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May 20, 2025
USA For Sale
By Irene Fowler
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton
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USA for sale! USA for sale! USA for sale!
Tis nary a mirage. nor, a lark
Hark! hark! the dogs do bark
The beggars are coming to town
Adorned in gaudy, golden, pretend-kingly-gowns and bedecked with imaginary multi-tiered crowns
Alas! Tacky-Trump outshines the most evil, scary, killer-clown.
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Contemptuous of timeless, valued, sacred rules and grifting off the tax payers' toilful, finiite and precious dime
Shaking down heads of state and potentates
In peace and wartime terrains and climes
At the presidential-patronage princely-price, of a palace-in-the-sky
US power, prestige and perquisites are shamelessly trashed, thereafter; nakedly hawked
Depraved dealings; akin to open-air-market street drugs, bartered, sold and bought.
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Presidential beggary takes priority, pre-eminence and prominence
Whilst dire, societal life-and-death issues are callously robbed of, visionary or positive, policy dominance
Trump and his ilk presenting to the world, America's ugly face
A low-down, monstrous; national disgrace
In the midst of grave moral failings and criminal actions, globally flaunted
Hence, non-white populations reject claims of vaunted superiority and resist rabid, racist, actions and taunts.
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Joining hearts and minds with the moral majority in Trump's America
Africa, Europe, South America, Australia, Asia and Antarctica
Unite to form a noble, humanity-loving, coalition of the willing
In opposition to the Trump-obeisant-cabal, who delight to do his demented, evil bidding
For when there is a casting down, there shall be a lifting up - Job 22.29
It is written.
Nigerian International lawyer (LL.M Harvard),based in Lagos, Nigeria. My career spans the United Nations Geneva, Switzerland (World Health Organization, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), Nigerian energy sector(Shell Petroleum, Conoco), Human/Women's Rights and Education (secondary/tertiary). I am an opinion writer for the Guardian Nigeria. My work has also appeared in The Hill, Washington DC, Kyiv Post, Ukraine, Women in leadership, London, UK and European Network against Racism, Brussels, Belgium.