Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Instrad of reading "about" the new National Security Strategy, why not read the actual thing?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Se
curity-Strategy.pdf
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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But why do that when you can just keep your brain shut down and listen to Rachel Maddow tell you what to think?
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Quote:Aren't you supposed to be dead, 6ixStringJoker?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
But why do that when you can just keep your brain shut down and listen to Rachel Maddow tell you what to think?
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"Trump's claiming he has his highest poll numbers ever which means it's not just books he can't read. Trump's approval rating according to every major poll is the lowest since we flushed him out of office the first time. His negative rating is now at 60%. There are gas station bathrooms on Yelp with higher approval ratings than Donald Trump."
- Jimmy Kimmel
The fascist playbook clearly states that facts don't matter and if you keep repeating the lies eventually enough people will believe them. He's been the perfect Republican candidate because he can shamelessly lie about anything and will get aggressively agitated and start making threats when confronted with the truth.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Instrad of reading . . .
GOP says it'll take a lot more than eyewitness testimony, photos, DNA, toxicology reports, victim statements, wire transfers, emails, flight manifests, phone records, surveillance logs, bank records, audio, video, & total confessions for them to believe Trump's Epstein ties were more than coincidental.
Has anyone tried beating a confession out of him? Would that work?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Is This The End of the Free World?
Trump wants to MAGAfy Europe, too
By Paul Krugman | Dec 08, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-this-the-end-of-the-free-world
There was a time, not so long ago, when America was the leader of the free world. It was the first among equals within an alliance of nations bound together by shared values — above all a commitment to democracy and civil liberties. From London to Berlin to Tokyo, in the aftermath of genocide and the utter devastation of World War II, America – as Ronald Reagan put it – was the shining city on the hill. We should never forget that Americans played the pivotal roles in the Nuremberg trials, upholding the rule of law in an impartial and transparent manner in the trials of those who had committed unspeakable atrocities and acts of war. “Ich bin ein Berliner,” declared John F. Kennedy in Berlin, as East Germany tried to trap its own people behind the Berlin Wall.
MAGA, however, doesn’t want to be part of that world. In fact, it doesn’t want a world of democracy, civil liberties and the rule of law to exist. The Trump administration has become especially hostile to Europe, precisely because the Europeans are trying to hold on to the values MAGA is trying to destroy at home.
Last week the Trump administration released its updated National Security Strategy for the United States. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Se
curity-Strategy.pdf
Much of the document is vague, meandering and self-contradictory. But it becomes clear and focused when it turns to Europe. Quite simply, Trump and those around him hate Europe. And they hate it because it still honors the ideals they’re abandoning in America.
The language is astonishing. Europe, the document warns, faces “the stark prospect of civilizational erasure.” Why? Because “it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European.” I don’t know why they bothered with the euphemism: “non-European” clearly means “nonwhite.”
But there’s hope, the document declares, thanks to “the growing influence of patriotic European parties,” by which it clearly means parties like Germany’s neo-Nazi AfD.
The political scientist Henry Farrell sums it up this way:
This is, quite straightforwardly, a program for regime change in Europe, aimed at turning it into an illiberal polity. Accomplishing this transformation would involve undermining existing liberal governments in cahoots with Europe’s own far right, and turning Eastern Europe into an ideological wedge against its Western neighbors.
Where is this attack on Europe coming from? Some readers may remember the old slogan from the War on Terror days, “They hate us for our freedom.” Clearly, MAGA hates Europe for its freedom. The people trying to turn America into an authoritarian, white supremacist state, who want us to forsake democratic ideals in favor of Volk, of blood and soil nationalism, want to see Europe go down the same path.
There’s also the role of the tech bros — billionaires who still describe themselves as libertarian but have in practice become hardline authoritarians with enormous sway over the Trump administration. After the European Commission imposed a modest fine on X for failing to obey its rules on transparency, Elon Musk declared that the EU should be abolished and threatened personal retribution against the “EU woke Stasi commissars” responsible for the ruling. And the Trump Administration is acting as the tech bros’ enforcer against Europe, threatening to keep steel tariffs high unless the EU scales back its tech regulations.
Moreover, this is part of a general pattern: the broligarchs hate Europe because the Europeans are trying to impose sensible limits to protect their societies from the well-documented psychological and economic harms that are inflicted by an unrestrained Silicon Valley agenda. For example, the EU is trying to limit the proliferation of digital hate speech as well as the pernicious effects of social med
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The Trump Administration’s Chaos in the Caribbean
Pete Hegseth’s conduct is a case study in how the government’s growing sense of heedlessness and unaccountability is shaping disastrous policy.
By Jonathan Blitzer | December 7, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/the-trump-administration
s-chaos-in-the-caribbean
In a federal courtroom in New York City last year, a crime boss from the most notorious drug cartel in Honduras took the stand to testify against Juan Orlando Hernández, the country’s former President. “They should have tried to catch us,” he said, of the Honduran government, which Hernández led from 2014 to 2022. Instead, “they allied with us.” The former President was found to be responsible for more than four hundred tons of cocaine reaching the United States. The Justice Department had been building the case against many of his family members and associates for years, most notably during Donald Trump’s first term.
On November 28th, two days before national elections in Honduras, President Trump announced that he was pardoning Hernández, who was just a year into a forty-five-year sentence he was serving in a federal prison in West Virginia. “It was a Biden setup,” Trump said. “I looked at the facts.” Though the White House denied it, such facts had apparently come via the political operative Roger Stone, who’d handed the President a letter from Hernández in which the former President called Trump “Your Excellency” and compared his plight to Trump’s own “persecution.” The two men’s shared resentment of Joe Biden evidently proved more important than Hernández’s rap sheet. Trump didn’t seem troubled by the fact that combatting the flow of drugs into the U.S. is his Administration’s principal rationale for launching a string of boat attacks in the Caribbean. Those attacks, in which the U.S. military, without evidence, has targeted alleged drug traffickers and killed at least eighty-seven people to date, appear to violate national and international law.
The same day that Trump announced the pardon, the Washington Post published a story saying that the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, had reportedly given a verbal order to kill two survivors of a September strike in the Caribbean. It is a war crime to kill anyone who has surrendered or is incapacitated. Hegseth, who had watched the operation from a remote location, immediately deflected responsibility to Admiral Frank M. Bradley, the commanding officer in charge of the operation. “I did not personally see survivors,” Hegseth said. “This is called the fog of war.”
On Thursday, Bradley briefed members of Congress in a closed-door session at the Capitol, where he denied that there had been an order to kill survivors and justified the second strike on the ground that undestroyed cocaine on the boat posed a “risk.” Predictably, the vast majority of Republicans were ready to move on, but lawmakers who saw the footage described the two survivors clinging to part of the boat. “How is that legitimate,” Senator Chris Coons, of Delaware, asked of the strikes, “if President Trump can pardon a convicted narcoterrorist trafficker?” By that evening, Hegseth was facing another scandal: the inspector general at the Department of Defense had just released to Congress its report that he had “created a risk to operational security” by sharing classified details of an attack in Yemen in a group chat on his phone. “Total exoneration,” Hegseth wrote on X.
Hegseth’s conduct is a case study in how the Administration’s growing sense of heedlessness and unaccountability is shaping disastrous policy. Because the President had labelled several drug cartels “terrorist organizations” in a series of executive orders, the government simply asserted that suspected traffickers were “unlawful combatants” who could be summarily killed. Trump, citing drug-overdose deaths in the U.S., claimed that the boat attacks were a form of national self-defense. But the drug overwhelmingly responsible for such deaths in the U.S. is fentanyl, which do
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Instrad of reading . . .
SECOND:
Instrad?
GOP says it'll take a lot more than eyewitness testimony, photos, DNA, toxicology reports, victim statements, wire transfers, emails, flight manifests, phone records, surveillance logs, bank records, audio, video, & total confessions for them to believe Trump's Epstein ties were more than coincidental.
Yes, Trump's Epstein ties were "more than coincidental“. But were they CRIMINAL? So far, there's no evidence that Trump was anything more than a creepy peeping Tom with young teens.
This is you just posting bullcrap. TRUMP! RUSSIA! COLLUSION! all over again.
There most be something probative in that pile of info, right?
So if you've got it, post it.
If not STFU.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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FROM THE NEW SECURITY STRATEGY
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I. Introduction – What Is American Strategy?
1. How American “Strategy” Went Astray
To ensure that America remains the world’s strongest, richest, most powerful, and
most successful country for decades to come, our country needs a coherent,
focused strategy for how we interact with the world. And to get that right, all
Americans need to know what, exactly, it is we are trying to do and why.
A “strategy” is a concrete, realistic plan that explains the essential connection
between ends and means: it begins from an accurate assessment of what is desired
and what tools are available, or can realistically be created, to achieve the desired
outcomes.
A strategy must evaluate, sort, and prioritize. Not every country, region, issue, or cause—however worthy—can be the focus of American strategy.
The purpose of foreign policy is the protection of core national interests; that is the sole focus of this strategy.
American strategies since the end of the Cold War have fallen short—they have been laundry lists of wishes or desired end states; have not clearly defined what we want but instead stated vague platitudes; and have often misjudged what we should want.
After the end of the Cold War, American foreign policy elites convinced
themselves that permanent American domination of the entire world was in the
best interests of our country. Yet the affairs of other countries are our concern only
if their activities directly threaten our interests.
Our elites badly miscalculated America’s willingness to shoulder forever global
burdens to which the American people saw no connection to the national interest.
They overestimated America’s ability to fund, simultaneously, a massive welfare-
regulatory-administrative state alongside a massive military, diplomatic,
intelligence, and foreign aid complex. They placed hugely misguided and
destructive bets on globalism and so-called “free trade” that hollowed out the very
middle class and industrial base on which American economic and military
preeminence depend. They allowed allies and partners to offload the cost of their
defense onto the American people, and sometimes to suck us into conflicts and controversies central to their interests but peripheral or irrelevant to our own. And
they lashed American policy to a network of international institutions, some of
which are driven by outright anti-Americanism and many by a transnationalism
that explicitly seeks to dissolve individual state sovereignty. In sum, not only did
our elites pursue a fundamentally undesirable and impossible goal, in doing so they
undermined the very means necessary to achieve that goal: the character of our
nation upon which its power, wealth, and decency were built.
. . .
II. What Should the United States Want?
1. What Do We Want Overall?
First and foremost, we want the continued survival and safety of the United States
as an independent, sovereign republic whose government secures the God-given
natural rights of its citizens and prioritizes their well-being and interests.
We want to protect this country, its people, its territory, its economy, and its way of
life from military attack and hostile foreign influence, whether espionage,
predatory trade practices, drug and human trafficking, destructive propaganda and
influence operations, cultural subversion, or any other threat to our nation.
We want full control over our borders, over our immigration system, and over
transportation networks through which people come into our country—legally and
illegally. We want a world in which migration is not merely “orderly” but one in
which sovereign countries work together to stop rather than facilitate destabilizing
population flows, and have full control over whom they do and do not admit.
We want a resilient national infrastructure that can withstand natural disasters,
resist and thwart foreign threats, and prevent or mitigate any events that m
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Instrad of reading . . .
SECOND:
Instrad?
GOP says it'll take a lot more than eyewitness testimony, photos, DNA, toxicology reports, victim statements, wire transfers, emails, flight manifests, phone records, surveillance logs, bank records, audio, video, & total confessions for them to believe Trump's Epstein ties were more than coincidental.
Yes, Trump's Epstein ties were "more than coincidental“. But were they CRIMINAL? So far, there's no evidence that Trump was anything more than a creepy peeping Tom with young teens.
This is you just posting bullcrap. TRUMP! RUSSIA! COLLUSION! all over again.
There most be something probative in that pile of info, right?
So if you've got it, post it.
If not STFU.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Absolute worst case scenario, Trump's earlier days looked like a white version of any Rap video made in the last 25 years. Big money and pretty girls everywhere you looked.
Where do you think they got the idea? From Trump and from Hugh Heffner.
Everybody knows that sex sells. Even the white college "educated" liberals. They know it the most, and they hate it because they're all fat and nasty.
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Quote:NOTHING is criminal. I learned that in a high school class on Constitutional law that nothing is unlawful until a court says it is. But, and this is a very big but, because the Supreme Court has ruled incorrectly many times, the courts are not a sufficient guide for what is right and wrong. See, for example, Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857).
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yes, Trump's Epstein ties were "more than coincidental“. But were they CRIMINAL? So far, there's no evidence that Trump was anything more than a creepy peeping Tom with young teens.
This is you just posting bullcrap. TRUMP! RUSSIA! COLLUSION! all over again.
Often, there is a minority on the court that ruled the opposite of the Supreme Court justices in the majority, who were absolutely determined to do wrong.
The Worst Supreme Court Decisions of All Time
https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/supreme-court/13-worst-supreme-cour
t-decisions-of-all-time/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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