Super-Popular Doctor Canceled by Chase Bank Warns ‘Social Credit System’ Is Already Here

JP Morgan Chase Bank has a reputation as a “woke” bank that shills for leftist social causes while it openly discriminates against conservatives, most recently shutting down the business and personal accounts of COVID-19 dissenter Dr. Joseph Mercola, a super-popular proponent of alternative medicine and marketer of natural health products.

This from wndnewscenter.org.

But it didn’t stop there: as WND reported, on July 13 Chase also shut down the accounts of Mercola Market’s CEO, CFO and even those of their respective spouses and children. Chase gave one employee some more time to find a new bank because shutting down her account disrupted her ability to provide care for her bedridden husband with dementia.

Dr. Mercola said in an interview:

This is just not fair at all. She has nothing to do with this!

Dr. Joseph Mercola

Now the victimized doctor who “triggered” pro-COVID-vaccine progressives is warning that the “social credit system”—exemplified by Communist China, which monitors and controls people through digitized money—is already here, and now threatens everyone.

Mercola said in an extended tweet (“X”) Monday:

What we’re seeing is the weaponization of finance, where people whose views or actions go against the official narrative are cut off from basic financial services.

This is the social credit system at work and, soon, it will be used against everyone.

He added that, ironically:

Chase had no problem banking with now-deceased notorious pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

And that:

The debanking of employees and their families is a social credit system tactic to make people start policing each other by punishing associations. This creates discord and distrust, and forces people to turn on each other for self-preservation.

In the video interview with Del Bigtree posted on his new Substack page, Mercola urged people to “get out of the big banks.”

He wrote that he his taking his case against Chase to Florida’s attorney general to test a new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that:

[P]rohibits financial institutions from denying or canceling services based on political or religious beliefs.

Bank’s attack on renowned vaccine skeptic includes closing accounts

Dr. Mercola further explained:

Essentially, we’re the test case to determine whether the governor’s new law has teeth or not.

This law has never been invoked before, so there’s no procedure in place to enforce it. We’re hoping the attorney general will sort that out.

Mercola told Bigtree he is now pursuing a banking relationship with Old Glory Bank, created by conservatives like country star John Rich and GOP presidential candidate and longtime WND columnist Larry Elder as a haven for patriotic conservatives.

Old Glory states:

We are the bank for Middle Americans who hold tight to their beliefs of liberty, faith, family, security, privacy, and love of country, with a deep appreciation of the military and law and order.

In a statement provided to Florida’s Voice, Chase said the Mercola-affiliated accounts weren’t closed for political ‘affiliations,’ telling FV:

For privacy reasons, we can’t discuss customer relationships, but we don’t close accounts because of political affiliations, and we didn’t do so in this case.

But that claim might be tough to swallow for conservatives who are seeing a disturbing trend of intolerance and left-wing activism at banks such as Chase, which is hardly new to the “woke” cancellation game. The bank has become a leader among financial corporations in punishing conservatives.

Another Chase victim is the National Committee for Religious Freedom, led by Sam Brownback, former Kansas governor, U.S. senator and religious freedom ambassador under Trump.

Daily Signal reported:

In May 2022, three weeks after opening the account, JPMorgan Chase closed it.

Brownback, along with other conservative organizations, raised the question of whether the move was done for religious or political reasons. JPMorgan has said it had nothing to do with political or religious views and said the decision was made because, under federal laws, it needed more information about donors and recipients than the nonprofit provided.

Then the banking giant tried to quash two shareholder resolutions related to the account closure before urging a “no” vote to investigate potential anti-religious discrimination at Chase.

Pro-Trump pundit, podcaster and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza is also among the victims of “wrongthink,” recalling in a 2021 video how he was pulled aside by a Chase banker and told his Chase credit card was getting canceled for no reason of financial misconduct.

D’Souza said in the video podcast, below:

Because of the ideology of woke corporations, it’s forcing conservatives and Republicans—in the normal course of life … —to find their own outlets, in a sense to create their own alternative universe. And what that means is, if we can’t bank with the woke banks, we have to bank somewhere else, and create our own banks. … The bottom line of it is we sort of have to create, you might almost say, a politically segregated world.

In the U.K., Brexit champion and conservative leader Nigel Farage faced the same sort of issue but the viewpoint discrimination he experienced ultimately helped topple a bank executive:

Final thoughts: Some days it seems Conservatism is moving one step forward then two steps backward. But like George Washington who lost many more battles than he won yet still prevailed, We the People must one day prevail or the United States of America as we know it will cease to be.

God speed to Conservatism and to the Take Back of our Constitutional Republic.