This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

There is no way to sugar coat this. It’s a calamity of the highest order. It’s Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and the Martians landed all at once. This isn’t a case of oh heck, we lost. The American people or someone, just handed Donald Trump the American government on a silver platter. Full control! With the House and the Senate and with a friendly Supreme Court. Tucked  neatly in his back pocket to back him up if he starts to pull laws from out of his backside.

The Trump victory was a victory for white supremacy, antisemitism, misogyny, and hate. A victory which will unleash the darkest demons of hate to run loose. Hate crimes will soon soar. People will probably die. Fascism is coming to your house like Christmas. The Muslim voters in Michigan protesting Israel’s policy in Gaza. By voting for the guy who wanted to deport them and not let them into the country in the first place. Cat Stevens 2.0! Man, you really taught old Joe Biden a lesson, didn’t you?

The sad fact that the Republican Party have very successfully taken away the rights of women will only encourage them to take away some more. After all, you let them get away with it. The conventional wisdom always said, if Republicans ever tried to restrict a woman’s rights, they would get the shit beat out of them in the next election. But that didn’t happen, did it? The House, the Senate, and the White House are all firmly in control of the very people who took away your rights and suffered no punishment for it at all. Hush dear, the men are talking. You ain’t gonna do nothing but sit there and look pretty. Call it friendly Fascism, Fascism with a paternalistic smile.

If I had the financial means, I would already be making my travel arrangements. I’m eligible for Irish citizenship, but don’t know if I couldn’t stand the drinking. There is no limit on this crisis. No end as to where it will all lead. Camps, showers, lamp shades the whole nine yards. No more liberal giveaways to immigrants like tampons, toilet paper or water. If you wanted a tampon or toilet paper, you should have thought about that before you left the house. Legal immigrants and natural born Hispanic American citizens can expect the worst of it as King Trump promises his deportation program will have “no price tag!” Not for Trump anyway. “Help Ma! I’ve been deported to Costa Rica!”

Say, does your Union need to negotiate a new contract? Good luck! Just try and strike, they’ll hit you with an injunction faster than you could say Mike Tyson. The Republicans won’t straight up kill Obamacare, they’ll modify it so it can’t work first, and then kill it. King Trump will need money and where do you suppose he’ll get it from? He either has to raise taxes or run deficits or both. Both are bad for interest rates. But if you are in the market now, who will protect you “chum”? Will King Trump protect you if King Trump does something “wayward” and the markets tank? Just think of November 5^th. But King Trump wouldn’t do anything stupid like start a trade war, would he?

Just imagine what a $2,000 tariff on a Toyota Corolla will do to the markets? And the healthcare stocks? And Treasury bills! Don’t you want some King Trump Treasury bills? Would he cheat you? You know they’re good, if they have King Trump’s official signature on them.

With King Trump’s victory, they are dancing in the streets of Moscow and Pong Yang and Tehran. Think of it!  America’s adversaries are rejoicing, and America’s “friends” are concerned and weeping. I guess the Saudi’s will have to rebook that block of hotel rooms in Trump Tower no one ever sleeps in again. How many years was that? I guess if you want any influence, you better make your reservations yourself right away. Hello Expedia?

There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus — and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it — that unless you’re free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!

That doesn’t mean — I know it will be interpreted to mean, unfortunately, by the bigots who run The Examiner, for example — That doesn’t mean that you have to break anything. One thousand people sitting down some place, not letting anybody by, not [letting] anything happen, can stop any machine, including this machine! And it will stop!! – Mario Savio

“You do not become a ”dissident” just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well and ends with being branded an enemy of society.”
― Vaclav Havel