July 14, 2017, Pericles21 labels Trump as a "traitor" in a DailyKos post
traitor guilty of 'treason on multiple counts'
July 21, 2017, Pericles21 posts under the title quoted in this post, "Nothing added".
January 12, 2019 (!). Dailykos's Jen Hayden lays out the FBI's ongoing investigation of Trump as a possible Russian agent since even before the GOP primaries to the 2016 election.
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Trump's behavior as POTUS is much more serious than a funny quip, "I told you'. Trump is a bad realization that America really did wet its pants by electing Trump, and America must put down the soda and chips, and come away from the TV to take care of things before the Trump muck drowns us.
America has elected a straw entity, a falsehood, a 'Barnum and Bailey' circus side show starring a bizarreness
and about which America has lost its sense of reality. America needs someone to vomit up the right words to describe Trump. Hence America has fittingly , finally 'us' and her family, must grapple with the reality of Trump as President.
July 14, 2017, Pericles21 labels Trump as a "traitor" in a DailyKos post
traitor guilty of 'treason on multiple counts'
July 21, 2017, Pericles21 posts under the title quoted in this post, "Nothing added".
January 12, 2019 (!). Dailykos's Jen Hayden lays out the FBI's ongoing investigation of Trump as a possible Russian agent since even before the GOP primaries to the 2016 election.
.
Trump's behavior as POTUS is much more serious than a funny quip, "I told you'. Trump is a bad realization that America really did wet its pants by electing Trump, and America must put down the soda and chips, and come away from the TV to take care of things before the Trump muck drowns us.
America has elected a straw entity, a falsehood, a 'Barnum and Bailey' circus side show starring a bizarreness
and about which America has lost its sense of reality. America needs someone to vomit up the right words to describe Trump. Hence America has fitting inally 'us' and her family, must grapple with the reality of Trump as President.
America is seriously self-limited by a lack of critical awareness. Consequently, that 'lack' partly explains our inability to correctively address the Trump problem. Not possessing effective critical awareness also means we generally suffer from a lack of resistance to mis-education, we accept the ongoing and rampant merchandizing of our governance system and structures, and we are even selling our emotions to the social web world. In addition to those 'lackings', we, the collective American citizenry, have a tendency to uncritically accept runaway 'branding' especially of political subjects, both for good as well as for bad purposes. America's 'Trump reality' is our inability to see Trump as a serious problem because American are 'trained' to respond to colorful signs and clever packaging.
In Trump, America elected something sinister - it is emerging that America in its mercantile, commodified ethos, elected a traitor who apparently operated as a Russian agent before the 2916 election, during the primaries to the 2018 election and since the election. And America, collectively, has not see a 'way' out of the Trump mess that avoids America's sinking to the level and acts of a third world, Banana Republic dictatorship.
In a larger summary sense, this blogger does not feel flattered by appearing to have some kind of prescient sense, a political crystal ball so to speak. Instead, Pericles21's sentiments are those of fearfulness combined with an emerging pride that America's watchdogs and citizens have looked at Trump's antics in higher positions yet have retained their composure, integrity and faith in the rule of law. With these virtues, we have been able to 'stick to the task of getting Trump gone, but by the procedures and within the boundaries set by the Constitution. (Mueller's role and progress are testaments to this idea)). Since Trump's inauguration, we have witnessed much chicanery to defeat the Constitution with slippery words (Fox News and the GOP), aiding and abetting obstruction (Fox News and the GOP), acts bordering on treason or at least illegality (Donald Trump before and while POTUS, Fox News, the National Rifle Association and various GOP congresspersons in the House and Senate). "In an embarrassing short time ,America descended from the spirit of 'Rule by Law' (Lex Rex) back to the 'Ruler is Law' (Rex Lex). The Constitution was supposed to protect against this, but with Trump's election and behavior as POTUS, perhaps America has a new reason to examine it's Constitution, update its election process, educate our children to be better critical thinkers to resist entities with bad intentions for America and Americans, and move to understand a handle the 21st century concept of cyber war." Pericles21.
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July 21, 2017, under the above blog title, Pericles21 blogged just one sentence ... "Nothing to add".
That July 2017 'blog' came after Pericles21 had posted a one word commentary, 'Treason', in the DailyKos about Trump's closed, to Americans, White House May 10, 2017, 'meeting' with Russian Foreign Minister, Lavrov, and the Russian Ambassador, Kislyak.
That the press, like gawking sheep blandly watching their brethren being eaten by the coyote, has not made an ongoing screaming protest about that event represents to Pericles21 that American democracy has sunk from the Constitution's spirit of 'Rule by Law' (Lex Rex) to 'Rex Lex', the King is Law.
Pericles21 refers to that May 10, 2017, White House gathering eventwith punctuation marks because of the shady, stench emanating from that Oval Office room. 'Stench' because: 1) that gathering was and remains officially undocumented hence its agreements are open to change or are deniable in whole or in part according to Trump's personal whims and purposes;
with punctuation marks 2) Trump personally took possession of the translator's notes at the meeting's end, thus capturing for his personal thus it's purpose, contents and outcomes and agreements or "deals" are not known even though there were plenty of human eyes who saw all the persons who entered together and there were translators present; 2} even though the gathering was held on American soil, in America's most politically sacred space the White House, between the American President and America's number one state enemy, Russia, 'we' the Constitutionally entitled American world outside the personhood of Trump, 'we' the Constitutionally entitled officials (State Department, Intelligence Agencies, etc), were deliberately excluded and remain uninformed; 3) the exact nature of that 2017 gathering has never been 'disclosed'.. to the press, the public, to any private American citizen, White House staff nor conveyed to our own intelligence agencies.
Because the May 10, 2017, meeting's contents are undocumented (by official American sources or even American press) and to date are still unknown to any American other than Trump, that gathering never happened and Trump can therefore 'spin' it to his benefit as he please, at any date and without consistency, and as circumstances change, or even deny it happened ... and don't even laugh at such a possibility (Trump recently denied he ever said Mexico must pay for 'The Wall'.
It is only now, nearly two years later, January 12 (2019 !!), that we, the public and apparently every American person, government department or agency, are being informed that Trump physically grabbed and took personal possession of the interpreter's notes and papers at the end of that 2017 meeting. So much for the principle of transparency or even that discussions with an enemy state must be shared by some witness under secrecy oath if even for self protection.
Over the last week or so (!) America has learned how far we have sunk from what we as even school children were taught is our Constitution's most sacred pillar - shared power and decision making, through and by the Constitutionally guarantee (written mandate) of checks and balances. We were taught that from their own experience, the America's founders rejected royal omnipotence with written insistence through the Declaration of Independence and consequently through the Constitution, in favor of checked-and-balanced government. Such government was to exist for the benefit of the people who in finality were to be the ultimate 'deciders'.
Despite America's constitutional spirit of shared power, it appears with Trump as POTUS, America has become a fiefdom whose spirit is 'the King is Law'.
In an embarrassing short time, just two or three months after inauguration (and apparently even before the election (as we will shortly learn from the FBI and the House Intelligence and Oversight committees), Trump blew through or wrecked American political traditions while the press, the rest of government, and the majority of Americans gawked and cried while the rest of the world, especially the underdeveloped world, laughed.
Such is the effect of ignorance (Trump's) when it acknowledges no boundaries to expected good behavior... or even supposedly good behavior that was supposed to have been reassured by traditional vetting of presidential candidates - but Trump has yet to reveal his tax returns, so much for American political tradition.
To some few, Trump has performed a a kind of back-handed Dark Messenger service to America by revealing, in his being spuriously elected, some of the seams in the Founders' dream nation, 'us'.
Some of America's major procedural weaknesses revealed by the Trump election include: 'gerrymandering',the tinkering with and gaming of election district boundaries; the Electoral College which is an insidious governance mutantcy whose original purpose was to protect and sustain slavery. And we are also, in this modern age of computers and ubiquitous social cyber networking, also embarrassingly and seriously vulnerable as a people to psychological 'cyber influence' (read as manipulatable, easily hoodwinked, willing dupes, rubes, 'Marks', etc ..as Trump and Putin deeply understand).
Another Trump-election-revealed weakness that America must deal with is our national naivete and collective undereducated ignorance about cyber warfare. We spend almost a trillion dollars annually on military 'defense' but yet America's election system appears to have been so easily penetrated, gamed by and to the advantage of Russia our main enemy state.
Until Trump, America's presidents have shown some kind of inner threshold to chicanery, greed, ego and remorselessness - in other words they possessed 'integrity' which among other virtues, Trump's behavior suggests he lacks.
But, Trump is for the very few a kind of dark messenger whose positive service is to shake the house. Fortunately the 'watchdog' elements of American government are (have been) alert to Trump and are bringing the collar to drag Trump from the White house, a position of shared power Trump never studied, knows and understands very little about and personally never could merit.
Trump was apparently elected by fraud conducted by an enemy state, with his knowledge and support, and suspectedly leveraged by blackmail. We are gradually being given details of this and we are about to have the whole picture made clear.
Again, in an embarrassing short time America descended from the spirit of 'Rule by Law' (Lex Rex) back to the 'Ruler is Law' (Rex Lex). The Constitution was supposed to protect against this, but with Trump's election and behavior as POTUS, perhaps America has a new reason to examine it's Constitution, update its election process, educate our children to be better critical thinkers to resist entities with bad intentions for America and Americans, and move to understand a handle the 21st century concept of cyber war.
Although it appears on some level, to some few, that Trump has served, so far, as a Dark Messenger, that dark 'service' must not continue. Trump's brood and brethren currently around him must be quickly removed from government before it's too late. The clock is running.
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