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General Mike Flynn
@GenFlynn
The rot within the United States Government has reached a severe level, so deeply embedded that no quick fix or surface-level “reform” can suffice. What we are facing is not simply inefficiency, incompetence, or political dysfunction; it is a corruption of the system itself. A network of self-preservation, deceit, and abuse of power has been allowed to metastasize within the very institutions entrusted to safeguard liberty.
For years, the American people have been told to “trust the process.” But what happens when the process itself has been weaponized? What happens when those sworn to uphold the law bend it to serve their own interests? We are living in that moment. The Department of Justice, the intelligence community, and entrenched bureaucrats have not merely failed in their duty; they have turned their power against the people they are meant to serve.
This is not a matter of politics. It is not a clash of left versus right. What unfolded was a deliberate effort to undermine a duly elected President of the United States, and by extension, to nullify the choice of the American people. Let us call it by its proper name: a coup.
Those responsible continue to shield themselves from accountability, hiding behind the walls of legal privilege and the pretense of process. They manipulate procedures meant to ensure fairness and justice, twisting them into tools of delay, obfuscation, and protection for the guilty. They hope time will bury their crimes, the public’s memory will fade, and fatigue will silence the demand for truth.
But history has taught us the danger of complacency. No Republic can survive when corruption at the top is allowed to harden into permanence. If unchecked, rot spreads until the foundation collapses entirely. Make no mistake: the foundation of this Republic is under siege.
There are only two paths forward. One day, grandparents may sit with their grandchildren and recount this era as a dark chapter that America had the courage to confront when citizens rose, demanded accountability, and restored integrity to their government. Or, those same grandchildren may inherit a nation broken beyond recognition, forced as adults to fight for freedoms their forefathers surrendered by inaction.
I choose the first path, but choosing it is not enough. Action is required. Accountability must be demanded. Every corrupt actor must be exposed. Every abuse of power must be met with consequence. Every decayed institution must be torn down to its foundations and rebuilt upon truth and transparency.
Without accountability, every campaign promise, every policy debate, every speech about “reform” is meaningless. They are hollow gestures draped over a broken system. Until the cancer is cut out, the Republic cannot heal.
This is not a call for vengeance. It is a call for survival. The American people already see what is happening. They know the system is failing. The question is not whether corruption exists but whether leaders will find the courage to confront it or shrink back and allow history to record them as cowards.
This is the moment of decision. Either the rot is exposed and ripped out by deliberate effort, or the decay consumes what is left of our Constitutional Republic.
The choice is ours.
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7:48 AM · Aug 26, 2025
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