This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

It’s stunning, but not surprising. A Georgia Grand Jury recommends charges against three Republican Senators. Two of the Senators are already out of office (thank you voters!) and the third; Lindsey Graham is probably not worth the trouble to fish for. There’s bigger fish in the sea, (A great orange whale!) and funds aren’t unlimited.

In a normal world, the revelation, a Grand Jury recommends you be charged with serious crimes. Would be enough to encourage voters to replace the Senator at the earliest opportunity.

Not a single phone call to Brad Raffensperger, but several, multiple, many. The poor man was dodging phone calls from the President and Lindsey Graham. Rudy maybe, probably Rudy too. We wanna talk to you about your auto warranty. “I need you to find me…”

That’s something Tide just won’t wash off. But Lindsey is a peripheral character in this saga of not so long ago or so far away. Lindsey was an outsider to the conspiracy. He was just a soldier and not even a trusted soldier. A useful idiot told to call Raffensperger because of geography. “He’ll listen to you Lindsey; you’re his neighbor!”

Yes, your majesty! Your will is my command! I hear, and I will obey your worship. “Sarah? Get me Brad Raffensperger on the phone over to the Georgia Capitol.” Lindsey may be a Beta, but he’s slippery. He’s a low-grade ore with a poor yield. Sometimes you just can’t prosecute everybody, especially a US Senator. Besides, Lindsey Graham is only a side story here anyway in the continuing adventures of Orange Dumb ass Abbey.

The more the saga is explained the murkier it becomes, while at the same time bringing clarity to who and what and when were responsible for it. There are a million stories in the naked city.

The relentless pressure placed on Mike Pence compelling him to break the law. The Secret Service trying to hustle Pence off the Capitol property January 6^th which would have played nicely right into Trump’s hands. “It was, it was, it was for the, for the Vice-President’s own security. Yeah! Security, yeah that’s why we tried to do that.”

Everything all coalesces around that one moment in the parking garage. The Secret Service telling Pence to get in the limo and Pence petulantly refusing. If Pence gets in that car, there is no one left onsite to perform the ceremony. Stopping the wedding by kidnapping the preacher. And then the coup would have achieved its primary goal, stopping the transition.

I also find it interesting that Mike Pence, a man not known for his intellectual prowess. He should suddenly become so perceptive and aware on January 6^th refusing to get in the car. Do people normally not listen to their bodyguards during a violent insurrection?

It says to me; Pence smelled a rat and was wise to the jive of what might be planned. Pence was aware something was in the wind and knew what Trump was capable of. Mike’s actions scream he knows something, while his mouth swears he doesn’t know nothing.

Why does Mike Pence come off as a perfumed rose in a room full of chamber pots? Just gooder than an airy angel who just happens to work at the same snake pit among the snakes.

Has anyone interviewed the Secret Service about their actions and orders on that blustery January day? Was Mike Pence’s defiance inspired by good old fashioned red-blooded American patriotism? Was it anger? Was Pence angry that Trump was actually going to try and pull this bullshit off? Or was he scared? I’m not bad mouthing the man here. He would have every right to be scared in such a fluid situation motivated by such a maniacal mad man.

Let Lindsey go, the story resides inside Mike Pence. Pence was a principal insider at the highest level and vital to the coup’s success. Pence must have been briefed and had the plan thoroughly explained, trying to get him onboard. But Pence refused to go along and refused to get in the limo, because he obviously didn’t trust the intentions of the Secret Service.

Think about that. It sounds like a scene from Oliver Stone’s “JFK.” Get in the car. “No!” Great moments in American history.

This insurrection had multi-level planning to it. Probably with a plan B and probably a plan C too. Mike Pence was waterskiing in a shark tank, trust no one! Living in Lee Harvey Oswald land as a potentially marked man. The nail sticking up about to be hammered down. The man who knew too much, who knew about everything and yet refuses to talk.  

If Mike Pence were just an innocent victim caught up in something he was not already involved in, why won’t he talk? The good ole boys club? Bros don’t talk about their bros, bro. If Trumpco went after Raffensperger with such profound vigilance, just imagine the pressure put on Mike Pence.

Pence heard their crazy plans and watched as their crazy people were doing those crazy things and yet remained silent about it. The witness who never said a mumbling word until after the fact and even then, reluctantly, He’s the good guy who stopped the robbery. The hero who doesn’t want to tell us all he knows about his relations with the robbers. The hero who could have called the New York Times or Washington Post long before January 6^th.

For some obscure reason, this man Mike Pence is running for President. Polling in the high 1 to 3% of Republican voters. Think of it; YOU and Mike Pence have almost precisely the same probability of winning the Republican nomination.

Except, the Trumper’s don’t hate you with near the hot passion they hate on Mike Pence. You might even have a leg up. Be proud, you aren’t really even trying, and Mike Pence is. Tell your friends, “I’m running statistically dead even with the former Vice-President of the United States for the Republican nomination for President!”

Mike Pence is the key, the insider turned out. The man who came in from the cold but refused to take his coat off. From what we know, the coup conspirators didn’t know which way Pence was gonna fall right up until showtime. And Mike left the conspirators with their dicks hanging out. But I’m sure all that has been forgiven by now, no hard feelings! Right? Sorry to hear about your upcoming prison term.

Everyone charged or convicted will owe their situation to Mike Pence. If Mike had just played ball, maybe there might not be any investigations. Maybe, it would have led to a court decided contested election without any legitimacy.

We all owe Mike a debt of gratitude for that too, for doing the right thing on January 6th. But we don’t owe him blanket immunity. Pence should be compelled to tell us all he knows about the events leading up to January 6^th. Mike Pence can’t remain silent and be allowed to play on both sides at once.