Thread by @soychicka

I've sacrificed the past ~3 years to work full time to ensure justice

1) for the pre-teen and teenage girls trafficked by Donald John Trump in the mid-1990s+, & for all survivors who see their abuser reflected in his acts & words daily.

https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1134822213935423488

2) for families of Hastert's victims who might not know their sons were victims of the man who was previously highest ranking serial child molester, so they don't find out through crude internal emails that will likely be Wikileaked from SMARTech,
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that their sons' lives ended because they were unable to live with the pain; or because he was unable to live with the possibility it would thwart his political aspirations.

3) for all Americans, party preference aside, even though they may not know yet that they need it, or that they deserve it.

Because it's not time for the end of the first great experiment in intentional community & governance.

Because America was the original startup:

when the first wave of my family came here in 1630, they left behind a comfortable life in the aristocracy for a reason: to grow, to experiment, to seek religious freedom - and to build a new future based on ideals and principles, one where opportunity is for everyone,

not just those with wealth accumulated by ancestors that filled their coffers off the backs of the labor of others (or, as with the Trumps, by literally exploiting women and children on their backs for more than a century.)

My family has shed blood & tears to guide & preserve the principles upon which this nation was founded, first trying to mediate & prevent conflict and bloodshed with native peoples during King Philip's War, through the Revolution, the Civil War, two World Wars, Korea & Vietnam.

We've fought for civil justice, environmental protections, equality AND economic growth. We've fought for progress. We've fought to maintain our heritage - our SHARED heritage as Americans, & it's clearly my turn to take up the fight as best I can to protect that heritage today.

So now, it's time for our nation's Series C venture round:

I'm in for 3 years labor, missing out on >$500k in salary, selling my 335i hardtop, and *gulp* moving back in with family for a couple of years to make it work. ( And they've sacrificed: they've put up with me. )

So please: read what started my path down this road, then ask yourself one question:

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Would you move back into your parents' house - for any period of time - to be able to spend all day, every day digging into the darkest corners of Donald Trump's and other Greedy Old Perverts' sexual histories and preferences unless you had more than just rumour + supposition...

And maybe having had a role in starting the chain of events that put Hastert in prison the first time around could lend me a bit of street cred...

but until the time comes when the survivors can finally stand and speak together, just consider it a possibility;

Use it as a parameter in your evaluation of the acts of a small man running scared.

[ & look for parallels with the stories of the women who have already made claims against him... especially at how many of them say they reminded him of his daughter. 🤮 ]

In any case, it's time for every American to dig deep and make the decision which question you want to find the answer to:

What are you willing to give? or What are you going to lose?

Because it's that important. For all of us.