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šØ WHO DECIDES IF YOUR COUNTRY IS LEGITIMATE? šØ
1600 retired officers, spies, and diplomats who spent their careers deciding when other countries' goverments had lost legitimacy wrote a color revolution test for ours, the United States. š
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šØšØ THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK / THE DEMOCRACY FILES: A PRIMER šØ
I will be using this thread to track all drops, so bookmark it.
I spent most of yesterday backing everything (now 312 gigabytes) up in various sources and getting the materials out to others. I also produced an AI video (below) to explain the whole thing to others are not on š - feel free to distribute.
Here's the primer:
USAID, the foreign aid agency, had a democracy office. Inside the agency, it was called DRG.
Officially, DRG administered "democracy assistance." They'd go inside countries they thought were sliding into authoritarianism and help the opposition there. That assistance included election monitoring, judicary support, independent media, and civil society building.
You may have heard the term "color revolution." The model comes from Serbia in 2000, where trained student activists brought down Milosevic with the help of Western governments, after sustained protests. With the help of USAID's democracy office, this model was implemented in many other countries to topple governments: Georgia's "Rose Revolution" in 2003, Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" in 2004, and many more.
Then last year, DOGE shut down USAID. But the USAID democracy office didn't stop. They formed a group called the Democracy Renewal Group, the same initials as their office (USAID Democracy, Human Rights, Governance). Their goal: apply their own playbook to the United States itself.
This goal became a plan, called Renew American Democracy (RAD). It invoked the "4 B's" framework. Block - use lawfare and protests to make life harder for the Trump administration. Bridge & Belong - control dialogue and win people over. The final and most important B is Build. Build means redesigning the American government itself, and the crisis is the opening.
In their own words:
"We can take that breakdown moment and leverage it for a big structural reform, you know, refounding moment." - Danielle Reiff, DRG lead.
Calls show DRG working alongside DSA on ideas of creating a different government, one that does away with the Constitution itself.
DRG does not run the Block operations. They hand it to UDA, the United Democracy Alliance. One organizer calls it a "huge galaxy": lawsuits, street protests, non-cooperation. They list No Kings, Indivisible, MoveOn, 50501, and many other mega-activist NGOs among their members.
Another organizer calls UDA Erica Chenoweth's project. Chenoweth is the Harvard professor behind the three-and-half-percent rule of regime change: get that share of a country's populace onto the streets, and historically, the movement wins.
The UDA is very "hush-hush." They have no website, no roster, no filings.
Then come the red lines: things the Trump administration could do, such as calling the Insurrection Act on protesters, that would mean that the federal government, in their words, "crosses the threshold into illegitimacy." Nobody voted on those lines. There was no public debate. These red lines were developed within secretive working groups, and in a paper addressed to governors and staff.
In the words of Reiff/DRG:
"So that if there is a red line crossed in terms of a Constitutional crisis, like everyone's already pre-organized. And so Mike Smith actually said, he goes, oh, you guys have the day after tomorrow plan."
Cross a line, and the paper's options include states refusing to lend their resources to federal officials, and governors convening what it calls a "Third Continential Congress."
Running the UDA's Insurrection Act working group: Rear Admiral Mike Smith (RET) of National Security Leaders of America (NSL4A). NSL4A is also credited with operationalizing UDA, the blocking operations. NSL4A consists of about 1,600 ex-officers, spies, diplomats. They're turning red lines into indicators and running a situation room to monitor them throughout the midterms and beyond.
The NSL4A's lawyers told them to stop recording meetings in case of subpoenas. But the rest of the network continued to record. DRG works in conjunction with Renew to Thrive (R2T), which ended up accidentally publishing 400+ calls and thousands of documents. These calls and documents were never meant for our eyes, but it's them, on tape.
Thousands of NGOs and billions of dollars are involved in this endeavor. Most of them believe they're saving democracy. The problem is that people who spent their careers deciding when other countries' governments had lost their legitimacy wrote that test for ours, in private, and planned for what comes after.
Who decides when your government is legitimate?
Collins to Pray for Isa Casahuga, Entitled Bitch
Will she publically apologize?
At @UTSA for Pick Up the Mic, a student read a poem celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk with such glee, then told me I was brave to be out here without my neck covered.
I told her Iād pray for her.
This is the climate. We pick up the mic anyway.
Isa Casahuga Lemgruber, Entitled Bitch
She Mocked Charlie Kirk. Now She, And Her Family, Are Facing DEPORTATION!
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Patrick Stewart has passed away.
Captain, Professor, and King:
Make It So, Number One.
Replying to @alphafox
Shakespearean trained, abundantly talented; there will never be another like him. We will miss you deeply.
Patrick Stewart as King Leodegrance (left) and CiarƔn Hinds as King Lot (right) in the 1981 fantasy film Excalibur.
Flying Eiger Crack Wingsuit Flightline, Walenstadt, Switzerland.
Would YOU do it?
Cheating death is a young man's game.
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Cheating an Election is all they know.
šØ BREAKING: Alaska Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltolaās campaign has been caught RIGGING THE ELECTION by PERSONALLY going out and recruiting a second āDan Sullivanā to run for Senate, per NYT
Democrats are the party of CHEATING
Top aides tasked staffers with splitting the vote by locating another Dan Sullivan to run again the incumbent Republican San Sullivan to split the vote.
Peltolaās former campaign manager said Peltola was āDEFINITELY AWAREā about the operation.
Democrats LIED by saying they had nothing to do with it. Theyāre a bunch of dirty cheaters.
A high-speed train crash in Spain today killed at least 64ā68 people (with the toll still rising) and injured over 100 more... and it mostly stems from a preventable signaling failure that was followed by human error.
How is this even possible? reuters.com/world/two-high-sā¦
It's EXACTLY like this:
Replying to @GuntherEagleman @EllyK3499
Have you noticed that liberals are the most envious people on earth?
They call themselves āproudā liberals.
Proud of whatābeing miserable and seething with envy?
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98-Year-Old Man Buys His First Self-Driving Tesla Model Y And Is Blown Away
āI've been driving it probably 2-3 months, and it's not made an error in its driving. In fact, the other day it stopped - a chipmunk was crossing the road, and there was no other traffic, and it did not run over the chipmunk ⦠For somebody that's 98-years-old, this is a real treat.ā
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Hey @grok... Who's going to get perp-walked first? Eric Swalwell or Ilhan Omar?
Hey Grok... Grok... this one:
Hey @grok⦠Whatās the inbreeding rate in Somalia and answer with a percentage only.
Uh, Grok... this, two:
Replying to @grok @Hunter_Eagleman
What is the average iq of somali inbreds and the average somali? @grok
These three seemed happy together. "Elvis and Friends."
Dia de Los Muertos celebration, Artisan Imports, Old Town, San Diego
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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Fckn' well stated!!
Damned if you DO; Damned if you DON'T.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy can pound sand.
End this war NOW.
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Elon Musk has made it clear from the very beginning that Starlink is for peaceful use, not long-range drone strikes.
He deserves enormous credit for helping Ukraine stay connected through this war. His Starlink support was a major factor in why Ukraine was NOT overrun by Russia.






















