David Chrismer

John and Roman's are my 2 favorite books of the Bible

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Ça fait des mois que je répète que Hitler était d'extrême gauche. À chaque fois, j'ai des milliers de mongols en commentaire qui viennent me donner des cours d'histoire.

Du coup, j'ai fait une vidéo pour répondre à tous ces low IQ d'un coup.

Sujet clos. Next.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨🚨THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 5: Washington state's Secretary of State weighs in 🚨

The below clip shows Danielle Reiff of DRG pitching her vision to an audience including Washington state's Secretary of State, Steve Hobbs.

She explains the red-line scenarios and ultimately a vision of creating a "cross-partisan" government in the wake of an illegitimate federal government.

Her three "democratic emergency" scenarios should be familiar by now:

· Election meltdown - which includes a widespread public loss of trust in election results
· Insurrection Act deployed against protesters
· An attempt to delay seating of legitimately elected officials post-election

If the federal government becomes illegitimate in her view because of the above, then she proposes a cross-partisan system of transitional governance. She names a cross-partisan board of governors, as well President Obama and President Bush as potential transitional leaders.

WA SoS Hobbs replies to Reiff that he has had the exact same conversation with German and Japanese officials regarding how to deal with AfD and right-wing nationalist parties. Now, to be fair, he does not want to commit because, in his words, "we're winning." But he doesn't disagree either.

Note also that here and in other recordings, "election meltdown" does not mean some sort of flashy media crisis. It means, simply, a large segment of the population doesn't believe the election results are legitimate.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨🚨 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?

[ɢʏᴘꜱʏ 🇺🇸 ᴘᴀᴛʀɪᴏᴛ @GypsyPatriot_]

This song is🔥

Louisiana HVAC worker Jason Bellard’s faith-rooted song “May God Bless America”
(w/ Steve Gruber & The Freedom Project) hits #3 on iTunes.

💪 A blue-collar anthem of patriotism and conviction ahead of the midterms.

GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

I just came across this in an Open Society Foundations document about how to fix public “mistrust” of liberal "democracy," and I honestly feel sick reading it. I've read many alarming quotes, but few are so "mask off" like this.

"I believe the time has come for a responsible, courageous elite, those who care far more about addressing the genuine social problems than about election results. Only a political elite with vision, prudence and a focus on the general good—to whom the electorate… can cede part of their sovereignty in the elections—will be able to justify public trust and spearhead... our struggle to survive.""

Read that again. The proposed solution to the public's distrust in democracy... is less democracy.
An unelected "elite" to whom the public should cede sovereignty.

Abolish democracy to save democracy. This kind of thinking is what we're up against.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I used to ask Christians:

“If Jesus was really God, why did He eat, sleep, and bleed like us?”

I literally would ask it with pride. I was super pumped about it because like it was some unbeatable argument. I loved how that felt.

But bro, later I realized something:

That question is not exposing Christianity - like at all.

It was exposing my total misunderstanding of what kind of God Jesus claimed to be for His people.

After I became a Christian, I pondered this a lot. I repent for this too!

The question is not: Why would God become weak?

The question is: What kind of God would willingly step into human suffering at all?

This was convicting for me because Islam taught me about a God who was distant and untouchable. But Christianity introduced me to a God who stepped into hunger, exhaustion, grief, pain, betrayal, blood, and suffering with us.

After I understood it, Jesus' humanity stopped looking like weakness to me.

It became proof of love.

If Jesus ate, it means He came close enough to experience hunger beside us.

If He slept, it means He embraced the exhaustion we carry.

If He bled, it means He did not stand above suffering watching us from a distance.

He entered it Himself.

Philippians 2 says Christ emptied Himself and took on flesh. Why? Not because He stopped being God, but because He wanted humanity to finally see what God is actually like.

And it turns out God is willing to suffer for the people He loves. That one realization changed so much for me.

Every other religion demanded sacrifice from humanity. Jesus became the sacrifice Himself.

PRAISE JESUS! I AM FREE! Follow me if you want to become better equipped to defend your faith, understand Islam, and lead Muslims toward Jesus.

[Agustín Laje @AgustinLaje]

En estos momentos, ocurre un genocidio contra cristianos en Nigeria perpetrado por musulmanes.

A nadie le importa, y ningún medio de prensa occidental lo informa.

En efecto: las víctimas son cristianas, y los victimarios musulmanes.

[Dave Parke @Dave_Parke]

I just caught up on some of the recent posts from @DataRepublican, and they’re chilling—not primarily because they outline a violent uprising, but because they reveal a strategy of manufacturing a constitutional crisis in which states declare the federal government illegitimate. What’s alarming is the sheer ignorance and hubris of the people treating this as a workable path. They appear to believe such a rupture can be contained or directed, yet they show little understanding of either American history or the practical consequences of delegitimizing the federal order.

The people driving this approach are largely led by academics who have never borne responsibility for real-world outcomes, military officers who couldn’t produce a coherent strategy to win a twenty-year war, and former intelligence officials whose records inspire little confidence. They seem prepared to sacrifice institutional stability—and the young idealists who would be drawn into the resulting chaos—while remaining safely removed from the fallout themselves.

What they fail to grasp is that the Constitution is not merely a set of rules that can be voided by state declaration. It is bound to the oaths of those sworn to defend it and to the habits of a population raised on the Bill of Rights. America is not Europe, China, or any other society in which a central authority can be nullified with limited resistance. Attempts to engineer a crisis of legitimacy will not remain a matter of legal posturing. They will collide with people who take their oaths seriously, and the resulting contest over authority is unlikely to stay bloodless.

The American Civil War remains the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. Roughly 2% of the population died—men, women, and children—in what was, by historical standards, a relatively conventional war fought between uniformed armies. Scaled to today’s population, that figure approaches 7.5 million dead. A modern breakdown in which states and the federal government treat one another as illegitimate would almost certainly be worse: a grinding conflict fought in neighborhoods, towns, and cities, where the line between friend and enemy would be unclear and ordinary life would become impossible. Anyone of consequence would carry a target, and trust would collapse.

This is not a call for violence. It is a plea to avoid the conditions that make violence probable. Many of us have seen what war actually does, and we understand the cost that would be imposed on the next generation because some believe their preferred political outcome can be forced by creating a crisis of legitimacy. Trump leaves office in two years. If the goal is to alter the constitutional order, the Framers already provided the mechanism for doing so. Use it. Do not manufacture a crisis that invites states to treat the federal government as illegitimate while others pay the price.

As Sherman put it: “It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.”

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

It can be hard to wrap our heads around this because we have been taught all our lives that fascism is a far-right ideology.

But what Sowell says here is entirely accurate, and he’s far from the only thinker who has pointed this out.

Ayn Rand, for example, wrote that “fascism and communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory.”

“Both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of the state,” Rand continued, noting that “fascism is not the product of the political ‘right,’ but of the ‘left.’”

Similarly, F. A. Hayek wrote in his book The Road to Serfdom that “the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period, but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.”

Hayek made the point even more bluntly during an interview, saying, “There is basically no difference between socialism and fascism.”

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I've been cranking all day on this.

Some things are so important that they need to be explored in depth, and in real time.

The shocking revelations from Data Republican regarding the plot to overthrow our Constitution is such a thing and now is such a time.

We are facing a color revolution. This article explains how color revolutions have worked overseas in the past at the hands of the CIA and USAID, and how those now ex-USAID employees, now ensconced in well-funded NGOs, are currently using the same tactics against our own nation.

It's a long article, almost 2,500 words.

If you care about this, please read. It's a very complex set of concepts, and takes more than a few words to explain adequately.

Thanks.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

This is similar to my Bonuses for Cost-Cutters Act, which would let Inspectors General pay bonuses to federal employees who find waste, fraud, mismanagement, or unneeded surplus funds. It would give government workers a direct incentive to help root out abuse and save taxpayer money!

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

I haven't seen anyone reporting on this

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Don’t stop talking about the mass slaughter of Christians by Islamists in Nigeria.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“Put bluntly, failure attracts more money than success. Politically, failure becomes a reason to demand more money...”

— Thomas Sowell

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

@SKDoubleDub33 Yup ... here's just a tiny sample.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨🚨THE DEMOCRACY FILES, PART 1: THE PLAN 🚨

I am working on gathering all the documents.

Now, here's something to understand about the "democracy" and protest ecosystem: almost nobody knows the 'grand plan' so to speak. They simply agree to play a role.

For example, 99% of people breaking stuff on the streets believe they're doing it out of an organic uprising. They don't see that the police have been ordered to stand down. They don't see that legal services have already been arranged for them. They don't see that foundations are paying for their bonds.

Similarly here, governors aren't participating in a pact to destroy the Constitution. Governors simply have agreed to push back on the Insurrection Act. The effect is the same: the governors end up playing a role in a grander plan.

I call this "shared epistemology" in my book Unelected. Motivations differ, people rarely agree to the big evil supervillain framing, but incentives all converge in the same end goal.

No Kings might not agree to explicitly tear down the Constitution, but they nonetheless work with DSA and will turn out millions of people if the right phone call is put in.

Here is one articulation of the plan - and crucially, since then, they have put many NGOs in their places to execute their proper role at all levels when the time is right.

Many more coming.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

If enough patriots quote post this with @elonmusk's name perhaps he'll see it, repost it, and this will get the attention it deserves.

Hundreds of millions of Americans need to know about this, not just us randos on X.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

My dear American friends, in my last two posts I showed you where France stands and how our economy got there. Today I want to go deeper, because the economics were only the symptom.

Here is my message to every American: you have been infected by a virus that took decades to incubate in your country. Everything you've watched get worse, year after year, is the damage. MAGA, whatever you think of it, is the immune response. But a body can't fight what it can't name. So today I'm going to name it and show you where it came from.

It starts in an Italian prison cell.

Antonio Gramsci co-founded the Italian Communist Party in 1921. In 1926 Mussolini locked him up, and he spent the rest of his life in prison filling notebooks. He was trying to answer one question: why did the revolution never come to the West? Marx had promised the workers would rise. They didn't. They went to church, saluted the flag, and wanted their kids to do better than them.

Gramsci's answer changed everything. In the West, he said, power doesn't sit in the army or the factories. It sits in culture: schools, universities, churches, newspapers, theater, the family. He called it hegemony. As long as ordinary people believe in their own civilization, you can't overthrow it. So you don't storm the palace. You fight a "war of position." You take the institutions one by one, patiently, until the culture thinks like you do. Then political power falls into your hands like ripe fruit.

A German student leader, Rudi Dutschke, later gave the strategy its famous name: the long march through the institutions.

Now watch France become the laboratory.

In 1945 the French Communist Party came out of the Resistance as the biggest party in the country, with more than a quarter of the vote. General de Gaulle needed them to govern, so communists entered the cabinet. Look at what they got. Public Health went to a communist, François Billoux. Labor went to a communist, Ambroise Croizat, who built our national social security system and put it under boards dominated by the communist-led CGT union. Industrial Production went to another communist, Marcel Paul, who nationalized electricity and gas and gave the union control of their enormous social funds. Education was redesigned by a commission led by two communist intellectuals, Paul Langevin and Henri Wallon, whose plan became the bible of French school reformers for decades.

The communists were thrown out of government in 1947. It didn't matter. They kept exactly what Gramsci told them to keep: the unions, the schools, the universities, publishing, film, theater. For a generation, being a French intellectual and being on the far left were almost the same thing. Jean-Paul Sartre, the most famous thinker in the world, defended the Soviet Union while it was filling the gulags.

Then came May 1968. Students occupied the Sorbonne, millions of workers went on strike, and for a few weeks the country stopped. De Gaulle won the elections that followed in a landslide. He won the ballot box. He lost the culture. Within a year he was gone, and the generation of 68 spent the next fifty years climbing to the top of every French institution: media, ministries, courts, schools, publishing houses. Their slogan was "It is forbidden to forbid." Authority, tradition, family, nation: all of it became suspect.

Then came the export phase. This is where you come in.

A group of French philosophers, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, gave the movement its intellectual weapons. Foucault taught that every institution, every norm, every piece of knowledge is a disguised structure of power. Derrida taught that every text, every concept, every hierarchy can be "deconstructed" until nothing stable is left. Lyotard announced the end of grand narratives, which in practice meant the end of the great narrative of the West itself.

In France these men were famous. In America they became gods. Starting with a 1966 conference at Johns Hopkins where Derrida made his American debut, your English, history and law departments imported them wholesale. Your academics even gave it a name: French Theory. On your campuses it mutated. Mixed with the Frankfurt School exiles like Herbert Marcuse, who argued that tolerance should be withdrawn from the right, it produced critical race theory, gender theory, intersectionality. The old Marxist split between bourgeois and proletarian was replaced by a new one: oppressor and oppressed, assigned by skin color, sex and identity.

That's the cultural strain of the virus. There's a second strain, and it attacked your energy and your ambition.

In 1968 an Italian industrialist, Aurelio Peccei, co-founded the Club of Rome. In 1972 it published The Limits to Growth, built on a computer model from MIT, warning that if humanity kept growing, civilization would collapse. It sold millions of copies. Its core idea, that growth itself is the problem, became gospel. In France it gave birth to the degrowth movement. Progress went from a promise to a sin.

Look what it did to us. The country that built a nuclear fleet in fifteen years shut down Superphénix, its advanced breeder reactor, in 1997, as part of a deal with the Greens. In 2015 it passed a law to cut nuclear's share of our electricity. In 2019 it cancelled ASTRID, our next-generation reactor program. In 2020 it closed Fessenheim, a working plant. We sabotaged our own greatest achievement because we were told that building things was dangerous.

Put the two strains together and you get what you call woke. One teaches children to be ashamed of their past. The other teaches them to fear their future. Guilt behind, fear ahead. A civilization that hates where it comes from and dreads where it's going has nowhere left to go.

And here's the irony. France infected America, and now America is sending it back to us. Our own politicians complain about "American woke ideas" invading French universities, without realizing those ideas were born in Paris. The virus made a round trip and came home stronger.

That's why France is the most advanced case in the West. We have every symptom at once: a state that runs health, schools, culture and energy. Unions that block every reform. Universities where you can't say what everyone thinks. Self-hatred. Fear of growth. We are what the disease looks like when nothing fights it.

The West is at a turning point. Every country is infected, some more than others. What you're living through, the fights over schools, over speech, over energy, over what it means to be American, is the fever. The fever is not the disease. The fever is your body fighting back.

So understand this. The battle in front of you isn't just Republican versus Democrat. It's a battle for the institutions Gramsci told his heirs to capture: schools, universities, media, culture. It took them eighty years to win them. You won't take them back in one election.

But you can take them back. You have something we never had: a country founded on the idea that the individual comes before the state. Free speech written into your First Amendment. Builders who still believe the future can be better than the past.

Name the virus. Fight it where it lives. Don't let it do to you what it did to us.

I come from your future. It's not too late to change yours.

[Pulse Leaks 1.0 @Pulse_Leaks]

🚨THEY FILLED THE CAR WITH BALLOTS… AND SAID WHO WAS DOING IT

James O’Keefe’s undercover cameras caught it cold.

A ballot harvester in Minnesota shows the trunk and dashboard packed:
“You can see my car is full. All these here are absentee ballots. Can’t you see? Look at all these. My car is full.”

300 in one haul.

When asked who fills them out: “People who work with Ilhan and other candidates… they work for them.”

Cash changes hands. Elders get visited. Blank or open ballots leave the building. Minnesota law limits how many you can carry. Federal law bans the pay-to-vote scheme. None of it mattered.

This is the same machine still fighting every single effort to require citizenship proof and clean the rolls. The same people who call election security “disenfranchisement.”

They never stopped. They just got quieter about the receipts.

Pass the SAVE Act.
Clean the rolls.
End the harvest.

The patriots are done pretending this is normal.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

My dear American friends, in my last post I gave you a snapshot of where France stands today. Now let me show you how we got here. I want you to see the whole movie before you buy the ticket.

After the war, France was a machine. We called it the Trente Glorieuses, thirty glorious years. We built Concorde, the most beautiful aircraft ever made. We built a fleet of nuclear reactors in about fifteen years and gave ourselves some of the cleanest, cheapest electricity in the world. We built Ariane and put Europe in space. We built the TGV, the fastest train on earth. We invented the Minitel, an online network in millions of homes before most of you had heard of the internet. We were not a museum. We were builders.

Then came 1981. François Mitterrand. Think of him as our Bernie Sanders, except he actually won. At his side, in the office next to his at the Élysée, sat a 37-year-old prodigy named Jacques Attali, his special adviser for the next ten years. The brightest minds of the left, convinced they could run an economy from a ministry.

Here's what they did. They governed with Communist ministers. In 1982 they nationalized dozens of banks and the biggest industrial groups in the country: Paribas, Suez, Saint-Gobain, Thomson, Pechiney, Rhône-Poulenc. They lowered the retirement age to 60. They cut the work week to 39 hours and added a fifth week of paid vacation. They created a wealth tax. They hired massively into the public sector.

Reality hit in less than two years. Capital fled, inflation ran wild, and the franc was devalued three times. In March 1983 Mitterrand had to slam on the brakes and impose austerity just to stay in the European monetary system.

But here's the trick: the brakes never reversed anything. They just slowed the ratchet. The so-called right came back with Jacques Chirac, and nothing was undone. Under Chirac's presidency, France passed the 35-hour work week. Left or right, every government added one more program, one more rule, one more tax, and nobody ever took one away.

At the same time, the political class did something even more destructive than bad economics. It turned the youth into a political instrument. Instead of teaching young people, including millions of children of immigrants, to love the country they lived in, it taught them a story of guilt and grievance: France as the oppressor, France as the thing to resent. You cannot integrate people into a country you've taught them to despise. We are living with the consequences of that narrative today, in our schools, our suburbs, our streets.

Then forty years of slow decline, all the way to Macron. And the story has a perfect ending. In 2007, Jacques Attali chaired a commission on how to unleash French growth. Its deputy rapporteur was a young civil servant named Emmanuel Macron. The commission proposed more than 300 reforms to free the economy. Almost none were ever implemented. Even the men who built the system knew it wasn't working, and even they couldn't undo it.

No balanced budget since 1974. Public spending around 57% of GDP. Debt above 3,300 billion euros. Growth stuck under 1%.

Now the number that should keep you up at night. In 1995, GDP per person in France was about $27,000. In America, about $29,000. We were neck and neck. Today France is around $49,000. America is around $90,000. You are now nearly twice as rich per person as we are.

What changed? Not our talent. Not our engineers. Not our schools of mathematics. The only thing that changed is that we went all in on socialism. The 35 hours, the endless regulation, the taxes that chase out anyone who builds, the belief that the state should do everything and the individual should ask permission for everything.

There's a line people love to attribute to Einstein: insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. We tried. For forty years, we tried. Every government promised that one more program, one more tax, one more regulation would finally fix things. You just saw where it got us.

So if you choose the Democratic Party, which is literally turning socialist in front of your eyes, you will deserve what comes next.

Let me tell you exactly what will happen if you go down that road. Nobody will vote for decline. Every single measure will sound generous, compassionate, reasonable. Your builders will slowly leave or stop building. Your state will grow every year and never shrink. Your debt will compound. And in thirty years, your kids will look at a chart like the one I just described and wonder when it all went wrong.

You still have something we lost. You have Elon Musk sending rockets to orbit and landing them on their tail. You have Palmer Luckey building the defense industry of the future. You have Jeff Bezos, Jensen Huang, and thousands of founders nobody has heard of yet, building in garages right now.

Trust your entrepreneurs. Don't trust your politicians.

I come from your future. Don't make it yours.