Trump and Kennedy Shatter the Paradigm

Gilbert House Ministries

Trump and Kennedy Shatter the Paradigm

August 24, 2024

THINK WHAT YOU WILL about Donald Trump, his announcement Friday that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., would play a role in a second Trump administration was a masterstroke of political judo.

On Friday, Kennedy suspended his presidential campaign and announced that he would remove his name from ballots in swing states where he might draw enough votes away from Trump in November to hand the election to Kamala Harris. Kennedy said the Democratic Party had abandoned the ideals it held when his father and uncle, Robert F. Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, were Attorney General and President of the United States 60 years ago—fighting for peace, freedom, and the working class. According to Kennedy, Democrats now represent Big Pharma, Big Food, endless war, and the “censorship-industrial complex.”

Kennedy described his decision as heart-wrenching, in no small part because his wife and family do not support (or even like) Donald Trump. He's become the first member of his family to endorse a Republican for president, and his siblings issued a statement less than an hour after his speech disavowing him and his endorsement.

But Kennedy said that as a 70-year-old man, he doesn’t have that many years left to be effective, and he views Trump as offering the best hope to save future generations of American children from chronic illnesses due to toxic chemicals in food and medicines, reverse the trend toward government censorship adopted by the Biden-Harris administration, and end America’s military adventures overseas.

Kennedy later appeared at a Trump rally in suburban Phoenix, where the former president promised to empower Kennedy to investigate the assassinations of his father and uncle. Kennedy’s potential role in a Trump administration is still unclear, but the unity between the two men, based on a promise to protect children, is a refreshing change from the increasingly personal attacks between Democrats and Republicans. The event derailed whatever momentum Kamala Harris had built with the Democratic Party convention in Chicago, which she addressed Thursday night. Reaction to her speech, which she delivered well, has been buried in the news cycle by the Trump-Kennedy alliance announced less than 24 hours later.

At the rally, Trump mentioned a report released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General this week revealing some 300,000 unaccompanied migrant children that have disappeared into the United States. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has little authority to track those children or intervene, even in circumstances that are reportedly unsafe—as in one case where a woman reported to ICE that a migrant minor was in an inappropriate relationship with her husband. One Health and Human Services whistleblower described this shocking situation earlier this year as “taxpayer-funded child slavery.”

Also: Exciting new discovery at Göbekli Tepe; reported case of tularemia spreading from a seal to a human in Washington state; and thought crime apparently now illegal in the US and UK.

All Souls' Day

November 2, 2024

A TRADITIONAL celebration intended to honor the spirits of dead ancestors has its roots in Canaanite and Amorite veneration of the Rephaim—the spirits of the giants destroyed in the Flood. We discuss All Souls’ Day, a practice justified in Roman Catholicism by prayers for the dead mentioned in 2 Maccabees 12:42–46. However, this was not standard doctrine among Jews, and 2 Maccabees, although important for the history recorded, is not considered canon by Protestant Christians. For Catholic and Orthodox Christians, however, the ancient tradition of praying for ancestors to help them escape purgatory was coupled with offering ceremonial food and drink on All Souls’ Day. Some scholars believe this practice originated with the veneration of ancestral dead among the Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians, which can be traced back to the kispum rites of the Amorites. In the Middle East, there are reports that Iran is planning an imminent missile and drone attack on Israel in response to last week’s Israeli attack on Iran’s anti-aircraft defenses and a key port. Apparently, Israel inflicted more damage than the ayatollahs wanted to admit. With the election next Tuesday, we also talk about expectations that things will go “kinetic” if the results aren’t what some hope, noting that businesses and government buildings in Washington, D.C. are boarding up windows in advance of Election Day. One pollster reports that 60% of respondents claim to know a Trump supporter who will refuse to accept the results if Harris is declared the winner. Frankly, we think this is another example of the Iron Law of Projection, which states that liberals always accuse others of what they themselves are doing. We also discuss Tucker Carlson’s claim that he was attacked in bed by an unseen force about 18 months ago. The media’s reaction to this demonic encounter is one of the reasons people who have experienced such things are reluctant to talk about them, even with their pastor or priest.

The Odin Defense

October 26, 2024

A MURDER TRIAL in Indiana made international headlines this week when defense attorneys argued that the victims had been sacrificed to the god Odin. Two teen girls were murdered in Delphi, Indiana in 2017. The defense team for the accused, 52-year-old Richard Allen, claims that the girls were actually sacrificed in a ritual to the Norse “All-Father,” Odin—who was not as kindly as he’s depicted by actor Anthony Hopkins in the Thor movies produced by Marvel Comics. The judge in the case had previously refused to allow evidence presented in August by an expert in ritualistic crimes. The defense claims testimony by a crime scene investigator this week has opened the door to present the ritual murder defense. We also discuss Israel’s attack on Iran Friday night. It appears to have targeted Iran’s missile manufacturing capabilities. It’s unclear at this point whether Iran will respond—although, as of our recording this morning, Iran’s proxy Hezbollah had launched 200 missiles at Israel today. We talk about a new report by investigative journalist James O’Keefe, who cites a whistleblower from the General Services Administration who revealed that the GSA awarded a $347 million contract to a private security firm with ties to the CIA, NSA, FBI, and Homeland Security to transport unaccompanied children from America’s southern border to “sponsors.” It’s big business, and the whistleblower says the children were treated like “commodities.” Here’s the link to https://www.zerohedge.com/political/once-you-know-you-cannot-unknow-whistleblower-exposes-how-feds-fund-industrial-sized that explores the exploitation of immigrants by the federal government on behalf of a network of “industrial-size staffing firms.”

Zelensky Gets Desperate

October 19, 2024

DEFENSE ministers for the G7 nations are meeting in Italy and things don’t look good for Volodomyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian president has taken a different approach in recent days. Where once he was thankful for the hundreds of billions of dollars in financial and military aid from the West, he’s now demanding either membership in NATO or nuclear weapons. Neither option appears to be on the table as far as the US, UK, France, and Germany are concerned. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris’s campaign hit more speed bumps with news that she plagiarized large sections of her 2009 book and her awful interview with Bret Baier of Fox News. Her body language revealed her discomfort as she tried to word-salad her way out of the fact that she’s trying to run against her own record. We also discuss this week’s super moon and worship of the moon-god in the ancient world, known as Nanna in Sumer, Sîn (pronounced “seen”) in Babylonia, and Yarikh to the Amorites—from which the city of Jericho gets its name. The archaeological evidence suggests a connection between Jericho and the Nuraghic culture of Sardinia, which is home to hundreds of “giant’s tombs.” There are also around 200 dolmens on the island of Sardinia, tens of thousands of which are found in Israel and Jordan between Mount Hermon and the Dead Sea. We’ve written extensively about dolmens in our books Veneration and our new book The Gates of Hell, which is, as of this recording, Amazon’s #1 New Release in the Theology category. (Thank you!)