Tag: trump derangement syndrome

Told You So: The Deep State Does Exist

From Glenn Reynolds:

Via DataRepublican, we have learned that a group of Democratic governors, retired military and intelligence officers, and former USAID “color revolution” specialists, have for some time been plotting to pull off a color revolution in the United States. Or, to put it more precisely, they have been conspiring to overthrow the constitutionally elected government of the United States, and to replace the Constitution with something completely different.

There’s a lot of data, including videos, recordings, transcripts of Signal chats, etc., but the gist is this: If the Democrats take the House and Senate (and maybe if they don’t), various leftist groups will stage violent protests, intended to press Trump into invoking the Insurrection Act and sending in troops. Once he does, Democratic governors in blue states will denounce his acts as illegal (whether they are or not) and mount resistance on various levels. The goal is to destabilize things enough that they can seize power and replace the Constitution.

(Shaking my head.)

Mmmf. Look, it’s not as if some of us haven’t been warning about something like this for several years now.

The left has spent those same years screaming about its fear of exactly this scenario, just with the roles reversed. By its take, President Donald Trump sends in the troops, democracy dies, and so on. I forget where, but I’ve already written that the only way we’d ever get there would be another “Summer of Love” with burning cities, shot cops, and the whole bit. Turns out the deep state was writing the same script, but actually acting on it.

As usual with Democrats, it’s not what caused the reaction from the right; it’s the reaction itself that they label the problem.

The researcher known as DataRepublican says an insider handed her thousands of pages of documents and hundreds of recordings. By her account and others’, somebody in the network had an AI note-taker recording and archiving calls going back to 2023, then left the archive sitting in a publicly accessible Google Drive. Color-revolution experts, ladies and gentlemen.

She has been releasing the material in chunks, and a few things in it are hard to wave away. In one of those recordings, a former USAID hand who co-founded a group called “Renew American Democracy” walks through three “crisis scenarios or democratic emergencies” people should prepare for: an election meltdown, “potential militarization, the Insurrection Act,” and an “acute democratic crisis.”

Another recording describes an options memo for governors on how they might respond if the federal government came to be regarded as illegitimate, including coordination among states and communication with foreign governments. A speaker in another call describes meetings with “Governors Safeguarding Democracy,” a forum of Democratic governors. That group, in case you don’t know, was started about a week after Donald Trump was elected. Its co-chairs at launch were Gov. JB Pritzker (D-Ill.) and Gov. Jared Polis (D-Colo.). As far as I’ve been able to find out, these are still at the head table.

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“THE NEW YORK TIMES GOT CAUGHT!” – Trump Nukes the New York Times After Admitting to Getting Duped by Fake Pollster With Completely Fabricated Numbers

President Trump on Thursday lit up the New York Times, slamming the outlet for using bogus numbers from a “totally fake” pollster while speaking to reporters, then later warning that his defamation lawsuit is growing stronger by the day.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, a fake pollster called Wedgewood, which admitted to being an “entirely fabricated polling firm,” duped mainstream media outlets with bogus polls across multiple swing states as part of a social experiment. It was “far too easy,” Wedgewood said.

“Despite having no history, formal credentials, or real data behind the vast majority of our releases, Wedgewood Polling was added to major polling aggregators, including The New York Times, FiftyPlusOne, and VoteHub, and repeatedly treated as a legitimate data source,” the fake polling outfit, self-described as an “experimental project,” said in a statement.

“Our fabricated numbers were given instant credibility across national media platforms – including being cited on air and in reporting by outlets such as MS NOW. The ease with which unverified figures were absorbed into mainstream political narratives highlights a systemic breakdown in media vetting and data aggregation.”

The Times admitted to removing 15 polls from the firm after it “acknowledged that almost all of its work was fake.”

President Trump responded on Thursday when a reporter asked him why Democrats are doing “so well” in the polls.

“I don’t know if they’re close. I mean, I just saw that the New York Times used the poll numbers of a totally fake, you know, a group that said there were fake numbers against me,” Trump said.

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Here’s One October Surprise, Anyway…

“The Left has always preferred the ashes of its own making to the inheritance of better men.” – Celina101 on X

By now, everybody and his uncle interested in public matters has probably read that a claque of current-and-former agency officials, ex-USAID busybodies, military officers, activist academics, Democratic Party paladins, and freelance communist jihadis has been exposed plotting the overthrow of the US government. The plot was reported by the diligent “X” blogger Jennica Pounds under her nom-de-plume “Data Republican,” who lately received an enormous document-and-recording dump courtesy of careless color revolutionaries who recorded themselves and saved doc files against orders, the dumb bunnies.

Ms. Pounds, an experienced software engineer turned political detective, came to public attention early in 2025 when she assisted Elon Musk’s DOGE operation in building a database of NGO money trails emanating from the colossal USAID grant matrix – after which her identity was “doxed” by Rolling Stone and she underwent a harassment campaign.

Of course, USAID was abolished early in the Trump 2.0 admin, and a lot of the “activists” defenestrated from it moved into scores of NGOs, with their salaries switched from taxpayer funding to the bank accounts of George Soros-connected orgs and sundry other shady characters like Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham. These are the NGOs forever puling about “our democracy,” meaning their drive to punish, persecute, and push around Americans who demur from a communist future. Data Republican says her reporting so far is “only the beginning” of much more detailed and alarming disclosures.

Coincidentally this week, their cover was also blown by Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI and former CIA analyst), who told an audience at the U. of Chicago that the Democrats intend to go after and wreck any young person who might think about working in the current administration. Ms. Slotkin, you might recall, was in that video put out a year ago – with five other US lawmakers – telling military officers they should-and-must refuse “illegal” orders. Sedition-lite, it looked like at the time.

Before we get into the meat of their playbook for us, and what might happen in response, let’s just dox a few of the characters involved. You should know who they are (and maybe the DOJ should, too). They are not necessarily the usual suspects you’ve read about before like the omnipresent lawfare ninjas, Norm Eisen, Marc Elias, Mary McCord, et al., so busy filing frivolous lawsuits in the federal courts.

For instance (as reported by one Eric Schwalm on “X”), there’s Erica Chenoweth, the transvestite professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of government who acts as chief strategist and hub for the “color revolution” planned by the United Democracy Alliance cabal she is associated with. Ms. (or Mr.?) Chenoweth’s big contribution to Jacobin thought is “the 3.5 rule” which says that if you can get that percentage of people out on the streets making a ruckus, you can successfully overthrow a government.

Then there’s Danielle Reiff, former USAID, now co-founder of the Democracy Renewal Group, Renew American Democracy, and Renew to Thrive orgs. . . very verbal on video laying out the exact procedures for the US color revolution. And there’s Rear Admiral Michael E. Smith (Ret.) who runs a network of over a thousand retired military officers called National Security Leaders for America. He’s in charge of “role-playing” exercises in preparation for post-election hijinks. Then there’s Julia Roig, founder of the Horizons Project who is responsible for “building relational infrastructure so that disparate groups can act in concert without a single hierarchical command.” Then there’s Maria Stephan, co-author, with Erica Chenoweth, of the sedition tract Why Civil Resistance Works. Then there’s Brenden Halloran, former USAID, now with the Renew to Thrive org, responsible for “accountability ecosystems, overcoming fragmentation among groups, and long-term sequencing of reforms.” Then there’s Walt Roberts, also on the Renew to Thrive team, plus the Mediators Foundation and the Inter-Movement Impact Project. Then there’s Laura Adams, also former USAID, now in Renew to Thrive and PACT, whose mission is to turn strategy papers into operational plans. Then there’s Zoe Marks, also in Harvard’s Kennedy School, a “scenario-planner” for Horizons and United Democracy Alliance. Then there’s “cohesion” strategist Paul Zeitz, co-founder of UnifyUSA, partner with Danielle Reiff on Renew to Thrive, and active in NGOs Renew to Thrive and National Security Leaders for America. There’s the bunch. Now you know.

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With MAGA Enemies List, Jack Smith Trashes The Constitution Once Again

Evidence disclosed last week confirms what many have long suspected: Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Biden Justice Department assembled a massive database of political opponents.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has disclosed that Smith’s operation collected personal data on at least 639,000 Republican donors, voters, and supporters. The records included names, addresses, email addresses, occupations, employers, donation histories, and even the last four digits of credit-card numbers. Some entries tracked purchases of ordinary red MAGA hats. Grassley has called this indefensible—an effort that went far beyond any legitimate investigation into the 2020 election or January 6 and instead mapped the Republican political apparatus itself.

This is not the first time Smith has treated the Constitution as optional. The August 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago raised serious Fourth Amendment concerns. Agents searched private rooms, including those used by Melania and Barron Trump. Internal FBI assessments later indicated that Washington Field Office agents did not believe probable cause existed for a full search of the residence; the Justice Department pushed ahead anyway.

However, Smith, who was appointed special counsel three months later, did not care. Instead, he used the raid to his advantage. As I documented in my book Kangaroo Court (Post Hill Press, October 2024), Smith’s pattern of aggressive, constitutionally dubious tactics against political adversaries was already evident.

The newly disclosed database compounds the problem. Where the Mar-a-Lago raid implicated the right to be secure against unreasonable searches, the compilation of hundreds of thousands of names of ordinary Americans who bought hats or made small donations strikes at the First Amendment rights of free speech and free association.

The Supreme Court has long held that government compilation or compelled disclosure of membership and association lists for the purpose of intimidating citizens is unconstitutional. In NAACP v. Alabama (1958), the Court unanimously ruled that Alabama could not force the NAACP to surrender its membership rolls. Justice Harlan explained that “immunity from state scrutiny of membership lists” is inseparable from the right of individuals “to associate freely with others” in the pursuit of lawful interests and ideas.

Forced disclosure would expose members to reprisals and thereby chill the exercise of First Amendment associational rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. The state had shown no “controlling justification” that outweighed that deterrent effect.

Other cases followed. In Bates v. City of Little Rock (1960), the Court struck down municipal ordinances that required local NAACP branches to disclose membership lists under the guise of occupational tax enforcement. Justice Stewart wrote that freedom of association “for the purpose of advancing ideas and airing grievances” is protected from state invasion, and that the cities demonstrated no relevant correlation between their tax power and the need for the names.

That same year, Shelton v. Tucker invalidated an Arkansas law requiring public-school teachers to list every organization to which they had belonged or contributed over the preceding five years. The Court again recognized that compelled disclosure of associational ties impairs the right of free association because the information can be used to penalize political or ideological affiliation.

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Declassified Docs Show State Dept.’s Testimony During 2019 Trump Impeachment Was Radically Different from Reality

Newly declassified State Department documents appear to show that congressional Democrats’ top witness in their first impeachment trial in 2019 against President Donald Trump fibbed to Congress.

Trump was impeached for allegedly pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into announcing investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, over their business relationship with the Ukrainian firm Burisma.

The problem was that when former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified on Oct. 11, 2019, about Burisma, she acted as if the firm’s documented illicit activities were, and had always been, no “big issue.”

According to Just The News, which has reviewed the newly declassified documents, she downplayed the importance of all of it.

“Once you arrived in country did the embassy staff brief you on issues relating to Burisma?” a congressional investigator asked her during the hearing — one of several that occurred before Trump was formally impeached by the U.S. House.

“No, it was — it was not,” she replied. “I don’t recall that I was briefed on that. All I can tell you is it was a long time ago, and it just wasn’t a big issue.”

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Kansas Man Arrested For Threatening to Shoot President Trump at Wichita Rally

A Clearwater, Kansas, man was arrested last week for threatening to shoot President Trump at tonight’s Wichita rally.

President Trump is holding a midterm rally in Wichita, Kansas, on Monday evening for incumbent Senator Roger Marshall.

Trump told reporters earlier he’s returning to Kansas for Marshall because “I won the state by many, many points,” and “I love the people of Kansas.”

“Roger Marshall is one of the finest people in government, as far as I’m concerned,” he said.

“We want to make sure he wins. He’s a great senator. I just want to make sure. Every place I’ve gone to, they’re doing well,” Trump later said, highlighting the success of his rallies.

Last week, a Kansas man, identified as Jaden Read, 24, was arrested for threatening to shoot President Trump at his Wichita rally: “I just got a 308 and 305 round and I’m killing this pedo”.

Per the DOJ: On October 15th, a Crime Stoppers tip led authorities to a Facebook post where Jaden Read made comments in response to a KAKE News article detailing President Trump’s upcoming visit to Wichita, KS on October 19th, 2026. Jaden J. Read’s threatening comments raised concern among the authorities.

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Rosie O’Donnell Claims Elon Musk Could Use Satellites to Rig Midterm Elections in Bizarre TikTok Rant

Deranged comedienne Rosie O’Donnell has suggested that Elon Musk could use his Starlink satellites to manipulate the upcoming midterm elections.

In a video posted to TikTok, O’Donnell expressed hope that a sufficiently large turnout would prevent Republicans from interfering with the election results.

“When this is over — hopefully on November 4th when people show up en masse and they cannot rig the election or use Elon Musk’s satellites to alter the election because the turnout will be so large — hopefully then we will be able to see a tremendous decline in the MAGA cult,” she declared.

O’Donnell offered no evidence for her unusual claims.

Similar allegations spread among anti-Trump activists following the 2024 presidential election, with some suggesting that Musk’s Starlink satellite network had been used to manipulate voting machines.

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Whoopi Goldberg of ‘The View’ Urges Military Members to Vote Against Trump: ‘You Know What Needs to be Done’

On the ABC “News” program The View today, host Whoopi Goldberg complained about people who have been let go from the U.S. Military on Trump’s watch, then urged military members and their families to vote against Trump.

This open cheerleading for one party in the midterms is a clear violation of FCC rules, but that’s just the way things are on this show. They do it all the time and seem to pay no price for it.

It is also hilarious to hear Whoopi Goldberg and her cohosts acting as if they are big supporters of members of our military when it’s so clearly just about politics.

Transcript via NewsBusters:

GOLDBERG: The qualified people. And this, I hope, fires people up because listen, no matter where you sit, you want qualified people doing the job. You want — I don’t care who you are. You know?

And I really believe that people are fed up with people who haven’t worked as hard as they have, who haven’t gotten to where they’ve gotten, only to be dusted off and thrown away. People are not happy. And I believe —

NAVARRO: And to your point, it’s the damnedest thing he’s gotten rid of all the unqualified women. I mean, I’m not shedding tears for Kristi Noem or Pam Bondi or Katie Zacharia or any of them. But all the unqualified MEN are still there, one is running a war and the other is running the Health Department.

GOLDBERG: Yes, they are. Yes, they are.

HAINES: One is running the country.

NAVARRO: And one is running the country too.

GOLDBERG: That’s right. And if you’re – If you’re a family of a soldier, if you have military in your family, you know what needs to be done. Because you can’t go around disrespecting the military. They do all the stuff we don’t do. We can’t continue to allow people to treat them the way they have been treated. There’s just so, so many things that we have to shift. And it’s — you know? And this isn’t right nor left. This is nobody wants this for their military. Nobody. Nobody wants this. It’s enough, I think. It’s enough. So, make sure you get out there and vote.

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RIGHT ON CUE: Elissa Slotkin Tries to PLAY THE VICTIM After Threatening Young People Thinking of Working for Trump

A few days ago, Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan detailed how she wants to go after Trump’s inner circle in an effort to intimidate young people who may be thinking of going to work for the Trump administration.

Trump responded today, calling out Slotkin and her entire party for this.

Slotkin then ran straight to CNN to paint herself as the victim in all of this, and of course, Jake Tapper was happy to oblige her.

Transcript via Curtis Houck:

“I mean, first of all, it’s not — it’s not a veiled threat, right? I mean, threatening the Second Amendment is threatening for someone to get shot. And I think there’s been plenty of people, Democrat, and Republican, independents, who would say, like, can we just not threaten violence against each other for our words? He’s certainly precipitated a whole wave of threats against myself. But my staff, including doxing my staff, and this is part of a sort of strategy of intimidation that these people use.

And, you know, this is someone who Donald Trump thought of as a potential attorney general and then luckily thought better of it. But I just think that this is kind of part and parcel of this toxic culture of threatening violence because you disagree with someone. The President threatened to have me, you know — investigated, arrested, and hanged for sedition, and followed through with the investigation, and near-arrest part.

And this guy’s just threatening violence. And it is — again, I imagine what kids think about when they’re just scrolling Twitter — my nieces and nephews — and they see someone threaten violence because of words. It’s just — it shows you how toxic these people have become online.”

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‘60 Minutes’ Trashes Trump’s Battle For Election Integrity: ‘Using His Power to Intimidate People Who Run Our Elections’

CBS News 60 Minutes host Lesley Stahl introduced a segment on election integrity Sunday evening by condemning President Donald Trump’s attempt to ensure non-citizens do not vote in the nation’s elections.

“The midterms are just two weeks away, and President Trump is using his power to intimidate the people who run our elections, putting the voting system under remarkable stress,” Stahl said, citing the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recent lawsuit against the state of California after determining that its voter list reveals more than 20,000 likely aliens are registered to vote in the state.

“[I]t’s the latest in a sequence of actions that has bred an erosion of faith in the integrity of our elections,” Stahl asserted. “Our story focuses on how state and local election officials are being pressured in a way that is stoking that distrust.”

Stahl started her story with video of FBI agents in Fulton, Georgia removing ballots – a scene that was portrayed in the segment as an alarming invasion by federal law enforcement, even though the official she interviewed admitted that “they had a valid warrant, signed by a judge.”

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