This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

All in the masquerade, I guess. Mike Pence former Vice President and jockey, expert at straddling the fence. Faced down a host of hostile Pro Trump demonstrators. “There’s the sellout! There’s the traitor!” and the ever popular, “Why’d you sell out the people?”

This was just getting out of the limo. What is Mike Pence actually running for anyway? Polling from 1 to 4% dead last in a field of nobodies, it should be obvious by now. Pence is not going to suddenly turn the crowd around with thrilling speeches or grandiose promises.

“I know the people in this movement, whether they support me or not, are the best people in this country,” – Mike Pence

Sure, you might want to kill me and desecrate my corpse malevolently, but I know deep down inside, you’re my kind of folks.  

“I’ll tell you there is a lot of passion out there, but I just, I reject your suggestion that that passion is translated into the violence and vandalism of that day,” No shit Sherlock?

Especially, if that passion and violence is directed towards Mike Pence. But do take note of how the protestors at the courthouse were few and well behaved. They vent their spleens on smaller targets now. The Trumpers show up to protest and to rail and make noise at the artificial enemy. There he is, Goldstein! We hate Goldstein…Boo!

One town hall participant asked the question all were thinking. “Why didn’t Mike Pence just go along with their lord and master’s plan to commit treason?”  Pence fell back on that tired old legal saw that he didn’t have the authority to overturn the election. “So, what’s that got to do with anything? Trump asked you to!”

Then Pence went high over their heads taking the forbidden mountain road, suggesting they all read “Article Two, Section One, Clause Three of the Constitution.” Suggesting they read everybody! Really? Where’s my copy of the Federalist Papers?

Why surely that must work, why once they’ve digested Article Two, then they’ll come around. “Gee Mike, were awfully sorry. You were correct about that point of law all along.” Now remember, that most in this crowd’s reading list involves preheating the oven to 400 degrees and venting the plastic cover on the TV dinner. Carefully point the canned string cheese away from your face.

Now wait everybody. Let’s hear Judas’s side of the story!

Pence isn’t just another Trump opponent, he’s the devil. Mike Pence is the pop-up thermometer in the frozen turkey. The Trumpers hate Ron DeSantis just for running against Trump. The nerve of that man, where does he get off? That, and as a candidate DeSantis has turned into Pepe Le Pew.

He can do his best to cover it up, but he still smells of skunk. But they hate Ron just for being Ron, and for challenging Trump, daring to interfere in Trump’s orbit. That, and Ron’s obvious personality disorder. But Mike Pence has actually ratted Trump out to the opskis.

Pence straddles the fence and gets nervous whenever the media mentions testifying. “Well, ah, I think President Trump did wrong, and I’ve said so. Then, I ignored a congressional subpoena to testify about it publicly because that would be inappropriate. That would make me a rat! Trump even said so. I won’t testify, but I will follow the letter of the law. But gosh darn it mother, I won’t like it!

Why not Dylan Mulvaney run as a Republican? Who else could be less popular than Mike Pence? Like a cooler full of Bud Light, I’ll drink it if it’s free, but I won’t like it! Half or less than half of Republicans believe in Trump’s big lie. Trump can do no wrong. He’s the lord and savior of the universe sir. And if my eyes were to behold a crime he committed. I would tear my eyeballs from their sockets, so I might deny my vision and say it was not so.

They won’t compromise ever. Somebodies staying home in November. It’s difficult to say which is hurting the DeSantis campaign more. Trump’s regularly kicking him or Ron’s ability to fall down all by himself.

Ron DeSantis is that hot minor league phenom, failing in the big leagues. It should have been great. Ron, had it all planned out. He had an answer for every question, but then the questions began to pile up faster than his team could formulate his answers. So, we get those captivating warm and fuzzy special Ron moments. As he tells a kid at a fair eating an Icee, “That’s a lot of sugar, huh?”

What? Are you also running for Captain Nutrition too? It was a fair, for Pete’s sake. There was a whole Midway full of nutritional misbehavior going on. It sure does sounds like a lot of fun over to Ron’s house. He could have said, “is that good?” or “what flavor is that? That’s my favorite flavor too!” Instead, he passes judgement on the kid. Well, If I was your mother, you’d get warm bottled water and salt tablets. It doesn’t sound like much, but it says so much. A brief glance behind the mask.

These are two hostile camps who won’t ever come together in the fall for the good of the Party. DeSantis came right out and said Trump did wrong. Everybody seems to be saying that around the Party these days. The erosion has begun and can’t be stopped. The defenses are crumbling, and the lines are retreating. The only thing they can agree on, is disliking Mike Pence.

Prosecutors have asked for a Protective Order after Trump’s weekend of unhinged threat. Trump lawyers asked for more time (maybe 6 or 7 months maybe) and were answered with a sharp “No!” Hinting that the trial judge is perhaps displeased with someone’s behavior.

The Republicans find themselves diametrically opposed to the rule of law. That is an untenable platform for a politician. But now, they can finally admit it out loud. “Trump did wrong” The sorry sad realization that finally seeps in beyond the propaganda and protozoa . “Trump did wrong!” There is no return from that position, Trump did wrong. “Me say it! Me think it! Me say it again! Trump did wrong!”

It’s a journey that starts with the single admission that Trump did wrong. They can’t go back from there, it’s too late now. Trump retreats to Alabama where he’s still safe, but the safe country is beginning to shrink and erode. The erosion has begun and cannot be stopped. “Trump rallies small but energetic crowd in New Hampshire” – Boston Herald

“Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. ― John F. Kennedy