Trumpian Times: "A Loser President" (Dan Rather)

Pericles21 commented (below)on a piece in the March 24, Dailykos webzine covering Dan Rather's description of Trump in the Oval Office, to date,... "A Loser President".

Pericles21:

It’s so good that Dan Rather is still with us in body and spirit — Rather was a martyr warrior who stood face to face with The Nixon...and suffered for that. Kudoes, Dan.

But to the subject of DT, perhaps we might say DT is simply not a fit to occupy the Oval Office (one hesitates to even use the title of potus). And, America should learn its lesson from this debacle, the basic qualification for being a true POTUS is an understanding of, and commitment to, the principles of democracy and the significance and respect for the Constitution — DT seems to have neither of these qualities.  DT seems to not understand where he is and what ‘it’ is all about. And then, DT doesn’t appear to understand the great efforts (toil and body sweat) taken by less rich men to pave the roads he has driven on in his expensive cars, the importance of regulations to guarantee the good quality air that has kept his lungs healthy for him to live this long and the laws that assure the quality of water that has helped keep his body going, and the diligence of the many service people whose lesser wealth status have assured safe foods for his table. Trump has benefitted from these, and more, service but has probably never realized (if he is capable) wherefrom or how they they were delivered to him — he seems to just automatically assume they appear at his wish as if delivered by a God’s command or whim.  Trump is a “User” simply and solely. Trump is not fit to sit behind the desk in the Oval Office. (And Melania’s description of the furnititure in the White House as ‘old furniture’  nails it that the White House has been run over by rude, misfit rug merchants.

This period of America's history will hopefuly be short (ending soon with resignation or impeachment).

Trumpian Times - Exit Left (IN JUST 60 DAYS !) with a Suggested Plan for an Interim 'potus' and New Election), Or, ' Down With the Business Model of Governance , Citizens Are Not A Disposable Labor Pool'

In 2009 and 2014 Pericles21 posted about the fallacy and threat of regarding the American Citizen as a disposable labor pool under a business model governance system run by big corporations and/or their servants.

It's Time to stop filling in the blanks in Trump's performances and statements with hopeful or "fair" interpretations of DT's daily (thrice daily?) gaffes, un-presidential tweets, insults to foreign leaders, threats, bullying, saber rattling, and so on...and look straight on at what sometimes occupies the Oval Office (sometimes its DT). It's a big cow-pie!

DT is a mess, his appointees are a line-up crew, fringe dwellers or zombies..who among will be indicted, investigated and dismissed next?

The majority of voters thought Trump was mess and about half of those who voted for Trump also thought he was a mess!

Now it's the moment, (and JUST 60 DAYS!!) the majority of voters thought would happen, even though willing to give the sobering influence of sitting behind the Oval Office desk to work some kind of magic on DT. It, the rehab of Trump, hasn't happened, it looks like it won't happen and things are getting worse daily.

We've gained INSIGHT from the Trump debacle:

wanting to be President, being President and earning respect (even begrudgingly) requires something Trump doesn't show he has...a basic personal integrity, a love or at least respect for the Constitution and democratic principles, a desire to better the lives of American citizens at all levels.

A tough job? YES! That is why a modern, 21st century America doesn't deserve Trump who is not at the intellectual level with other global leaders, not inspiring global comfortability (just the opposite, in Aces), and definitely not a person of inspiring ideas and vision beyond threatening to bomb the "sh//t" out of the demons of his twisted paranoia.

Pericles 21 has the following suggestions, after today's March 20, 2017, televised hearings between FBI Director Comey and the House Intelligence Committee (Wired Ezine, 03/20/17):

1/ DT given opportunity to walk out the front door, away forever from the White House and not be indicted for treason - with 10 yr suspension of all business licensing in the the USA; if he chooses to remain in the USA, DT has to register as a foreign agent while on American soil, but his family will not be affected, even though some of them might potentially also be in conflict of interest with the Russians.
2/ 2016 election declared void, and all appointee positions not filled be frozen in place with Obama holdovers.
3/ 6-10 month Pro-tem "chief executive" appointed (Obama) to set up real 2017 or 2018 election, with proviso that Obama will not be eligible not be allowed to run in the new election.

Obama is the only person with enough global cache" (trust, experience and confidence inspiring intellect), administrative determination, management skill and patience to reach compromises where required and set up the machinery for the new election.

After this, anyone with imagination can write books...and hopefully America will have had it up to the eyeballs experimenting with a business model leadership.

What we have witnessed - the Business Model just doesn't work...

CITIZENS ARE NOT A DISPOSABLE LABOR POOL TO BE LAID OFF OR DISCARDED TO IMPROVE THE BOTTOM LINE, OTHER SOLUTIONS ARE REQUIRED FOR LIVING STANDARDS INEQUALITY, JOBS, HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION!!!!).

And especially, DeVos should go or be placed aside in favor of a proven public servant (or committee of impartial educators) with national vision, not her.

Trumpian Times: The "Deal" will Kill Us All (or, A DEAL IS NOT DIPLOMACY)

Lead-in:
Let's stop using "Deal', as in make a deal between nations...'Deal' is so inappropriate and dangerous in that context. It suggests gangsters shaking hands with crossed fingers behind their backs, And 'Deal' making between nations is about as useful a description as to call a whale a big fish...so wrong in so many ways.

This post is about the first 60 days of the Trumpian Times and repeats a theme Pericles21 posted about in 2009: the 'citizen' of a nation is not, nor should not, nor be treated as, nor regarded as, nor defined as labor. As 'Labor' in the economic sense that would attempt to stuff 'citizen' into the cramped mold of labor, as in 'a productive unit of expense' to be used, or discarded as useless, under the arbitrary disposition of a business owner. This is, imho the principal fallacy of Trump's book, 'The 'Deal' or contract is a temporary creation with limited import outside tort court but a treaty is so much more because mass suffering may incur:

In logic notation:

DEAL:CONTRACT =NOT= PACT:TREATY

"The Deal" might be a good primer if one wants to become a business person, a property vampire, a killer kapitalist,...or The Deal may even guide one lying, bluffing and postering to becoming 'king of the hill' in one of the biggest scam-hustles going on the planet, the campaigning to be President of the United States (POTUS).

But 'The Deal', after the campaigning and election are over, is, as we've discovered, so very inappropriate for training someone to successfully perform as a POTUS.

WHy? Because, 'Ninny' the United States is not a business, nor is any successful nation strictly a business. The United States is a NATION of Citizens where Citizens should take precedence over everything else. We'v so gotten the wrong message by idolizing that book (and the charlatan that 'wrote' it!).

Simply put,..in the area of international affairs which Trump so eagerly hopes to apply the dynamics of business deal-making...basic logic, a deal (business) is based on contracts (both of which can be, and are wily-nilly, broken as desired with no loss but money and pride...usually, except in the Bronx). But a treaty between nations is anchored by a pact that is weighty to the extreme because lives, thousands and millions of them, may depend on the honoring of a treaty.

Trump's 'DEAL MAKING I NOT DIPLOMACY.
Kanth’s latest book, Farewell to Modernism: On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century,

An excellent recent re-covering of my 2009 theme was Lynn Stuart Parramore's March 2017 article in the Alternet Webzine ('Have We Been Denying Our Human Nature for Four Hundred Years?', Alternet.org, March 10, 2017). Lynn Parramore asks, again, has "...a devil called Eurocentric Modernism unhinged us from our real wants and needs?"

Lynn expands on her question by citing Rajani Kanth, economist and social thinker, and the originator of the term, Eurocentric Modernism, which he phrased in his most recent book 'Farewell to Modernism: On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century'.

In Rajani Kanth's view:

what’s throwing most of us off kilter— whether we think of ourselves as left or right, capitalist or socialist—was birthed 400 years ago during the period of the Enlightenment. It’s a set of assumptions, a particular way of looking at the world that pushed out previous modes of existence, many quite ancient and time-tested, and eventually rose to dominate the world in its Anglo-American form.

We’re taught to think of the Enlightenment as the blessed end to the Dark Ages, a splendid blossoming of human reason. But what if instead of bringing us to a better world, some of this period’s key ideas ended up producing something even darker?

Kanth argues that this framework, which he calls Eurocentric modernism, is collapsing, and unless we understand why and how it has distorted our reality, we might just end up burnt to a crisp as this misanthropic Death Star starts to bulge and blaze in its dying throes.

A mass incarceration of humanity

Kanth's view, so kindly translated by Lyn Parramore to the current dismantlement of the American democratic apparatus by the Trump political administration, gives a framework to explain why 'Trump' happened and where "Trumpism' might lead us.

Trumpian Times: EyeBall Deep in DT's Dialectic Doo Doo ('You Don't know What You Got 'Till It's Gone)

This is a post-in-progress. Stay tuned.

PREFACE:
This blog began in 2009 and was somewhat consistently added to through today, 2017. What a ride it's been since election day 2016! And what a difference from the transition from Presidents Bush II to Obama - a transition that was carried out with mutual self-discipline and regard, and above all, a concern for America's continuity and peace. (Bush 2 is to be congratulated for his decency with which he conducted himself through that smooth transition).

But this transition, the 'Trumpian Tribulations', is a different show - this is a taking of America by force, an occupation by a foreign enemy (in several ways, morally and what looks to be a true coup assisted by a foreign enemy state, Russia)...but no one seems to have the guts to do anything serious about it.

It is also a macabre sign of this transition that so many of this blogger's acquaintances are so deeply affected (shocked, traumatized, mind-zonked ..) by the barbaric and crude disrespect, and unmerciful willy-nilly viciousness and ruination-by-trampling as DT and his gang of troglodytes have raped, pillaged, decimated and 'sold into bondage' sensitive and secure federal government apparatus. (Though all in character for DT, one supposes.)

'Oh, Hillary, Sanders, Stein, Johnson, Brazille, Wasserman-Schultz...what were you thinking? And all you lib-progressives who with miffed, kindergarten egos sat this one out and did not vote at all...well, this is what you (and we all) get. What a price to pay for lib-progressives to be educated for future campaigns.

But what fascinates one most is how the perpetrator (once again our 'DT', 'OBP'(Orange Big Pimp'n), OG (Original Gonzo) so easily (and often) has gotten away with flaunting American standards no POTUS has ever violated ...with only feeble complaints like American Tradition is a sweet deer-fawn being done with by a hyena mauling and eating it live while it simply lays there in wide eyed shock.

One has to wonder why (if one cares)if this 'stick up' is so easy, why no POTUS in one's reading hasn’t done the same previously in America's short history.? One explanation must be that regardless of Party, every modern POTUS except this One has had a basic respect set for the office, the country and humanity, that create built-in borders of some decency.

And, this job is not easy. Every modern POTUS has quickly shown signs of mental exertion trying to seriously juggle and manage America's complexities. Struggled to find the right way.

But THIS ONE makes it look easy because he is unaware of traditions (like the Constitution of the United States), has no behavioral boundaries and knows very little of the significance of the job except for a one-sided misconception that the Presidency is just a job description of something that should be simple because 'obviously' being President means automatic exemption from all laws and the ultimate freedom to do what one wants - like 'grabbing America by the 'Shorts'.

In other words, being POTUS is a simpleton's dream come true - the ultimate freedom to rule like an emperor or a kid in a candy shop. Or, it should be..and if it isn't. then all one has to do is whine, wscrean, threaten and pull any other kind of nasty tricks a man-child can manage or dream up. And, 'regarde', they all fall down ...especially if man-child occasionally throws in a brief second of adult-mimicry that makes them all (mostly) swoon with relief at the prospect that man-child has finally grown up. Only it's all just one more joke on us.

The conflicts of interest and monetizing of the Presidency for private gain is appalling! And the family altogether seem a gang of rug merchants parking their camels on the front lawn and pissing in the corners of the Oval Office. Sorry.