This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Damn that, Joe Biden! Do you know what he did? He ran off to deal with the affairs of state at the G20 instead looking somber at ground zero yesterday. That’s the Fox News spin anyway, disrespectful not dropping everything for another commemoration and hand holding ceremony. You know the United States is the leader of the G20, so it would be sort of disrespectful for the leader not to show up to a world conference.

Growing up I can remember Pearl Harbor remembrances. Pearl Harbor was remembered, but the President didn’t fly Honolulu every year to lay a wreath. It is just so much distraction and disinformation. Anything to get the public to stop looking at Trump’s gut and laughing out loud as they say to themselves, “two fifteen!”

The pressure builds as the Reich wing clamors for impeachment, while admitting they don’t have any real evidence to bring charges. And even if they make some up, the outcome is a foregone conclusion.

The Republicans will spend the next year prosecuting Joe Biden only to lose going into election season. Reports say Cousin Kevin McCarthy is horse trading impeachment charges instead of a government shutdown. Like Gomez Adams, they just must blow something up every time they play with the trains.

Impeachment or government shutdown! That’s our legislative agenda going into the elections. One or the other now pick one. I guess a pointless impeachment is better than a government shutdown, but is a waste of time. Sure, it helps Trumpco in a Trumpy sort of way. With accusations of everyone being a crook and everyone is deranged and crooked but them. It helps Trump only with the base who don’t need any convincing. Outside the cult it hurts Trump.

Trump’s comments reinforce the political motivation behind it. You know, when you can’t win an argument it’s best to just change the subject and not talk about it anymore. A man in a glass house shouldn’t throw legal stones. But Trump says, make noise! Make a distraction! Create a spectacle!

Do you know who is a bigger criminal than me??? Joe Biden! “Why, if you think I’m dirty and slimy you should look at Joe Biden!” The typical Trump projection. “I’m rubber and you’re glue whatever you say I did. I say you did it double too!”

It is a Republican mission to deliver a hundred tons of ice to the North Pole. Leading the parade down a dead-end street. Knowing ahead of time, they can’t win. I suppose the Reicher’s think they can hold electrifying hearings, capturing the imagination of America on TV. But without any electrifying evidence to drive the hearings, it’s likely to become Burning Man only with more rain and Jim Jordan.

Maybe they are doing it for Trump. I just wouldn’t feel too good about putting my political future and the future of the Party in the hands of Donald Trump. Let’s just say the happy times are over. Trump challenges Rupert Murdoch and the editorial board at The Wall Street Journal to an acuity test. Car, bicycle, elephant, lawn mower. Ask me anything! From farm animals to items, you find every day around the house. I know them all!

There is a touch of the moronic to it. Like someone sane would actually take Trump up on his challenge and maybe win a fiddle of gold. “Next on Fox, it’s the first annual Trump acuity challenge!” It speaks to acuity in its own way. A man facing 91 state and federal charges is worried about what the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal says about him. Sticks and stones can break my bones, but the Wall Street Journal editorial board will never put me in jail.

An uncontrolled, unconscious reaction to strike back at every insult no matter how minor. How many Trumpers down in corn patch, do you reckon actually read the Wall Street Journal?

Either Trump the moron or Trump the calculating, picking a fight with a Rupert Murdoch like a Pro Wrestling match. The good guy vs. the bad guy red meat to gin up the home folks and keep them invested. Or the ravings of a mad man driving a bus careening off the guardrails of accepted reality.  

What revelations will another year bring us? Do you see the legal situation for Trump likely improving radically for the better in the next year? If the Republican House is willing to bet their majority on a faux impeachment at the behest of Donald Trump, so be it. Whataboutism 101.

Really? That’s your strategy? And you’re going to go with that? Well, okay!

It seems a strange strategy if the hearings turn into a dud, it will be hard to fold their tents and back out gracefully . If they do a bad job and fail, people won’t like them. If they do a good job and fail, people won’t like them. A clown circus on rollerblades with much thunder and little rain.

This is their Republican strategy for America, impeachment or government shut down. Locked at the hip with Donald Trump in a three-legged race to the bottom. Acuity test? It is an absolute recipe for disaster; unsuccessful partisan faux hearings could make Biden look good beating back Republican attacks.

Joe Biden is cleared as Donald Trump is convicted. That’s gonna go down real good! There is gonna come a series of guilty pleas and bargaining arrangements in the next year. Falling like artillery around citizen Trump moving up in echelon from the little fish to the big fish. How can all those people be guilty, and Trump still claims to be innocent?

If the Republicans can do a good enough job of spreading distrust of the government and the elections, they might just depress their own voter turnout. Selling their loss as eventual and inevitable nihilist loss in a fixed system or a rigged game.

What other message is there? They convict Donald Trump and let Joe Biden go! Now, let’s all go get reelected! Moving from failure to failure, maybe we can shut down the government next year or maybe the year after that.

To a Republican with a hammer, everything looks like a nail, even their own thumb.