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I tell you naught for your comfort, yea naught for your desire...
You know where the blog is.
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We're so close to a future where we have time for the stars, and yes, maybe time enough for love (grin), that it's just out of our fingertip reach.
Do not, please, I beg with tears in my eyes, hit the pause button.
You know where the post lives.
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Blocking your vehicle is using your own decency against you. It's an act that identifies the perpetrator as a bully and a parasite on decent society.
NO ONE fighting an enemy that needs to be fought can do that. The enemy would drive over her. But this woman knows a decent person won't run her over.
She is right. You shouldn't run her over. Shove her out of the way and drive on.
You have plenty of interest in surrendering freedom for a false promise of safety. Likely because you believe it will affect the people you were told to hate and scapegoat and not "enlightened" people like yourself.
May your chains chafe, Jeremy.
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To save this country we must resurrect the idea that politicians are public servants.
They serve us, not the other way around.
But it’s clear that concept has been completely abandoned when members of Congress make under $200,000 per year yet half of them are millionaires. Or when voter ID has nearly 85% public approval but constantly dies in the Senate.
For too long we have treated our elected officials as royalty rather than employees; they go on vacation while the will of the people goes ignored time and time again.
And the country continues to stray further from its guiding principles.
So by all means vote red all the way down this November.
But never forget to remind these assholes who they work for.
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As one of the authors in question I genuinely have zero idea why people are freaking the fuck out here.
Far as I can tell my vigilante cowboy versus space Aztecs story is destroying conservatism in America, or something. Hell if I know. 😄
The madness is spreading. theblaze.com/news/blaze-medi…
Anyone who remembers Traveller, I found this channel that does CGI versions of the various ships and settings from the game. Just viewed the Broadsword one. There are others I'm working through.
youtu.be/kfWwr_1qd2Y
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This would sound like a conspiracy if it hadn’t happened exactly as planned in so many other countries, most recently South Korea. So here’s the basic plan:
-Create mass chaos in the streets (think summer of love x 2). Paralyze and terrorize cities.
-Get Trump to utilize martial law
-some governors (Pritzker), media outlets, former generals, etc say that military law was illegally used thus the President and Government are illegitimate.
This is what USAID was for and this is what the former USAID workers are still doing.
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FART JOKES ARE FUNNY. I am not embarrassed to admit this.
I am, however, annoyed to discover that there are people who DON'T. This is deeply troubling.
One of the oldest recorded jokes in human history, dating back to ancient Sumer around 1900 BC, concerns a woman farting in her husband's lap. Think about that. Humanity had barely figured out how to WRITE THINGS DOWN, and somebody decided that one of the first things worth preserving for posterity was a fart joke.
The ancient Greeks made fart jokes. The Romans made fart jokes. Aristophanes made fart jokes. Chaucer made fart jokes. Shakespeare made fart jokes. James Joyce made fart jokes. (Leopold Bloom farts somewhere in Ulysses). He even wrote about his love's farts in a love letter. (I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere.) azquotes.com/quote/346948
SHAKESPEARE. The man who gave us Hamlet, Macbeth, and some of the most beautiful poetry ever written in the English language also thought flatulence was comedy gold. Most people dont' realize that Shakespere was lowbrow humor of the day.
GOD DAMNIT THEY WERE ALL RIGHT. Somehow, in the twenty-first century, we have produced people like Scott Greer (6'2" IQ 187) who consider themselves too mature, too refined, or too intellectually sophisticated to laugh at a fart. I find this attitude considerably more embarrassing than the fart itself.
Look, I understand that there are times and places where bodily noises are inappropriate. A funeral, for example. Or a presidential inauguration. Although, frankly, an unexpected tuba blast during either event would probably make me laugh so hard I'd require medical attention.
We are human beings. We are ridiculous biological machines that occasionally make noises like a tuba falling down a staircase. That's FUNNY. (Tubas are also funny.)
We've split the atom. We've walked on the Moon. We've built computers capable of astonishing feats of reasoning. (and generating AI art of fart jokes) After four thousand years of civilization, we still haven't improved upon the fundamental comedic premise of somebody's asshole unexpectedly going PBBBBBBBBT.
That's the funny thing, see, assholes tend to go "PBBBBBBBBT" a lot. That's why I think it's funny when an asshole gets annoyed when you joke about it. Which brings me back to Mr. Scott Greer. (6'2" IQ 187)
Mr. Greer here would like to be a moral scold about the AI generated fart joke in my banner. It actually has a history, it's based on another piece of better-made photoshop, but I used AI to have my online X persona doing the farting. Mostly because I spit facts, but I don't take myself too seriously. So sometimes I fart facts.
BECAUSE FARTS ARE FUNNY, SCOTT.
This is apparently a bridge too far for certain guardians of intellectual respectability.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go rip on more self-important right-wing wannabe moral scolds.
My mother would have been so proud.
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Let’s say you work at a Denny’s, everybody in town loves coming to Denny’s but you and the other people who work at and run this Denny’s location all hate the people from your town and want the cool people from three towns over to be the ones coming to your Denny’s
You stop serving Moons Over My Hammy and replace it with a Kale infused porridge because one of the guys who works at the store grew up three towns over and says that’s what they like to eat there. Likewise, you replace the Grand Slam with a Tofu Patty and Chick Peas, and so on.
A couple of travelers from three towns over pass through and love the stuff, it’s great. The newspaper over there does a big write up about how this Denny’s is serving great food, you’re pumped because this is working!
But nobody from your town is coming anymore because they liked the old stuff and really REALLY hate the new stuff, and as the days turn into weeks turn into months not that many people from three towns over are really coming in to eat either as it turns out. Most of them prefer their local boutique restaurants and aren’t really interested in driving all that way to go to a chain restaurant, unusual as it may be, plus they have a low opinion of Denny’s in general to begin with.
You’re losing money hand over fist, nobody’s coming to eat, and then the brand gets bought out by a private equity firm. They take a look at the assets they’ve just bought and see this location would cost them a fortune to leave open, and has a staff who are violently hostile to going back to making normal Denny’s food. They do the only sensible thing they can think of and announce they’re shuttering the location.
Is the private equity firm the bad guy here?
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🚨🚨 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?