Rod Thomson

Christian I Conservative I GOP Comms Consultant I Ghostwriter I Father of 8 I DeSantis Trustee @SCFnow I Writes at @HumanEvents, @ChroniclesMag, @PJMedia_com

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

The ongoing problem here is that @SteveDeaceShow and @AuronMacintyre keep conflating some individual Republicans with the Party. What Auron says is just ignorant. But bombastic gets clicks.

I work in the local party structure in Florida, and I can tell you the Republican party not only acts as a real party, but as far far more effective than the Democratic party. We conduct the voter registration year-round and GOTV campaigns that are very effective.

The problem with individual Republicans that Steve has been one of the few to sometimes point out, is that they’re chosen by Republican voters in primaries. Blaming the party for the dumpster fire that has been Mitch McConnell is aiming fire at the fun and easy target, but the wrong one. It’s Kentucky primary voters who keep sending him back.

I’m all in opposing this Senate border deal, and criticizing Lankford and McConnell. I’m as frustrated as anyone with weak Republicans, including in too many red states. But we keep doing this when we’re frustrated with individual Republicans, and leadership sometimes, and we want to set the whole party on fire.

But the corrections is by the voters. For conservative talkers, that means essentially criticizing listeners. Tough dynamic. But encouraging with Republican voters, to just sit back and throw stones at the party. When it does things they don’t like, just exacerbates the problem. Quite the opposite of solving anything.

Todd Erzen urges local action and has done it. Yes yes yes. That is more productive than just trashing the biggest, easy target.

The incessant trashing of the Republican party, and wondering why anybody would vote Republican anymore, has one certain impact: suppress Republican voter turnout.

If that happens in November, the same people will be trashing the Republican Party for not turning out their voters. But will they look at their own culpability? Experience says probably not.

And this becomes very frustrating for those of us on the ground, working to register Republicans and get out the boat during elections, Republican registration, and voter turnout.

[Steve Deace @SteveDeaceShow]

If you truly want to understand the generational hole we’re in that we may never dig out of…if Lankford were to get this completely traitorous legislation into law, and then Fox News made him the 2028 GOP nominee, many of the same people complaining loudly today would be clamoring then we have to “vote for Lankford to save America.”

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

Everyone who cares about saving traditional America from the red-green revolution should bookmark and share this.

@DataRepublican is an indispensable bulwark to tyrant, doing the job the media abdicated to participate in the revolution.

[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?

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

@NoahRevoy Married 46 years and these considerations never arose once. We committed to each other and had a passel of kids now grown with their own passels, and it has been the reward of a lifetime.

My hearts breaks and my anger boils at what has transpired largely from a progressive/feminist/antiChristian worldview that forsakes basic duties that actually make life fulfilling - not just a grab bag of hedonism.

[Coach Noah Revoy | Arms Dealer For The Soul 🏴‍☠️ @NoahRevoy]

Can you imagine someone advising women that they should never expect their husbands to provide for them out of duty?

Imagine telling a man that he should only go to work when he feels like it. That he should only pay the bills and provide for his wife and children when doing so brings him pleasure.

Every day he goes to work, he is giving up a portion of his life that he will never get back. He is trading his body, his time, his energy, and his labor for the benefit of his family. He is giving something of himself away to others, often at considerable personal cost. Now imagine telling him that he has no obligation to make those sacrifices unless he happens to enjoy them.

Or imagine that someone would say that a wife should only accept resources from her husband when he genuinely wants to provide them, when he enjoys doing so, and only when giving makes him happy?

That she should never pressure him to provide more, because expecting him to fulfill his obligations would be a trap?

What about duty caretaking?

Should you only look after your spouse when you feel like it? If your husband or wife is sick, should you be free to neglect them because caring for them does not bring you pleasure?

What about duty conversation?

Should you only listen to your spouse when you enjoy the conversation? Should you refuse to talk about difficult subjects because you are not in the mood?

What about duty parenting? Duty housework? Duty emotional support?

Marriage is full of duties. We undertake those duties because we have made commitments to another person and because other people depend on us.

Ideally, we should want to do all these things. We should see caring for our spouse, providing for them, talking with them, and meeting their needs as privileges and pleasures. We should take genuine satisfaction in making their life better.

And when a marriage is going well, that is often exactly how it feels.

But what happens when the marriage is not going well?

What happens when you are angry with each other, when you are at loggerheads, when you are deeply frustrated, or when you do not particularly like each other for a while?

If your marriage only works when everything is going well and you are enjoying each other's company, then you do not really have a marriage. You have an arrangement that functions only while both parties are happy.

The difference between marriage and other arrangements is that marriage includes duty.

Duty holds you together when affection is strained, when goodwill is depleted, and when fulfilling your obligations is the last thing you feel like doing.

You continue to provide. You continue to care for each other. You continue to communicate. You continue to meet your responsibilities to your children and your household.

You do these things because you made a commitment, and that commitment does not disappear whenever your feelings change.

This applies to sex as well. Mutual sexual care is part of marriage, and spouses should take each other's needs seriously, even when their desires do not happen to align. That does not mean anyone is entitled to force or coerce the other.

The whole point of duty is that we do what we have committed to doing even when we do not feel like doing it.

When two people continue fulfilling their duties to each other through difficult periods, they preserve the conditions that allow reciprocity and goodwill to return.

Each act of care, each responsibility fulfilled, each effort made despite resentment gives the other person another reason to trust, appreciate, and eventually feel affection again.

Duty provides the continuity that allows a marriage to recover.

Without it, every disagreement threatens the relationship itself, because both people feel entitled to withdraw whatever they no longer enjoy giving.

A marriage held together only by pleasure will eventually fail when pleasure comes and goes.

A marriage held together by duty can survive those periods, restore reciprocity, and return to being a source of genuine pleasure for both husband and wife.

That is why we make vows.

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

Why would anyone be intimidated…if they are legal voters?

Asked and answered.

[Gary Fineout @fineout]

Inbox: Leon County elections supervisor says Border Patrol vehicles briefly showed up at an early voting site

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

This is hilarious. A Republican goes undercover and exposes liberal who can't answer a single question about why she believes the things she believes in

This man is a Trojan horse lol

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

@libbyemmons A depiction of the level of spoiled entitlement in the greatest, wealthiest, freeist nation on earth. It's a bit sick, but then, they are all leftists...

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

When the Dems and media howl that Trump is weaponizing the Justice Department against his political enemies, remember what Biden Special Counsel Jack Smith did:

• Led the Mar-a-Lago documents "investigation" and the "insurrection" prosecution
• Spied on 44 Republican congressmen and 8 GOP senators.
• Compiled a sprawling, highly detailed database on 640,000 everyday Americans who were either donors, supports or just known Republican voters.

The Gestapo or KGB would be proud.

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

The media is so incapable of thinking outside of their propaganda box that they tumble right back into one of the most devastating memes of the past six years.

[Libby Emmons @libbyemmons]

It's the mostly peaceful destruction of France

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

@Sheehan_Sports Two words: Spartan fan.

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

@libsoftiktok These people are ruining our country.

On purpose.

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

This is really powerful. Rubio gets it like few others.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Together we must rediscover the American spirit.

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

100 percent true. The only way to control intrusive, out-of-control government is to starve the beast

[Milton Friedman Daily @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman:

“In the long run, government will spend whatever the tax system will raise, plus as much more as it can get away with. That’s what history tells us.”

“So my view has always been: cut taxes on any occasion, for any reason, in any way that’s politically feasible, as the only way to keep down the size of government.”

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

@libbyemmons Well I guess it's nice to see a nuclear family. But they make it so sickening, particularly for an adult male, who would want it?

In all honesty, I only got part way through, because I wanted to keep breakfast down. Reminded me for the zillionth time why I don't watch ads.

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

@libbyemmons Perfect. We have lost sight of this truism: the child IS the blessing of the Lord.

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

A lot of modern women have a problem with Paul. If you’re familiar with his letters making up nearly half of the New Testament, you will understand why.

I’ll go ahead and take scripture over modern, feminist Christians.

[Protestia @Protestia]

Kay Podgee, a popular Atheist- turned- 'Christian' content creator with 730k followers on FB, 142k on YT, and 340k on Insta, explains that *Paul is the false apostle that Jesus warned about in the book of Revelation.*

The heresy is off the wall with this one.

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

@RealEJAntoni For all the wrong reasons

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

An estimated 250,000 girls raped in the UK by migrant grooming gangs

Feminists: 😴😴😴

Shane Gillis makes a joke on SNL

Feminists: 😡🤬😡

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

The face of white liberal women.

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

Which is what exactly?

What as tribes have they contributed to Western Civilization?

[Leader John Thune @LeaderJohnThune]

Today is Native Americans’ Day in South Dakota, an opportunity to celebrate the heritage and contributions of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people.

[Rod Thomson @Rod_Thomson]

@Sheehan_Sports Completely disagree. That comeback will change this team. For the first time this year, I’m optimistic we can win some Big 10 games. And I don’t have a problem going for two. Weird call , but would have been brilliant if it worked.

[Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 @alexbruesewitz]

He also stated: “I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president.” Certain pundits and “think-tankers” will no doubt cry about the President’s remarks, but I fully agree with him.

Zelensky is not being a friend to the American people. His targeting of refineries last night and this morning, right after America reached a deal to help lower diesel costs, only provides further proof.