This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

“Holy Mudhead mackerel!” The flip – o – meter is going wild! Hurry, hurry, hurry, don’t be late! The race to the courthouse is on now! Don’t miss the last shuttle bus downtown, as some are going to tell the story and some are going to be the story.

Jenna Ellis Aka, Jenna from SunnyBrook farms never looked like she belonged with this crowd but then, she was one of them. Jenna the spider, can’t tell a book by its cover? She stood up in court and copped her plea (Flipper number 4) crying her eyes out all sad and remorseful. But this isn’t the crowd you fall in with easily, or casually. You don’t just join the Hell’s Angels the first time you ride a motorcycle. These aren’t just witnesses, but Trump’s attorneys and one by one, the dominos are falling.

But the really big news… Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice working for Trump. Let’s see, who goes first? Cohen comes before Meadows. Michael Cohen in a scene reminiscent of the Godfather III puts the finger on the boss Donald Trump in court. A spectacle brought to us courtesy of Donald Trump who was under no obligation to be in the courtroom. But the boss wanted to stare Michael down eyeball to eyeball. Et tu Michael?

“I raised you up from a traffic court attorney! I made you who you are today, and this is how you repay me?”

But the really, really big news…Mark Meadows former Trump Chief of Staff has received an immunity deal from Federal prosecutors. (Flipper number 5) Thus, saving prosecutors hours and hours of hard work and drudgery prosecuting Meadows. You see, Meadows does look like he belongs with this group. None of the insiders were surprised Meadows flipped. No one was expecting Meadows to go down with the ship. Mark is more the opportunist than the loyalist.

Meadows has met several times with prosecutors to talk about the old days. Meadows is slipperier than a snake in a grease pit. He just wrote a book in 2021 (Don’t they all?) and Mark Meadows fawns all over Donald Trump. True and brave fighting for truth, justice, and the American way! Then Meadows goes to prosecutors seeking immunity from his many crimes. Telling the prosecutors, the 180 degree opposite of everything Meadows just said in his book.

And so, Meadow’s testimony, no matter however interesting, is now largely useless. Do you suppose that’s just a coincidence? Mark just happened to write a fawning cringeworthy narrative just a year and a half before taking an immunity deal? I think not, it’s a poison pill. You got me, but you can’t do anything with me. Mark is a literate and published liar. So, anything he might say in court would only hurt the case.

But the prize has a greater value than its apparent worth. Meadows is a treasure trove of information and Trump’s Chief Lieutenant. Filling in the gaps in the story broadcasting across the criminal and Trump landscape – “THEY KNOW EVERYTHING NOW!” Every little detail and every little nuance connected to the center of the Trump organization.

For Donald Trump, it’s see the sky about to rain. It looks bad and is only getting darker. Michael Cohen testified Trump pulled his property evaluations out of his ass to suit what purpose he needed at the time. Trump faces in the words of Pink Floyd, “to be exposed before his peers.” A $250 million fine will put a crimp in almost any lifestyle. Especially when you don’t have it. Nothing embarrasses a billionaire more than to be exposed as broke. Broke ass broke.

A yard sale at Mar – a — Lago! All of last year’s designer gowns half off. Tools and turf equipment! Office buildings and used office equipment!

A fate worse than prison for a king to lose his title of rich important billionaire. To be dropped by the Forbes list of the 400 richest people in America. A figure only cared about by the 400 richest people in America. It is yet another sign the end is coming soon! The loop is being closed and the trap is now sprung, and even Houdini couldn’t escape from it.

Meanwhile over at the Honeycomb hideout Congressional Republicans are three weeks out and still seeking to find another speaker.  Tom Emmer’s out and Tom Johnson is in. Johnson, a hardline conservative now faces the same hill to climb as the Jimmy Jordan Experience. They will not vote for Trump or his troll puppet Matt Gaetz. The candidate must take the loyalty oath and swear the 2020 election was on the level, or they haven’t moved at all.

Donald Trump as would be expected was irate. “Michael Cohen was a complete and total disaster in the Biden Inspired Trial today. Lie after lie and getting caught each time.”

Trump takes to his Twuth website to declare Tom Emmer a rino and anti-Trump. Because somehow to Republicans an out of office and unlikely to return to office indicted former President’s opinion matters. Trump is holding the house hostage with the Crazy Eights. A group of Trumpizoid Republicans threatening to burn down the house if they don’t get their way. But what they want to do with their way is to lock up the government, if not burn it down.

Maybe I’m wrong, but I see the connections here. I don’t see Matt Gaetz suddenly getting a wild hair up his butt to topple Kevin McCarthy all by himself. Gaetz did so at the request of Trump. Ergo, it is a conspiracy. A conspiracy to do what? Who gains from this? If the house is locked down because a clique of conspirators are asking for the moon or else and vital legislation waits. Is that not hostage taking?

This course for Republicans is political suicide. But when you face multiple federal charges and your co-conspirators are ratting you out left, right and center, you have to go for broke.  

“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.” ― Mark Twain