This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

The CBS News 60 Minutes program took to the air to explain why from their perspective at least, the interview with Donald Trump never came off. Why, is the biggest word on the page. Ostensibly, the issue was over fact checking. We’ll never get anywhere if you’re going to fact check everything little thing I say. But for a candidate to turn away from a national television audience. That is big and when the Trump campaign post mortem is done, will be mentioned prominently. Hello! 60 Minutes? Are you kidding?

Chop, chop, we don’t care if Pink isn’t well. Get dressed. The Trump team says the interview was never finalized, and CBS says it was. It’s a tradition which has been around since the audion tube and is expected of ALL serious aspiring candidates. Why would you ever turn that away?

Fact checking? Really? I can see that as a hindrance, but just try being vague and we can bitch about our treatment later, like the debate. But the sudden change of mind comes after Mr. Trump’s Wisconsin visit. Where he went off script and rambled even more than usual. Did someone pull the chicken switch? You just can’t send him out there to talk to 60 Minutes! You just can’t! If he starts talking about seeing flying monkeys again or playing with his turds, we’re finished!

Whatever happened to fight, fight, fight? There is no way the Trump team can spin this as a positive retreat. Oh good, just what the campaign needs, more bad news. So, the real reasons behind it must be extra-large. Scary large. The cheese finally slipping off of the cracker large. Brain puddin. The porch light is on, but there’s no house. Donald Trump’s public appearances have dropped, and it looks like he’s going full Ronald Reagan on us. A smile and a friendly wave from a distance.

Losing campaigns always have those same earmarks of mistakes and blown opportunities. Donald Trump picked J.D. Vance because he said, Young Mr. Vance reminded him of himself. That appears to be the first mistake. The goal of a good running mate is not monkey see monkey do, but to balance out the ticket. Does picking someone just like yourself do that? But the real running mate question to ask is, just how long was that potential running mate list?

Consider yourself for a moment, a successful Republican politician. Why oh why, would you ever want any part of the Donald Trump all you can eat shit sandwich buffet. They all remember Mike Pence. They might pretend they don’t and never would admit it, but they remember. That could have been anybody, and he could have been killed and Donald Trump wouldn’t have cared one whit about it. Put that in your pipe and smoke on it for a spell.

Something to burnish up the old resume’ perhaps? Gee, what to do. What to do? Keep my cushy Senate job or sign on with a man who might try to get me killed? It’s one of those things like a boy scout troop leader. Anyone who wants the job should be immediately disqualified. At least Mike Pence had an excuse. He was stupid, but we all know better now, don’t we? What sort of man would ever accept a job like this from a man like that?

Vance isn’t an idiot, and it can’t have escaped his attention that Donald Trump has thrown everyone under the bus, whenever it suits him. There will be criminality! There are few survivors in the wake of Donald Trump. You’d have to know that and accept this as a Kamikaze mission. You could end up buried on a Golf course. I don’t think Mr. Trump’s potential running mate list was really very long at all. Are you over 35 and a citizen? Breathing? You’re not in the Klan, Gay or taken any nude photographs, have you? No Porn sight affiliations? Never been abducted by Aliens? Okay, you’re in!

And poor, J.D. out there trying like a puppy wanting to please. “Well sometimes, I have to make stuff up for Donald Trump. And then, being asked the death star question. Who won the 2020 election? You so smart! “Well, it was, I mean gosh, it was so long ago.” We need an answer. “Alright! It was Donald Trump! He won! Are you happy now? He told me he did. Now go away and leave me alone!

The new polling shows Kamala Harris with a commanding 6% lead in a large national poll. And along with the number of Republican officials coming out in support of Ms. Harris. The number of rank and file Republicans at large supporting Ms. Harris has nearly doubled from 5 to 9%. That might not sound like much, but it’s the stuff which landslides are made of. 9% of Republicans are supporting the Democrat.

You bet they’re hiding him. That’s why Trump won’t do 60 Minutes. He won’t gain any votes but could likely only lose votes from among the faithful. The Trump bullshit indicator has finally reached the “Full” mark. The erosion has begun. The spell is broken.

“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ’cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he’s poor in hisself, there ain’t no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an’ maybe he’s disappointed that nothin’ he can do ‘ll make him feel rich.” ― John Steinbeck