This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

I had hoped never to write this name again but like athlete’s foot, it can be reoccurring. It was anticipated that after Kari Lake lost her campaign for Arizona Republican Governor she would quietly fade away. By trade, Lake was a TV presenter and news anchor. She was around politicians and used her name recognition to attempt to become one herself.

She modeled herself in a Trump mold, to be brash and be pushy and controversial! In the heat of a close election contest, Lake told an audience; “If you’re a John McCain Republican…get out!” Akin to saying “Screw Babe Ruth” in the Bronx or “War Eagle” in Tuscaloosa. Lake abused the media assigned to follow her campaign. They were her foils and straw men.

Kari Lake lost the election because she turned off Republican voters. Republicans crossed over 5 to 1 to vote against Kari Lake. After defeat, Lake began her little election denial lie to go hand in hand with Donald Trump’s big election denial lie. Lake’s campaign claims have been litigated and found to be baseless, but she continues because it’s all she’s got.  

Some say, Lake is the Republican frontrunner for a Senate run. Proof, the Arizona Republican Party doesn’t learn from its mistakes. Where this just a problem for Lake of political positions they could be modified. But the problem is in the candidate and is set in stone. Kari Lake’s glad you got a chance to see her, Ms. America persona which always has time to carp about the little people and the press. It’s such a strain being a big shot! Somewhere between Margaret Thatcher and Madame Chiang Kei-Shek and Imelda Marcos.

If the audience doesn’t like, you that’s two strikes against you. And if the audience has set their cap and dug in their heels against someone who spoke against John McCain and who has the manners of a field hand. You tear up one picture of the Pope and it’s all over. You tell John McCain Republicans to “Get out” of their own party in Phoenix, yeah, it’s all over.

Lake’s whole schtick was sensation over substance, “El Duce will make the trains run on time! The sun will shine brighter and the air smell sweeter.” And if you asked, “how?” You got the Madam Frost treatment or Vesuvius on the half-shell. Criticism is not allowed, and if you were any kind of loyal, you’d know that already.

Kari’s wild campaign accusation was the Maricopa County Recorder was , “A criminal.” A judge ruled that accusation wasn’t a freedom of speech issue.  You can call him short, or you can call him ugly or funny looking, but calling someone “a criminal” is a provable fact. So, Lake must be prepared to prove him a criminal or Lake could be sued for defamation and go full Giuliani on them. Defamation, the last stop of a Trump acolyte. Hoisted on their own petards. Another one bites the dust.

Lake hung out at the Mar-A-Lago Mausoleum and attached herself like a tick to Trump’s backside. She was going to ride Trump’s coat tails right into the Governor’s mansion. Then the unthinkable! If Trump was cheated, then she must have been cheated too! We were all cheated! It’s a conspiracy! Curse you, George Soros!

It was rumored around the honeycomb hideout that Trump just might be looking around for a female running mate in 2024. And Lake thought maybe? Just maybe? But when you live by the sword, you also die by the sword. Lake’s future is tied with Trump’s future and Trump’s future is none too stable and Kari Lake’s future is looking significantly worse.

Former President Trump sent out his traditional Christmas greetings to the world.

“Included also are World Leaders, both good and bad, but none of which are as evil and ‘sick’ as the THUGS we have inside our Country who, with their Open Borders, INFLATION, Afghanistan Surrender, Green New Scam, High Taxes, No Energy Independence, Woke Military, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Iran, All Electric Car Lunacy, and so much more, are looking to destroy our once great USA. “MAY THEY ROT IN HELL.” – Donald Trump

Peace on earth and goodwill towards men. “God bless us everyone!”

Trump has missed the biggest holiday of the year to basically bitch and complain about the same things he always complains about. Same as last week and same as next week and every week for the foreseeable future. The orange Grinch who stole Christmas. And to you and yours on this festive holiday season, “MAY THEY ROT IN HELL.”

Electric cars are somehow on the same adversarial relationship as Russia and Iran. It’s all evil and sick and everything. Everything is bad, just everything! I don’t want to say the sky is falling! But the sky is falling! Christmas passed was wonderful. Christmas present is questionable and Christmas future is terrible.

A seasonal Trump message of “Save me! Save me! Or your world is doomed without me!”

But Donald Trump is pretty easy to decipher. When Trump says, “Your once great USA” Trump means his own presidency. And when Trump says,  “MAY THEY ROT IN HELL.” Trump means, “MAY YOU ROT IN HELL!” If you won’t save him.

The five stages of grief – denial ANGER, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

“There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol