AMERICAN ADVENT DAY SEVENTEEN:

Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette, the "Marquis de Lafayette."

French nobleman. Military officer. Veteran of the American and French revolutions. Co-author of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

1/7 Born into the French nobility, Gilbert – who would inherit the title "Marquis de Lafayette" from his father – took an early military commission. At twenty, after marrying (well), he purchased a ship and set sail for America laden with arms. He aimed to join the Revolution.

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AMERICAN ADVENT DAY SIXTEEN.

Today we will talk about George Mason, whose 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights inspired the Bill of Rights.

1/7 Mason was born in 1732 in Fairfax County; today it's a suburb of Washington, but when his ancestors settled there, it was the frontier. They were Cavaliers, rewarded for their Loyalty to the crown with land, and built plantations upon which they raised cash crops.

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AMERICAN ADVENT: THE THREAD

For thirty days leading up to Independence Day, I'm going to write short biographical threads about important Americans.

This year, I'm writing about the American Revolution.

Next year, I'll chose a different time period.

Here are the threads:

1/ AMERICAN ADVENT DAY ONE:

Christopher Gadsden, Southern warrior.

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https://x.com/JoshuaSteinman/status/1930331314126733630

American Advent Day three!

Samuel Huntington was born July 16, 1731, in Windham, CT. His Puritan parents, Nathaniel and Mehetabel raised ten children.

His parents, Nathaniel and Mehetabel raised ten children.

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https://twitter.com/48861897/status/1929762376787939837

Huntington studied law, and in 1754, was admitted to the bar and practiced in Norwich.

In 1764, he joined Connecticut’s General Assembly for Windham. And served as associate judge of Connecticut’s Superior Court starting in 1773.

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Introducing: AMERICAN ADVENT

I'm tired of July 4th being only one day. This year, I'll be celebrating the birth of America with THIRTY DAYS of storytelling honoring our most honored dead.

Each day leading up to the 4th, a short biography of a great American.

1/3 For the inaugural year of AMERICAN ADVENT, I'll be focusing on the pre-revolutionary era, up through the 1783 British capitulation with the Treaty of Paris.

The biographies will cover the accomplishments of these Americans during that era.

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT INDUSTRIAL SABOTAGE

This morning, @Reuters published a BOMBSHELL article about clandestine subcomponents that have been discovered INSIDE American power grid equipment built in China.

Here's what you need to know:

1/ Industrial sabotage is NOTHING NEW. But as the American manufacturing base shifted to China, it has opened up SYSTEMIC opportunities to turn critical infrastructure into a weapons system.

How would that happen?

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ANATOMY OF AN ANTI-POTUS OP

Breathless headlines! Anonymous sources!

We say “fake news” a lot, but don’t often catch it in the act. But not today.

We got a live one.

Let me break it down for you how the international left runs ops.

There’s a lot to unpack.

1/ HERES WHAT HAPPENED.

A London* based legacy media site reports an American agency has changed its posture towards Russia.

No citations. No comment from the agency. Basically rumor.

NEXT. A U.S. based reporter posts it.

*remember this for later, it’s important.

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The relative calm in the Republican Party right now is almost certainly because of the Sword of Damocles that @elonmusk and @america PAC hold over the GOP caucus.

Allow me to explain:

1/9 The GOP previously had a very hard time holding the line for @realDonaldTrump.

This was because the money for re-election campaigns — AND PRIMARIES — was held by groups that were not, shall we say ,“aligned” with the President.

With @America PAC, this all changed.

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Stopped by the White House today to just check in on old friends and colleagues and was struck by the new vibe:

> zero leaks
> total focus
> ENERGY
And most of all,
> patriotism and LOVE

@realDonaldTrump has assembled an amazing term 2 team.

Term 1 story time, below👇

1/ My dear friend and former NSC colleague, Rich Higgins — may God rest his soul — told me during the 2016 transition that we should expect it to be like “Omaha Beach.”

He was right in more ways than one.

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It’s been a wild two weeks hasn’t it, friends?

I know: lots of Winning.

But alas. I’m here to tell you: THE OTHER SIDE GETS A VOTE.

And just because it feels like the field is open and we are operating unobstructed DOES NOT MEAN that it will remain that way.

1/ My fear? That the left is rapidly being backed into a corner.

Their money stream — hundreds of billions of dollars — appears to have been cut off.

Their access to power has been radically reduced.

In nature, when animals experience these things, they get violent.

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I used to RED TEAM some of the U.S. government’s most sensitive plans as both a MILITARY OFFICER, and then as a WHITE HOUSE STAFFER.

And here’s what has me MOST CONCERNED about inauguration on Monday:

1/8 IDENTIFICATION.

Washington is famous for office badges, but for street based operations, my fear is that a small team with FAKE POLICE or MILITARY UNIFORM poses a serious risk.

Reports from Butler indicate poor ability to tell Friend-or-Foe. I doubt things have changed.

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I spent 4yrs on President Trump's National Security Council – first day to last – and I fear there are mistakes being made NOW re: NSC that will lead to four years of ineffective governance at best, betrayal at worst.

Out of loyalty to him, I am going public.

Here we go:

1/ Let me start by saying, this isn't about Rep. Waltz or Alex Wang, who I believe love POTUS and mean well.

But it appears they are getting bad advice that will have CASCADING and CATASTROPHIC impact on President Trump's ability to execute his agenda, end war, bring prosperity, etc.

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This has been a huge issue.

I spent a lot of December 2020 and January 2021 putting on workshops for junior political appointees in the Trump admin — doing resume reviews, mock interviews — and then opening up my modest Rolodex to try and get people interviews in tech.

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https://twitter.com/cernovich/status/1872781877758869942

Very few people, both before 1/6 and after, were interested in even talking to folks. There was a single organizational exception that I will not name, out of discretion and respect.

In the end, 80% of those I tried to “place,” did not have jobs afaik.

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PREPARING FOR THE INEVITABLE
Or: “how to prepare for the psyops ahead”

In light of the ongoing and so-far-EVIDENCE FREE “UAV” story spinning folks up, I think it might be useful to give folks a refresher on what is likely to come.

1/ Back in 2016 it was the Russia HOAX, but there were others.

These lies served to do a few things:

1) distract
2) divide
3) disorganize

And if you think the other side doesn’t have something similar planned, you haven’t been paying attention.

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99% of people have NO IDEA what a "recess appointment" is, or why it is CRITICAL to a President being able to govern.

TIME FOR ANOTHER LESSON IN HOW WASHINGTON WORKS:

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1855692242981155259

Article II, Section 2, Clause 3:

"The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session."

This is (1) useful, and (2) a FORCING FUNCTION

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DEAR STARTUP FOUNDERS

The election is over. The future has been secured.

But the people who wanted to put Elon in jail, restrict for your AI model, keep funneling government contracts to the usual suspects, and more have one last trick:

They’re going to ask you for a job.

1/ This happens EVERY CYCLE. But this time, I propose, it is different.

No administration has been SO HOSTILE to growth as the one now leaving power.

And so, in the coming weeks, you must keep your guard up.

HERE’S THE GAME PLAN:

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THE K STREET PROJECT

Or: What a 1994 effort by Tom DeLay to level the playing field might tell us about the second Trump Administration in Washington, DC.

1/ The year is 1994.

Republicans re-took the House of Representatives for the first time in FORTY YEARS.

A Congressman from Texas by the name of Tom DeLay – who would go on to earn the nickname "THE HAMMER" – becomes Majority Whip.

And decides to send a message to DC.

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Conservatives are sleeping on the fact that @elonmusk is out building a competitor to Data Trust.

My guess is that, come November 5th, @America PAC will have one of the best "voter files" in all of politics.

And it's going to cause political tectonic plates to shift.

1/ I'm no political consultant, so this might be completely wrong, but from everything I have read "voter files" are the lifeblood of elections.

Campaigns spend MILLIONS to figure out who is in their districts, where they live, what they care about, etc.

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As @EzraACohen pointed out (tweet below), the “goodbye tours” are underway.

But what does that mean?

Usually when a presidential administration is “over” (defacto or dejure), the senior folks will run blow-out trips around the world.

The purpose is three-fold:

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https://twitter.com/secdef/status/1847332656301666791

Ezra pointed this out, but why do “goodbye tours?”

1) say goodbye to counterparts
2) set themselves up for cushy post-admin jobs (dinners with executives, at which the ‘well, what will you do next’ question is met with winks and nods)
3) boondoggle tourism

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https://twitter.com/ezraacohen/status/1847384858982744459

you may not like it but this is what peak psychological operations look like.

ANATOMY OF A "BUFFALO RUN"

Or: How to convince your political opposition of a believable-yet-false narrative, so you can eventually discredit them and kill their momentum.

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https://twitter.com/Cancelcloco/status/1845844051255496965

First things first. I have no idea if Ian Carroll is involved in it, or just doing what he does: making incredibly viral videos.

That said, let's talk about the op that is unfolding right now. It starts here:

first: Something about this @ feels "off" to me.

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At his rally in Las Vegas tonight, @realDonaldTrump is going to reveal details around one of his most exciting policy ideas:

FREEDOM CITIES

1/ Why do we need new cities?

The average Americans spends between 20 and 50% of their post-tax income on rent or a mortgage.

And that percentage has been increasing.

It’s most people’s biggest expenditure!

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