And now, in addition to everything for which they've given their lives, we may need to hope that the Intelligence Community may be willing to break tradition and tell us just why this photo - this pathetic, simpering blasphemy -happened.
Mitch McConnell will rot in hell for ignoring what Robert S. Mueller III told the nation and refusing to remove this traitor from office. Mueller and his colleagues did their level best only to be betrayed.

We now sit hoping for an unredacted report.
We expect, nay we are a better nation because our intelligence and law enforcement professionals stick to the rules.

But we have to ask this time at what cost. And to prepare for what may be a breach of protocol that could save civilization.
Americans still don't understand what he is. That is the fault of politicians, the media, propagandists - and of course his sincere supporters as well.

But some know the truth. That he isn't rich, he's Mob property. That's he's tasked with destroying anything his bosses say to.
Donald Trump was acquired by Russia when its Mob overtook the Five Families of La Cosa Nostra, his family's old owners. But now he's the joint property of murdering despots.

The intelligence communities of many allied nations know this.

The common people must know, too.
I know, like @LincolnsBible, the complexities and contradictions of what I'm suggesting. We already ask so much of such men and women. And this moment may call for yet more.

In 2016, I said I understood why the USIC didn't "act."
In 2020, I wonder if they must - lest we be lost.
I don't think American institutions will survive four more years of damage from foreign enemies being allowed to destroy us from within the White House.

I don't know precisely who would reveal what, when.

But I pray it is soon. The truth is simple and hideous.

Let it out.
I think we all do what we can, whether it's to wear masks and stay home, or take care of our neighbors or fight crime or rise up yell the truth from the rooftops.

We do our best.

Which makes me think about my own last four years.
My colleagues and I knew Trump was a unique danger in 2016. Few of us thought he'd be elected. Then he was.

I slept an hour a night for a month, talking to everyone. The Game Theory Thread (12/11/16) was a product of that.

Didn't think I'd still be writing every day like this.
Like many of my friends, my brothers and sisters in arms, I've been attacked personally, relentlessly for opposing this takeover. My own mind has been blown. Stressed. Brought to tears. Like so many of all of us.

But you wake up and you think - where else will we live?
Canada. France. Australia. Mexico. America. Ukraine. Even Russia. These are all beautiful cultures, beautiful people, promising futures - and the Global Mob cannot be allowed to own it, ever.

The future must belong to men and women of Civilization, and Love, and Compassion.
The future must belong to those who would gladly give their lives so other people's children might be free from fear, free from deprivation, free from degradation.

It must belong to those who refuse to buckle to corruption and evil and banal weakness.

That's us. That's now.
Our commitment to truth must equal our commitment to love, compassion, and civilization.

And this is where intelligence professionals come in - and with a word of warning. Truth is sometimes utterly hideous.

But we can handle it. Together.

It's time.
When I say ugly truth, I have to give an example. I did not flinch when I heard what they did to Jamal Khashoggi.

I know what "wetwork" is. (That's a Russian term.) It's hideous, but famous. I was sad - but not shocked.

That is the kind of truth Intel people bear. And more.
I wept openly when Notre Dame burned. That one was a left hook. There have been other moments. We can all only take so much before buckling some.

But we lean on each other. We can take it. We can do this - together.

The full measure of the necessary truth will require it.
Our mission is clear: Truth, Compassion, Law, Love, Civilization.

We have a great moment before us. Our routines are disrupted already. It is the right time for one more disruption: to expose the barbarism of those who conspired to brutally repress us forever.
We're ready to take this world back. But we're going to need some help. From each other. You free tomorrow? 😀

God bless America, and all nations, and all individuals, not one single person left out.

Love ya.

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