This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Pot meet kettle! Rudy Giuliani is going to sue Joe Biden for defamation. Rudy says, Mr. Biden called him “a Russian pawn.” And now, he must be made to pay or pay off for it. It is illustrative of just where we are going here. Red queen, red queen off with their heads! The famous attorney and former New York mayor disbarred and under assault from all sides for lying about other people’s characters has been defamed.

Just because your career is over, and you’re headed for ruin at warp speed doesn’t mean you don’t still have honest feelings when sober. Honest to God, I don’t fault the man. Were I in his shoes, I’d probably stay drunk all the time too. Look at the alternative, look at Trump. So red faced with anger, Trump looks like the flame from the Fantastic Four and I’m just waiting for him to flame on.

First, Trump complains bitterly about being in the courtroom when he could be out on the campaign trail. Then, Trump pulls up stakes headed for his Mar-A-Lago Mausoleum and bat sanctuary. As in, Trump could have left town most anytime he wanted. Is Trump seeking an office or an Emmy? Blood spitting Gene Simmons and fire breathing Billy Graham. Best performance by a Semi lucid Politician in leading cult role.

Feeding the sheep with vitriol while enraging the crowd. Building in his future excuse for any electoral shortcomings, “I would have won, but. Election interference! Election Interference!” There is no doubt the anger is real, but Trump never turns off. He’s always Trump, always running some game or floating some scam or trial balloon. (pun intended) Narcissist on call: 24 hours per day! If he’s breathing, he’s lying.

 And we also know by this late date that whatever Trump says is generally the polar opposite of what is probably true. As Donald emotes for the cameras, “It’s election interference, and I was way ahead too!” A sort of Trump reactive armor exploding for the crowd when under attack. The bully being cornered becomes animated and angry and seeks to turn it all around.

“Oh, I can’t believe it, another crooked and disgraceful Democrat judge. I’m not crooked, the courts are crooked! The elections are rigged. I won by a landslide, biggest crowd ever! You take the lightbulb and well, you stick it up your ass. My Administration created a vaccine, but you don’t really need to take it.

Republican insiders say, Matt Gaetz was just voted Representative most likely to get his ass beat between here and the parking garage. Gaetz’s antics have opened the cages of the crazies who will now have to be rounded up one by one and placed back in their cells. This whole unnecessary event diffusing and wiping from the public’s mind anything about Hunter or impeaching Joe.

Nope, now the story is about Kevin and Matt and their bloody spat. With things going so good,  Matt is willing to stab the party in the back seeking his revenge and do Donald Trump’s bidding. When the ship begins to take on water, the rats begin to make their presence known.

Traditionally Republicans run towards the center in national elections, because they couldn’t get elected otherwise.  Here you have the Republican Free Dumb Caucus and Donald Trump running to the extreme right and dragging the Party along with them. See the problem? The House under Kevin McCarthy was trying to project an image of sane, stately responsible individuals about the government’s business going into an election year.

Now? Welcome to crazy town!

Jimmy Jordan, former Ohio State locker room attendant announces his candidacy for the Speaker of the House. Don’t say I didn’t try to warn you! And then, Steve Scalise, House Majority leader and company man also announced. With a long shot candidacy from Kevin Hern and interim House Speaker representing Kevin McCarthy, Patrick McHenry.

Their job should they decide to accept it; is to keep Jimmy Jordan and his stunt cycle as far from the speaker’s gavel as possible. Jim struggles just managing a hearing. He’s hardly got great credentials deserving of a promotion. If Jimmy got the gavel, it’s Hell’s a poppin certain that nothing much gets accomplished.

Because Jimmy, he’s far too polarizing and far too dim to muster enough support. Put your money on Scalise or McHenry. Scalise is the insider and McHenry represents the same coalition as Kevin McCarthy. If they can’t have Kevin, they could choose his surrogate..

Only a handful of Republicans ever really wanted Kevin gone. That’s why McHenry was so quick to evict Nancy Pelosi. This was all Nancy’s doing! Damn it, Nancy! They wouldn’t have booted Kevin if you had told them not too! So, McHenry has a case of the red ass. “You could have stopped this, Nancy!”

But center stage for House Republicans is funding for Ukraine. Remember now, Trump’s connection to Russia was all a gigantic hoax. Matt Gaetz is a leader of the defund Ukraine faction. Who does Matt Gaetz work for again when not stunting on TV? If you said Donald Trump, a gold star.

The war in Ukraine is going very badly for Russia as Republicans and Donald Trump want to defund Russia’s adversary. To lend support to the aggressor and despotic indicted war criminal. The butcher of civilians with their hands tied behind their backs.

Not forgetting who it was who wanted to disband NATO and now advocates turning our backs and looking the other way from brutal aggression. Abrogating our allegiances and our place in the world to please who? If the word of the United States is no good, neither is her money. Willing to abandon Europe and encourage China all at once. Benefitting  whom?

But why? Is the Republican Party so torn and dysfunctional they are willing to destabilize the geopolitics of the entire world? What do they hope to gain by it? To earn acclaim and headlines from a base, unaware they are acting as “A Russian Pawn.”

The only other possible reason would be the Republicans acting intentionally for the benefit of the Russian Federation and Vladimir Putin. Odd, don’t you think? The only President ever accused of working for Russia is working for Russia again. No one else gains from it, only Russia.

Trump runs Matt Gaetz and Matt runs off Kevin McCarthy . Suddenly the issue isn’t inflation or Hunter Biden anymore, it’s all about doing Russia’s bidding again. Like a Russian Pawn.

“Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.” ― Niccolo Machiavelli