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Should preachers preach on politics and culture?

Paul Dragu — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:01:21 GMT

Sometimes I’ll get worked up over something only to eventually learn that I was wrong. I hate it when that happens. It’s usually the result of my indignation outrunning my wisdom and it’s always a humbling experience.

But that’s not what has happened here. The more I looked into this, the more confident I’ve become that my long-simmering frustration with the American Protestant Church’s passive approach to mainstream issues is biblically legitimate.

My primary job—what I do for a living—is “red-pilled” journalism. This means I report news without the propaganda packaging that legacy media delivers to us for consumption. I report through an analytical lens of common sense, decency, respect for the U.S. Constitution, and the acknowledgement that satanic conspiratorial forces run most of the world.

But the most important part of my identity is not what I do for a living. It’s that I’m a Christian. That means I try to submit my views, thoughts, and actions to the lordship of Jesus Christ.

I know wonderful Christians of every denomination, but if I had to identify with one specific sect, it would be the Baptists. I mostly grew up Baptist, took a yearslong detour into Pentecostalism in my 30s, and found my way back into a Church subculture I believe has more answers and fewer abuses than the others. Like all Protestants, we believe in sola scriptura. This means we believe the Bible is perfect and the supreme authority above all things. We believe the Bible is 100 percent infallible and 100 percent God-breathed. There are no contradictions and no mistakes. The Bible was perfectly assembled and it remains perfect to this day. There were no books that were mistakenly left out and every book in the Bible is there by divine will. Any instructions, narratives, or theology that contradict the Bible are false no matter how many people believe them.

Sola scriptura is a core tenet of Protestantism. And it not only happens to make sense, but it’s wonderfully convenient. Whenever I want to know the biblical perspective on something, I pray and ask God to show me. Then I read the Bible. This is what I’ve done with the topic I’m writing about here.

Evil

My familiarity with how the world works influences my Christianity. The concept of evil is very real to me. I recognize it in the events and people that shape our world. Evil isn’t just an abstract idea found in the Bible or third world countries oppressed by overt witchcraft. It is all around us. It is here in America. It has overtaken the most influential institutions, private and public. There is evil in Washington D.C. There is evil in secure rooms where powerful men make decisions that affect us all. There is evil in our public schools. There is evil in our health institutions. There is evil even in some of our churches.

All of this has led me to explore a question that has been burning in me for some time now:

The assertion that the Protestant Church sits on the sidelines of society is a generalization but an accurate one nonetheless. But as accurate as it is, it overlooks nuance. What I mean is that with the nearly 300,000 Protestant churches spread throughout America, this generalization applies with various degrees from church to church. At some point, every teacher and preacher inevitably dive into an issue that directly hits on culture or politics. But the point I’m making is that, as a whole, the American Protestant Church is very passive when it comes to its involvement in culture and politics. This especially applies to Sunday morning sermons, the time a preacher has more listeners than any other. And that passive approach, I believe, is a big reason this country went from having a population makeup of 92 percent Christian in the 1960s to the current rate of 62 percent. As satanic and subversive forces set out to decimate Christianity in America, the Church put up little resistance. That 62 percent would probably be even lower had we not imported millions of people from central and southern America over the last few decades. Almost without exception, those people brought with them their Catholic faith. One final yet important factor about this point is that those survey numbers are always higher than the real numbers because they’re based on self-reporting.

I’m not the only one who believes this. I know many good Christians who blame weakness in the Church for American decline. A lot of these people have been or are still in ministry. Some of them work for large protestant institutions and they’re trying to affect change from within. Others left ministry and try to better society through political organization.

American Protestant preachers do not, as a general rule, directly address cultural or political topics. There are exceptions (Mark Driscoll comes to mind). But an overwhelming number of them believe their calling is above politics. And I agree—sort of. The Kingdom of God is not of this world, as Jesus made clear. Most preachers believe their job is solely to equip the people, the saints, who then shape the culture by being good Christians. There’s a lot of truth to that. But the Bible portrays the first generation Church leaders as fearless evangelists who went far beyond that.

What Would Jesus Do?

I believe preachers’ refusal to directly confront the issues that dominate our society explains why millions of Christians in America have unbiblical views on so many cultural and political issues. Yes, Christ is upstream from politics and culture. But he’s at the source, not off in the woods, completely removed. This is illustrated all throughout the Gospels. Christ didn’t hunker down in a building away from society. The Bible shows Him spending a lot if time teaching in public. He drew people by the thousands. And he rebuked the governing elite for everyone to see. They killed Him because he stepped out of his lane and into the mainstream, where the worldly reigned. They killed Him because He threatened their power, which they exercised over every aspect of people’s lives.

The book of Acts and the Pauline epistles present a first-generation Church that was always in the thick of culture and politics and that was not above offering practical advice. The Church leaders spoke in public places, they challenged the Jewish governing elites, and provided instructions to Christians on everything from how they should interact with their government (Romans 13), to how to raise children, live a godly marriage, and resolve problems without suing each other. Apostle Paul instructed Christians to abandon their former pagan traditions, live sexually pure lives, stay sober, feed the poor, and live peacefully with their neighbors. He and the apostles were arrested for breaking edicts not to preach the Gospel in public. Paul famously informed the Greeks of Thessalonica who their “unknown” god was. When the apostles were told to shut up, they refused. They said obedience to God trumps the government’s laws.

The New Testament portrays a Church led by people who saw no limits to their ministry. As a result, they shook the foundations of every culture they stepped foot in. In Acts 17, the governing Jewish elites accuse the Church of “turning the world upside down.” And that’s exactly what the Church did. After the Roman Empire collapsed, the Church rose out of its rubble. The Church established the foundation of Western Civilization. That’s why it has been called Christendom. Christianity created the freest, most prosperous, most innovative society in all of history. Christianity abolished slavery. Christianity created modern day self-governance. Christianity ushered in modern science. It was Christians who created the free market model that produced more prosperity than average people had ever known. And it was Christians who established America, a country everyone from everywhere around the world has tried to get to for 200 years.

Why is the Church ignoring these issues?

Today, however, the American Church has little impact on society. It’s not turning anything upside down. The Church has lost its edge. And a big reason for that, I believe, is because its leadership tier refuses to directly address cultural and political issues. It refuses to confront the culture. Preachers will preach in expository fashion all day about what it means to be godly. They’ll remind congregants about the biblical command to be patient, loving, and forgiving. They may even remind us not to cuss and smoke. But they don’t go anywhere near the question of when it’s OK for Christians to kill someone and when it’s not. This is astounding if you consider that the U.S. has been involved in one war or another in 34 of the last 36 years. This gets even more bizarre when you think that states which supply the most soldiers are those with the largest concentration of churches. Most young Americans enlist with the honorable ambition to serve their country and protect their fellow countrymen. Yet they’re eventually sent into a unprovoked war somewhere on the other side of the planet over false pretenses. They end up killing not just soldiers, but civilians. Our military campaigns wreak havoc and further destabilize other regions. Our presence makes civilians targets of regional militant groups who kill people just for talking to American soldiers. Many American soldiers come home mangled and psychological damaged. Many of them come home disillusioned after learning they’ve been lied to about why they were sent to war. Many don’t come home at all.

The Bible says there is a time for peace and a time for war. It encourages us to live peaceably when possible. Surely a country as powerful and so geographically blessed as the United States doesn’t need to be at war all the time! Why is America never at peace? Why are psychotic lawmakers who devote their entire career to instigating war re-elected by states with some of the most churches per capita in America? Isn’t this insane?

Furthermore, wars not only kill and damage soldiers, they create hardship for everyone else. Wars raise the cost of living for everyone in the world. It starts with energy then tickles down to everything else because everything is influenced by energy. All that war leads to more poverty (except for the defense contractors and bankers), more hunger, and even more sickness—all ailments the Church is instructed to address.

Consider these questions:

Here’s another one. Preachers may preach about the importance of raising children in godly fashion but they don’t challenge parents to pull their children out of public schools that secularize and sexualize them. They don’t question whether we, as Christians, should push through local ordinances that eliminate funding for public schools systems that employ teachers who teach depraved ideologies and contain deviant books. They don’t do any of this because they think it’s too political. Or maybe because they have no idea that the Department of Education has deliberately and subversively set out to secularize and turn America into a socialist country. Children spend eight hours a day five days a week in godless public schools intentionally designed to dumb them down and turn them away from God. Studies from the Nehemiah Institute and Cardus have consistently found that graduates from Christian schools or homeschooling are much more likely to believe in God and go to church than those who graduate from government schools. Yet most Church leaders don’t challenge parents to pull their kids out of secular schools even though their children’s’ souls may be at stake. Isn’t this crazy? The Bible instructs parents to raise their children, not schools. So why isn’t every single Christian preacher encouraging his congregants to get their kids our of government schools? Why isn’t every preacher encouraging mothers to prioritize raising children over going to work? It makes no sense that this isn’t happening.

A third and final example:

Churches pray for the sick in their community. They’ll gather money and food to help people in times of need. Pastors will faithfully visit sick congregants at any hours of the day. Our family has experienced this. These are all great things. But why doesn’t the Church confront the sources of sickness? Some communities have industries that spew poisons in the air, on land, or dump them in nearby rivers. Those poisons end up in our bodies. Most industries can still thrive without poisoning the environments. They may lose a little profit, but they can manage nonetheless. In addition, our foods are riddled with poisons and sugars that make us sick. The Bible says our bodies are a temple, yet Americans are notorious for not only overeating, but gorging on toxic food with chemicals that are literally banned in other countries. And Christians are some of the sickest people in America.

Why is this such a foreign idea? If we can have influence on the local industries and provide wisdom of self-care, why not do it? We’re already tending to the sick. We’re already invested in the health of the flesh. We’re already giving money to help congregants with medical bills. If we’re willing to that, are we not within biblical parameters to mitigate sickness at the source? And wouldn’t a healthy Church make for a stronger testimony? This isn’t a strange suggestion. Self-control is a fruit of the spirit.

I’m not suggesting the Church should control the government or that pastors should direct policy. I’m saying church leaders should teach congregants how to interpret and respond to the policies and cultural trends that affect our everyday lives. I’m saying church leaders should provide biblical perspectives on war, health, education, the biblical view on sex and relationships and do so when everyone is listening. And I’m saying they should do so by going beyond abstract spiritual speak. They should be clear, as the Bible authors are clear when they offer practical instructions.

The Bible says the role of certain Church members is to teach. Apostle Paul says in at least three of the books he authored (Ephesians, Corinthians, Romans) that there is one Church but many parts. Among those parts, there are pastors (sheperds), teachers, prophets, and evangelists. Oftentimes, there is overlap between those roles. For examples, while a pastor embodies some form of teaching role, a teacher may not always be a pastor.

There would be no USA if preachers didn’t talk politics

The Bible says in the book of James that teachers will be held to a higher standard because of the great influence and responsibility they have. In modern America, we have a number of individuals posing as pastors who spew drivel into the ears of millions. The obvious violators are the prosperity clowns, the guys and gals whose ministry is self-help couched in a veneer of Christianity. It’s surreal to watch these people perform.

But there’s another group of American Protestant leaders who are far more serious and theologically sound but who often have one glaring blindspot. This is the group who believes that the Church has no business directly engaging political and cultural topics. This is the Christ-is-upstream-from-culture crowd. This is more or less the norm in American Protestanism. But that hasn’t always been the case.

Protestant Christianity is the foundation of American society. Many argue, and I agree, that were it not for the titan preachers of the First Awakening and beyond, there would’ve never been a War of Independence—or an America. Among the influential preachers who paired Scripture with politics during that period were George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Gilbert Tennent, Jonathan Mayhew, John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (known for ripping off his clerical robe during a sermon to reveal a military uniform), and John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence. These men didn’t shy from preaching on politics. Jonathan Mayhew’s famous sermon Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers was printed and passed around colonial America for years. Many scholars say the sermon, which advocated a break with England, played a major role in building the Christian case for independence.

In Discourse, Mayhew argues that Romans 13, the chapter that tells Christians to obey the government, is a proposed contract between Christian citizens and governing authorities. Romans 13 tells Christians to submit to authorities and the authorities to faithfully carry out their divine role as benevolent rulers. “Submission to all who bear the title of rulers” Mayhew says, belongs only to those “who actually perform the duty of rulers, by exercising a reasonable and just authority, for the good of human society.”

Among the support for the idea that Romans 13 is prescriptive is the absolute ways in which Paul describes rulers. Paul calls them servants and ministers of God. He says that only evildoers have anything to fear because rulers carry out God’s wrath. Obviously, most rulers do not fit this description. That includes the emperror of Rome when Paul wrote this. Nero was one of the most evil rulers in history. Paul wasn’t being navie when he wrote that “civil authorities don’t intiimidate those those who are doing good, but those who are doing evil.” He was proposing a contract. Other parts of the Bible corraborate this. In Acts 4 and 6, the apostles refuse to obey orders from the local governing authorities to stop preaching. Both times they say that they’ll obey God over man.

A more recent example of this played out during the Covid era. Pastor John MacArthur also believed the Church should largely stay out of politics. Then the state of California shut down his Church over an overhyped virus created by the U.S. government. Suddenly, MacArthur is rebuking the government of California and the governor—from the pulpit! Suddenly, he’s broadcasting commentary that that the government wasn’t telling the truth about the risk of Covid-19—from the pulpit! He also drafted open letters attacking the government of California. MacArthur did what Peter and Paul did. He did what Richard Wurmbrand did when he told the Soviets that Jesus was the head of the Church, not Stalin. He disobeyed the government and opened his church. A good question is: What sense does it make for the Church to ignore politics until they kick in the door and have us on our back? We either fight at all stages or at none.

If you’re still not convinced, here is something else to think about. Whenever I suggest that the Church should speak directly to cultural and political issues, the godless go bezerk. They screech maniacally about Separation of Church and State or that churches should be stripped of their tax-exempt status. The tell is bright as a Florida summer day. The godless are terrified at the thought of a Church that leaves the sidelines and gets directly in the game. The reason is obvious. Because the Church would change the game. As of now, the overarching strategy, to continue in this sports metaphor, is to keep Michael Jordan on the sidelines as a coach. It’s still better than nothing, but it’s not the same as having him on the court.

Whether we recognize it or not, we’re at war. The devil has infiltrated nearly every aspect of American society. The Church needs to wake up and mobilize. Church leaders should equip the saints with specific perspective on the issues we deal with Monday through Saturday. If Church leaders wake up and equip the saints with practical instruction and understanding, the saints will change the game.

Fauci is a psychopath. So was Lindsey Graham. So are many others in power.

Paul Dragu — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:32:12 GMT

Studies suggest that there are more than 13 million psycopaths in America. That’s based on the belief that up to 4 percent of the population are psychos.

I’ve been thinking about this more since Lindsey Graham died and Anthony Fauci’s diary was released to the public.

Watch the video for more thoughts on this …

Is it OK to smash Flock cameras?

Paul Dragu — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:08:43 GMT

Americans are smashing Flock cameras in a unified yet uncoordinated nationwide campaign of protest. These are technically illegal and criminal acts, but many defend them as necessary and morally justified because the Flock system itself is criminal.

The destruction of Flock cameras began last year and it’s been ramping up. Reports of random destruction seem to emerge daily. From California to Georgia, authorities are finding smashed cameras. The backlash appears apolitical. It is happening in blue areas, in red areas, and in swing areas. Some people are angry because police officers are abusing the Flock technology. The most common form of abuse includes cops using the system to track and stalk their ex girlfriends and their boyfriends. Several officers across the nation have pleaded guilty to this. Others are angry that ICE is using the Flock system to catch illegals. And some believe they’re a violation of the Fourth Amendment. A lot of people are motivated by a combination of those gripes, me included (I don’t care that ICE is using them to round up illegals, though).

It’s interesting that the public at large supports the destruction of these things. I don’t remember the last time that regular, law-abiding citizens generally supported, well, vandalism. But they are. I only know of one person who defends the Flock system. He’s a cop who genuinely views them as a tool that helps him protect the public. He means well.

But good intentions can never be the deciding factor of what policy or technology should be allowed. Policies and technology have ramifications that always go far beyond their stated intentions. And as Camus wisely observed, “The welfare of the people…has always been the alibi of tyrants.”

Listen to my diatribe (video above) for more thoughts on this.

Is America declaring freedom from the Uniparty for its 250th birthday?

Paul Dragu — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:08:00 GMT

The Uniparty dog and pony show is coming to an end.

The news is that Tucker Carlson is helping create a third party. But what he’s really doing is mainstreaming an idea that undermines a core element of the managed reality the elites have kept us in for nearly a century. He’s mainstreaming the idea that neither major party gives a crap about the American people and that both actually work toward the same ends. And when enough people realize this is true, the jig is up.

The Insiders have been playing the American people for suckers since at least the 1950s. Elites like Carroll Quigley wrote all the way back in the 60s that there was no such thing as two genuinely different parties in America. It’s an illusion designed to fool the people into thinking they are making the decisions. Meanwhile, no matter which party is in power, the foreign wars keep going, the federal government continues growing, our liberties never stop eroding, and the debt has no ceiling—all while Americans became poorer, sicker, and more dumbed down.

One of the elites’ oldest tricks has been control over the nomination phases of each party. That ensures that voters can only choose between pre-approved puppets of the international oligarch class, candidates with the same fundamental agenda.

Ideally, the best way to address this subversive one party rule is through a mass awakening in which enough Americans understand the principles of the US Constitution and insist politicians follow them or be ousted. If we had a Congress that cared about Americans, they would serve as a bulwark against all of this. Unfortunately, it seems we are at least a generation away from that becoming reality. The support Trump got among Republicans for launching an illegal war suggests we have a long way to go.

So—is a third party the next best thing?

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We lost the war against Iran because it wasn't worth winning

Paul Dragu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:10:13 GMT

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President Trump is taking a lot of heat for agreeing to a peace deal that is very favorable to Iran. Iran will get money for reconstruction (although not from us), have decades-long sanctions against them lifted, and they’ll emerge from this with the IRGC intact and their country more respected.

In essence, this is another war we’ve lost. Fortunately, we didn’t have to win it, like most wars we’ve gotten in. In fact, we would’ve lost more by winning.

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Israel's answer to a world that hates it? More propaganda

Paul Dragu — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:52:47 GMT

Like most people, I had no problem with Israel until I started learning about the massive influence its government has on my country’s policies, influence that has made my country worse.

I grew up a big fan of Israel. As a protestant Christian, I was repeatedly reminded that Israel has a special place in God’s heart (I think some part of that is still true). I was once a member of a megachurch led by a pastor who took congregants on annual trips to Israel. I even had plans to go myself. Also, for most of my life, I believed all of Israel’s neighbors were genocidal lunatics who did nothing but scheme day and night ways to wipe off the face of the planet that tiny, innocent country. Worse, I thought, it was all for no reason. I still think some of that is true (definitely not the “all for not reason part” though).

But, also like so many others, I’ve recently realized that the people who run Israel’s government are psycopaths. They’re brutal savages who think bombing and killing people is the only way to coexist with their neighbors. They kill and destroy at an enormously disproportionate rate when compared to the attacks they’re responding to (assuming they’re responding to an attack at all). Speaking of attacks, they ignored a year’s worth of warnings from a slew of Israeli voices in their military agencies about October 7, let their people get slaughtered, then exploited it by carpet bombing a strip of land inhabited by 2 million people. You don’t have to believe me, you can read this piece from the Jewish neocon publication Commentary here. The article lays out example after example of warnings about October 7 that Israeli top brass ignored. If you think Hamas penetrated Israel’s super high-tech security wall with motorcycles and handgliders without the awareness of the most advanced security apparatus, I got a few bridges to sell you.

Also, after the war with Iran started, Israel went into Lebanon and demolished areas and buildings that had nothing to do with terrorists. Now they’re talking as if they’ll permanently occupy parts of Lebanon just like they’re doing with Gaza.

Every sensible person has also realized that Bibi played Trump like the feeble fiddle he is. Bibi sang him a sweet song about Iran posing an imminent threat and told him that a joint US—Israeli campaign will trigger an internal revolution and result in regime change. He also likely told Trump that by doing this, he would leave a lasting legacy and everyone will think he’s the best president ever. Trump, the vain and narcissistic gambler that he is, believed Bibi. But now Trump is desperately trying to get out of this war while Bibi and his angry gang of psychopaths is doing their best to sabotage a peace deal. Trump realized very quick that a war with Iran has all the makings of a quagmire, the exact thing decades of intel assessments said it would be, the exact thing he promised voters he would never get us into.

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As a result of this and more, people around the world are starting to hate Israel. Unfortunately, some of this hate has devolved into full-on bigotry (people who turn into racists have a hard time realizing that the lunatics in charge of Israel don’t speak for all Jews—Israeli, American, or other. There are plenty of Jews who realize their leaders are crazy people, plenty of Jews who oppose Israel’s brutality. Many of them have protested. Many of them are in the anti-war camp with all the sensible people).

Trump reportedly told Bibi that everybody hates him and Israel. Veep JD Vance scolded Israeli leadership during a White House press conference over their being angry about Trump’s peace deal points. Vance said the hard truth, that Israel’s only friend in the world is the U.S. (he probably didn’t notice that the inverse is true as well).

So—how have Israel’s leaders responded to the news that everyone hates them? Did they do some collective introspection? Did they feel bad and rethink some of their murderous ways? Did they tell the world they’ll try harder to minimize civilian deaths?

Not a chance.

New reports suggest that they decided to double down on the propaganda. Their answer, essentially, is to brainwash people into unfeeling what they’re feeling and to censor those who who won’t budge so their views will not exist online.

This Middle East Monitor article is based on a report by the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, which reported that Israel has significantly increased spending on public relations and influence campaigns.

We learned from the report:

Israel has allocated more than $40 million to influence right-wing audiences in the US amid declining support for the country and growing criticism over its role in the war against Iran. Haaretz reported that Israel has significantly increased spending on public relations and influence campaigns aimed primarily at conservative Christian audiences in the US. … The report said the Israeli government more than doubled the budget for the effort to over $40 million as support for Israel among parts of the American public, including Republican voters, has weakened.

Then there’s this:

The title says it all. The article also provides examples of Israel demanding and getting special treatment. For example:

Company records show that Israel petitioned Meta to take down Facebook and Instagram posts expressing support for Iran, opposition to Israel, and even depictions of Iranian missile impacts. … Israel’s Office of the State Attorney routinely lodges complaints to social media platforms on behalf of state security agencies about content deemed illegal or said to promote “terrorism,” according to its website. In the documents reviewed by The Intercept, the office in some cases made no claim that the social media content violated Israeli law. Instead, the office asked that posts or accounts should be removed because they were in violation of Meta’s content moderation rulebook. Meta, for instance, designates Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a “Dangerous Organization,” and prohibits users from engaging in many forms of positive speech about its actions. This means posts supportive of retaliatory missile launches by the IRGC, for instance, could run afoul of the company’s rules. No such prohibition exists for users who post favorably about the U.S. or Israeli militaries.

This further proves that the people in charge of Israel are psycopaths. Only people like that can react to an entire world that’s mad at them for killing civilians by upping their manipulation and censorship budget.

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New Psyop? Pin foreign policy fatigue on Russian propaganda

Paul Dragu — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:02:27 GMT

The Russian boogeyman is at it again.

If you, my fellow American, are upset with at our sociopathic and corrupt leadership class; if you dare question our country’s puzzling alliance with a foreign nation that kills women and children by the thousands; if you have the gal to insist that our leaders should allocate their energy and our limited resources to addressing domestic problems before parading around the world with bombs and perversion psyops—you, apparently, have been brainwashed by Russian thinkers.

A new narrative is emerging in the neocon media ecosystem. Judging by its imbecilic rationale, it’s likely a Deep State psyop designed to crush growing anger among Americans toward our leaders’ suicidal imperialistic foreign policy.

We are now being told that mega influencers like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are parroting the propaganda of Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin. Dugin, we’re told, is “Putin’s brain,” the modern Rasputin. Glenn Beck calls him “the most dangerous man you have never heard of.” Owens is not exactly trying her best to dispel this nitwitted script thanks to her recent trip to Russia.

Some are saying it’s Dugin, not the overt corruption among our leaders and elite class, nor their love for raping children or protecting child rapists, certainly not their diabolic greed, definitely not their psychotic destruction of what was a perfectly good country, and certainly not their incompetence—that’s not what’s turning the American people against our leaders and institutions. No my dear friends, it’s the Russians. It’s always the Russians.

Apparently, the social media post below is a Russian op:

On June 4, the House voted to keep funding the Ukraine War to the tune of $8 billion. The vote included 18 Republicans.

Here is what James Lindsay posted recently:

Lindsay concludes:

Lindsay is not alone. Glenn Beck is parroting this drivel as well. Interestingly, Beck is repeating this script down to the exact book that lays out the Russians’ evil plan to take us down.

In the episode above, Beck says that if you’re an noninterventionist, if you’re someone who thinks America should mind its own business and stop meddling in that of other countries’, you have fallen for Dugin’s plan on how to defeat the U.S. Beck points to Dugin’s 1997 book Foundations of Geopolitics, saying that “isolationist” views play into the hands of the evil Russians, who, by the way, have plans to take over the world (it’s safe to assume these are the mischievous plans they plan to carry out after they spend the next 20 years grinding out the rest of Ukraine). Beck said this is Dugin’s gameplan for how to destroy America:

Russia should encourage all kinds of separatism—ethnic, social, radical, and racial conflicts—and support isolationist tendencies in U.S. policies, those circles who believe the U.S. should confine itself only to its domestic problems.

“Now tell me that doesn’t sound like a weather report from the last 10 years,” Beck summarizes. “That is the story of what is happening with many of our podcasters. That’s the strategy.” Beck then bemoans that this idea is in our churches and in our politics. “This is everywhere!” he screeches.

Isn’t it kind of weird that it took them 30 years to spot out this evil plan that was lurking in plain sight?

Beck says that Dugin believes Russia is destined to be part of an alliance of Orthodox Christian Russia and the Muslim world that defeats the “satanic” West. Dugin, Beck adds, believes Russia is the force prophesized to hold back the antiChrist, which will come out of the West.

The Daily Wire has jumped onboard whatever this is as well, signaling that something is certainly amiss here. No fake conservative figure has lost more credibility as of late than Ben Shapiro, whose organization is bleeding money and subscribers day by day. Shapiro was always a neocon, but the American people are just recently catching on.

When you’re confused about which side of the narrative is wrong, a good tell is to see where the Daily Wire lands. This is especially true when it comes to foreign policy. Daily Wire has a solid record of siding with the wrong foreign policy ideas.

But maybe the reason Americans are turning on their leadership class and institutions has little to do with a book written by a Russian philosopher we’ve never heard of wrote 30 years ago and more to do with reality. Let’s review what is happening in America, thanks to America, or with the support of America …

Warmongers Want to Drag America Into War With Russia, Says Gabbard

It makes sense that the antichrist would come out of the West. The international conspiracy for world government emerged in the West and has been powered by the West. That same group was also behind the communist revolution in Russia and the Nazis in Germany.

This doesn’t mean that Russia is the savior. Putin has a poor track record of civil rights and is suspected of committing all sorts of atrocities. But no one is conquering the U.S. The only force capable of taking down the U.S. is the same one that has taken down nearly every great empire, and that’s ourselves. We are overextending ourselves while neglecting our internal problems. The real threat is the conspiracy within.

Let’s wrap it up by dispelling the foolish idea that a noninterventionist U.S. foreign policy plays into the Russian’s evil plan for destroying America. Let’s look at what our early presidents had to say.

President George Washington:

The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. … It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

President Thomas Jefferson:

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations—entangling alliances with none.

President John Quincy Adams

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her [America’s] heart, her benedictions, and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. … She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.

James Madison:

The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

Here’s one more, this quote from a more modern president:

We’ve spent $8 trillion dollars in the Middle East and we’re not fixing our roads in this country? How stupid. How stupid. We’re not fixing our highways, our tunnels, our bridges, our hospitals even, our schools even. It’s crazy.

That last quote comes from President Trump, or at least Trump before a warmongering neocon body snatcher took over his body.

The former person known as Donald Trump was right. Foreign meddling is stupid. It’s stupidly destructive.

It’s also really stupid to try and convince people that anyone who subscribes to the foreign policy of America’s Founding Fathers are under the spell of a bearded Russian. America’s foreign adventures will bankrupt and ultimately destroy the country. Foreign wars have added trillions of dollars to an already unsustainable debt. They have siphoned out American wealth. They have distracted our leaders from addressing domestic problems. And they have generated radical American-hating extremist groups galore.

This latest narrative appears to be some sort of coordinated plot to discourage Americans from waking up to the fact that our imperialistic, meddlesome foreign policy is destroying the country. It paints people who believe this as unpatriotic, perhaps even treasonous.

Perhaps it’s also a globalist ploy to gin up support for a war with Russia. It’s no secret that Europeans are trying to keep the war in Ukraine going for as long as possible while ginning up lies to justify eventually jumping in. The former U.S. director of national intelligence has already said that the warmongers in our midst are trying to goad us into a war with Russia.

What you must understand, friends, is that America’s imperialistic foreign policy is central to the creation of a world government. Spreading the U.S. military throughout the world accomplishes least two major goals: First, it destroys us by piling on debt so high that it can never be paid back, so high it will eventually lead to a national collapse. And it does all this while simultaneously creating avenues of pressure and the infrastructure of globalist control that will remain once the scaffold of America collapses.

Don’t fall for it. Who cares what the Russians say and think. We already know what works. The strategy was implemented by America’s leadership class until the 20th century, when the globalists hijacked our economic, media, intelligence, education, and government institutions. Nonintervention works. Reverting back to it is key if we have any chance at restoring this nation.

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The future is bright, but do we have time to get there?

Paul Dragu — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:46:51 GMT

Thomas Massie lost his primary race to a phantom candidate with no ideas or convictions of his own.

A man who drew small, half-asleep crowds of Fox News loyalists.

A man whose promise to the voters was that he would go to Washington and do what Trump and the Republican Party tell him to do, not what the people tell him to do.

Assuming the election results are legitimate, it is astounding that he won with this strategy. This seems like a very unAmerican approach. He basically told his constituents that he would go to D.C. to serve King Trump and his nobles in Congress.

More astounding is the group of people who were bamboozled into wanting this. Massie lost because older Americans were told to believe that the representative most loyal to the same ideas and principles as the people who created this country is the bad guy for insisting that everyone else in the government abide by those ideas and principles.

Older people were fooled into believing that Massie is a RINO, a Democrat. Why? Because he wouldn’t obey Trump. Because he voted against outrageously expensive bills that devalue our money. Because he was brave enough to say that the president doesn’t have constitutional permission to launch a war at his whim.

What they weren’t told is that Trump is the one who betrayed the Republican Party. He’s the one who failed to deliver on his promises. He’s the RINO.

What they weren’t told is that the tenets of the Republican platform include the very ideals Massie defended and was fired for doing so.

The good news is that the younger generation appears to get it. Young people appear more excited about limited government and nonintervention that the generation before them. Massie rallies were packed with young people who want to end the Fed, end the wars, and end rule by pedophile and pedophile protectors.

During his concession speech, Massie said he was excited for the future because young people get it. The future is bright, he said.

That may be so—but is there enough time to get there. A number of catastrophic threats loom on the horizon.

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Why are Boomers so easily deceived?

Paul Dragu — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:43:10 GMT

I’m an individualist. That means I believe everyone should be judged individually, not on the basis of their skin color, their heritage, their religion, their political tribe, their education level, their income—or even their age. It’s the American way.

But at the same time, there have always existed prevailing traits among groups of people who share certain commonalities. This is an undeniable reality. And when it comes to the Baby Boomer generation, there is a strong trend among this group of people to believe propaganda, lies, and other forms of deception.

There are a few reasons I think this is the case.

First, this is a generation that grew up in a time when things were generally good and life was expected to get better with each succeeding generation. Life gave them little reason to question the system.

It’s a generation that owns most of the homes and equity. It’s a generation that has, for most of their life, experienced the American dream. It’s a generation that experienced more freedom than the ones after it.

Secondly …

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Get some chickens and grow some food. Your freedom depends on it.

Paul Dragu — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:26:40 GMT

Think about your daily needs. Food inevitably pops into your head. The food in your typical big box grocery store has traveled long distances to get there. Our fruits and vegetables come from 10 US states and Mexico. Half the red meat on our shelves is exported by four states and all of it is processed by four big companies, two of which have foreign ties. A handful of southern states produce nearly all the commercial chicken and turkey meat. And another small handful of states produce most of our grain.

During Covid, beef and pork processing capacity dropped by nearly 50 percent in April and May 2020, triggering meat shortages and price spikes. What happens if there is a greater, more prolonged supply chain pause? What happens when grocery stores in huge metropolises like New York City, Atlanta, Los Angeles, or Nashville go empty? Millions of people who depend on grocery stores are jammed in these cities like sardines. Mayhem will erupt, chaos of the most desperate kind. The kind that leads to anarchy. The kind that drives parents to do anything to feed their children.

That’s why it’s so important that everyone who is able to learn to grow and raise some of their own food.

The two-party trick is a con to keep the wars going, the debt rising & your liberty dwindling. But it gets worse ...

Paul Dragu — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:51:40 GMT

We are barely more than a year into the new Trump administration, and talk of getting the other party in to fix this mess is stirring.

This happens every time. People vote the other party in to fix the mess of the last party, then the other party takes over, fixes nothing, and the people, forgetting what happened just a couple years ago, can’t wait to get the other guys back in. Rinse and repeat.

This is the madness of the two-party con—a scam that’s at least more than half a century old.

The illusion that the Republican and Democrat parties have legitimately different agendas and ideologies is designed with two major goals in mind. First, it’s a sophisticated method of fooling the people into thinking they’re freer than they are. Secondly, it’s designed to keep from disrupting the Insider’s core policies.

The major parties are essentially controlled by the same forces: many of the same donors, the same unelected government officials, the same rogue intel elements, and the same banking dynasties.

If you’re paying attention, you’ve noticed that there are at least three major trends that never change, no matter who’s in office. First, the wars keep drumming on. Secondly, the debt keeps piling up. And thirdly, the government keeps expanding at the expense of our individual liberties.

The trick is for the parties to have just enough differences to sell the con. Sometimes, they’ll manufacture something totally ridiculous to create contrast. Think something wild, maybe a campaign where one side tries to convince everyone that men can get pregnant.

This doesn’t mean that there aren’t some legitimate differences. Clearly , Trump’s border policies are far better than Biden’s. Our second amendment rights are safer when Republicans are in charge.

But we’re still heading in the same direction no matter who’s at the wheel: national collapse and world government.

Check out my video to hear the answer to this madness.

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Are Americans too sick and fat to revolt?

Paul Dragu — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:50:21 GMT

The Insiders have us exactly where they want us: ridiculously out-of-shape, perpetually sick, debilitatingly depressed and confused, cognitively crippled, and desperately dependent on prescription drugs and toxic grocery store food.

Meanwhile, our wallets keep getting lighter; the government continues piling up public debt; the wars never end; and our individual freedoms keep getting crushed under the weight of Big Government. For these reasons (and more—many more), a growing number of Americans believe it’s time for a revolt.

I agree. But I believe a bloodless revolt is preferable to the one Jefferson said was necessary from time to time. The tree of liberty is indeed dry and wilted, but the better, less deadly, approach to revival is by pruning and systemic reform. We need to shutter the agencies harming us; reform Congress so that there are more public servants on Capitol Hill than sociopathic, spineless, self-interested politicians; and have local and decentralized food production systems.

But even a mostly peaceful revolt will get messy. The Machine has already shown it’s willing to deploy lawfare against political movements its sees as threats, weaponize viruses, steal elections, censor rabble rousers, and bankrupt dissident influencers.

The revolt will especially be difficult, if not impossible, if we don’t become more self-sufficient and healthy.

The point of the system is what it does, the saying goes. For more than half a century, the system has made Americans sicker, more dependent, and poorer. If that were not the intent, there’s been plenty of time to correct the trend. Yet the head of Health and Human Services couldn’t even influence a modicum of regulatory scrutiny into the poisons that farmers spray on the food we eat. Instead, our leadership class doubled down. The president signed an executive order deeming glyphosate immune from regulatory scrutiny and restrictions. Meanwhile, several other countries have partially restricted or fully banned the stuff.

They control the food and drugs that are poisoning us

It took the Insiders and their henchmen in corporate, intel, media, tech, and government institutions about a century to install and take over the gears and levers of the societal Machine that now surveils and controls our lives.

Think about your daily needs: food, water, shelter, and—for most Americans—medicinal drugs. Americans depend on an international or nonlocalized supply chain for two out of four of those.

Sixty percent of Americans take drugs for high blood pressure, diabetes, heart problems, asthma, various mental issues, and other health problems. Most of the drugs we take are imported. Many come from China, a country we’re spending trillions of dollars to fight a future war with. What happens if there’s a disruption in the supply chain and the pharmacies run dry? Well, things will get bad. Really bad. A lot of people will die. Others will diminish greatly—and then probably die.

We are also very food vulnerable. The food in your typical big box grocery store has traveled long distances to get there. Our fruits and vegetables come from 10 US states and Mexico. Half the red meat on our shelves is exported by four states and all of it is processed by four big companies, two of which have foreign ties. A handful of southern states produce nearly all the commercial chicken and turkey. And another small handful of states produce most of our grain.

What happens if there is such a great disruption, for whatever reason—a super scary virus, nuclear war, a once-in-a-lifetime natural disaster, a (false flag) alien invasion—that it stops the flow of food into our grocery stores? During Covid, beef and pork processing capacity dropped by nearly 50 percent in April and May 2020, triggering meat shortages and price spikes. What happens if there is a greater, more prolonged supply chain pause? What happens when grocery stores in huge metropolises like New York City, Atlanta, Los Angeles, or Nashville go empty? Millions of people who depend on grocery stores are jammed in these cities like sardines. Mayhem will erupt, chaos of the most desperate kind. The kind that leads to anarchy. The kind that drives parents to do anything to feed their children.

How will they respond if we threaten their power?

The Machine makes us sicker, codependent, dumber, and poorer. This is by design. Dependent and foggy-headed people are easier to keep in check. They typically don’t have what it takes to carry out a revolt.

Think back to the Covid era, again. The entire planet was put on house arrest. Governments closed down people’s businesses. They made everyone wear useless pieces of tissues disguised as protective masks. In a number of Western cities, including some of the largest U.S. cities, people were forced to carry digital vaccination “papers” if they wanted to leave their home. Some were arrested for surfing in the ocean by themselves. And, as we already mentioned, the supply chain was threatened. And what caused all that? A manufactured virus that originated on the other side of the planet and exploited by a junta of medical gangsters.

Americans are realizing that predatory elites are in charge. What will happen when we begin to seriously organize and demand real change and accountability? To insist on leadership that will carry out our will? To demolish the mechanisms that allows the Parasite Class to impose their will on our policies and lives? How do you think they will react? You think they’ll shrug their shoulders, politely step aside, and go skiing?

It has taken generations of satanic conspirators to build up the level of control they now exercise over most of the world. They’ve put in centuries of work to get to this point, to make us weak, ignorant to their plans, dependent on a system we have no control over that they built. The world is more interconnected than ever. Economies are international. The food supply chain is international. The drug supply chain is international. The media ecosystem is international. There’s been no better time for them to force us into their dystopian world government.

If they sense a serious threat to their power, the Parasites will strike back. Maybe they’ll release a scary virus. Or maybe they’ll finally succeed in triggering a nuclear war. Perhaps they’ll try and twist this alien deal we keep hearing about into a threat that makes personal liberty obsolete. Or maybe they’ll take a real crisis, make it ten times worse, and then come to the rescue with a remedy that happens to result with them in total control.

Whatever they do, they will not sit by while we take power back. They will resist. They will scheme. They will deploy the weapons at their disposal. They will try and knock us off balance, perhaps worse—much worse. And if we don’t have control over something as basic as food and health, the revolution quickly fizzles out.

We need to have the capacity to absorb disruption.

They don’t think they need the numbers anymore

Rev. Henry Davis was the president of Middlebury College in the early 19th century. In 1815, after the War of Independence, he delivered a speech to the Vermont legislature advising politicians to be godly men of virtue who looked out for the people. During his speech, he said something that’s been true for all of history, but also something the Insiders likely believe is no longer the case. Davis said:

“The physical strength resides in the people; and whenever they are sensible of their power, and have opportunity to exert it, it is in vain to attempt to enforce laws upon them, however wise and salutary, which, in the view of the majority, are incompatible with their interests.”

It’s been more than 200 years since Davis spoke those words. The Insider Class believes it no longer needs the numbers. It believes the unprecedentedly sophisticated technology that exists today makes the peasants’ numbers advantage obsolete. They have access to diseases that can target specific ages, sexes, or races. The Insiders have access to explosive weapons capable of decimating entire continents within minutes. They have weapons to manipulate the weather, weapons to debilitate people on the spot without killing them, weapons capable of creating turbo cancers, weapons that can trigger heart attacks. And once they develop more nimble robots, they’ll have standing armies at their disposal.

Moreover, they have the means to disrupt the supply system we depend on for our most basic needs.

We need to know how to do things and build self-sufficient communities

There is a big difference between how people lived in 1815 and how we live today. In 1815, nobody was dependent on life-preserving drugs because they didn’t exist. In 1815, there were no grocery stores, no corporate farms the size of Rhode Island. American society, like all others, was agrarian. Everyone grew food and raised livestock. Communities were self-sufficient.

And it wasn’t just food. People built things. Local blacksmiths forged farm equipment and tools. They made pots, pans, knives, swords, axes, and hammers. There was no Home Depot, no Bed, Bath and Beyond. Cabinet makers made furniture. Tailors, seamstresses, and shoemakers made shirts, jackets, and boots. So did most women. They knew how to sow and knit. They made sweaters and socks and dresses. Men knew how to build things, how to repair things.

People were self-sufficient. They knew how to do things.

Today in America, grown men don’t know how to change a tire, patch a hole in the wall, kill a poisonous snake, clean out the gutters. There are women who don’t know how to cook, who refuse to clean, who can’t sow a rip, keep a plant alive, or to grow tomatoes. And they certainly don’t know how to change a tire.

I’m not suggesting we completely return to an agrarian society, but we need to know how to do things again. We need to be more well-rounded. Our freedom depends on it.

Being more self-sufficient isn’t important just to gain back control of our lives and government. It’s good for the local economy. It’s good for our collective self-esteem. Have you ever forced your kid to struggle until he finally popped a jar cap loose? Remember the satisfactory expression he made after the lid made that sweet “pop” sound? That’s empowerment.

Few things threaten the Insiders’ grip on us than our not needing them. Which is precisely why we need to be more self-sufficient.

This is Bertha. She’s a champion stock Silver Fox rabbit. Rabbits and chickens are the best entry livestock options for those who want to become more self-sufficient. Rabbits are easy to care for, they provide excellent fertilizer for gardening, they are great at reproducing, and they’re good eating.

We need a revolution … which has kinda already started

Opting out of their system of dependency and degradation is a form of revolt in of itself. And in some ways, the revolution has already begun.

Except for the Boomer class that’s too hypnotized by Fox News and CNN to unplug from the Matrix, everyone else is waking up. People are starting to realize the world is run by sociopathic pedophiles who worship satan, and people who serve sociopathic pedophiles who worship satan.

We are living in the Wild West of information. Traditional media is cratering while media figures who push anti-Establishment sentiments and ideas are thriving. Podcasts and social media have broken the Insiders’ longstanding stranglehold on “information.” Everyone and their grandma has a podcast. Everyone is talking, and we can hear them. There’s a deluge of information gushing at us. Not everything is true. Some of it is intentionally false. Some of it is dumb drivel created by people high on ambition and light on substance. But there’s a lot of good stuff out there, too. There’s lots of good information that you would never get from the 6 o’clock nightly news or Time magazine. What we have now is far better than the curated media ecosystem that poisoned the public mind during the entire 20th century.

People are also growing disillusioned with the two-party trap. Establishment Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same Uniparty coin. The same donors and forces typically control the nomination phases of both parties. That way, the general election offers two selected candidates, both of whom will keep the wars going, the debt rising, and Big Government overfed.

People are beginning to see that. There are more independents than Republicans or Democrats now. People are getting it. They’re no longer being fooled by the two-party illusion.

Another encouraging data point is found in the education realm. In 2003, about 1.4 million children were being homeschooled. Today, estimates say there are 3.408 million homeschooled students. Meanwhile, enrollment in government schools is falling off a clip. In April, the California Department of Education published a report revealing that 75,000 fewer students were enrolled in the Golden State’s government schools this year. That’s a 1.3-percent drop. More importantly, that’s a nationwide trend.

The public school system has been central to creating obedient, dumbed-down, socialist-minded adults. So, the fact that Americans are opting out of public “education” is very, very good. We must extract the mind poison.

A growing number of Americans are also becoming more self-sufficient and healthy. Millions of people are growing food, raising animals, or hunting. There’s an exodus out of the city and into the country. The number of households with backyard chickens has doubled since 2018. Covid mania created more than 18 million new gardeners, with up to 70 percent of those continuing into 2025. Most homesteaders today began their journey just a few years ago.

The revolt is in progress. The intellectual phase has begun. So has the part where we are unplugging from the Machine. This needs to keep happening. We need to jack those numbers up—way up!

But we haven’t gotten to the hard part.

We’ve already gotten a glimpse into how the Machine reacts when it’s threatened. When Elon Musk took his mission to cut government spending seriously, he was nearly destroyed. Eventually, they put the kibosh on DOGE and Musk went back to his primary mission of leaving the planet. When Ron Paul ran for president, they created rumors that he hated Jews. Madison Cawthorn told the media that American politicians snort cocaine and attend orgies, and for that he didn’t last more than one term. Marjorie Taylor Greene pointed out that President Trump was starting wars and protecting pedophiles and she was pushed out of Congress. They’re trying to throw Thomas Massie out of Congress now, the next version of Ron Paul. And what did he do? He said the war in Iran is illegal (which it is), he voted against ridiculously bloated funding bills (as he should have), and he forced the government to release files on a pedophile who ran an international sex trafficking ring (good for him!).

And those are just some of the people who lived. The post World War II era is riddled with disruptors being shot, falling out of windows, or disappearing.

So, yeah, we’re not just going to waltz in, clean house, arrest the sophisticated criminals and restore order without a fight. We should expect problems. And we should be ready to absorb planned disruption. At its core, that means we need to be healthy and we need to have uninterrupted access to food. Everyone who has a yard should grow some food, have a few chickens, maybe some meat rabbits. Everyone should eat healthier and look into alternative remedies to our ailments when possible. We should have emergency items stashed away, as was commons many years ago. And, most importantly, we should be grounded in our faith. We should always remember that America’s founding generation depended on God to win their freedom. Let us never forget that, at its core, this is a battle against certifiably evil forces that have influenced the affairs of humanity since the fall of man. Without God, we can’t win.

¡Viva la libertad!

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These people should not have this much power

Paul Dragu — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:26:39 GMT

Is the Justice Department actually interested in delivering justice against the people who created the most tyrannical period in American history?

If I were a betting man, I’d hold on to most of my chips. Nevertheless, it’s encouraging to see that David Morens, a former advisor to the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), King Anthony Fauci, is charged with conspiring against the United States.

According to the government, Morens engaged in all sorts of chicanery. He used his influential position to generate taxpayer funding for a company that was financing gain-of-function experiments in China. He was also at the center of the propaganda operation designed to crush all talk of the virus coming out of a lab. He submitted propaganda papers advocating the bat theory to prestigious medical journals, even though the NIAID’s parent agency was already looking at information suggesting the Wuhan Institute of Virology released the virus responsible for the Covid-19 “pandemic.” And on top of it all, he’s accused of taking kickbacks for all this skullduggery.

The charges against Morens reminds us of why it’s so dangerous to allow the government to become big and powerful. Because it allows deeply amoral people to wield enormous power over our lives—power they shouldn’t have.

All this comes down to one major takeaway: the federal government should be as small and weak as possible, especially in today’s political climate of profoundly corrupt and sociopathic individuals. America’s leadership class is rotten to its core. And one of the most effective ways to minimize its destructive influence is to give these people as little power as possible.

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UFO scientists are disappearing. The FBI is investigating, but don't expect them to tell us the truth.

Paul Dragu — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:32:40 GMT

Is it a coincidence that many of the scientists who’ve been killed or disappeared were working on various disclosure agendas? As the great philosopher-turned-baseball legend, Yogi Berra, once said, “That’s too coincidental to be a coincidence.”

The FBI is floating the theory that the deaths and disappearances of several top-tier scientists, people who were conducting sensitive and secret research linked to national security, may have been the victims of a foreign operation. They’re either lying or admitting gross incompetence. The FBI is the country’s top law enforcement agency, an entity with unlimited resources and a vast surveillance and spying network. Yet it took them four years to spot a pattern that a 16-year-old working the drive-thru at McDonalds noticed while browsing his phone during the afternoon calm?

Moreover, it looks like the FBI launched its investigation because of public pressure. Yet this has been happening for about four years, with several of the scientists being eliminated in 2025.

Something else is probably happening here, considering what some of these people were trying to accomplish regarding public disclosure.

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Seat belt laws are paternalistic government mechanisms disguised as safety measures

Paul Dragu — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:13:30 GMT

I don’t remember ever taking seat belt laws seriously. That’s because I don’t believe the official justification for them. If my state government was generally interested in protecting me, it would use its limited resources to tackle issues that truly harm or endanger me and my family. The police use seat belt laws primarily to add revenue and pad their quota numbers.

I recently got a ticket for not wearing my seat belt. I haven’t been ticketed exclusively for that in more than a decade (I probably haven’t worn a seat belt in just as long). I didn’t know there were any cops out there still doing that.

In this case, a state trooper was camping out in the gravel parking lot of a demolished building. I was pulling into church to drop my kid off for a youth event. I was going about 20 miles an hour on a two-lane road with stoplights. I live two miles away. I posed no danger to anyone.

The main arguments for seat belt laws are paternalistic in nature. The person most likely to be harmed is the person who decides not to wear his seat belt. The government has no business forcing me to do what it thinks is best for my well-being. While the police is right to enforce laws that foster civil order, laws that punish those who harm others, it has no business dictating what’s best for me. That’s unAmerican. It’s also paternalistic, which is dangerous. The people who pushed the Covid jab on the country used the paternalistic excuse to fool the public into taking it. As we have now learned, it turned out the Covid jab wasn’t so good for us.

What makes this entire ordeal worse is: the state is using its limited policing resources in a completely useless fashion while my community has issues that local law enforcement can really use help addressing.

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Easter, the greatest day in human history

Paul Dragu — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:47:44 GMT

There is no other day, no other event, that comes close to rivaling the magnitude of what Jesus accomplished when He rose from the dead.

Jesus’ completed work on the cross fulfilled the Old Testament law and made salvation available to all who believed in who He is and what He offers, to those who repent of their sins, to everyone who accepts Him as the way to everlasting life in the presence of the Creator.

On Easter, Jesus carried out the will of God the Father. He put a bow on God’s plan for human salvation, a plan that had been in the works for thousands of years, since the fall of man.

Jesus’ work ushered in the Grace Covenant and did away with the need of perpetual sacrifices and rituals. Religion not only became useless, but it became an obstacle to everlasting life.

Jesus’ work on the cross conquered death. For those who believe unto Him, death no longer exists. When Jesus conquered death, he eliminated fear. That’s why Christian martyrs happily chose eternity over bowing down to humans who demanded worship. That fearlessness is why the Church has never—nor ever will be—defeated. History is full of martyrs who didn’t fear death. We know of them today. Volumes of books have been written on them. But hardly anyone knows who killed them.

Jesus’ short time in human form on earth split time. Today, we refer to history in terms of events that happened before and those that happened after His time on earth.

Jesus’ resurrection was so earth-shattering that his disciples spent the rest of their lives traveling the earth to tell everyone about it—at the cost of their lives. And although all but one were brutally killed, their message spread like wildfire. Nothing could stop it. Nothing did stop it.

The Gospel (the true Gospel, not the self-help, prosperity nonsense you hear from many pulpits today) is so powerful that no satanic and human force has been able to crush it, despite millennia of attempts.

The Roman Empire, which persecuted the first generation of Christians harshly, collapsed to ashes. And out of it rose the Church, like a mighty lion.

After England was “conquered” by pagan Vikings around after the turn of the first millennia, it was the pagans who converted to Christianity and not the native English who bowed to the satanic Norse religion.

In China, where the communists persecute Christians like it’s 1950s Soviet Russia, estimates say more than 100 million Chinese believe in Jesus Christ, a massive leap from the 1 million of the 1950s. When their churches are destroyed, the Chinese worship together in homes, in the woods, on farms, even in moving tour buses.

During the 20th century, the communists ravaged Eastern Europe with the cruelest, most evil, and torturous campaigns against Christianity, possibly ever. They performed unspeakable acts of torture and mind manipulation on Christians. Communism, which comes directly from satan, sought to completely destroy Christianity. But it failed. Today, Eastern European culture is more observant of Christianity than Western Europe.

The Church formed the foundation of Western Civilization, which ushered in the freest, most innovative, most prosperous period in human history. That civilization created self-government, it eradicated slavery, it birthed an era of innovation never before seen in all of human history— and it spread the good news of salvation to all corners of the world.

Wherever it looked like the enemies of God would win, God prevailed. Today, America is under intense satanic bombardment. Many people have abandoned God, self-interested sociopaths denominate Capitol Hill, our country is structurally falling apart, and our military has been on a manic warpath around the world for nearly four decades. Things are not looking good.

But, fortunately for us, God never loses.

Whatever the plans of the diabolic individuals serving satan’s agenda to destroy this country and its people, however sure they are that this time they have what it takes to win, they will lose. God will not be mocked. As hard as the gates of hell rages against the Church, it will not prevail.

Jesus will come back one day, maybe very soon. And when He comes back, the gloves are off. He’ll have an army with him. He’ll have a sword, and the blood of His enemies will be so high that it will drench the bottom of His robe.

If you haven’t accepted Jesus as Lord and savior, do it now. Before it’s too late.

Nonprofits Say Opposition to Iran War Is High Among Military Members

American soldiers think the war in Iran is immoral. But evangelical leaders don't. How weird.

Paul Dragu — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:08:01 GMT

An unusually high number of American soldiers oppose the war in Iran on moral grounds. Nonprofits that speak to soldiers such as the Center on Conscience & War reported a 1,000% increase in conscientious objector calls since the US launched its joint war against Iran.

For many service members, the American strike on the Minab school was the “breaking point.” Others said they began to feel uneasy last year when the military began blowing boats out of the ocean without legitimate assurances that the people in them were drug traffickers.

A benevolent government is obligated to carry out PEACE, JUSTICE, and TRUTH. America’s leadership is failing in all three metrics.

The poor condition of the country reflects that failure.

NO PEACE Since World War II, America has been at war more than any other country. And since the 2000s, it been at war more than it hasn’t. And while a reasonable excuse can be made for the Cold War years, there are no legitimate moral excuses for the foreign meddling we’ve engaged in since the 1990s. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the US was the only superpower left, with no legitimate threats to challenge us. Yet we spent decades intervening in the Middle East, harassing and bombing third-world countries, all of it under false pretenses.

US intervention in the Middle East hasn’t made the region more peaceful, stable, prosperous, or even freer. It has destabilized it and planted seeds of intra-generational animosity toward the US. If the point was to stamp out Islamic extremism, America achieved exactly the opposite.

There is a war in the region right now—and it was started by the US at the behest of Israel. The war has killed piles of civilians, soldiers, and it has injured untold numbers of people. It has caused infrastructure damage that will take decades to repair. And there’s no telling how many extremist jihadi groups it will inspire. There’s also no way to know how much hatred it has inspired against Christians and Jesus Christ, since America professes to be a Christian nation.

A peaceful nation is not at war as often as America has been. It does not bomb nations as casually as the US does. It does not stir as much intense hate toward it as America has.

Constant warring has also drained trillions of dollars in American taxpayer money, which has piled on debt for generations to come. That is not just.

NO JUSTICE A government that loads its people up with debt that will eventually trigger some sort of economic crisis is an unjust government.

A government that spends a great deal of its limited energy and resources on foreign entanglements while carrying out domestic policies that make its people poorer, dumber, and sicker is an unjust one.

A government that sends is soldiers off to fight and die for a foreign nation is an unjust one.

So is one that protects pedophiles and satan worshippers.

The lack of transparency and accountability toward the Epstein Files alone proves that this government is not interested in justice. They’re illegally withholding millions of files. Given what we’ve learned from the released documents, the hidden ones are probably so disturbing that it could lead to worldwide unrest.

The Epstein files show that powerful people live outside the law. The “Justice” Department’s refusal to hold anyone else accountable shows that someone else is in charge, people who are not only disinterested in justice, but people who are outright predators.

NO TRUTH And for these people, as for our leadership class, DECEPTION is the rule.

They lie about everything all the time.

They lied about why they sent Americans to die in the Middle East—again.

They lied that the Covid shot was “safe and effective.”

They lied about their stupid 6-foot rule.

They lied that tissue face masks had power to curb the spread of a microbial disease.

They lied about the reason they suppressed nuclear power for decades.

They lied about climate change.

They conceal the truth about the poisonous food on our grocery shelves.

They lie about everything all the time.

And sitting by and doing next to nothing is America’s evangelical leadership class.

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Paul Dragu — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:39:40 GMT

Here's something to consider: the US is at war more often than it's not. We can't go more than a year or two without bombing to pieces some two-bit country on the other side of the planet that supposedly poses the gravest existential threat. When we’re not doing that, we’re busy forcing “democracy” down the throats of occupied peoples, at gunpoint. This is all sorts of bizarre, considering we have two oceans buffering us from most of the rest of the world and a defense budget higher than the next two countries combined.

Are we really in as much danger as they keep telling us? Is all this warring necessary to “preserve our freedoms”?

No, of course not. They lie. They tell big fat lies. Somewhere early in the propaganda cooking process, they seed kernels of truth about people on the other side of the planet who don’t take kindly to being occupied (go figure) under their bloated cake of grade-A propaganda, lulling the American population into belief mode.

Even tyrannical countries don’t go to war as much as we do. When’s the last time China bombed someone? Or Cuba? Or Venezuela—or any other country for that matter? The only countries bombing other countries are America, Israel, and Russia. And Russia is only doing it because the West spent two decades creeping closer and closer to Moscow with enemy bases.

Constant war is not a pattern fit for a benevolent nation. America is supposed to be the good guys. George Washington said we should live in peace with the rest of the world, stay out of foreign affairs, and do business with anyone willing to do business with us. But since the 90s, we’ve spend more time at war than not. How good are we if we’re always at war?

This doesn't mean Americans are bad people. It doesn’t even mean they like war. The people, the general population, mostly get a pass because many of us don’t like these wars, we voted for a guy we believed would actually put an end to them, and, for the most part, we don’t even have a say in whether we go to war. Our say was hijacked a long time ago. Today, when it comes to war, the president basically exercises kinglike decision-making power. Only kings and dictators are allowed to make unilateral decisions to send their people off to die in war.

But the people are also a little guilty. We’re guilty because we allowed said hijacking to happen. And we’re guilty because many of us insist it should keep happening. There are many Americans who think there’s nothing wrong with one man willy nilly deciding to send our sons and daughters to fight and die in a ridiculous war against a country even our politicians know nothing about. I can’t begin to tell you the number of people who’ve argued until they’re blue in the face that the president has the power to send Americans to war without so much as a peep from the people through their congressional representatives. It is one of the most unAmerican ways of thinking.

The original idea was that the military could never go to war until Congress debated the idea and voted in favor of doing so. The people who wrote the Constitution understood war. They’d seen it. Many of them, unlike today’s warmongering sociopaths, people like Sen. Lindsey Graham and Mark Levin, had been impacted by war. They had suffered greatly in their costly victory over the most powerful nation at the time.

The Constitution makes it clear that the president doesn’t have sole power to launch us into war, as do Federalist essays elaborating on the Constitution. Just because the president is the commander-in-chief doesn’t mean he decides when to command and chief us to battle. He commands the military once Congress, which represents the will of the people, says the war is on and he’s allowed to lead. In the meantime, he’s supposed to sit by and wait, like a good little boy.

Congress is supposed to represent the people. This cannot be said enough. The Founders knew that if too much power is consolidated into the hands of a few, or any one branch, the few—or the president—will send the people to die for reasons that have not benefits for them at all. This happened all the time. And it’s happening now. We are spending billions of dollars we don’t have and extinguishing precious American lives for the interests of a foreign country, defense contractors, the sociopaths who control the military industrial complex, and the psycopaths who make up the international cabal known as the Insiders.

The war in Iran is a disaster. It has added billions onto an already sky-high debt. It killed Americans and injured hundreds more. It has sent gas prices soaring. Soon, the price of everything else will follow. And it only gets worse. We are no safer today than we were before billions were wasted and lives extinguished. We martyred a religious figure who was about to die anyway. Then his son, who’s younger but just as radical, assumed leadership. All this has unified radical Muslims in the Middle East. It has galvanized the Iranians, who are angrier at the Americans for interfering than at their oppressive government. It has also created more enemies. It will inspire new jihadi radical groups dedicated to killing Americans. Worse, if the theocratic regime survives, which is possible, Iran will be even more determined to obtain nuclear weapons, since it’s clear that their survival depends on it. (Have you noticed how the US never attacks nuclear-armed nations?)

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They don’t deserve your loyalty

The eternally eloquent Mark Twain once said, “patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”

That quote smashes to pieces the braindead idea that patriots always support their government, especially when we’re at war. That was always an unAmerican idea. Distrust toward government is one of the most American things ever.

Right now, our government is obviously undeserving of our support. I don’t care if we are at war. I pray for our soldiers, but I also want to make sure people understand this war is a big, fat lie that serves no benefit and that we should end it ASAP. The best thing we can do to support our military is bring them back home. Our servicemembers should only be put in danger when necessary. And going all the way to the other side of the planet to bomb a second-world country does not meet that criteria.

One of the most bizarre patterns I’ve noticed over the last year is an unshakeable loyalty among many to Trump. This is especially odd because the man has been replaced by a body snatcher who is breaking nearly every promise Trump made over the years. We’re basically down to one major promise still standing. But I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump announces tomorrow that open borders are good and everyone should accept the good people of MS-13 in their communities.

I was messaging back and forth with an old friend who was recently mad at me for making comments on her social media page, comments that contradicted her endearing posts about Trump and the war. She told me she was very disappointed to see how “bitter” I had become toward President Trump. I told her I too once supported him. I went to the rallies. I told people to vote for him. I cheer leaded him on social media and even in some of my reporting. But then he started breaking his promises. And soon I realized he broke more than he kept. So now I think he’s an imbecile who doesn’t have the foggiest clue who to trust.

But she didn’t care. She wasn’t interested in any of the arguments I made. She was angry at me for ruining her delusion. It was like she was under a weird spell. She appears to view Trump as a deity and his betrayal as a layer of his infallible genius. She didn’t push back on any of the points I made. She didn’t argue when I said it’s stupid to believe we can be in imminent danger for 47 years. She didn’t dispute the argument that Bibi Netanyahu is a sociopathic liar who is on record going back to the 90s warning about Iran being weeks away from building a nuclear weapon. And she didn’t see a point in trying to convince me of anything else. Instead, she called me a know-it all and told me to stop commenting on her page because it was ruining the vibe there. She just wanted to live in her made-up world undisturbed. She wanted to post irrational fictional nonsense that made Trump look like Jesus without my pointing out that Trump was an illiterate nitwit under the spell of a foreign leader. She was like the character in the Matrix who was mad about being unplugged because he missed steak in the fake world.

It’s weird that so many people think Trump deserves our loyalty even after he broke his promises. This happens with Democrats too. Especially with democrats. This was obvious with Joe Biden, when most of them ignored that he was a corrupt vegetable. It’s that old fashioned partisan loyalty, the kind that causes people to put party over principles, the kind that causes people to think the most important thing is your team winning, the kind that makes people dumb.

The reality, however, is that the teams aren’t what the masses think they are. Trump is obviously not on our team. He’s on team Uniparty. So was Biden, and Bush, and Clinton. They’re all serving the international cabal and playing a totally different game. They’re kicking the ball in our faces when we ask them to pass.

The relationship between politicians and people is supposed to work this way: we vote them in power to do what we want them to do and they do their best to do what we told them to do. But when they don’t do what we want them to do—what they said they would do if we elected them—then they’re breaking our contract. That means we should no longer support them. This is how things are supposed to work.

Instead, the president has somehow, in what will make a fascinating sociological case study one day, convinced millions of people that breaking his promises is OK because he has decided that regime change wars are now good. But not only are wars now good, but he’s just hitting back in a war that we’ve been engaged in for decades, we’re told. I have heard this bizarre excuse from multiple Trump defenders who, as far as I know, don’t have a history of cognitive delay.

If we’ve been at war with Iran all these years, how come nobody told us? How come Trump never said it at his rallies? He didn’t even say in when he bombed Iran’s nuclear sites last summer. You would think that would be a good time to mention that. Not only did the president not tell us we were at war, but neither did the secretary of war, who you would think would know such things. The intel chiefs, Congress, the speaker of the House—no one, not a single person who is supposed to know these things, told us we’d been at war. But then the president launches an illegal war and suddenly his devoted minions are going about saying he was just finishing a war that has been raging for years. Unbelievable.

This is obvious propaganda. Of course we weren’t at war. Yes, Iranian proxies had hurt Americans in the Middle East over the last decades, but that’s only because we were stupid enough to put our people there. Get Americans out of other countries and the people who live in those other countries won’t hurt them.

Almost everything we’re told to justify these wars are outright lies. They lied about WMDs in Iraq, they lied about the Gulf of Tonkin incident that got us into Vietnam, they lied about US intel not having prior knowledge of 9/11, they intentionally ignored warnings that the Japanese were going to bomb Pearl Harbor, and they’re lying now about Iran having posed an imminent threat. See the pattern? They’re liars. Big fat liars. And they’re getting away with this because we let them. And we let them because a lot of people have jammed so many Cheetos in their mouth and Fox News in their brain that they can’t think clear enough to see that they’re being bamboozled.