This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

The hits keep coming, louder and more up tempo. The Co-chair of the Michigan GOP, says the phony elector scam idea came from the Twump campaign. She has her index finger pointing as she raises her arm. Act in haste repent in prison. “Why that wasn’t my idea, it came from that guy over there.” That sudden desire for self-preservation, when they begin to realize what is in store for them. “I didn’t shoot no sheriff, or no deputy! It was that guy over there with the fake orange tan!”

The New York Times say documents show Rudy Guiliani oversaw the fake elector’s scam for the Twump campaign. Let’s try that in a sentence, “Rudy Guiliani and I are going to try and overthrow the government.” Or “I and Rudy Guiliani are going to try and overthrow the government.” Either way, it just has that “Four Seasons ring about it!” Are you sure you want to trust that to Rudy? “Oh sure, he’s good. If you catch him before four or five o’clock, he’s real good.” In the days of wine and roses.

There is a big wet spot in the plaster on the ceiling, and it’s still raining outside. You better go get the bucket. Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton is refusing a District Attorney’s order to turn over documents related to his activities and communications on January 6^th  in accordance with the state’s sunshine laws. In Texas, the top law enforcement official doesn’t have to follow the law, if he doesn’t want too. The art of the dodge done clumsily and panicky. The willingness to publicly flaunt the law, points to the severity of the need to flaunt the law. That look on the suspects face when the cops ask about the shovel in the backseat and ask to look in the trunk.

In Alaska, the court ruled the state’s Republican Governor fired a state attorney, because he didn’t like her anti-Twump Facebook posts. The incoming Governor had asked for everyone’s resignation. Along with a letter explaining why you should get your old job back. That’s an old team building exercise, “You’re all fired, now beg me for your job!” Of course, the attorney’s letter failed with three F’s. Failure to Follow and love the Fuhrer. God bless America! “What do you mean, you don’t love the virgin, Mary?”

But it is only fitting and proper to give due attention where attention is rightly due. We’ve watched as one by one; Twump associates over the years are hurled under the speeding bus whenever needed. Vengeance is mine sayeth the Twump. The plan comes into focus as Twump originally planned to throw his own followers under the bus. Twump campaign lawyers are starting to sing like Pavarotti. Once they begin to realize that if they lose their law license, it’s next stop oil tech trainee at Jiffy Lube.

Twump was going to call for a time of healing, after this dastardly attack by those despicable ruffians. He called them all to Washington. He lit a fire under their ass to start trouble. Then planned to use their bad behavior as a basis to issue his draft Presidential Executive order to seize voting machines and call out the National Guard. “Welcome, to your first official day of Kamikaze pilot training! We hope it works out as well for you, as it will for us.”

Do you know what would make really, really good reality TV? If the National Guard were to show up and beat a few of these ruffians into the ground. Break some bones, maybe knock out a few teeth. Think I’m kidding? That is what Authoritarians are good at. That’s what Authoritarians do! They restore order with chloroform and batons, when times get a bit chaotic. Oh my God, someone’s burned down the Reichstag! It all comes into focus. As the insurrection began, panicked Congressional Republicans begged Twump to call it off. Twump’s own daughter begged him to make it stop. Even the son he never had Sean Inanity, begged Twump to call it off.

They didn’t understand that the violence WAS the desired result. They all got cold feet with their dammed civilized behavior. Twump would have wet himself with joy if there had been ten or twenty Ashli Babbitt’s. After seizing the voting machines and chloroforming the opposition Twump would have moved to call for harsh, harsh prison sentences. Giving luster to his authoritarianism, as it’s a good thing he came along, when he did.

Jail dummies, pushed like disposable pawns. Extra’s in the Donald Twump Story. Some of the insurrectionist thought the Twump would actually pardon them. That’s the opposite of where he would like to see them. El Presidente for life, doesn’t need rowdy followers anymore. He has no need for the little people or the great unwashed. No need for troublemakers who might say more then they know or spill the beans. Disposable paper cups to be used once and then thrown away. Ernst Rohm doesn’t need any life insurance.

The picture begins to take shape out of the mist. As each day more evidence comes to light. Twump watched the insurrection he fomented on TV. Hoping for the violence, he anticipated would help to keep him in office. And they were violent, but they just weren’t violent enough to get the plan off the ground and failing to reach critical mass.

If only they could have hung Mike Pence, Twump might still be President today. At least, that appears to have been a part of the plan. Individuals did show up with a scaffold and a rope. And who brings those things spontaneously to an insurrection, unless told to bring them along? They failed, because they just weren’t violent enough.

“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?” ― George Orwell