"They don't want nation states."
Reflecting on the Paris riots, Neil Oliver argues that widespread social unrest across Europe stems from orchestrated efforts by state actors.
He maintains that European Union member states have been deliberately hollowed out by centralising forces in Brussels, as part of a broader effort to undermine national sovereignty and erase meaningful nation states.
🚨🚨 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?
Translation: I would love it if the governments around the world got together to STEAL Elon Musks wealth so that I can redistribute to radical left wing NGOS who will make whatever crazy scheme they do worse and I personally receive massive fraudulent kickbacks. This will only benefit a few inside criminals, grifters and takers and make society far worse overall. End translation
Trump says he knows the details of how the Ukraine war started and will release them someday.
Europe is hunting for €70B more for Ukraine, now down to its last Patriot interceptors.
@BarbaraMBoyd on why Europe and Canada are marching to suicide 👇
Is France facing imminent civil war? Is the West doomed, or is our future still being written? 🇫🇷🇺🇸
Mike examines France’s political crisis—and why the spirit of the American Revolution vs. the orchestration of the French Terror still matters for Europe.
Randy Johnson finished with 4,875 strikeouts, second only to Nolan Ryan, and won five Cy Youngs, four of them back to back from 1999 to 2002.
Ask Ortiz or Griffey, they'll tell you facing him was its own kind of misery.
For decades, Canada has been seen as a 'model nation', internationally renowned for its high standard of living, safety & friendliness. 🇨🇦
Recently, it's been making headlines for the wrong reasons. Unaffordability, homelessness & addiction, rising crime, and a healthcare system so stretched that thousands are dying as they await treatment.
'Broken Country' is a new documentary that explores what went wrong in Canada, and what can be done.
Watch it here: https://t.co/j0sRaqtFne
In 52 BC, Julius Caesar was surrounded by 300,000 warriors, yet he pulled off a move so brilliant that military academies still teach it 2,000 years later.
RORY McILROY'S 5 RULES
1. NO BOGEYS WITH A WEDGE IN YOUR HAND
Inside 100 yards, bogey should be almost impossible. Green first, two putts, move on.
2. NEVER MISS A PAR 3 ON THE SHORT SIDE
Ignore the flag if you have to. Give yourself the easiest possible miss and make par or bogey your worst realistic score.
3. EVERY PAR 5 MUST BE PLAYED IN 5 SHOTS OR LESS
You don't need to make birdie. But doubles on par 5s are completely off limits. Three controlled shots and two putts still gets the job done.
4. NEVER THREE-PUTT FROM INSIDE 40 FEET
Your first putt has one objective: finish inside three feet. Stop trying to hole everything and start protecting par.
5. YOU GET ONE HERO SHOT PER ROUND - MAXIMUM
Through trees, over water, terrible lie? You get ONE gamble.
After that, every recovery shot goes straight back into play.
Breaking 80 isn't about making more birdies.
It's about making double bogey almost impossible.