The Fraud Years

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 “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know is true that just isn’t so.” Mark Twain.

We are in for a whole lot of unease in the next four years, and that quote caught my eye.

There are a whole lot of people swearing that things are true that just aren’t.

I will be part of the blackout tomorrow, as the clown show continues in the nation’s capital.

There are already so many things that have made me sick when just hearing about them.

A coin being released that puts 80% of the money in the president’s pocket?

It’s insider trading. It’s making money off the presidency. It’s criminal and wrong.

Jimmy Carter put his peanut farm in a trust because he didn’t want to give the impression of being compromised.

Yet, here we are.

Selling two-dollar bills with his photo on it for $50. Selling coins and shoes and water.

Talking about withholding emergency funds for blue states, and claiming that water flows from Canada to Los Angeles but the mayor didn’t want it.

All dopey shit.

And the votes are for sale.

Hotel rooms at his properties will now result in price gouging.

Other countries will buy favor for aid…

…golf carts will be rented for secret service members (every weekend) for 100 times what it should cost.

And part of me is content to sit back and watch it all burn because we earned it.

I will just try and not watch too much.

The rich will get the financial relief that the rest of us are desperate for…

…and the instances of fraud will be shrugged away.

The con is nearly complete.

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