This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

The King gave his speech today, the one they wanted him to give yesterday. After losing 1,000 points on the Dow, she was headed back down another 1,000. The King’s speech might staunch the bleeding some, but it won’t heal the wound after the damage is already done. The Dow was off by another 750 points when the King made his little speech. “Oh no! A recession? Where did you ever get that idea? Tariffs? My Fault? Oh no! This is all Joe Biden’s fault! We had a terrible economy with a soaring stock market!”

We’re all about to have a big meeting in Washington. All the big Wall Street hoop de Jupes and me. We’re gonna sit down with Elon, and he’ll explain it all. Elon’s great with explanations! You’re gonna love this. It’s going to be so great!

Now I ask you politely. With no intention of trying to insult anyone’s intelligence. But who in the fucking name of God is stupid enough to believe a goddamn word coming out of the mouth of Donald Trump? Are they insane? He might promise you the moon and the stars today, and tomorrow deny there was ever even a meeting. Meeting with Trump is like meeting with a cow. You might think it went well, but to the cow? Not so much.

What is to be accomplished at this big Wall Street conference? Will all the downward fundamentals somehow be reversed through magic? What do you suppose is going to happen to the markets when the people begin realizing what is going on? How they are being plundered and robbed. When the town lays off half of the police force and closes a fire station or two. What’s that letter in the mail? Oh, that’s your insurance premium going up due to your town’s shitty fire protection. The town closes the Library on Monday and Wednesdays despite the major state and local tax increases.

The University is defunded and largely shut down but don’t worry. You’ll get by somehow. Maybe you’ll own another home someday, but don’t count on it. This is about a Brutal Exercise of Power! You! The American people are about to be disenfranchised from your government. This government proposes to break its promises and steal your legacy to give to the rich. From here on, you’re on your own. Disabled child? Tough!

You will move now from the world of citizen to plebian. They don’t care if you are unhappy. In fact, they hope you are unhappy! It’s all part of the plan to demoralize you with a fait a acompli. But maybe they can hash that out some, come the big Wall Street pow wow.

Imagine that? Thousands protest at Tesla stores worldwide. The protests have largely remained peaceful, and they warn, they had better stay that way! Why? You come into my government as an unelected bureaucratic dickhead out to destroy my freedoms, my livelihood and my way of life. And I’m supposed to somehow be fair and nice to you? I hope someday they drag Elon’s lifeless corpse through the streets behind a Cybertruck.

This is a BRUTAL EXERCISE OF POWER BY THE GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE PEOPLE. Fair is over! Only one side will prevail! This is a War, and they hope to demoralize and defeat you.

 Remember: “When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken.” – Che Guevara

So, when Elon fired you illegally, it was an open act of war.

And they want everything, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, unemployment insurance. Fire protection, police protection. Got any dreams? They want those too! They want to collapse society with you inside. You wanna send your kids to college? Fat chance! What college? That shut down years ago. If your daddy ain’t got cash money honey, you ain’t going. But don’t let it upset you like it has me.

Republicans gleefully dance in the aisles celebrating voting to starve children, the disabled, Veterans and the elderly. But we are expected to silently sit by following the law? Be quiet while we rob you! Where are your manners? Don’t you want to be law abiding citizen?

It has completely disordered my mind in all sorts of strange and peculiar ways that I find my head filled with weird idle thoughts. I find myself day dreaming; wondering where one could find an actual working Guillotine. Not one of those movie props or a magician’s tricks, but the gosh darn real thing! Where do you suppose you could locate something like that? Maybe send off to France for a loaner. If we promise to take good care of it and sharpen the blade when we’re finished. Do you know what the French Revolution was called? A BRUTAL EXERCISE OF POWER AGAINST THE PEOPLE.

The French people finally got pissed off one day. After generations of being lorded over and starved half to death by the idle rich. So, they lopped of the heads of the oligarchy, and the problem largely went away. You owe a criminal government exactly nothing, but your continued resistance. The table stakes are win or die, pick up your cards.

Elon says he wants to take away your Social Security. I say we separate Elon’s head from his neck! After a fair trial of course, not to exceed three minutes.

“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.” – Mark Twain

“We cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.” – John F. Kennedy