I’m sure that most of my readers are familiar with Mike Adams, the “Health Ranger”, who publishes Natural Newsand founded the video-hosting website Brighteon. A few days ago, he published a video titled “The podcast that may END my career: Mike Adams calls out Zionist INFILTRATION of MAGA and MAHA”. In it, he provides an inspired commentary about how the health freedom movement has been led astray by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement, which has allied with Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement and aims to get Donald Trump elected.
Mike’s comments resonate greatly with my own views about this, so I highly encourage you to listen to what he has to say:
The focal point of Mike’s criticism is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s and Donald Trump’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The title of Mike’s commentary indicates his awareness that by delivering this message, he is going to upset a lot of people. This, too, resonates deeply with me. I know from experience that, by publishing this article, I am likely to anger and lose readers. But my conscience compels me to speak out and state my view honestly.
I usually do not participate in the whole election charade because, in my view, the act of voting serves to legitimize the criminal organization in Washington, DC. The only time it is worth voting is when there is an extraordinary candidate who represents a truly anti-establishment position, someone with honesty and integrity who would act to end the regime’s lawlessness and try to restore a constitutional government. Hence, the only candidate I have ever voted for was Dr. Ron Paul, whom I checked off on my ballot in 2008 and wrote in in 2012.
We are indoctrinated since early childhood into what I call the “state religion”, including the belief that we have a moral and patriotic duty to participate in presidential elections, but as Bretigne Shaffer and I explained a few months ago, the argument can easily be made that the most socially responsible thing you can do is not vote. Voting for “the lesser of evils” is still voting for evil. And why vote for evil? Why tacitly concede that the system is legitimate when it is not? Why tacitly consent to the perpetuation of the status quo? Why act to legitimize the criminal organization in Washington? This is not wisdom. Voting for the lesser of evils has never worked before as a strategy. All it has ever done is to bring us to where we are today facing yet another supposed “choice” between two evils. Enough!
To date, despite all the pushback I have received about the question of who to vote for and whether to vote, nobody has presented me with any valid counterargument to the position Bretigne and I elucidated. Instead, people present me with the following reasons why I should vote for Trump:
- If I don’t vote, I’ll be sending the message to Washington that I am just apathetic.
- It is unreasonable for me to expect a perfect candidate, and I need to be more pragmatic and accept the reality of the situation.
- If I don’t vote against Kamala Harris and she wins the election, I will be responsible for that outcome.
- We must prevent Harris from winning at all costs.
- If Trump wins, he’ll put RFK Jr. into a position of power, and he’ll “make America healthy again”.
But none of these is a valid counterargument to my position. Each one is rather a repetition of the same logical fallacies that Bretigne and I already addressed.
It matters that my act of not voting is not due to any kind of apathy on my part but is instead a manifestation of my interest and concern in the current state of affairs and the future direction of our society. If we ever hope to see any kind of real change, we need to stop legitimizing a system that has no legitimacy.
I have never suggested that we should only ever vote if there is a “perfect” candidate. This is a disingenuous strawman fallacy. Rather, my view is that there are certain positions that ought to automatically disqualify any candidate from our consideration, no matter how good they may be on other issues, and supporting a genocide is certainly one of them.
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Triumph the insult comic dog said it best in a bit on the Daily Show Tuesday: “Bobby sold his soul to Trump.” So painfully true …
Painfully true, yes. Thank you for your comment.
I agree with you 100%. I have never seen anything as sophomoric as Kennedy’s response to 10/7. I had contributed to his campaign several times, but after a few days of equally ignorant statements from him, I called the campaign and asked for my money back on the basis that he had vitiated every single plank of his platform with his childish and uninformed public statements. They said they would refund my donations, but of course never did. Then there were the staffers who walked out, and the betrayal of Dennis Kucinich, the suggestion that Palestinians were “coddled” while they were being exterminated, the elevation of a cretinous dildo salesman as his Israeli “advisor,” the claim that Israel was not an apartheid state, that there was no genocide (even though both were clear in international law). On and on it went. It soon became clear that Kennedy was neither knowledgable nor moral, and could not be trusted on any issue, let alone to run the country. Over and over again, people like you who had considered him a friend tried to educate him. Lisa Pease, who wrote the defining book on the case of RFK’s assassination, tried to reason with him. When she asked him what he had read, he said he had read “Alan Dershowitz’s book.” Can you imagine? He was basing his approach to a genocide on the ravings of one of the most reviled and unethical public figures alive today. Not an international law scholar. Not a historian. Not an expert on the Middle East. But Alan Dershowitz, who is such a rabid Zionist he supports Israel’s illegal seizure of the West Bank, represents some of the vilest criminals, including Jeffrey Epstein, considers every criticism of Israeli policy to be “anti-Semitism.” At least if you were going to read Dershowitz, you should also read actual Jewish scholars like Avi Schlaim and Schlomo Sand. Or read Middle East policy experts and professors like Rashid Khalidi. I would encourage your readers to read not only your own excellent book Obstacle to Peace, which exposes Operation Cast Lead and the extreme dishonesty and immorality of the US approach to “negotiations” on behalf of Israel, but to read three other books to start: Thomas Suarez’s State of Terror, which calmly recounts the activity of Zionist terrorist gangs in Palestine during the Mandate period, international law scholar John Quigley’s The Legality of a Jewish State, which tells the story of how Israel came to be in the late 1940s and its interactions with the UN, and finally professor Rashid Khalidi’s The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. There are dozens and dozens of great books, of course, many by anti-Zionist Jews, but those four books are an excellent place to start. I would also point out that there were and are hundreds of thousands of Jews worldwide who were profoundly against Zionism during the twentieth century, and who wrote eloquently about its poisonous ideology, including Albert Einstein, Moshe Menuhin (Yehudi Menuhin’s father), and legal scholar Morris R. Cohen. They were hardly anti-Semitic. And there are many anti-Zionist Jews writing today, including Norm Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Tony Greenstein, Jeff Halper, Ilan Pappe, Aaron and Gabor Mate, Antony Loewenstein, Schlomo Sand, Avi Schlaim, and many others. The “anti-Semitic” argument is ridiculous on its face–people who make that argument are either dishonest or have not engage a single brain cell.
Thank you for making this comment so I won’t have to.
I think it is reasonable to suspect that RFK jr, like many high level politicians and public figures, is simply compromised.
But it doesn’t matter. Whether he is just another garden variety sociopath, or a decent man that is somehow hamstrung by threat or blackmail, he ain’t up for the job. Any job.
I have struggled to explain it. Is it religious extremism? Or has he been bought? Blackmailed? A combination of these? They are the only three explanations I can come up with.
Another explanation was offered by Kevin Barrett: the Hamlet saga. Where our hero knows deep inside who murdered his father (Israel) but is powerless to express those ideas or act on them. Until he gains power. For those not in tune with the ideas of Laurent Guyenot and others: RFK was killed so, as president, he could not investigate and avenge his brother’s murder. And his brother, JFK, was murdered because he was insisting that Israel open Dimona, where they were secretly developing the Bomb, to IAEA inspectors. And he was insisting that the predecessor to AIPAC register as a foreign agent.. His assassination solved both problems for Israel.
So you are suggesting that RFK Jr really opposes Israel’s genocide in Gaza and is just PRETENDING to support it?
You said there are only three explanations you could come up with. So I mentioned a fourth. I did not say I believe the explanation proposed , perhaps in jest, by Kevin Barrett. I too am at my wits end to explain why somebody I had so much respect for could take the position RFK Jr takes on Israel and Palestine. (And I , too, am not voting) . But to defend the hypothesis: it is not necessary that RFK Jr is consciously PRETENDING to support a policy he does not support. It’s about TRAUMA and what it can do. The trauma of having had his father and uncle assassinated.
Thanks for clarifying. But I don’t see the connection between the trauma of his uncle and father’s assassinations and his extreme Zionism. How, exactly, does the one lead to the other, according to this theory?
I think what he’s saying is this:
It’s POSSIBLE that RFK is feigning support for Israel in order to secure the Jewish vote so that he gets elected. Then when he gets in power, perhaps he will sing a different tune.
I think this is a possibility, albeit an unlikely one
If he is doing that, he is virtually guaranteeing he will be assassinated by Mossad. They have killed so many people now, even people who only mildly disagreed with Zionism or were minor administrative functionaries in Palestinian resistance movements, that it’s really astonishing. People have no idea. I was thinking of this hypothesis when I heard about Bill Clinton’s recent raving, ahistorical, ridiculous statements to Muslims in Michigan. I thought, “He can’t possibly believe this–it’s too ignorant, and he’s too educated.” I ended up thinking he might be signaling that he had been threatened, and he was responding by making the most outlandish statement he could think of as a cry for help. Some of the things RFK Jr. has said have been in the same ballpark–no one with RFK’s intelligence could really think some of the things he has said. They don’t square with other things he has said.
I’m not sure that RFK Jr hasn’t truly deluded himself, such as when he was on Breaking Points and told Krystal Ball he didn’t believe that Israel was blocking humanitarian aid into Gaza. That is such a willfully ignorant denial, I find it hard to believe he would make such an embarrassingly ignorant statement if he hadn’t actually convinced himself. Maybe he said it just because he’d been bought, blackmailed, or threatened, but he could have tried to defend Israel’s actions without going to such an extreme denial of the plainly observable facts on the ground.
I don’t think there is any credibility to the idea that he is feigning support. He seems fervently wedded to the position of an extreme Zionist. And many younger Jews oppose Israel’s crimes against humanity. Not to mention the loss of support from non-Jews. I think he would have done better in his campaign had he not defended the genocide, just the same as Biden/Harris’s support for it eroded support within their own Democratic base.
Linda, thank you for your excellent comment. In addition to his absurdly stupid statement that Palestinians are a “pampered” people, Kennedy stupidly denied in an interview that Israel was blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza. I couldn’t believe it. Never mind how all the aid groups were decrying Israel’s blocking of aid. He is willfully ignorant to the extreme.
Also for recommending my book Obstacle to Peace. Since you mentioned my book as well as Dershowitz, here’s an excerpt exposing him from the book:
https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2023/12/15/alan-dershowitz-defender-of-israels-gaza-genocide-is-an-evil-man/
I completely agree about Dershowitz. He is an evil, scummy person. Lies continually and deliberately. It’s the Talmudic Zionist mindset that lying only counts as a lie when it is within the Jewish community, and that all lies (and pretty much all immoral acts) are not immoral when committed against Gentiles. We hear this all the time from Zionist rabbis in Israeli videos, or stated outright by West Bank settlers or IDF soldiers posting on TikTok or Instagram.
We hear a lot about Islamic extremism, but not so much about the Jewish and Christian extremism that has always fueled the conflict.
100%
Thank you. I have also been struggling with this exact issue. It’s good to see I’m not alone and in fact in some very good company.
Although I’m a supporter of yours, I’ve not gotten around to reading your book, Obstacle to Peace. However, I’ve read many of your articles over the years and feel that they have helped me understand the situation better than any other source.
Now I watch in horror as people who proclaim to follow the path of Jesus cheer on the murder of children.
All this rambling to say, you’ve not lost my support. Keep speaking up. Thank you for your courage.
Thank you for your kind words of solidarity. I appreciate it.
Here is where anyone interested can get a signed copy of Obstacle to Peace directly from me:
https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/product/obstacle-to-peace/
I am a 73-year-old South African from Johannesburg. I agree with your values, analysis and views of MAGA and MAHA. I admire your principles and wish you success. I know you will experience difficult times. May God make it easy for you and your family. Sorry, I cannot contribute financially. You are in my prayers. Take care.
Thank you for your kind words and blessings!
Our society, our nation, is spiritually bankrupt. As such, it is defined by profound delusion. Since low awareness, low IQ, inadequate mental function cannot explain the severe cognitive dissonance of the maha and maga groups, only dishonesty can. Self deception. More than anyone else, this is applicable to those among them that profess Christ.
Because your arguments are unassailable. The Truth of your arguments is inescapable. Yet untold tens of millions of otherwise well meaning people are preparing to, or have already voted, for heinous evil, and be complicit. These are a spiritually broken and bankrupt people.
It’s worth mentioning that this same phenomenon of widespread deluded thinking was prominently displayed throughout the germ terror psy op, perhaps even more so among the highly educated.
It seems both r and d teams are equally afflicted by this propensity for self deception and delusion.
Yes, indeed, the self-delusion is very great. Reminds me of 2 Thessalonians 2: 9-11.
Thank you for this. I, too, recently realized that I can’t ethically and morally vote for either.
I am glad we are in agreement about that!
Excellent insight, Jeremy. I had hope for the health freedom movement for awhile and it is now starting to look like a “cult of the personality.” Health freedom prides itself on representing something that is inclusive of all kinds of people (races, religions, socioeconomic group, blah blah blah) and now it seems there are boundaries for exclusion beginning to appear. Remaining willfully blind to genocide and unwilling to examine evidence presented is grounds for demotion in my ranking of integrity and good intent. Mike Adams is correct in pointing out the huge disconnect when Palestinian children are somehow less precious than any other children. It makes the pro-Zionist health freedom folk look like talking heads instead of thinking heads. How many have to be killed before it’s okay to say ‘ENOUGH! STOP IT” out loud?
I was shocked at the silence within my networks in the health freedom community. I can literally count on one hand the number of individuals who I saw speaking out against the genocide. Sayer Ji and Bretigne Shaffer are two of them. A couple of people privately expressed appreciation to me for doing so but were too intimidated to speak out themselves, which is frankly understandable given the level of vitriol I faced for speaking out myself.
A couple of weeks ago, Mike Adams interviewed Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai who is running for president and who is on the ballot in over a dozen states. Mike said that if Trump doesn’t relent regarding his unqualified support for Israel’s actions in Gaza, he will be voting for Dr. Shiva.
Dr. Shiva has spoken at length about his disdain for Robert Kennedy Jr. as someone whose personal history hardly makes him a “moral authority” or a trustable leader with good judgement. He also claims that much of the work of Childrens Health Defense is appropriated from his own work and from the work of others. Dr. Shiva calls Robert Kennedy Jr. a member of “the not-so-obvious establishment” which also includes the likes of Trump, Sanders and Stein.
Mike Adams said that he has tried to communicate with Children’s Health Defense about a particular article claiming food science which Mike knows to be false based on his own history of experimentation and validation in that specific area. He said he has not been successful in receiving a reply from Children’s Health Defense.
We all need to make our decisions based on our own internal “moral authority” and that seems to be different for each of us, even if we might agree on some important points. I do agree that someone who does not call for the defense of the children of Gaza from violent assault, cannot claim to be “The Defender” of children’s health.
I feel bad for the good people at CHD now that the organization’s name is tainted and rendered hypocritical by Kennedy’s support for genocide.
CHD is thriving and consistently winning in court to protect your family’s rights (free speech, privacy, bodily integrity) whether you support or not. You are loved and respected by CHD whether you return the love or not. CHD advocates tirelessly for the children in Gaza, and the children in Israel, including this official statement by CHD President Mary Holland, “CHD grieves for the children and families that have been injured or have died in violent conflicts occurring in the world today. We condemn acts that intentionally or negligently target children. Children should have no role in violent conflict. CHD calls on all parties, governmental and non-governmental, to seek diplomatic solutions. All children deserve health, freedom and peace.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/press-release/childrens-health-defense-statement-on-war-and-children/
CHD empowers top advocates in their areas of speciality (free speech, anti-war, rights to decline vaccines, freedom from toxins, and the list goes on for the ways CHD stands for children’s health).
I don’t see Kennedy’s advocacy for children’s health as hypocritical but rather savvy in an international (often industrial) high stakes power dynamic. As Christians, before we point the finger at a children’s health advocate and say “you’re a hypocrite”, first we have to understand the real-world context in which the advocate operates. For example, to do your work to support your family does your car and computer and phone rely on toxins and questionable labor? Of course, but you’re savvy enough to navigate that real-world context to work for the improvements you desire in the world. When you enjoy American benefits and pay your taxes so you don’t go to jail, do you become a hypocrite for what you know you’re ultimately funding, or do you consider yourself savvy for one step back but two steps forward? When you operate your organic farm, do you rely on PVC and countless other inorganic toxins for daily operations? Yes, but you’re savvy enough to know you’re making improvements in the bigger picture, as our brightest minds work to engineer safer materials and healthier practices.
Kennedy is a Christian trying his best. Trump is a Christian trying his best. They will continue to advocate for you and ALL children whether you support or not. And in time, through real world context, we can see the results of the savvy are greater than the problem, because God accomplishes the hard things. God can even clean California. Please pray for President Trump and the children he protects with his savvy. Jeremy, you are loved, valued, and your opinions are meaningful. We’ll figure this out and maybe have a good laugh someday about the quirky road that made America healthy again. A road through forests and over rocks and rivers, a road through Main Street and through time, and a road well worth the effort. Christ is King.
You have mistaken me, Greg. I was not expressing a lack of love for CHD but the opposite.
No, of course not. What is hypocritical is claiming to be a defender of children and human rights while supporting a genocide. There is no sense denying the hypocrisy in that.
Thank you. I appreciate your great work, too.
Thanks for the clarification.
I still maintain savvy rather than hypocrisy is the right word for what’s happening with the international power plays by Kennedy and Trump against the new world order. For example, I think you know well the power of Zionists on the world stage; do they control finance, media, more? Who is the head of the US secret service, what kind of hat does he wear? If you were navigating around an international mafia that assassinates without remorse, would you pick up a megaphone and start shouting at every street corner “GENOCIDE!!”, or would you potentially use more diplomatic savvy, just like you do when you pay your taxes each year knowingly supporting things temporarily you don’t support long-term? You have international public relations savvy — do you think President Trump and his advisors need to say EVERY strategy they have, or do you think they are savvy enough to navigate mafias? Joe Rogan asked President Trump last week about Trump’s international war strategies, and Trump expertly responded that he’s not going to breach national security and disclose strategies. Very diplomatically he said he knows exactly what he’ll say privately to world leaders in his efforts to keep America safe and restore peace for the innocent. Mafia member Alfonse Capone was mentioned in that interview if I recall correctly. Those are the stakes, the players, and the context. You’re FAR too smart Jeremy not to read between the lines. Do you not see yet Trump’s methods, that he routinely destroys something by spotlighting it? What happened after Fauci begged Trump not to call pharma’s vaccine program “warp speed”? What did Trump do when WHO declared a worldwide public health emergency and pharma started producing mRNA vaccines in every major country, making the vaccine inevitable regardless of Trump? One step back, two steps forward. Did Elliot Ness take down the mafia with his tough talk and prosecutions, or was it a series of legal steps that ended the mafia’s black market? For every 1 mafia member Ness took down, 10 more sprung up. He was ineffective with his megaphone and people suffered. The right word is savvy. Sometimes knowing what not to say [read] during a mafia war [between] is more important than knowing what to say [the lines].
Greg, to describe Kennedy’s and Trump’s SUPPORT FOR (and not mere silence about) Israel’s genocide as “savvy” is totally perverse.
With all due respect, you were among those duped by Trump and the whole “Q Anon” cult the first time around, and it is ludicrous to argue that Trump somehow “destroyed” the coerced mass vaccination agenda by calling it “Operation Warp Speed”, etc. Trump was absolutely complicit in that evil. You are still deluding yourself.
You are suggesting I’m somehow being naive, but you are the one who needs to open your eyes. You profess to be a disciple of Jesus, but I see none of his morality or wisdom in your words. Your position of defending and excusing their inexcusable support for genocide is totally irreconcilable with his teachings.
There is nothing “saavy” about supporting a genocide. You have blinded yourself. Call it perverse, indefensible, unconscionable, evil, etc. But do not insult those of us who have not lost our moral compass with this perverse description of “saavy”. There is nothing “saavy” about supporting the mass murder of children. This is just more pure hypocrisy.
I remain open-minded about Q. I mean, it’s already been proven Trump has some connection to it, and really how would either of us know as civilian researchers, especially because military does not disclose ops until decades later if at all. What has been proven though is that the many, many, and many branches of the military are constantly engaged in secret operations totaling uncounted billions of dollars where money and operations are simply unaccounted for to even the best researchers. “Duped”? “Cult”? Oof. I think keeping an open mind to what’s possible is the way to go when it comes to a potentially a secret military operation to save children. It’s true that I want it to be true. Is that not allowed? Not sure if that helps clarify my position. At this point (2024) I’ve resolved to let reality speak for itself, and we’ll just see what happens this decade.
Regarding the murder of innocent children in Gaza, I respect you calling out the genocide! It sounds like you’re working from the position though that a straight line military strategy would save the children. I’m open to the possibility the military situation is complex, as State run mafias appear to be involved. You know, the kind of mafias that have suitcase nukes, chemical weapons, computer viruses, EMPs, and stuff like that. It seems obvious to me these are military issues.
For better or worse, I think President Trump is the best candidate for the job to save the children. I respect your choice not to vote, and appreciate you respecting mine to vote Trump. We’ll figure it out. Let’s see what happens. And in the meantime, I think we’re on the same page that standing up for the children in Gaza is the right thing to do. This is not my field of expertise how to accomplish that goal in clandestine international warfare and open diplomacy, but I pray the right people find the courage and strategic opportunity to intervene.
Here is my favorite bible verse, “Whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the law and the prophets.” Matthew 7:12.
Greg, the “Q” believers kept making all these predictions about all the great things Trump was going to do, none of which came to pass. “If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the Lord does not take place or come true, that is a message the Lord has not spoken.” Deuteronomy 18:21-22. It was a hoax with a cult following, as you might recall me saying at the time, even referencing that verse from the Bible to make my point about how we would know that it was all a load of nonsense.
I appreciate that you say you respect me for calling out the genocide, and I respect you for acknowledging that it is a genocide. But I do not know what you mean by attributing to me the idea that “a straight line military strategy would save the children”. What would save the children of Gaza would be to put an end to the genocide, which could have been done with a phone call from the White House at any time since it started.
You say, “I think President Trump is the best candidate for the job to save the children.” But that is an outright delusional belief given Trump’s actual record and his position that the solution is for Israel to “finish the job” in Gaza. I cannot even imagine how you reconcile Trump’s support for Israel’s genocide with this believe that he is the best person to save the children of Gaza.
You quote Matthew 7:12 as your favorite Bible verse but ignore how the civilian population of Gaza has been pleading for bread but given US-provided 2,000 lb bombs. If you believe that all of the Law and the Prophets are summarized by the Golden Rule, then how can you support a candidate who supports the mass murder of Palestinian children? This is cognitive dissonance.
Here is one of my own favorite Bible verses: “The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” — 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
Again, my position is really simple: there are certain positions that ought to automatically disqualify any candidate from our consideration, and supporting a genocide is certainly one of them. You are not identifying any flaw in this reasoning.
Trump is the most anti-war candidate we have ever seen in our lifetimes, even more anti-war than Ron Paul in the sense Ron Paul failed to achieve results whereas Trump basically stopped war worldwide for four years, and there is no reason to believe he would fail to do so again, especially as he has become even more anti-war in his words since 2020. Even Israeli officials are worried about Trump being so anti-war in 2024 that they think it will sabotage their plans [to take Gaza]. See e.g., “Two senior Israeli officials have expressed concern to The Times of Israel over Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s repeated call for Israel to quickly end its war against Hamas in Gaza, fearing an inability to do so will lead to a clash if the former president returns to office in January.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/if-trump-wins-israeli-officials-fear-clash-over-inability-to-quickly-end-gaza-war/ (additional link in article, “Trump to Fox News: Israel should end war fast, return hostages”)
Kennedy too is fiercely anti-war. But history teaches through pain that a passive man is NOT always a peaceful man. A peaceful man is one who creates and sustains peace, even militarily if forced to defend or execute justice. In the Bible, the Lord of Hosts provides many examples proving God reigns militarily as well as God’s other powers.
Again, I’m no expert on middle east war (or God’s intentions for that matter), but it seems to me that part of the ROOT problem is that Gaza is the world’s largest surveillance city concentration camp, so the humanitarian situation is rigged from the outset. That is why stopping the bombs militarily with a phone call from the White House is not enough; and I’m not suggesting that was all you are suggesting would be enough. Sovereign nations have complex rules, and Trump was impeached twice in his first term by a Congress that is owned by AIPAC, meaning owned by the Israeli blackmail mafia layers behind AIPAC. I would say that the long squeeze of Arab people, and Israeli people for that matter, with no fruitful home where they can take accountability and govern their own, is part of a regional genocide. Gaza is effectively an 80-year crime scene, but this does not mean the UN has the answer. Re 2 Thessalonians 2:9-11, take a look at Prince William if you’re inclined, as his national symbol is the red dragon, his nickname in the royal air force is the dragon, his country basically formed Israel in 1948 and the late Queen’s British coronation ceremony referred to her as ‘queen of thy people Israel’, Charles coat of arms has all the animals from Rev 13 including the red dragon, and there is so much more. Just take a look.
But as for the here and now on what’s the right strategy to save children, the first hard fact is that economic policy (especially communism) kills and injures exponentially more children than outright war. Arguably the same is true about left-wing media and consumerist apathy. Many people even refer to liberalism as a mental disorder because of the results it produces over time in a person; they seem to act against their own best interest and lose the ability to recognize their own (like an autoimmune disease), thereby participating in the overthrow of their own nations.
And that’s just a few words I’m sharing in reply here, pretty much everyone agrees these situations are complex. I’m very curious what will happen next, though I’m not sure there is anything I can do personally other than just pray for President Trump to restore balance. There is a reason Trump is hated by all the oppressors of mankind, such as BigPharma, Big Banks, BigTech, Military-Industrial Complex, MSM. They all tried to bury Trump so he would be nobody in politics, but it was the Christian base that something simple and candid about him. I’ll just ask you to do one thing, pray for the man. It is God that does the hard things and knows the heart.
Greg, please, don’t be so ridiculous and insulting to our intelligence. To say that Trump is more antiwar than Ron Paul is ludicrous, and the caveat “in the sense that Ron Paul failed to achieve results” doesn’t help since Ron Paul was never in the White House, whereas Trump was, and we’ve seen his pro-war record, just as we’ve seen his support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. As for “Donald Trump’s repeated call for Israel to quickly end its war against Hamas in Gaza”, I already referred to that by noting how Trump called on Israel to “finish the job”, i.e., to complete its genocide and destruction of Gaza. The fact that THIS is your cited example of him being “antiwar” just serves to prove my own point that it is delusional to believe that Trump is the best person to save the children of Gaza.
Except for supporting a genocide!
Here we find a point of agreement. Of course simply stopping the bombs is not enough. Of course the apartheid regime also needs to be dismantled. But my point remains that the goal of seeing Israel’s genocide brought to an end could be achieved with a phone call. (And you didn’t clarify your meaning in attributing to me the view the idea that “a straight line military strategy would save the children”. Obviously, to save the children from genocide, it is necessary to end the genocide, which, again, could be done with a phone call.)
You are still trying to make excuses for Trump’s and Kennedy’s support for the mass murder of Palestinian children.
It is also the “Christian” base that is cheering on Israel’s genocide, as I also addressed in my above article. If you believe in God and the scriptural teachings, you should recognize that this is wickedness.
Come out of her, my people.
This makes not the slightest logical sense. In fact, it is a typical response from someone in a cult who cannot face the abject moral failures of his hero, and so has to insist the hero is playing 3-D chess. It’s pretty sad.
Jeremy, thank you. I commend you for your honesty, your bravery, and your love of humanity. All of my friends are Democrats, and I’ve always been more of a liberal myself. I have zero problem with taking some (or a lot of) the rich CEOs’ ill-gotten money earned on the backs of slave labor, and giving it to the poor and needy living in fear of being able to keep their access to food, water, housing or electricity. But for the first time, I am not going to be voting either.
I am above all a humanitarian, in the sense that I want everybody on this Earth to be able to live a happy, free, and healthy life. I will not vote for megalomaniacal sociopathic rapist dictators, I will not vote for genocide and human rights abuses, I will not vote for surveillance and police states, I will not vote for vaccine mandates and lockdowns, closed playgrounds and schools. I support none of it, and I will not vote for it. Is it “better” to hang somebody or to shoot them? I will not vote.
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Jeremy, this is the first time I’ve come in contact with your work, shared by journalist Derrick Broze on his Telegram channel. I could not agree with you more on your interpretation of RFK’s caving on the issue of Zionism. Please email me for I would like to discuss a new path for solutions in politics.
If you do not wish to correspond, at the very least visit anuparty.org, download the manifesto and give it a read.
God bless you for speaking the truth.
Ah, thanks for letting me know Derrick shared this on his channel. Good to know. I had shared it with him on Twitter because I figured he’d appreciate it. I will check out the link, thanks.
Our country is in a mess, the world is in a mess. Unraveling these messes may be impossible. I wanted to vote for RFKjr, I wanted to see someone try to unite this country and not be fanatically on one side or the other. I wanted to see someone who seems to use research to back up what they say.
This long discourse brings up a lot of salient points, all of which cause us to lose faith in one or the other, RFKjr or Trump.
But what is missing here, is what is on the other side of the fence and how much worse can that get? What do the democrats say on these issues? Are they saying anything different?
I have voted, and mainly to keep the democrat “machine” from taking down this country once and for all. With all the mistakes or wrong stances RFKjr might have and the same for Trump, they are not, like the last 4 years, the living dead in the highest position in the US, held up and commanded by blatant money and power, the well-known figures hiding behind the throne and pulling the strings. Kennedy is aware of the miltary “machine” and its power as well, at least there is awareness.
I will vote for the lesser of two evils because the worst of these two is most certainly going to take the country down, using the disgusting psychological control of the masses, that they have shown works.
Yes, Trump was in there when this all started, but I would choose to believe that he did see some light, did see that the whole mess was engineered, but he didn’t have time enough to change the course of things, if indeed, it could have been changed, such was the momentum of the covid fiasco and subsequent “take over” of the minds of millions. Fauci is a sick mind, and a disgusting weasel, but, who is backing him and still backing him?
Here on our own soil, the open southern border is an issue that is a creeping disease, and it is spreading across the country destroying communities and lives and will, like with covid, take a lot of time before people realize just how dangerous this continual flow of immigrants has become, just how much we have been lied to and how nearly impossible recovery will be. There are organizations working from within the US and elsewhere to get these people in, give them money, give them healthcare, even get them to vote! Isn’t this one of the biggest issues that we should be looking at? Tyranny is slowing lowering its cloak in this country and it is creeping in through the left. Corruption of our system has allowed unspeakable things to happen in the last 4 years.
We have millions of potential terrorists now in the US, and it has to stop. I am sickened about the Ukraine and the loss of civilian and military lives there and the loss of civilian lives in Palestine. I am sickened that we keep fueling this fire, but right now, it is brainless Biden that is doing it, not Trump. There is evil around every corner, and sadly it seems to be taking control; the democrats surely are not going to stop what is going on either in the Ukraine nor in Palestine, and I see no sanity in that party at all, so I will be voting to at least try and stop some of the ruin that is happening in the US and hope that Kennedy will have some influence on how big money is running the medical/health system in the US. We are a sick nation, and something has to be done here, now before there is no turning back. If I don’t vote, I will be letting a sick left, a very sick left, take over the US.
I have lived in 4 countries, I am a US citizen, holding dual citizenship and married into a third culture; I am nearly 70 and I do have a different perspective.
Thank you for sharing your view.
I agree & appreciate your principled stance on Gaza. I’m in the same boat–but from the left. One of the only lefties I know who refused to comply with the ridiculous (and fascistic) covid measures.
I don’t vote very often and this election I certainly will not be voting. And especially not for the duopoly. I wish massive amounts of people wouldn’t vote. That said, given how rigged the election process is anyway, they’ll ram one of the two down our throats, I’m sure.
Great to hear you were non-compliant with the authoritarian Covid measures! And also that we agree on not voting this election.
I agree with you 100% and commend you for your courage.
Over the past 5 years my own perspective has changed dramatically, I’ve been a liberal my whole life and still hold many of those values, but Covid really opened my eyes to the dangers of the State, whether Republican or Democrat. Just about every one of the Bill of Rights was violated, and then the vaccine bigotry led to Biden’s vaccine mandate attempts, a red line for me. Our support for genocide in Gaza is another red line for me, but the only reason I can hold my nose and vote for Harris is because I am informed enough to realize that Trump is even worse on this issue.
For what it’s worth, here is my recent Facebook post where I try to reach out to all my new medical freedom virtual friends I’ve gathered over the past 5 years:
I would like to direct this post to all fellow medical freedom fighters who support Trump because they prioritize both medical freedom and ending the chronic disease epidemic, and feel that Trump shares these priorities and is more likely to bring about the changes they would like to see.
First, I must confess that I definitely understand why those who support medical freedom and ending the chronic disease epidemic would NOT support Democrats, they have been awful on these issues especially over the past five years. And on its face I believe the recent merger between Trump and RFK Jr is viewed as a positive development by most of these folks, as RFK Jr has dedicated his life to ending chronic disease, especially in children. Trump has stated that RFK Jr is on his transition team and has promised Bobby a position in his Administration, possibly even a Cabinet position.
And so for many who prioritize medical freedom and ending chronic disease, Trump is the blunt instrument who, with RFK Jr’s help, will “Make America Health Again” (MAHA).
To these folks I would like to call your attention to the following two things.
First, remember back in 2015 when Trump promised that he was going to create a Vaccine Safety Commission and make RFK Jr the head of it? Did that ever materialize? Did Trump do ANYTHING that could be considered consistent with supporting vaccine safety? Hint: promoting Operation Warp Speed does not count. Did Trump do anything that could even remotely improve children’s health? Hint: separating children from their parents at the border does not count. Do any of you remember that Trump’s own team even went so far as to deny that Trump ever offered Bobby a position on a new vaccine commission:
Trump team denies skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was asked to head vaccine commission
https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-donald-trump-vaccine-commission/index.html
I would next direct your attention to the following interview of Fred Trump III, Donald Trump’s nephew:
Fred Trump III Denounces His Uncle Donald Trump for Saying Disabled People “Should Just Die”
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/6/fred_trump_iii_memoir
Fred’s son is severely disabled with a rare genetic disorder, and Fred states that his uncle has never once met his son or expressed any interest in him. In fact, as stated in the writeup for the interview:
He says Donald Trump once told him to abandon William, saying, “He doesn’t recognize you. Let him die, and move down to Florida.”
After a meeting in the Oval Office about dedicating more resources to people with disabilities, Fred Trump says his uncle said, “Those people, the costs. They should just die.”
Now you tell me, does this sound like a person who is likely to help solve, much less give a damn about, the chronic disease epidemic in the US?
Thanks, David.
Eloquently stated and straight from the heart! I was on the fence, but I find myself agreeing with you and that burden has been lifted. You have shown the hypocrisy of both Kennedy and Trump and I just can’t justify voting for them. Thank you!
I am glad you found my perspective persuasive.
I wish everyone could weigh up the odds so succinctly as you can, before they making a decision or opening their mouth to speak. You are one of the few whose articles I like to read.
Thank you, Madeleine. I am glad you appreciate my writings.
I’m from Romania and I really appreciate your position, which coincides with mine, obviously. I also appreciated RFK a lot for all his fight, but now, something happened behind the curtain. Very sad.
May God bless you and may the Mother of God cover you from all evil under her holy protection!
Thank you for your blessings.
P.S. “Her Holy Protection” is actually “omophor” in the Orthodox Church but I haven’t found a proper translation.
Are you pro life? I am absolutely against the genocide of children but what about all the children in the womb? Are you also willing to stand up and defend them?
What is the relevance of your question to the purpose of my article? I’d like to understand why you are asking it because it seems like an irrelevant tangent. If it’s relevant somehow, I’d be happy to discuss.
I ask because I presume your question about my view on abortion is intended to express your own position that you will vote for whomever is pro-life. If that is not the relevance of your question and I’ve presumed incorrectly, please clarify your intent.
I am asking because of your reference to the genocide taking place in Gaza. Your concern for people is noble but I find so many people hypocritical when it comes to saving all life. So I wonder if you support the prevention of all genocide including the genocide of unborn children.
My position on abortion is that I am in no position to judge anyone on their decision one way or the other. While I believe all human life is precious, there are circumstances in which the decision to abort a pregnancy cannot reasonably be judged wicked, such as if it is deemed necessary to save the woman’s life or in cases of rape. It is a decision that is for the pregnant woman, her loved ones, and her doctor to make, and my position is that the government shouldn’t be involved in this decision in any way whatsoever.
Do you stand in judgment of a woman who has an abortion because she was raped? Before you accuse me of hypocrisy for not sharing your evident extreme position against abortion, what does Jesus teach us about casting stones when you are not without sin yourself?
Thank you, Jeremy, for your thoughtful piece. I respect your decision not to vote, although I myself will. I had a vaccine injured sister, and have a vaccine injured daughter, and thus see vaccination and the medical industrial complex as an agent of genocide against the American people. I continue to believe (yes, it is a hope, and nothing I can prove) that RFK truly wants to protect children from pharma/government tyranny. To add insult to injury, my son and daughter and law were fired for refusing the covid shot in 2021, and my husband nearly lost his job. I do not value the life of my family more than those of others; however, I do think that it might be possible to remove vaccination mandates and requirements under a Trump administration. Although Trump allowed himself to be manipulated into the warp speed campaign, etc. and he still speaks highly of the very deadly Mrna vaccines, there is a possibility that RFK can make a difference. My heart does bleed for innocent Palestinian children and in his heart I am sure that RFK does; like other of your followers I believe that he is playing politics, which is what you have to do to win. Please note that if Harris does win, your voice as an independent voice is likely to be censored, and where will we be then? The first amendment is under threat. I just watched the recent podcast with Tom Woods and Dave Smith, and I must say that at this point I have to agree with them. All best wishes to you, Jeremy. I have been a donor in the past and will continue to donate when I can.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Jennifer, and also for your interest in and support for my work. I understand your perspective and also respect that you feel compelled to make a different choice.
I also watched the Woods/Smith discussion yesterday, but I was disappointed with it and found their arguments most unpersuasive. Like Dave’s remark, “Loyalty to my friends is a far more important principle to me than non-aggression.” Really? So if being “loyal” to a friend requires him to violate the NAP, he’ll violate the NAP? I don’t see that as being a principled position at all. He called the NAP a “legal” theory, but it’s really a moral principle, a reiteration of the Golden Rule expressed in terms of individual rights. As another example, he downplayed the practicality of the NAP by arguing, “Cheating on my wife is not a violation of the non-aggression principle.” But of course it is! Violating that covenant is absolutely injurious, i.e., an act of aggression! I was actually shocked at the wrongheadedness and/or unpersuasiveness of their arguments. As a big fan, I expected more from both of them.
The best hope for humanity is that people of well-developed conscience, such as yourself, speak out. And, that they can speak out (without censorship). I suspect you have articulated the thoughts & concerns of many, it is a ‘to vote or not to vote’ dilemma that the flawed (& corrupt) system does not help to solve.
You are a supurb journalist/writer, a decent human being; have courage; and lack the unhealthy personality trait of needing approval from strangers on-line; i hope even those that disagree with you appreciate these qualities as being valuable to us all. ‘Keep on keeping on’, and readers…keep your minds open..his research (and opinions) are worthy of genuine reflection..IMO :-)
Thank you sincerely. ?
This comment presumes that my vote actually has bearing on which r or d team cartoon character gets to sit on the presidential throne of glory for 4 years and that the president so called, actually is.
It doesn’t, and they aren’t.
But for now, for arguments sake, let’s pretend real votes are counted really, and that the president actually is the executive making decisions and running things.
So far the comments that promote voting in this election boil down to 3 trains of thought:
1. Yes Trump demonstrated he can’t be trusted to do anything he says during the past 8 years,
including 4 as purported president, but I want to believe him again anyway.
2. Lesser of two evils.
3. 666d chess. Qanon
I can’t make any comment on items 1 and 3. There’s no point.
But as far as lesser of two evils, I have also fallen into that trap.
I have the blood of untold thousands and likely millions of Afghanis and Iraqis on my hands. These were people on the other side of the planet that did not one thing to me or anyone I know. Ever. I am responsible for the Patriot Act. I am responsible for the existence of the Department of Homeland Security. I am responsible for the debasement of my currency, my own material impoverishment. I am responsible for the full spectrum dominance, guilty until proven innocent, surveillance and police state that I live under. I am responsible for human torture, normalized and carried out as policy. I am responsible for the housing and banking crisis that was used as a giant money changing operation, to further loot and eradicate the middle class and make my owners even more fantastically rich and powerful.
This is a very short list of the evil my vote for a lesser evil accomplished.
I have repented. Therefore I am determined to avoid being a participant in evil schemes, crafted by evil men. Yes. It is difficult to do avoid being ensnared in a world where all of reality is beset by deceit and deception every minute of every day.
Voting for evil does not retard, much less reverse, the growth of evil. That also is delusion.
When you vote for evil, you support evil. You are complicit. And as I came to learn, you may expect to be duly rewarded.
Thanks for bolstering my own point about how voting for the lesser of evils has never accomplished anything before except perpetuating evil.
Thank you for the thought-provoking piece. ‘Not voting’’ had not even been an option for me until I read yours and Derrick broze’s recent articles.
The Democratic Party has become so utterly toxic and decadent, that I felt I was obliged to vote against them. Now I see that there are other valid courses of action (not voting.)
I realize that supporting genocide is your ‘line in the sand.’ And rightly so.
But are you also worried about the disturbing policies that the Democratic Party is pushing? From the rampant censorship, the trans agenda with children, funding every aspect of illegal immigrants’ lives while leaving poor citizens starving and homeless, from the vaccine mandates and rampant cult-level scientism going on, to the insane climate policies, I personally find the Left to be downright horrifying. Do you share the same concerns? Do you understand why some would compromise their views about foreign acts of evil for the hope of preserving some level of decency in their home country? This is something I wrestle with. Not judging you or anyone, just curious on that side of the take on it.
I’m glad that my article has given you food for thought. Yes, of course I am greatly concerned about the policies that the Democrats are pushing. But I reject the strategy of voting for the perceived lesser evil because all that has ever achieved is to put Americans in the position of choosing between greater and greater evil.
I refuse to legitimize the criminal regime in Washington. I do not recognize that the federal government has any authority over me.
I am a free man, and my decision today, Election Day, is an expression of my choice to be free and not a slave to the system.
Sono molto contento di aver trovato un vero giornalista e ottimo analista, grazie per le sue argomentazioni e il suo coraggio, la seguo dall’Italia con sempre rinnovato interesse, purtroppo non ho sufficienti risorse per sostenerla economicamente, ma provvedo alla diffusione della sua voce, delle sue idee, e del suo rispettabilissimo lavoro. Grazie di cuore – Stefano Bonacina (ps, non scrivo bene in inglese sorry)
Thank you! I’ve used Google to translate:
Thank you so much for speaking out about this situation. After considering all the developments over the past one and a half years or so, I came to the unfortunate conclusion that there was a definite possibility that the “Health Freedom Movement” had/has been infiltrated so that its great dedication and energy might be harnessed to some end we may not be at all or completely aware of at this point. A friend and I who have been dedicated Health Freedom people for many, many years had to ask ourselves the unpleasant question “was it possible that RFKjr had always been planted within the movement to Herd us in some direction?” we had been devout fans of the RFKjr Self-Sacrifice mythology but not as brainwashed into the Overall Kennedy Mythology Complex as we’ve seen from Baby Boomers. There are many things to discuss on this entire topic, endlessly, but something that struck me a few months ago was suddenly wondering “wait… what was that original Organization that used to do all that vaccine choice work….???? With that lady….?” I couldn’t even recall the name… I could recall it had a “C” in the acronym… what was it….??? And why did it seem that as CHD’s Star Rose to prominence, I never heard of…. NVIC! Right! That was it… Why did I never hear of them any more? And then somehow I was alerted that Barbara Loe Fisher was discussing how they had, without warning, lost all their primary funding from Mercola. This whole story, like so many things in this space, is a Rabbit Hole, nay, a Worm Hole of never ending and Epic proportions. But I will say that one person called this out a long time ago: Alison McDowell, who for a very short time in 2021, was in the “Health Freedom” Circuit. I started following/listening to her in Spring of 2022, some time after she was, I have ascertained, no longer welcome in the Health Freedom space precisely for being a gadfly contrarian and not Bending the Knee. I recently encountered an old video clip of her commenting negatively on the Washington Rally at the Lincoln Memorial where she called out that something seemed problematic with the slogan “Let Doctors Be Doctors”, which the rest of us took at Face Value. If you understand later conclusions Alison has come to, about the future of Big Tech into the Health Space, this all starts to make more sense. Then Alison’s predictions about the marriage of “Health Freedom” with Big Tech was confirmed by the seemingly incongruous selection of Nicole Shanihan as RFKjr’s running mate. Shanihan is a specialist in …. Blockchain Contract Law and was proposing to Make American Healthy by using Big Tech Data… Anyway, I must be off to an event or I would write more. I would suggest checking out Alison’s work for some background or even reaching out to her. She’s gone a little Off Grid, but she has been prescient about many things. Her multiple videos on the bizarre issue of RFKjr promoting a “San Pa” solution to addiction and mental health are actually a great place to start because this situation was so bizarre considering there is a multi hour series about what happened at San Pa. Here is the link to the Netflix special. Her videos discussing the issue are on YouTube, esp note the ones she did with Jason Bosch. https://www.netflix.com/title/81010965
Best wishes, and keep up the good work! Thank you!
Vivian, thanks for sharing your comments and the documentary link.
When all things are considered it looks like those “two plane rides” cost him more than he expected. Blackmail always was the most powerful form of influence. Well done for taking and stating your position. It’s a sad state of affairs when standing against genocide and the murder of children is radical and can get you cancelled.
Thank you. Indeed, it is disappointing that some of my readers have reacted angrily to me for having taken this position, criticizing me for taking a stand against genocide instead of compromising my moral values and voting for Trump, as though it was somehow a wise “strategic” move to compromise that way.
As always, great post Jeremy.
I remember Murray Rothbard’s support for David Duke in Louisiana. The media was screaming and insulting Duke, and there was literally a witch hunt in Louisiana (where the witches were his supporters).
When I heard about it, I was uneasy – Rothbard offered to support Duke, seriously?
But it’s been a long time since then, and frankly, looking at all the chatterboxes who ruled us, filling the pockets of officials with money and dragging us into endless wars, I think Duke would not have been such a bad candidate.
Anyway, thanks for the analysis, Jeremy!
I would love to hear you elucidate that thought more thoroughly because I could see how it might be construed by others as an endorsement of racism by Rothbard, which I know to be incorrect.
Professor Murray Rothbard wrote an article during David Duke’s campaign for the Louisiana House of Representatives. Rothbard noted that there was nothing in Duke’s campaign that libertarians couldn’t support: cutting the welfare state, cutting taxes, dismantling the bureaucracy, and so on. Moreover, Duke was anti-war. However, the big downside to his biography was that he was (and remains) a supporter of fringe conspiracy theories and, to put it mildly, questionable historical concepts. And his overemphasis on race and identity is ridiculous.
When I first saw Rothbard’s article, I was confused. But years later, when I compare these bloodthirsty monsters who are ready to start any war at their whim, who are in power in the United States, I think that David Duke is not so bad in comparison. At least he hasn’t killed anyone and has never supported the killing of civilians anywhere (Gaza, Syria, Ukraine, etc.).
So I interpret Rothbard’s support for Duke as simply pointing out that the American establishment is so rotten that even a fringe nationalist with a KKK past looks brighter in comparison.
Thank you for elaborating. Makes sense.