This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Did DonOld Trump accept a ten-million-dollar bribe from Egypt? Probably. Did DonOld Trump illegally accept a Rolex watch and a Cybertruck? Really? With all of the crimes in DonOld Trump’s quiver. Let’s go after him about a watch? Truth is, DonOld probably has a drawer full of those watches. Let’s prove once for all DonOld is a criminal. When we already know he is.

But to Donald’s post intelligence crowd they don’t care. The more you try to prove to them, Donald is a criminal the more convinced they are in their position. In a cult you must defend the leader, and anyone who questions the leader is never to be trusted.

The Fox News & Entertainment host asked Mrs. J.D. Vance how she was handling the criticism from the left? What criticism from the left? I thought. I’ve never heard her name mentioned in conversation outside of what her own husband had said about her. That criticism? Let’s spin the conversation from what her boorish husband said about her to “They’re picking on me!”

Trump and Vance both make ill-informed comments about an Olympic boxer because it’s red meat for their base. Is Trump running for Presidency of the Olympics? Is gender or boxing a Presidential responsibility? It’s a free world if you don’t like something, leave it alone. Just push it to the side of your plate and ignore it.

Inside the cult, life is simplified, and that is a part of the attraction. All of life’s questions are answered with Pro Trump or Anti Trump. If Pro Trump even if untrue it is accepted as gospel. If Anti Trump, it is dismissed out of hand immediately even if true. The messenger is judged by the message. The ABC host from the meeting of Black Journalists received death threats because Trump said she insulted him. If the Manson Family was a cult because Charlie ordered people to kill. Then this is a bonafide cult.

The boss shouldn’t have to tell you what the boss wants. Trump’s speech on January 6^th proves that.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the forum. A woman with positive energy, enthusiasm and a nice smile entered the race. And suddenly, Donald begins to look like a Jell-O mold at Thanksgiving. A choice of positive or negative energy. One candidate offering a path forward the other the path of anger and complaint.

One candidate talking about personal freedom and the other about putting up the ten commandments in schools cause it’s good for you Winston! You don’t really have to follow them, just pretend that you do. It’s education on the cheap! This religion of peace you speak of. What happened to their Messiah? Oh. So, it hasn’t actually worked so far but hope springs eternal that it will catch on?

The campaign of the three times married two times divorced twice impeached. Six-time bankruptcied multiple times caught cheating, found guilty of sexual assault alludes to Kamala Harris sleeping her way to the top. In cult world it makes sense. Kamala’s husband had an affair sixteen years ago. That’s nearly two Trump wives ago. In cult world it makes sense. When a man cheats, he’s a player and a sophisticate . When a woman cheats, she’s a slut.

So, people who live in glass houses can throw stones! She slept her way to the top, and Donald slept his way to the bottom. How do you sleep your way to the top in an election? Kamala won elections to get where she is. Donald just got lucky and fell out of the right uterus. He took 100 million dollars and ran it into a fortune one time maybe. Nobody knows for sure. He bankrupted two casinos which is truly a notable accomplishment. Disproving the adage, “the house always wins.” Replacing it with “the house always steals.”  Casinos financed and built with government backed bonds leaving investors and taxpayers to pick up the tab.

To the cult it means nothing, all lies! Fake News! But you could never reach the cult anyway. After the Republicans had beat the drum about Joe Biden’s age. Joe Biden steps aside leaving a younger and more vigorous candidate. Leaving Trump as the old man on the stage. That’s a backfire if ever there was one. The issue came right back and bit him on his old, aged backside. The Republicans made age an issue and now it is.

Donald is afraid to debate Kamala without stage props and a home field advantage. No hurry, the more he dawdles the more the issue takes hold. Step across this line. Knock this chip off my shoulder! But Donald Trump will come begging eventually.

Ms. Harris’s positivity combined with Republican negativity has turned a bump into a swell and into a lead. Given a clear choice between positive and negative, Donald is in trouble. He is held hostage by a knife of his own making. Is Joe Biden, I mean, is Donald Trump too old to be the President?

It is amazing when you think about it. Let’s make Joe Biden’s age the issue! Dang, that was a dumb issue to bring up when you’re only three years younger. Whoever thought that up, You’re fired!

The candidate who is behind needs a debate while the candidate in the lead does not. I think you begin to see the conundrum Mr. Trump faces. He now needs a debate to try and turn things around and change the momentum. He needs a slam-bang awesome debate and against someone of Ms. Harris’s caliber that is highly unlikely to occur.

Mirror-mirror on the wall who is the oldest of them all?