In previous centuries, when most people believed they had immortal souls that would be judged, a tyrant hungry for power would try to control the Church so he could dominate the many by seeming to imperil what they treasured most — their salvation. Some of the worst abuses in my own Catholic church saw popes and bishops deny whole cities the sacraments of marriage and even baptism over some papal land grab or squalid dynastic squabble.
What do those hungry for power to bully their fellow citizens with now? The health of our bodies, the tenure we spend in this mortal coil. Instead of selling indulgences that supposedly speed our souls to Heaven, they press on us ever-newer medicines and untested vaccines in which we’re meant to have blind faith on the strength of their solemn authority, backed by the State’s mailed fist. The phrase “public health” has morphed from a neutral, useful term into an Orwellian mantra the Left invokes whenever it wishes to strip us of some fundamental right — the latest of which is the Second Amendment.
Remember when Vanity Fair accused Governor Ron De Santis of “mass murder” for opening up the beaches in Florida during COVID? When our churches were shut but casinos and abortion clinics stayed open, and George Floyd riots were the only gatherings tolerated because “racism is a threat to public health”?
Now gun-grabbers pretend that hormone-addled transgender maniacs shooting Christian kids are an instance of the “gun violence pandemic,” a sinister Leftist catchphrase Pope Leo XIV just used — having chosen to mark the Minneapolis massacre at a Catholic school by embracing LGBTQ ideologue James Martin, S.J:
How tone deaf is @Pontifex? These murdered children are not even buried and 4 days later, Leo meets with the leader of the LGBT movement. To say, the optics are bad is an understatement. It’s cruel, insensitive and abusive. The Lavendar mafia reigns supreme in the Leo Vatican-… https://t.co/2eTjIdn2Lt
— Elizabeth Yore (@ElizabethYore) September 1, 2025
Bye-Bye, Creepy, Tattooed, Devil-Worshiping Perv
Speaking of deviants and “public health,” America just said goodbye to the gay sadomasochist Satanist Joe Biden put in charge of immunization at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As part of Robert F. Kennedy’s shake-up of the Big Pharma-dominated bureaucracy in that department, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis flounced off in a huff, resigning allegedly on principle.
The person in charge of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, would be responsible for clearly articulating the risks associated with any recommended or mandated vaccines.
Unfortunately, he was a little busy dressing as the… pic.twitter.com/jLVDWyV40G
— Lauren Lee (@sheislaurenlee) September 1, 2025
What was this dark, twisted soul objecting to? A closer look at the insane schedule of vaccines that get pressed on parents of infants. Daskalakis went on the Sunday talk shows this weekend to complain that RFK wants to reexamine government mandates for the hepatitis B shot for newborns. But the only way a baby is at risk of contracting Hep B is if the mother is already infected — and women are routinely tested during pregnancy. So, why are we jabbing infants with a vaccine designed for drug users and promiscuous adults?
That only makes sense if you spend all your time in a promiscuous subculture.
The guy on the right? That’s Dr. Demetre Daskalakis — former CDC immunization chief.
He QUIT when RFK Jr. came into HHS, and ever since he’s been on a… pic.twitter.com/rihkusDSZi— Donnie Cope (@dcopechatter) September 1, 2025
Big Pharma Strikes Back
As The Brownstone Institute reports:
On the eve before the US Senate reconvenes, a detailed secret trade-association memo plotting the removal of US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has leaked. It reads like a coup attempt against regulatory reform—and they are spending millions to make sure Kennedy is out of office by September.
It seems that the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), whose membership includes Pfizer, Merck, Novavax, Vaxcyte, and hundreds of biotech firms that profit from regulatory insulation, has a mole. This article critiques the documented lobbying behavior of the trade group BIO, not the internal operations or clinical data of its member corporations.
When the nation’s leading pharmaceutical trade group convenes a closed-door strategy meeting and openly discusses the need to “go to The Hill and lobby that it is time for RFK Jr. to go,” the issue is no longer health policy—it is democratic integrity.
And here’s the first salvo in that promised pressure campaign: In response to the clean-up inside the CDC, previous leaders of that agency who colluded with Big Pharma and brought us the hypervaccination of children joined in an orchestrated campaign to denounce the reforms:
The arrogance and self-importance of these @CDCgov bureaucrats is beyond belief. The reality is that the US would have been better off with no CDC at all during the pandemic. Their performance was a Chernobyl-level catastrophe. Their incompetence delayed the start of widespread… pic.twitter.com/Juzfbs7nmL
— Joseph Marine (@DrJMarine) September 1, 2025
Trump Finally Decides “Operation Warp Speed” Wasn’t a Triumph
As another guy from Queens I understand it. We don’t think it’s manly to admit you did anything wrong. Not just morally wrong, but even accidentally wrong, based on bad information that liars whispered in your ear. You just shake your head and double down, like a Joe Pesci character in a Martin Scorcese movie.
That’s the only explanation why President Donald Trump has spent years boasting about Operation Warp Speed, even though his most loyal supporters consider the forced vaccination of billions of people with an untested, abortion-based experimental gene therapy both a crime and a blunder. Trump’s same bulldog stubbornness that serves America so well most of the time — for instance, during a stolen election, and assassination attempts — failed all of us here.
But now something is changing. And we will all be safer and healthier for it, both physically and spiritually. Check out Trump’s latest social media post on the subject of Operation Warp Speed:
This is a huge development. President Trump is standing behind an investigation of the COVID-19 vaccines even if it means that Operation Warp Speed was a bad idea. An investigation is absolutely the right thing to do. pic.twitter.com/hmtYYjfrWo
— Carol M. Swain, PhD (@carolmswain) September 1, 2025
COVID Panic hero Jeffrey Tucker offers a thoughtful response:
Trump’s backing for Warp Speed came from a good place. He wanted a solution and wanted it fast. That included a range of ideas, which he voiced in a press conference that was mischaracterized and after which he was shut down from ever speaking on about the subject. He had been a…
— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreyatucker) September 1, 2025
Naomi Wolf’s The Daily Clout reports:
President Donald J. Trump is making headlines as he demands COVID vaccine data from Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies, questioning the legacy of Operation Warp Speed. In a direct statement, Trump said he had been shown “extraordinary” internal results that were never shared with the CDC or the American people. Now, Trump demands COVID vaccine data be released immediately to restore public trust.
Trump’s latest remarks mark a dramatic shift from his earlier defense of Operation Warp Speed. While once described as “brilliant,” Trump now says the American people deserve to know if vaccine companies concealed vital information.
The COVID Panic was many things, but first and foremost it was a test-run for global authoritarianism, an experiment to see how much power elites could seize by threatening us with death and accusing us of murder. And through most of the world it seemed to be a rip-roaring success. Only the dogged efforts of a few courageous souls, such as Jeff Tucker, Naomi Wolf, Dr. Robert Malone and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, kept rational skepticism and medical ethics alive. And now we’re seeing the backlash, which might bring down some of the financial giants of Big Pharma who helped implement this scheme of tyranny, and reaped billions doing it.
Good riddance.
Pray for Rudy Giuliani
“America’s Mayor” on 9/11, a dogged prosecutor who brought down the Five Families of New York-area organized crime, a patriot who risked all to help fight election fraud, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is in the hospital after a serious auto accident. The Post Millenial reports:
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a car accident in New Hampshire and is being treated for a fractured vertebrae and multiple cuts.
A spokesperson said the incident happened after Giuliani stopped to help a woman who was a victim of domestic violence. “Mayor Giuliani was flagged down by a woman who was a victim of domestic violence prior to the accident. He rendered assistance and contacted 911, remaining on scene until responding officers arrived to ensure her safety,” the spokesperson stated.
The crash occurred shortly after Giuliani re-entered his vehicle, which was struck from behind at high speed, according to the statement.
“The mayor is in great spirits. He’s a beast. He survived 9/11,” the spokesperson said.
Let’s all pray for this American hero, injured in the course of going above and beyond to assist a total stranger. Very much on brand for Rudy Giuliani.
Along The Stream
Later this morning, watch Part 2 of a classic talk by Rev. James Robison on unity in the Church, and how to overcome the obstacles to it which the Enemy throws up.
At noon, read neurosurgeon and author Dr. Michael Egnor unpacking the medical evidence for the immortality of the soul.
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.
