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Very short clear explanation of how concretely plausible major election fraud is, courtesy of @shylockh (see below for more, & his blog). Deeply corrupt deep blue cities in purple states like Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta, Philly, etc suddenly find suspiciously large suspiciously blue suspiciously precise ballot batches after all the other votes, very late at night, often with surprising disruptions to the transparency & custody of the relevant papers or USB sticks; as explained in the pics, there are obvious mechanisms easily available if the local party machine has just a very few loyal bagmen, whoâd all have clear incredible incentives to stay quiet; given all the crazy shit blue city machines get away with, is it surprising that maybe three guys with lifelong proof-of-loyalty can keep their conspiracy secret, in order to keep getting lifelong checks instead of lifelong imprisonment?
If you go to bed on election night and don't know who won a midterm congressional race, that's normal. And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that's normal, too. (via @PolitiFact) to.pbs.org/4zqnWBa
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Hallmark movie but for men:
> 30yr old wagie in big city
> ball busted by HR trainings
> Ghosted by sex in the city girls
> Goes back home to small town for Christmas
> Boomer uncle asks him to buy his biz so he can retire to golf resort in Arizona
> Handshake on rent-to-own deal
> hits it off with cute 20yr old girl at church
> Calls his city HR girlboss and gives resignation
> Drama/twist as Bigcorp rollup offers Boomer uncle 5x the sale price
> Boomer uncle sees himself in young nephew and conquers dark night of the soul Vader-style throwing his greed into the abyss
> Nephew marries cutie and has 5 children and becomes local legend bringing peace and prosperity to his people
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I warned you all about this.
They will be lying. The actual goal of the big AI providers will be to outlaw open-source and open-weight AI in order to create a regulatory moat around their business, and have some hope of earning out their astronomical capital expenditures.
The claims will be about safety and equity, the reality will be a money and power grab. Brace for the bullshit avalanche that's coming.
đ¨BREAKING: OpenAI is preparing a policy and PR blitz immediately after Tuesdayâs midterm elections, Axios reports. As public backlash against data centers grows, it wants to rebrand them as âAI compute campusesâ and push Congress for mandatory âspeed limitsâ on the most powerful AI systems. It has been stockpiling proposals since August.
OpenAI is also preparing for the possibility of Democrats taking the House and wants to shape the debate ahead of the 2028 presidential race. Its chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane told Axios: âAI is going to be the issue in 2028.â
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I've spent a great deal of time going through @DataRepublican's incredible work here, so I thought I'd drop an easy-to-understand primer. Your life is a mistake if you're not following this woman!
The Illegitimacy Playbook: A Simple Primer
A group of people who spent their careers deciding when other countriesâ governments were no longer legitimate just decided to run the same playbook at home. After USAID got shut down, the democracy office didnât go away. It rebranded, kept the same initials, and started treating the United States like one of the countries it used to âhelp.â Most of the people involved still think theyâre the heroes. The recordings show they also spent a lot of time privately writing the rules for when the current government stops being legitimate and sketching what should replace it. Convenient.
Where This Comes From
- USAID had a democracy office called DRG. Its official job was helping other countries with elections, courts, media, and activist groups.
- The approach came from Serbia in 2000 and was later used in places like Georgia and Ukraine.
- After USAID was closed, the same people formed the Democracy Renewal Group (still DRG). Their new goal is to apply that model inside the United States through a project called Renew American Democracy.
The Plan in Plain English
- Block: lawsuits, protests, and refusal to cooperate aimed at the Trump administration.
- Bridge and Belong: control the conversation and try to win people over.
- Build: use any crisis as the chance to redesign how American government works. They call it a ârefounding moment.â
- One of the main people, Danielle Reiff, has said they can take a breakdown and turn it into major structural reform. The recordings also show work with DSA-aligned groups on ideas that go beyond the current Constitution.
Who Handles the Protests and Lawsuits
- DRG does not run the daily protests and legal fights. That job goes to a secretive group called the United Democracy Alliance (UDA).
- UDA is described as a large network that includes No Kings, Indivisible, MoveOn, 50501, and many other big activist groups. It has no public website, member list, or normal filings.
- One organizer says UDA is Erica Chenowethâs project. Chenoweth is the Harvard professor known for the idea that mobilizing about 3.5 percent of the population can topple a government.
- A group of roughly 1,600 former military officers, intelligence officials, and diplomats called National Security Leaders of America (led by retired Rear Admiral Mike Smith) is credited with actually running the operational side. They track âred linesâ and run a situation room. Their lawyers told them to stop recording meetings because of subpoena risk. Other people in the network kept recording anyway. DRG works with a group called Renew to Thrive, which accidentally published hundreds of calls and thousands of documents.
The Private Red Lines
- Working groups quietly wrote their own rules for when the federal government has crossed into illegitimacy. Invoking the Insurrection Act against protesters is one of the examples they discuss most.
- These rules were not voted on or debated in public.
- Their plans for what comes next include states refusing to help federal officials and governors calling a âThird Continental Congress.â
- The idea is that everyone is already organized so the response is ready the moment they decide a red line has been crossed.
Who Actually Decides When to Move
- The mid-level groups are not the ones making the final call on mass mobilization.
- The files point to a group called the Election Safeguards Response Network (ESRN) as the one that decides when to activate the larger alliance.
- That trail leads to Norm Eisen. ESRN is funded under an organization called State Democracy Defenders Action.
- Eisen is described as sitting on several important levers and functioning as a key decision-maker, though the posts say he is part of a small, still-hidden group of elites rather than acting alone.
The Bottom Line
- Thousands of organizations and billions of dollars are involved. Most people in the network believe they are saving democracy.
- The same people who spent decades deciding when foreign governments had lost legitimacy wrote the test for the United States in private and planned what comes after.
Put it all together and the picture is straightforward. A network built by people who specialized in regime change abroad has spent the last couple of years quietly preparing the same toolkit for use at home. They defined their own private red lines for when the federal government becomes illegitimate, pre-organized the protests and legal fights, lined up former national security officials to run the operations, and sketched plans for what a replacement government should look like. The people at the top of the hierarchy decide when the moment has arrived. Everyone else is told they are defending democracy. The recordings just happen to show them talking about structural reform, a new founding, and the conditions under which the current system no longer counts. That is the primer.
đ¨đ¨ THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK / THE DEMOCRACY FILES: A PRIMER đ¨
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 đ - 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?
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Tesla is celebrating Halloween this year by having a Cybercab autonomously drive around Austin with skeletons inside haha đ
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2021: Paid $139 for Prime. Packages late.
2022: Paid $139 for Prime. Packages late.
2023: Paid $139 for Prime. Packages late.
2024: Paid $139 for Prime. Packages late.
2025: Paid $139 for Prime. Packages late.
2026:
Customer: "This package missed the guaranteed delivery date."
Amazon Bot: "We are so sorry for the delay! It is still in transit and should arrive tomorrow."
Customer: "I am not asking for a tracking update. Two-day Prime shipping is a paid retail contract. Since you missed the delivery window, apply the $15 monthly Prime fee credit to my account balance immediately."
48 hours later...
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Cannot over-state the importance of what is being reported by @datarepublican & @nataliegwinters
They are absolutely correct. We are looking at a shaping operation similar to 2020 where they told you: âon election day it would look like Trump was winning but when the mail-in ballots were counted, Biden would winâ. That was exactly what happened, but it was a lie. It happened because they engineered the steal & prepped the information battle-space so you would believe it & they could get away with it. So you would not pay attention to mail-in ballot drops that were 100 percent for one candidate - which everyone knows never happens organically. The purpose of a shaping operation is to manipulate your mind in order to engineer your behavior & manipulate the outcome. How you defeat this is very simple: you expose it so that the lies collapse & wethepeople are not deceived. Share everywhere, talk about this - folo those reporting on this. Do not disengage or try to hide your head in the sand. This is the moment to make your life count by standing for something much bigger than all of us. It is a gift. Donât waste it.
The trick will be figuring out how to get people with @Devon_Eriksen_'s insight, intelligence, and passion into effective leadership positions at the local, state, and national levelsđŞ
Good point by @jcenters here.
Money is a measure of fucks given.
You get it because you did something someone gave a fuck about. You use it to make people give a fuck about something they otherwise wouldn't.
Except the act of using money to make people give a fuck about something is called "spending".
How many fucks people give about you is not proportional to how much money you have, it's proportional to how much money you spend, and how wisely you spend it.
Many wealthy people, who self-describe as right-wing, expect to be influential because they have money, not because of how they use money. We have a fair handful of right wing billionaires, who want right-wing values to win, but they are fundamentally confused about what their role in that victory needs to be.
I've often joked that the difference between a billionaire and an intellectual is that an intellectual doesn't think he's a billionaire. But unfortunately, I'm not much of a comedian, and this particular joke is only funny because it's true.
Far too many of the right-wing billionaire class thinks that their role is thought leadership. But they are investors, not persuaders, and certainly not practical philosophers.
The actual power they have isn't to inspire or lead, it's to provide resources to empower others and create organizations and networks.
This means that when someone says "it would be good to have 100 million dollars to make a right-wing, non-subverted version of The Odyssey", the correct answer is not "rent computation time on my company's AI slop cannon, and make it at your own expense while working a day job".
This means when someone says "we need to create some right-wing networks", the correct answer is not "buy a ticket to listen to me spitball abstract religious theory".
The correct answer is "hey, you're good at networking, here's a middle class salary so you can devote your full-time efforts to recruit and building a team of full-time lobbyists, and here's some money to pay them with".
The correct answer is "hey, you're writing kids' books about fighting monsters, instead of about exploring your unique gender identity, here's a middle class salary so you can do it full time".
The correct answer is "hey, you're good at rooting out left wing corruption, and exposing it to sunlight, here's a middle class salary so you can do it full time without worrying about monetization, and a legal team on retainer for when they come after you".
The correct answer is "oh, you got arrested for being rude to some foreigner invader in blatant left-wing lawfare? Well, here's a paid-off legal team to help you, and a guaranteed job for life at one of my companies so you don't care about what this does to your criminal record, and, hey, fuck it, I'll pay off your mortgage as well. Let's see how well they can use the system to intimidate people when being targeted by them is like hitting the lottery!"
The correct answer is "oh, your fantasy novel series got cancelled because you refused the publisher's demand to put in a gay character? Here's 30K to cover self-publishing expenses, and I'll use my massive multibillion dollar social media platform to promote it for free."
Why is @DataRepublican having to monetize on her own with {website I can't even mention because god forbid X.com doesn't get all the clicks}? Why does @monsterhunter45 not have a single movie deal {because god forbid the right make a movie that isn't about Jesus or Ayn Rand}?
What are we even doing here?
Right wing money is not being spent in a disciplined or intelligent way. We're all just noodling around. Our moneyed class spend on physical self-protection so someone doesn't shoot them, but very few of them spend much of anything on political self-protection except Musk.
And none of them spend anything on cultural self-protection, because it hasn't sunk in that culture, art, and entertainment are upstream from politics.
Buying Twitter protects the people who already agree with you from censorship (sometimes), but it doesn't move the needle with anyone else, because they show up to the conversation with their opinions already formed by Disney Star Wars and Harry Potter and Queers of War.
Look, this isn't about what you "should" do. It's about what you have to do if you want to survive.
Just because left can steal the money they spend doesn't mean they aren't getting something for that money. Which means you have to spend to fight them, even if you have to spend the actual money you earned.
It doesn't matter if you "should" be safe from political prosecutions and confiscations just because that's morally right, or if broke right wing artists and commentators like me "should" pull ourselves up by our own well-worn bootstraps, because something something individualism self-reliance avocado toast.
I'm not talking about what should be.
I am talking about what is.
Fighting wars costs money.
The left is so corrupt and incompetent right now that their gay race communist trash costs ten times what it actually costs to make.
And the left is so delusional and untalented right now that people would prefer literally any alternative to their art and entertainment.
But books still cost money to write and publish. Movies still cost money to shoot. Culture wars still cost money to fight.
You can't expect the left, however crippled, to lose a war with nothing and no one. And if they don't lose, they are going to gulag you and take all your stuff. 100% of it.
They don't want to rob you because they hate you.
They hate you because they want to rob you.
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đ¨REAL TIME GA Election Fraud đ¨
October 29th Case 5 - Fulton County - inserted vote
Some cases make you mad.
Reg ID 11779041 - Joan Helen Barrett, age 89
"Requested", was mailed, and "returned" an Absentee by mail for a vote.
She is NOT on the voter rolls - all year.
a - she did not cure her registration by 10/5
b - you can't request an absentee if you are not lawfully registered to vote
c - she is in the absentee file so she is not a "private" class registration
This is a totally fabricated and inserted vote on an older lady. Who wants to bet Granny has absolutely no idea?đ¤Ź
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There is an important reason that the right never wins the culture war overall, despite the left being so poor at tactics that they often end up shooting their own feet.
That is the reality that logistics are more important than tactics, and tactics only matter once you have sorted logistics out.
The left has sorted logistics out by creating patronage networks, while the right refuses to do so because it's still controlled by a curious kind of boomer paleoliberal who thinks that "free market" means "everything should pay for itself".
Thus, both the cultural and political struggles of the right must be waged by broke young men as a side project to their careers, while fighting for the left is a career.
The young men fighting for the right are simply expected to purchase their own rifles, ammunition, uniforms and kit, provide their own transport to the front, then organize themselves into units to defeat the communists.
If you understand this, then you will understand why the retards manage to win a lot despite being retards.
The left is giving people 100K fellowships for writing lesbian novels, while the right is charging its own guys $200 to listen to some theoretical ramblings about the antichrist.
No, that's not a metaphor. I wish I had made either of those two facts up as some sort of hyperbole.
Only the left understands how to get and use political power.
The left understands that power is a form of currency. So if you want it, you have to buy it, with some other form of currency. Such as money.
The right thinks that political power is a side effect... something that you naturally accumulate while doing business.
Possibly this is because most wealthy right-wing people are investors. They start a project, or put money into it, and they expect to get their money back and then some. That's what they are used to.
That's how investment works.
But that's not how power works.
And if you have wealth, but no power, then the people with power will just take whatever you built.
I don't know exactly what the tech right, the business right, the wealthy right, should be spending on political power. But what they are spending is clearly not enough and in the wrong places.
Because George Soros sure as hell isn't selling people tickets to listen to him talk.
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Wait a sec...
A foreign Indian engineer for Microsoft was given access to sensitive government data, while Microsoft is under investigation for giving access to sensitive data to Chinese spies as well??
đ¨BREAKING (EXCLUSIVE): National Security Concerns Leaked by MSFT Whistleblower
Leaked Microsoft screenshots show an India-based engineer received approval to view U.S. government cloud logs.
A Microsoft whistleblower contacted me and shared screenshots supporting allegations that Microsoft used its âescortâ process to allow an India based engineer to access Government Community Cloud (GCC) systems. The whistleblower alleges the engineer is not a U.S. citizen.
Microsoftâs own published rules state that temporary elevated access to customer content in GCC requires verified U.S. citizenship. The escort model is the workaround the company uses so non-U.S. personnel can still direct the work.
The screenshots show Viraj Chokhany requesting and receiving approval for escort access to view logs in the DPRODMGD151 environment, which is part of Government Community Cloud Moderate â the cloud used by many federal, state, and local agencies.
In the escort process, a U.S. person is supposed to open the system while the India-based engineer guides the work.
The whistleblower believes this raises urgent national security concerns and may violate FedRAMP requirements.
Multiple Microsoft employees have reviewed the screenshots and confirmed they appear authentic. Viraj, has been confirmed to live in India-- Where he also attended and graduated college.
The whistleblower is working on a public statement. I will release the whistleblowers statement when I receive it.
Attached images are some of the screenshots that I received from the Whistleblower.
@DHSgov @FBIDirectorKash @JDVance
now this is the MARANATHA I'm talking about
There is entirely too much doom posting on here for my liking. Among Godâs people??
Doom and gloom is for the afflicted godless in our midst. Stand in cooperation with your God. The tomb is empty, dummies.
You and I canât do a damn thing about bombs, pestilence, the hordes of fools and haters, disease, dire warnings, and doomsday extremists. God has blessed me enough. If he strikes me down today, it was enough.
So just allow the doom to pass over. Are you Godâs people or not? God doesnât need you to be perfect enough to save humanity. The war was already won, idiots. God isnât sitting around waiting for you to be modestly dressed enough to love His creation.
Youâre all too neurotic. Go make a sweet tea and fill up the kiddie pool for the kids. Read a trashy novel. Relax. Blessings come. Blessings go. Will the end come? Surely will. Perhaps now. Or not.
So what if itâs over? It probably isnât. We are probably mostly fine. And even if it is over? What then?? Have a shred of faith shall we. Take a nap. Go get a massage. Buy some ammo. Freeze dry some beef. Take another nap. Pray about it.
Anyway when the day comes for me God will find me in sweatpants on the back porch with a white claw in hand telling Satan to piss RIGHT OFF with his minions and bullshit. God already won we are just those with souls to either see and cooperate or rage against reality and gnash our fool teeth at God. Be well, dummies.
And Godâs people said?!?!!
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AMEN.
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Working on some other cases. Pay attention to the SILENCE in GA from those that claim to be for clean elections.......
Is it your favorite politician?
Is it your favorite influencer?
GAGOP already in cover up mode. đđ
So damn obvious.....
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The year is 1873. Your wife tires easily and reads too much. The doctor prescribes the rest cure: six weeks flat in bed, no books, no visitors, fed on milk, forbidden to sit up without his permission. The man who devised it is the most famous nerve specialist in America, and the women come out of it quieter, which is taken as the cure.
The year is 1915. The hospital has a new way of delivering your child. Morphine, then scopolamine, and the mother wakes two days later with a baby she cannot remember having. They call it twilight sleep. The women are strapped into padded cots so they do not hurt themselves while they scream, and the straps are the modern part. The babies arrive blue and slow to breathe.
The year is 1945. The truck comes down your street fogging DDT, and the children run behind it in the white cloud because the man on the back says it is harmless. At the beach it is sprayed over the bathers on their towels. It goes on the cattle, over the barn, and across the kitchen table.
The year is 1948. Your son has trouble with his ears. The doctor slides a rod tipped with radium up each nostril and holds it there for the best part of ten minutes, and you bring him back three more times. Hundreds of thousands of American children get the same treatment. The cancers arrive in their fifties.
The year is 1962. The health visitor tells you breastfeeding is old-fashioned and the formula is scientific. By 1972 fewer than one American baby in four is breastfed at all. The formula is skimmed milk and sugar, with the milk fat taken out and vegetable oil put in.
The year is 1971. The family planning clinic fits a small plastic crab called the Dalkon Shield. Its tail is a bundle of fibres that wicks bacteria up into the womb. 2.8 million are fitted in America before it is withdrawn, and the company goes bankrupt under the claims. It had been sold as safe and superior.
The year is 1983. The doctor says your arteries are the butter's fault. The dripping tin goes in the bin, the yolks go to the dog, the margarine goes in the fridge, and you have the heart attack anyway, on skimmed milk, having done everything right.
The year is 2001. Your 15-year-old is low, and the doctor prescribes Paxil, because the trial in the journal says it is effective and well tolerated in adolescents. The raw data, reanalysed 14 years later, shows more suicidal thinking on the drug than on the sugar pill. The company pays $3 billion to settle. Nobody rings the house.
The year is 2009. The government has spent around ÂŁ500 million stockpiling Tamiflu for the pandemic, on the strength of the manufacturer's trials. When the trials are finally prised loose five years later, the drug shortens flu by about half a day and nothing shows it keeps anyone out of hospital. The stockpile goes out of date in a warehouse.
The year is 2026. The doctor has ten minutes and a screen. The number is high, so the tablet is for life. The weight is high, so the injection is for life. The meat is bad for the planet and the oil is good for the heart, and the person in the chair is as certain as everyone who ever sat in it.
Every one of those was settled, by a committee, in a journal, with a doubter somewhere being laughed at. The rest cure, the straps, the fog, the rod, the formula, the crab, the margarine, the trial, the stockpile. All of it certain, all of it printed, all of it done to somebody who had asked for help.
You were never the one who was wrong. You were the one it was done to, and the only person in the story who did as they were told every single time.
The apology comes a generation late, in a footnote, addressed to nobody.
The next one is being drafted now.
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Allow me to see if I can explain, however verbose I may be. This might be a long one! đ§ľ
The trend started when @redteneri's post went viral, with people instantly falling in love with the character design. There were quickly people asking REDTEN to draw her making out with other women from the wizarding world, to which he responded with
âI drew this to make guys yearn again. Sorry, but stop asking me to turn it into yuri or something.â
and
âA few people won't shut up in my dms about how great it would be if she were trans.
1) Don't be annoying, I will block you.
2) That just wouldn't work.â
This solidified that this character was made for normal people, not for a particular loud, annoying minority. In addition, those normal people immediately were taken with that word REDTEN used - âyearnâ.
For years now our culture has been inundated with an oppressive, grim, and depressing outlook on life. It has been unavoidable, to say the least.
For women, itâs âwould you choose the man or the bear,â or âitâs not ALL men, but itâs ALWAYS a manâ, or merely the fact that the #1 clientele for pornography is men, while simultaneous the people shaming women for producing that pornography are, buy and large, men. These ideas stem from the valid critique that modern men have the capacity for incredible violence, hostility, and hypocrisy, and there is no shortage of stories of men doing just that.
For men, itâs seeing things like Lindsay Clancy killing her children and vast swaths of people supporting her, or how it feels like 9 times out of 10, when a woman online says something, thereâs an OnlyFans link in her bio, or how women seem to have opposite reactions to Shane Gillisâ gym jokes and Sydney Sweeneyâs prediction market ads. These observations have led to the valid concern that modern women have the capacity for incredible violence, immodesty, and hypocrisy, and there is no shortage of stories of women doing just that.
Regardless of how anyone feels on these subjects (Iâm just one man, Iâm definitely under no illusion that Iâm going to solve modern gender wars by myself), the prognosis isnât looking good. Popular culture reflects this - in feminist media, men are often depicted as toxically masculine or inept while women are depicted as âempoweredâ and without need of a man. In anti-feminist media, women are often depicted as sexually deviant or stupid while men are depicted as "empowered" and without need of a woman. I got married pretty quickly, so I canât personally speak to this too well, but I have heard multiple stories about how horrific the dating scene is today. After all, with how much tension there is between men and women, why would we want to even be together?
Enter REDTEN, and the word âyearnâ. A killer character design combined with the purpose to bring desire back to male-female relationships. Then, a (rather genius, in my opinion) choice to refer to the character as Malfoid, which, on top of being a pun, was a way to gatekeep the character from that particular loud, annoying minority. Then an artist named @yunayuispink, being a normal person who fell in love with the character design, posted some fanart on Bluesky where she got insane amounts of hate because of the successful gatekeeping. Yunayu made the choice to not give in to the hate, and continued posting what she wanted anyways. This further solidified that Malfoid belongs to us normal people, and not to that particular loud, annoying minority. These things, plus another that I'll get to later, were the catalyst for the explosion of fan creations, if I had to point to it.
Fanart, fanfiction, songs, and yearning. Oh, the yearning. Yearning for what? Not for the fictional Malfoid or the fictional Harry, but for real relationship. To find someone worthy of desire, and simultaneously to be someone worthy of desire. To love, and to be loved.
For men, itâs the idea that they can find someone pretty and confident, who might still be a little rough around the edges, and fall in love with them. Someone worthy of being loved and desired. That they could become a Harry - someone worthy of being loved in return. That they could make sacrifices of themselves, perhaps utilizing their capacity for violence, to protect that which they love against the "Dark Lords" of this world, and that their someone would admire their sacrifice, support them when they falter against those evils, and make their sacrifice worth it.
For women (once again, trying my best at diagnosis considering that I am not a man), I hope it's the idea that they can find someone handsome and strong, who might still be a little rough around the edges, and fall in love with them. That they could become a Malfoid - someone worthy of being loved and desired in return. That they could find someone who loves them enough to sacrifice for them, someone admirable, kind, and dangerous, someone who will protect them against the "Dark Lords" of this world, and that they could support when their someone falters against those evils, that they could make their sacrifice worth it.
Furthermore, there has been another aspect to the trend that has inspired the creation of culture from these artists - and that is the observation many of us have had that J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World, beloved though it is, has some imperfections. These imperfections do not necessarily make the story worse or bad at all, but they do allow aspiring authors, dreamers, and yearners to "fill in the gaps", so to speak. The most impactful one that I'll point to was @MaroonR19's "fate defying expelliarmus", a photo of Harry and Malfoid both holding a single wand, simultaneously casting the spell that brought an end to the Dark Lord. This, in the opinion of many Malfoid enjoyers, would have been a perfect book-end to the canon story of Harry Potter; love stopped Voldemort that night at Godric's Hollow, and love, fully realized between two people who once were at odds with one another, stopped him again. Now, those who have read the books realize that Rowling actually did write this into the canon story (whether it was Snape's love for Lily Potter that drove him to side with Dumbledore, eventually spelling Voldemort's defeat, or the same love that Lily had for Harry rebounding, and Voldemort grafting a piece of his soul onto Harry - that one sacrifice Lily made saved him twice), but it did not resonate as firmly as this idea has.
I've seen all different kinds of thoughts on Rowling's gaps in the storytelling; whether it's Ginny's lackluster romance story, Draco Malfoy's lack of a fully-fledged redemption arc, how Harry had more chemistry than Ron did with Hermione (this last critique is, admittedly, more understandable from people who only watched the movies), or the fact that the theme of love conquering evil seems to play second fiddle for fetch quests and elder wand shenanigans in The Deathly Hallows. The Malfoid-enjoying community has taken to creating art and stories that provide alternative ideas to these points, and however cringe outsiders may find it, these Harry Potter fanfictions and alternate universes have been, on the large, wholesome; notably different than the reputation that Harry Potter fanfictions from a decade and a half ago.
Malfoid enjoyers are having fun spending time dreaming up scenarios where Harry and Dracaena (I'm not playing favorites with the name, just using it as it's the one I see most frequently) fall in love at the Yule Ball, scenarios in the future where they have a family with little kids running around, or where one or both of them return to Hogwarts as adults as professors. A little bit of a wholesome snapshot into where Rowling's beloved story could have gone, were the seemingly small change made to swap Draco Malfoy for a different character, Dracaena Malfoy. To me, it's genuinely impressive how much such a change improves the story.
The community is very wide, and many people have different ideas, often at odds or otherwise contradicting each other. There are artists who use AI as a tool, people who use AI to entirely generate "new scenes" for an alternate universe, and artists who despise AI altogether. But despite these conflicting ideas, they all have agreed chiefly on one main idea:
Malfoid is worth yearning for.
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đ¨REAL TIME GA Election Fraud đ¨
October 28th Next 614 Cases - multiple counties
Deadline to register was 10/5. We have a 10/1, 10/12, and 10/26 voter roll. Early voting started on 10/13. Called an election office today and confirmed that ALL registrations had to be in GARViS by 10/5.
A well repeated pattern is packing the voter roll AFTER the deadline but making it look like it was there when it wasn't. We believe this to be the state not at the county level.
Below is a sample of 614 registrations that are new to the 10/26 voter roll (not on 10/1 or 10/12) AND they have vote credit! Notice the Registration dates. Notice the counties.
Not looking good GA 2026 general.....
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The money is a problem, but it's not just the money. People are really tired.
They are tired of being tracked, micromanaged, and watched everywhere they go.
They are tired of being advertised to by their car, their gas pump, their TV, their email.
They are tired of their email, mailbox, text messages, and phone calls being flooded with non-stop spam, rendering them completely unusable.
They are tired of being lied to about everything, talked down to by by people unjustly lifted above them, and ignored by everyone in power.
They are tired of having to log in, sign up, and sync every everything with endless accounts, endless passwords, endless subscriptions, and endless data theft just to use their baking scale or toaster.
They are tired of being told that they don't know what their country is, they don't know who their people are, and they don't know what they want for their future.
They are tired of walking on eggshells to not lose their job, being incapable of asking someone out, being unable to have normal conversations with people like adults, having everything they do recorded.
They are tired of being told that they're entitled because they know that their ancestors built this country for them.
They are tired of being told that they just aren't trying hard enough, by smug elitists who have never turned in a day of real work.
They are tired of being blatantly lied to about the job market, about the economy, about immigration, about the reason behind wars and why their child came back in a coffin.
They are tired of putting in hundreds of applications and only to get responses in the single digits.
They are tired of watching useless incompetents be hired, promoted, imported and put in charge if everything. At the cost of a functional society.
They are tired of the quality of their food declining, the quality of their homes declining, the quality of their medicine declining.
They are tired of feeling unsafe in their house, in their neighborhood, in their airports, in their grocery stores, at their public events.
And most of all, they are tired of being ruled over by people that quite obviously hate them, despite the fact that they've held up and built this entire system, doing the hard work.
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Rant: Got last minute travel today, so won't be doing a Democracy Files drop today.
But saw that the person at the center of the files posted about "unimaginable horrors."
Let me tell you why I got interested in "democracy" in the first place.
I've told this story many times, but here again: I was DOGE adjacent from the very beginning. I was recruited by several DOGE teams in January 2025, because I was excited about the opportunity to finally cut spending and taming the national debt.
Bu then - Tesla Takedown protests happened. People got so worked up that they were firebombing innocent Tesla owners. A viral website with a Molotov cocktail cursor prominently featured my husband's address. I was doxxed in the middle of that, and forced to flee the state and homeschool my children.
That's when I started researching and writing UNELECTED. I quickly found the groups organizing and funding the civil unrest were all about "democracy." It made no sense to me. DOGE wasn't overturning elections. They were cutting obviously silly awards - given our national deficit, who would object to that?
Silly me!
Turns out "democracy" means diffused rule by unelected people, and all that USAID money going to marginalized groups to build a "civil society" is the foundation of that. So the immune system of "civil unrest" can be activated anytime, and terrorize anyone who dares to step out of line. Such as DOGE employees. Such as me and my family.
That research trail led me all the way to DemAID (now DRG), a group of ex-USAID officers. Led by you and Ro Tucci. @iamlisalogan and @SKDoubleDub33 found DemAID on video taking credit for these protests.
But this isn't about me. This is about the United States. And about the dozens of countries wrecked by color revolutions. You aren't solving polarization. You are the source of polarization, because in the process of building "civil society," you are displacing people's inborn allegiances and training them up to attack the very foundations a nation are founded upon.
Nor is this about revenge or anger. I'm calling on everyone to pray that no more damage is done, and that we can find a path forward that preserves our Constitutional Republic.
