Posted on 07/08/2025 8:59:24 AM PDT by Signalman
Disgruntled current and former federal employees are teaming up to to unleash a “color revolution” against President Trump using the same tactics they have employed to sow distrust in overseas governments, according to a new report.
Former intelligence staffers with USAID and the State Department believe they can astroturf an uprising to overthrow Trump, hindering his ability to splinter their network even further. Many were laid off during the early months of his administration when the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency was largely unfettered in firing vast swaths of the federal bureaucracy.
The “future of democracy” is on the line, according to participants who spoke with NOTUS. They described launching workshops on “noncooperation” to cultivate a community that will engage in small rebellious acts and potentially a national strike. Some of the participants still work in the government today.
“Take it from those of us who worked in authoritarian countries: We’ve become one,” a current federal official told NOTUS. “They were so quick to disband AID, the group that supposedly instigates color revolutions. But they’ve done a very foolish thing. You just released a bunch of well-trained individuals into your population. If you kept our offices going and had us play solitaire in the office, it might have been safer to keep your regime.”
Others framed the effort as modeled after an old CIA tactic known as “Simple Sabotage” which was laid out decades ago in a pamphlet.
“Widespread practice of simple sabotage will harass and demoralize enemy administrators and police,” the pamphlet reads. “The saboteur may have to reverse his thinking … Where he formerly thought of keeping his tools sharp, he should now let them grow dull; surfaces that formerly were lubricated now should be sanded; normally diligent, he should now be lazy and careless; and so on.”
Since being fired by Trump, some of the former officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development have launched DemocracyAID, an organization dedicated to fomenting opposition to Trump’s dismantling of entities he perceives as hostile to his agenda.
Seminars by DemocracyAID teach organizers and students how to mobilize, with some of the classes describing simple tactics such as “letter writing: how to write op-eds to a local newspaper for a local story,” Danielle Reiff, a former USAID diplomat and founder of the group, said.
“The whole point of it is to start off slow. People are just taking coffee breaks together. And that’s what we’re encouraging them to do,” Ro Tucci, co-leader of DemocracyAID, told NOTUS.
Another participant, speaking anonymously, told the outlet that Americans are tired of the cliché comparisons of Trump to Hitler or his administration to Nazi Germany. In order to break through the cacophony of daily news, their messaging must get more creative, they explained.
“There’s only so many ways to do it. That’s why it’s almost cliché to the point where we ask, ‘What are we, Darth Vader? The Empire? The Nazis?’ The comparisons draw ridicule because people who don’t know enough about it don’t realize there aren’t too many ways to do it. So, the tactics to counter them will still work, and there’s way more ways to be creative,” the person said, according to the Daily Caller.
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Is a color revolution to overthrow the president of the USA sedition or does it rise to treason (an act of war)?
It’s treason, but no one will be arrested.
Follow the news reports back to 2008 and the Obama administration. Follow the key players today and trace their hand work in Ukraine, Georgia and other places. They are all now in Chicago and LA, among other burning cities.
Charles Manson tried this back in the 60’s. His legacy apparently lives on.
We just have to be ready to deal with them when they show up.
Seditious Conspiracy. DOJ will be on that as soon as the Epstein client lists are released.
These incompetent parasite shitbags won't be able to do any better here than they did in other countries.
And I find it disgusting that we have agencies of the US government attempting to manipulate people of other countries.
How about we mind our own business?
Right now, I think it depends on the degree to which a person is involved, plus actual intent. Even though actions may just reach seditious levels, if the overall intent and plans are to truly overthrow the lawful government, its treason.
If true this is outright sedition and not at all what a “democracy” looks like but an authoritarian regime trying to regain power … aka communists
Do these people not realize there are 25 million AR-15’s in private hands in the US and the vast vast majority are in the hands of patriots? Along with most of the other guns?
Yeah, the ghetto trash and antifaggots get the nightly news........but push us and we will slaughter the leftists.
Turn on the news.....the civil war has started....except one side hasn’t started fighting yet.
Blindfold, firing squad. I volunteer for the 2nd job.
Memo to the world:
That really started when Trump was a candidate, then President, then candidate, then President again.
What hasn’t happened is the dirt naps that should start at Obama on down for the war they started against a citizen fortune enough to become President with an alleged army at his command to deal with enemies foreign AND domestic.
An example of people having WAAAY too much time on their hands.
Didn’t they do this with Antifa and BLM during the FIRST Trump administration?
Horseshit non-story. All anonymous except for one named source who advises (oh, horror!) how to write letters to the editor and another who says, “People are just taking coffee breaks together. And that’s what we’re encouraging them to do.”
Yeah, that sounds like a real deep state coup if ever I saw one.
“Take it from those of us who worked in authoritarian countries: We’ve become one,” a current federal official told NOTUS. “
Says a guy whose entire side will brook no disagreement whatsoever with their positions. None. Zero. Zip. Nada.
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