This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

He is as transparent as water in a clean glass. “Build the wall…only in the sky this time!” In today’s episode of “The Trump Tragedies.” Trump calls for building a great big, beautiful wall in the sky. (And the aliens are going to pay for it?)  A giant beautiful dome to protect us from??? Be afraid, be very afraid. Fear! Get your fresh fear right here! We won’t be undersold!

Well gee, Israel has a dome, why don’t we? I dunno, maybe because we don’t need one. Israel suffers from rocket attacks on a near daily basis; we don’t. We have the dome of American threat and nuclear retaliation. This country is famous for its short tempers, long memories, and advanced weaponry. If you run afoul of the US, it could be a bad day for you. And there ain’t no mountain high or cave deep enough inside Pakistan to hide you.

Can we be real here for a second? Trump was largely unsuccessful in his bid to build a simple wall across Texas. A continental missile defense shield Could be a bit more complicated. Not to mention the expense, Conservative my ass! Trump is reaching inside his rectum and pulling out meaningless tales from his back side. Just make it up as you go. Uh huh, and only Jesus can get through the shield but not the North Koreans.

And this fantasy is going to be 100% American made! And its going to create gobs and gobs of good jobs. Then Glenda, the good witch of the north is going to appear. And the sun will shine, and we’ll have picnics on the green we will always remember and have taffy pulls too. “Two chickens in every pot! And a new car in every garage.”

The prosperity gospels direct from the rectum of Ronald Reagan. Reagan dreamed of a space-based laser system and damn the cost. Going to spend trillions to protect us from something which has never occurred. If you let us squander billions on this pipedream, you never know. Something good might trickle down and happen for you. You might could finally leave that job at the mini mart and work at the University as a high paid space laser researcher!

For Reagan, it was playing the technology card of things that never were with a Gee whiz, what will they think of next angle? For Trump it doesn’t matter, it is just Charlie Brown’s school teacher flapping her gums, “Whomp, whomp, whomp, whomp!” Trump says this today and that tomorrow. East, west, high low any way the wind blows. Just a newer and improveder bleach and anal light bulbs. Just Trump dispensing shit like a gumball machine dispenses gumballs.

“We’re going to have the greatest dome ever!” – Donald Trump

You believe that don’t you? I mean, Trump said it, it must be a concrete plan he’s been working on with his team of science experts for a long, long time. Chances are, Trump thought of it on the limo ride over from the airport. How come they got one and we don’t?  Simple thoughts for simple people.

The problem for Reagan, like Trump, is geography. Israel is a small country, and the US is huge. You can’t put a Patriot missile battery along every fifty miles of coastline. You’d have to staff and fund more locations than Starbucks. So, the dream of a spaced-based laser system capable of starting forest fires and knocking down incoming missiles is appealing.

The problem for a space-based system is power. You need a lot of power for a laser to knock down a missile, and you need the ability for a second or third shot. Otherwise, it is a billion-dollar single shot derringer requiring multiples of space lasers. A Maginot line in the sky.

Fortunately, for us, this is just a passing Trump fantasy generated from a news story, bad dream, or a TV movie he saw. Maybe watching “UFO” reruns on YouTube.

Every few days a new nugget of  Trump information is disclosed and treated as a shocking revelation. The public is thunderstruck. Donald Trump was told on January 6^th that Mike Pence had been moved to a secure location and was said to remark; “so what?”

Is anyone really surprised by his remark? It’s actually a much nicer remark than I would have expected. I would have expected something along the lines of, “Fuck him!” Remember, Pence had just fucked Trump hard without lube. Because of Mike Pence the coup plot was sliding towards a dismal failure, and they weren’t going to be friends anymore.

Trump is as transparent as water in a clean glass. On Twitter, Trump blamed Mike Pence rather than saying “Go home!” to the Jan 6th rioters. Trump’s cage attendants and handlers had worked middling hard to convince Trump to say something nice. But his handlers had made the rookie mistake of leaving the room and leaving the orange one unattended, just long enough for him to slam Mike Pence.

Presidential aide Dan Scavino said Trump was very angry that day to the point it was “very unsettling.” Surprise! The coup just blown up in Trump’s face like a loaded cigar. He wasn’t going to get to stay in office, and this was going to become all that this has become. Trump scrambling to stay atop the glass mountain as the legal walls close in.

Running on a dream is Trump’s only escape now. Only if he can be reelected, only then, he can make the most of his prosecutions go away. But that is just the fantasy of a malignant narcissist designed to protect his fragile psyche from the slings and arrows of outrageous reality. Napoleon Grand Emperor of Elba living on his Island empire called delusion.

“Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli