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America didn’t lose its democracy overnight, it gave it away, convinced that government itself was the enemy. Unilateral Disarmament traces deliberate sabotage, bipartisan failure, and rising oligarchy left citizens defenseless against concentrated power. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
Unilateral Disarmament
Earl Smith
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December 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
America didn’t lose its democracy overnight, it gave it away, convinced that government itself was the enemy. Unilateral Disarmament traces deliberate sabotage, bipartisan failure, and rising oligarchy left citizens defenseless against concentrated power. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
My short story “An Act of Kindness” has been published in Bewildering Stories.
The story explores how small choices can carry unexpected weight, and how compassion can surface in moments that don’t announce themselves as heroic.
www.bewilderingstories.com/issue1120/ac...
The story explores how small choices can carry unexpected weight, and how compassion can surface in moments that don’t announce themselves as heroic.
www.bewilderingstories.com/issue1120/ac...
December 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
My short story “An Act of Kindness” has been published in Bewildering Stories.
The story explores how small choices can carry unexpected weight, and how compassion can surface in moments that don’t announce themselves as heroic.
www.bewilderingstories.com/issue1120/ac...
The story explores how small choices can carry unexpected weight, and how compassion can surface in moments that don’t announce themselves as heroic.
www.bewilderingstories.com/issue1120/ac...
My short story - Ashes and Rain - has been published in Issue Two: Ghosts of Our Past of Still Here Magazine. www.smithtales.com/ashes-and-ra...
Ashes and Rain
Earl Smith
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Paris. City of lights. Couples on romantic walks. Holding hands
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December 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My short story - Ashes and Rain - has been published in Issue Two: Ghosts of Our Past of Still Here Magazine. www.smithtales.com/ashes-and-ra...
All you farmers who voted for Trump - this is what you really are!
December 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
All you farmers who voted for Trump - this is what you really are!
Question: Granted that the Constitution grants the President unimpeded right to pardon, but if the President grants a pardon for federal crimes in exchange for a bribe or some other favor, is that a crime that renders the pardon null and void? Legal scholars, what say ye?
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Question: Granted that the Constitution grants the President unimpeded right to pardon, but if the President grants a pardon for federal crimes in exchange for a bribe or some other favor, is that a crime that renders the pardon null and void? Legal scholars, what say ye?
Unless the United States restores the Founders’ vision - of government as the instrument through which the people restrain economic power and protect their own liberty - then the American experiment in self-government is nearing its end. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Unless the United States restores the Founders’ vision - of government as the instrument through which the people restrain economic power and protect their own liberty - then the American experiment in self-government is nearing its end. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
My short story - Life Bends Differently - has been published The Write Launch literary magazine . The story began with a simple question: What happens when two people meet at a crossroads where culture, memory, and morality collide?. thewritelaunch.com/2025/11/life...
Life Bends Differently | Short Story by Earl R. Smith II in the November issue of The Write Launch
It was a bright afternoon. Sunlight fell across the benches and paths, making the leaves glow in green and gold. Angelique sat on a bench near the lake, one leg crossed over the other, hands folded on...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
My short story - Life Bends Differently - has been published The Write Launch literary magazine . The story began with a simple question: What happens when two people meet at a crossroads where culture, memory, and morality collide?. thewritelaunch.com/2025/11/life...
Our task now is not to destroy capitalism, but to reassert the primacy of democracy over it - to remember that markets exist to serve people, not rule them. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
The Republic and Its Reckoning: Capitalism, Socialism, and the Forgotten Vision of the Founders
Earl R Smith II, PhD
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November 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Our task now is not to destroy capitalism, but to reassert the primacy of democracy over it - to remember that markets exist to serve people, not rule them. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
A republic cannot survive if its government behaves like a business, and its citizens are treated as expendable inventory. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
The Republic and Its Reckoning: Capitalism, Socialism, and the Forgotten Vision of the Founders
Earl R Smith II, PhD
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November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A republic cannot survive if its government behaves like a business, and its citizens are treated as expendable inventory. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
“The Café Reunion” began as a meditation on unfinished conversations - the kind that linger in the quiet corners of memory. I wanted to explore what happens when the past suddenly reenters the present, not as nostalgia, but as recognition. www.discretionarylove.com/the-cafe-reu...
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“The Café Reunion” began as a meditation on unfinished conversations - the kind that linger in the quiet corners of memory. I wanted to explore what happens when the past suddenly reenters the present, not as nostalgia, but as recognition. www.discretionarylove.com/the-cafe-reu...
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I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
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Crockett: When you go and you hit those booths come the midterms, think about which party decided that it was okay to literally be on vacation while people were going hungry in the streets of America.
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Crockett: When you go and you hit those booths come the midterms, think about which party decided that it was okay to literally be on vacation while people were going hungry in the streets of America.
The usefulness of understanding the True Trump Derangement Syndrome is that it provides a road map to the barely hidden agenda of the cult. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
The True Trump Derangement Syndrome
Earl R Smith II, PhD
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November 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The usefulness of understanding the True Trump Derangement Syndrome is that it provides a road map to the barely hidden agenda of the cult. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
One of the most reliable ways of looking at MAGA and Trump supporters is to automatically default to the mirror image of their language. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
The True Trump Derangement Syndrome
Earl R Smith II, PhD
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November 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
One of the most reliable ways of looking at MAGA and Trump supporters is to automatically default to the mirror image of their language. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
“When there is no more money to be made from the poor, you simply throw them away.” The Billionaire’s Guide to Social Dominance: Chapter Five: The Privilege of Enforcing Parsimony. chiefphd.substack.com/p/the-final-...
The Final Battler Between Good and Evil
Part Two
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November 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“When there is no more money to be made from the poor, you simply throw them away.” The Billionaire’s Guide to Social Dominance: Chapter Five: The Privilege of Enforcing Parsimony. chiefphd.substack.com/p/the-final-...
Good fails against evil when it underestimates the venality of its adversary. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
The Final Battler Between Good and Evil
Part Two
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November 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Good fails against evil when it underestimates the venality of its adversary. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
Why don't they find a Federal judge & get the oath administered? Why are we always watching the Democratic leadership on the sidelines, waiting to be the victim yet again? Isn't there 1 in the crowd that has the balls to get her sworn in and give the sign of happy motoring to Trumps little Johnson?
October 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Why don't they find a Federal judge & get the oath administered? Why are we always watching the Democratic leadership on the sidelines, waiting to be the victim yet again? Isn't there 1 in the crowd that has the balls to get her sworn in and give the sign of happy motoring to Trumps little Johnson?
After an ineffective attempt at establishing a fascist oligarchy during Trump’s first term, the forces of fascism used the four years of the Biden administration to reorganize and prepare for a final assault. With Trump’s reelection, that assault began in earnest. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
The Final Battler Between Good and Evil
Part One
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October 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
After an ineffective attempt at establishing a fascist oligarchy during Trump’s first term, the forces of fascism used the four years of the Biden administration to reorganize and prepare for a final assault. With Trump’s reelection, that assault began in earnest. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
This is a journey through an attitude that most Americans still do not want to admit as real, let alone try to understand. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
The Final Battler Between Good and Evil
Part One
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October 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is a journey through an attitude that most Americans still do not want to admit as real, let alone try to understand. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
Have you wondered why Jeffreis doesn't swear in Grijalva, have her sign the discharge petition and let Johnson challenge it? He could do it. There's no requirement the Speaker administrate the oath. But he won't because he wants to play victum to Johnson's master role. The Ds are pathetic pussies.
October 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Have you wondered why Jeffreis doesn't swear in Grijalva, have her sign the discharge petition and let Johnson challenge it? He could do it. There's no requirement the Speaker administrate the oath. But he won't because he wants to play victum to Johnson's master role. The Ds are pathetic pussies.
The bailout is financially critical to hedge fund billionaire Robert Citrone, a longtime friend, political donor, and former colleague of Secretary Bessent. Citrone has substantial investments in Argentina —would lose heavily without U.S. intervention open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
Bailing Out the Untra-Wealthy
The Trump Administration is using federal funds to bailout one of its major donors - billionaire Hedge fund investor Robert Citrone - and you are footing the bill!
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October 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The bailout is financially critical to hedge fund billionaire Robert Citrone, a longtime friend, political donor, and former colleague of Secretary Bessent. Citrone has substantial investments in Argentina —would lose heavily without U.S. intervention open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
Here's a reality heck for all those farmers and ranchers who voted for Trump. The Trump Administration is using federal funds to bailout one of its major donors - billionaire Hedge fund investor Robert Citrone - and you are footing the bill! open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
Bailing Out the Untra-Wealthy
The Trump Administration is using federal funds to bailout one of its major donors - billionaire Hedge fund investor Robert Citrone - and you are footing the bill!
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Here's a reality heck for all those farmers and ranchers who voted for Trump. The Trump Administration is using federal funds to bailout one of its major donors - billionaire Hedge fund investor Robert Citrone - and you are footing the bill! open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
For decades, Republicans have reshaped America with ruthless intent. Democrats, mistaking civility for virtue, have normalized each loss as the new political order. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
The Art of Surrender: The Hollow Opposition
Earl R Smith II, PhD
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October 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
For decades, Republicans have reshaped America with ruthless intent. Democrats, mistaking civility for virtue, have normalized each loss as the new political order. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
The founders designed checks & balances to prevent tyranny. They assumed a functioning civic virtue, a citizenry that believed reform was possible - leadership that offered something worth preserving. Without that, the mechanism turns inward, grinds itself to dust. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
A Hobson’s Choice
Earl R Smith II, PhD
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October 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The founders designed checks & balances to prevent tyranny. They assumed a functioning civic virtue, a citizenry that believed reform was possible - leadership that offered something worth preserving. Without that, the mechanism turns inward, grinds itself to dust. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
The founders designed a system prevent tyranny, but they assumed a functioning civic virtue - a citizenry that believed reform was possible and leadership that offered something worth preserving. Without that, the mechanism turns inward and grinds itself to dust. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...
October 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The founders designed a system prevent tyranny, but they assumed a functioning civic virtue - a citizenry that believed reform was possible and leadership that offered something worth preserving. Without that, the mechanism turns inward and grinds itself to dust. open.substack.com/pub/chiefphd...