This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

It is the very extremity of Donald Trump’s Adolph Hitler inspired remarks which tell us his fear level inside. “Pink isn’t well, he stayed back at the hotel.” Trump going full Nazi signals, we’ve turned a corner here. The cheese is officially slipping off the Trump cracker. In 2016, Trump was cocky, self-assured, and arrogant. “Build the wall, build the wall!” It was all fun and games, but this time around Trump is angry and bitter, a grousing grandpa lamenting the good old days.

Trump is gonna to build camps and hold mass deportations. Uh huh, sure. Then he’s gonna fly around the room or turn water into wine. It’s not the same message as last time. A lot of water and lies have gone under the bridge since last time. It’s peeling the onion, a little closer to the core of the mind of Donald Trump. Trump thinks that by saying these things they will actually HELP his campaign.

But it only refines his audience, Nazis and skinheads are fully onboard. Middle America, Independents and Soccer moms, not so much. Taking the angry and hateful vote to the tenth degree. It is a cry for help and the last bastion of a traitor, setting up the Kool aid stand for the final act.

Trump is trying to start a fire by rubbing two dipshits together. Appealing to the worst of the worst, secretly believing that everyone else also secretly believes like he does. That a policy of the worst kind of racism and xenophobia would make for a broad appeal. But…Talk like that might excite the simians on Monkey Island but runs afoul of the big money, the corporate money.

Trump is a stunt show and what stunt will he do next? A sky cycle across the Grand Canyon? What will he do for an encore? Parrot Hitler? Where do you go from there? Pol Pot? Stalin? You better slow down there Casey Jones, you’re about to run out of track. Trump has to make noise by throwing peanuts at Monkey Island. Build the wall isn’t good enough anymore, oh no. Now Trump wants to build a wall and build camps to go with them to persecute people in the most heinous possible manner. Just because!

He will forgo all trappings of an American President and make himself a dictator. Sure, that’s gonna work. Trump will take the stage at the Republican Milwaukee convention massacre and spout such nonsense to a national television audience. The conventioneers will cheer and wave their signs and middle America, will cringe and silently slink away.

The Republicans are having money troubles, because? Because the billionaires and corporate class no longer see Trump as a viable candidate. They still like Trump, but don’t think he can win an election. They didn’t get to be billionaires by writing checks for losers.

The big money will take their chances with someone new, but there are so few quality choices. They’re willing to pump money into a DeSantis or a Ramaswamy campaign. They will back a Nikki Haley Tupperware campaign because they are so desperately trying to stop a Trump candidacy.

Trump is staggering towards a legal chasm, what then McDuff? How do you run a convicted felon out on an appeal bond for the presidency? If elected and my conviction is overturned, I promise! Even, and I stress the point even if Trump by some inhuman manner where to become chief executive. His reign would be an epic disaster of the highest order. The big money knows turmoil is bad for business.

Already, there are predictions the Republicans will lose control of the House and the days of the flying monkeys will be over. Mike, What’s his name will return to obscurity where God had intended him. Just another lost crank in the kitchen drawer among the manies. A man reaching for the brass ring and trying to make a halo out of it. They aren’t predicting Republican losses because they suspect strong support for Donald Trump. They predict Republican losses because of the fear Trump will drag the Republicans down to defeat,  along with the issue of reproductive rights.

A Republican clown show Congress stumbling and stunting between failure and fiasco. Kevin McCarthy, Mike, Phallic reference, George Santos, Marge Tater Greene, Lauren (Beetlejuice) Boebert and the many loves and investigations of Jimmy Jordan. Culminating with a faux impeachment of Joe Biden. “Give us two more years! Let us finish our investigations of Hunter Biden’s laptop. Let us publicly settle our petty grievances and vendettas by stabbing each other in the back. I’m not even Moses yet!”

Trump has become a tumor inside the Republican Party. A noxious and odious, cancerous voice driving the party towards extremism. Driving out the moderate Republicans and driving away the moderate voters in droves and driving away the money. What happens when voters don’t like either candidate? The voters will stay home.

Only Chris Christie attacks Trump while the rest of the candidates only hint or imply, but won’t confront Donald Trump directly. A candidate facing felony convictions who can’t dare be spoken about. God forbid they should hint or imply Trump brought these troubles down on himself and the country. The Emperor’s new wardrobe is apparently out of bounds.

 Meanwhile, Trump calls Nikki Haley “Bird brain,” and Ron DeSantis is Ron DeSanctimonious. Trump can throw rocks, but the also rans of the JV team can’t even point back.

Trump attacks the frontrunners each in their turn, yet the frontrunners hands are tied, and they can’t fight back. Which means the Republicans can never face or confront the truth of Donald Trump and hope to right their party.

With Trump as a candidate the Republicans face a serious drubbing in November. Without Trump, the Republicans face a serious drubbing in November.

Meanwhile, on the other side of town Liz Cheney’s star is on the rise. Cheney stood up to Trump and lost her leadership position because of Trump. Cheney speaks the truth about Trump, and people are begining to listen. Liz Cheney is the very medicine the Republican Party needs, and the Republicans cross their arms and pout and refuse to take it.

“Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.” – Mark Twain