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Before I start I am going to leave these names right here. General Flynn, Ezra Cohen Watnick, & Rich Higgins LINK Also Jeff Session is retired military subject to recall. I wonder if they will surface again?
Wolf brought up:
Calley Means ran to Margaret Treason with the goods on Susie, and SD is covering it!
At this time I am not going to look at what SD has dug up and instead do the independent research that I started.
My takeaways from the following videos.
— Susie Wiles is a typical Uni-party cog. Good at what she does BUT not MAGA. She was put in place to protect the interests of the Republican Party — Think Chamber of Commerce.
— The Republican playbook (represented by Susie) is petrified and based on the Boomer Population Bulge. The problem is, Covid killed off many Boomers and they are no longer the deciding demographic.
— As Aubergine has said, the younger voters are ANGRY. It is not that they like the Democrats, they are just punishing the Republicans. Also there is a good chance the Democrats, with these impeachments, will shoot themselves in the foot. The promised affordability will be forgotten and with luck Trump can claim the credit.
— Charlie Kirk was targeted and killed BECAUSE he could reach younger voters. It is no coincidence that Nick Fuentes was waiting in the wings or Candice Owens and Tucker Carlson suddenly turned.
— We can win 2028 BUT only if we get off our rumps, get out into the field and TALK. The Democrats have a well coordinated ground game based on NGOs. Republicans rely on TV ads and stale messaging. We need to get Spencer Pratt and his like working for us on messaging and then knock on doors.
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This is the latest info I have tripped over. I think Tom Luongo is spot on so I am putting this transcript Front & Center. Tom fleshes out Aubergine’s position and Tom, Barbara Boyd & Susan Kokinda flesh out what we can do going forward. (53 minutes)
ROUGH TRANSCRIPT
13:02 Rich: We can ask Tom about What Susie Wiles was really there for.
Tom: You’re guys are absolutely right. And to finish off the point about Stephen Miller, is that Susie Wiles was in the administration to ensure that that did not get done. What you guys just outlined all those those deficiencies, that was her job.
At the end of the day, there’s a number of things we can say about Susie Wiles. Very few of them good. She was brought in to ensure that she could bring the money and the old boomer network within the GOP. We were talking about this with my boys the other day, and one of the things that got brought up was it’s been that way for a while. We’ve been thinking in those terms. That she can speak boomer con, bring the donors, and bring the money, and bring those people in. Ensure that they stay on side, because they’re going to dominate the electorate, at least that was the argument made to Trump. They’re going to dominate the electorate in 2026, you have to keep them on side. You have to be able to minimize the damage within that group.
Here’s the problem. COVID killed off a lot of them. We’re farther along the boomer die-off curve than normal. The boomer die-off curve is far more accelerated than we thought.
Remember back in 2020, 2021, 2022, we started watching this. I’m like, “Oh, now we’re going to kill everybody with the shot and COVID.” What is this doing? This is trying to make sure that the old oligarchy, the British-Davos High Table, whatever you want to call it, they don’t want to pay out the extraordinary amount of money it’s going to cost in the health care of these old people. So, why don’t we just kill them off? That’s why we brought grandma to the nursing home. That’s why Chris, Not Chris, the other one. Governor Cuomo brought and pushed all the old people into the nursing homes so they could all get COVID together, so they all die. They did that on purpose. I used to call him grandma killer. I used to sing to Talking Heads, “Grandma killer.” Just to ensure that we got it through your head that’s what this guy was doing.
But the greater part of that was that when we get into the later election cycles and the demographic shift happens in the electorate — we had good boomer turnout — but it wasn’t enough, obviously. And there’s more. There’s more to it than that, but that’s what Susie Wiles was brought into the Trump administration to defend.
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[This also explains POTUS Trump’s emphasis on Wall Street. If your voting block is Boomer, then their stock portfolio is important to them. Decent jobs and the cost of gas not so much. NOT being aware/informing POTUS of this demographic Time Bomb, can be laid directly at Susie Wiles’ feet. –GC]
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And now she’s gone. And that’s the best thing you can say about her. At the same time, she was, of course, stabbing Trump in the back the entire time, just like she did during the primaries, you know, before that, with DeSantis, working with DeSantis. DeSantis is, by the way, I think completely on board with Trump at this point. She was absolutely the person trying to keep the two of them apart. Ron is implementing all of Trump’s stuff in Florida and making Florida into a grand success. Now, Ron still has to prove some things here, but there’s a lot of stuff going on. Sundance has been doing a lot of interesting posting for the last couple days about DeSantis, Wiles, Jared Kushner and others. And some other people have been doing some of this work as well. There’s a lot of conflicting ideas out there. But the whole thing is, clearly there was an axis here that would have been a really powerful set going forward involving DeSantis, Rubio, Trump, all of that. And Wiles was brought in to short-circuit all that. And to ensure that we lost the midterms.
And she’s gone. And she may wind up like John Roberts, who over the summer made sure that on every important major point the Supreme Court chose poorly. So, birthright citizenship, all of the voter ID stuff. It was clearat the end of the day, we’re going to lose the Republic because of an old cynical backstabbing second-tier political operative from Florida, Susie Wiles, and the worst Supreme Court Chief Justice in the country’s history. That’s the story as it exists right now.
Miller is going to come in and do exactly what you guys were suggesting. He is going to put everything back on message in a way that is going to set table for 2028. So, I can see the arc of this, which is that the Democrats are going to do what they always do, which is that they win an election and they think, “See, everybody loves our ideas.” Well, actually no. No one likes your ideas. As always the American electorate doesn’t trust either of these parties. They don’t like either of these groups of people. It gets worse as you go down the generation stack from Gen X to the Millennials to the Zoomers, to the new ones, whatever you’re calling the the next generation. All of them hate the system and with greater intensity hate the system. And if you’re not going to get it done, I’m voting against you. Right? So, that was Nick Fuentes’ operation.
[Barbara is listening intently BTW. – GC]
Barbara’s point about having lost our targeted megaphone towards that generation. Then of course does not validate the whole Susie Wiles boomer con versus zoomer strategy. We take away the guy who speaks to them and then immediately hijack him by turning it all into the Jews. Because, Charlie was still bleeding out on the ground and they were blaming Israel. It was pathetic. And so, they stole that from us. They stole Charlie from us. They stole Charlie’s death from us. They stole all this from us.
And now they probably stole parts of this election. We lost this election, but there’s still voter fraud. Let’s not kid ourselves. And so, we’re going to find out over the course of the next 45 – 60 days, what the shape of that is. What that’s going to do. But, the way I was describing it was that we’ve got a pendulum swinging in American politics. The truth of the matter is that there’s no loyalty in the middle 50% of the electorate to either party. They just want to get shit done and fix this shit right?
So, now if it’s swinging this way and there’s energy swinging that way, that means it’s got to swing the other when they fail, it’s going to swing back the other way just as hard. It’s the classic kind of bear market emotional puking that you see in the markets. The Dow’s down 5,000 and oh my god, it’s all going to die, right? Guess what? That’s when you buy. Because everybody is on the wrong side of the trade and everybody’s shorted the market, when people start to go flipping all the longs, the shorts are now trapped and then they have to cover the opposite direction so there is a natural pendulum swing. It works in politics the same damn way because it’s just human emotion, it’s just human nature.
So look at 2028 when the Democrats decide they want to go crazy and take our guns and do this and do that. What do you think is going to happen? Now what’s their counter move? It is do not go crazy. So that’s obvious what to do. Have you met these people? Do you think they’re capable of having that kind of self-control? [Barbara is laughing her head off –GC]
Susan Kokinda: Well some of them are going to try but they’re going to be shouted down by the crazies because they still have the momentum. But in terms of your pendulum swing you know I think part of the problem that we have is that because we gutted our middle class and our working class over the past 30 years all you have is the extremes. Right? You have the people who are comfortable or super comfortable. Or rich and I don’t fault them but that’s one thing. And then you have the vast majority of the population that, outside of just getting lucky on poly markets or something, they’re going to be struggling until they’re 55 or 60 years old and maybe they’ll still be struggling after that because you’ve lost the center of your society by gutting your real economic base, your industrial base. And so that’s why I think you’ve got this pendulum kind of situation. And that’s why I keep coming back — I don’t know how fast we’re going to see it, but as people begin to reintegrate into a productive society you’re going to see a much more profound shift in terms of the way people react to what is going on. It’s not going to be this emotional, “I feel screwed right now, so fuck the people in power”, which is what you’re getting at this point, but rather people who can actually see beyond the end of their nose and make decisions from that standpoint. You’ve all heard me say it. When we went to the picket lines in the UAW strike in 2023, we were shocked to find that over 60% of the auto workers were not listening to their leadership and were all ready to vote for Donald Trump.
Well, what’s different about them than their next-door neighbors who work in the gambling casinos? They know that the world has a certain kind of a reality principle and there are consequences to your actions. And if you vote for free trade because you want to buy cheap shit at the dollar store, you’re going to end up paying for it by losing your job and basically losing your town and losing your kids.
So I kept saying as we went into this, because she would say, “What do you think is going to happen in the midterms?” Yeah, I said, “It’s really going to be a question of what identity people carry with them into the polling place. Are they going to walk into the polling place as consumers and losers and victims?” I think that’s what happened. And that was definitely played.
I mean, everything they could do to increase the pain points, Carney’s tariff retaliations, deliberate. All targeting the swing states deliberately. Which is why Mike Rogers backed off on the tariff question and Trump gave him a pass because he knew how this was being played because it does hurt people here, right now, today. It won’t in the future when we get the supply chains back and the jobs are actually here, so the tariffs will be irrelevant, but they played that with the tariffs. They played it obviously with the price of gas. Everybody can see it. It’s a miracle. You vote for Democrats and 3 days later gas is below $4 a gallon. I drove out today. It’s 20 cents cheaper than it was yesterday. because it was deliberate. Now, some people might figure out that it was deliberate on the basis of that.
24:33 What Charlie Kirk’s assassination cost the movement
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[I am going to add some additional thoughts. Given Charlie’s critical importance to MAGA, I think his murder was a CIA/MI6 hit. Nick Fuentes’ operation was waiting in the wings to take his place. Tucker suddenly flipped, Candice Owens went on the attack immediately AND all of a sudden it was OK to criticize Israel. That is just too neat and tidy. — GC]
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Tom: All very important. Let me just interject for a second and I’ll hand it over to you. I just realized I missed part of the point about Charlie Kirk. Not only did they take the most powerful voice for Trump off the table to speak to them [the younger voters] What does that do? It sets the whole movement back and then we have to wait for the next wave of people. I.E. [For example] the four people in this conversation right here have to climb the same ladder again. We have to restart. So, here’s Charlie up here. If you knock him off, we’re down here. Now, with Charlie’s gone, All the fake MAGA turds, the Tucker Carlsons and the Megan Kellys and all of them, and Bannon, they all try to Pied Piper you off and tell you that Trump has betrayed you.
We have to fight that inertia while we’re trying to move up here. So, it’s just as always, the Tall poppy syndrome, that’s where we are now. Charlie’s at 10x above in terms of ability, reach, everything else. And that worked… So, that’s all their strategy was. That’s why he had to die. And we never grew the people around us and what not. That layer of the zeitgeist that was going to take that mantle up… We have to start at the beginning and they’re already at the midpoint. Right? We’ll never catch up. We saw that operation in real time… We can’t let them take the next voice.
I think the administration understood this. There was nothing they can do. And so, if that was the case, then you can almost make the argument, that they kill Charlie Kirk, you slow down the midterm. Well, might as well take 2026 and get all your geopolitical wins on the board. Take Venezuela out, deal with Iran, deal with this, deal with that, start the intervention, start breaking down theYen Carry Trade. Do all this stuff. Because what else you got for 2026? You’re going to lose the midterms anyway. Because you don’t have the voice necessary to get you through. And then Susie Wiles plays her games and then da da da, and it’ll play itself out. This is where my head is right now. We’ll further refine this as we go along.
27:59 — Charlie Kirk, Stephen Miller and the Wiles problem
Barbara: I think the point you’re making is the critical. Think about what Charlie Kirk did. He’s the reason why J.D. Vance is vice president. He’s the reason why J.D. Vance even got into politics at all and came to MAGA at all. He’s the reason why MAHA and RFK Jr. joined in 2020, and that whole movement came into the Trump movement and MAGA. He’s the reason, in terms of all of these various factions within MAGA. It’s kind of remarkable when he died and all of the tributes that people paid to him on all sides of this movement. Because he was the glue who worked 24 hours a day to hold this thing together.
You asked me about Stephen Miller and I go back to his memorial to Charlie Kirk. It was defiant. He really recognizes what happened here and what the mindset has to be in people in confronting the enemy we’re confronting here.
He [Charlie] wasn’t some dramatic speaker, but he had people’s affinity.
Stephen Miller, number one, wrote all of those soaring Trump speeches of the first term. All of the confrontations with Davos. All of the actual discussions of culture and history and what American culture is really all about. He wrote all those. I don’t think those are Trump’s words. Trump obviously corrected him and found his own voice within those speeches, but it’s a palette from which he’s working, which is a very different palette than any traditional politician would have.
And that indeed is the Susie Wiles problem. She is … it’s like saying what one of my friends said, “Well, what’s so different? She’s corrupt.” Well, she can always just work that way. If you go down K Street, where she works, and you look at how the Congress operates, and you look at all of these various things in terms of the corruption in the government. The fact that Alina Habba did something absolutely ridiculous in taking a $50 million bribe to actually get a pardon is kind of stratospheric, but it’s not any different than anything that K Street actually does day in and day out around the Congress. So, it’s that old school, which everybody out there really suspects screwed them, and it did.
She [Wiles] was representative of that. The frantic efforts at this point to say we didn’t do that, or we weren’t behind that, and James Blair’s incredible fights with Calley Means, after Calley Means said Susan was the person who killed MAHA. You actually see the fight which is emerging, which is around this younger voice, this younger generation actually advocating this program…
TOM: I look at this, I look at where we are, I have to wonder, what comes next. It is going to be total war. There’s no reason for Trump to hold anything back anymore. He’s got 2 years left. He’s not going to go for another term. He’s going to do what he has to do. You’ve got an exhausted electorate. He’s going to allow the Democrats to go crazy. He may or may not even challenge the the election results himself. As a matter of fact, it actually would be best if he didn’t. Just leave it all to the states. Right. It really would be the best thing for him to do. Leave it to the SOEs, leave it to the attorneys general of the various states. Let them do what they have to do. You can let the DOJ help them behind the scenes and all that stuff. He just stays out of it. Says, “No, okay, we lost.” Yep, you’re right, we lost. We did bad. Now what?
But by the time we’re done, notice, ain’t no rhinos left in the Republican Party. Ain’t no anything left in the Democratic Party. Like all the old operatives are going to be gone. When you watch James Carville, for example, lose his mind. the guy’s completely off his meds. One day he’s screaming at the Democrats. Next time he’s calling Trump a a Nazi. I think that the reality is that James Carville is reacting to the death of his industry… [Not just the consulting industry but the death of the Democrat Party. He is a savvy old goat and realizes Communism and Islam do NOT sell well to most Americans. That has him freaking out. –GC]
And that gets back to all the stuff that Susan says. You’re absolutely right. What’s happening is what we’re actually all describing here is a political zeitgeist that is beyond both of these parties. It’s bigger than Trump. It’s bigger than Miller. It’s bigger than Hakeem Jeff, I mean, T-Mobile Bama. It’s bigger than Chuck Schumer, it’s bigger than all of them. And they’re all reacting to what’s happening around them going, “But I thought we were going to be able to keep running our grift forever.” And it’s bigger, ultimately, than London or Davos or the High Table. This is coming at them fast, and it’s our job wrangle that zeitgeist into something constructive versus something destructive…
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Old GOP dies as Cult withers – President Trump’s MAGA can Now Rebuild the Country 12 minutes
Mike Steger examines the political upheaval reshaping America, the growing influence of social media on young voters… Mike also examines Spencer Pratt’s comments on political storytelling, the influencer economy, and why modern political movements must adapt to survive.
I am bringing that up because Susie Wiles has a lot of influence on how the republican elections are run and as Tom says “it’s our job wrangle that zeitgeist into something constructive versus something destructive” To do that we need new blood and new ideas. Susie Wiles represents the old corrupt system.
Susie Wiles helped dismantle Ron DeSantis and salvaged Donald Trump’s campaign. Is she a MAGA hero or an enemy of democracy?
Susie Wiles, the people who know her the best believe, is a force more sensed than seen. Her influence on political events, to many who know what they’re watching, is as obvious as it is invisible. The prints leave not so much as a smudge. It’s a shock when she shows up in pictures. Even then it is almost always in the background…
Wiles is not just one of Trump’s senior advisers. She’s his most important adviser. She’s his de facto campaign manager. She has been in essence his chief of staff for the last more than three years. She’s one of the reasons Trump is the GOP’s presumptive nominee and Ron DeSantis is not. She’s one of the reasons Trump’s current operation has been getting credit for being more professional than its fractious, seat-of-the-pants antecedents. And she’s a leading reason Trump has every chance to get elected again..
Wiles graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1978. While attending university, she began working for New York representative Jack Kemp…
In the 2010 Florida gubernatorial election, Wiles worked as Rick Scott’s campaign manager. After Scott’s victory, she served as Jon Huntsman Jr.’s campaign manager for his presidential campaign, though she resigned after less than a month amid a dispute with a strategist. In October 2015, Wiles was hired as a Florida campaign chairwoman for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. She became his campaign manager for Florida in September 2016. After Trump won that year’s presidential election, Wiles moved to Washington, D.C., to lead the lobbying firm Ballard Partners with Brian D. Ballard. In September 2018, she was hired to lead Ron DeSantis’ campaign for the 2018 Florida gubernatorial election. In 2020, Wiles was hired as a consultant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the 2020 Israeli legislative election…
Brian D. Ballard and his father-in-law Jim Smith founded the lobbying firm Smith & Ballard in 1998.[7] Ballard previously worked as the chief of staff for Bob Martinez, Governor of Florida, and was later a lobbyist focused on the Florida Legislature.[8][9] Smith previously served as Secretary of State of Florida…
Prior to Donald Trump’s election win, Ballard Partners was based in Florida.[11] In 2017, they opened a Washington, D.C. office, following Trump’s first election victory.[6]
Ballard helped to raise $50 million for Trump’s 2024 campaign, including $250,000 that he donated personally.[11]
In 2025, OpenSecrets described it as the top lobbying firm in the country…
By February 2019, the firm had taken on more than 100 domestic and foreign clients and collected more than $28 million since the 2016 election.[15] Reported fees reached $19.1 million in 2019, excluding work for foreign governments, and $24.6 million in 2020, when it was the fifth highest-grossing firm in Washington.[16][17] It led the industry in new client registrations in 2018, 2019 and 2020, signing 145 in the last of those years against 104 for its closest competitor…
Following the 2020 election, Ballard said the firm did not expect to sustain its earlier growth, and that month it hired a Democratic fundraiser to expand its work with that party.
Ballard said that his intention was to build a bipartisan firm that would outlast the Trump administration…
Worth checking out the listed corporations and foreign countries as well as people such as Michael LaRosa
Michael LaRosa is an American lobbyist and political strategist who formerly served as the press secretary for the First Lady in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2022. LaRosa previously worked as a spokesman for Jill Biden and the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign. Since 2023 he has been a partner at Ballard Partners…
Looks like the only loyalty is to money… AND the Uniparty.
When Susie Wiles was made chief of staff, there wasn't a single media hit piece. No freak out from Democrats in Congress. No threats to make her life hell. Now you understand why.
In light of suggestions that Susie Wiles and James Blair may pursue legal action over my Joe Rogan interview, I am publicly requesting that she, Ballard Partners, Continental Straregy, and other relevant parties immediately preserve all potentially relevant records and…
The amount of senior administration officials who have called me with stories of Susie’s deranged betrayals of President Trump is revolting.
People who know Susie well have warned me that she has the capacity to inflict physical harm, and I do not appreciate unhinged threats… pic.twitter.com/DOL23GuSlV
The Joe Rogan podcast that he’s talking about. 1,278,778 views Nov 6, 2026 The Joe Rogan Experience
Calley Means is a health advocate, author, and former senior advisor to the United States Department of Health and Human Services. He is also a co-founder of Truemed and co-author of the book “Good Energy” with his sister Casey Means, MD
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This is the video I was originally planning to examine (2 hours). And yes I know Josh is a bit of a flake but I wanted to see what that branch of MAGA was thinking.
ABBREVIATED TRANSCRIPT
Josh on Susie Wiles.
Alpha: …We’re going to analyze what’s happened over the course of the last year. We’re going to look at it from the Q perspective. We’ll talk a little bit about Q, what Q is, why Q is, how Q is. I always say is that the time for decodes is over.. because we are in the operational framework of what Q was actually meant for and as well as we’re going to get into Susie Wiles Because damn it, Josh was right again. Josh nailed this
Susie saying freaking lobbyist for me.
I said, “We’ll see what happens.” .. This is Josh back on December 15th, 2025. Why do Pam Bondi and Susie Wiles need to go? I was calling this back in 2025 because they’re the from the same lobbying firm, right? And guess what? Both of them are no longer with the Trump administration.
Why Susie Wiles got fired? And Yeah, technically she was fired.
A key former staffer and ally of Robert F Kennedy Jr accused outgoing Chief of Staff Susie Wiles of taking money from corporations and foreign interests to sabotage RFK’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda.
Trump announced Friday that ‘ice queen’ Wiles would leavethe powerful position on Monday for a position in Trump’s political operation, to be replaced by Stephen Miller.
While many, including Trump, celebrated the work Wiles did, former Kennedy advisor Calley Means accused Wiles of pay to play involving her daughter in an interview with Joe Rogan.
Means, who departed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) two weeks ago, alleged that companies willing to hire Katie Wiles for lobbyist work would get preferential treatment in the White House.
One of his most explosive allegations was that companies who hired the daughter of Susie Wiles, Trump’s longtime White House chief of staff, as a lobbyist received higher priority for funding from the administration.
‘If you’re a special interest and you want to get something done, the secret’s out. You pay Susie’s daughter, and it was openly discussed when they had a client,’ he told Rogan.
Means also blamed Wiles for shutting down MAHA reforms because of pressure from corporations and need for fundraising money.
‘Susie said to me many times: “We need money for the midterms, Calley. We need money for the midterms,”‘ he said, accusing her of shutting down a study into the effects of sugars on children…
Susie Wiles has 2 daughters. The following from Brave AI.
Katie Wiles works for Continental Strategy, a lobbying firm where she serves as a partner and director. Notable Healthcare & Insurance: Centene Corporation, CVS Health, Baptist Health, and Hims and Hers.
Caroline Wiles, the younger daughter, is currently the Vice President of Foreign Affairs at the lobbying firm Rubin Turnbull & Associates in Washington, D.C. Rubin, Turnbull & Associates represents a diverse portfolio of clients across healthcare, education, infrastructure, and technology. The firm’s largest and most consistent clients include HCA Healthcare, which paid $546,000 in 2023 for combined legislative and executive branch services. Also Major entities such as Sutter Health, Molina Healthcare, Nomi Health, Wellpath, Orchid Cove Health Group, Acadia Healthcare, MAXIMUS, and Hospital for Special Surgery.
So that is the background on Susie Wiles.
The following info is from Josh and Alpha, I cannot verify, but I thought it was interesting if true.
TRANSCRIPT: (It is 2 hours+ and I am not going to try and figure out who said what.)
…If you don’t know what happened last night in the White House, the information is coming out. Susie Wiles and her chief of staff were in the Oval Office with President Trump and President Trump was going off on her, screaming. She stormed out of the room, slammed the door, and Trump was still yelling at her and asked for her resignation. She resigned. the important part, the way that story is being shared and one of the particular gentlemen that’s sharing it — and he has pretty good reputation for being accurate — you know why Trump was pissed, right?
So there’s there’s a few different reasons why Trump was pissed. There is what was known as the Camp David plot and I don’t know if people knew about this. Well, let me share the one that I heard and like I said, this guy, he’s gone public with it, so it’s not like he’s keeping it back channel. As I said, he’s pretty good with his info.
Donald Trump‘s top advisor has fallen victim to a sinister scheme by hackers who infiltrated her phone and used artificial intelligence to impersonate her voice.
The nefarious plot involved stolen data from the personal cellphone of White Housechief of staff Susie Wiles that was then used to call some of American’s most powerful people.
Over the course of several weeks, high profile senators, governors and American business executives have received voicemails or messages from an unknown number claiming to be Wiles,Wall Street Journal reported.
The hackers came undone when they made the fatal mistake of asking questions that the president’s closest aide would already know the answer to…
Wiles was referred to as the ‘most feared and least known political operative’ prior to stepping into her now high-profile role.
She is now serving as the first female White House chief of staff in history after helping Trump to his historic victory in November as his campaign manager.
During the campaign, Iranians managed to hack into Wiles’ email account and reportedly accessed a research dossier she had on file about Trump’s running mate, now-vice president JD Vance.
Those who know Wiles best say she’s an expert at shaping political narratives and an expert at ‘managing personalities and managing information.’
And, according to associates, there’s something else to know about Wiles: Don’t cross her.
Several narratives, some contradictory, have filled the absence of any clear explanation behind Susie Wiles being replaced by Stephen Miller within three days of the Republican Party’s midterm loss — and all of them are dramatic. One such account said Trump was yelling at Susie Wiles and continued yelling until she left the room, while another says Trump would never do that to Susie. One account says Susie Wiles did not want to continue at the hectic job for long as she just recovered from breast cancer, while another says she had a Camp David plot up her sleeve to save her job…
Susie Wiles had allegedly planned a behind-the-scenes meeting at Camp David with her loyalists in a last-ditch attempt to retain her position, even as the president was preparing to replace her with Stephen Miller. According to reports, Wiles had booked an offsite meeting at the presidential retreat for Saturday, November 7, inviting White House officials and aides considered close to her…
The meeting was reportedly intended to work out how she could survive the leadership shake-up and remain in power. However, the meeting was delayed and then cancelled after Trump decided to replace her, Daily Mail reported. The president was scheduled to be in Florida on Saturday.The report also alleged that Wiles and her allies were attempting to shift responsibility for the Republicans’ disastrous midterm election performance onto Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, particularly over his role in the Iran war. The Daily Mail report said that Wiles’ allies had spent the days following the November 3 elections trying to make Hegseth’s involvement in the conflict the public explanation for the party’s losses. The war had contributed to rising living costs, including higher petrol prices, the report said. A senior Pentagon official alleged that Wiles was trying to push Hegseth out to deflect blame for the Republican defeat.”Susie was trying to push out Pete,” the official was quoted as saying…
This is from Josh:
…Susie Walls was setting up Hegseth to be the fall guy. That is 100% correct and accurate, but there’s more to it than that. Let’s just start here. The Camp David plot refers to the allegedly planned meeting between Wiles and allied officials while Trump was in Florida without Trump’s knowledge. Anonymous sources portrayed it as an effort to preserve her position. The meeting was eventually canceled. Her allies allegedly tried to shift blame [of election loss] to Pete Hegseth, pointing to the Iran war and rising living cost.
Hence, I want to point this out because this is really important. the SCOOP on Pete the last couple of days. The last couple of days there’s been massive attacks on Pete Hegseth. Guess where that’s coming from? That’s coming from the establishment party. That’s coming from Susie Wiles and her allies.
Now, it’s really important to understand that the chief of staff is is a critically important position in the White House. Probably the most important position within the White House besides the president, probably even more powerful than the vice president. So, I posted a post on April 2nd, 2026, and I said,
“This is concerning and not very conducive to how Trump operates.
” So, this was the important moment of this war. It happened in the Oval Office and nobody saw it. Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, gathered aides and told the president what nobody else would. The war is tanking his numbers. Gas prices are crushing Americans and the people around him were sugarcoating everything. She had been urging colleagues for weeks to be more forthright with the boss instead of telling him what he wanted to hear. Trump had been starting mornings watching military highlight reels.”
This was basically an anonymous source that came out and said that Susie was trying to tell Trump that the Iran war was basically going to destroy him and cut it all down.
What was really happening — we got this from other people like Paul Sperry. He talked about this. Other people in Washington DC talked about this — was that Susie Wiles was retaining intelligence from President Trump. She was keeping information from President Trump. She was being a gatekeeper. Not only that, she was the one controlling the narrative and the story, lots of Trump’s Truth Social posts and basically talking points that Trump was putting out there. So the idea here is this, If true, it shows that Susie Wiles is not aligned with Trump’s agenda that is unfolding from the war machine. So what you have to understand is that Trump and Susie had two different operations going on. Trump wanted to do one thing, Susie [a RINO] was doing another.
Now, why did Trump have Susie Wiles in his administration? Well, look at it as kind of what’s happening right now. We’re going to get into that discussion when we talk about the GOP and the end of the GOP or is it a restructuring of the GOP? And that’s the big difference here.
So, to give you an idea who’s friends with Susie Wiles.
Do you remember when Condoleezza Rice came into the White House ?
NOW – Trump, Condoleezza Rice and Susie Wiles shake hands and walk off together after White House event. pic.twitter.com/9WSfZZz2Zu
And what what did I say during that whole time? What was I saying on all the shows? Susie Wiles will be out after the midterms. Watch. And what happened with the Vanity Fair article? And this is really important to kind of put in context — because this has been building up and we’ve been covering this — is that Trump introduced Susie Wiles for the Vanity Fair article. The Vanity Fair article came out. It was a hit piece on Susie Wiles and it really destroyed a lot ofher reputation and she should have been fired over the article. She wasn’t. I think Trump set her up in hopes that she would resign then, but we knew at that point in time rumors started coming out of DC that she was going to be gone by the end of the midterms. And so that’s when I made that prediction and it just happened. Now, what’s also interesting is you had Katie Zakaria that became the new White House press secretary. Trump went around Susie Wiles to hire her. I’ll say that again. Trump did not go through Susie Wiles to hire her. Trump using probably Dan Scavino, brought her in, he liked her, he put her in front of there. And this is someone who’s been in Fox News and so forth. What happened? She went on Hannity. Who made the call to get her on Hannity? Susie Wiles. She was fired the next day by and I want to get specific on that part because he had a lot of sources out there debunking it saying it wasn’t Susie Wiles you know even Katie Zachariah said it was the people that handle communication. But when you backtrack those people answer to Susie Wiles. No those are the people that just make the phone calls and tell them the times. The actual decision was coming from Susie Wiles
… Now, in other words, there has been ruffling of feathers for power and control in the White House. And this meeting last week, this was before the midterms that was supposed to take place at Camp David while Trump was in Florida was the last straw. And basically it was a coupd‘état type of meeting. I think what they were going to try to do is find scapegoats. To remove Pete Hegseth. To remove other players. And Alpha laid this out earlier. To try to blame Trump and Hegseth and then move for impeachment on Trump and put JD Vance in power. Now why is this interesting? because Massie just filed articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and then Representative Comer comes out and says, “Yeah, we got a lot of questions for Hegseth and I can’t wait to get into that.” In other words, establishment GOP are turning on Trump’s people. Hence why we just had a bloodbath in the midterms and a lot of these people aren’t coming back to Congress.
… Patrick Burn, several weeks ago…said Susie Wiles was going to get fired….Like I said, the decision was made during the Vanity Fair article time frame. Trump was hoping she would resign then, but instead she said she will leave after the midterms. And so Trump made it finalized and fired her before she could resign.
What we’re trying to show people is that there’s a struggle for power and control. And with Trump’s moves he just made, Steven Miller becoming the new chief of staff, this is huge. Steven Miller has been with President Trump since 2015. In other words, he was there during the Q days. I mean, this is someone who understands the drops. Someone who goes out there and uses the verbiage all the time.
[Conversation goes to Q and Q proofs & such. Hopium Incoming]
… Alpha said that is the greatest military intelligence operation of our time. So, the key component goes back to the military, back to before October 28th, 2017. There was an active intelligence operation basically uncovering the criminality of the deep state and the globalists and the undermining of the US Constitution and the the treason and subversion of the Obama administration. And this was being done we believe through a special access program that was operating out of the National Security Agency at a time when the Obama administration came in. And it originally came about most likely due to the selling off of highly classified military technologies that fell under special access programs.[Think Hillary Sec of state January 21, 2009 – February 1, 2013]At least this is what my research has shown and what I’ve laid out. Now, within that, the NSA began spying on congressmen and senators and heads of state and foreign heads of state and government contractors and American citizens. And that operation got leaked to the media[May 2013]by a guy by the name of Edward Snowden. Kind of interesting right there. Immediately after that happened at the end of the year after Obama won re-election in 2012, Obama fired 198 what was known as constitutional generals, people within the military establishment that were adherent to the Constitution. I don’t think that that was a coincidence. The NSA program that was shut down was publicly known for spying on Democrats, Republicans, other people within the bureaucracy and so forth. Why is that important? Because if someone’s selling special access programs or highly advanced technologies to foreign adversaries or leaking classified information to NOS’s or whatnot or selling access to our government, you would kind of want to know. And as a military, it’s your job to protect and defend the Constitution, especially from those that are trying to usurp it. So that’s where we think that this operation started from.
One interesting point is that the Q group was anagency tucked inside the National Security Agencythat actually tried to hunt down and take down Edward Snowden. Now, one of the interesting parts about that, the Q group is formed off of a collaborative out of the National Security Council. Now, what’s interesting about that is that there was an impaneled group of people in the National Security Council, including the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, who actually led the special task force. Do you want to know who the head of that special task force was that hunted down Edward Snowden? His name is General Michael Flynn.
So General Michael Flynn operated two different task force during that time as head of the the DIA. One was to actually take down Chelsea Manning and the otherwasthe take down Edward Snowden. It’s known as IRTF-2 on July 11th, 2013.
“Since 11 July2013, IRTF-2has led a coordinated DoD effort to discover, triage, and assess the impact of non-NSADefense material from NSAholdings of compromised data,” according to the DIA report. Read the full Defense Intelligence Agency report[except it has been deleted even from the Wayback archive.]
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So, the task force was roughly between 200 to 250 people. It’s known as information review task force 2 IRTF2 established under Lieutenant General Michael Flynn while he was director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Now that’s interesting because Flynn becomes a core component in all of this Q world talk. Specifically PreQ he comes out and talks about digital warriors and he talks about the domain of information. Now, this is the author of 5GW, fifth generation warfare, and he’s talking to you about, hey, we need digital warriors because there’s a war on information. And the war on information is that we need to take it back because there’s a problem. There’s a constructed narrative. There’s a controlled narrative. The news, and information that is coming out right now is a psyop. It is an information influence op. People need to understand this and learn how all of this operates. And then soon after that, once the Trump administration came in, Q came out.
Now, what was Q? Q was the wake-up call from the information op that was being played through the mockingbird media for a very, very long time. …what I want to show people is this. Prior to 2017, pretty much about 2010, the world of information changed. And it changed quite drastically. See, the problem with big tech and social media companies up until 2010 is they didn’t have the infrastructure in place to actually do what they wanted to do with cell phones and tablets. You couldn’t stream videos really well. It was still hard to download content. They tried peer-to-peer content downloads, but the bandwidth size of the antennas just wasn’t large enough until around 2010. And that’s when Amazon and Google finalized a lot of their infrastructure build-outs and we had what was known as virtual machines which could spool up anywhere in the world and basically run content. And this gave birth to the information era to where people stopped consuming 60 minutes and 30 minute news broadcasts and started to go and consume 124 character tweets and two to three minute short videos on Vine or Facebook posts or memes that were just pictures depicting current events and you know Sunday comics.
So people started to consume information differently and people in the military began to understand that hey there’s an opportunity here to basically take back the domain of information by controlling this now evolving domain of information. This new emerging evolving domain of information because just like has happened in the past big large corporate media conglomerates were failing at adapting to this new technological trend. The military knew that this was going to be something. It was going to be really something. And so what do they do? They utilize movement warfare.
They utilize movement warfare and they constructed a psychological operation that was directed towards MAGA patriots, conspiracy theorists and people who question government. They started it on 4chan on October 28th, 2017. Actually, it it started well before October 28th because if anybody who’s on 4chan during that time, you know that since January of that year, there was people coming in and out of 4chan claiming to be White House insiders, claiming to be FBI insiders or people inside the Trump administration. So, either that was people out there just blowing smoke up people’s asses or those were dry test runs of what Q actually would become. But there was one posted specifically talking about Huma, John Podesta, Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton will be indicted or be arrested, passport flagged. These posts are the ones that captured people’s attentions. And primarily the main reason was because people created Reddit threads to start discussing all these threads. And this one was the one that got amplified the most on these Reddit threads and then on the Twitter boards. And once the amplification began, that is when it took off and it started to grow massively.
Soon after, a guy by the name of Joe M comes out and he puts some great movies out there, short little 9-minute movies called The Plan to Save the World. And then it went absolutely viral… I think it’s important because what the Q operation was in the social milieu serves multiple different purposes.
Number one, it was meant to wake up the American public, to have people start investigating, researching, and then take that information and begin broadcasting it. To take back the idea of information, take back the domain of information. That was key and paramount…
ALPHA: So, we get the news Susie Wiles is out and so everybody’s like, “Yes.” Like all these different groups that I’m in, people finally feel like our chin got a little bit above the water here. Who’s she getting replaced with? Stephen Miller. Every Democratic person out there losing their head.
Why is Hegseth so important, and why do they want him out so much? A Color Revolution is a kind of insurgency. An insurgency requires making people fear it more than the actual government. Beyond being a decorated combat soldier, Hegseth was also a counter-insurgency instructor in the army for many years. But it goes deeper. Hegseth is mediagenic and media savvy. He’s a charismatic communicator. And by all indications, a large number of troops love him.
In this way, he’s vastly more effective than an older SecDef who might have more political and policy sophistication. This is important because with that level of support amongst the troops it makes it unlikely that any Deep State officers will be able to move their troops towards insurrection against the current administration. Put another way, it’s not so much what he can get the military TO DO. It’s what he can prevent the military from doing.
And that’s why they are desperate to get rid of him.
On top of that Hegseth is 46, still buff, and very much a MAN. For the Gamergate Guys, he can, to some extent, take Charlie’s place as a leader. He is a good counter to Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson.
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That was stolen from Wheatie.
Let’s steal her rules, too.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
As the smoke of these midterm elections clears, LIGHT is coming into DARKNESS, and the beauty of AND LOGIC is casting its clarifying refraction upon the chaos.
Everybody with an opinion is right in some way – and we have to fight the demons on all the fronts – even those we are loath to admit exist.
I am seeing TWO primary strategies by our enemies, both long in the making, both worthy of the most severe punishment that can be mustered. First we must accept the possibility of these things, then we must PROVE them.
We must prove them to ourselves, THEN to others.
FIRST, they cheated like HELL.
SECOND, they broke up the MAGA coalition based upon on its internal contradictions.
Anti-intersectionality, one might say. A specialty of the “divide and conquer” Obama crowd, and their masters across the Atlantic.
If you pick one cause (cheating) or the other (splitting), you won’t cut through to what was really done, and who did it. Who was USED to get what they wanted.
We have to dig deep to dredge up ALL of the TRUTH – including truth that we don’t want to see.
I will approach this in two parts – in the order that I realized them.
(1) Cheating
Cari Kelemen – who is remarkably sane and common sense – isn’t buying the results. She convinced me to start asking the right questions.
Did you know that Executive Order 13848, written by Trump in 2018, has been renewed annually, even during the Biden administration? https://t.co/wqJGg2rKaM
Once I realized that the votes for the outrageous Demmunist candidates were “too good” by half, I could see that Cari was right.
There are numerous signs, and we need to follow them. At a minimum, we need to delegitimize the bastards by the same playbook we used after the 2020 STEAL – the one which brought them to a reckoning in 2024.
Now, it is possible that the Trump administration “got the drop” on some of this cheating, but if so, it has to be solid enough to EXPLAIN THE FAKE VICTORIES – much like was done with “2000 Mules” in 2021.
If the “drop” on the cheaters is unable to mechanistically and scientifically explain the theft, then it’s no more useful than our mere informed assertions that they cheated. Yes, those are useful, as we pounded their traitorous asses into the ground with such between 2021 and 2024.
However, if we have even better stuff – like the literal digital eye on machines during the cheats themselves, then we only need ONE case, for ONE machine, for ONE of their filthy fake candidates – not played before LYING COURTS, but rather before the EYES OF THE PUBLIC – to create the OUTRAGE that will have these monsters pleading for their very lives.
It is NOT before the courts of cheating, lying Democrats that we need to plead our case. It is before the hearts of honest men with guns in cabinets that we must show any evidence. Release all the evidence to the public, and even AMY QUIVERING COMEY will “man up” to do her job. And if she doesn’t, then WE WILL.
Thus, it is alleged that Trump is going to get a report on cheating in 45 days. Well, let’s see it. If it’s just a couple of dozen illegal Mexican thieves and their communist enablers, who voted in California for the one communist candidate, then SCREW IT – that is the same old weak-sauce bullshit that we can always ignore. Scratch the cheating. It was every other low-like scam tactic that they did, like ballot-stacking in Alaska.
BUT if you have just ONE machine, hacked by China in real time, then give every byte of data to WE, THE GEEK MASSES. Show us in glory how they did it to JUST ONE MACHINE, or JUST ONE TABULATOR, and WE THE PEOPLE will have those Demon Dems running for China before they can cry for mercy.
Don’t give a shit about the corrupt courts! Don’t give a shit about AMY SCAREDY CATLET – or whatever her phoney name is. Give it to WE THE PEOPLE. Let us citizens spit in the path of every DEMON DEM who shamed this country with Chinese help.
Do you get it, J.D.? Tell your boss to give it all to WE THE PEOPLE – the final court of this land.
Then, let the fun and games begin.
(2) Splitting the MAGA Coalition
The globalist operation to split MAGA over Israel and Epstein was evil genius, and those behind it deserve to rot in hell, but in the meanwhile, we need to understand what they did to us.
Gail Combs has tried desperately to enlighten people to the various wicked GloboHomoEuroPsycho elites and residual British Empire NoGoodNiks who have caused this nation endless trouble from before we were any more than a few colonies of religious refugees and a few million semi-Siberian explorer spawn on two strange continents.
Their latest assault against American Independence was this midterm election, when their Demon Dems – their MOB of Orwellian cretins – helped them split Trump’s MAGA coalition over a terrible choice – let Iran and its Palestinian proxies destroy Israel “from the river to the sea” – or break Trump’s promise to avoid endless war (as there is no other kind in the Middle East).
J.D. Vance put it very nicely, after Trump himself admitted that the war is what hurt Republicans in the midterm elections.
JD Vance @JDVance
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was “composition”—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we’re going to shock the world? “No,” he told me. “We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us.”
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
End the war
Focus on cost of living/inflation
Put America First
Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there’s going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I’m open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
10:38 AM · Nov 4, 2026 · 46.2M Views
Wolf again.
This is only where to begin. It’s not just the economy – it’s the war AND the economy.
Predictably, many of our Jewish friends who are used to older tactics, are whipping out the antisemitism card. To them I say PULEAZE. Don’t embarrass yourselves. We must speak TRUTH before GOD if we are to win this battle.
Trump sacrificed the midterms to rescue both Israel now and America in the future, and – sadly but honestly – most Americans are too bloody dense to see it. J.D. speaks of people who think it was worth it, and that would include me, but for every one of us, there are two or three who were outraged that Trump turned out to be – in their opinions – “Israel First”.
Yes, it’s not fair. Trump did the right thing for Israel and America BOTH – but he’s not allowed to explain the Israel part, for some reason, which just makes it worse, IMO. Speak the truth without fear. THAT is my recommendation.
Trump chose – honorably – the less expedient path to secure a better future for all our kids. But many of Trump’s 2024 voters didn’t sign up to defend Israel, and they LEFT in 2026. Don’t give the antisemites the power of OUR lies by denying that.
NOW is the time to be honest – how do we go forward? Do we keep lying to ourselves, until every American curses Israel? Or do we admit that there was a COST to defending Israel – and that the American left cashed in on the resulting, globalist-encouraged split in MAGA to gain power? How do we, the People, SAVE MAGA and keep America from becoming an enemy of Israel?
And while we’re at it, do we keep importing Muslims, Latino communists, and others who will CHEER the destruction of Israel? People who will turn America against Israel? Who have already turned much of America against Israel? I ask our Jewish friends to have an honest discussion of this with their progressive Jewish friends and relatives. Because THAT is where much of the problem lies, IMO. And yes – we will work on our progressive Christian friends.
I for one will not abandon Israel, even in its stupidity, but I will not abandon the TRUTH – because THAT is what lies at the center of Zion.
This, too, shall pass. And it will pass because we were honest about doing the RIGHT THING, and accepting the COSTS of doing the right thing.
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Short 2 year old clip from Glen Beck.
May thanks to eilert,Gudthots,TheseTruths, and others who brought this to the Q tree. I am puttingmuch of itin an article to preserve itin an easy to find place.
H/T barkerjim for last weeks C&C that sums up a lot of this mess. I have stolen a lot of the article because Jeff Childers does such a bang up job of summarizing what has been happening here and around the globe.
Here we go again. You would not be blamed for a sneaking suspicion that the left is up to something on a global scale. Deep staters conspiring in the US. Black bloc protestors without demands burning French town halls. Brazil stealing an election and its candidate fleeing across a bridge to Argentina on foot after midnight. Missile defense trucks deployed to chic Palm Beach around Mar-a-Lago. Now this. Headline from Fox, this morning: “Polish president turns plane around after ‘coup’ at nation’s top court.”…
🔥 It looks like Poland’s left is speed-running the Brazil experience…
In short, the communists found a way to capture a country by occupying its Supreme Court. This took years to accomplish in Brazil. It looks like the globalists just tried to do the same thing in one night in Poland while the President was out of town…
🔥 There’s a lot more kindling. Data professionals have dubbed this month “Black October” due to a global rash of cyberattacks. (It is also Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so.) Two days ago, the Military Times reported that the Pentagon is treating a string of freezer failures at US military commissaries, the on-base grocery stores, as a suspected Iranian hack. Fort Huachuca’s Facebook page said its freezer “went into defrost mode where it heated up all the food.” In a copycat attack on French grocery freezers at around the same time, some units got so hot they caught fire… [Good reason NOT to have smart appliances –GC]
🔥 The global unrest is due to everyone being more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs…
But what everyone is really thinking is that the U.S. midterm elections are now just three days away. Even here, in my usually placid blue Alachua County, where progressives run everything and normally don’t bother, things are heating up…
What do we make of all this? Pessimists on X are predicting a coordinated global attack. Their theory is that globalist forces that lost their USAID grants see Tuesday as the last chance to stop the counter-revolution before the money never comes back. They have plenty of silliness to work with. Democrats are promising chaos
The No Kings brigades have been ominously quiet this summer and election season. But the No Kings website wants activists to be ready for “mass nonviolent action in rapid response” if officials “refuse to certify valid results.” In South Carolina this week, California’s oily governor slid into election denial even before the ballots, saying, “Trump is not screwing around. This guy’s trying to rig the election before a single vote is cast. The only way he can win is if he rigs the election.”
The LA Times reported that more than 20 Democratic attorneys general have already drafted “emergency lawsuits and temporary restraining orders” ready to file “at a moment’s notice.” Colorado’s Phil Weiser said, “We’re not going to be reacting in real time… We are going to be following through on plans we’ve made.”
Earlier this month, the Hill headlined, “Inside the Democratic effort to fight any Trump disruption of midterms.” According to the story, House Democrats have wargamed “roughly 150 different scenarios” and held more than 15 “shadow hearings,” which sounds totally democratic. Washington Governor Bob Ferguson offered county auditors plainclothes National Guard members to “inconspicuously monitor ballot drop boxes.” (Armed ICE agents near a polling place are intimidation, but undercover troops at the drop box are just neighborly.)…
None of this sounds like people confident of their blue wave. Democrats say they’re going to win in a landslide. They’ve also pre-drafted 150 lawsuits, just in case they do.
So what do we make of it all?…
In short, don’t count on knowing who won the House on election night. It might not be the kind of painful interlude that Polish folks are facing, but they aren’t going to keep all those lawsuits in a drawer. The courts should plan to cancel all their scheduled vacations, stock up on energy drinks, and maybe pre-order Costco Thanksgiving meals.
The French are packing board games. Americans should pack patience…
Here is the compilation in no particular order. And yes it is LONG. On a side note for future reference: DataRepublican’s Substack
These are two goods tweet on how to take back our country.
People keep asking what “10,000 Stephen Millers” actually means. Let me tell you, because it's simpler than the headline.
Stephen Miller started as a junior staffer in a Senate office. He wasn't famous. He wasn't connected. He stayed for years, learned the policy cold, worked… https://t.co/ixJuIGnDn8
Nick Solheim @NickSolheim People keep asking what “10,000 Stephen Millers” actually means. Let me tell you, because it’s simpler than the headline.
Stephen Miller started as a junior staffer in a Senate office. He wasn’t famous. He wasn’t connected. He stayed for years, learned the policy cold, worked harder than everyone around him, and was loyal to his boss and the mission. That’s how a junior staffer becomes an assistant to the president.
It’s not enough to just create right-wing staff. You have to make them humble, loyal, and willing to work harder and later than everyone else.
Since 2021, American Moment has trained several thousand young conservatives. Every semester, a small class of paid fellows learns how Washington actually works: how decisions get made, how paper moves, how to staff a principal, how to show up prepared. Our alumni now work across the administration and on Capitol Hill.
Elections change who sits in the big chairs. They don’t change who writes the memos, staffs the meetings, and implements their principal’s decisions — unless you build the people who do.
The other side understood this a long time ago. They built institutions to train and place their people, and they are now openly threatening ours for doing the same.
We’re going to keep building anyway. If you’re a young conservative who wants to serve — really serve, not just post — we will train you, we will help you get hired, and we will stand behind you when it gets hard.
Personnel is policy. Build the personnel, and the policy follows.
I really like this guy. He often appears on Rich Does Politics.
Five countries fell to the globalist playbook. 🇵🇱
A US senator went to Europe to learn how they did it.
Interesting videos. Please note, no human has an exclusive on Truth so I watch different view points and then form my own opinions. Tom Luongo mentions in another video that Alex Krainer does not like Trump and that he comes from a very different back ground than us, Communist Yugoslavia.
Matt Ehret (Canadian) and Alex Krainer: The Clash of the Two Systems from USA 1776 to China Today (1 hr 17 minutes)
Promethean Action Q&A (2 hrs)
43 minute – 51:30 promethean action about Data republican
59 minutes Sun Yat-Sen
1hr 5min Nevil Singham conntected to City of London
1:07:30 APAX Capitol Brits owns data base for Democrat party
1:22:30 1600 Ret Generals & Pentagon Insiders – Memo to POTUS NOT to use insurrection act to quell Political Violence.
2:01:00 Carroll Quigley
Tulsi Gabbard’s full speech from Turning Point USA: My warning to all Americans (23 minutes)
Now you know why they were collecting data on over 600,000 Trump supporters under Biden. If you put together what Slotkin, Susan Rice, Jake Sullivan, Jack Smith and company were doing, you can see the whole plan. Obama’s Goal is to DESTROY the whole MAGA movement so it NEVER rises again Through lawfare, intimidation, persecution. Buy a MAGA hat and you are on the list. Work for the Trump administration –>go to jail
Now you know why they were collecting data on over 600,000 Trump supporters
If you put together what Slotkin, Susan Rice, Jake Sullivan, Jack Smith and co were doing, you can see the whole plan.
America is currently in the midst of a color revolution designed to overthrow our Constitutional form of government. The only way to stop it is awareness.
(This is going to be a lengthy article, but please bear with me because I believe we all need to understand what is happening in the shadows.)
If you are not already aware of the treasure trove* of seditionist materials that @DataRepublican has uncovered, please stop now and review them, or at least listen to this audio describing the seditionist plot in the seditionists’ own words. Please come back to this article after you listen.
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THAT, friends, is what a color revolution sounds like.
However, if we are all going to fight this rebellion with our own words and deeds, we need the knowledge to be able to spot exactly what the fight looks like. To that end, I am writing this article to educate American patriots on what a color revolution actually is, what its key strategies consist of, and how those strategies relate to what we are seeing being unleashed in the USA today.
What is a Color Revolution?
Wikipedia defines a “color revolution” as follows:
“[Color revolutions] are a series of often non-violent protests and accompanying (attempted or successful) changes of government and society taking place in post-Soviet states (particularly Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan) and the former Yugoslavia during the 21st century. The aim of the color revolutions is to establish Western-style democracies. They were primarily triggered by election results widely viewed as falsified. The color revolutions are marked by the use of the internet as a method of communication, as well as a strong role of non-governmental organizations [(“NGOs”)] in the protests.”
While the main government players in all of this on the U.S. side were the CIA and USAID, “non-profit” NGOs like the National Endowment for Democracy (“NED,” directly congressionally funded), the National Democratic Institute (“NDI,” funded by grants from USAID, the Department of State and NED), the International Republican Institute (“IRI,” similarly funded by grants from USAID, the Department of State and NED), Freedom House (also similarly funded by grants from USAID, the Department of State and NED), and a plethora of other NGOs (many funded by George Soros’s infamous Open Society network) have done most of the dirty work.
Understanding the role of NGOs in all of this is crucial—NGOs provide a way for U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund foreign policy actions that are difficult to track and often run counter to the intent of a majority of American voters.
These NGOs all have one thing in common—they are all vocally dedicated to “protecting democracy.” However, when examining their track record of fomenting revolution, it’s arguable that many of the regimes they overthrew were, in fact, democratically elected (at least to standards no more corrupt than America’s 2020 Presidential election). This is particularly true with respect to the Revolution of Dignity and the overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically-elected President, Viktor Yanukovych. Far be it for me to uphold ex-Soviet oligarchs, but it appears that the devotion of these NGOs to “democracy” is actually to “democracies we approve of.”
We will come back to the NGOs.
How Do Color Revolutions Work?
There are numerous academic treatises on the features of color revolutions, but my personal research suggests that they rely upon six lines of attack:
1. Funding.
Those U.S. NGOs you see listed above operate by funding other NGOs and individuals inside the targeted nation. Dark U.S. money becomes even darker money inside the targeted nation. These organizations build parallel structures that can operate outside national control and coordinate/sustain protest capacity at a tightly-organized, high level.
2. Training.
The well-funded NGOs and individuals then engage in highly structured activist training programs. Often pyramidal in nature (i.e., “train the trainers”), these programs cover branding, the processing of parallel vote counts, actions that erode the legitimacy of existing governmental institutions and maintaining ostensibly nonviolent discipline to maximize activist legitimacy.
3. Narrative and Symbolism.
The narrative of government illegitimacy must be pushed and repeated over and over and over. Complicit media sources are essential to creating and sustaining this narrative (often with cash changing hands to publish a particular story). Very basic symbolism is also vital. The name “color revolution” itself refers to the use of an inspiring color to unify the activists and present a constant reminder of the surge of activism engulfing the country via clothing, signs and banners—the “Orange Revolution” is a perfect example. Logos, slogans, hashtags and similarly pithy symbolic expressions are essential in delegitimizing the targeted regime and present regime change as the only “democratic” outcome.
4. Electoral Trigger.
A big part of the dark money is used to deploy “independent” election monitors, create fake pre-election polling and fake exit polling, and rapidly publicize perceived “irregularities” to create a clear trigger for mass protests. NGO networks then convert the disputed vote into sustained mass street action. While the architects of color revolutions consistently highlight the “non-violent” nature of their protests, certain groups are designated to engage in covert (i.e., masked) violent action, and other groups are essentially sent to the slaughter in hopes that the government will violently crack down and create martyrs. (Although this name pre-dates color revolutions, such deliberate martyrdom is what I call the “Horst Wessel Strategy.”)
5. Elite pressure.
This is the process of relying on outside agents of high legitimacy to create public statements of support for the protestors and activists, create targeted sanctions or incentives for the current government to step down, and to quietly engage with military, bureaucratic, and business elites in the targeted government. The aim is to isolate the current government internationally and signal that cooperation with the old regime carries higher costs than accommodation with the protesters.
6. Defection of Security Forces and Military.
One of the main purposes of all of the above is to convince a nation’s military and security/police forces that they are a part of an illegitimate regime and that the only moral choice is to defect to the opposition. Ramping up violent protests such that these people must choose between firing on their own countrymen or defecting is a fundamental tenet of color revolutions, supposed “non-violent” practices notwithstanding. In high-trust societies where the military is well-respected, this is perhaps the most important tool in the color revolutionary’s tool box. When the military and police defect, the color revolution is over, and it wins.
These are the tools the U.S. government and its well-funded network of NGOs have been using for decades to foment the overthrow of disfavored national governments, all without approval or knowledge of the electorate. Then Donald Trump dismantled USAID, and it all stopped.
Or did it? All those ex-USAID employees had to go find something to do, and boy oh boy did they ever.
Our American Color Revolution
Hopefully by now you are already seeing the parallels between our overseas color revolutions and what we are seeing and experiencing in the USA in 2026.
USAID? Note how many of the videos and audios that @DataRepublican posted involve ex-USAID employees who know their color revolution toolbox cold.
NGOs? All of the actions @DataRepublican has uncovered involve NGOs with specific, compartmentalized, plausibly deniable roles: the United Democracy Alliance; 50501; Indivisible; National Security Leaders for America (this one is particularly troubling as it has ~1,600 former military, intelligence and State Department officials behind it); and many more. Some are still relying on funding they derived from U.S. taxpayers before President Trump shut it all down. George Soros funds many of them. Foreign power funding? Maybe—money laundering is a thing.
It’s the NGOs.
It’s always the NGOs.
Democracy? Sure, sure, sure. Those NGO plotters are all there to “protect our democracy.” In reality, they are there to overthrow any democratically-elected American they disapprove of, just like happened to some of the democratically-elected regimes we overthrew off our shores. To these people, “democracy” means the right of unelected bureaucrats and well-funded NGOs to control our national destiny. In reality, “democracy” is the very last thing they want.
As to the color revolution toolbox, the similarities to what we are seeing now are simply undeniable:
Funding? Do I even need to explain this one? The NGOs fomenting insurrection in the USA are incredibly well-funded, many by George Soros’ network.
Training? Since 2020 we have seen so many examples of training programs for Antifa and similar groups, all NGO funded. These training programs are designed to train protestors on how to effectively foment civil unrest and, at times, violence. For example, Indivisible’s “One Million Rising” project focuses on training to be able to analyze “pillars of support” for the Trump Administration (business, labor, faith, civil service, law enforcement, etc.) and tactics to weaken them. Specific examples include pressuring local sheriffs not to cooperate with ICE, “Signs of Solidarity” campaigns targeting businesses, and sustained local campaigns against lawful Trump Administration actions. Sign-up language for such training has included “Let’s get organized. Let’s stop Trump.” Indivisible materials state the goal of mobilizing people “to defeat MAGA” and disrupt policy through noncooperation and active protest. (This effort has received up to $7,600,000 in Soros funding, by the way.)
Narrative and Symbolism? Again, do I really need to elaborate? The legacy media cannot report on election integrity without stating that Donald Trump’s complaints about the 2020 election are “baseless.” We are awash in stories about how the Trump Administration’s efforts to ensure election integrity are instead a nefarious plot to steal the midterm elections. Today, the Washington Post—obviously in a hurried and desperate effort to get out in front of the revelations from @DataRepublican—published an anonymously-sourced article favorably describing the coup efforts she uncovered. If you read this article, it does not talk about a coup conspiracy. Instead it talks about a bunch of well-meaning, patriotic, anonymous ex-national security officials simply trying to protect America from the evil dictator Trump destroying “our democracy.” This article itself is straight out of the color revolution toolbox—it is propaganda designed to condition a populace to accept illegitimate actions. The Washington Post is part of the plot. As to symbolism, do “No Kings” and the “Resistance” mean anything to you? Again, these slogans/symbols are straight out of the color revolution toolbox.
Electoral Trigger? When you listen to the videos and audios released by @DataRepublican, the plotters consistently speak of the midterms as being the trigger for action. Again, these ex-USAID diplomats could not possibly speak more clearly in their intent to overthrow the Trump Presidency via the color revolution tactics they learned in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. (Oh yeah, as to the trigger creating useful idiot martyrs, do the names Renée Good and Alex Pretti ring a bell?)
Elite Pressure? While we see European Union nations constantly decrying Trump—which is actually part of the plot—the twist in a domestic color revolution is that the elite pressure will come directly from Democrat governors. The uncovered plot relies on the idea that rampant street protests will result in a crisis in legitimacy via Trump needing to invoke the Insurrection Act, such that Democrat and RINO governors declare themselves the only legitimate U.S. authority, up to and including reaching out to foreign powers for recognition. (Geez, that kind of feels like the Confederacy asking Queen Victoria to acknowledge their sovereignty, doesn’t it?) The final step here will be to overthrow the Constitution as we know it—they said so.
Defection of Security Forces and Military? This is another one I feel like I really do not need to explain. Seditious Six, anyone? This feature of the domestic color revolution has been in plain sight for quite some time. Our nation’s survival really depends on this not working. Given the institutional resistance to Department of War reforms from some of the senior military brass and the cabal of senior, unelected bureaucrats in the Senior Executive Service who have trashed their oaths via passive resistance to the electoral will of the American people, this is a real issue of concern. If the plotters can turn some of the generals and bureaucrats actively against their Commander-in-Chief, we are in real trouble. Fortunately, I think this is the weak point of the plot and why it will ultimately fail. Our military ranks are still filled almost totally with patriots who will honor their oath to the Constitution.
The plot is afoot. It’s real. It’s here. A color revolution is currently being attempted in the USA by the same people who so adroitly manipulated the fates of millions of Eastern Europeans and Central Asians some twenty years ago.
What Can We Do?
My X feed is awash with concerned patriots asking this same question. All of us—everyone of us—can do these three things:
1. Pray.
2. Call your Congressman/woman and Senators and demand an investigation. Light up the switchboards. MAKE THEM pay attention.
3. Tell everyone you know. Make them listen to this shocking audio, if nothing else. The time is past caring if midwit Cousin Susie or face tattoo Nephew Timmy will cut you off because you support our President. Make them listen. The time is late. Our nation and our freedoms are at risk.
One more thing—for some of us, the answer is to be prepared. Most of you know what I mean, I’ll leave it there.
This modern American Gunpowder Plot cannot and will not succeed.
*In case you doubt the veracity of @DataRepublican‘s materials, here is how she obtained them. Some doofus involved in the plot used an AI agent to record and archive everything that went on, all the way back to 2023, and them stupidly let the agent archive them in a publicly available Google Drive. DR got a tip as to the URL. Further, the man President Trump appointed to play a key role in USAID and shut it down (Pete Marocco) publicly vouched for their authenticity. Here is the link where he said so.
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This is how you know my recordings are real and they’re scared. Washington Post already doing counter-messaging. “A small group of U.S. national security officials has been discreetly advising state governments and congressional lawmakers on how to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will attempt to interfere in November’s midterm elections, according to people involved in the effort. The group includes about 10 current and former officials with experience in the Defense Department, some of whom have previously focused on countering authoritarianism abroad.”
Part I of the Sedition files for the planned Midterm ‘Colour Revolution’ Coup
🚨🚨 THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK / THE DEMOCRACY FILES: A PRIMER 🚨
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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… pic.twitter.com/la5grkjLbK
THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK / THE DEMOCRACY FILES: A PRIMER
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 𝕏 – 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?
🚨🚨THE DEMOCRACY FILES, PART 2: WHEN AND HOW TO DECLARE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ILLEGITIMATE 🚨
Some questioned whether a group of 200 ex-USAID officials could actually pull off their ambitions to rewrite the Constitution.
Part II of the Sedition files for the planned Midterm ‘Colour Revolution’ Coup
THE DEMOCRACY FILES, PART 2: WHEN AND HOW TO DECLARE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ILLEGITIMATE 🚨 Some questioned whether a group of 200 ex-USAID officials could actually pull off their ambitions to rewrite the Constitution.
Here, they describe exactly how it works. They aren’t working alone. The videos all come from Renew to Thrive (R2T) group and associates.
Danielle Reiff and Paul Zeitz play key roles within R2T.
R2T sits inside a much, much larger umbrella called United Democracy Alliance (UDA), which is an extremely hush-hush control plane of leaders from major “blocking” NGOs such as 50501 and Indivisible fulfilling various functions. UDA decides when protests get deployed, timelines, how to respond, all that.
R2T’s role within UDA is concerned with “the day after tomorrow” – in other words, their function is to conceive what a rewritten American government will look like after the rest of UDA fulfills its purpose. As will be shown, Erica Chenoworth is credited with conceiving UDA in the first place under the Horizons “Big Tent” initiative.
Note here that National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A) is credited for operationalizing UDA. NSL4A is a group of 1,600 ex-military, intelligence, and diplomatic officials. They are led by Rear Admiral Michael E. Smith (Ret). NSL4A also played a key role in the “illegal orders” messaging which targeted Pete Hegseth. Zeitz is also a member of NSL4A.
It must be emphasized that the choice of a military-oriented organization to coordinate NGOs across domestic protests is an interesting one all in itself – especially in an umbrella conceived by a regime change expert like Chenoworth.
You will have a hard time finding any mentions of UDA in the public. They are extremely hush-hush and selective who they talk to.
Mike Smith himself makes a personal appearance in other calls, coordinating Insurrection Act exercises and roleplaying with R2G as one of the participants.
As the audio transcript shows, they have outlined a sequence of “redlines” in which case the federal government should be declared illegitimate. Invoking the Insurrection Act against “peaceful” protesters is one of the most discussed redlines. I will post the illegitimate criteria below, but basically, almost any effective pushback against NGOs is a measure of illegitimacy according to them.
Important to understand:
The audio shows they shopped this idea around governors, but the reality is that governors do not have to explicitly sign on to the pact to play their role in the coup. All they have to do is refuse troops in their state and let UDA / R2G do the work of dissolving the federal government.
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Part III of the Sedition files for the planned Midterm ‘Colour Revolution’ Coup
At what point does this become foreign interference of our elections?
To back up: the main group that Danielle Reiff and the other ex-USAID workers belongs to, Renew To Thrive (R2T) / Renew American Democracy (RAD) have an explicit strategy document. That strategy outlines “preparing for the worst” which includes the Insurrection Act or “election meltdown,” and their goal is to get “structural reform” in place by that – a polite way of saying our Constitutional Republic has to be overhauled.
In July 2026, R2T/RAD invited foreign state actors to share experience with the American community, for the express purpose of operationalizing their expertise right here in the United States. All actors had experience in international community assisted transitions (I’ll let you figure out what that is a code word for).
The disturbing part, though, is that all of the foreign actors’ recommendations were implemented right here in America.
You may have seen news headlines like:
– Restore trust in processes
– Increased election security, increased legal presence at polls
– Democratic officials hold tabletop exercises
– Judges prepare for post-election challenges
To be clear, this video doesn’t prove that this meeting specifically caused this cascade of escalations. But what it shows is that the democracy-promotion playbook the U.S. spent decades exporting, with situation rooms, observers at every polling place, prebunking and litigation paired with street mobilization, is now being run on America’s own election. The same people are running it, and they’re taking advice from the foreign actors the U.S. once backed.
Now when you look at officials talking about independent watchdogs or tabletop exercises… know that it’s because they are now treating the United States midterms exactly the same as they’d treat elections in a third world country.
And I think more than a small part of them are hoping that it does become a self-fulfilling prophecy as it has in so many of those countries. (For context, my book Unelected documents that so-called “election meltdowns” are precursors to transitions of power via color revolution.)
“We are collectively ready to enforce our election results if and as needed.” That was Free DC executive director Keya Chatterjee’s pledge after Washington’s June primary. Now the anti-Trump organizing group is recruiting activists to rehearse election protests ahead of the midterms. Its September 26 training promises to revisit “election enforcement” and includes: “interactive role play of protest scenarios.” The announcement follows preparations in which DC organizers developed a contingency for intersection blockades, a march to the Capitol and a coordinated withdrawal from work, school and shopping if primary results were seriously contested or tampered with. Free DC has institutional backing for its organizing. Its fiscal hosts are Community Change and Community Change Action. Community Change’s disclosed supporters include Open Society Policy Center, Pivotal Ventures and Pritzker Family Foundation. On Free DC’s advisory council sits the head of an organization that has run political scenario exercises involving hundreds of groups. Funders: Blockades were already on the table The earlier election contingency laid out a sequence for taking the dispute into the streets. Movement trainer Daniel Hunter, writing about DC’s June election preparations, described: “morning intersection blockades, a midday march to the Capitol, evening gatherings” The accompanying call: “no work, no school, no shopping” Organizers planned to revive tactics from their May Day demonstrations if the election went seriously wrong. Hunter described the contingency as nonviolent non-cooperation and reported that it was never activated. Organizers also prepared to explain why a slow ranked-choice count did not mean an election had been stolen…
More donors are listed in the rest of the article. They need to be investigated.
🚨🚨 THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 7: THE SECRET MEGA-ALLIANCE WAITING FOR A RED LINE TO BE CROSSED 🚨
What do you call a mega-alliance that:
• Covers hundreds, if not thousands, of protest organizations • Covers all the lawfare-related organizations •… pic.twitter.com/T3JMuPcKdc
• Covers hundreds, if not thousands, of protest organizations
• Covers all the lawfare-related organizations
• Liasions with governors when a Constitutional crisis is crossed
• Consults federal workers on how to block emergency efforts
• Runs a situation room for the midterms and beyond
• Is credited to regime change expert and professor Erica Chenoweth
• Is operationalized by National Security Leaders for America, an organization of 1,600 retired officers, spies, and diplomats
• … and determines the “red lines” for mobilization of the above?
Meet the United Democracy Alliance (UDA).
UDA is the secret alliance behind the messaging we saw this week:
• JB Pritzker’s warning that states will “strongly resist”
• Governor Newsom’s office declaring a “CODE RED”
• Norm Eisen talking about “war rooms”
• Slotkin predicting a “national security incident”
You will not find any mentions of the United Democracy Alliance (UDA) on the web. It is a mega-alliance of resistance NGOs ready to deploy on a moment’s notice, monitoring every action President Trump takes and monitoring every polling place.
We only can put together the pieces by recordings. Some key quotes:
• “if there’s a moment where there’s a constitutional crisis, like one of the UDA four red lines, if they get crossed… governors then become the kind of lead anchor for political power.” (Zeitz, Aug 6)
• “the big, big, big, big, big tent that’s being organized in the blocking community so that if there is a red line crossed in terms of a constitutional crisis, like, everybody’s already pre-organized.” (Reiff, Aug 5)
• “We are also starting to consult federal workers on how to do some blocking inside the govt agencies during emergency situations” (Eric Manton, Zoom chat, Aug 6)
According to
@JeffClarkUS
, the last point above about federal workers conspiring to block emergency responses may violate serious statutes. More on federal workers involvement in Drop 8.
UNDERCOVER: GAVIN NEWSOM SAYS THE DSA IS "GOING TO BE DOMINANT" AND "MAINSTREAM" IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!
"The DSA, the energy and the desire and demand for bold change, not incremental change, is very much going to be dominant. I mean, that's going to be a mainstream Democratic… pic.twitter.com/y83qCrYiwO
UNDERCOVER: GAVIN NEWSOM SAYS THE DSA IS “GOING TO BE DOMINANT” AND “MAINSTREAM” IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!
“The DSA, the energy and the desire and demand for bold change, not incremental change, is very much going to be dominant. I mean, that’s going to be a mainstream Democratic movement. Absolutely. No question about that.” That’s California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential candidate, speaking to an undercover journalist while campaigning in New Hampshire. Asked by a “younger voter” who said “we don’t want Kamala Harris, we want more democratic socialist policies”: “No one is arguing to manage the status quo and fail more efficiently.” “You can’t play in the margins anymore. The system’s broken. It’s completely unbalanced, and we can’t manage the decline. We have to completely reimagine.”
The Gateway Pundit: So the people who want to abolish the Senate and the Presidency, open jails, and defund the police are going to be the dominant wing of the Democrat Party? Good to know, good to know.
Looks like McCarthy was correct!
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DataRepublican analysis of this:
Governor Newsom on 17 October: "The whole – the system's broken. It's completely unbalanced. And you can't – we can't manage the decline. We have to completely reimagine."
Then within the files, I see very similar language: "The system is broken — and it cannot fix itself."… pic.twitter.com/zQGh2KT3LL
Governor Newsom on 17 October: “The whole – the system’s broken. It’s completely unbalanced. And you can’t – we can’t manage the decline. We have to completely reimagine.”
Then within the files, I see very similar language: “The system is broken — and it cannot fix itself.”
Does that mean the specific ex-USAID workers we’ve been tracking are controlling Newsom? No. But as you’ve seen throughout these files, every individual in the ecosystem belongs to multiple NGOs and alliances. They network constantly. They attend each other’s conferences. They form coalitions on similar projects. They give each other feedback. That’s how they develop a hive mind.
The proposed methods may differ from group to group, but they are all converging on one goal: America governance must be rewritten from top down, and soon.
Trump used DC and the Home Rule Act, as the blueprint for every crime-ridden city in the nation. This is psychological normalization for the Insurrection Act. DC was essentially a soft-launch of the Insurrection Act, so the public could see that the concept works, and have trust in the US MIL.
At some point, the Insurrection Act will be invoked, so the US MIL can assist law enforcement and carry out arrests on US soil, secure and safeguard the nation, and restore law and order in blue cities/states that refuse to enforce federal law and harbor illegals/criminals from the federal government (sanctuary cities). [I agree – GC]
And for those claiming that the Dems “want” Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act… you are mistaken. The Insurrection Act is quite literally the thing they fear most, because the Dems know that means the US MIL can conduct arrests on US soil, and they REALLY don’t want that.
I think that some Dems are crazy enough to think Canada and the UN will step in. Also Remember the 16 year plan. The US military was SUPPOSED to be de-fanged by now and controlled by the Cabal. That is why Slutkin et al were calling on the US Military to revolt.
Michigan Democrat Sen. Elissa Slotkin was recorded in an undercover video laying out a concrete plan for what Democrats intend to do if they regain a congressional majority in the midterms, describing preselected “signature cases” of alleged corruption that they would pursue in every committee starting in January. The clip, obtained by Townhall and posted Friday on the outlet’s X account, was filmed Thursday at a Michigan campaign event where Slotkin was appearing in support of congressional candidate Sean McCann. During the exchange, an undercover reporter expressed concern that Democrats might be “too nice” and pressed Slotkin on prosecutions against the Trump administration and its allies. Slotkin responded that she was “with you” and outlined the plan. “We have a list of, like, the ‘signature cases.’ So the things where it’s, like, so egregious, such a violation of law, such a corruption case… and we will have, in every committee, there will be the ‘signature cases’ where we hold people accountable.” Slotkin added that these would be the matters “that people identify with.” ➡️ The senator specifically named the White House ballroom project in the East Wing, the reflecting pool renovation on the National Mall, and “$200 million in, you know, from the Defense Department” as examples. “So that’s what you’ll see basically in January.”
Eilert
…Normen Eisen and Marc Elias already have their Color Revolution ducks lined up.
OTH POTUS is already on to them
🚨🚨 THE DEMOCRACY FILES / THE INSURRECTION PLAYBOOK, PART 12: IS NORM EISEN CALLING THE SHOTS? 🚨
First, sorry for the absence of drops; I had to go on a last minute trip to DC and back. @nataliegwinters has been releasing many drops adjacent to the Democracy Files, including… pic.twitter.com/JWP9bJ0BpL
🚨🚨 THE DEMOCRACY FILES / THE INSURRECTION PLAYBOOK, PART 12: IS NORM EISEN CALLING THE SHOTS? 🚨
First, sorry for the absence of drops; I had to go on a last minute trip to DC and back.
@nataliegwinters has been releasing many drops adjacent to the Democracy Files, including materials on ESRN and Norm Eisen.
The Democracy Files, while significant, are told through the lenses of a mid-to-high level operatives group of ex-USAID workers, a group called DRG (Democracy Renewal Group). DRG, in these videos, collaborate with other groups, receive briefings from others such as Rear Admiral Mike Smith (RET), participate in and host working groups, and so forth.
But DRG are not the shot-callers. They explicitly do not decide when a mass protest has to happen. They do not have a final say in what has to occur before mass mobilization occurs. Erica Chenoweth isn’t personally secretly running things. Mike Smith is a high level operational leader, not a shot-caller.
So who calls the shots?
Put together the Democracy Files and Winters’ drops, and a larger hierarchical picture emerges: ESRN, Election Safeguards Response Network, which is mentioned in @nataliegwinters reporting. The Democracy Files heavily suggests that ESRN is who ultimately calls the shots when it is time to mobilize United Democracy Alliance (UDA).
And that particular trail leads directly to none other than Norm Eisen.
Now, this does not mean Eisen is the unilateral mastermind. Most likely, that belongs to yet another mysterious small coalition of elites – we can only speculate on who else is in that club; ESRN is financed under State Democracy Defenders Action, EIN 93-1524544.
But Eisen’s hands are on a great many levers, and we can reasonably infer he is one of the key decision-making figures.
5:51 PM · Oct 31, 2026
Norm Eisen is the executive chair of State Democracy Defenders Fund, a coalition which includes people such as @BillKristol . Their tax form lists Sayer Lagalle as “ESRN Director.”
There’s no such thing as an organic nationwide protest. That has been debunked for once and for all.
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@pepesgrandma Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻@pepesgrandma
Oct 31
Have you ever considered they meant just Democracy Alliance. The same folks that ran the first coup attempt?
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BTW This is her latetest post (Part 13) documenting the Color Revolution:
🚨🚨 DEMOCRACY FILES / THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 13: THE NEW FOUNDING 🚨
The "democracy" ecosystem is mostly decentralized. There's competition sometimes (as this drop will show). But when a direction has been set by funders, actors converge towards a common goal.
🚨🚨 DEMOCRACY FILES / THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 13: THE NEW FOUNDING 🚨
The “democracy” ecosystem is mostly decentralized. There’s competition sometimes (as this drop will show). But when a direction has been set by funders, actors converge towards a common goal.
And that goal is: American government must be rewritten from scratch, and soon.
RAD, the project of ex-USAID workers we’ve been tracing in the Democracy Files, represents one plan. PolicyLink represents another plan.
What is PolicyLink?
Towards the end of UNELECTED, I write about PolicyLink – a highly connected NGO which receives more than $50 million annually in funding. There, I describe its “soul work” – engineering the human soul to create a renewed democracy. That’s not an exaggeration; that’s how they describe it, in their own words.
PolicyLink appears again in the Democracy Files. Here, you can see PolicyLink personnel use the same language we’ve seen in prior drops: founders, a new founding, redesigning the federal government.
PolicyLink has over $100 million in assets and receives its funding from all the usual suspects – Rockefeller, Open Society, Ford, Gates, etc. It has worked closely with Democratic administrations in setting policy.
RAD and PolicyLink compete for the same funders and the same space. But they say the same thing: a “new founding,” drafted by people no one elected, ready “before the window opens.”
RAD is perhaps simply more honest about how that window will open.
More about PolicyLink’s “soul work,” which is covered in UNELECTED – thanks to @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan for finding this:
The big picture and its history is all covered in UNELECTED. Buy it here:
How the NGO-Administrative Complex Seized Power—And How to Get It Back
$200 billion for Ukraine. $50 billion a year for USAID. $9 billion for resettling refugees. Meanwhile, Americans struggle to earn a living, buy a home, and start a family. The welfare state works for everyone but employed citizens trying their best to make ends meet and pay their taxes on time. Why are the world’s most generous people financially abused by their own government?
As one scandal after another breaks, there is one question that becomes harder and harder to ignore: How did the American government and a vast network of NGOs become the vehicle for funneling American middle-class wealth to the rest of the world? The surprising answer is not financial, but philosophical, the little-known yet centuries-old ideology called supranationalism. From George Soros through George W. Bush, from the 17th century Treaty of Westphalia through the rise of President Donald Trump, a clear timeline emerges for how everyday Americans became the number-one mark for a global ruling class intent on redistributing their resources. Barricading its backroom dealmaking behind federal departments, nonprofits and NGOs, and charitable foundations whose names we all know yet whose operations will still shock and horrify, this NGO-Administrative Complex has perfected the art of converting U.S. taxpayer money into instant-access welfare for the rest of the world. This is the story of how this machine was built, how it runs, and how it can finally be dismantled.
Drawing on Jennica Pounds’ receipt-backed analysis trusted by millions on X at @DataRepublican, together with page-turning narratives of New York Times best-selling author Joshua Lisec, Unelected maps the money, names the gatekeepers, and rug-pulls the unelected networks running the show from behind dated logos and sappy slogans to impoverish us all and usher in a new world order in which every American city is destined to become another Minneapolis.
TRANSCRIPT
On Saturday, Benny Johnson asked Donald Trump to give a final message to Republicans before the Tuesday midterms.
And the final message for Republicans.
“Just be smart, be strong, love your country, and just keep going on the same path that we’re on, and we’re going to make this country greater than ever before. “
Now, compare what the president said to what Senator Alyssa Slatkin said last month at the Carnegie Endowment.
“President Trump thinks America is unremarkable. mediocre and in decline. He thinks America is the Titanic and he’s charging the passengers for a seat on the lifeboat.”
Slatkin’s remarks are not delusional. Her full Carnegie speech is a confession about what she has planned for 2027 and how she and her cohorts have test run a color revolution playbook in Hungary and are now running it in Poland. And she wasn’t alone on that Carnegie stage. Sitting next to her was a woman who has played a central role in trying to bring down Donald Trump on behalf of London.
I’m Susan Kokinda and today I’m going to look at Slatkin’s post-midterm plans, how it ties to the playbook being run in Poland, and how the political earthquake that hit Slutkin’s home state of Michigan tears it all up. So listen to Slutkin’s full quotes on September 30th where she seems to be completely unbothered by reality.
“President Trump thinks America is unremarkable, mediocre, and in decline. He believes we are not exceptional in our role in the world and we never were. And now with AI, we are headed for inevitable destruction. His vision for our country in this term is quite literally the opposite of make America great again. Instead, he believes America never again is going to be great. Only someone with these beliefs can so fundamentally destroy our laws, our known, our norms, and our spirit. And because he believes we’re broken beyond repair, he’s just going to get his. He’s going to cash out and get his cut for himself, his family, and his loyalists.”
Now, unless you live in the world of CNN news feeds or Bluesky posts, that is just bizarre. It’s not Donald Trump who believes we are broken beyond repair. It’s the newly emergent socialist wing of Slutkin’s own party, which thinks that America is in decline and that it was never exceptional, so we should trash our entire form of government and become like Cuba. The rest of her speech described how to stop the authoritarian Trump in 2027 with hearings run by a hoped for Democratic Congress.
And her partner on stage, Anne Applebaum, who we will return to in a minute, was positively nostalgic for a rerun of the January 6th show trial.
“The use and purpose of congressional investigations, explorations. We had one after January the 6, which I thought was excellent actually. It was very well run. There were excellent witnesses. It was even timed and organized in a way that was constructed for television. They really thought it through. “
So, that’s the form. What will be the content of these hearings? Slutkin let that all out in a very unguarded response when caught on an undercover video on October 29th.
“I’m worried that we’re going to be too nice.What are we going to do to hold the Trump regime and its collaborators . responsible? I’m talking prosecutions Nuremberg level. What what are we going to do?So basically assuming we win both houses, even if we just win one, we’ll have a list of signature cases. So the things where it’s so egregious, such a violation of law, such a corruption case, like and we will have in every committee, there will be the signature cases that we where we hold people accountable. I just went to Hungary. I went over to Budapest in Hungary cuz they just got rid of their authoritarian leader after 16 years. And I’m like, how did you handle 16 years of corruption? We don’t have that much, but we have so much. and they did these signature cases and they’re ones that people identify with like the east wing of the ball[room]of the white house, you know, the ballroom or the reflecting pool or $200 million from the defense department. So that’s what you’ll see basically[in]January. “
The signature cases she named a privately funded ballroom and the reflecting pool. So, while Donald Trump rebuilds the American economy, the Democrats will be running hearings about a paint job. But that is exactly how the color revolution playbooks work. And that playbook is only deployed against leaders like Donald Trump who challenge the globalist system.
Now, Slutkin and Applebaum are pros at using that playbook. And last week, it was unleashed in Poland where they both have connections. Before giving that Carnegie speech, Alyssa Slutkin had taken a little field trip.
“At the beginning of this month, I got to visit Poland and Hungary, our NATO allies. In the past six months, Hungary has quite literally taken the playbook to fight an authoritarian, the people’s playbook, if you will, and dusted it off to make it more relevant for the 21st century. In Poland, they called this plan the iron broom, cleaning the place up. “
And this past weekend, the next chapter in the Polish playbook was activated. On Friday, the pro-EU prime minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, moved against the constitutional tribunal, the country’s highest court. Its president was suspended and police surrounded the building. Now, Poland’s president, Carol Naraki, a Trump ally, turned his plane around and returned to Poland to defend the court. The EU has sided with Tusk. Tusk’s opponents have called it a coup, and President Trump’s ambassador in Warsaw saw it for what it was. He said, “We appear to be witnessing an unprecedented confrontation over the government’s use of state power and the independence and authority of a constitutional institution.” Now, who stepped up to defend Tusk’s actions to the world? Poland’s foreign minister, Rodisloff Sakorski. Now, Sakorski isn’t just Poland’s foreign minister. He is also Anne Applebaum’s husband. The woman sitting across from Slatkin at Carnegie is married to the man defending the power grab and she even mentioned it from the stage.
“So, some of you know I live part of the time in Poland. I’ve spent a lot of time in Hungary. “
So, let’s look at this couple. Starting with him. Sakorski fled Poland to Britain in 1982, went to Oxford where he hung out with the likes of future British prime ministers David Cameron and Boris Johnson. He became a British citizen in 1987, but he gave it up in 2006 when he became Poland’s defense minister. Now for his wife. Applebaum is American born, but her career was made in London. She was a Marshall scholar at the London School of Economics. She wrote for a string of British newspapers and ran a disinformation program at the LSE. Her US outlets are the Washington Post and the Atlantic. And then there’s her role in the Integrity Initiative. An operation which was exposed in the British [House of] Commons, in 2018 for receiving nearly 2 million pounds this financial year from the British Foreign Office.
My co-host Barbara Boyd has tracked this British operation for years. It runs what it calls clusters. Journalists, academics, foreign office people who get activated directly through British embassies whenever London needs a narrative pushed.
Applebaum, then working for the Washington Post, was in one of those clusters along with Sir Andrew Wood of Orbus Business Intelligence. The firm founded by Christopher Steel, the British intelligence agent who launched Russiagate. So, let that sink in. The person helping write Slutkin’s midterm playbook is an identified British agent of influence with ties to Russiagate and her husband is the face of that playbook as it unfolds in Warsaw. So, the script is written when Congress launch signature case hearings timed for television and swing the iron broom. But in Slutkin’s home state of Michigan, someone is rewriting the script.
Let’s go back to Carnegie where Slutkin promised a brand new movement.
“What we know here in the US is that a new coalition is needed that crosses party lines to win in 2028. Insiders in Washington need to accept that it’s no longer Democrat versus Republicans or moderates versus progressives. “
Well, Senator, your coalition arrived on Sunday morning. It just didn’t show up where you expected. Two days before the midterms at Perfecting Church in Detroit, Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens stood next to Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers. Then she endorsed him.
“My vote for Senate, I am just one vote, as is every Michigander. My vote for Senate is going to be with Mike Rogers. And I will tell you why. Because we have to stand with country. We can’t stand with hate.”
Stevens had been narrowly defeated by Abdul El Sayed in the August primary. Then she dutifully fell on her sword and endorsed the Democratic Socialists chosen candidate. So what changed? She had asked El Sayed to disavow an outside ad blaming your high grocery bill on foreign aid to Israel. An ad so blatantly anti-Semitic that even CNN commentators were shocked by it. El Sayed refused and then dis-invited Stevens from weekend campaign events. That’s when she endorsed Rogers.
But Steven’s bombshell endorsement of Rogers isn’t going to deter Slutkin’s attempt to build her new coalition based on the narrative that corruption is the cause of high prices. Or in the case of El Sayed, it’s the Jews. Here’s how Slutkin explained it.
“We need to make clear to the public that corruption at the top is taking money directly out of their pockets. When Trump gains, you lose. Take as an example how your electricity bills keep climbing. That’s because AI companies are building data centers that guzzle power and President Trump is giving them tax breaks to do it.”
Notice what’s missing. Not one word about Trump’s initiatives to compel the SI companies to produce their own electricity and add it to the grid. Not one word about decades of shutdown plants, choked off pipelines, and green mandates that left the grid unable to deal with either foreign energy shocks or with new industry. She does the same thing with healthcare, ignoring how Obamacare wrecked what was left of our health care system and how the president is taking on big pharma and big health to try and fix it. But reality doesn’t fit into the anti-authoritarian playbook.
“But connecting that to corruption, political corruption, financial corruption is the way that we make it relevant to them. “
Make it relevant to them. Them is you. Find what people feel, attach a villain to it, and run it on television. That’s not economics. It’s the Color Revolution Playbook being run by a CIA trained senator and a card carrying British agent of influence. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is reversing decades of free trade industrial collapse. This past month alone, the president and his team announced billions in new and expanded factories that will rebuild the middle class. And even before many of those jobs come online, the initial revival of our economy has dropped child poverty and Hispanic poverty to the lowest levels on record. Those aren’t signature cases. Those are the actual receipts of a reviving American economy.
So on Tuesday, you have a choice between two playbooks. One was written in London and is being run again in Warsaw. It runs on hearings timed for television and an iron broom for anyone in the way. The other is the one Donald Trump gave Benny Johnson on Saturday night. Be smart, be strong, love your country, and make America greater than before.
This DePat Tuesday Open Thread honors the author of the original Tuesday open thread on this site, namely the late Susie Sampson, a.k.a. Deplorable Patriot, among her other handles, pen names, etc.
For more on the untimely passing of Dear DePat, please see these three posts.
At one time, DePat handled FOUR daily open threads here, in addition to taking care of her relatives, choir duties, and numerous other responsibilities. She was a powerhouse – a dynamo – a true force of nature.
DePat’s faith in Trump, Q, “The Plan”, the White Hats, and “the anons” in general, was legendary. Although I didn’t always agree with her quick acceptance of some sketchier evidence and fringier theories, I will gladly admit to “coming around” to numerous so-called “conspiracy theories” which she championed first. I was always careful to give her credit for being right, too, when I had been wrong.
It is impossible to overstate how much DePat did for not only this site, but for her country. I urge all to say a quick prayer of thanks, whenever you think of her, for the privilege of knowing, in life or after death, such an exemplary human being, and lover of God.
And thank you, Susie, for the firm foundation which you left us, when you were called to your true home!
Election Day Call for Ground Reports and Local Updates
I have some stories, but they will not be here – I will used them to seed the comments. Please report things going on in your state, county, city, and/or neighborhood.
We are now preparing for whatever the Demmunists, Globalists, and DS Crims are planning in the aftermath of the election. Hopefully you have at least a few days of supplies, in case Trump needs to “flatten the curve of insurrection” – as the demons are likely planning.
Get out and vote, then report back! We want to hear from you!
This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).
This DePat Tuesday Open Thread honors the author of the original Tuesday open thread on this site, namely the late Susie Sampson, a.k.a. Deplorable Patriot, among her other handles, pen names, etc.
For more on the untimely passing of Dear DePat, please see these three posts.
At one time, DePat handled FOUR daily open threads here, in addition to taking care of her relatives, choir duties, and numerous other responsibilities. She was a powerhouse – a dynamo – a true force of nature.
DePat’s faith in Trump, Q, “The Plan”, the White Hats, and “the anons” in general, was legendary. Although I didn’t always agree with her quick acceptance of some sketchier evidence and fringier theories, I will gladly admit to “coming around” to numerous so-called “conspiracy theories” which she championed first. I was always careful to give her credit for being right, too, when I had been wrong.
It is impossible to overstate how much DePat did for not only this site, but for her country. I urge all to say a quick prayer of thanks, whenever you think of her, for the privilege of knowing, in life or after death, such an exemplary human being, and lover of God.
And thank you, Susie, for the firm foundation which you left us, when you were called to your true home!
Did Amy Acton Help Light the Federal Fires of COVID Doomerism?
TL;DR –
In my opinion, the answer is yes, and I suspect that you will find the full answer fascinating.
Everybody in Ohio knows that Amy Acton – DOCTOR Amy Acton – a.k.a. “Lockdown Amy” – is why Ohio locked down for COVID, and why so many of Ohio’s local restaurants and other businesses closed down, never to return.
But what most people don’t know, is that Amy also apparently had a role in influencing the White House to join the party to “flatten the curve”.
Don’t take my word for it – take the word of Amy Acton’s own staff members, as I will explain in detail, below.
Background
I recently posted about a couple of Amy Acton videos, and how they were evidence of “two Amy Actons” – (1) the real one, who talks like a drunk and curls up on a fetal position on the floor of the restroom – and (2) the imaginary one created by her staff and party – the one who is competent, the heroine of the COVID years, and has zero issues.
As I noted in that post, both videos are a bit tragic.
In the first video, by the New York Times, we see some of the cringiest left-wing media propaganda ever. It’s like an ad for Kamala’s Best Nutritious Word Salad – made in California. Yes – Amy Acton sounds like Kamala’s lost sister. The vocal similarity is uncanny, and I would not be surprised if white wine coolers are to Plame. Blame. Whatever.
Not to say that the CIA is definitely involved here, but Acton was clearly being made a heroine for adopting the left’s favorite captured agency’s COVID panic control script, while authentically heroic character seems a bit lacking.
If you watched the whole thing, congratulations. I was repeatedly cringing out, every time I tried to watch.
The second video is a lot more fun. Amy Acton is quite lovable in it, but in a way that makes her absolutely unfit for higher office. I can’t tell if she’s tipsy, floating on Xanax, or just high on her 15 minutes of fame, but there is no way such a woman can be allowed into the Ohio Statehouse as anything but a tourist, or perhaps as a mom testifying on an educational issue, where a courage drink or two is socially acceptable for first-time speakers, as long as they have a designated driver.
What’s most interesting, however, is that the TRANSCRIPT doesn’t match the video at all. And while it’s not really a problem that Amy’s staff chose not to document her rambling, emotional, and sometimes incoherent, group-hug psychobabble, what IS interesting is what they released in its place.
Tell me if this doesn’t sound like Amy Acton single-handedly saved America from COVID-infected J6-er kidnappers, and was personally responsible for Trump choosing to follow her advice to BE A HERO, locking down and flattening the curve!
Yes – according to Amy Acton’s aides and handlers, SHE was responsible for Trump doing the right thing on COVID.
In the midst of several pages of breathless, Barnes & Noble-grade COVID doomerist “historical fiction”, this paragraph appears…..
During the last week of February, as the stock market crashed for the second time, I was at the White House as a Health Department Director representing the entire Midwest for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). Mick Mulvaney, the President’s Chief of Staff, and some of the best people who have served multiple presidents were in attendance. One bioterrorism expert was literally shaking. But they were still not talking about the disease on the news. Even though I had taught global health for years, I Googled the word “pandemic.” I could not understand why we were not using the word. We went around the room, and each person gave their best virology and epidemiology advice. When it was my turn, most had been said, but I was struck by what was not being said to the country. Just like everyone else, I was longing to hear the hard truth. So I told Mr. Mulvaney, “Please tell the President that this is the higher angel’s moment. The people need to hear from him.” This is that FDR, Winston Churchill moment where communication is vital, and my gut sense was that we really needed the President to make meaning out of all we were facing. To help us bear the shared sacrifices, we needed someone to lead the war. Only this time, the entire world was on the same side.
UGH!!!
Some of that account may be a bit self-serving, but the point is, THIS was a moment when both COVID doomerism and “the opportunity for heroic response” were pushed on POTUS, and yes – Amy Acton was there, helping it happen.
Dramatically or not. Sober or not.
Now, I wasn’t ready to believe this statement without at least a wee bit of validation – so I chose to find out what Mick Mulvaney might have to say about that era now. And he does indeed have a lot to say.
It seems clear to me that Mulvaney fell for what most of us fell for – the possibility that we were dealing with something comparable to SARS, MERS, Ebola, and all that jazz. That we were dealing with an exotic “coronavirus” with double-digit mortality in young adults – NOT with something that had a very normal flu-like mortality curve – like all influenza-like illnesses, including the known, endemic, human coronaviruses.
Once the real numbers came out – once I saw those real numbers in public – it should have been over – but the Democrats just kept pretending, to the power-enthralled audience of their captured states and institutions.
Amy never corrected herself on this error. Trump, Vivek, and even I did. Some sooner than others.
SO – does Ohio REALLY want to elect this ditzy, pretending, overly dramatic broad to be governor? “Lockdown Amy” Acton?
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I want to do a few quick and dirty hits on a couple of subjects.
From WIKI:
America PAC is a “Super PAC created by Elon Musk with the backing of a number of prominent tech businessmen to support Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, and later used to support other conservative candidates and causes. The group’s primary purpose is to finance canvassing operations. Musk is the primary donor, with his contributions making up 91% of the declared contributions as of December 2024.”
The Clean Energy Scam – The U.S. quintupled its production of ethanol–ethyl alcohol, a fuel distilled from plant matter–in the past decade, and Washington has just mandated another fivefold increase in renewable fuels over the next decade. Europe has similarly aggressive biofuel mandates and subsidies, and Brazil’s filling stations no longer even offer plain gasoline. Worldwide investment in biofuels rose from $5 billion in 1995 to $38 billion in 2005 and is expected to top $100 billion by 2010, thanks to investors like Richard Branson and George Soros, GE and BP, Ford and Shell, Cargill and the Carlyle Group.
Much of the water used to irrigate corn and refine ethanol is drawn from the ever-threatened Ogallala aquifer, which runs beneath eight western U.S. states and provides nearly a third of all U.S. irrigation water…
The handful of giant agribusinesses and food processing companies that dominate the food chain keep farm prices low, which only pushes farmers to produce more. Most farmers resort to water-intensive and chemical-dependent practices to sell enough farm products to make a living.
In the United States and around the world, only a few companies sell the seeds, buy the harvests, slaughter the livestock, and turn farm products into the food consumers buy. Farms that are far away from wealthy metropolitan areas are especially dependent on agribusiness buyers. The four largest firms in the United States slaughter 84 percent of the cattle, crush 80 percent of the soybeans and process 66 percent of the hogs. Even in recent years, when prices were higher, the few companies that sold seeds, fertilizers and fuel could jack up their prices, so higher production costs gobbled most of the gains from increased farm prices. Two corn seed firms (Monsanto and DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred) control about 60 percent of the seed market and 80 percent of U.S. corn is grown from Monsanto-patented seed traits. In 2009 and 2010, the leading corn seed companies raised prices between 20 and 40 percent…
I could write an entire article on the bio-fuel scam and WHO benefits. Instead a few points. Fruits and veggies do not get USDA subsidies grains do. That means feed lot cows are subsidized by US tax payers making feed lots cheaper than grass. Many grains are GMO so the seed has to be bought each season, as well as the fertilizer & insecticides. Again ALL is tax payers funding Big Ag with the farmer as the conduit.
…Using hemp for ethanol production curbs the potential problem of using too many food sources like corn and wheat. Ultimately, this makes food production more efficient while also minimising its disruption.
At the same time, hemp is much easier to grow compared to other food crops. They’re like weeds that can thrive in lower-quality conditions.
Hemp biodiesel also has a higher flash point, aka the temperature at which it ignites. Because of this, it is much easier to store, transport, and handle overall…
When it comes to hemp, there is a lot of conflict about fertilizers. Probably because it has a variety of uses.
Hemp is not a particularly demanding crop when it comes to fertilizerrequirements. In fact, hemp is known to be quite tolerant of poor soil conditions.
The use of no-tillage strategies without any weed control measures can be detrimental to hemp stand establishment. Nitrogen fertilization up to 150 kg ha–1 can increase fiber and seed yield. Leguminous cover crops can supply adequate nitrogen to hemp without supplemental fertilization as indicated by similar yields among nitrogen rates in treatments that included hairy vetch and winter pea. Although hemp density was low in the no-till cover crop treatment, greater bast fiber yield per stalk significantly increased the total fiber yield, making it comparable to conventional tillage treatments. This suggests that cover crops can be considered a positive investment for hemp production…
The crop is photoperiod sensitive and is typically a short-day plant. Hemp responds well to elevated CO2 and temperature levels in the context of current climate change scenarios and is a water-efficient crop…
Growers can take herbicides and other costly weed control measures off their inventory because hemp is a smoother crop and rapidly produces a dense canopy that suppresses weeds. This makes it a perfect choice for organic production.
An exceptionally versatile plant, industrial hemp has a wide range of industrial and everyday household uses, and the commercial market for hemp products is booming worldwide. Products made from hemp are considered long-lasting and eco-friendly. Hemp derived CBD products are also proving to be incredible for our health and well being. It is not What is Hemp but what can hemp do for us in our quest for sustainability!…
With the passage of the Farm Bill in 2018, hemp cultivation has commenced in numerous states. Yet, the question extends beyond mere definition; it’s now about understanding what hemp can do for individuals and our environment, and what we can do to harness its potential. Now, hemp oils, CBD, hemp plastics, hemp building materials, and various hemp fiber products are readily available in the market.
Hemp is the low tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) variety of the Cannabis Sativa plant, containing minimal THC content as mandated by federal law—specifically less than 0.3% THC by dry weight. This distinction ensures that industrial hemp does not induce any psychoactive effects associated with marijuana. However, hemp and marijuana often face confusion, which can be clarified through our hemp vs. marijuana page….
PRESIDENT TRUMP DIRECTED CONGRESS TO FIX HEMP. NOW THEY MUST ACT.
President Trump issued an executive order directing Congress to reconsider the classification of hemp-derived products to ensure Americans, like our seniors, can access hemp-derived products they have found beneficial while still protecting children. The President gave clear direction. Now Congress must follow through. The McConnell-Harris hemp restrictions threaten to destroy 325,000 American jobs, devastate thousands of farmers and small businesses, and deny seniors access to CBD products that President Trump wants them to have. President Trump provided the solution: protect children through regulation while preserving consumer access to beneficial CBD and hemp-derived products. The hemp industry has offered exactly the common-sense regulations President Trump’s order calls for: -Age restrictions (21+) to protect children -Mandatory third-party laboratory testing for safety -Clear, uniform labeling for informed choices -Child-resistant packaging standards Contact your Representative and Senators today. Tell them to immediately act on President Trump’s executive order, fix the McConnell-Harris hemp ban, and implement the common-sense regulations that protect farmers, small business owners, consumers, and children. Let’s save American hemp and tell Congress to act on President Trump’s directive.
A provision significantly limiting the sale of intoxicating hemp products made its way into legislation to reopen the federal government just a day before the Senate approved the bill. Its inclusion follows years of pressure from states and the marijuana industry.
While states continue to expand access to legal marijuana, a separate market of hemp-derived intoxicants has blossomed. The products, from drinks to gummies, are sold in gas stations and smoke shops. Critics say some companies have exploited a legal loophole from 2018 to manufacture products that get people high — without the safety regulations and taxes facing the legal marijuana industry.
That’s led dozens of states to limit or ban certain intoxicating hemp products. Most states also have pushed for federal changes, though some farm states worry the pending federal bill — which the House is expected to vote on as soon as today — goes too far.
A bipartisan group of 39 state attorneys general recently urged Congress to clarify the federal definition of hemp, arguing that the underregulated industry threatens public health and undermines law enforcement…
The Senate has rejected an amendment to a critical spending bill that would have removed language to ban hemp products containing THC.
After the chamber cleared the appropriations minibus package for floor consideration on Sunday, senators on Monday took up the measure from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) that he said would prevent the eradication of the hemp market that’s matured since the crop’s federal legalization under the 2018 Farm Bill.
The amendment was killed in a 76-24 vote on a motion to table.
“My amendment would strip the provision designed to regulate the hemp industry to death. The bill, as it now stands, overrides the regulatory frameworks of several states, cancels the collective decisions of hemp consumers and destroys the livelihoods of hemp farmers,” Paul said on the floor ahead of the vote. “And it couldn’t come at a worse time for America’s farmers. Times are tough for our farmers.”…
How about we outlaw the Senate instead? They certainly have been ANTI-AMERICAN!
Cannabis is a plant, and there are two main types, Cannabis Indica and Cannabis Sativa. Both marijuana and CBD can be derived from both types, but hemp is only derived from Cannabis Sativa. By law, hemp must contain no more than 0.3% THC…
CBD has been credited with relieving numerous medical conditions, such as epilepsy, anxiety, inflammation, insomnia, and pain. Although “credited” does not mean proven. Because of the historical regulatory landscape, there are hardly any well-conducted trials backing up those claims, although research is expected to ramp up now that laws distinguish between hemp and marijuana.
We look at nine medical conditions where CBD may be, or, has already proven to be, beneficial.
1. Epilepsy
In June 2018, the FDA approved Epidiolex (a plant-based formulation of CBD) to treat seizures for people 2 years of age and older with Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), which are two rare forms of epilepsy… [ I have 2 friends that use it for epilepsy with sucess]
2. Pain
Animal studies have shown that CBD has anti-inflammatory effects and works on the endocannabinoid and pain-sensing systems to relieve pain… [I got off of NSAIDs by using CBD oil.]
3. Arthritis
Animal studies showed that topical CBD applications relieve pain and inflammation associated with arthritis with few side effects…
4. Anxiety
Pretreatment with 300mg CBD significantly relieved anxiety in 57 healthy males who undertook a simulated public speaking test. However, dosages of 150mg CBD and 600mg CBD did not make any difference to the men’s anxiety levels.7
So CBD threatens Big Pharma. However I found this part of my research ‘interesting’
The versatility of industrialhemp extends beyond its use as a raw material.
Unleashing a New Wave of Sustainable Practices with Industrial Hemp
Industrial hemp, this incredible plant, stands tall as an embodiment of versatility. A crop whose potential extends far beyond its rustic exterior, transforming into an eco-friendly powerhouse with an impressive array of applications spanning numerous industries…
Industrial hemp, scientifically known as Cannabis sativa L., has served humanity for centuries, providing fiber, food, and medicinal benefits. Today, its role has expanded, becoming increasingly important as a sustainable and eco-friendly solution within various industries.
By integrating hemp into numerous manufacturing processes, industries can lessen their dependence on non-renewable resources and significantly reduce their environmental footprint. The inherent versatility and functional characteristics of hemp make it an ideal candidate for substitution, driving it to the forefront of sustainable development.
Moreover, hemp cultivation offers additional benefits such as soil remediation. By absorbing toxins and replenishing soil nutrients, hemp promotes healthier soils, which in turn, benefit subsequent crops…
Corporate giants such as Ford Motors, Patagonia, and The Body Shop have already recognized the profound potential of this sustainable resource, utilizing hemp seed, fiber, and oil as fundamental raw materials in their product lines. This level of corporate adoption serves as a testament to the staggering potential that industrial hemp offers as an environmentally conscious substitute for other resources.
Below are a few ways industrial hemp is already making its mark across industries:
Automotive, Railway, Aviation, and Aerospace: These industries are progressively embracing hemp-derived products as substitutes for traditional plastic materials. Hemp’s lightweight yet durable nature and biodegradable properties position it as a superior alternative to conventional plastics.
Cosmetics and Personal Care: The nutritive richness of hemp seed oil has found applications in numerous industrial and cosmetic products. From soaps and shampoos to other personal care items, the moisturizing properties and skin-nourishing abilities of hemp seed oil make it a coveted ingredient within the cosmetics and personal care sectors.
Textiles, Fabrics, and Paper Manufacturing: Hemp fiber’s application in the production of textiles, fabrics, and paper is truly a game-changer. It offers an eco-friendly alternative to traditional textile materials, requiring less water and fewer pesticides during cultivation, with the added advantage of being easily recyclable…
Reading industrial hemp uses across fibre, paper and materials
Industrial hemp is one of the oldest agricultural crops on the European continent. Beyond the modern cannabinoid catalog, the plant supplies fibre for textiles and ropes, hurd for construction biocomposites, paper for specialty applications and seed fractions for the wider agricultural framework. ThisJustbob guide walks through industrial hemp uses sector by sector, with the regulatory framework that connects the cultivation side to each application…
Industrial hemp uses cover the non-cannabinoid applications of Cannabis sativa L. cultivated under the EU industrial hemp framework. The main categories include textiles (canvas, rope, twine and modern fabrics), paper (specialty applications), construction biocomposites (hempcrete walls, insulation panels), automotive components (door panels and trim parts), agricultural substrates (animal bedding and horticulture) and biorefinery feedstock…
Textile applications: from canvas to modern fabrics
Textile production is one of the oldest documented uses of hemp fibre in European industry. Canvas, the heavy fabric traditionally used for sails, tents, and painting supports; rope, widely used in maritime, agricultural, and construction settings; twine, commonly found in packaging, gardening, and crafts; and modern technical fabrics all rely on the bast fibre extracted from the hemp stem.
The mechanical properties of hemp textile fibre are well documented. The tensile strength supports applications where durability matters more than a fine weave, while its natural resistance to mildew and pests adds value in maritime and outdoor settings. Its breathability and moisture handling propriety make hemp textile interesting for modern clothing and home textiles.
Paper applications: specialty papers and durability
Paper applications represent anotherlong-standing industrial use of hemp. The long bast fibres give hemp paper a stronger tensile profile and a longer fibre length than typical wood-pulp paper, making it suitable for specialty applications where these properties are particularly valuable.
Documented use cases include banknotes, where the strong tensile profile and the resistance to repeated handling are well suited to the application; archival papers (the low lignin content supports long-term stability; and technical papers, including filter papers, art papers, and thin technical papers. Hemp paper is also a feedstock for some specialty paper producers in France and Italy that supply niche markets.
The USDA published the foundational bulletin Hemp Hurds as Paper-Making Material in 1916, documenting the technical feasibility of hemp paper at industrial scale. The bulletin is still referenced in contemporary hemp economy literature as one of the early modern studies on this application.
Hempcrete and construction biocomposites
Hempcrete is the most visible modern application of hemp hurd in construction. This biocomposite combines hemp hurd with a lime binder to produce wall infill, insulation and structural-light applications. The French Isochanvre product was introduced around 1986 as one of the first commercial hempcrete formulations…
There is a LOT more…
WHY THE ORIGINAL ATTACK ON HEMP?
There was a comment about Hemp on WUWT by Dr Brown in August of 2013. He refers to something Dr Judith Curry said that I can no longer find.
[I do not have the origin of this quote]
The story goes …Dupont had patented nylon, and wanted hemp removed as competition….
I havn’t come across anything tangible (of an academic nature) but there must be tons out there. I’ll keep looking, but in the meantime here are some numbers from HempNews.
‘It follows that every tonne of industrial hemp stems contains 0.445 tonnes Carbon absorbed from the atmosphere (44.46% of stem dry weight).
‘Converting Carbon to CO2 (12T of C equals 44T of CO2(IPCC)), that represents 1.63 tonnes of CO2 absorption per tonne of UK Hemp stem harvested. On a land use basis, using Hemcore’s yield averages (5.5 to 8 T/ha), this represents 8.9 to 13.4 tonnes of CO2 absorption per hectare of UK Hemp Cultivation.
‘For the purposes estimation, we use an average figure of 10T/ha of CO2 absorption, a figure we hold to be a reasonably conservative estimate. This is used to predict carbon yields, but CO2 offsets will be based on dry weight yields as measured at the weighbridge.
‘The roots and leaf mulch (not including the hard to measure fibrous root material) left in situ represented approximately 20% of the mass of the harvested material in HGS’ initial field trials. The resulting Carbon content absorbed but remaining in the soil, will therefore be approximately 0.084 tonnes per tonne of harvested material. (42% w/w) (5).
‘Using Hemcore’s UK yield estimates (5.5 – 8 T/ha) this represents 0.46 to 0.67 tonnes of Carbon per hectare (UK) absorbed but left in situ after Hemp cultivation.’ [So in 2013 the UK was growing hemp but it was banned in the USA.]
Judith Curry’s remarks, as usual, are dead on the money. Here’s an almost perfectly analogous problem: CNN recently completely reversed its editorial policy and now calls for the legalization of Marijuana. Sanjay Gupta, its “resident physician editorialist”, who had previously somewhat vigorously led this opposition from the scientific point of view completely reversed his own position, and explained why in considerable detail both in text and in online video.
Historically, marijuana was both legal and considered to be a useful medicine all the way up through the beginning of the twentieth century. At that point, William Randolph Hearst had invested heavily in pine forests in Mexico, intending to sell them to his own newspapers to make newsprint. The Dupont family were discovering petrochemicals including plastic and oil-derived pharmaceuticals. A machine was invented that was the equivalent of a “cotton gin” for hemp — it mechanically stripped down the hemp plant and turned it into useful fiber, oil, and vegetable waste that could be used as an animal fodder (yes, we can imagine some very happy cows, can’t we?:-). One of many uses for the now inexpensive hemp fiber was to make equally inexpensive newsprint paper that was clearly superior in quality and cost to wood pulp paper. Another was that the oils and fiber could be used to synthesize various chemical products. Both Dupont and Hearst were suddenly hundreds of millions of dollars at risk.
They turned to Harry Anslinger, who happened to be Hearst’s brother in law. Anslinger was a suddenly idle ex-prohibitionist working for the FBI, and he created a propaganda campaign that portrayed hemp as literally maddening those that actually smoked it, leading them to commit acts of rape and robbery and moral turpitude. At the same time, political revolutions in Mexico (funded and fought by a private army belonging to Hearst) and a negative portrayal of blacks and mexicans as common users of hemp for recreation purposes added a useful racist hook. Between these, congress outlawed hemp.
So matters remained until the Viet Nam war and the 1960s and early 70s. As part of the quiet “revolution” against what many perceived as a military-industrial complex with a life of its own that was fighting a series of expensive and pointless wars, pot had become “the” recreational drug of choice among young hippies and freaks as well as the military draftees who fought the war. Its use was so prevalent that Texas dropped the question about cannabis use from its entrance exam to police academy, because “asking a vet of they had ever smoked pot was like asking them if they smoked Camels”. Suddenly a large fraction of an entire generation of U.S. citizens had smoked pot and discovered that no, it does not turn you into a crazed rapist, and usually does not make you insane unless you are most of the way there on your own already. They also discovered that it is neither physically addictive nor dangerous in the sense that it is literally impossible to overdose on marijuana — it is literally one of the safest compounds we know of, with no meaningful fatal dose.
However, Ronald Reagan took office in the 80’s, an immediately declared a “War on Drugs”. Marijuana was reclassified as a schedule 1 narcotic by the federal government, trumping communities that had already begun to experiment with decriminalization or even legalization. This once again gave law enforcement agencies lots of useful work (helpful if you are trying to build a police state), gave cops everywhere the ability to selectively enforce drug laws and thereby control the populace, and caused us to rather suddenly need to build enormous numbers of prisons because it rapidly turned out that by making marijuana trafficking a felony and putting even mere users in jail (just like heroin, cocaine, and actually dangerous drugs) somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of all prison sentences were being handed down for low grade drug offenses. Our expenditure on controlling pot went from next to nothing to tens of billions of dollars a year. Obviously, many profited from this, including (as usual) the money launderers and organized criminals that made fortunes providing marijuana on the black market, and the politicians and bankers that provided well-paid-for top cover.
And now to the interesting bit (although I think all of the above is interesting:-). One of the reasons given for making marijuana a schedule 1 felony class drug was that we didn’t know about the harm it might cause, and there was no known medical benefit. Yes, it had been used as a medicine for centuries, the founding fathers literally “mandated” the growing of hemp on American farms because it was so useful a plant both industrially and medicinally, but we had entered the era of double blind placebo controlled drug trials, and there were now enormous pharmaceutical companies whose billion-dollar products were at risk, dwarfing even the Duponts’ complaint back in the 30’s. Its risks were similarly unstudied.
A period of research then ensued. If you wanted to study pot, you had to both get funded and get the experimental marijuana from a single, small farm in Mississippi that grew “legal” pot for this purpose. The government itself was in complete control, in other words of what research got conducted, because even if you could find outside funding, you couldn’t get legal pot to do the research with without approval.
Gupta initially opposed marijuana legalization because a review of the medical literature showed him that 96% of all published articles found some sort of negative effect of marijuana, and almost no articles showed a benefit, especially compared to existing approved medications. However, a couple of anecdotal cases coming out of the states that had legalized medicinal marijuana in SPITE of the federal governments laws caused him to go back and reexamine the funding model. In retrospect it shouldn’t have been surprising, but he learned that 96% of all funded research was to look for negative effects of marijuana, and that to get funded and permission to get government grown pot was so difficult that there simply weren’t all that many papers in the first place. In well over thirty years of intensive examination, all of the examination was literally preselected to find problems, almost none to find benefits, and one had to walk on water and push much paper to do either one (and relatively few scientists had bothered).
That caused him to examine the body of emerging, still anecdotal, evidence from the states that had legalized medical marijuana. They showed that — again unsurprisingly — marijuana is a rich pharmacopeia with multiple legitimate medical uses that could survived double blind placebo controlled investigation, while at the same time having minimal side effects and no known lethal dose. Perhaps he came to realize that its negative effects might, conceivably, have been a bit exaggerated or might arise from confounding uncontrolled elements. Confirmation bias is, after all, the bete noir of science.
This situation almost perfectly matches the evolution of “climate science”. Nobody cared about it for decades, but suddenly a group of individuals emerged that all benefited from the demonization of carbon. This included environmental groups, that hated civilization itself and the burning of anything (as long, of course, as their own lifestyle was preserved), energy producers that saw in this the opportunity to triple or quadruple their profits by creating artificial scarcity of a plentiful resource, politicians that saw in this the opportunity to raise taxes, get elected on a world-saving “issue”, and perhaps line their own pockets along the way, and a United Nations that saw an opportunity to transform it into a way to tax the rich nations and transfer money to developing nations (while again lining various pockets along the way). The role of Anslinger was admirably met by one James Hansen, a True Believer who never stinted and does not stint today in exaggerating the data and claims of disaster (five meter sea level rise! temperatures like that on Venus!). And suddenly, quite literally all funded research was on how burning carbon was bad for the climate.
Even completely ethical scientists have to eat, and if the only way they can eat is to get funded, and the only way they can get funded is to submit proposals that seek to prove that CO_2 is bad, guess what they will propose to study? And if they want to get funded AGAIN, guess what they will find? Climate science has been effectively corrupted beyond any hope of objectivity.
On the good side of things, scientists are actually usually pretty ethical. Also, in the end data talks, bullshit walks. The hypothesis of CAGW or CACC could, in fact, be true (across a wide spectrum of the meaning of “true”, in fact). However, recent data is not in good correspondence with the theories that have predicted it, and many good scientists are in the process of reassessing their conclusions. As is the almost simultaneous case with regard to marijuana, the confounding evidence is starting to overwhelm to narrowly funded and directed arguments to date. We will see where the future takes us, in both cases. rgb
mikerossander says on August 22, 2013 at 12:40 pm
re: rgbatduke’s extended history at August 22, 2013 at 5:44 am:
One correction – Nixon is the moron who declared a “War on Drugs”. Congress made marijuana into a Schedule I narcotic in 1970. Pres Reagan may be guilty of a lot but he is innocent of that particular charge above.
In 1974 researchers learned that THC, the active chemical in marijuana, shrank or destroyed brain tumors in test mice. But the DEA quickly shut down the study and destroyed its results, which were never replicated — until now.
The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000 when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis.
The Madrid study marks only the second time that THC has been administered to tumor-bearing animals; the first was a Virginia investigation 26 years ago. In both studies, the THC shrank or destroyed tumors in a majority of the test subjects.
Most Americans don’t know anything about the Madrid discovery. Virtually no major U.S. newspapers carried the story, which ran only once on the AP and UPI news wires, on Feb. 29, 2000…
Smoking Cannabis Does Not Cause Cancer Of Lung or Upper Airways, Tashkin Finds; Data Suggest Possible Protective Effect
The story summarized by that headline ran in O’Shaughnessy’s (Autumn 2005), CounterPunch, and the Anderson Valley Advertiser. Did we win Pulitzers, dude? No, the story was ignored or buried by the corporate media. It didn’t even make the “Project Censored” list of under-reported stories for 2005. “We were even censored by Project Censored,” said Tod Mikuriya, who liked his shot of wry.
It’s not that the subject is trivial. One in three Americans will be afflicted with cancer, we are told by the government (as if it’s our immutable fate and somehow acceptable). Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. and lung cancer the leading killer among cancers. You’d think it would have been very big news when UCLA medical school professor Donald Tashkin revealed that components of marijuana smoke -although they damage cells in respiratory tissue- somehow prevent them from becoming malignant. In other words, something in marijuana exerts an anti-cancer effect.
Tashkin has special credibility. He was the lead investigator on studies dating back to the 1970s that identified the components in marijuana smoke that are toxic. It was Tashkin et al who published photomicrographs showing that marijuana smoke damages cells lining the upper airways. It was the Tashkin lab reporting that benzpyrene -a component of tobacco smoke that plays a role in most lung cancers- is especially prevalent in marijuana smoke. It was Tashkin’s data documenting that marijuana smokers are more likely than non-smokers to cough, wheeze, and produce sputum.
Tashkin reviewed his findings April 4 at a conference organized by “Patients Out of Time,” a reform group devoted to educating doctors and the public (as opposed to lobbying politicians). Some 30 MDs and nurses got continuing medical education credits for attending… [long article]
Published: December 2003. Cannabinoids: potentialanticanceragents. … Other potential palliative effects of cannabinoids in cancer patients — supported by Phase III clinical trials — include appetite stimulation and pain inhibition.
This DePat Tuesday Open Thread honors the author of the original Tuesday open thread on this site, namely the late Susie Sampson, a.k.a. Deplorable Patriot, among her other handles, pen names, etc.
For more on the untimely passing of Dear DePat, please see these three posts.
At one time, DePat handled FOUR daily open threads here, in addition to taking care of her relatives, choir duties, and numerous other responsibilities. She was a powerhouse – a dynamo – a true force of nature.
DePat’s faith in Trump, Q, “The Plan”, the White Hats, and “the anons” in general, was legendary. Although I didn’t always agree with her quick acceptance of some sketchier evidence and fringier theories, I will gladly admit to “coming around” to numerous so-called “conspiracy theories” which she championed first. I was always careful to give her credit for being right, too, when I had been wrong.
It is impossible to overstate how much DePat did for not only this site, but for her country. I urge all to say a quick prayer of thanks, whenever you think of her, for the privilege of knowing, in life or after death, such an exemplary human being, and lover of God.
And thank you, Susie, for the firm foundation which you left us, when you were called to your true home!
Wolf’s Report on Political Brawling in Ohio
The attack ads are flying everywhere now.
At first it was mostly Democrats attacking Republicans, but now it’s the other way around.
TRANS is being exploited as an issue, far more than I would have expected.
Stop and watch this message: Biological men do NOT belong in women’s sports or locker rooms. But radical Sherrod Brown thinks they do. Sherrod Brown gave the green light to the radical trans agenda. Time to REJECT him this November!
Sherrod Brown gave the green light to the radical trans agenda. Brown voted TWICE to let biological men play women's sports and supported legislation to let men into women's locker rooms. Reject Brown! >>
The comments are awesome – people realize what Sherrod Brown’s voting record actually is.
Here was my comment.
Shanghai Brown helped send millions of jobs and thousands of factories to China, but then sponsored a picayune law that the government has to buy American flags that are made in America.
China's PHONY. Keep him out of the Senate for good!
IMO it’s the PAC ads that are most effective. Some of them are truly devastating.
In contrast, the Dem ads against John Husted and Vivek try to paint them as corrupt, but IMO people just aren’t buying it, and the ads are far from convincing.
Speaking of Vivek, his opponent, Lockdown Amy, is getting cringer and cringer.
Mehek Cooke is a GOP activist who once ran for office for something, and IMO was cheated out of a win, but found her true calling as a party person rather than a candidate.
Amy Acton screaming “YOU CANNOT BUY THE STATE” like someone just cut her off at last call.
Ma’am, this is a campaign event, not an intervention.
🚨THIS is the woman asking Ohio to hand her the keys to the governor’s office? NO WAY!
Amy Acton gets onstage and this is the performance Ohio voters are supposed to look at and think, “Yep, that’s who I want running the state”?
Watch the video. Make up your own mind.
But here’s what I want to see next: put her on a debate stage with Vivek Ramaswamy.
2 candidates standing across from each other answering for what they believe and what they plan to do with Ohio.
If Amy Acton wants the job, she should be willing to make her case directly to the people she wants to govern.
🔥Ohio deserves the debate. Let’s see it.
I can tell you – this woman will not do well in a debate, other than getting all the sympathy votes.
And some later breaking news – Husted is looking GREAT in his videos, directly attacking Sherrod Brown’s record, while Sherrod Brown is trying to excuse his way out of his TRANS votes.
Vivek is also firing confidently back at Lockdown Amy.
My opponent’s hypocrisy on full display: complains about dishonest attack ads, while perpetrating them. Complains about dark money, while benefiting from it. Claims to want open dialogue, while ducking a debate. https://t.co/8Xpyo0u3Vu
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Our beloved country is STILL under DIRECT THREATS by hostile forces – notably COMMUNISTS – and they’re HERE IN AMERICA.
Daily outrage and commie phuckery still abound.
We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.
Commies won’t win!
And we will keep saying COMMIES OUT until we get their FRAUD and INSANITY out of our country!
THE STUFF
Only YOU Can Stop the Spread of Obola!
Fall has arrived, and fall is the time of year when the community-organizing disease called Obola once again becomes a concern.
Fall is also – like spring – a time of year when I will likely have much work to do, both at home and “out in the world” – wherever this wonderful life takes me. I will not be around this site as much – not until winter confines me inside the house, and puts me back online every day, like summer does.
And as I said, fall is a dangerous time when the viral plague of OBOLA spreads, causing – or rather attempting to cause – much pain and suffering. This site is – sadly – somewhat susceptible to Obola. The first symptoms of Obola are fear, loathing, anger and division.
There is a documented rise in the occurrence of Obola right now. Here are some report of outbreaks in America.
🚨 NYT: “Barack Obama warned during a recent private fund-raising event that artificial intelligence technology could be ‘dangerous’ if not properly managed, as he implored Democrats to aggressively develop political and governing agendas to prioritize the issue in the coming… pic.twitter.com/kifmj4TU4W
The Obama Machine: Netflix Was Only the Beginning From storytelling and “misinformation” to the regulation of AI "That is why the question of whether Netflix has become “woke” now seems almost quaint. Netflix is only one piece of a much larger struggle over who gets to shape the…
The Obama Machine: Netflix Was Only the Beginning From storytelling and “misinformation” to the regulation of AI “That is why the question of whether Netflix has become “woke” now seems almost quaint. Netflix is only one piece of a much larger struggle over who gets to shape the stories Americans hear, which information Americans find, and increasingly which answers their machines are permitted to give them. Ronald Reagan famously warned that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. The modern threat to that freedom may not arrive wearing jackboots or carrying a list of banned books. It may arrive promising safety, inclusion, equity, responsible information, and the protection of democracy itself.” To read this most powerful essay, go to:
Because I may be away from this site for extended periods of time during October and November, as well as the remainder of September, I am taking this opportunity to remind people of how we can stop Obola from spreading on this site.
Authors need to leave all moderated posts IN THE BIN during my absence. Let me deal with them.
The Scroll Wheel. Use it. It has the power to save your day – and your sanity. It’s like Vitamin D for Obola!
Let people be wrong on the internet. There is ALWAYS one more WRONG person – let them be wrong!
Fear is the mind-killer. Make it go away.
If you feel like you are “running with scissors” – STOP. Take a break. “Touch grass” as they say.
Don’t feel bad if you find out that you posted FAKE NEWS. It happens. Just correct it and leave it, so that people can see the correction. TEACH how to identify, verify, and expose their LIES.
Try to avoid hardening divisions with other factions of patriots. Let them be them. You be you!
Taking a break is better than running away in a huff and “never coming back”. Try it!
PMTW (PRIVATE MESSAGE TO WOLF) – use it if you need to get a message to me. Do it on one of MY posts on MY days (Monday or Tuesday) if you want complete privacy. Use underscores between the words. If it goes in the bin, you’re good to go!
TRUST TRUMP. If you have doubts – if you are scared – TRUST TRUMP. And if that doesn’t work…..
TRUST GOD.
I plan to have some very interesting new information for you all by Christmas.
We are almost at the equinox, which is 8:05 PM EDT on Tuesday, September 22, here in North America.
Perhaps you’ve been following the laughable story of an “attack” on Ohio Democrat gubernatorial candidate and former failed COVID czarina Dr. Amy Acton.
If not, then consider the following video to be your TL;DR!
But seriously…..
Who is this woman? This “Dr. Amy Acton” who is running as the Democrat candidate for Governor of Ohio?
Dr. Acton inexplicably served as GOP Governor Mike DeWine’s Director of Health until she tried to become Ohio’s Fauci, at which point she was blocked and opposed by everybody in the state who could possibly stop her (particularly the House and Senate), until she “resigned” – thus saving Ohio from following New York and California into the Flaming Dumpster of COVID Communism. Ohioans prayed for Mike DeWine to take two Growacet and fire Dr. Acton. Well, he allowed her to resign, and she did! Good enough!
The fact that Ohio Dems have been reduced to the sad state of offering this lady for Governor shows just how badly they’ve been beaten over the past decade.
For the last year or so, Dr. Acton – or Lockdown Amy as we sensible people love to call her – has been perpetually ahead of her GOP opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy, by ONE POINT – at least according to Mr. Ramaswamy (hereafter just “Vivek”). Personally, I never believed it. Not only was the permanence of the number mathematically impossible in the real world – the fact that Vivek never, ever, pulled ahead of her was clearly bogus, given that – no matter how “unlikable” Vivek may be to the Vivek haters, Amy Acton is even more unpopular in Ohio.
No – in my unofficial and skeptical opinion, Vivek LIKES being one point behind Lockdown Amy – probably because of something called “donations”. Just my theory.
Now I must admit as part of “full disclosure” that I have always found Dr. Acton pleasant to look at (better than the AI above), and rather non-threatening – notably in contrast to her status as a super-villain in the Buckeye State. She seems like a rather typical “science bimbo” – smart, but not particularly sharp, happy, a bit ditzy or dizzy, take your pick, and “looks good in a lab coat”. I suppose some might call that description sexist, but they would be wrong. There are men like Dr. Acton, who women in science see in almost exactly the same way, and nobody calls those women sexist, so I demand exactly the same treatment. Or, to put it another way, “Piss off, you hypocritical, woke AWFULs – who by and large look terrible in lab coats.”
Just sayin’.
Now, recently, I started getting text messages that Vivek was actually ONE POINT AHEAD of Lockdown Amy, as if this was some kind of Earth-shattering news, but in any case, it was supposedly because of this that it was absolutely necessary to donate even more money to Vivek. Admittedly, I wasn’t sure if I should believe this poll result either, despite it seeming entirely reasonable, because the whole thing seemed, as most high-school drama always seems, “weak, fake, and gay” – to use a currently popular expression.
But even if this was somehow true, I felt like there was some chance the Democrats would have to respond in some way, and that worried me.
Why is that? – You might probably should ask.
You see, while we don’t have much actual terrorism and really hardcore political violence in Ohio, we do have a lot of dirty tricks, sabotage, stolen signs, misrepresentations, hoaxes, lies, and machine shenanigans. Helping a non-machine political opponent screw up in a self-defeating way is basically a way of life for both the Democrat and Republican machines in Ohio.
Thus, as soon as I heard the news that Vivek was making some statement about political violence, I knew we were now in the full season of Ohio politics, and I was probably going to have to interpret the inscrutable for the benefit and understanding of the incredulous.
Consider a couple of past instances of my “translation” of Ohio political dirty tricks for the understanding of non-Ohioans.
Understanding WHY Dems do things requires context – and when you find the context, it all makes sense.
SO – back to the present – what actually happened?
The original media description was that an armed man with two guns entered the tent where Dr. Acton was speaking, rushed past the guards, knocked over a bunch of people, and finally “lunged” at Dr. Acton. Only to be stopped by the Highway Patrol.
But even that description wasn’t enough for some in the media.
I was immediately skeptical, and within 24 hours, the skeptics were everywhere. And being proven right.
No drawn weapons. No reaching the candidate. No felony threat charges. Just misdemeanors and a sheriff who said the apparent intent was “to ask her a couple of questions. He was just, you know, pretty aggressive about it.”
No drawn weapons. No reaching the candidate. No felony threat charges. Just misdemeanors and a sheriff who said the apparent intent was “to ask her a couple of questions. He was just, you know, pretty aggressive about it.”
Yet the framing feeds the endless “Republicans are violent extremists” machine, especially convenient in a tight Ohio governor’s race.
When actual political violence hits our side, like our president facing two assassination attempts or our top strategist and influencer actually getting assassinated, the same outlets soft-pedal or pivot to “gun violence.” Here, a fairground disorderly becomes proof of “MAGA terror.”
The simple facts are that on September 6 at the Canfield Fair, Patrick Havas pushed through a crowd while holding up his phone… appearing to record or ask a question. He knocked over a couple of older attendees likely due to the wet grass and uneven ground they were standing on.
Security stopped him as he approached Amy Acton to ask his question. He was legally in possession of firearms, but never drew or brandished them.
Charges: disorderly conduct and two misdemeanor assaults. The sheriff himself said the apparent intent was “to ask her a couple of questions. He was just, you know, pretty aggressive about it.” Acton was unharmed.
That’s the police version… a rude, disorderly rush that caused minor bystander injuries when elderly people lost balance and fell over.
The Acton campaign and left-leaning media immediately rewrote it.
Campaign statement: “an armed individual lunged at Dr. Acton, injuring multiple people.” Then the pivot to “This kind of violence has no place in Ohio… chaos, hate and vitriol.”
CNN, Reuters, the Guardian orbit, and Democratic influencers ran with “lunged,” “attacked,” “assailant,” and “attempted violence.”
They rushed to note Havas is a registered Republican and that his brother had donated to Vivek Ramaswamy, turning a phone-wielding shove into a right-wing hit job
They left remains in power through their ability to run 24/7 propaganda on the American people. It must stop
Here’s another take, that – like me – suspects that there is more going on than just mischaracterization.
Here's the 'violence' in Ohio… A dude was told to force his way through the crowd to create a scene…then when he knocked people over security 'caught' him, and disarmed him to display guns (here) then gave him a seat to watch the inebriated @amyactonoh do her best impressions… https://t.co/FkrbBMB9Ue
A dude was told to force his way through the crowd to create a scene…then when he knocked people over security ‘caught’ him, and disarmed him to display guns (here) then gave him a seat to watch the inebriated @amyactonoh do her best impressions of @KamalaHarris and @HillaryClinton
in summary, it’s fake and was staged…
I thought I was going to have to explain this theory to everybody, but no – the MAGA crowd is now fully trained to spot this shit.
It’s now gone fully national with coverage in Revolver News…..
Amy Acton’s ‘ATTACK’ story crumbles: Prosecutor says armed man never even got near her…
For starters, as soon as I heard this was happening near Youngstown, in Mahoning County, I was shaking my head.
That area is the home of one of the most interesting polyethnic white mafias in America. Admittedly, the Youngstown mafia has almost turned into a nursing home poker game at this point, but I knew a local, back in my working days, who was pretty connected, and he swore that the corruption was still present and hanging on by its yellowing fingernails.
SO – whenever I hear about sketchiness in Mahoning County, it’s not a surprise. And Amy Acton campaigning there? Not a surprise, either. She’s apparently FROM that area.
I was quite suspicious from the start that this involved “somebody up to no good, but probably not assassination” – and that is where I’m still at now.
There are LOTS of FAKE NEWS posts on X stating that the “perp” – Patrick Havas, is “confirmed” to be either a top Ohio GOP insider / operative, or a dangerous DSA member. Both strike me as unlikely, and Newsweek didn’t find either one.
Here is what they did find.
Current voter records reviewed by Newsweek show Havas is not registered with a political party, though he voted in a GOP primary in 2016.
Havas’ voter registration was updated on November 7, 2023, according to the Mahoning County voter records that Newsweek reviewed. The records show he voted in general elections in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2024.
Havas is a licensed nurse, according to records reviewed by Newsweek.
He was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and petty theft in 2008, but the theft charge was dismissed after he pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct, according to court records reviewed by Newsweek. Havas was accused in that case of stealing three movies—The Untouchables, Full Metal Jacket and Casino Royale—from a Giant Eagle supermarket. He was handed a 30 day jail sentence that was suspended.
Havas was also fined for traffic offenses in 2008 and 2011.
This man Havas strikes me as a typical borderline hood or hooligan – maybe a blowhard – but not even rising to the level of minion or thug. And yet, exactly the kind of personality who would bully his way into a meeting and not bother to ask if it was OK to take videos. The kind of guy who wouldn’t exercise the basic level of common-sense judgment to stow his firearm before entering a political event.
There is reported to be solid timeline evidence that people watching Amy Acton live at the time were calling her out online as being drunk. Actually drunk or not, I am betting that Havas was at the fair, heard about Amy Acton being (allegedly) drunk, realized he could get viral video of the same, and hatched a stupid, Darwin Award plan to “take her down”. Carrying heat legally, but into a political event, tells me that he was likely not engaging in a smart, planned takedown, ALTHOUGH he would have been on shakier ground, legally, if he had come into the tent earlier, unarmed, and taken video surreptitiously after being ASKED not to film.
IF he was doing this as a planned operation, it was pretty ingenious, because the net effect is to tell the entire country a sad truth – that Dr. Amy Acton is not only a leftist “wine woman” like Kamala Harris – she’s a THROWER.
And thus, we are led to MY reading of what has really happened here.
Not a massive conspiracy by the left to “Jussify” Lockdown Amy.
Not a massive conspiracy by the right to expose Wine Woman Amy.
Just some Ohio dude, dreaming bigly of his 15 minutes of internet clout and national fame, hoping he arrived in time for a viral video of Wine Woman Amy, drunk and disorderly at the fair.
And then dem Dems do what dem Dems is ALWAYS gonna do. Never let a crisis go to waste.
