ShadowGate - Full Documentary (Millie is in jail for this information, please share - her camera...

Where to begin?

Well, let me start by being very frank about two things: First, I have an "intuition" born of common sense, experience, and observation that leads me to believe there are indeed "dark forces" at work behind not only sectors of our government... but those of most of the modern world. Second, I find this intuition disconcerting... but it is not in any way something I can stand on as fact towards any actionable intelligence. I say the former to make it very clear which "side" I am on (in case that's up for debate), and the latter to indicate why I remain cautiously skeptical.

Without a doubt, money is the muddy stream everyone with power drinks from. As the old adage goes, "follow the money", if you want to learn the truth. The trouble is, information is very "cheap" today; both to acquire and to create. Much is made in media of circumstantial evidence (on both "sides" by the way), and we must remember that if there are indeed nefarious elements at work behind the scenes... it may be difficult to see the forest for the trees.

For my own part, I don't imagine there's a satanic circle being held every Tuesday night in the rotunda of the Capital Building, or that the SecDef is getting blackmail from operatives in the employ of Northrop Grumman. I do however believe senators, members of Congress, and other officials are keenly "aware" of where certain centers of gravity are... and make decisions accordingly to ensure their continued re-election, employment, or other forms of compensation. I similarly have little doubt that like all of us, these high-placed people have details of their personal lives ranging from college frat activities to "questionable" business practices they'd rather not have disclosed. All this means to me is that anyone who says they are "untouchable"... isn't. If someone can be "touched", either by the "leak" of their first DUI at twenty-three, the affair they had with a staffer in '97, or the taxes they didn't file on their law firm in '89... that's all "leverage" that threatens the "process" of the Constitutional Republic.

As for "Millie"... what little I could gather indicates she and another were actually arrested for robbery. That sounds "suspicious" to me; I'd like to know what she robbed and under what circumstances. Even then, it's impossible to know for certain if she was "set up", did something "illegal" with the best of motives, or is a delusional crank looking for smoke where there's no fire.

As Old Occam suggested... the simplest answer is usually the right one.

To my mind, the "simplest answer" to all of "this" is that there's NO WAY people pulling the kind of dough members of Congress make would let their gravy boats be tipped over by the results of an election that happens every four years... let alone two. They ride the (usually predictable) tides of pubic opinion, and when that goes off the rails... they take active steps to steer opinion in their interest. Right now, that means removing the billionaire who doesn't care for/need their support, and seems not to care if they ever figure out how many Ukrainian women may have sat on his lap over the years.