Terence Blanchard 🇺🇸

[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?

[Terence Blanchard 🇺🇸 @vlantropy]

@RepJayapal Your sugar-coated rhetoric about immigration doesn't change the fact that your job is to represent American workers, not serve as Microsoft's spokesperson for importing cheap foreign labor from the country of your birth.

[Narrocracy @narrocracy]

If you have a kid who is a recent software engineering graduate and you are as excited as I am about the H1B scam finally ending, here's how it started...

IBM is almost singlehandedly responsible for the outsourcing of American engineering jobs.

It was the early 90s and IBM was getting nuked by Microsoft, Oracle, HP, Sun, Dell, and Intel. Massive losses and the existential dread of a dinosaur monopoly being devoured by younger, hungrier, more nimble beasts.

Using it's massive political clout and governmental relationships starting from all the way back in WWII, it smoothed the path for the 1992 partnership with TATA, the first and greatest tech outsourcer.

Indian based employee numbers surged from 9,000 in 2003 to 74,000 by 2007, surpassing U.S. headcount.

By 2006, IBM became the multinational with the most employees in India and by 2017 it overtook the U.S. as IBM's largest workforce location, with ~130,000 employees (one-third of global total) and today, IBM India employs ~150,000–200,000 people across 20+ cities.

Once IBM opened the floodgates and smoothed the political/legal landscape everybody in the Valley copied them, with Microsoft being the most aggressive. Think about it: billionaires running our most profitable companies have been gradually destroying our scientific and engineering edge by hiring indentured servants instead of American graduates so that they can build a bigger yacht. Our elites literally sold out our children's future to make more money.

But wait! It gets worse!
IBM also spearheaded the massive expansion of H1Bs so that, as essentially an Indian company at this point, it could import a captive workforce where on-prem was required. The follow-on effect was the creation of a local infrastructure primed for colonization. Check out the leaders of the massive number of Indian owned IT firms around DC, and they're almost always IBM or IBM adjacent. This is especially true of the older ones, while the newer ones are often nepobabies of former founders. It's a tikka masala mafia.

A personal aside: I have worked at Indian dev shops and with Indian partners and colleagues for decades. The caste system and the entrenched nepotism are 100% real things; it's literally how their culture functions, and it's why India itself is a non-functioning country. Also, I would not describe them as a particularly honest people. I can't count how many times I've been lied to by somebody with that weird bobbing head thing while they cheerfully smile. And the weirdest part is that they know that I know that they are lying, but they're lying and smiling anyway because they're not ashamed of doing it. There's a sense that if you are dumb enough to get cheated then that means that you deserved it, and it's an incredibly toxic and anti-western way to do business.

Then McKinsey (those bstrds) took the model to Walmart, GM, Verizon, Fannie-Mae...everywhere. Very often in my career I've been like: "Wait: Am I even in America right now?". Once, I even got hired because they explicitly needed a white engineer to attend client meetings, while "my" entire team was Indian and half H1B.

Nerd Aside: Remember IBM's UML and Rationale Rose, etc.? Those were created to communicate bugs and defects from US based analysts to Indian bases devs. IBM literally created the infrastructure of tech outsourcing, destroying (or never starting) the careers of American engineers. All so that they could make money selling a mediocre product using 3rd world labor.

It's FN treasonous. In the parlance of Creighton's excellent Airframe, IBM "gave away the wing"

[Elle Spring @Spring23459]

@EricLDaugh Continue by penalizing offshore work, requiring work to be done by US persons on US soil, with audits.

The PERM deal only stops green card enticement, nothing else. It's a good start but needs to go farther.

[Terence Blanchard 🇺🇸 @vlantropy]

@MattWalshBlog Wait. You just argued Boomers get FAR more from Social Security than they paid in. Now abolishing it will “set up” your kids and grandchildren?

So they’ll pay nothing—and get nothing.

If the return is so outrageous, explain how denying THEM that return sets them up.

[Terence Blanchard 🇺🇸 @vlantropy]

@MattWalshBlog Boomers aren’t demanding an “ROI”. YOU introduced that. They paid Social Security taxes for decades to fund the generation ahead. Now they expect the promised benefits.

Want to call it an investment? Fine. Apply 40 years of market returns. You won’t like the math.

[Terence Blanchard 🇺🇸 @vlantropy]

@MattWalshBlog 3/3 “Everyone knows” is not evidence. Soc Sec has a financing problem; address it. But blaming “older voters” who supposedly don’t care about their grandchildren is generational scapegoating. Today’s young workers will eventually be the old people someone else calls a burden.

[Terence Blanchard 🇺🇸 @vlantropy]

@MattWalshBlog 2/3 Worse, being responsible apparently counts against them. Save, invest, buy a home, build a business—and your success becomes the argument for denying you benefits, while someone who accumulated less keeps theirs. What principle are you actually advocating?

[Terence Blanchard 🇺🇸 @vlantropy]

@GovRonDeSantis Which counties?

[Terence Blanchard 🇺🇸 @vlantropy]

@kathyj615 @RichardGrenell @MarkRuffalo @IfindRetards Beware who you welcome for 30 pieces of silver.

[Terence Blanchard 🇺🇸 @vlantropy]

@JackPosobiec Don't celebrate too soon. What would have been an "American" job, given to an H-1B visa holder, is now being directly outsourced to someone working remotely in India. That loophole MUST be closed.

[Terence Blanchard 🇺🇸 @vlantropy]

@VigilantFox The way things are going we could have left Crazy Joe in the office or give that drunk a go.

[Terence Blanchard 🇺🇸 @vlantropy]

@AldoSterone111 @cyb3rops I switched to Visual Studio Code after I got tired of the author’s political messaging crap embedded in the software. The VS Code is better anyway.

[Terence Blanchard 🇺🇸 @vlantropy]

@RedLineReportt The European Federation of what?

[Terence Blanchard 🇺🇸 @vlantropy]

@DKambUSA Your Excellency, the Kingdom of Denmark will be afforded the same respect for its territorial integrity as your country afforded Serbia when it bombed the whole country and recognized an independent Kosovo.

[🇺🇸 Larry 🇺🇸 @LarryJones]

🔥 SHOCKING: J Alexander’s @JAlexandersRest in Tampa is now charging a packaging fee for to-go orders and will call the cops and trespass customers who question it.

[𝕰𝖒𝕲 @Emilio2763]

J Alexander’s Restaurant in Tampa is Now Charging a “Packaging Fee” for Take-Out and Throw You Out if You Ask About it…

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: By stroke of pen, President Trump raises the H-1B Visa fee from $1,000 to *$100,000,* and directs the Secretary of Labor to revise the wage rules to make it much harder for companies to hire foreigners in replacement of American workers.

Massive win.

[StelloGaMello @ga_stello]

@MarioNawfal The world needs to learn from Kosovo. What happens when problematic immigrants outnumber locals is they abuse locals, claim the land, and rewrite history.
the same corrupt governments that are enabling this falsely accused Serbia of genocide when it resisted. Don't be too late.