelligence community has repeatedly reported that Iran has no nuclear weapon and is not close to getting one. Only Israel has declared this to be the case, repeatedly emphasizing that they would have a bomb in the next few weeks or months, on more occasions than I can count. In the interim Israel has pressed America to go to war with five of their 7 enemy nations over the last 23 years and our leadership has sent American money, soldier and weapons to do their bidding - providing exactly zero return for the US people. We have now created war #6 for Israel and it is beyond our capability to defeat this foe w/o the use of nuclear weapons. The petrodollar has now been fully compromised and is in open decline as is our economy, not to mention os of the world's economies. Five months ago, Iran allowed oil to flow freely and peaceful commerce to move forward without interruption. At Israel's intense urging and blackmailing, WE have destroyed that. Iran is not capable of blowing us up, they have neither the bomb nor the delivery system to blow us up. Start reading valid sources of information and turn off you TV. There is nothing patriotic about what we have done and our entire nation is substantially more vulnerable because our leadership has listened to Israeli lies. The Iranian monster is not at our door. If they are at Israel's door.....I don't care. They are a forign country that has been a parasite on the American jugular for the 70+ years of their existence.
Do you know of some instance where some other country attacked us. Leave 911 out of the picture. Many people think it was an inside job
No other country attacked us on 9/11. It was part of the same agenda that is taking place right now. Without 9/11 we wouldn’t have the Patriot Act, which was that start of the surveillance state, censorship, indefinite detention, searches without consent etc. It laid the groundwork for things like ICE, Venezuela and crackdowns on citizens who dissent. Every major planned event (false flag) gives them the rationale to take away our civil liberties all under the guise of improving our safety and protection!
I agree
One other thing. People who don’t use reasonable responses but resort to insults really say a lot about themselves.
The bombing was in select areas away from civilians. So, it is OK with you that literally hundreds of servicemen and women were killed by Iran over the years, we found their missiles that could go 4000 miles headed for Europe, they constantly refer to us as "Big Satan" and have clearly stated a plan to wipe us out, they killed 30,000 of their own citizens and hung a 20 year old who was a wrestler for speaking out? Your opinions are your opinions, John. Because we live in a country that has free speech, you can state them. But when you virtue signal, we are here to call you out on it. Just like Mamdani. Just like the twenty somethings who never had a Civics course, a history course, or even know the difference between Socialism, Communism and Nazism. We will throw the mud right back in your face. How about reporting that Lyndsay Graham's net worth was just a little over $1 million,(including his home), unlike these other Congressmen and women who are multimillionaires and then go on to be lobbyists and make more money? Did you know that he just returned from Ukraine to help end that debacle? You are an embarrassment.
You seem to have learned nothing from the covid scam, or the GFC (house prices never go down), or the Iraq wars (Iraq wants to nuke the US). That everything the government tells you is a lie.
Everywhere that Graham went, and especially if small boys went missing at about that time, should be searched with cadaver dogs.
The US has produced over 3,000 documented serial killers. It's a nation of sick, sadistic malignant narcissists and psychopaths. It commits war crimes in every war it starts. Rex Heuermann, the registered Republican and staunch POTUS Trump supporter, aka the Gilgo Beach or Long Island Serial Killer who used a planning document to meticulously plan his kills in such a way that he had maximum "play time" to torture and dismember innocent young women is very much like Lindsey Graham and is the archetypal American.
Does that describe how you feel about the killing of Nigerian Christians by Boko Haram?
John Leake has no doubt tapped into a very important variable when it comes to mind viruses.
I believe he is correct in the observation that there are those who delight in mayhem and death, including Lindsey Graham. The virus of psychopathy that infects humanity was captured well in Snakes in Suits, a book about psychopaths in the boardroom.
Leake's comment on Hitchens (someone I did not particularly like) was helpful. Leake wrote, "At one point in the interview, he made the startling statement that the Great Powers waged war not because conflict resolution was so hard, but because the men running the belligerent countries simply wanted war." So true. And Hitchens' analysis of the damage done to Christianity, a faith that seemed cut loose from its moorings, was also good analysis. I sometimes worry that Christians, of which I am one, no longer understand their faith beyond third grade catechism or Sunday School.
The question that remains is what is the nature of the soil, the mind dirt, in which mind viruses thrive. At risk of being self serving and repetitive, I think Leake and others might enjoy a little speculative fiction on that topic that I put into a short story, The Rescue. https://firstimagefilms.com/the-rescue-story/
Lindsay Graham loved all the perpetual WARS and killings he promoted. Russia ended him but niot the destruction he supported, Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity. " Beware of the Military Industrial Complex" President Col. Dwight Eisenhower. Trump isn't that smart; he is controlled by IT leading the world into massive destruction; depopulation.
I 100% agree, but at the same time, be aware of the POLICE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX as well. Just like the MIC spearheads never ending wars, the POLICE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX does the same THING - example never ending drug war. The "drug war", makes EVERYONE a potential suspect AND it makes the "Pablo Escobars" of the world very happy men by creating incentives for insane profits. I don't understand why more people can't see this {the "war on drugs"} is a GAME - the "cartels" automatically assume whatever percentage of interception be it 10%, 20%, 30% {I don't know the exact % because I'm not in that world - but I think I can make an educated guess} I'm guessing 30% interception - but the "cartels" know the exact %, they aint stupid, so they set their prices accordingly and make insane profits THANKS to dumbass ORDER following POS evil bastard POLICE !! "I don't make the laws DUHHHH - I only enforce them Duhhhh". As you can tell, I DESPISE the police. THEY SUCK !! They are hypocrites. They're NOT "anti drug" because if they were ACTUALLY "anti drug", they would have arrested those nurses that gave people CV19 shots. What's the difference in heroin shot and CV19 shot ?? Both will eventually GIT CHA. And for the record because this happens EVERY time, NO, I do NOT use street drugs. I also do NOT use pharma prescribed drugs and I don't smoke ciggies and I don't drink alcohol. But I DO understand supply and demand and black markets and know a little bit about Al Capone.
Don't forget Hilary Clinton's cackling laugh about the killing of Ghaddafi, "We came, we saw, he died, HAH HAH HAH". Yes, demons are real and walk among us.
The US spreads death and destruction around the world with it's military. And then delights in it. It's so evil.
Yeah, we’ve been the world’s bully for decades. Americans are being used for their resources so globalist billionaires can play war games and profit mightily. They don’t give a shit if Iran kills Americans or anyone else. All this is about the investments they made in weapons manufacturing, old weapons they needed to use up to make room for new ones, profiting off those investments, making new back door deals, pushing fear porn to usher in the surveillance state, and on & on! You and me do not matter to them! If you want something other than socialism, you better not vote for the uniparty that is our sold out psychopathic government.
Eric Fromm described the type well, the necrophilous personality.
see The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness.
I'm confused, is this Peter McCulloughs substack or a political commentator? Is there a way to just get the real Dr. Peter McCulloughs substack posts? If I wanted other opinions that have nothing to do with medical wisdom, I know where to find it.
Do not be confused. Peter McCullough battled the COVID bioweapon attack and stood tall against the villains who injured and murdered so many. For that he must be recognized as not only a medical professional but also as a culture warrior.
John Leake has admirably supported McCullough's work with insights and research into the villainy that McCullough and others fought. His presence on this trio substack is not only warranted but greatly appreciated.
Let us not be bitter over areas with which we might disagree. It is time for us all to put our shoulders to the wheel to repel the evil.
Voyeurism. Vicariousness. Munchkin-hosing by proxy.
And it’s monkey see-do fractal: Put the lime in the coconut & it’s all over but for the monkey-fist calling in the mourning … such a silly wo/man.
The fodder that follows the orders is chips off the same old cheesehead block.
Fondues is paid cuz molten fondeus ex machina is the featured recipe, not the bugmen that can be metamorphosed otherwise —wisdom is definitely other in this bunch of sour raisins detre— let alone new & improved & better.
Mark Twain, The War Prayer (1905)
https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/the-war-prayer
“Is everybody in this town on drugs?” Rhetorical question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsngbWGlI9A
Based on an assessment of written history of the human species, I have come to the opinion that killing is a normal behavior that people everywhere have tried to unsuccessfully control by various means. All other species kill mostly for sustenance. Man has a lot of other motivations that have been, and are expressed through operas, novels, films, and other means. Psychopathology enters into the picture only on a very limited basis. The French painter George Roualt named one of his works, "Man is Wolf to Man." I think that captures it perfectly.