I’m still sighing …

… with relief.

I never want to hear the ‘trump’ name again and most certainly do not want to hear his voice, I don’t think anyone wants to hear his voice now or see the invented put on gruff look he adopted. A crummy tv fake propelled to a position that never should have happened.

Even to the end we see trumps clenched fist, to my mind the fascist salute. He will pretend theres mileage in him yet, but as usual a scheme so that he can retain the re-election fund, forever the schemer, the hustler the conman.

Look at peoples faces up at the new administration, a complete contrast to the previous miserable crew, theres work to be done, never has four years in my lifetime been rendered so cloying, so damaging having to writhe against a continual onslaught of trump lies and deceit. As ever trump demanded election fraud and in the typical Janus world of trump opposites and contradictions I think the only fraud was that any sane person ever voted trump at all !

A couple of hours after the Liar in Chief departed we hear of Voice of America having had its own trump influencer installed so as to do trumps bidding and now as the other rats fleeing the sinking ship he too at the Head of VOA is compelled to go, his staff we are informed resoundingly delighted; VOA was something often found on our domestic shortwave radio when I was a kid fifty plus years ago. No-one whatsoever laments the loss of any of them ie De Voss, Pence, Pompeo etc etc …. good riddance. Bafflingly and shamefully Mitch McConnel still defended trump until the last couple of weeks, quite happy for the useful fool to promote his agenda.

Gone are having to google ‘trump latest’ five times a day here in the UK so to leap over the bbc r4 fug of news misinformation and spin that even to the end painted trump in a better light than the facts demanded. There is no mainstream fake media as trump stupidly promulgated, merely a fake trump, shallow indolent, uneducated, incapable of assimilation or learning; forever thinking only his viewpoint is the correct viewpoint.

People need to ask themselves of the shallowness of following a slogan, to dig deeper and use their brains, of the need to ask simple questions beyond accepting a mere slogan and so to the next level and the next level again; to ask if they are being used in their sense of grievance and of wanting something better, they were being coralled to do trumps bidding as if wild ponies that don’t know any better. Witness particularly the insurrection at the Capitol, this bears out my point exactly, of the need to stop the shouting and the sloganizing and to sit quietly and to use their minds to think it all out.

I’ll never write about trump again, theres no need to, the The Rules of Justice and The Rule Law will take care of him. I can now attend to my hobbies and interests, to find time to read one of those funny old fashioned things called a (and I’ve lots of them here) … let me think what they are called … oh yes … a book!

trump got what he wanted …

Putin too.

ie mayhem, chaos, destruction; the denigration of the USA.

But theres still a lot of good in America. My own view is that social media and the web is quite a dangerous breeding ground for nonsense, enabling skewed vision and shallow thought, unfortunates get together and bolster themselves, the web allowing them to fuel their sense of grievance, injustice and hurt. Its also my own view that education seems to have failed, America often has the reputation of being ‘hermetically sealed’ to the workings and cultures of the wider world.

I just never have been able to fathom why any decent person is so taken in by trump, who always was and has been proven repeatedly to be destructive and never in any way ever been fit for Office. The mantra ‘great again’ is mindless, quite moronic. Does none of the trump supporters ever consider the meaning of words, their depth, their implication and meaning, their historical or entymological precedent? It is trump himself and his unseen backers that are indeed ‘Deep State’ if any such thing exists, the Janus finger of trump accusatory zeal being in fact most pertinent to himself, ie a showman, conman, fake and merely a practiced tv shadow. Its incredible also but happens every few decades that people can be so taken in by slogans and repeated catchphrase jingoism, now there is a word that hasn’t be heard for a long time …. ‘jingoism’!

Theres is no depth to any of this catchphrase slogan rallying, nothing has substance, nothing holds an arguament or a discussion for more than a mere few seconds, as with the assailants of the Capitol, get each one on their own without their backup buddies and their ability to argue ‘their case’ will soon falter, will evaporate; all that remains is a need to belong to something, to find kindred souls, to air grievance and mutually sympathise and to engender in actual reality a quite slender sense of purpose. Witness that once the assailants had gained entry all they did was aimlessly wander around, their purpose now spent, their actions their arguament and objective were all now quite empty. In their defence I wonder to what extent they were manipulated, manipulated longterm by trumps shallow catchphrase slogan presentation style and probably manipulated more recently by hired hands to whip up stupidity.

Pence now needs to ‘get real’ and is realising there has to be a life after trump; the four years as White House Eunuch forever an indelible stain. Four wasted destructive years of environmental sabotage and unparalleled ignorance of the climate problem, of being a lackey to big business; Mnuchin another Eunuch standing on guard to see puppet donald pushed the right agenda.

So sad to see ‘rent a mob’ last night on tv, mostly without any covid procedure ie masks, but also I wonder as with all things trump as to what was less obvious, to what extent was the rabble roused by unseen forces, planted inciters, paid stooges to whip up excitement and insurrection. Many of the rabble looked quite happy, smiling as they entered the building, maybe that was the uppers, I don’t know, but once inside its obvious they were clueless as to the next step. The rabble itself displayed a collective mental age of nine year olds and really do need something other than this time wasting stupidity to fill their waking hours. Sad.

A line needs to be drawn, Comey recently attempted to calm the situation that trump will not be pursued, not charged, but after last nights insanity the heavy hand of justice and common sense needs to fall heavy and hard on the circus known as trump. To signal that America has better things to do than imbibe the trump stupidity. Immediate impeachment / 25 would define a return to sanity, to draw a correct and proper line in moving forward. It would also signal to the world that America is done with trump, a sad cascade of not speaking truth to power and that same power intentionally and wilfully choosing to ignore reality ie the facts; fresh air can now enter the room. Vested interest needs to be resigned to the back of peoples minds, with no doubt whatsoever signalled to the greedy cats at the top.

Year ’21 is going to be a bad year for anything trump, for his cohorts, enablers, backers and totally unqualified high profile sons and daughter Ivanka looking increasingly silly and malicious, a pointless hanger-on family of near zero intellect other than alley cat survival, , whoops listen carefully … was that another word from don jr? …. the embodiment of a ‘useless article’? No, he knows fine well his time has passed. We need to use some brains in future.

But of course trump cannot turn up for the Inaugoration, bone spurs are hellish, so problematic, so prone to turn up just when it is inconvenient.