This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

I hate blowing my own horn but… I had mentioned recently that the Supreme Court telling the state of Texas they didn’t have to pay any attention to the mean ole Federal government, if they didn’t want to. Opening the door to other states telling the Federal Court and specifically the Supreme Court to go sit on it and rotate. Thus, in one swift effort to help Republicans score political points during an election year. The Supreme Court has delegitimized themselves. “Idiocracy, we have arrived!”

Before the Supreme Court’s Texas ruling, it was the undisputed law of the land that Federal Court orders were to be followed without question. And just like that, Ohio political hack and screw loose Republican Senator JD Vance says, the President can do whatever he or she wants and just ignore any court rulings they don’t agree with. Similar in style to Stalin’s remark questioning how many troops the Pope had.

Law & order? The rule of law? Three co-equal branches of Government under a Constitution? No! You can do whatever you want and Fuck em if the court doesn’t like it. All hail Big Brother! Der Fuhrer is never wrong. Chocolate rations to be increased!

Authoritarianism 101. The almighty great one who is perfect in all ways. He who has decided in his great orange wisdom to put the court into a permanent recess. Does anyone else smell smoke? I think the Reichstag is highly flammable at this point. Just one emergency away from making the Supreme Court largely a ceremonial position. And just in time too, what with the Republican’s January 6^th exposure.

January 6^th has never really ended and just goes on and on. Republicans fomenting a border crisis just so the same Republicans can proudly defeat the bipartisan border effort. Stalin would call them “wreckers” whose only purpose was hijinks and obstructionism. Working hard every day to defeat any accomplishment anywhere. It’s the old Republican mantra that the government doesn’t work. Their behavior is nothing but a concerted effort to prove it’s true.

To push the bar down so low, Republicans can put up a future felon as their Presidential nominee. “Courts! Pfff! What do they know? You can prove anything with facts!” A nominee with a fairy glass jaw ego, so easily damaged that any accomplishment by anyone anywhere is seen as a personal defeat for the nominee.  So, after two years of Republicans largely accomplishing nothing. On the verge of landmark legislation, the orange one nods and says “no!” Trump pulling the rug out from under the House Republicans.

The nominee says openly, he wants to make the border his main campaign thrust. If the government functions, Trump suffers. How dumb are they? Trump can say these things publicly, and his followers are too dim to understand, he’s talking about them right in front of them. “Hey look, I’m trying to con these dumb ass slack jawed yokels. So, kill the border bill for me, okay? Then crying, “Why won’t Joe Biden and the Democrats fix the border?” Right in front of them, right before their very eyes!

Rumor has it Tucker Carlson is in Russia. Rumor also has it unfortunately, that Tucker plans to return. Allegedly, Carlson is in Russia to interview Vladimir Putin. More than likely, Carlson is acting as a courier in Russia as the personal representative of you know who. To say things which can never be written down or said where they could ever be heard or recorded.

Carlson, a dying media personality, is desperate to remain relevant and is trying to launch his own media channel, Tucker vision. So, an interview with the world’s best known war criminal could be a news coup. However, where is the audience? Who in the United States really cares what Putin has to say? No one, that’s who.

It sounds an awful lot like a cover story. Some have questioned the morality of going to interview an enemy of this country. But Carlson has no morality and thus no restrictions on his actions. Carlson is delivering Trump’s Christmas list to his daddy, the Russian election Santa. Ribbentrop’s transactional high-level secret negotiations with Russia. “I’ll give you and you can give me.”

Putin needs this country to withhold military aid from Ukraine and just like magic, Republicans withhold military aid from Ukraine. Funny, how those little coincidences happen, isn’t it? It’s not that the Republicans are openly seditious. They only want to scuttle any progress in anything, which might aid the Democrats or Joe Biden.

Do you know what every good cover story needs? It needs partisans backing it up and defending it as perfectly normal when never even asked. Now, if I say the names Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin and Marge Tater Greene. What name would you add to the list to make a perfect set?  Hint; initials D.T.

Marge says, “They HATE when someone like Tucker goes ‘off script.’ We have a free press in this country and its people like Tucker Carlson who we depend on to speak the truth!”

“They” them, the ever infamous “they.” Fightin Tucker going off script! Tucker is not off script, he’s off base. Yes, we have a free press and Tucker has every right to sidle up to dictators and cock suck thugs. Marge is defending Tucker without even being asked. Putin, Greene, Carlson and ?

So, which is more likely? Tucker visits Russia to interview Putin and take in the ballet? Or Tucker visits Russia on a mission of high-level negotiations. But that would be treasonous, wouldn’t it? Yes, yes, it would. What’s your point?

“a person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our constitution, and the rule of law.

“There is nothing more that can be said. God help us.” – Gen. John Kelly on Donald Trump.