The Perched Eye blog is 12+ years old, from 2009 with President Obama's first term. Our focus has been eclectic ... the ways and directions of American politics and culture, and occasionally summarizing the potential impact of new technologies. Pericles21's observations sometimes attract a critical eye, but the 'pen' remains unblunted. -------------------
The 8th ‘Jan 6 Coup’ televised session on July 23, 2022, brought things Trumpily to a head. America appeared to have run out of excuses to give and listen to, from Trump. Co-Chair Liz Cheney has acquired a razor sharp deadliness in her summations of Trump's mal-behavior leading to, on and after the attempted coup in Washington DC on Jan 6, 2021.
Co-Chair Liz Cheny wrapped up the 8th Hearing with a brutally direct insight..’can America afford to let Trump slide by with an indictment, or a post-potus impeachment —both ‘punishments which mean serious loss of public face to ordinary Americans but mean nothing more to Trump than than scuff on his gold shoe…or should America ‘bite the bullet’ and hit him where we now know he can be hurt — by cutting off his access to adulation and power by banning him from ever occupying an elected or public position of any kind, ever again?
My answer is FIRST to refer to Trump’s very few heroes, apart from Roy Cohn who some feel rose to the surface of this planet from the left hand ‘pet-stool’ next to the ‘Deev’l’ himself, Adolph HItler whose ‘Mein Kampf’ Trump kept next to his bed and read from to fall asleep many nights.
SECOND, America must accept it was played…hard…like a country rube who wilingly opened his pockets to be robbed by a fast-talking conman. (Rural America, see yourself in that mirror.) [This experience with Trump has been so ‘Oneill-ish’. America’s 21st century experience with Trump was written about in our 19th century ‘American’ literature centering on the con man.
Where did the con man come from — ”… the complicated nature of American capitalism…depended on people being hustlers in both the positive and the negative sense - The American economy wasn’t built just on good ideas and hard work. It was also built on hope and HYPE”].
America played out in real life the classic American stage and book theme of the con man, only a century later than expected, i.e., ‘Trump the River City rip off POTUS’,… ‘yup’ he got us.
My answer in summary, “America, please grow up, wise up, step up and do the right thing — keep Trump away from elections, from public office, from any one or group linked to terrorism or a terrorist listed factor…and especially don’t let him remain near any secret service detail …at least no more than a week at a time…and no repeat assignees.
It’s America’s loss that Napoleonic exileof Trump to some isolated isle is not possible (maybe?). Return is always possible so maybe it’s best to keep the f…r close at hand? Not my problem to solve but personally it will bother me to know Trump is not perfectly bottled up.
Let’s not forget what ‘we’ve’ learned from Trump — he’s a businessman in the classic American theme…we wanted a chance to see ‘what would happen’. Trump’s only qualification was that he was a businessman (or so he claimed…and he apparentlly operated successfully in a world of ‘no holds barred’ real estate capitalism..in New York City, the Bronx, no less…or so we were told and so we believed.
But the reality of Trump, behind his unreality TV show was all smoke and mirrors. Trump’s reality was ‘hide the bottome line and show the sucker no mercy’. Liie today, beg forgiveness tomorrow and the devil take you and yours if you fall for his BS….MEANWHILE JUST BE A GOOD PATSY AND LET’S JUST MOVE ON. America fell for that like a virgin patsy, rubes at a two-tent Carnival. Amd now we’re trying to put things back together…but the hyena still roams around the campfire.
We wanted a businessman and we got one…so let’s shut up, lick our wounds real and mentally and try to move on. Hard message but reality. The answer is to deal out our own reality back on Trump.
BUT…we have to respect the office. We can’t let history decribe how low America sank so we have to salvage some dignity.
So,…Give him his POTUS pension. BUT DO NOT LET HIM NEAR SECRET SERVICE PERSONNEL. Strip him of all other awards, honors and emoluments except the very basic percs.
BUT.. RESTRICT HIM FROM SOCIAL MEDIA FOR 5–10 YEARS, BAN HIM FROM ASSOCIATING WITH ANY ORGANIZATIONS OR PERSONS LISTED AS, OR LINKED TO, DOMESTIC TERRORISTS, OR LISTS,
TRUMP ON THE LOOSE IS A FACTOR AMERICA (as a democracy) IS NOT ABLE TO DEAL WITH. (America as to admit to having been played in order to respond to Trump appropriately.)
In 1923, Germany couldn’t keep Hitler in prison even after a trial and sentencing hm for sedition and treason after he tried to overthrow the Weimar democracy (….they now know better.) AND WHO IS ONE OF THE FEW HEROES TO TRUMP? YUP, OLE ADOLPH…Trump went to sleep evry night after reading from Mein Kampf.
America should also have learned to spot a Neo-Hitler in Trump. YES, Trump! Does Trump have remorse? No…it all in his ‘nature’. Do you let your pet Python crawl around on the floor with your 5 month old baby while you go shopping? NO! Is it remorseful lying there with a big belly when you get home and can’t find Junior? NO!. America fortunately has the chance to mature from Trump and Liz Cheney spoke the truth…we’ve got to handle this as if our democracy is at stake. IT IS!
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