And if you believe this, you're in the weird Tucker-Candice wacko world.
Convenient timing the day before the midterms for this "news" to come out. Just insane if you believe any of it.
Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. âBibi calls Trump about it every day,â says an informed observer.
Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last weekâs election results, he canât form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.
To that end, heâs applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war theyâve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahuâs lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.
The rest of Americaâs longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They wonât recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.
And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.
Weâve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten Americaâs nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called âbattlefield nukesâ easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now weâre on the brink of it.
Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, heâs hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.
Theyâre right, though it wonât be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.
One group that hasnât been consulted so far is the global population â the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
I love how often after someone is asked how "Diversity is our strength" that Chicken Tikka Masala is brought up.
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đ¨đ¨ THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK / THE DEMOCRACY FILES: A PRIMER đ¨
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 đ - 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?
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.@metpoliceuk, this looks like a good way to blow your co-workerâs legs off.
1. Make sure your finger is on the trigger.
2. Make sure you are pointing the gun at someone.
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FOUR MINUTES of Candace Owens DENYING she said things she's on record CLEARLY SAYING.
AKA LYING.
Supporters of Jane Doe-
-Jane couldn't consent
-Mothers aren't responsible for strangling their children
-250,000 girls raped by rape gangs... not news
-Vigilantes are cool if against corporation members
and on and on and on... zero constancy or moral foundation
Me against my brother.
Me and my brother against my cousin.
Me, my brother, and my cousin against the world.
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Man, gas is expensive. I think Iâll go vote for the party that wants to give 6-figure salaries to illegals with my taxes.
If you've not contributed to a system and have never been a part of it, that system owes you nothing until you do.
Mamdani announces that he's suing the Trump admin over the new rule that allows them to deny green cards to foreigners who are likely to rely on welfare.
Says that "four million people will unenroll from their healthcare" and that "people will die" if more green cards aren't given to welfare dependent foreigners.
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Whoopi Goldberg just used Lindsay Clancy to argue women arenât the same as men.
I had to jump in
AI is going to take your job, but that isn't the scary part. Once you don't have a job, you won't have money. If you don't have money, how do the businesses sell their products made cheaper by AI to a populace with no money or jobs.
Economy collapse.
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CNN: âThis is an undocumented immigrant...â
Stephen Miller: âThey were here ILLEGALLY?â
CNN: âI want this to be a good-faith discussion...â
Miller: âWhen you use language designed to obscure the truth, thatâs NOT good faith. An ILLEGAL ALIEN is an ILLEGAL ALIEN. Theyâre not âundocumented immigrantsâ.â
CNN: âStephen, weâre trying to humanize the debate...â
Miller: âHumanize? Then letâs humanize the Penal Code too. The bank robber becomes a âspecialist in unscheduled withdrawalsâ. The con artist turns into an âentrepreneur of alternative financial narrativesâ. The guy who breaks into your house uninvited is just a âvisitor with pending documentationâ. How about that?â
CNN: âThatâs a crude analogy.â
Miller: âCrude is pretending federal law vanishes because CNNâs copy desk cooked up a cuddlier euphemism. âUndocumentedâ sounds like someone who forgot their wallet in an Uber. No. Itâs someone who crossed the border without authorization, stayed, and now the press treats the legal statute like itâs a matter of writing style.â
CNN: âBut many contribute to the economy...â
Miller: âAh, the classic argument: crime stops being crime if the person washes dishes or builds roofs. By the same token, the cigarette smuggler âcontributesâ too, creates jobs in transport. Want us to call him an âinformal logistics entrepreneurâ? Would CNN go for that?â
CNN: âYouâre polarizing.â
Miller: âNo. Iâm rejecting the marketing dictionary. You change the word, then accuse anyone who uses the legal term of being âinhumaneâ. Itâs the oldest trick in the book: first soften the vocabulary, then declare moral victory. The United States is tired of this theater. Call it what it is. Or admit the goal was never clarityâit was narrative control.â
