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I do not mean to dismiss the danger and depravity of the NSS. I do mean to counter the narratives that say, “Trump declared this, and Trump declared that,” without acknowledging that Trump can declare that pigs can fly, but saying so doesn’t make it true.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I do not mean to dismiss the danger and depravity of the NSS. I do mean to counter the narratives that say, “Trump declared this, and Trump declared that,” without acknowledging that Trump can declare that pigs can fly, but saying so doesn’t make it true.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
A substantial portion of US defense spending is designed to protect against an attack by Russia and to prepare for an attack on Russia.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
December 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A substantial portion of US defense spending is designed to protect against an attack by Russia and to prepare for an attack on Russia.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
Russia is irrelevant as a global economic power and as a US trading partner. “Re-orienting” the US toward Russia on an economic level is pure silliness.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
December 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Russia is irrelevant as a global economic power and as a US trading partner. “Re-orienting” the US toward Russia on an economic level is pure silliness.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
The NSS is an abomination. It promotes white supremacy and European purity by declaring the era of mass migration is over. It defines the animating principle of US foreign policy as “What’s in it for the US?” rather than “What advances the common interests of the US and its allies?”
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
December 8, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The NSS is an abomination. It promotes white supremacy and European purity by declaring the era of mass migration is over. It defines the animating principle of US foreign policy as “What’s in it for the US?” rather than “What advances the common interests of the US and its allies?”
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
The Trump administration issues its first major statement on foreign policy and national security strategy, and Russia responds, “Hooray! We agree!” That should tell us all we need to know about whether the NSS is in the interest of the US and its allies.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The Trump administration issues its first major statement on foreign policy and national security strategy, and Russia responds, “Hooray! We agree!” That should tell us all we need to know about whether the NSS is in the interest of the US and its allies.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
The NSS promotes:
The US will help “reestablish strategic stability in Russia.”
It is a “core interest” of the US to end the war in Ukraine immediately.
The notion of NATO as a growing alliance must end.
Robert Hubbell
The US will help “reestablish strategic stability in Russia.”
It is a “core interest” of the US to end the war in Ukraine immediately.
The notion of NATO as a growing alliance must end.
Robert Hubbell
December 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The NSS promotes:
The US will help “reestablish strategic stability in Russia.”
It is a “core interest” of the US to end the war in Ukraine immediately.
The notion of NATO as a growing alliance must end.
Robert Hubbell
The US will help “reestablish strategic stability in Russia.”
It is a “core interest” of the US to end the war in Ukraine immediately.
The notion of NATO as a growing alliance must end.
Robert Hubbell
US foreign embassies must promote US businesses in their host countries, especially opportunities to win major government contracts.
The US will maintain military and economic dominance hemisphere and will use military force to do so. (Trump names this doctrine after himself.)
Robert Hubbell
The US will maintain military and economic dominance hemisphere and will use military force to do so. (Trump names this doctrine after himself.)
Robert Hubbell
December 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
US foreign embassies must promote US businesses in their host countries, especially opportunities to win major government contracts.
The US will maintain military and economic dominance hemisphere and will use military force to do so. (Trump names this doctrine after himself.)
Robert Hubbell
The US will maintain military and economic dominance hemisphere and will use military force to do so. (Trump names this doctrine after himself.)
Robert Hubbell
The NSS reads like a Steven Miller fever dream:
In everything we do, we put America First.
The Era of Mass Migration Is Over.
The US must promote European greatness by preventing civilizational erasure.
We want Europe to remain European by increasing birthrate.
Robert Hubbell
In everything we do, we put America First.
The Era of Mass Migration Is Over.
The US must promote European greatness by preventing civilizational erasure.
We want Europe to remain European by increasing birthrate.
Robert Hubbell
December 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The NSS reads like a Steven Miller fever dream:
In everything we do, we put America First.
The Era of Mass Migration Is Over.
The US must promote European greatness by preventing civilizational erasure.
We want Europe to remain European by increasing birthrate.
Robert Hubbell
In everything we do, we put America First.
The Era of Mass Migration Is Over.
The US must promote European greatness by preventing civilizational erasure.
We want Europe to remain European by increasing birthrate.
Robert Hubbell
The wish list in the NSS ignores long-standing, deeply embedded political, economic, and military relationships that have taken a century to build and will not wither in the few remaining years that Trump and Steven Miller will have nominal control of US foreign policy.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The wish list in the NSS ignores long-standing, deeply embedded political, economic, and military relationships that have taken a century to build and will not wither in the few remaining years that Trump and Steven Miller will have nominal control of US foreign policy.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
While we should not underestimate the damage Trump can inflict, the NSS presumes the administration will be able to shape the future by implementing policy in a disciplined and coherent fashion—something it has shown no ability to do.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
December 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
While we should not underestimate the damage Trump can inflict, the NSS presumes the administration will be able to shape the future by implementing policy in a disciplined and coherent fashion—something it has shown no ability to do.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
If the NSS is operationalized, the world would become more dangerous, unstable, and unsustainable.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
December 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
If the NSS is operationalized, the world would become more dangerous, unstable, and unsustainable.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
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Oligarchs and extreme wealth inequality are your real enemies. Not immigrants. Not Muslims. Not China. Not gay or trans people. Not the "War on Drugs" or "War on Terror". Billionaires are the enemy. Destroy them.
In this video, The Intellectualist examines whether economic inequality in the U.S. today is worse than pre-revolutionary France. Using Federal Reserve, CBO data, and economic history, we reveal a shocking answer: the wealth gap in America is worse.
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Why America's Economic Inequality in 2024 Is Worse Than Pre-Revolutionary France
In this video, The Intellectualist explores a report by the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth, 1989 to 2019, that...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Oligarchs and extreme wealth inequality are your real enemies. Not immigrants. Not Muslims. Not China. Not gay or trans people. Not the "War on Drugs" or "War on Terror". Billionaires are the enemy. Destroy them.
Trump has been doing everything he can to destroy the global alliances and economic relationships that have fueled the (mostly) peaceful post-WWII expansion.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
December 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Trump has been doing everything he can to destroy the global alliances and economic relationships that have fueled the (mostly) peaceful post-WWII expansion.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
Worse, the NSS is animated by racist, white supremacist ideology designed to maintain “national purity” among European nations.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
December 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Worse, the NSS is animated by racist, white supremacist ideology designed to maintain “national purity” among European nations.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
The NSS is an abomination. It repudiates the “enlightened values that have long anchored [US] foreign policy,” and that “America First becomes a naked assertion of power that owes more to the 19th century than the world that America built after the second world war.”
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
December 8, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The NSS is an abomination. It repudiates the “enlightened values that have long anchored [US] foreign policy,” and that “America First becomes a naked assertion of power that owes more to the 19th century than the world that America built after the second world war.”
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
Trump administration released a new National Security Strategy (NSS). The document reshapes doctrines to include America First, white supremacy in the US and Europe, monetize diplomacy, prevent migration across the globe, and help the strategic stability of Russia.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Trump administration released a new National Security Strategy (NSS). The document reshapes doctrines to include America First, white supremacy in the US and Europe, monetize diplomacy, prevent migration across the globe, and help the strategic stability of Russia.
Robert Hubbell
Robert Hubbell
Trump pardoned former Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar, and then lashed out at him for saying he’d run again as a Democrat rather than pay Trump back for the pardon by switching parties. That’s not the only questionable pardon. .
Joyce Vance
Joyce Vance
December 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Trump pardoned former Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar, and then lashed out at him for saying he’d run again as a Democrat rather than pay Trump back for the pardon by switching parties. That’s not the only questionable pardon. .
Joyce Vance
Joyce Vance
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That’s Trump’s goal.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
That’s Trump’s goal.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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While SCOTUS’s decision to let Texas use its mid-decade gerrymander for next year’s midterms comes as a devastating blow for minority voters in Texas, it could also make it harder for the GOP and the Department of Justice to block California’s voter-approved Prop 50 map.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
December 8, 2025 at 5:52 AM
While SCOTUS’s decision to let Texas use its mid-decade gerrymander for next year’s midterms comes as a devastating blow for minority voters in Texas, it could also make it harder for the GOP and the Department of Justice to block California’s voter-approved Prop 50 map.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
While SCOTUS’s decision to let Texas use its mid-decade gerrymander for next year’s midterms comes as a devastating blow for minority voters in Texas, it could also make it harder for the GOP and the Department of Justice to block California’s voter-approved Prop 50 map.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
While SCOTUS’s decision to let Texas use its mid-decade gerrymander for next year’s midterms comes as a devastating blow for minority voters in Texas, it could also make it harder for the GOP and the Department of Justice to block California’s voter-approved Prop 50 map.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) became the latest election official to refuse the Trump DOJ’s demand to obtain unredacted voter registration records, calling the request unlawful and dangerous.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
December 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) became the latest election official to refuse the Trump DOJ’s demand to obtain unredacted voter registration records, calling the request unlawful and dangerous.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
Sabrina Carpenter spoke out against the White House using her song in a pro-ICE video, saying “this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.” Yay for her!
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Sabrina Carpenter spoke out against the White House using her song in a pro-ICE video, saying “this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.” Yay for her!
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
A study in the journal Social Science & Medicine found that fighting fascism—and volunteering in general—slows down aging in retirees! This does not surprise me.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
December 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
A study in the journal Social Science & Medicine found that fighting fascism—and volunteering in general—slows down aging in retirees! This does not surprise me.
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
Aftyn Behn didn’t win her race, but she did swing her ruby red Tennessee district 13 points to the left! Republicans are panicking about the implications — if every House district in the country shifted left by the same margin Democrats would flip 43 seats next year —
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Aftyn Behn didn’t win her race, but she did swing her ruby red Tennessee district 13 points to the left! Republicans are panicking about the implications — if every House district in the country shifted left by the same margin Democrats would flip 43 seats next year —
Jessica Craven
Jessica Craven
The NSS’s narrative of a president personally extinguishing eight global conflicts through sheer force of charisma and “dealmaking ability” would be comical if not presented with such solemnity.
George Cummings
George Cummings
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The NSS’s narrative of a president personally extinguishing eight global conflicts through sheer force of charisma and “dealmaking ability” would be comical if not presented with such solemnity.
George Cummings
George Cummings