This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Eighty-three million dollars, sure is a figure that rolls right off the tongue, doesn’t it? And then there is Trump’s other New York  case. Possible judgement there is around three hundred and seventy million dollars. A princely figure like that doesn’t roll off the tongue; it glides off the tongue with regal majesty and bubbling gusto. We are fast approaching half a billion dollars in Trump civil fines and penalties. That has to put a crimp into any family budget.

Then there are the legal bills which probably total another half a billion. It’s like General Motors; Trump has different legal divisions. Armies of men and women armed with briefcases who clock in each day. Working diligently to build the legal widgets and fictions for Donald Trump to ride out of trouble in.  And there is work for everybody, and the “We’re Hiring” sign is still in Trump’s front window to deal with the churn of attorneys arriving and departing.

It’s becoming like McDonalds, Over 8 billion subpoenas served. Without a flow chart you couldn’t even find the right department. Adam Smith teaches us, a corporation that spends fortunes on legal bills defending the boss, without creating any profits or products will have eventual negative implications. How long can Trump go head-to-head before the bank intervenes? Sorry, this window is closed…permanently! Before a check with lots of zeros comes back marked “Insufficient Funds.”

The only person crazy enough to lend Donald Trump money at this point is Donald Trump. Everyone else has either been burned or learned. “Hi, I’m facing umpteen years in prison and an astounding amount of financial penalties, and I was wondering if you could let me borrow twenty million dollars?” Isaac Newton says, once that apple starts to drop baby, there is nothing on God’s green earth that’s going to stop it. It becomes inevitable, doesn’t it?

If elected, Trump could be the first President to have his paycheck heavily garnished. He’d be working for the minimum wage and all he could steal, wheedle or finagle. Fortunately for us, that won’t ever happen. There is an inevitability; gravity exists! It’s True!

Trump will be financially bankrupt and beaten with his own currency. Live by the sword and die by the sword! Many believe, due to Donald Trump’s almost constant puffery and tendency to embellish nearly everything about his life. That perhaps, Trump’s wealth might not be the bottomless pit he often describes. Could or would Donald Trump lie to us about his net wealth?

What is poverty or something like it going to do to Trump’s consciousness and self-esteem? Will he be like Pink and hide in the toilet stalls scribbling in his notebook? Become catatonic? Build “The Wall?” There is an inevitability; gravity exists! Judgements will be gained and finalized; properties will be sold. The sad spectacle of a yard sale on the driveway at Mar-A-Lago early some Saturday morning could come to pass. “Evening gown only worn once with Queen of England, for you…$3,000.  How about nice toaster oven?”

The dissolution has already begun with reports of Mrs. Trump requesting separate cars. Do you know why wives ask for separate cars? Because they are going somewhere different than you. A public sign proving mother’s old adage, “When money flies out the door! The porn actress packs her bags.”

The old guard is all gone. No more bottle boozing Rudy or pillow head Mike. Bill Barr is gone and there are only new faces around him now.  His children have abandoned him as would be expected from a nest of vipers. The horse apple doesn’t fall far from the horse.

Every day bricks are laid, and Trump is slowly being walled off. There is no victory for Trump now, only making another day. Ground down by attrition as the end becomes inevitable. Trump wins in New Hampshire but 35% of Republican voters say they won’t vote for him.

Trump stumbles and bumbles through the campaign to a disastrous defeat for Trump and the Republicans in November. Trump has been working behind the scenes to scuttle the border bill because Trump doesn’t give a fuck about migrants. Trump just wants his minions, mental midgets and flying monkeys to vote for him and he doesn’t care how he gets that done.

A do-nothing Republican Congress was hoping for at least one accomplishment before November to show the home folks. They squandered their time in leadership battles and charging at windmills, Trump is scuttling all of their plans because he has a better idea! Trump is battling Joe Biden and any victory for Joe Biden is a total defeat for Donald Trump. And so, the entire Republican Congress can all go fuck themselves. Trump said, “No Deal!”

Trump demands their fealty but is willing to feed the entire Republican lot to the crocodiles. “Doah!” That was their whole favorite foisted made up position. OMG! We have to do something! Those migrants, pimps, gang members and drug dealers are overrunning the country poisoning out national blood. And now, we know it’s all Republican bullshit. Scuttling their own interests and the interests of the United States just to please Donald Trump.

There is an inevitability; gravity exists. It lies just under the surface slumbering unnoticed. Trump can’t win any elections with only 65% of the Republican Party. The big money is not there this time. Trump is becoming erratic and irascible. This is the predictable sad last act, the last act where the wife packs her bags, and the kids won’t answer the phone as the old man goes broke.

No bucks, no Buck Rogers. Trump’s defeat will signify his fall to earth. Trump will lose the election and place the blame on all the usual suspects. But the power of the cult will be broken into smithereens. Another four years out of power is out of the question. Donald Trump will then be all alone, and it will be all over, it’s inevitable; gravity exists!

“I feel as one who stands alone in banquet halls deserted. Whose lights have fled whose garlands dead and all, but he departed.” – Winston Churchill