This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Good King George knew in advance he would have little support in Georgia. The Revolution was focused mainly in New England because good King George had been exiling Irish convicts to Georgia. Hence, Dublin, Georgia. George knew he had few friends there in Georgia just as Donald Trump knows he has few friends in Georgia.

It was in Georgia where Donald Trump went asking the governor to commit voter fraud. The crowd for Trump’s Atlanta rally was large and ebullient, but the dignitaries were nowhere to be found. Obviously, Donald Trump has been here before. And had once burned a trail, once burned twice shy.

How deep and sincere is the establishment support for Donald Trump really? How many secretly wish he would fall on his face and go away? The really big event is when the bull finally leaves the china shop. You know, you meet all the same people on the way down you met on the way up. Only this time, they know you better and don’t like you very much. One hundred days from a national election and the state Republican establishment hangers on are nowhere to be found.

I shake my head in wonder. When was the last time that ever happened? The politicians should have been thick as flies at a picnic. The National Republican ticket shows up in the state capitol metaphorically just down the street. And the ticket is greeted by no one. Normally, in olden days politicians would fight for the privilege. But not for him! I ask you, is that odd or is that odd? If Trump takes Georgia in a cake walk, it won’t matter a hill of beans, but if it’s close. Donald Trump has few friends in Georgia.

In Arizona, the dry Lake is back. TV host Kari Lake has won the Republican primary. She will face Rueben Gallego for a US Senate seat. Lake defeated two challengers by taking 51% of the Republican vote. So, 49% of Arizona Republicans didn’t want Kari Lake. Lake is seen as an outsider trying to smash her way into the inside. She means trouble for the establishment. Kari was/is a virulent Trumper but it’s true love in vain. The relationship has blown hot and cold and now, they’ve agreed to see other people.

After all of the election challenges Donald Trump needed mouth pieces. Rudy Giuliani and Kari Lake acted as remote transmitters. Echo chambers repeating the sound of the stick hitting the side of the swill bucket. But after the challenges went away what did Donald Trump need with a Kari Lake for? She was fish bait and the orange one cast her aside.

Now Lake smiles at the mention of Donald’s name with memories of an old beau. Support a mile wide and an inch deep. A Republican Party divided in two states which Donald Trump needs desperately to win. The fact is, Donald Trump needs every state desperately. He needs a clean sweep, if he loses even one, he’s done.

Remember back during early days of the campaign? That hot little Republican firebrand out of the wastelands of Florida, Ron DeSantis? Trump was unmerciful and took Ron apart like pulling the wings off of a house fly. Ron DeSantis is sooo dull! “How dull is he?” He has the personality of reheated tofu. Ron DeSantis is sooo dumb! “How dumb is he?”

I’m talking about bad blood. Ron may be short in stature, but he is long in memory. He’s never really made nice with Donald Trump and kissed the giant ass. Nikki Haley went into June Cleaver mode and made nice but not Ronnie. Ronnie got a scant ten minutes of dead air time to speak to a half empty convention hall. “Make your little speech and get out.” So now, let’s add Florida to the list of Trump problem areas. Ron DeSantis is term limited out of office. Will the outgoing Florida Governor help the ticket? In Michigan, almost the entire leadership of the state Republican Party has stepped down in the wake of the phony elector’s scandal. That can’t be good.

Refusing to debate is a sign of weakness, not of strength. Trump throws stumbling blocks of only on Fox and only with a live crowd or knock this chip of my shoulder. After previously agreeing to debate Joe Biden on ABC without an audience. No matter how Donald dances around the issue he looks scared and weak. His vanity and narcissism won’t let him pass up the free air time.

Television is the only job Donald Trump was ever even remotely good at. It is a visual media and Donald Trump is 78 years old. He knows he can’t hide those years from the camera. So, Trump wants plenty of noise and distractions. He wants a party room filled with brown shirts and brown noses. Then he wants Kamala to debate the room.

Mr. Trump praises Vladimir Putin for exchanging hostages. That’s a red-letter day a Republican Presidential candidate praising a man condemned and sanctioned by the entire world. But Mr. Trump didn’t mean any harm. That’s just what he does, he shits all over everything. He has nothing nice to say about anyone but himself.

But you knew it, didn’t you? Deep down in your heart you at least hoped it would happen. The act is growing threadbare. The audience is still there but there is a fear growing on the right of erosion and collapse. What if Donald Trump appears too old on stage next to Kamala Harris? You can’t put that genie back in the bottle.  

“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot.” ― Groucho Marx