This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

May I ask a question? Suppose we were playing Monopoly, and you bought the electric company, the water works and The Washington Post. It’s all yours to do with as you like. Are you endorsing a candidate you don’t want to endorse, just to please the paying public? Gone are the days when a newspaper was a public trust. Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart are dead! This is a business! How many hamburgers do you want, mister?

Pretending to still be important more these days than actually being important. There was a time when candidates came calling on newspaper editors’ hat in hand, smiling nervously. By their choices they destroy their own business model and cheapen their properties. Making their opinion worth even less next time around. By not making a choice, they choose to make a choice.

Too chicken shit to stand up and say, “I proudly support Donald Trump! Not because he’s good for the country or the world! But because he’s good for my bank book. I got CPA’s wetting themselves over the possibilities. Vote against your children’s future and vote for Donald Trump!” But I didn’t say that. I didn’t endorse anybody!

Because they can’t say that! They’ll look … What’s the word I’m looking for here? Crazy? Unbalanced? Out of their minds? Unable to raise cash from a future stock offering. Those who hold public opinion in their hands are afraid to speak their opinion, because it is unpalatable and distasteful. I think the word here is “duck.” We’ll just go to sleep and wake up after the election. How about those Dodgers, huh?

Rest assured these owners paid out millions of millions of dollars to control the content. With no other reason for purchase. And by their silence they are telling you as much. All the news that fits my opinion! So, this year, I endorse no one. It’s just too hard to decide. On the one hand, a centrist Democrat who will raise my taxes. On the other hand, a raving lunatic authoritarian wanna be in cognitive decline who might start World War III but won’t raise my taxes. It’s just too damn hard to decide!

There is one thing the media keeps telling me and I don’t believe it. I have too much faith in my fellow Americans. I understand from the media perspective a close horse race is good for the ratings. The media keeps telling me this race is close, but I don’t believe it and I don’t see it. It is not nearly as close as they say it is.

Donald Trump lost the election in 2020 by a substantial margin. Are they trying to tell us Donald Trump is gaining in popularity? That Donald Trump’s controversial remarks and disjointed behavior have had no effect on voters? Mr. Trump got smeared in the debate like a doddering oaf, but that had no effect on public opinion either? What do you take us for?

Instead, they focus on Trump spitting on the sidewalk or chewing gum with his mouth open. Trump left supporters standing in the cold for three hours while he did Joe Rogan’s podcast. (Harris does 60 Minutes and Trump does Joe Rogan?) Donald Trump is a mentally ill maniac who shouldn’t be allowed out loose on the streets. And yes, he left his supporters standing in the cold. Oh, the humanity!

Trump speaks in Fascist Hitlerian terms, but let’s focus on his discourtesy. That’s not nice! Never mind the man has talked about enemies within and bloody purges with camps and mass deportations. After all that, I bet the race is still close.

Let’s see; Kamala Harris has been endorsed by 82 Nobel Prize winners. Donald Trump is still crying because Barack Obama won a Nobel Prize and he didn’t or as it’s known in Republican circles the “Noble Prize.” Every living President and hundreds of Republican officials have all endorsed Ms. Harris. Rock stars, movie stars, writers and artists have all come out in support of Kamala Harris. But according to the media, it carries no weight and has had no impact. The race is close!

Arizona, like a lot of trending Blue states has a large urban blue area and a red everywhere else. I live in everywhere else and Trump support here is flat and lackluster. A few puny road signs. Not one bumper sticker and no idiots riding around town with American flags on the back of their pickup trucks. But they say the race is close.

But according to the hard math of the electoral college. Mr. Trump has to win all of the toss up states. And he’s trailing in four of seven toss up states and close in the other three, yet the election is a real close contest. The Trump campaign has a real issue with women and find themselves trailing among women by as much as 15%. Which means Trump needs 15% more of the men’s vote just to have a chance. Women vote more often than men.

Donald Trump is spiraling out of control and the media say it is a close race. Mr. Trump speaks about Hannibal Lector…again, but it’s close. It’s oh so close.

Republican political stalwarts have largely abandoned Mr. Trump to his fate. Mitch McConnell all but called Mr. Trump a piece of shit. The Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said, duh what? No one is cheerleading for the Trump team except the Trump team, and of course the hapless JD Vance. The Republican Governor of Ohio condemned the Trump campaign for their remarks about Springfield. I’m sure that happens all the time, a Republican Governor condemns the Republican Presidential ticket, during an election year.

Mr. Trump says, “America is a garbage can.” Therefore, filled to the brim with dirty refuse like you and me. Shit kickers and brainiacs, nerds and masturbaters. Tax cheats and wife beaters, square dancers, and regular Americans. Yeah, it looks like it’s going to be real close, not.

A real question to ask is why the media is trying so hard to make it look like it’s going to be close. Just for the ratings or for darker motives? You can’t contest an election if it’s not close. Or are they making an endorsement by not making an endorsement? After all, who owns those networks, a bunch of Liberal Democrats?

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” ― Aldous Huxley