THE 'JAN 6 (2021) COUP' CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS - EVEN BACK IN 2015, SHOULDNT WE HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? (SOME DID)

This blog post is 12+ years old from 2009 with President Obama's first term. Our posts focus on national affairs and culture, and occasionally technology. Sometimes our observations receive a critical eye, but our 'pen' remains unblunted as we keep a sharp eye on the ways and directions of American politics and culture.  

THE THEME.  We must take advantage of this time of plague and political danger to sit, think, reconcile and reset America's path forward.   

There must be a national reconciliation of political parties and a re-defining of our national morals, ethics, and perspectives ...and especially we must commit to our future goals for the COMMON GOOD ... and then let those seeds grow for five years until we can how to make them better.  All of these qualities and thoughts seem to have been trounced during the grab-bag, treasure hunt Trump years whose tainted air, though dissipating, stubbornly lingers! 

In retrospect, and with perhaps just a little bit of mind-stretching, we might have imagined and posted a prediction of the January 6, 2021, near-coup. But we held back on 'going there' and even sketch-posting such a  scene as too...something. And anyway, wouldn't the mechanics of our government prevent such a banana-republic thing from happening ...here? But it did nearly happen here and right before our shocked eyes (but not a surprise to the cabal of 'important' establishment figures, minor actors, and just ordinary followers of Trump ... united in their 'heil' adulation of Trump.)

Nowhere along this trail of postings since 2009, did this blogger truly expect America to have a coup set in motion ... by, and with the cooperation of (co-conspiracy, abetting?) rightist-leaning establishment individuals and institutions ... who collectively operated in the dark and who then, with their side-puppets, hid their plans from intelligence and law enforcement agencies. (When just knowing about them and not reporting such conspiracy planning is a violation of national security laws.) 

In retrospect, the co-conspirators in the nature of amateurs brayed their hubris and cultish intentions for all to hear and see... by whoever chose to hear and see. Trump's supporters heard the call clearly and a bunch showed up in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. 

Apparently, all of that background came as a surprise to the Trump opposition.  And this could be a critical test for American democracy, i.e, even among Trump non-supporters, were there those who knew what was planned but kept quiet?  Will there have to be a national reconciliation of political parties and defining our national morals, perspectives ...and especially our future goals as a nation for the COMMON GOOD.  All of these qualities seem to have been trounced during the grab-bag tenor of the Trump years.

[The author - world citizen, educator, technologist, candidate for elected office...santiago-compostela pilgrim.]

‘Not, Not, Who’s There?’ The ‘Report’ (Maybe, or Maybe Not)

‘Not, Not, Who’s (Not?) There ? The ‘Report’, maybe. Mr. Mueller exits leaving the public and Congress with the responsibility, rare in these days of infomercials and manufactured ‘news’, to read for ourselves his novel-length Report and to make our own conclusions. We don’t seem up to this task despite intricate, but precise, details. But Mr Mueller left crumbs for the mice to both nibble on and lead us. However, the Report’s deliberate and maybe over-cautious style, though probably required when authoring such a report under a dictatorship. And, like the political satirists of previous times (Voltaire, de Foe, not Mencken....) Mueller seems to have employed his own disguising style, the use of the double negative ‘Not, Not’ to present his conclusions. That subtlety appears to be beyond the interpretive skills for the American public and its Congress. Yet the answer is already there ... in the style of the Report’s conclusions: by logic rules, the double negative ‘Not, Not’ equates to an affirmative...which leads to this reader’s conclusion that ‘obstruction” did occur, is now occurring and Will continue unless stopped...by Congress. As for Collusion, conspiracy and treason, how can one Not come to the same affirmative conclusions in the face of so much associative detail (damming but “insufficient” evidence, again a seeming disguise of the affirmative, ...with so much foreign agent traffic in and out of the White House and so many private meetings with same agents hidden from the public and even from WH staff? A well-known 70s song aptly describes our dilemma - “...what’s puzzling you is the nature of the game.” As for the ‘Game’, we know what’s come into the White House.

America at the Crossroads: Empire or Republic? All the Pieces Are On the Board!

Alternatively, the title of this post might have been, 'America's New Caligula' - Donald Trump!

What? Questionnable taste? Then, how do You describe America's current political bad dream? Pericles21 sees too close a parallel between America after November 8, 2016 and Emperial Rome under the Emperor Caligula, maybe its grossest, most decadent leader ever. And now we have Trump.

'Caligula' (Little Boots, 'Bootsie' in Latin) based on the root 'Caliga' the oversized Legionaire boots that Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Caligula) marched around in as a child in his father's Roman military outpost in Germany.

And America has 'DediTo' (DT, Little Fingers, 'Fingers' in Latin) based on a physically noticeable featuture of America's latest president.

(more coming.)

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.

Election 2016: Did Trump Really Put "Nasty Woman" Out There? The Donald be Gaming? For Sure. (Or, The Advent of Hip-Hop Politics). Plus, 'Watch out for Them Chickens, GOP'ers, - After Defunding and Watering Down National Education, They Do Come Home to Roost'

Did the Donald really put "Nasty Woman" on Hillary? Yup he did!. At Debate 3 of election 2016 (held in 'Vegas', no less), Donald Trump (aka DT ('The Donald'), aka OP ('Orange Pimpin'), aka 'Scratch' aka 'The Vegas Flash') described Hillary Clinton as a 'Nasty Woman'.

And Donald Trump's future after-election rape, er' 'reaping', of mega-profits from his Presidential 'run' will surely happen, especially helped along with that 'Nasty' thing. And American media-culture will cooperate fully (and get it's share of profits, of course).

Thema:
With "Nasty Woman", DT has 'done did it'. He has introduced into American politics a new meme ("Nasty") and inaugurated (his only inauguration) a new American politico-cultura era - an era where heretofore serious American Presidential politics is now melded with pop culture (R&B, Disco-Hip-Hop and soul)...and made American politics easily accessible to and 'Grokked' (also made vulnerable?) by the watered down (dumbed down?) American intellect.

Listen closely and learn, GOP'ers, 'watch out for them chickens - after defunding and generally ignoring national education, they do come home to roost'.

"Nasty Woman". What? Mercy! Heavens! What did he say? Wha' he say? 'He say What?' That boy crazzah! Ole Scratch done did it again!!

My,my! But is what's bothering 'us' (the Media and some viewers and readers) the nature of Trumps game?

Really, OP is just a left-over, over-tinted, disco prince from the 80s. So "Nasty Woman" (ref. Janet Jackson's hit single, 'Nasty' on her 1986 hit album, 'Control') has been imbedded in his skull just waiting to slide on out at an appropriate moment. Of course, to give 'props' to Prince and 'Vanity 6' (1982),Nasty Girl' should also be referenced. (Unlike now, OP was a 'biiiig' player in the 80s when he was friends with all the Players (Bros, too) in lower and upper Manhattan!) Now, of course, his playing is done at his WPB digs...at least in public.

But 'retorno a thema'. Predictably, that Debate-3 'Trump moment'(as, master gamer that he is, he no doubt intended) has caused much turmoil in America. And for OP the turmoil he causes means 'bank' - the Media is in frenzy and there is an outcry from the women's movement. (And Janet Jackson is salivating over the coming sales from the resurrection of 'Nasty". 'OP' sees much coin coming down the slot.

Most ironically, 'Nasty', combined with Janet's album, 'Control', must have been a double-coded message to OP's 'Yuge' following of womens:

'What' say you DT haters? Word, nay - OP is talking to his women, who are all women who deserve respect,
'I, DT, the 'OP' am speaking in code to you womens,...what your ears hear as dissing this lovely lady facing me is really 'props' to all fem-hood, 'Word' again! (And let's make 'Monay', my dears.)

So, let's not jump hasty. Give 'OP' some slack for again out thinking the herd. ...and keeping his eye on what is real in all of this...that 'Monay'! The OP does not never let go of focus, learn that. Especially for just a 450,000 (USD) Washington, DC gig...when there is much more to the game for a smart Player. And OP is that.

With 'Nasty', DT spoke from the heights of his genius (or in ADHD condition on all cylinders ... or whatever health or substance issue has made for his sniffles).

In that exalted state, 'OP' spoke both to the squares, and in code for all the Players, when he laid 'Nasty Woman' on Hillary. Creds, 'OP'! OP was not speaking to Hillary Clinton but to send the message to his posse to watch and learn.

Note well, Players and grasshoppers, debutantes, Marco Rubio and other GOP 'masks', this blogger used 'DT' then 'OP'. (Who knows what or who speaks from those heights, but put it together.)

Now, no major-demographic male uses 'Nasty Woman' and carries it off except for Johnny Cash or Willie Nelson - both of whom have earned much 'cred' for living real all their lives - and having too much sense to run for President, despite they have no fears of anything life can throw at them,. (RIP and respect, Johnny.)

But DT is allowed space on using this word because he has shown much courage to actually run for President while he was unprepared, no experience in public office and generally speaking, unqualified.

But DT has done himself proper by chasing away the GOP 99% establishment, highjacking the party, laying out almost no 'Monay' and generally having a most good time doing all these things - in other words, righteously 'representing' all players and down-with-it'nasty women' (all 'nasty women' think on that). For these accomplishments, DT has to be recognized as a genuine 'Player'. ('Props' to you, DT. i.e., BOP aka Big Orange Pimpin')')

Now BOP is a bit grey in the temples to 'Ball' with the bros, but with 'Nasty' he let us know he's still got 'game'!

As for "Nasty".

With'Nasty', DT was shaking a flag to all his fellow 'Players':

"Hey, no biggy, Wiggy, here's word to let ya' know your boy is in tha' house..and rocking out...these clowns (with a JB rhythm riff). After this small time farce, let's go for a 'yac attack' and do some real partying. What say we shake it down away from this small time money, while we think on making this politics thing into some real 'Monay'. ('I got a lead on some big bank about starting a media company after the November day")

With "Nasty", DT has opened the gate to let in a new meme and introduced a new American politico-cultura era - an era where heretofore serious American playtime, Presidential politics, is melded with pop culture and made accessible (also vulnerable?) to the watered down (dumbed down?) American intellect. GOP chickens, defunding national education, come home to roost.

But back to BOP's game. BOP got much media coverage without spending hardly anything. Plus, he guaranteed he won't be elected - all of this is part of BOP's 'Master Plan' to maximize the after-election profits from his Play in 'The President Game'.

BOP's after-election rape, er' reaping', of mega-profits from his Presidential 'run' will happen, American media-culture will make sure of it.

Election 2016: Are We Post Racial America when White Pimps Run for President? 'Pimpin' Might be Easy' (DTrump)

This is a tough world and to make it really big in America takes a hero's effort. So it used to go. Now, it is maybe more appropriate to say, 'this world is bat-s..t crazy and getting crazier, but there is a high ground we might all look for before it, too, is swallowed up.' So, let's get to it.

By coincidence, and after this blog was posted, this blogger happened upon a striking cartoon in OpedNews webzine submitted by Shawn Hamilton,'The PIMPS, a Cartoon by Ralph Hamilton'. Ralph Hamilton was a caucasian, WW2 Combat pilot (1918-1999) who rendered his concept of the American 'PIMPS system' as described to him by Ralph Hamilton's impressions after a 1981 Dick Gregory speech. Dick Gregory, a notable African-American, has since 1953 continued to speak out as one of the most iconic satirists of American cultural-politics. Gregory's 1981,'PIMPS' described an evolved stage beyond Eisenhower's 'Military-Industrial Complex:

PIMPS = Political, Industrial, Military Power Syndicate (1981, Dick Gregory).

Here is Ralph Hamilton's drawing of Dick Gregory's 1981 spoken image of the American political PIMPS (Political, Industrial, Military Power Syndicate):

The essence of Mr Gregory's and Mr Hamilton's melding of thought is thoroughly shared by Pericles21 who had heretofore felt this post was perhaps stepping out a bit far applying the 'title' of "Pimp" to Mr Trump, one of the current two presidential candidates. This blogger feels not only relieved and bolstered learning the ideas expressed in this post is shared by so esteemed an observer of American cultural-politics as Dick Gregory.

Pericles21 takes the further step in extracting one of Ralph Hamilton's 'PIMPS' characters as the dopplegang of Donald Trump (the resemblance seems uncanny, but a Pimp is a known thing):

So, onward.

WHO SAID IT:
Like a pimp, pimping his target and forthwith bragging about his next bling-grab (as Pimps and pimpin' cons do), Trump, in 2000 predicted, “I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it...”, (Fortune, April 3, 2000). Hear that silken tonality like from a true 'Player', feel it?. GSA.

Classically American - in 2000, Trump felt he might one day run for President. But, more importantly, that was a 'Fortune' piece and Fortune does not waste print on just any Bozo, usually. So, what might Fortune have noted in April 2000 that might we read and be educated or warned about Trump today?

Well, back in 2000, Fortune indeed noted some important things about Donald Trump that we today should be mindful of. For one, Fortune noted that Trump had "far outlasted" many celebs of the fab '80s but Trump survived with his celebrity status intact. On the other hand, although he came through strangely:

"without any discernible personal growth. Like a cryogenically frozen Austin Powers, he stands as an almost perfectly preserved specimen of the era".

Then, and tellingly for an understanding of his current persona, he still comes across in 2000 as

"an unreconstructed hedonist"

That takes some doing...'disco inferno' lives on?

And about Trump's love of, in current lingo, 'Bling', in 2000 Fortune said:

"Trump’s mandarin tastes and almost sensual love of money can seem a refreshing throwback. “I, personally, like feeling the asset,” (Trump)

But what was perhaps the most surprising Fortune information in 2000, was Trump's relationship with minorities - Trumpster was 'in like Flynn' with just about everyone:

"In an 800-person survey conducted by Democratic pollster Rob Schroth, Trump scored a 67% favorable rating among blacks (vs. 21% unfavorable), 62% among Hispanics, and 66% among whites earning under $25,000,..."

'Wha happened' with Trump and the bros, with the muslims, with women? One answer 'seems' likely...and note the use of 'seems'...this blogger is one of the vast many who can't read minds and doesn't really want to know what might be in Trump's head...but the potential answer is Trump sussed out his political future and saw the quick con which required him to drop the bros and muslims, and upstart women. And, since he was going that way, why not include Mexicans, etc?

So, we are here today...and about to face-off with the made-over Trump...whose new 'base' is virtually all-majority race (white). Trump is the new hero of the self-isolated, rebuilt, purged and whacky so-called Republican 'phenomenon' ('phenomenon' since Republicans no longer have a real Party...Trump chased them all away like bug-sprayed ants at the company picnic).

But, we've used some word space, tho' for good reason. Now, in 2016, we see the wonderful transformation Trump has imposed on himself, which his new supporters have swallowed 'foot, line and nipple'.

And all to implement the Trumpster's big score. 'Watch out', America.

This is a tough world and to make it really big in America takes a hero's effort. And Trump made the effort and is now poised to drop a bomb.

Or pull off a pimp's con. Only the smartest, or the crookedest, or the most insane, or the biggest pimpin' cheat and exploiter can join up with the 'club' of American business success. And Donald Trump ('DT', OD (our Donald), 'Scratch'(as tagged by Hillary's 'deplorable', Big Pimpin') is allegedly a member of that club, and now he wants to grab the furriest pimp hat by getting the American Presidency by pulling off the biggest scam yet perpetrated on Barnum's gullible American public.

Even though his mega projects too often fall through eventually, and his suppliers and sub-contractors too often are stiffed, OD (Scratch, DT, The Deplorable One, etc) will show 'em all by 'pulling the wool' again. In OD's mind, he must be thinking 24/7, 'They're wrong. Fools are always ready to be fooled again ...somebody's gonna do it, so why not me'.

Trump is not racist, it's just that he's a closeted pimp searching for respect and wonders why his New York City, 8th Avenue 'cuz's' (the brotherhood of pimps) are always getting more TV 'props' as iconic characters, than himself. Trump feels he is disadvantaged by being not-Black so he takes it out on that club he can never be a member of by virtue of skin color, African-Americans. But have no doubt, behind that Orangeness Trump is a true American product, a quintessential street pimp: he's got the flair, he's got the hair, he's always first at the table, and he's got the 'stable' (which he constantly brags about and flashes in front of interviewers and television cameras like a pimp's 3 carat, Zircon thumb ring).

With these tools, and a mind like a 3 dollar ..., Trump can play his positions like a true pimp exploiter. 'America, the land of milk and honey, be proud of your boy, OD.'

Trump can creep along pretending to be what others 'see' (a maybe-successful, majority race businessman). Meanwhile, in his mind and heart, he is smirking at the gullibility of just about everyone he dupes and cheats. In other words. a pimp up to no good.

But, to Trump, duping others is no sin on his part, it's god's way of punishing the stupid,...right? The are the dupes and to balance things off, there must be the 'dupers' - that's just natural.

Our Trump feels he is a tool of divine purpose and he strives to be the best at his role, The Top Dup-er. Big Pimpin'. And 'No, pimpin can be easy'. If you have what it takes, you can not only win but run the table... again, and again and again...

Not a doubt. Trump probably begins each day reciting (mentally, of course), the pimp's mantra - that of the 80s master rapper of American Hip-Hop, 'Dougie Fresh'...and our Donald sings to himself, it goes something like this,

'Woke up this mornin, with a morning yawnin, put on my Gucci's' ...

...on and on our Donald serenades as he pumps up for the day's exploitations, hmmm challenges.

And our Donald, properly attired and cologned with the best, goes out to beat, err rip, err meet... the world.

Today, OD will try to pull off a scheme he dreamt - to see if regulators have fallen asleep about preventing cycling campaign funds to personal use. OD has to keep up a 'face' of non-chalance as he slices off a couple of hundred 'thou' for socks and new shoes (get's them bespoke in England, don'cha know).

And behold, OD's magic holds tight. No questions asked. The regulators are fast asleep and are mesmerized by his smile behind all that smile and impressive glitz.

'Lo', 'Flash' does it again. OD rips off, err achieves a business success, what regulators and analysts are finally catching a clue about - OD has ripped off 8.2 Million dollars paying personal expenses from his campaign collections (Politico webzine, September 22, 2016).

Does this unveiling faze OD? Of course not. The con's hustle and flow never stops. Chickens are just waiting to hop in the pan. So is OD's philosophy.

Lesson, 'pimpin' can be easy. And lesson number 2, 'What's gone today can be conned tomorrow'.

Repeat after me, 'WHO SAID IT?, “I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it,”' Oh Yeah, we know who!
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