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.
The brilliant tweet below, by my friend @FloridaBoyMedia, solved a YUGE problem for me. Why did @realDonaldTrump support @kevinomccarthy for speaker? Until the tweet below, I could not square that circle. Now I can.
2) The simple fact is that McCArthy is a natural enemy of Trump's, and of the #MAGA Movement, exactly as Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are. All of us sycophantic Trump supporters wanted him to be a temporary Speaker, himself. Alas.
3) Thing is, if we know nothing else about Trump, we know he does business with his enemies. Think of Kim Jong Un. No missile tests during Trump's administration. And how many since Let's Go Brandon? It ain't zero.
2) I was not in DC for the 6 January 2021 Rally. I wanted to go. Fiercely. It wounded my ego to NOT go. Allow me a martial arts term: Zanshin. It comes from the Samurai and means your sense of threat or danger. For the Samurai it was almost a mystical concept.
3) In Akira Kurosawa's great film The 7 Samurai (which was the basis of the Magnificent 7), there is a scene in which a Samurai being recruited and tested, refuses to walk past an open door, which was, in fact, hiding an attacker. He was the greatest recruit. That was Zanshin.
1/ I have now watched our podcast below. If you haven't seen it yet, find the time. It's worth it. I sure wish I could learn to make my eyes look at the camera instead of the person's face on screen. Alas.
2/ As to the coming thread, though, I walk away feeling some other ground needs to be covered. Try to stick tight if you can. Look at this list:
1) Doctrine 2) Strategy 3) Tactics 4) Execution
Why does it seem the other side has all four, but we only have the last two?
3/ I want you to try to answer that question for yourself, and my spoiler alert is for the next tweet, not this one. And by all means, please comment. Let me know what your thoughts are, please.
Can you say "getting into the weeds?" I don't imagine too many will care, but for some strange reason I've decided I want to know about the Rules Package. So, here's the best version of the current package I've yet found.
2) The PDF above is the one they call "The 55 Pages."
So, knowing I do not know this language, I decide to just start reading and here's a screenshot of the first thing I find.
3) Who knew? Who had any idea? the 118th Congress begins its own rules by adopting the rules from the 117th Congress. I'd never have imagined. Okay, a bit of searching - it does NOT pop right up - and, I found this:
General Flynn's voice is heard strong and clear. He pulls incredible audiences. His analysis and writings are very powerful as well. Here's his New Year's guidance!
2) We'll walk through his counsel in detail later in this thread (which may take a few days to complete). But let's cut straight to the chase. @elonmusk, can you give General Flynn his Twitter account back, please?
3) No, @elonmusk, there is not - to my knowledge - a major Twitter story behind the unhinged attacks that our government executed against General Flynn and his family. But, the simple fact of his purging from Twitter is, in its own right, an important story.
Analysis 4 - 31 December 2022 - Hammer & Scorecard
Do you follow @maryclairerose? If not, please do so right now! She will be our guide in today's work. She's one of our very best analyst/writers, period.
2) We'll dive into @maryclairerose's work in a moment. First, I have a bit of backstory to share. I met Marcy Claire in 2016. I'll never forget the call I got, shortly after we met, where Mary Claire explained the illegality of Obama's money drop to Iran. Who remembers that?
3) Mary Claire always combines brilliance with patriotic passion. Throw in far more than anyone's fair share of writing talent and you start to get the picture. As I recall it, none of her editors were willing to run with her scoop.