This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Try not to think of it as cowardly, chicken shit billionaires putting personal preferences over business acumen. Try to think of it as the final nail in the newspaper industry’s coffin, because of cowardly chicken shit billionaire ownership. What does a newspaper’s endorsement really mean anymore, especially now?

The newspaper owners are billionaires who flick his fingers dismissively at the peasants. Not caring a whit if they buy this silly newspaper or not. It’s only a toy to play with and not a serious business. Make money? Who cares! If the billionaire class wants to support Donald Trump, such is their right, speak right up! But billionaires working both sides of the street is objectionable.

By not endorsing Kamala Harris it becomes a backhanded stealth endorsement of Donald Trump. Coming right out and endorsing Trump would be politically dangerous and the public could revolt. So, they want to endorse Trump but not face any criticism for it.  Gee, we really just can’t decide!

Trump’s Rally at Madison Scary Garden last night really cinches it up tight. If you have no endorsement to offer after that. There’s something bad wrong with you! A modern live and in color version of an American Nazi Party Rally, but you still can’t decide, huh? Republicans must now run away from Donald Trump or get left in the dustbin by history. We’re moving past the vile rhetoric phase to the red neck/brown shirt/red hat violence phase. The Trump shirt Red hats were marching outside the Garden last night cursing and waving flags.

To remain silent in the face of evil is to become and accept evil as a component of who you are. If you can remain silent after Mr. Trump’s Nazi rally. There is something missing inside of you, more money won’t cure. Better to be among the poorest of the poor (a writer) than to use your wealth for evil.

So let us flash forward four years and see the newspapers decide to endorse a candidate this time around. Fox News endorses…! It becomes a meaningless endorsement from a meaningless newspaper. Leaking subscribers faster than a bad recap tire loses air. Credibility lost is never found. Paying $500 million for an empty masthead, some offices and word processors. Advertising rates are set by the number of paid subscribers, was it really worth it?

To blow your cover of objectivity for Donald Trump? An American Fascist without both oars in the water, you’d burn your own business to the ground for that? This will not end well for the billionaires. After November 5^th Mr. Trump will be gone, but the memory of his enablers will remain. Once a racist, always a racist. Maybe people will drop their Amazon Prime accounts and order products from a non-Fascist!

Donald Trump, Amazon, and Elon Musk working together inadvertently sowing the seeds of their own destruction. Giving Americans a healthy education into the billionaire class. What would you tolerate to keep your vast fortune intact? Racism? Xenophobia? Violence? Mass Deportations? Camps?

“Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside”
― John F. Kennedy

What credibility does any story from the Washington Post, or the LA Times have now? They do or say just what the boss says they do, or they’re out the door. The boss clearly has his thumb on the scales, and the public will and should walk away. Red State. Com and The Washington Post will be bunk mates. Lie down with dogs and wake up out of business.

What sort of a person could withhold an endorsement in the face of Donald Trump’s Fascist rally? This is who they really are. Squeezed between being an honest broker or a filthy shill they choose shillery. Not for financial reasons like a newspaper editor might. But billionaires with complete financial freedom choose Fascism over Democracy. They choose Donald Trump over the system which made them all rich.  Speaks volumes, doesn’t it?

But let me ask you, for 500 points and a chance to go on to the lightining round. How many businessmen, billionaires and industrial power houses have prospered after jumping the broom with Donald Trump? Judges say, None! It really makes you wonder what they’re thinking. Every business which has connected itself with Donald Trump ends up screwed, blued, and tattooed. But maybe it will be alright. Maybe you won’t end up broke or facing prison time. It could happen! Just because most people end up ruined by association with Donald doesn’t automatically mean you’ll be ruined. Only, that there is a high probability of you being ruined.

 Wanna buy a pillow? A regular $49.95 value now only, $19.95 with free shipping. Rudy Giuliani is in hiding and would have to win the Powerball to ever be financially solvent again. Fox News is three quarters of a billion dollars lighter in their bank account. Tucker Carlson got fired from his twenty million dollar a year job. But maybe it will work out for the billionaires, but I wouldn’t count on it.

The aviator Charles Lindbergh spoke at the last American Nazi Party Rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939 and his reputation never recovered from it. Lindbergh later tried to enlist in the Army Air Corp but was refused as “Undesirable” as a Nazi sympathizer.  Opinions have consequences. Personally, I don’t buy anything from Nazi sympathizers or Fascists.

I read an advertisement recently which said the top ten percent of income earners pay 55% of all the taxes, cry me a river. Call when it’s 75%! And if they openly support Fascists, take it all!

“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.” ― Franklin Delano Roosevelt