to my view, there is nothing to say what will or won’t happen by the 20th. if it’s going to happen; this stage of uncertainty will have been deliberately built. if it’s not going to happen; why are our enemies are still so unhappy? where are their celebrations? trump is gone. the elections are “whatever they want them to be”. tech companies have gone all-in for censorship. anyone on either side can stare at the politicians, the soldiers, and at that fence—and still feel uncertainty. it’s schrodinger’s insurrection act, and we'll open that box on january 20th. maybe we’ll ge lucky and open a present or two on “insurrection eve”. but very little could make me doubt at least the possibility of an overdue reckoning. least of which will be able to convince me it can't happen: any propaganda or opinions from either side. we sit in the middle of a disinformation campaign, and while only the facts can say much, it’s still easy to fool the eye with them. i trust one man, but i don’t trust him to tell me the truth, because he cannot trust me to keep it. i do however trust him to tell me enough. he is very quiet right now, but before the quiet came, i remember some things he said. (paraphrasing some of it of course, but…) - america will never be a socialist country. - it’s stupid to warn your enemies of what you're going to do to them, or when. - you’ll get tired of winning… - we need to be brave. - **we will win.** - stand by. - be there. - go home. - remember this day. it’s often questioned, “who would ever get tired of winning?”. have the doomers not answered that question to everyone’s satisfaction yet? the people who get tired of winning, are the ones who get tired of fighting. the people who heard “we will win” and thought it meant “easy victories ahead”. if we win in the end, the stress and anxiety we feel now—which has proven to be too much for some to handle—will only become a benchmark test. most of us are still so sheltered. how many of our veterans have found themselves tired of winning at some point? how many soldiers never even lived to see victory, but were victorious nonetheless? these are the people who may soon be called to rescue us in a day or two, from some of our own messes no less. and if they do, it will be at the behest of a man we put in power to solve our problems for us. he always fights for us; i hope this is still only the beginning of us fighting for him. our nation has had almost an entire year of our lives stolen from us. our livelihoods have been stolen from us. our freedoms and rights have been stolen from us. our traditions have been stolen from us. our vote has been stolen from us. for many—even our final goodbyes were stolen from us. justice itself seems stolen. …and yet, something that would make all these sacrifices worth having endured remains a possibility. and the guy that can make it happen had something to say to those who get worn out on the path to victory. **“we will win anyway.”** the fat lady is too busy posing for "healthy at any size" articles. it’s trump that will have the final say on this matter. not us, and not them. he told us in so many words to stay out of this fight. depending on whether he’s in the white house or not after the 20th, i may or may not treat his words differently from then on. he will however still be my president, because that title belongs to the person who **wins** the election. whether he is in office or not however, our goals still look remarkably similar. america first. an exodus from communist products and services. mocking the liars with the truth. fixing our fixed elections. how we get there might depend on circumstance, but we’re going to the same place. trump has taught us how to fight, and we have shown that we are largely up to having one. so now would really be a stupid time for us to lose the will to fight, especially after getting so good at it. the people who got tired of winning can stay with the GOP, they’re clearly tired of it too. i may have to re-evaluate *after* the 20th, but my faith in trump doesn’t expire until his term does. it is in large part people like you here who gave me so much of this faith to begin with. i do hope you didn’t forget to save some for yourselves.