Some more tips and pointers for cut shells. The host makes clear that cut shells are not intended for use when you have slugs available to you, but are an improvised substitute.
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Hot Air's new article, "Destination: Color Revolution" by David Strom reminds us that even before Trump entered office, Democrats and their Deep State allies in the FBI and CIA were planning on going after Trump. And they are planning to do it again should they win back Congress at the mid-terms. Strom writes:
DataRepublican has been doing a very deep dive into the current Deep State project to take Donald Trump out after the Midterm elections, dropping chunks of her investigation, including receipts from an insider who leaked video, audio, and documents from a wide-ranging, shall we call it a "plot," to amp up resistance to Trump and to create a Constitutional crisis that would, they hope, reshape the entire political landscape.
Including the Constitution.
The core groups involved are military alumni, various intelligence agencies, and, of course, the USAID folks. You may recall that as Trump closed down USAID, a bureaucrat walking out the door darkly insinuated that it was the biggest mistake Trump ever made.
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All these alums from the IC and related agencies are now part of a massive NGO complex designing plans and wargaming ways to take Trump down, not in any namby-pamby way like using the courts or prosecutions, though they are intended to be part of the plan.
They want a full-blown confrontation between Blue States and the Trump administration, up to and including what could be low-level armed conflicts, more along the lines of an escalation from what we saw in Minnesota last winter.
You may recall Governor Walz's language kept returning to the word "war." "War with the federal government." The references to the Minnesotans at Gettysburg during the Civil War. The fact that Democrats from the governor's office on down to city and county officials helped coordinate the physical resistance to ICE officers, leading to two deaths and the injury of multiple federal officers.
Think along those lines, but amped up to 11, with all the troops mobilized on the left, and all the Democrats in governors' offices and in Congress making a full-court press to take Trump out using any means necessary.
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I can't go through all the data in one post, and DataRepublican is still putting what she has out in digestible chunks, but the bottom line is very clear: those USAID folks, along with the IC officials who have "six ways from Sunday" to get you are now organized, plotting, working with politicians and even the Democratic Socialists of America to create a crisis and the next best thing to a coup.
T.L. Davis has some thoughts on how things will go down if the Democrats win the mid-terms:
What I expect to happen, and I am not engaging in forecasting here, because I have no talent in that area, but just looking at it logically, is that the Democrats will win control of the House and Senate and begin the long dark path toward opening the borders and flooding the US with more jihadists and fraudsters. The idea being to drain the treasury and restrict funds that would be used to counter the coup, or to fight a war.
Then, with power, the communist Red-Green coalition will begin to implement the plan exposed in the linked article above. Why now? The election of Mamdani in New York, the symbolic target of radical Islamists for decades, has fueled life into the communist dreams of conquest. They might pretend that riots and church burnings won’t take place if the Democrats win the 2026 election, but it doesn’t matter. Losing would only provide more shade for their revolutionary actions.
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The question is, will the real war start in November when they attempt to engage in a revolution? I hope so, it’s what American patriots, militia groups and just well-prepared citizens have been waiting for, preparing for, arming for, because the first order of business is to impeach and imprison Trump. The Second order of business will be to, once and for all, confiscate guns. That might require them to first arrest and imprison, or just outright attack the conservative justices on the Supreme Court. By conservative justices, I mean only Thomas and Alito, the others will fold under threat of Antifa attack, just like they already have on other cases.
It will very quickly devolve into an open civil war. They are supremely emboldened by their fake confrontations with faithless cops and believe they will win any kinetic confrontation with bubba. We’ll see.
More: Cynical Publius has an article on X covering the information gathered by DataRepublican about the Leftist plans this fall, as well as giving some history on other color revolutions backed by USAID and the intelligence community. And DataRepublican adds in the comments:
Yes - and I realize I'd been making a mistake to focus on the Insurrection Act. Although the goal certainly is to get structural reforms in the national conversation by 2028, they outlined several scenarios beyond the Insurrection Act. By and far their biggest focus has been an "election meltdown." I didn't emphasize that as much because obvi, Trump isn't going to send military to the polls or anything of the sort.
But I forgot momentarily that elections ARE the actual precursor to what becomes an actual coup (transition of power, whatever euphemism you'd like). Everything takes on a much darker turn if you start wondering if they're trying to manifest that.
"Anthropic books colossal $81B loss, warns of data center backlash as Amodei siblings draw modest salaries"--New York Post. From the lede:
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic booked a staggering $80.7 billion net loss in the first half of 2026 — mostly from accounting charges — as it warned that growing opposition to data centers could threaten its business.
The San Francisco-based company, which is preparing for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at as much as $2 trillion, voiced caution about the growing movement of anti-data center and anti-AI voters.
Resistance to data centers has “become more organized and coordinated across jurisdictions,” Anthropic said in the filing viewed by the Wall Street Journal.
In 1996, a Mel Gibson movie called Ransom was released. Gibson played a wealthy businessman whose son is kidnapped for ransom. But rather than pay the ransom, Gibson's character goes on live television and offers the ransom as a bounty on the heads of the kidnappers who, as you would guess, ultimately turn on each other.
Trump seems to be doing something similar. Mediaite reports: "Trump Promises to Pay ‘Reporters’ a Commission For Finding Fraud: ‘Trillions’ Have Been ‘Stolen’." From the article:
President Donald Trump pledged to pay a “1% commission” Tuesday to anyone who turns in fraudsters — even “reporters.”
Speaking Tuesday during an Oval Office event in which he recognized right-leaning independent journalist Nick Shirley, Trump claimed the new Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program would pay out so well journalists might want to ditch their jobs.
“If you turn somebody in and you let’s say a report and you find a billion dollars, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%. It’s a lot of money. And if it’s 10 billion, 200 billion, 400 billion, we are giving a 1% commission to that person,” he claimed.
Related:
Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett — the one to whom she is currently married, not her brother, whom she pretended to marry for immigration fraud purposes — used to run a winery. Because, you know, she’s a super devout Muslim and all that. The winery abruptly closed earlier this year amid official scrutiny. Turns out part of the problem might’ve been that Omar's husband was selling investors empty barrels of wine. It’s absolutely incredible how these people seem incapable of running a business or holding a job that is not a front for crime.
From PJ Media: "A Pollster Just Admitted Faking Its Numbers, and The Fallout Is Huge!" The polling firm is Wedgewood Polls, which claims that it merely conducting a social experiment to see if major polling aggregators like the New York Times, FiftyPlusOne, or VoteHub would vet the polling firms they use. According to Wedgewood, the answer is no. But the head of HonestPoll says that is bunk, noting that his firm had checked into Wedgewood to see if it was legitimate. In any event, the damage has been done:
El-Sayed leaned heavily on Wedgewood's polling to sell Democrat voters on his electability. Mallory McMorrow, who ran against him in the Michigan primary, took to X to describe what the stunt cost her campaign. She pointed to a late-June Wedgewood poll that showed her sinking into single digits, numbers she said contradicted her campaign’s internal polling. In the aftermath, her donations dried up, her volunteers were left devastated and begging for direction, and reporters bombarded her with calls to get out of the race.
Without a doubt, a fake poll can affect an election. It can stop a candidate from raising money, boost another candidate, or cause a party to invest in a place it otherwise wouldn’t. And it can lead voters to think the result is already decided before any ballot has been cast.
Seems to me that Wedgewood served the purpose of providing plausible deniability to the polling aggregators in thrall to the Democrat party should it ever be discovered that the poll results were fake. It is notable that Wedgewood only came clean about it faking results just as FiftyPlusOne was about to publish an investigation showing that Wedgewood was fake.
In his article, "Iran, China, and Cuba are directing protests inside America," Mike Gonzalez explains:
Evidence is growing that the tyrannical regimes of China, Iran, and Cuba are not only financing protests in American streets, but actively directing them.
The Network Contagion Research Institute, whose work in these areas has been indispensable for years, recently published another groundbreaking study that blows the lid off how this foreign network operates.
The report indicates that an Iranian influence node that takes orders from the Islamic Republic regime, the House of Latin America, conducts what NCRI calls “high-impact domestic U.S. influence operations.”
“For nearly two decades,” NCRI says, HOLA “has functioned as a primary bridge between the Iranian regime, Latin American socialist governments, and U.S. anti-war coalitions, with its American-based operatives acting as undeclared agents of a foreign government on U.S. soil.”
It gets much worse. HOLA, it says, “has now formally merged with Neville Roy Singham’s Chinese Communist Party-linked Tricontinental network to form a unified Iran-China operation targeting the United States from the south.”
Although the focus is on shooting hides and some camouflage techniques for guerrilla snipers or marksmen, it does have application for certain types of hunting. (The word "sniper" originated as a term for those hunters, in colonial India, that had developed the skills to successfully hunt snipes).
VIDEO: "The Poor Mans Guide to Guerrilla Hides"
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I've heard of these but never seen them in person or used them. It is a method to turn birdshot or buckshot loads into a type of slug. The only person I've heard that ever used these was a friend's father, who had been a police officer in California back in the 1970s and early '80s, who kept the first shell in his shotgun like this because his agency did not authorize slugs. I can't vouch for the ability of a shotgun to eject a shell modified like this.
VIDEO: "The lost art of Cut Shells"
Iraqveteran8888 (4 min.)
Stephen Green raises an interesting point in his article, "Where Are the Gendarmes?"--what if the chaos in France was intended by the elites to consolidate control?
Setting the savages loose is one way Europe's elites remind ordinary Europeans who's in charge there.
If that seems far-fetched — and not even Kirn was entirely convinced — an early morning Fox News investigation might clear things up.
Fox claims to have "identified 54 organizations and movements in France's October student protests and their wider network of supporters and international amplifiers, including communist parties, revolutionary socialist groups, labor unions, environmental activists, Muslim student advocates, Palestinian-solidarity organizations and international media outlets."
That's the Red-Green alliance you can see in action right here in this country, in places like Michigan. ...
Jeffrey Carter echoes that warning in his piece, "France Burns, But So Does the US." He reminds us:
The EU isn’t about economic hegemony. The EU is about ushering in socialism to all of Western Europe.
Today’s Democratic Party is led by the socialists who have their intellectual roots in the Weather Underground from the 1960s.
Carter looks at Michigan Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin's comments about wanting to prosecute Trump officials to scare young people for working for the Trump Administration and warns:
She wants you in the gulag, and that’s not an overstatement. She is a fascist/communist/socialist or whatever label you want to put on her. I prefer totalitarian or tyrant. She happens to be ex-CIA so that might inform you as to what at least a segment of the CIA is like.
We must, therefore, be very vigilant against laws designed to limit our Second Amendment rights or create a surveillance state. As Eric Florack comments, looking at events in France:
Now let’s add another reason to drop the gun ban law insanity. Look across the Atlantic. Our Catherine Salgado reported yesterday that rioters in Marseille torched Jewish-owned shops and left Muslim-owned ones alone: Report: Marseille Rioters Burned Jewish-Owned Shops, Left Muslim-Owned Ones Untouched.
That isn't a mob losing its head. That's a target list, and a certain blood thirst to go with it. Somebody scouted those streets. Somebody knew which doors to kick in and which to walk past. I've warned for years, along with about half the planet, that Europe is our canary in the coal mine. What happens there arrives here sooner or later.
And when it does, people who plan their attacks will pick the softest targets they can find. Our schools have been softer than a roll of Charmin for years, and the news has said so every time another one gets hit. Does anyone seriously believe the planners haven't picked up on that yet? They'll look for places where they know in advance nobody can shoot back. Places that publish the fact on the district website.
Places like, say, Silver Rail Elementary, for example.
Let's be real, here. A lone, troubled 16-year-old needed less than three minutes to kill four people in that building. Now imagine a team that spent months planning, the way somebody clearly planned Marseille. Then tell me the answer is another sign on the door. Think October 7 attacks only happen in Israel?
Some more tips and pointers for cut shells. The host makes clear that cut shells are not intended for use when you have slugs available to y...
