Thread by @ThyConsigliori

1) Here's why corruption doesn't feel corrupt. It's what everyone around you is doing. You all went to school and did well. You work hard. You have a wonderful family. Besides things have to get done, and this is how you do it. And not just any old things, things you believe in.

2) Take participation in a criminal conspiracy to take out @GenFlynn. Well, he's a bad guy. He's going to do the wrong things. Therefore, the right thing is to take him out. Worse, he and @realDonaldTrump together spell trouble. Take him first, Trump second.

@GenFlynn @realDonaldTrump 3) Sure, there's the ancient form of corruption that has its own special flavor, still. That's just winning through power, trading on one's power for cash and advantage, or even just value for value, but always with the joy of converting one's power to benefit. That feels good.

@GenFlynn @realDonaldTrump 4) When you cheat on an exam, and get away with it, you laugh at the saps who had to work harder than you. It's very joyful. I suspect the kind of corruption that takes out a Gen Flynn has many similar joys, but joy isn't the driver. I observe a furious passion.

@GenFlynn @realDonaldTrump 5) Many have commented on their sanctimonious self-righteousness. Yes, they're far closer to Inquisitors, or witch burners, than they are to dirty beat cops getting paid off in drinks and cash. In the most evil way, they're on a mission from God.

@GenFlynn @realDonaldTrump 6) Whichever God they worship, his vindictive fury would feel 100% familiar to Quasimodo or any ISIS leader, about to drop an iron cell filled with people into water to drown them all. They're certainly working, if not God's will, then on some divine mission or another.

@GenFlynn @realDonaldTrump 7) But surely good, old American Justice will catch up with them, it's coming, and they're going to regret what they did, right? We have courts and judges and prosecutors who never let this sort of thing go unpunished. Right? In America, we have fair courts, real justice.

@GenFlynn @realDonaldTrump 8) Maybe. Maybe that's so. Just such justice found its way to Senator Ted Stevens, a few weeks before his death in a small plane crash. But Justice never caught up with the Senate who's veto proof power was secured by the unjust suit against Stevens, destroying his career.

@GenFlynn @realDonaldTrump 9) Please listen to the word "weaponization." A weaponized FBI, DOJ, FISA Court, and Federal Bench. A weaponized judiciary. That means corrupt. An entire rigged system. Stage IV cancer metastasized throughout the entire Federal Apparatus.

@GenFlynn @realDonaldTrump 10) And I'm telling you, each and every member of this American Justice Cancer team enjoys their daily rewards. How does corruption feel? It feels safe. It feels good. It feels like having done your job and going home in the evening commute.

#PardonFlynnNow