This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Well, what else can you say, huh? Orange Grandpa can’t be trusted with the remote control anymore. What are the chances? I had suggested OGP’s behavior, and abilities might be enhanced or explained by performance enhancing drugs, ala Elvis. I read about the late comedian Jerry Lewis and his long-term opiate addiction. And when they are up, they feel invincible. But as the drug begins wearing off the brain demands more and shifts into a gimme more anger mode.

Sounds familiar somehow, doesn’t it? It could sort of explain a lot really. Jerry Lewis could have a dozen personalities, and most of them were unpleasant. Two pills become four and after a while it’s never enough. Until the euphoria is largely gone leaving anger in control. Yes, that does sound familiar.

Donald Trump held a news conference where he promised to hold a news conference. Stop the presses! Not since Jimmy Peirsall climbed the backstop at Fenway Park has there been such a public breakdown. All that was missing was a soiled bathrobe and three day mussed hair. Also missing, was his orange face makeup giving Mr. Trump a pinkish pork look. It made him look pale and older. It also made his hair look gray and thinning. How could he forget the orange face makeup? It’s his trademark!

Mentally disheveled and angry. Fighting personal demons and on the far extreme of manic. He didn’t just draw a crowd. He drew the biggest crowd ever! Even larger than Martin Luther King! If Donald Trump ever cooked a hamburger. It would be the greatest hamburger in all of human history! No euphoria involved here, I guess.

The news conference was broken and disjointed with the former president soaring one moment and angry the next. Anger was his pathos and the subtext. Mr. Trump was quick to announce he had agreed to a debate on ABC and not on Fox. You bet he did; Trump needs a debate to try and right the ship. Donald Trump just got the latest poll numbers. The same numbers which convinced Joe Biden to step aside. Donald Trump now understands J.D. Vance was a serious mistake which he cannot correct.

J.D.s polling numbers place him somewhere in popularity between Sarah Palin and chlamydia. Men dislike him; women fear him and the children just cry.

Donald’s behavior was so outlandish it could easily be used as evidence against him in a competency hearing. This wasn’t normal even by Donald Trump standards. Dare, I say it? Sounds like someone was off of their meds or on their meds or in need of meds. J.D. gives the cult a reason to dislike the ticket.

Do you realize just how bad this was for Trump? There is a total silence on the Republican side. Nobody but nobody, is brave enough to wade in trying to navigate or mitigate this disaster. What whoa! The cheese appears to be sliding off the cracker. Better run for cover cause a hard rain is going to fall.

Trump is wounded no differently than Joe Biden’s debate performance. It’s too early to declare him politically dead yet. But Trump looked defeated, self-defeated and making excuses about why he don’t get no respect. Rambling and “weird.” Calling into question if Donald Trump still has all of his Matchbox cars together in a collection.

Never in American politics has anyone ever compared themselves to Abraham Lincoln, especially to African Americans. It is a symptom of a problem, and I like Sammy Davis Jr. too! “ The Candy Man can! I knew a man Bo Jangles and he danced for you!”

Former White House physician Ronny Jackson was also known as Dr. Feel Good. Donald Trump was his favorite patient and Ronny was eager to please for fun and profit. So, my theory is not really so far-fetched as it might sound at first.

There is a belief among the non-drinking that taking pills to alter their mood is only medicine and not a self-destructive behavior. They aren’t drunks, they’re patients under a doctor’s care. They are in control and besides these pills were prescribed by a doctor! Then one day you find yourself holding a news conference where you promise to hold a news conference, like you don’t know how you got there.

If it just opiates, Mr. Trump can be weaned off of them. But if it’s not opiate addiction, the situation could be more permanent and prolonged. But what to do now? One more episode of Mr. Doodles invites us in to watch his breakdown would be the end. But if the Republicans don’t respond Trump’s news conference, could become a lasting image.

It could be the stress finally got to him and even though it’s twelve o’clock, the little bird doesn’t come out of the clock anymore. Sailing on the vicissitudes of a modern campaign demasted. Crumbling like a sand castle at day’s end. That creepy knowing feeling that the party is all but over and the last one out is a rotten egg.

An enthusiasm gap and a candidate off his skateboard with 90 days left to go. The Republican voters stunned into silence won’t vote for Kamala Harris. They will stay home in droves lamenting the sad end of their former superhero. Like a spell broken and a dream dissolved. Abruptly they discovered, he’s not a magic man after all, but just a sad old man partially out of his head.

“There’s more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.” ― John Steinbeck