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Are we fighting corruption or aiding it?

This is a dangerous time

When you are screaming "we are fighting corruption" while in actual fact, you are aiding and abetting corruption and people who have gone to prison for corruption, who is deceived? The same set of people who handed power over to the person whose single goal is to benefit people who helped him escape prison term..

Everything is now for sale ....

A corrupt governor who tried to sell Obama's Senate seat and went to prison for it is pardoned, acrypto king who was sentenced for criminal activities and pleaded guilty was released because his company floated your coin.. Some of these nefarious people can now run for office with their corrupt tendencies... The premise for releasing some of these people is questionable, and pedestrian to say the least.... "they said he was called a good man," "they said he was unjustly treated even though his platform delibrately helped criminals to launder money," Meanwhile, patriotic Americans are called enemies of the state and criminals..
Allege corrupt Mayor now has charges against him dropped after promising fish... many career prosecutors have resigned because of this...

An organization that ensures ordinary citizens are not cheated by sharks within the financial sector is closed... just because the co-president has an alleged vested interest in using a hijacked platform as a financial platform.
USAID - an aid organization, which helps to support free and fair elections across the world, among several other noble soft fighting powers used by the nation to defeat its enemies, is shut down on the grounds that it is a corrupt organization. In actual fact, it is based on the request from authoritarian leaders (Putin of Russia, Maduro of Venezuela, Ortega of Nicaragua, Orban of Hungary, etc.) across the world who see the aid agency as a torn in their flesh in checking their attempt at indefinite hold to power...

So, are we aiding and abetting corruption or curbing it? No single corruption is yet to be found while many lawful public employees have lost their means of livelihood, and many are facing bankruptcy... while we see a lot of corruption being perpetuated in an unprecedented rate. The congress that is supposed to serve as a check and balance has fallen in line. The opposition is completely disarmed because the electorate said this is what they want.. A people deserve the leader they get, and the whipping is yet to start, and ALL will be beaten.

We are in a dangerous time, home and abroad... I warned about this extensively before the election. We are just four weeks in and a lot of dangerous decisions that will set us back more than 100 years are being taken. Some of them will destroy the very fabric of institutions that created America's exceptionalism... The unfortunate news is that the people who are being impacted are not just people who opposed an authoritarian man but people who embraced him...

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