This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

It is as predictable as the Fall and the script is always the same. As the campaign begins to stumble, it begins breaking into faction’s finger pointing and blaming each other. Chief congressional harlequin Lindsey Graham says Donald Trump needs to distance himself from Trump proselytite and propagandist Laura Loomer. She is a Trump opening act for the rallies, spilling the bile you’ve come to expect.

They begin to find fault with each other and complain publicly. Oh, just wait, it’s going to get so much worse. Lindsey is a feared Loomer is hurting big orange Jesus. Loomer fires back (approximate quote) Shut up Lindsey, you’re Gay! Revealing the worst kept secret in Washington. Loomer claims Lindsey was never really a true Trumper but only a fake Trumper! His pedigree is not as pure as hers!

It might be true, but Mr. Trump is running out of options. The guest list is getting smaller and smaller. Where have they all gone? It is another sign of Fall. Those in the know are aware that Donald Trump could go toxic and capsize at any minute. Those in the know; know not to get too close, just in case.

Chief Nazi sympathizer and Trump’s ball cleaning boy Stephen Miller began to get angry and shout when asked for proof of the figures he was making up. Miller wouldn’t stand for it. Its my Party and I’ll lie if I want to! How dare you ask me for your partisan facts! Facts, we don’t need no stinking facts!

The Trump monster himself calls on ABC to fire their entire production staff! Everybody – from the shirts to the janitors. Guess who Donald Trump thinks won the debate? And it’s all the ABC staff’s doing! Off with their heads! A Newsmax poll found Donald Trump won the debate by a margin of 93% for Trump and 6% for Kamala Harris. Holy North Korea! How did Kamala Harris ever get 6%? It should be 99% for Trump and 1% for the disloyal untermunchin.

But it points to the bubble they find themselves in. The delusion is being challenged from outside, torn between everything is fine and the growing rational fear it’s not fine. Everything is not fine, and someone must be at fault for it. Tommy begins to see himself in the mirror.

Imagine being stroked and petted night after night. Being told Donald can leap over tall buildings and stop a speeding locomotive. Then Donald Trump takes the podium, and they must convince themselves their eyes and their ears are lying to them. Trump’s really not that bad. Oh wait, yes, he is. Like the music man, they were convinced Trump could play the trombone if he thought he could.

Creating a glaring contradiction in the scenery. Mr. Trump was puffed up to be a Wonder Boy and appeared on stage a doddering deteriorating old fool. You and I expected it. But to the pampered propagandized Trump poodles. The event was a shock to the system. Who was that old guy?

Trump’s performance was so bad there must be some alternative reasons. You know, like SATAN! According to a MAGA preacher and online graduate of Bisbee Bible College. Ms. Harris simply used witchcraft to confound, befuddle and beguile Mr. Trump. Genuine occulty witchcraft. Spells and black magic with eye of newt and ground bat wing. See how far in it goes? Adults willing to believe this even after seeing Donald Trump with their own eyes falling apart like a cheap watch.

Or perhaps it was Kamala’s earrings which gave her the edge. A special set of Johnny Lightning super-secret agent earrings. Relaying information from a super-secret satellite somewhere in outer space. It gave Ms. Harris the ability to stand there silently smiling while Donald rambled on incoherently until his time expired. The earrings did that!

The poodle pen is struggling, as this does not compute! The reality comes in direct conflict with their fantasy. So, any holes poked into the fantasy must be someone’s fault. Mark my words before this is all over, they will go after J.D. Vance even worse than they went after Mike Pence. But J.D. can’t say he wasn’t warned ahead of time.

They’ll keep the big ape hidden for a day or two to let the heat die down. Trump will stay on his Twuth social media where he can be spell and thought checked before any publication. Meanwhile, they’ll blow the budget with an ad blitz where they can use the made for TV images of Donald Trump. To attempt to patch over the leaks in the fantasy blown open by the debate.

Just because you are paranoid, doesn’t mean someone isn’t following you. There is a fifth column inside of the Republican Party that would like to see Donald Trump lose. To see him eradicated from the political landscape entirely. You are either a Trumper or disloyal, so they stay largely underground.

The list of Republicans and former Republicans endorsing Kamala Harris grows. Two former Republican Vice Presidents endorse Kamala Harris and two former Republican Attorney Generals. Fortunately for Trump this is all taking place outside the bubble and the cult will never hear a word about it.

But Donald Trump was broken on the wheel the other night. The illusion was broken and can’t easily be repaired. He’s not a wizard! I saw it for myself! What is important for Republicans now is to try and keep Trump upright and not let the campaign go into a total collapse.

To try and rescue a few congressional seats if they can. In the meantime, Trump becomes a political pariah. Argued over by hacks and partisans but loved by none. Who only support him when the lights are on, and when people are looking. But the lamps are burning low now and may soon be fully extinguished as fantasy and reality cannot exist in the same space at the same time.

“Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don’t tell them he’s a damned fool, they’ll never find out. If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.” – Mark Twain