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

 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!

THE JUNE 28 (2022) JAN 6 COMMITTEE HEARING FEATURING MS. CASSIDY HUTCHINSON — NAMING THE DEVI

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.                   --------

Thnx to Ms. Cassidy Hutchinson, today’s Jan 6 Select Committee's emergency hearing witness, for keeping her cool as she related the horrors around her as they evolved leading to the attempted coup on January 6, 2021. And thanks to the Jan 6 Committee's Chair and co-Chairs, Bennie Thompson and  Liz Cheny, respectively) for guiding viewers and witnesses through the mire and muck of Trumpville. And thanks to Michael Cohen, for his fall from grace, imprisonment, and self-redemption to speak out about Trumpism. And thanks to others for background context from their own 'Trump' experiences. (Note the proper name of the 'Jan 6 Select Committe' is  U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.)

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Today’s ‘Jan 6' hearing brought to mind watching two prior televised hearings equal to the Jan 6 House Select Committee Hearings’ import: the McCarthy Army Hearing in 1954‘ (“Have you no sense of decency, Senator McCarthy”), and the Watergate Hearings (1971’s “lordy there are tapes”).

All three hearings originate from the actions and/or warped thinking of sociopaths who somehow slithered to national attention in the age of television.

McCarthy died young. Nixon resigned during his second term. Trump, if not sent to prison, and even then, must be permanently barred from ever again filling any elected position or even serving in any public post.

(But even if Trump is banned from future elections, that might not be enough to neutralize Trump — recall that Adolph Hitler served less than a year of a five-year sentence for his 1924 seditious coup attempt to overthrow Germany’s Weimar Republic…much like with Trump’s Jan 6, 2021 coup attempt.)

Also, in the three American near-misses cited above, television, the nineteenth-twentieth century common man’s voyeuristic ticket to the world around us, opened windows to places that confirmed many of our suspicions, repelled us and yet had us fascinated to want more.

Yes, many of us were frightened as Hell sitting in the virtual front row of life’s Play. And those scary actors! But it all added up to great entertainment the evening before we had to return to work at the soup factory…and we remember our emotions as we watched.  Those peaks (‘highs’?) still reside as faint outlines in our minds…and we welcome  their return as new stuff appears from the foggy bog of American culture.

America's vicarious TV hearings, IMO, also ‘jumped’ America into a national addictions just as pernicious as real narcotics. And those experiences groomed us into real substance abuses, e.g., ‘Crack’, “Meth’, ‘Oxy’, Molly…all high-emotional-cost, escapist, chemical boosts that for a short time have given America repeats of the thrills we first felt on a national scale as we watched real life on television.

Now we are again via televised hearings we are watching from front row seats the unpeeling of the Trump orange (double entendre).

This time the destruction of America, by Trump, was narrowly avoided… largely because the plans of psychotic minds seem always to fall apart from the over-reaching hubris of their human hosts. (I distance the evil(ill) mind from its physical host in the belief that the illness is its own ‘self’, apart and above the human host.)  'Trumpism’, the extension of Trump's evil intentions into conned followers are are manifestations of an ill brain.

There is a kind of reptilian ‘beauty’ to Trump’s “-osis”. Trump , as reported he said, didn’t fear the Jan 6, 2021, mob, with their military-grade automatic weapons, because in his snake-kin inner brain, he ‘knew’ the mob and the surrounding crescendo-building chaos was the product of his own subliminal, rarely explicit manipulations of his staff and his zombie proxies at Congress, at state legislatures and the mob actors themselves.

‘Trump’, the ill brain, must be named to force it from the shadows into the light. We don’t see ‘Trump’ the brain. What we see is a shade, a sidewalk shadow cast by the ‘brain’ itself..like a 1930–40s BW horror film, that operates from a human body that is too quickly chosen and fits like a cheap suit.. but regardless is functional!

Evil ‘shades’ are not perfect in everything; they lack human aesthetics and are impatient to get about their business…so they sometimes make bad choices about things trivial to them even if important to the rest of us, such as physical health, nice ties, et. -that is how we catch them out!). 

Trump is not a perfect evil, nor perhaps not even earning top-of class evil when compare to world-class evil entities such as Adolph, or Genghis who killed millions. But if not neutralized, for good, Trump potentially may end American democracy. May the gods bless and continue to watch over us.