Wednesday, April 1, 2026

 
Dr. Anthony Chaffee.

JOHN A KONRAD V: The think tanks didn’t offer an alternative. They offered learned helplessness. And that helplessness is the context in which Hormuz is now playing out.

And there was an even bigger loss that didn't make headlines but I'm told hit Trump personally and it reveals how the military academia and think tank establishment, which gets significant funding and support from Europe, fights back. In December, Trump announced the Golden Fleet initiative at Mar-a-Lago: a new class of Trump-class battleships, 30,000-40,000 tons, armed with hypersonic missiles, railguns, lasers, and nuclear cruise missiles. The USS Defiant. A ship he designed with to hold chokepoints like Hormuz. Twenty to twenty-five hulls. The most ambitious surface combatant program since World War II. Within 72 hours, the national security think tank world lined up to kill it. CSIS published a piece titled “The Golden Fleet’s Battleship Will Never Sail,” estimating $9 billion per hull, predicting cancellation before the first ship hits water. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies called it a waste. Retired admirals said the Navy should buy small distributed platforms instead. Every defense analyst in Washington competed to be quoted saying it was impossible. The military industrial establishment, with the help from allied think tanks and colleges, lined up to piss on the plans. The same establishment that can’t build a frigate on time, that delivered the Constellation class years late before canceling it, that produced three Zumwalts instead of thirty, that has presided over the smallest Navy since World War I, lined up overnight to explain why America can’t build big ships anymore. The same people who have no plan to close the destroyer gap that is right now undermining convoy escort operations in the Gulf. The think tanks didn’t offer an alternative. They offered learned helplessness. And that helplessness is the context in which Hormuz is now playing out.

And the tariff decision took away a huge source of revenue to fund it without congress... which won't even vote on the bipartisan SHIPs Act. 

HITLER to WOKESTER: You want to force your ideas into the population, right? Me too!

WOKESTER:  I'm a time traveler from the year 2026 and I'm here to end you, Hitler.  Soon we will be able to take back the White House and we will be able to use the government to force people to follow our great ideas.

HITLER:  You want to force your ideas into the population, right?  Me too!  

WOKESTER:  You and I have nothing in common what I'm saying is that there people in our time with dangerous ideas and we need to silence them.

HITLER: Silence those who disagree with you?  I do that too!  Ha ha ha!

WOKESTER:  What I'm saying is that we are very close to creating Utopia as long as we can get rid of some undesirable people grouping.

HITLER:  Yes, the Jews.  

WOKESTER:  Yes, yes, the Jews!  Ahhh!

DR. ANTHONY CHAFFEE: Avoiding animal fat sacrifices vital nutrients--DHA, EPA, vitamins D3, K2, A, E, choline, cholesterol, and saturated fat--essential for neurological function and child brain development.


Ancestors ate high-fat megafauna (mammoths). Hunters today still target fat-rich animals--whales, seals, polar bears.  Even Arctic fish are fat-rich.  Large animals especially, Arctic species hunted in the Ice Ages, naturally carry a higher percentage of body fat.  Significant inter-abdominal fat is also found in the omentum, mesentery, and around the kidneys. Healthy animals simply have more fat than starving ones.

Due to decades of processed food propaganda, people now discard nutritious subcutaneous and abdominal fat, consuming only lean muscle.  Discarding this fat is not an ancestral practice. 

Avoiding animal fat sacrifices vital nutrients--DHA, EPA, vitamins D3, K2, A, E, choline, cholesterol, and saturated fat--essential for neurological function and child brain development. 

Weight stalls often stem from a "dirty carnivore" diet, [dairy, artificial sweeteners]. When issues arise, people wrongly blame high fat, forgetting high-fat carnivore initially drove their health and weight loss.  Switching to low-fat risks malnutrition and protein poisoning, which can result in weight loss, but of the expensive health.  As health suffers, people blame long-term ketosis on the poor health effects, even though this is against all the best long-term peer-reviewed evidence.  See my YouTube video, Is Ketosis Harmful? for more.

Remember that your hormones like testosterone and estrogen are made out of cholesterol, and avoiding fat will make all hormones suffer.  Eating carbs raises insulin and insulin resistance, which suppresses testosterone in men and estrogen in women.  

Fat is an essential nutrient and is good for you.  Don't avoid fat just because it's trendy and you don't want to give up dairy or sweets.

That is good for you, so eat the damn fat.

Dr. Anthony Chaffee discusses Ketogenic Diets here, here, and here.