We live in a weird age, and a bloody one. A downright apocalyptic one, some might say. Some news cycles make that more obvious than others, and this is one of them. The stories that landed in the last 24 hours are not as unrelated as they seem. They share a theme that is older than any of them. The primal forces of blood-letting, the principalities and powers that drive evil men, are still wandering the earth, devouring. Sometimes it’s through war, sometimes through men trying to become god, and sometimes through false messiahs. Jesus said that when he returns, it will be like the days of Noah. And it appears the old gods are just as powerful and pervasive now as they ever have been.
THE WARMONGER WITHOUT HEIRS, WANTS YOURS
On Monday night on Fox News, Lindsey Graham addressed Middle Eastern leaders and allies directly, looking into the camera (as he often does, as though they switch between the network interviews and hang onto his every word) and spoke to them as the unofficial global Pope of War. In the course of that address, he told them that he is going back to South Carolina to “ask my constituents to send their sons and daughters to the Middle East.”
On television, Graham was promising Arabs that he would use American families as a promissory note in a foreign diplomatic negotiation, offering the blood of other men’s children as collateral to keep Arab partners publicly invested in a war campaign that doesn’t have anything to do with them, either. The man does not have children.
As everyone knows, the worst-kept secret in Washington is that Graham is a sodomite, and thank God, he hasn’t bothered to buy any children. He’s from a generation of politicians who kept their homosexuality in the closet (as opposed to today’s politicians, who put their homosexuality on display and keep kids in the closet). Regardless, imagine the horridness of making a plea to Arab Nations that if they’ll sacrifice their kids, Americans will in turn sacrifice our kids. It’s no wonder they think we’re godless; we’ve got this freelance fag-ambassador offering a devil’s bargain of child exchange to sacrifice to the ancient war gods. Meanwhile, newspaper headlines report that the Israelis themselves are fleeing their Middle Eastern safe space until the war is over.
The blood demons are hungry, and Lindsay Graham is determined to feed them.
Meanwhile, the same media that will excavate the biography of any politician for any other controversial position will not ask the most enthusiastic war recruiter in the United States Senate the obvious question: Why is a childless, never-married, career bachelor with no biological stake in any outcome the loudest, most consistent, most emotionally invested voice for putting American bodies into foreign wars?
What you’ve got to understand about Graham is that he’s not hawkish in the way that word is normally used. Hawks have arguments, cost-benefit frameworks, strategic rationales, and some identifiable connection between what they are advocating and what they believe it will produce. Graham has none of that. What Graham has is a hunger that no argument explains, and no body count satisfies, a compulsion that has outlasted every rational objection his own constituents have put to him, a devotion to war that functions less like a policy preference and more like an avocation or holy calling. Every single problem, to Lindsay Graham, is solved by warfare. He doesn’t weigh options, because that’s his only option; he feeds an appetite, and that appetite has a specific and consistent diet. That unholy appetite wants as many young people in combat zones, in as many combat zones, as is humanly possible.
At least we know who Ted Cruz is working for (Israel, obviously, because he proudly confessed it in the infamous Tucker interview). Cruz is the #1 recipient of Israeli money of any politician in U.S. history, so it makes sense he’s rattling sabers on their behalf. But if you take a look at Graham’s campaign donations, it's pretty clear he’s doing it for free. And unlike Cruz, who on occasion opposed the Ukraine war - or others - Graham’s a free agent. He’s not doing it for the shekels. His endless war-mongering appears to be for free. Somehow, that’s more unsettling.
Also on that Hannity appearance, Graham told his audience plainly that he is not with the American people. Those are his words, and not a paraphrase. He declared to the “antisemites” (yawn) and “isolationaists (like Ron and Rand Paul, and literally all of our Founding Fathers), that he “…stands with Israel, to their dying day. Not you.” He literally looked at the American people through a video camera and explained that if they’re against foreign entanglements, like the ones George Washington warned us about in his final address, he stands against them, and with a foreign nation instead. It’s pretty unbelievable.
Before he was done, Graham praised Trump as Ronald Reagan multiplied by three, lectured the Arab world about their public commitment, threatened Spain over basing rights (he’d have us fight the Spanish next, if we let him), and volunteered South Carolina families as the price of Arab partnership, all from a television couch in a suit, a man who has never been in a firefight, never received a folded flag, never sat across a kitchen table from a mother trying to understand what her child died for, or never cut an imbellical chord on a child some scumbag sodomite politician is going to demand you surrender to satisfy his bloodlust.
The Christian tradition is not without a vocabulary for what is visible in this man. Scripture does not leave us without categories for the phenomenon of a human will that has been entirely colonized, reorganized around an appetite that survives every rational argument against it and every human cost that should produce in any normal person at least a moment of hesitation. Paul told us that principalities and powers rule over us, and by that, he meant evil spirits.
"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Paul is not using some kind of first-century metaphor. He’s using a term referencing those influenced by devils, and a man who announces without an ounce of shame on national television that his loyalty belongs to a foreign government, who labels his own constituents enemies he stands against for wanting their children home, and who has spent thirty years ensuring that the blood cost of American foreign policy gets settled in American lives, who visibly brightens when the conversation turns to war the way other men brighten when someone mentions their grandchildren, that man fits the diagnostic whether it is comfortable to say so or not.
I have said Graham is possessed of demons in the past. I have said it when people told me I was being hyperbolic, and I am saying it again with the same seriousness I’m not exaggerating or being sarcastic. What consumes Lindsay Graham is not ideology, not strategic vision, not even ordinary political corruption, which at least has a financial logic, like Ted Cruz’s. What consumes Graham is something that wants blood, has always wanted blood, and has never wanted anything but blood, shed by as many people as is humanly possible. There is no difference between what Lindsay Graham is asking for and what Molech’s priests demanded when they stoked the fires of the belly of the bronze Baphomet. He’s demonic.
THE REIGION OF ZORRO RANCH
If you have not read The Religion of Epstein Island: Jewish Demons, Transhumanism, and Ancient Gods, find it here and read it, because this article will make more sense if you do. The short version is this: Epstein was not a criminal who happened to be rich and well-connected. He was not just an Israeli intelligence asset. He was a priest. The sexual abuse was a religious ritual. The children were not mere victims in the ordinary sense of that word, but also sacrificial offerings. The men who flew to that island were not merely wealthy perverts with poor judgment. They were congregants of a popular religion held to by a disproportionate number of the world’s wealthy and powerful. The island was the temple, the operation had a theology, and that theology was both ancient Mesopotamian and modern Transhumanism.
This week, federal and state law enforcement walked onto Zorro Ranch in New Mexico with ground-penetrating equipment and a mandate from a state truth commission that exists because the federal government spent years making sure this case stayed as quiet as the people running the federal government needed it to stay. They are looking for graves. Not hard drives, financial records, or additional documentation of what everyone already knows Epstein did. They are looking for graves, because witnesses coming forward to that commission say that girls were strangled on that property and buried in the hills outside the main compound on direct orders from Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving twenty years in federal prison and has nothing useful to say about any of it. The land has since been purchased and is being converted into a Christian retreat, which is the kind of detail that sounds like dark comedy. I can only imagine what the ghost stories are going to be like at those childrens’ camps.
Underneath the grave search, which is catastrophic enough to bring down institutions if anyone with actual power cared to pursue it seriously, is something the press is filing as a sidebar when it is in fact the headline. Witnesses told the commission they were drugged at the ranch, that they woke up surrounded by medical equipment with no memory of what had been done to them, and that reproductive tissue had been removed from their bodies while they were unconscious. A coded diary recovered in the Epstein document dump describes a woman who was used as a human incubator and had her child taken from her (to God knows where, or to whom). Another document in the same dump references Epstein offering cash payment to women willing to birth white babies for black market delivery.
Connect that info to what I’ve already documented for you at I2I from way back in October of last year. Epstein funded Harvard’s genetics programs to the tune of millions. He paid the salary of the man who invented the concept of artificial general intelligence. He donated to the World Transhumanist Association and funded its organizational infrastructure. He built a private scientific salon through the Edge Foundation, where eugenics was apparently polite conversation among Nobel laureates, and witnesses at those gatherings noted that can best be described as Transhumanist experimentation. Epstein told multiple people that Zorro Ranch was going to be an experimentation lab and breeding facility for his DNA. He wanted his brain and his reproductive organs cryogenically preserved. His own skin biopsy was used to generate cell lines. He enrolled himself in the Personal Genome Project. And none of this was your typical “rich guy eccentricity.” This describes an actual program with an actual budget, a staff willing to participate, a full medical facility, and a theology that accompanied all of it. 13
The theology is not complicated, and it is not new. The extremely wealthy have always had a blood fetish, and what shifts across centuries is the institutional scale and the scientific vocabulary available to make the fetish sound like philanthropy. What Epstein represented, and what his network of Edge Foundation billionaires, Harvard geneticists, and transhumanist philosophers represented, is a class of people who do not share your anthropology and are not pretending to.
They do not believe the human body is sacred. They do not believe suffering carries moral weight independent of its usefulness to someone more important than the person suffering. They do not believe children are anything other than a resource to be allocated by people with the money to do the allocating.
They are not trying to replace God. That framing is too modest for what the evidence in the Epstein file drop shows. They believe they are God, and they need to prove it by actualizing that Godhood through technology. Meanwhile, they’re also busy with the same task as Lindsay Graham, which is feeding the blood demons, the very principalities and powers that have placed them in control of a great portion of the world, and - unlike Epstein - most of the time, face no consequence for living above the law of mere mortal men.
EVERY JEW IS MESSIANIC
This week a prominent Israeli rabbi published a lecture arguing that the American war against Iran is ancient Jewish prophecy fulfilling itself in real time, that Trump is a Messiah sent to prepare the way, that the Third Temple will be built this year, that nine billion people will be converted to the reality of the divine presence when the Shekhinah descends from the heavenly Temple to the earthly one, and that God must first remove the Israeli Supreme Court before redemption can proceed.
And the aforementioned Rabbi is not a fringe figure in Israel, but is mainstream and prominent. He is cited and promoted as one of the most significant Torah thinkers of his generation, and his lecture received a professional write-up in mainstream Israeli press.
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