Thread on @tripp_martin:
*Disclaimer - these are my own ramblings, I *do not* speak for Tripp.

Imagine you were sold a lie, that your employer is advancing cutting-edge technology to save the world from environmental catastrophe. $TSLAQ 1/13

Imagine being taught your whole life to believe in a fair and just system, that if you do the right thing, truth and justice will prevail. You served in the military honorably, and thought that rules and safety matter, that you have an inherent duty to protect the public. 2/13

Imagine then discovering that your gilded employer, the self-professed savior of mankind's existence, is committing a fraud to the tune of $150 M+. Imagine you finding out that your employer is using dangerous, defective parts that endanger public safety and lives. 3/13

Imagine telling your employer, only to be told to back off. Imagine raising concerns with the CEO at his invitation, only to have your phone illegally tapped. Imagine raising your concerns as a whistleblower with @SEC_Enforcement, only to see that
They.
Don't.
Care. 4/13

Imagine going to the media, only to have your CEO call the police to try to arrange a "suicide by cop" on you. Imagine being trailed by the CEO's goons 24/7. Imagine getting doxxed so dozens of cultists viciously attack you. Imagine your company suing you for $167 million. 5/13

You now have no job. Your reputation is smeared constantly. Your only hope is through the legal system. A system designed to reward economic attrition. A system that favors the rich, the powerful, the connected. A system that has shown, time and again, money wins cases. 6/13

Imagine being told that the system is working, but all you see is never-ending paperwork. Imagine being forced to pay $10k+ to go through a mandatory "mediation", when you know the other side won't settle, will grind you down more, and enrich the judge's pals as "mediators". 7/13

Imagine being told that all the damning evidence you get in discovery is subject to a gag order, so that most of it will never see the light of day. Imagine being called a liar, a saboteur, a mass shooter day in and day out on an internet that preserves these in perpetuity. 8/13

Imagine realizing, after seeing what has happened to fellow whistleblowers, good veterans themselves, that the CEO is so politically and economically insulated, and so sociopathic, that the legal system simply will not hold him accountable. 9/13

Imagine seeing the CEO get away with law-breaking with impunity because too many people in high places profit from this. The CEO dodges questions without consequence. The CEO is celebrated as a hero because his other subsidy-fueled company delivers space capsule services. 10/13

The CEO continues to pose with presidents and top bureaucrats, is proclaimed by Jay Clayton to be too big to jail, is paid by governments to embark on new fraudulent schemes, tells @SEC_Enforcement to fellate him, and has hymnals written for him almost daily in the media. 11/13

In the meantime, you are now scraping by, in a rural village, in a faraway country. To you, everything you have been taught -- Obey rules. Follow orders. Justice will prevail. The system works. -- All lies fed to a gullible public. 12/13

You never asked for this. You have nothing left -- no power, no money, no privacy, no name -- nothing left except the truth. So you decide to give the world the truth.

Only after understanding all of this can anyone judge Martin Tripp and what he has done. $TSLAQ 13/13