Thread by @DataRepublican

🇺🇸🔥 Naming the people and NGOs behind the Biden's "Soul of the Nation" speech 🔥🇺🇸

"𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗔 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰."

This was a quote from an extraordinary speech given by a sitting United States President. It took place on September 1, 2022, over an year after the events of January 6, and less than three years ago.

In it, he also goes onto declare:

"𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘈 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺."

In other words, he declared the nation cannot survive the threat of 74 million Americans sharing their opinion.

Make no mistake. The people who were behind this speech haven't gone anywhere. The moment they have a friendly White House again, this kind of divisive, authoritarian rhetoric will be back in full force.

I will be naming them and the NGOs behind them below (putting together the Tweets in live time, patience please). 👇

NPR named five "experts" behind this speech: Sean Wilentz, Allida Black, Anne Applebaum, Michael Beschloss, and Jon Meacham. We will go through each of their biographies.

Sean Wilentz is a professor at Princeton, but he has published numerous op-eds in mainstream publications and sits on the editorial boards of Dissent and Democracy.

He co-signed an open letter titled "An Open Letter in Defense of Democracy" with Bill Kristol among others which declared that democracy was in danger, and the cause is Donald Trump and his supporters.

Overall, he is a major academic influence in the field of democracy research and writer. You can download his CV from his Princeton website.

The next person, Allida Black, describes herself as an advisor to Hillary Clinton.

Her CV shows that she has worked for the National Democratic Institute (NDI), a taxpayer-funded NGO that is one of the four subsidiary NGOs of NED.

In short, she worked for the CIA arm of the Democratic party. @NDI includes big names on its board of directors, including the infamous teacher's union boss Randi Weingarten, Donna Brazile, former Senator Tom Daschel, and Stacey Abrams.

@NDI Not only is the NDI's 171 million dollar budget almost entirely taxpayer funded, it also has one of the highest travel expense ratios and has housing allowances among NGOs.

@NDI Anne Applebaum is where the government connections are the most direct. She is an editorial member of the NED Journal of Democracy.

@NDI She presents herself as a "staff writer" for the Atlantic, but in reality she is a former member of the board of directors for NED. She is deeply entrenched in the intelligence community and NGOs, currently serving as an adviser to the Renew Democracy Initiative NGO.

@NDI You might remember this "Uniparty" diagram. We have representation from two NGOs here: National Democratic Institute and National Endowment for Democracy.

@NDI Why is this important? Our own taxpayer dollars are actively financing people who are spreading the word that anyone who supports President Trump is an enemy of democracy.

To make the conflict of interest even more disgusting, NDI also sits on ACVFA, the "independent" committee which advises where USAID foreign aid money should be spent. So, the entities who allocate the budget, who receive the money, and decide where the billions go are all the same.

@NDI Michael Beschloss is a historian who appears to be more on the journalistic side. What I find most noteworthy is that his wife is president and CEO of the Rock Creek Group, a Washington DC investment firm.

@NDI Rock Creek Group manages more than 16 billion dollars in assets!

@NDI Jon Meacham is a journalist as well with extensive NGO affiliations. He is a member of Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank which is yet another pro-democracy NGO.

@NDI All five of those advisers still view Trump as a threat. In a 2024 Tweet, Applebaum accused Trump of undermining his own country's democracy.

@NDI She fully blames populist ideology. Translation: she still hasn't changed her mind that MAGA Republicans are the enemy of America.

@NDI Sean Wilentz still believes Donald Trump is creating a "Christian Nationalist" rule and has a "Plot against America."

@NDI The @allidablack X account has only 7 followers, but has retweeted @anneapplebaum and frequently retweets Hillary Clinton. It seems likely she is the same Allida Black that advised the Biden speech.

@NDI @allidablack @anneapplebaum Beschloss pushed Biden to make a bigger deal of how democracy was at stake in the 2024 election.

In short - these people have not backed off on the idea that Trump supporters are an enemy of democracy. If anything, they've doubled down.

When a friendly administration is back in power - deplatforming, sweeping arrests, mandates, and speeches about how 74 million people are the greatest threat to the nation will come back too.

Thread end.

@NDI @allidablack @anneapplebaum Pinging @EagleEdMartin to this thread for his weaponization research.