The Fanni Willis (Fulton County, GA) Issue Is Settled, and Now Ms. Willis Can Get On With Shredding Trump (As She Has Done So Well))

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Personally, I am going to stop critiquing Georgia's Fulton County DA, Fanni Willis's choice to, mid-case, take up with her consultant-co prosector team member, Mr Nathan Wade, and give thanks that she is still on the case.  

BUT, AS A LAST PERSONAL ADVISEMENT,  FANNI WILLIS EARNED A LOW GRADE FROM ME BY TAKING UP WITH WADE MID-CASE... thus allowing the Defense to inflate/falsely construct a hint of conflict-of-interest. 

BUT NOTE: the Defendant team also has an attorney 'couple'.  The difference is how it 'LOOKS' to the public eye. (The defense team's couple is a humanizing, public relations 'plus.') 

'Looks', though not illegal, should always be a significant factor to an experienced legal jurist ...like Willis. who took her eye 'off the ball' for personal emotion. 

 IMO, also, the judge's  'decision' has more the LOOK of a personal comment more in line with a rural county judge.  Nevertheless, the judge did the prosecution a favor by settling the 'Looks' question. 

Willis' choice between remaining on the case or taking up with her employee, Co-Prosecutor Wade, was the professional woman's option (with 'normal' consequences/risks.)  Willis' slip was not a womens' rights thing..because a male prosecutor would face even stronger handling by an attentive press who could paint a picture of sexual bribery. (It all depends on POV.) 

TRUMP'S DIGITAL 'CARDS' (A GRIFT, FOLKS): WATCH OUT NOW, HERE COME THE MARKS

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Trump’s Digital Cards…Hmmm, That Is, ‘Digital Grifts’

America is going thru a test. ‘Yerp’, there it is… these last 6 years is not a real thing; it’s been a dream … navigable by those who try hard to keep their head straight. But sometimes… like this week’s ‘Trump Digi-Card Joint,’ things just ….(scream — life can’t be without some horse doodoo thrown around? Can it?) 

Trump’s latest ‘Jam' is his digital card Shtick (Grift!). 

Can’t ‘get a hold of it. Shall we just Rock On … Like the cool Americans we are, or pretend to be, or wanna-be? (Why oh Why-eee, does that Tiny-fingered D..ckhead continue to do this to us?)

Stopped reaching for my wallet with time to spare as my Arm-n-hand automatically sensed ‘scam,’ cut in to overrule the brain's reflex response to “Digital Stuff.” 

(I‘ve trained them to think for themselves if the rest of ‘me’ is about to be seduced by weird attractions. This is not, of course, to say this Trump play is weird….but, personally speaking, Trump flames.)

After DT’s “Big Announcement” last Wednesday, December 14, 2002, the planet (cum passengers) shook for a 'split nano-second' (a really short period of time), nevertheless most of us wearily continued on our ways except for the rabid Trumpians, viz.:

Trump's "major announcement" of NFT collection draws ridicule but sells out

After that “tremendous’ announcement, I had to sit, uncross my eyes, and…think. 

I mused ‘About Trump.’ About how America is truly diverse …with perhaps three top-level divisions — the Sane, the Often Sane, and the ‘Marks.’  

(Pets are exempt from these categorizations since our furry friends are super-sensitive to villains, card sharks, and all... ever wonder why Trump has no pets? I don't.)

We can safely let be the Sane and Often Sane…they can mostly take care of business…at least enough to survive. But, the Marks?

The ‘Marks’ are so far-gone lost in the American rat race that they are like the mushy detritus seen floating at the surface of a stormy sea …or a boiling pot of soup…or on America’s growing number of polluted rivers, lakes, sewer spillage. (The castaways.)

American Culture wind blows us here and there, wherever the latest con person leads…during the short time he/she captures media attention. And capturing media attention does require skills … of a kind that self-adjust in a split-second with changing social-media preferences. 

In other words, the Modern Survivor must cultivate, and be quickly able to learn, the skills to harbor the kind of inattention to reality characteristic of the deranged, or at least mildly deranged (erratically so)! (Trump seems to ‘qualify’ per the latter requirements.) Also, American Culture seems to provide nurturing soil for the Trumpian grifter type.

‘American ‘Culture’?

Is American Culture real? Is it imaginary? Seems all one can say is our culture is what one sees from split second-to-split second…a kind of drifting quantum foam.

American Culture is now truly entered the Quantum Age. 

With Trump catching so much media attention, we've ‘crossed over’ and are in a quantized mirror world where ‘Up’ is ‘Down’… or at least sometimes it is, and for short periods. ( ‘Alice’s” message all along.)

‘‘Yerp’, it’s happened folks, we are imaginary quantum states. (And Trump is the random-walk, quantum demon that brought us here — Trump, the ephemeral, erratic nuisance.)

But there is a ‘Way’…a ‘new way of walking’ ...in a quantized dream world. 

Just hold on tight and surf the imaginary, Schroedinger-foamed wavetops of THE CULTURE. Rock ON!

‘HANG TEN”, Dudes. Check the sun and waves. But keep one eye on the shore…if you can.

BREXIT (UK) — A FAILED, TEAR-SHEDDING DREAM TO RESURRECT THE BRITISH EMPIRE FROM THE AGE OF SAIL IS IN THE GRAVE

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So, ‘Liz’ Truss resigned as Prime Minister (UK) on October 20, 2022 — after only 44 days in office, the shortest since 1827 when Tory George Canning died in office after 118 days. 

Her resignation speech is here — a signal example of a nationalist word salad of conservative slogans and hopeful but flawed illogic that some conservatives love to mouth but flounder on after a short time that shows how hollow those slogans actually are.

Ms. Truss makes the fifth UK prime minister in six years — the fastest turnover in nearly a century.

What can one say except it’s about time for the global fantasy-dreaming about past nationalist ‘glory’ to end … the ‘days of sail’ and exploitative spice trade are long over.

The ‘Now’ has changed from the crawling pace of sailing ships to the dynamic, high-tech, increasingly information-driven supersonic age that is above all sustained by interdependent associations not standalone empires… no one country is now truly self-sustaining. Not even America.

‘Brexit,’ the UK withdrawal from the European Union has proved to be an economic flop run by a false performer in a clown suit and Halloween wig (several candidates here, but …).

What Truss’s resignation means is that political posturing and claiming a mantle of past glory is what it sounded like to many— hot air and opportunism that rapidly turns into a disaster for the naive voter and certainly for their nation.

The lineup of guilty politicians who've covered their true motives or lack of true smarts is long but includes such stars as BOJO (Boris Johnson, Truss’s predecessor), Vladimir Putin, and, of course, the current era’s grand wizard behind the curtain, Donald Trump.

Putin is perhaps a special case as he seems to have the naked power to take Russia down with him, but he will not soften in his pursuit of personal glory and the glow of Tsarist Russia.

Let’s hope the UK will regain its senses…and find a way to re-enter the EU (big problems there with lots of 'cold crow' for the UK to swallow, but it has to be done to save England from economic collapse). And let’s hope the American path doesn’t curve back to Trumpism.

THE 'DONALD TRUMP PROBLEM' IS SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND & FIX: TRUMP IS AN ANOMALOUS, ERRATIC 'FACTOR' THAT AMERICA IS JUST NOT SET UP TO CONTROL - TRUMP MUST BE BANNED FROM FUTURE POSITIONS OF POWER AND AUTHORITY

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The Trump Problem Is Simple to Understand. America just can't handle the irrational, anomalous, erratic 'FACTOR' that is Donald Trump. (Although it has to be admitted that many American citizens and power-influence centers have learned to cave to Trump for questionable/illicit/power gain.

TRUMP IS NOT SMART ENOUGH TO BE INTENTIONALLY BAD ... he is just ANOMALOUSLY BAD. And he must be removed from further mal-participating in society, or at least in America.

'Normal' boundaries and controls can't control Trump, and he appears to sneer at his 'opponents'/competitors who follow law or precedent, ...while he does not. 

Trump operates by ad hoc, transactional-ism which immobilizes and disables his rational thinking, play-by-rules competitors ...and his victims. 

It's time to just acknowledge that:  

(1) AMERCA'S RATIONAL LEGAL AND LOYALTY PRINCIPLES CAN'T HANDLE TRUMP BECAUSE HE SEES THEM AS 'FOREIGN AND EXTRANEOUS'; 

(2) TRUMP HAS TO BE SEEN AS AN ANOMALY; 

(3) TRUMP MUST BE PREVENTED FROM HAVING ANY FURTHER KIND OF POWER/AUTHORITY/POSITION OF INFLUENCE.

Of course, Trump would/did sell/promise classified secrets to Russia (and promise lifting sanctions on Putin) in return for Russia's future favors and past assistance to being elected in 2016, and forthcoming in November 2022 and in 2024.

SHOULD DONALD TRUMP BE INCLUDED IN AMERICA'S OFFICIAL GROUP TO ATTEND QUEEN ELIZABETH’S STATE FUNERAL

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Whether or not Donald Trump should be included in the official American contingent to Queen Elizabeth's state funeral is the sort of dilemma that helped destroy the Weimar Republic (Germany, 1920s) and assisted the rise of Adolph Hitler, i.e., a democracy faced with an anti-democracy antagonist (Hitler, Trump) who insists on his democratic-principle ‘rights’ to speak as he wants, although his words incite anti-democracy mob acts. 

The Weimar Republic's historically-proven, correct handling of the early Hitler would have been to keep him in prison for the full 5 years of his 1924 sentence for insurrection and treason… instead of letting him use democracy’s own principles to get out of prison after only 9 months…during which state-supported time and state expense, Hitler wrote “Mein Kampf”… which was a factor largely accountable for the murders and war-killings of about 60 million humans. Once free, Hitler climbed the political ladder supported by his Brown Shirt mob (‘MAGAs), who he later ‘cast aside’ (canceled, murdered, eradicated) when they became a political embarrassment. (MAGAs are now learning that lesson!)

Donald Trump. Trump has proved himself to be an “anti-democracy factor” and has been impeached for an attempted insurrection and failed coup (the "Jan6" 1921 event). 

Whether to include Donald Trump to attend Queen Elizabeth's state funeral as part of the official American contingent, is American democracy’s dilemma. Trump's presence at Elizabeth Regina’s state funeral would appear to be a cruel jibe at the good that Elizabeth symbolizes, and a joke on America itself. 

Trump should not be invited by the current American President to attend per traditional protocol -Trump flaunted, scoffed at, ignored, tainted, and rejected that sort of polite democratic tradition long ago.  (IMO, Trump should be ‘allowed’ to sit this one out, tune into the funeral from one of his 'shady' mansions, and wait for his indictment. Maybe harsh, but 'Jan6' and ‘Weimar’ …history, dammit.)

THERE MAY BE MORE FBI ‘SEARCHES’ ON TRUMP-A-LAGO AND WHO MIGHT HAVE ASSISTED DONALD TRUMP? WHAT ABOUT INTELLIGENCE RISKS? TREASON?

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The rumor is growing that there may be a second FBI search needed to remove additional classified, hidden, White House documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. And, the nature of those documents may be even more serious intelligence threats to American (and it’s allies') security. (The Washington Post's updated report states the August 8, FBI search was about classified documents pertaining to nuclear weapons.)

All of the "classified documents" mess precipitated by the August 8, 2022, FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate raises the thought that because, from reports while he was President, Donald Trump was not savvy enough to understand intelligence matters, nor even interested enough to attend in-depth intelligence briefings, he couldn't have, by himself, put together a plan to first of all, select, then to remove those documents. 

(Note: as reported in the CIA's 4th edition of it's in-house academic center's book, Getting to Know the President (4th edition, October 2021), after the 2016 election, educating Trump-POTUS in the intelligence part of his presidential duties was always difficult and made additionally so because of Trump's  personally friendly take on Russian interests: 

Briefing Trump presented the Intelligence Community with the most difficult challenges it had ever faced.  Trump had publicly criticized CIA and the outgoing DNI and disparaged the substantive work and integrity of the intelligence agencies. In addition, the controversy over Russian interference in the 2016 election and Trump associates’ contacts with Russian officials heightened tension between the IC and the president-elect. After the inauguration, the briefings soon settled into a pattern: they were held only two or three times a week, Trump did not read the PDB closely if at all, and the briefers had to draw his attention to the most important issues.

(And, why hadn't the Secret Service objected at the time to the document removals? Who selected and loaded the documents into the boxes? Who carried the boxes to waiting trucks? Who eventually 'spilled the beans'? All of these steps, and more, seem beyond the attention span, and even the intelligence of Donald Trump to carry out.)

The logistics of the overall selection, boxing and removal to Mar-a-Lago 'says' involvement of complicit third parties - intelligence-knowledgable, able bodied, complicit third parties who assisted-guided-instructed Trump to select and remove those 27 (now 27+) boxes of classified documents. (Note: just one classified document in a box makes the whole box 'classified' until culled and cleared by appropriate American intelligence bodies.)

IMO, the complicit third party to the removal of boxes of classified materials from the White House to Mar-a-Lago must be ‘friends’, assets or representatives (agents) of foreign states operating against American interests!

The bottom line question that will probably appear from the fog is ‘has Donald Trump indeed been an active asset-in-place operating in the interests of an enemy foreign state, i.e., Russia? And, from what time period before he came into the White House has might Donald Trump have been a foreign intelligence asset?' Will "treason" appear again in Donald Trump's 'interactions' with, and leanings toward Russia?

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE 'VIG': THE FBI'S AUGUST 8, 2022, SEIZURE OF CLASSIFIED FILES FROM THE TRUMP ESTATE AT MAR-A-LAGO (FLORIDA)

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On August 8, 2022, the FBI sprang, by warrant, an unannounced, early morning search of Donald Trump's estate home ('Mar-a-Lago') at West Palm Beach (Florida). The ostensible FBI objective was (is) to recover 27 boxes of White House documents that Trump had taken with him when he officially vacated the Presidency on January 20, 2021. Those documents may have included classified documents of importance to national security and which Trump would not have been permitted to remove from the White House...had he asked. (He didn't ask and just 'did it' as was, and is his style.) 

WHAT DONALD TRUMP WANTED WITH THOSE FILES MIGHT HAVE BEEN TO 'AUCTION' THEM OFF IN THE DARK GLOBAL MARKETS TO FOREIGN ACTORS AND INTERESTS...(ESPECIALLY TO THE PROXIES OF VLADIMIR PUTIN).

The nature of the FBI's  'Mar-a-Lago' warrant can be made available by Trump but he has chosen to keep it private...but some media 'opinionists' surmise that the recovered documents included highly classified materials closely linked to national security issues.

Trump's 'absconding' with White House documents is just the latest item in the Trump legacy of unpredictable behavior that on the surface is seemingly erratic, but by this blogger is totally in-character with Trump. Trump's behavior in nearly everything he does is with the objective of paying obeisance (and money) to his long-term (decades) debtors who are mostly third party foreign factors, principally Vladimir Putin...even during the Trump presidency.  

To this blogger, it is fascinating to observe the mental contortions the media pundits have subjected their brains to to try to make 'normal' sense of Trump's actions...when Trump is actually a simple read: Trump is in deep debt especially to foreign parties, and in particular has been vitally dependent on the good graces of Russia's dictator, Vladimir Putin to whom Trump has publicly cowered before like a vassal and whose foreign policy interests Trump openly supported during the Trump presidency, even when Putin's foreign policy conflicted with America's. (Trump's vowed goal of disbanding NATO was a primary example of his pro-Putin clash with established American foreign policy.)  

The 'Why' of Trump's favoritism towards Russia as consistent theme is a subject of this blog post.

Trump's tolerant and indeed championing of Russia, and particularly Trump's personal allegiance to Putin is simply a matter of money - owed debts, promised gain and probably Russian blackmail (Kompromat). 

A primary example of foreign power 'kompromat' against Trump is the rumored machinations of the Russian KGB (GRU) to entrap him with seductions by prostitutes ...as written about in Craig Unger's 2021 book, "American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery". (This blogger would add 'Treason' to Unger's list of kompromat.)

This blogger figured back in 2016 that Trump’s claim that he was a ‘billionaire’ hid that in although he was partner to several billions of assets, those assets were (are) loaded down with nearly the same level of debt so that their net value is ‘only’ several hundred million$, and that Trump is sole owner of practically none. 

Trump's financial life has been a life of struggle to keep himself (and his family) financially afloat because he is not, nor ever was a good businessman. But he has shown a particular 'talent' for grifting off a carefully tended 'brand'.  

Trump's formula has been to profit off of 'being famous for claiming to be famous' or merely manipulating media exposure - the new 21st century American gimmick for striking it rich.  (Why work at 'it' when one can use the media against itself by manipulating the media to give oneself free advertising, hence generating money-equating media 'views'.) All of this is faux celebrity status created by by pinning on oneself a badge of notoriety or celebrity no matter how vacuous or fake ('Branding.')

 Where it all started: the Trump's learned the trick of building and protecting the 'Trump' brand name which in itself has no more real value than the faux-celebrity real value of the Kardashian 'brand' ...but at least the Kardashians are open about the nature of their 'business' so the public both knows this and relishes the entertainment the Kardashians' extravagant life styles ...thus satisfying the public's apparently 'needed' (addictive?) vicarious alternatives to the American humdrum reality. 

Trump's lifestyle of gold bathroom fixtures, private jets and multiple homes is mostly surface gloss ('bling' in the language of his lesser street-hustler kin).  

Trump has almost perfected living off the ‘Vig’ from creating new deals at 2–5% upfront broker’s fees. (But while that is probably OK in the fast track business world, those ‘skills’ are not appropriate for being President or running a nation…especially the most powerful on the planet, the United States.) Truetehrmp had supported himself and his 'world' of many-layered businesses by pursing the 'bigs' of new deals. But this required him to constantly be on the look-out for new deals, and new patsy's who would fall for the Trump hype.

This is why Trump came into the Presidency in 2016 practically ‘owned’ by Russia’s dictator Vladimir Putin — Trump was expecting Putin to complete the authorization for a ‘Moscow-Trump Tower’ deal, inflated from a ‘normal’ 50 million to over 200–400 million $, which would have gifted Trump with a minimum 10 -15 million $ broker’s fee, and similarly given Putin his personal upfront cut of 25–50 million $. (And, all those fees, both to Trump, and to Putin and his Russian oligarch co-grifters, would be deosited into proxie accounts at Alpha Bank in Cyprus.) Whether the project would ever be carried through was unimportant to Trump at the time — it was the upfront signing fee he was counting on to help him pay current debt service and contirnue his living ‘like’a billionaire for several more months until (while he, like a constantly moving shark, created new deals using the leverage of his new power and influence as President throughout the world. 

Maintaining the flow of broker-fees was why Trump flouted (had to flout) traditional boundaries of personal business activities observed by American Presidents. Trump’s life depended on his breaking traditions while President. 

This is why in future presidential elections, America must require complete financial transparency from all who want to run for President.

THE 'JAN6' INSURRECTION INVESTIGATIONS: DONALD TRUMP'S PLAN TO TAKE OVER THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT BEGAN WITH THE POSTAL SERVICE'S DESTRUCTION OF MAIL SORTING MACHINES AND THE PICK UP AND DESTRUCTION OF HUNDREDS OF LETTEDROP-OFF BOXES...FOLLOWED BY THE INSURRECTION ATTEMPT OF JANUARY 6, 2021...AND HERE WE ARE

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Donald Trump's multi-component conspiracy plan to hold onto power had many pieces that depended on key Trump-appointed role players, heading key government agencies, who were to enact new policies, or directly act, to obstruct and terminate the lawful transfer of power to a possibly new political administration outcome of the 2020 presidential election. If visibly legal means to stop the electoral process didn't work, then the plan was to have an insurrection grab of power by a pre-organized mob that would invade the halls of Congress and stop the January 6, 2021, Congressional formal 'certification' of the Electoral College Ballots.

The Jan6 insurrection plan seems to have been copied from one of Trump's rare book readings, and political heroes, Mein Kampf, written by Adolph Hitler during his 1923-24 imprisonment in Germany for treason and sedition attempt to overthrow Germany's democratic Weimar Republic.

Trump's attempt to take over the election process was (and remains) a well-imagined and dangerous plan whose structure and players remain in place because of the due process legal protections in the American Constitution. Memories of Weimar?

The continuation of the Trump presidency (in one form or another) depended on the success of several components and multiple players playing their part in a plan that depended on the coordination among many agencies and a bag load of key co-conspirators and emergency appointees. 

The Trump Plan was to compromise key government agencies such as the Dept of Homeland Security (DOJ and Secret Service head and agents), and other agencies - following a template of presidential replacement of department heads who would initiate agency changes although legitimate would nevertheless obstruct or call into question voting access and ballot certification across the country. As designed, the plan appeared to be within the legal powers of Trump's presidential authority. 

Trump's plan depended on cooperation (collusion) from compromised federal and state agencies and actors ...including Homeland Security, DOJ, Secret Service, and Congress itself; and also depending on the 'cooperation' (collusion) of state governors, attorneys general, legislators, etc. 

A key target in that plan was and remains the US Postal Service. Trump planned to defund the postal service in order to obstruct and slow down the November voting and election process by impairing the US Postal Service's capability to handle the flow and volume of postal items on election day. The plan apparently began with the May 16, 2020, appointment of Trump donor, Louis DeJoy. DeJoy began removing and destroying mail sorting machines and hundreds of postal drop-off boxes which Trump openly touted as his favored postal service measure designed to eventually lead to eliminating mail-in voting in as many states as possible. This program was apparently halted just before the election, but it was seen as too late by many...plus it was resumed after the election so that the slowdown to the election process will continue in magnified form for 2024.

Especially critical to the Plan were the quickly installed new heads of DHS, DOJ, the Secret Service,(and SS agents themselves), and other Trump appointees who (with some few exceptions) then were to play their assigned roles in a pre-planned 'strategy' of obstruction and delay of the Electoral College Count on January 6, 2021. 

The Jan6 House Select Investigation Committee is revealing more and more about Trump's plan to continue his presidency beyond January 20, 2021, through a multi-component conspiracy. 

Trump's role in the Plan was a key one....which was to incite a January 6 mob to 'invade' the Capitol building and stop the formal count of the Electoral College ballots after which Trump was to step up to declare a national emergency and with endorsement from his congressional loyalists he would continue as President...for...let's say, for an extended period of time to be determined., although starting out 'pro-tem'.

If the mob failed to 'remove' (incapacitate or kill ..." by hanging") VP Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, then compromised secret service agents were to move ('kidnap', accidently kill?) Pence to an isolated, emergency (secret) location so then Trump's congressional proxies (eg McConnell, Gohmert, Gaetz, Grassley, Graham, etc) would/could legitimately stop the electoral ballot count, declare the ballots questionable and call for a re-election. Then Trump would hold an emergency televised appearance from the White House (where he anxiously cheered on the insurrection mob) to declare martial law...leading to the suspension of the electoral process.  

Trump would then announce from the White House, that evening, a plan worked out (beforehand?) with his congressional loyalists (and the Supreme Court?) to continue in office pro-tem perhaps in increments of 3 months...but once the plan was in operation, there would be every opportunity, certainly, the purpose, to make permanent the emergency suspension of the transfer of power.  

But the Proud Boys failed to achieve their part, the insurrection, and the Secret Service failed to get Pence into 'that' car, so the Electoral College count was formalized, and the transfer of the presidency occurred.  

This left a big (and dangerous) problem for the insurrectionists: EVIDENCE OF THE INSURRECTION PLAN HAD TO BE ERASED, AND EVIDENCE OF THE ERASURE ITSELF HAD TO BE COVERED UP IN HOPES THAT IT WOULD ALL DIE AWAY AFTER BIDEN TOOK OVER. (

IMO, this hope that 'it would all fade away and be forgotten, was a very reasonable assumption knowing the tendency of the media to forget everything after a standard news cycle - in this case not more than several weeks and certainly not six months, nor the year that it took for DHS to inform Congress that the Secret Service text messages around Jan 6, 2021, had been erased ('legitimately') during a transparent, though irregular, Jan 5-7, wipe of DHS computers and Secret Service agents' personal cell phones. This was carried out. But even though not 'uncovered' until more than a year later, The Jan6 Investigation Committee is energetically examining the intricate workings of Trump's Plan to illegally continue in office..

The Trump Insurrection Plan has sneaky-thinking, 'idea-men' Steve Bannon and Roger Stone written all over it. But it seems that Bannon, Stone, and the other co-conspirators didn't figure on the Jan6 Investigation Committee being enacted, being serious, being impartial...having integrity., and above all being loyal to the nation rather than to an individual. 

But Trump loyalists and insurrection planners then quickly reacted with another plan to neutralize the Jan6 House Select Investigation Committee - by attempting to seed the Jan6 Committee with pro-Trump members such as Jordan, Gaetz, etc. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quickly saw through that and took steps to select her own bi-partisan panel. who have carefully unstrung the ball of threads Trump and his u..and viola the curtains on the insurrection plan are being drawn aside with increasing speed...revealing a rotten core of insurrectionists and ungloving the fine handiwork of Bannon, Stone, and Trump himself (and others).

AMERICA’S 4 YEARS IN THE FORGE, THE TRUMP POTUS — WHERE WILL WE GO NOW? (CAN AMERICA ESCAPE FROM ITS PROBLEMS IN RIVER CITY?)

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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!

TRUMP & TRUMPISM, FROM A DISTANCE: WE NEED TO OWN UP TO OUR OWN MISTAKE

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.  

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Donald Trump. For all our sake, it would be nice if we could just throw Trump back into the shark tank he came from and as a country just curl up in some quiet corner to lick America’s wounds from Trump’s rampages through the White House and American political history. (Trump did so much damage....,it's hard to forgive but we could ban  him from running for any public office … ever again...to his and our benefit. We owe this to ourselves, and in a way, to Trump.)

Let’s keep in mind that America (we were all, in some way at least curious) wanted to see what a businessman could do as president. We felt businessmen had an inside track on how to get things done because after all their rich lives, multiple homes, and yachts are earned and sustained by sharp eyed focus and cany insight to bottom line actions… we've heard. 

So we got (elected? maybe) Trump who most of us wanted to see apply those supposedly awesome ‘business moves’ to solve America’s problems. 

And we didn’t have to wait long to see Trump apply his impressive television “Apprentice” mojo to running America…and he did a real job on America, and on Americans. Trump nearly ran America into ruin in a random-walk presidency of self-interest, greed, smoke-and-mirrors, con-man slickness, and maybe even treason. 

Trump was America's "Big Sellout." Trump made America into a grifter's buffet. Trump saw the presidency as a 'magic hat' that made people bow.  America was Trump's open sesame and he was awful.

Within weeks after his inauguration, Trump revealed himself to be frighteningly inappropriate.

Working with Trump as president was like trying to put a leash on a rattlesnake for a walk in the park…not working. 

Trump is a middle feeder from a tank of sharks…not the best like Rex Tillerson, nor the worst, but still an atrocious fit. BUT WE ELECTED TRUMP ...SO IN A WAY WE OWE HIM...SOMETHING.

TRUMP wasn't serious about becoming President. He wanted revenge, the free advertising to be used for other money-making projects and to impress with a title on the mantlepiece.  

And Trump didn’t even know or much care about American history, especially Constitutional history. He thought the White House was just a pad with “old furniture” that he wanted to replace with “modern stuff”.  Trump's wife was equally misplaced and showed it. And his daughter thought “Senior Advisor” was a kind of Disney role where she could hawk her clothing brand and get market advantages…like in China. 

Trump's ransacking sprint through the presidency was a sad, sad moment for America. Kinda wish we could not send Trump to prison or relegate him to a laughable history bookmark. Like a middle-feeder carp, I wish for all our sake, we could just throw Trump back into the shark tank he came from and we could curl up in peace to lick America’s wounds from his rampage.

GOP BRANDING, AGAIN - BOGGGLING THE MIND (AS THEY DELIGHT IN DOING)

 The Perched Eye blog is 12+ years old, from 2009 with President Obama's first term. The focus has been eclectic ...  the ways and directions of American politics and culture, and occasionally summarizing the potential impacts of new technologies. Pericles21's observations sometimes attract a critical eye, but the 'pen' remains unblunted.                         -----------

Republicans call their boneheadedness 'just Branding'. In a perverse way, they are correct except for the real damage banding can bring upon the gullible. 'Branding' is waving a flag empty of real meaning yet ringing with sonically resonant (but often designed-with-malice, illogical-upon-close-inspection) slogans that identify one's group and, by default, one's enemies who are not gullible enough to repeat them. But close-up inspection causes the sonics of branding to fall apart like wet cardboard instead of solid bricks ... and such was, and still is, the case with the Trump-era's 'Covid Denial' self-identity branding. 

 'Denial of Covid' was, and remains a political genius idea to 'brand' actual pandemic disease as a belief system by painting over a deadly illness with a coat of brightly emotional, quasi-religious noise that defined who not to trust regardless of their medical expertise (shades of Nixonian-Goldwater faux anti-elitist 'egghead-ism'). Christian evangelism and end-times ecstasy's support of Trump were unexpected 'wins' that were woven into the fabric of Covid Denial. Those were Strange Times ...which are still going strong with Trump's rants getting ongoing media coverage as if he isn't the fraudulent conman he is.

SINCE 2009, THE GOP HAVEN'T CHANGED... EXCEPT AN ATTEMPTED OVERTHROW OF GOVERNMENT

PERICLES21 very recently reviewed some early posts, from 2009 on, to see how the GOP reacted to the election of President Obama - to try to see any changes or shifts...or improvements in GOP attitudes. This kind of distanced self-assessment is often helpful if not sobering as opinions, perspectives and mental edges can soften. 

But, lo and behold, doesn't this April, 2009 post title and lead-in read uncannily like it was written today? (The only change seems to be the 2009 Tea Party graduates actually tried to overthrow the  American government on January 6, 2021): The GOP Ship of Fools' sails on, forever seeking. Eventually, they might realize they are dead in the water because they forgot to raise the anchor. Until ten, the GOP rows furiously only pausing their Sysiphian effort to pat themselves as the GOP vessel sits deadin the water.

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SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2009

The GOP Today - Resigned, Near-Dead, But Still Tea Bagging...So, It Isn't all Bad, Right?

"Right now, the only GOP action [to nullify Obama's election to POTUS] is a half-hearted call to insurrection, [Hmmm, they're consistent] aka the New Tea Party movement. But as usual with the GOP these days, their knack for stepping ankle deep in nasty stuff and then ...g leefully, as if they are doing something terribly witty, shoving said foot into mouth, ... .."                                                                                                             AND                                                                                                                                            "the GOP is lost in a kind of political 'mannerism' where they remember the postures but have lost any idea of the meanings and contexts of their awkaward and jerky mimicry of conservativeness. The result is the derangement of Limbaugh, the Innanity of Hannity, the Dreck of Beck, and Michelle Bachmann's stupid utterances accompanied with her really strange, vapid and pat-on-back-expecting-look-at-me-daddy false smiles. The GOP sputterings are not down-to-earth, nurturing oatmeal but dry sawdust and dull nails.)                                                                                                                                        AND FINALLY                                                                                                                                                      The GOP Ship of Fools sails on, forever seeking ... something. Eventually, they might realize they are dead in the water because they forgot to raise the anchor. Until then, the GOP rows furiously only pausing their Sysiphian effort to pat themselves as the GOP vessel sits dead in the water.                  

Pericles21's 2009 post  seems prescient about the GOP's Tea Party new clothes, it 'struck gold,' nay platinum, because then and especially now, the Republican Party's eagerness to win (willy-nilly anything, it seems) resulted in bastardizing itself into a Tea Party-ing cult of  imperfect face-actors and fascist ideologues. In 2009, the GOP set future frames for its ineffectual faux-ness by attacking the newly installed President Obama through violating standards of decency, ethics and journalistic professionalism. 

2009's Republican 'messaging', if it can be called that, was delivered by a core of right wing Fox News faces featuring Michelle Bachman ( ), Russ Limbaugh (Fox News uber-idol, recently deceased), Sean Hannity (Limbaugh's apparent successor, Trump pal) and others, notably Fox News' upstart face-man, Tucker Carlson. They still constitute the peanut gallery of American right wing shouters.

Now, twelve years later in April, 2021, we have the familiar Fox News crew from 2009, with some added accolytes and less a few attritioned members (essentially the same clown-faced, right wing actors) doing their 'same-old', now stridently attacking Obama's vice President, Joseph Biden, America's newly elected President (much to the relief of 75-83% of Americans). 

The Fox News gang have evolved their craziness with often 'off-planet-sounding' conspiracy scenarios that one would think can only come out of twisted and nearly ruined minds.

While 2021's Fox News gang yell out their conspiracy fantasies more stridently they are less believable because America has heard it before, and fell for the hype and elected the Tea Party poseur, Donald Trump. 

Trump's White House shift could be summarized as, 'What's in it for me, personally, money-wise, get that cash.... America was supposed to be my big ticket out of debt and be really, real rich ... I was supposed to lose the 'f..ing' election and make BANK ... somebody owes me! Chomp, chomp, good burger.'And, ' 'Pandemic? Who cares how many die, how can that be cash-converted... for me?'

Trump's deeply imprinted grift mentality and incompetencies while tinkering with reality (as POTUS) nearly caused America to have a truly big Fall but we were saved just in time by JOE  BIDEN'S SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE AND ETHICS AND TEAM AND ... A  LOT MORE.  

 

TRUMP’S CALLOUT FOR INSURRECTION ON JANUARY 6, 2021 - THAT FORTUNATELY FAILED

It’s being debated but let’s face it, on January 6, 2021, there was an attempted, insurrection takeover of the  democratically-elected American government that barely failed. 

The intended, forceful takeover of the American government wras inspired by Donald Trump  (as he inspired prior to the 2016 election) and attempted with planned (premeditated) kidnappings, torture and executions-by-gallows-hanging on the Capitol grounds just in front of Congress. 

Although not a successful insurrection, bad actions were perpetrated by Trump’s followers resulting in deaths, injuries, and stealing and destruction of government property.

And it all began months earlier with Donald Trump’s pre-emptive whining, echoed by Fox News and other right wing voices, about his  possible 2020 election loses that could only happen except by Democrat cheating and vote rigging - which course, Trump’s state and national supporters were surreptitiously already putting in place for his benefit. (All of these ‘moves’ Trump committed leading up to the 2020 election.). 

Therefore, by Trumpist ‘logic’, his supporters had to anticipate Democrat Party cheating and ‘betrayal’ and prepare to act to take back their rightful 2020 election win. 

Hence, prior to the 2020 election, Trump began a program of anticipatory preparation for insurrection - culminating in a post-election call out for a ‘wild’ gathering of Trump loyalists in Washington DC at the Capitol Hall of Congress, on January 6, 2021.

TRUMP’S CALL TO INSURRECTION - ‘LETS HAVE A ‘WILDING’’.!

Trump’s invitation to a “wild’ time at the Capitol was an unsubtle reference to the term “wilding” which has been for some decades a label attached to Trumpist-like mobs and translates  to ‘destructive running amok’ with unconcerned, deadly consequences for persons and property — hence the gallows constructed by the insurgents and the plastic wrist ties, the guns carried, the Molotov cocktails, the bombs cached at strategic locations nearby, the feces smeared on the walls of Congress, the urinating on the Capitol carpets and elsewhere, the ‘wilding’ insane shouting for Vice President Pence, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other elected offices to come out of hiding.  To summarize, as planned, there was an incited deadly rampage (a ‘Wilding’)  carried out by a deliberately inflamed, run-amok mob … whose actions were pre-meditated to capture and kill elected officials (the wrist ties, gallows and guns) whose election legitimacy had prior been confirmed by 60 unsuccessful court challenges. January 6, 2021, was a Trump-inspired Insurrection, with tressxpassing, destroying property, gunfire and killings ... that failed.