This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

It is! It isn’t! It is! The Republicans are serious about the issues at the Southern border. Something must be done IMMEDIATELY! Unless of course it happens to help Joe Biden’s poll numbers. Then by gum, the Republicans promise to fight against any compromise bill which could help the President. The Republicans have their own draconian wet dream of an immigration bill in H.R. 2 and like a kid at Christmas, they just can’t wait to unwrap it.

Extremist rhetoric without a snowball’s chance in Phoenix of passing the house. No chance of making it through the Senate with a certain Presidential veto guaranteed at the end. H.R. 2 is extremist campaign rhetoric to take home to the extremist folks back home in Flea Hop. Red meat for the ravenous and insatiable. If you can’t pass the legislation, campaign on it! Tell the folks about what you wanted to do and why you need more money to do it.

Sixty Republican house members have signed on to the legislation giving the bill a low priority. There is an election coming and these Republicans need some sort of validation to show the home folks they are doing their extremist best. A Hail Mary play designed to show any small accomplishment. Withholding aid from an ally in Europe, they want what they want and won’t accept any less. No compromise! No sir! But if it helps Joe Biden, forget we said anything.

The Republicans find themselves in quite a pickle. On the one hand, the Party has accomplished bupkis with little hope for the rest of the term. On the other hand, any popular legislation would also help Joe Biden, and we can’t have that.

“Let me tell you, I’m not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden’s approval rating,” – Troy Nehls (r) Texas

It’s almost childish, no wait, it is very childish. Childish projection worried about helping Joe Biden’s approval rating while ignoring his own. Insisting they will not do the people’s business if it helps Joe Biden. Openly insubordinate, the insurrection road goes on forever.

I recently watched a YouTube Sovereign Citizen video of Police removing the individual from his car for refusing to identify himself. He sat in the car about to have his window smashed and physically removed for refusing to tell the nice policeman his name and address. Just seconds before the safety glass took wing the Sovereign called out, “Help me, Donald Trump! If you can hear me, Donald Trump! Make these demons around my car go away!” I mention this as a base line.

This is who they are. Still a basket of deplorables, Sovereign citizens, skin heads, nazis, religious bigots, and antisemites, same as it ever was. Looney Tunes as Porky says, “That’s all folks!” Trilateralists and Bilderberg group, Bohemian grove secret alien government theory. The aliens live in the mountain in their secret alien base! Masons and Catholics, Doctors and scientists make stuff up, but lobbyists have their facts straight which can always be counted on.

Survivalists and end of the worlders, baby eating smorgasbords and polygamist cults and 1% motorcycle clubs all agree that Donald Trump is their candidate. He has magic powers! And if you ask him real nice then maybe, just maybe, Trump can use his super powers to keep the police from kicking your ass at a traffic stop! Donald Trump is the official patron saint of the socially disenfranchised and mentally unstable.

While on the subject of unstable, Lauren “Beetlejuice” Boebert’s district shopping campaign has encountered a few speed bumps. She must get 1,500 signatures before March and she must get local Republican Party functionaries and pooh ba’s to sign off on the move. The problem being Lauren’s new chosen district already has a crowded field of popular local Republicans running in it.

“Hi, I’m from out of town with name recognition, would you mind if I put you local boys out of work?”

There is a real question how the electorate will react to interloper Boebert in a crowded field. It’s not like in the old days, the bad news doesn’t stop at the county line. Lauren’s escapades have made national news and if they’ve heard about it in the fourth congressional district, they’ve heard about it in the third.

It is very likely the Republican pooh ba’s will say “no.” Why should they abandon the locals for Lauren? If she were a sure thing it might be palatable, but Lauren isn’t a sure thing, she’s an unknown. An unknown with baggage. Let’s see if she can come up with 1,500 signatures first.

Nikki Haley says, “I had black friends growing up.” Oh Brother! The old, why some of my best friends are Black.

“I should have said slavery right off the bat, but if you grow up in South Carolina, literally in second and third grade, you learn about slavery,” she answered. “You grow up and you have, you know, I had Black friends growing up. It is a very talked about thing.

“We have a big history in South Carolina when it comes to slavery, when it comes to all the things that happened with the Civil War.” – Nikki Haley

Yep, everybody down south talks about slavery with our Black friends. Say friend, did you know South Carolina seceded from the union over the right to preserve slavery? Who remembers Jim Crow? Say friend, remember when we had lynchings and the Confederate battle flag as our state flag?

Poor Nikki caught on the barbed wire of her own intellectual limitations. Somebody was bound to ask her a question eventually. It was only a matter of time.