This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Roll up, roll up, see the show. The orange apostle of avarice comes out of the Fascist closet and goes full Fuhrer bunker on us. Using Hitlerite language and demonizing and threatening his opponents. There have been whispers all along about Trump’s mentor and hero worship for years. Is Trump intentionally following that path or is it just the path all Narcissist dictators are doomed to follow in the later stages of a full meltdown.

It is in no way a good sign for Trump; it is the crossing of the Rubicon from “Build the wall!” To “Those dirty Mother fuckers.” Trump is angry and it shows as he just seethed out “Vermin.” It is the clearest indicator yet, of just how far the Republican Party has drifted into the alternate reality of the Trump Zone. A tea kettle about ready to blow. Can you imagine what his handlers backstage are dealing with if he’s that angry on stage?

But it’s totally unsustainable and not what the cult signed up for. It’s Kiss without the flames or makeup and just the really loud music. What do you do for an encore? You don’t need to be a stable genius to see which direction this is all headed. “Run down to the store and buy all the Kool-Aid they have available. The comet is coming soon! Quick, put on your track suit!

Only in an alternate universe does a former American President go full fuhrer bunker. The enemies are all around us! They have insidious ways and are out to get us all! They could be hiding anywhere from the mailman to the cop on the beat. They could be anyone, even YOU or YOU! Out to get us! Trump’s mask is slipping badly. It’s not the same Trump; it is the reduced essence of Trump.

And the hits just keep on coming! The Jenna Ellis video is another bombshell to the bridge. They were just going to stay in power, just stay in power, she said. That’s delusion and denial at work. We’ll just stay, what could they do? We can lock the door, turn off the porch light and pretend that nobody is at home, until they go away. Imagine, educated people thinking such stuff like this. And here is Ms. Ellis, an innocent among the wolves spinning like a weather vane. Stay? You can’t do that. Hide and watch sister!

Trump was told repeatedly; he’d lost the election but decided to stay instead. Sidney Powell telling of shouting matches heavy on the vitriol. The true believers versus the non-believers coming apart at the seams. Ms. Ellis is pulling the curtain back on the great and powerful OZ. In a case of damning evidence as the rat race choir begins to sing.

The phony elector plot was a dumb idea requiring too many hands for that football not to be eventually dropped. But mainly, the plot required Mike Pence to break the law and Mike Pence wasn’t onboard with doing that. Mike Pence knew the blade of justice would fall on his neck first and what was he getting out of the deal? Nothing! Hey Mike, what say you go rob the bank for us and we’ll pitch in some gas money and Mike would get his old job back and get to be Vice-President again.

“Yippee! Oh boy! “After being harassed and harangued for weeks on end and eventually dodging the orange one’s phone calls entirely. He’d get to keep his swell job! “Tell him I’m in the can. Tell him I’ll call him back!”

But who in their right mind would commence a coup plot with the main guy not onboard? That essential person, the one guy you just can’t do without! Without whose cooperation the plot will most certainly fail, exposing everyone to extensive criminal prosecution.

“I’ll talk to Mike; It will be fine. I’ll make him see reason that everybody is counting on him to do the wrong thing. He’ll come around.”

So there Donald Trump stood at the podium on January 6^th, “I sure hope Mike Pence will do the right thing?” Holy Jesus! Holy Jesus! YOU DON’T KNOW? That my friends is desperation in going ahead with a coup plot doomed to failure and all that it has become. Did Trump actually think Mike Pence would come around at the eleventh hour? Or does it give weight to the Secret Service trying to hustle Pence off the Capitol grounds? No Pence, no problem.

But Pence refused to get in the car in a very Godfathery scene. Get in the car Mike, let’s go for a little ride. An angry mob outside the capitol calling for your blood and erecting a gallows. And now, inside, men with guns want you to get in the back of the car. Just for your protective custody sir. If I get in the car, can I still get out? We’ll see sir. Only one way to find out for sure sir.

Pence knew the score and understood he was the main impediment to the success of Trump’s coup plan. Pence also knew what was in the works and wasn’t sure just how far the coup plotters were willing to take this plot to its logical conclusion. Get in the car Mike, have you ever seen Antarctica at this time of year? It’s beautiful, you’ll love it! “Leave the gun, take the cannolis.”

Jeanna Ellis gives us just a glimpse through the keyhole and there are hours and hours of similar testimony and lots of other witnesses with lots of stories to tell. Of probably the greatest sales con job of Donald Trump’s long and illustrious career. Selling a coup without a coup de gras. Was it a sly sinister delusion which drove them on or only a simple simian imagination?

Mike Pence will do the wrong thing, I’m almost sure of it! But just in case, I’ll just put on my track suit and my Adidas. Because if Pence doesn’t do the wrong thing or the comet doesn’t get here, we’re all going to need to run! The law of coups and or insurrections are immutable, either you win, are put to death or you go to jail. The state must destroy all rebels to maintain its legitimacy.

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”  ― Mark Twain