This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Telling the truth in a time of lies and sooner or later, some poor soul is going to be forced to speak truth to the ugly crowd. But the message was poured out with such candor only a man with police protection could have said it. The Florida Freedom Summit (Orwellian enough for you?) was a real barn burner.

Asa Hutchinson former backwoods Governor and double distant longshot for the Republican nomination has the temerity to say publicly to a Republican crowd. “As someone who has been in the courtroom for over 25 years as a federal prosecutor and also in defending some of the most serious federal criminal cases, I can say that there is a significant likelihood that Donald Trump will be found guilty by a jury on a felony offense next year.”

BOOOOOOOOOO! Like having a large bucket of cold water thrown in their faces. Wake up! Hutcheson was trying to make the point that reality is real, hence the name. That the Republican Party had better wake the fuck up and smell the coffee.  Donald Trump is the past and if the Party wants to have a future they had better move on. Because Trump is going down. Bet money on it!

My it seems like it was only yesterday when no one inside the Republican Party would dare say a cross word about Donald Trump. Any remark regardless of venue could bring down lightning bolts and the sword of Damocles. I remember when Mike Pence was booed just for showing his face at an NRA convention in his own hometown.

Pence is reviled among Republicans as the man who followed the law and ignored Donald Trump. Everything would have worked out fine if it hadn’t been for Mike Pence! Pence recently announced an end to his Presidential campaign that never was anyway. What were they thinking? How could they say, “Elect Mike Pence!” and not break  into snickering laughter? “Have you ever considered the last man on earth; you’d ever consider? Vote Mike Pence!”

But this spew has been coming for a long time. Like that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach with nausea. You know that you will feel better once you finally let it all out, but you still don’t want to talk on the porcelain telephone and let it go. The Emperor has no clothes! There, he said it out loud in front of God and everybody, and the sky didn’t fall! The Emperor has no clothes. The Emperor has no clothes!

Hutchison is only saying what many Republicans  have been thinking for a long time. Trump is only running for Trump. He doesn’t care what damage he does to the Republican Party in the long run. Trump is running from jail but don’t tell them that or they’ll get angry! Just smile and say nothing. There is an orange cancer on the Republican Party, and it must be removed, painfully removed. They are going to get angry about it and stomp their feet real loud.

A tectonic split in the Republican Party, “Are you a Trumper or a Republican?” Recently, the Trumpers won a round and elected Mike, what’s his name, the evil Stephen Colbert twin. And Mike passed an aid package for Israel, and everyone told him it was DOA. The Republicans in the Senate told him, and the White House told him too, Tada! “Look Daddy! Watch me do nothing!”

This is the not to be defined by reality wing of the Party. They’re going to huff and puff and hold their breath until you turn blue. The more Newtonian wing of the Republican Party sees the peril that lies ahead. A Presidential campaign with a nominee out on appeal of his state and Federal convictions.

So, Asa Hutchinson and Will Hurd and Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Plus, a host of others have tried to make the Republican public look at themselves in the mirror and stop playing Trumpy pinball. Call it Trump conversion therapy. The Emperor has no clothes. The Emperor has no clothes! Repeat after me! The Emperor has no clothes! Say it again and again! The Emperor has no clothes! Say it louder!

A Republican Party in full melt down. A house divided against itself. Even their best laid plans go wrong as Robert Kennedy’s Independent campaign designed to take votes from Joe Biden splits the crazy vote with Trump. Crazy is crazy, and the crazy don’t care all that much about color designations. Just so it’s crazy and all fits under their aluminum foil hat. Kennedy proposes cutting research on infectious disease. Genius, just genius.

Maybe get rid of electricity too and go back to kerosene lamps. Burn all the books; they’re evil!

Somehow, the Republicans must find a way to deprogram the children of Hamelin. Some way to bring the lost children back into the fold. The children are angry with those who would so carelessly puncture their sad delusion. Trump has filled them full of shit and corroborating Republicans and media have played along.

Now, you dare try to tell them it’s not true? After two years of constant bullshit and propaganda, you’re going to tell them it’s not true? You’re going to tell them it was all a lie? You’re going to tell them Trump can’t fly, and he’s not clairvoyant?

Tell them Trump is guilty, and the courts are on the level? Good luck with that! I admire their tenacity with the obstinate.

Asa tried his best to break through the bubble with no real success. The player of the game was Chris Christie. Christie applied the electrodes and turned the voltage all the way up and lit up the crowd. I had to watch the video clip over and over. Alexander Solzhenitsyn once said, “Once you take everything from a man, he’s free.” Christie has no real designs on the White House and so is free to bring you this public service announcement.

“Yell and boo as much as you like.”

“Every one of those boos, every one of those cat calls, and every one of those yells, will not solve one problem we face in this country and will not make this country better. Your anger against the truth is reprehensible.” – Chris Christie

BOOM! There it is!