This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Let’s call it the last orgy on the Titanic. Free champagne in the doom room! Meet the Devil live and in person! Since January 20^th the stock market has been in constant turmoil because of the Big Baby. The fundamentals speak the obvious. The tariffs are going to tear the economy a new asshole. Everyone knows that. Consumer sentiment has turned sour, and the just plain folks is just plain scared shitless at the actions of the Big Baby.

The Republicans wet themselves with delight like land speculators after a new Indian treaty. The Democrats have caved (Surprise!) claiming if the government shut down the Big Baby would be even worse. That is truly a sad commentary on our times. But here in fantasyland who notices such things? The hogs charge for the trough and the stock market soars! Joy to the world! Everything is going to be great! There will be no negative consequences or ill effects! Sure, you can pull hundreds of billions of dollars in government spending out the economy! It’ll be great! Buy! Buy! Buy stocks now!

Everyone thought Joe Kennedy was some sort of financial wizard because he had the good sense to dump all his stocks before the crash in 29. Hell, this stuff is easy! It wasn’t because Kennedy was so smart. It was because the rest of them were so dumb! Caught up in the delirium and hype. I loved this headline which is why I love financial channels. “Tesla stock rebounds 1%” Unless you’ve got Jesus in your pocket, Lazarus is dead buddy. Tesla is as dead as the dodo bird. Maybe Millie Vanilli can make a comeback. Everything is always good news. “New Deadly Virus in China! Mortuary Stocks Soar!”

If you own Tesla stock and think the good days are still ahead? You’re living in a dream world. Here’s a clever marketing strategy, kick the shit out of the economy! Make hundreds of thousands of people lose their jobs and scare the shit out of nearly everyone else. It is collective insanity, like the Franklin Expedition. They are living in a dream world. “Picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies” dream world. The markets are pretending everything is alright and refusing to accept or acknowledge that everything is not alright.

Last orgy on the Titanic. Big party in the Fuehrer bunker! Tonight Only! The Big Baby goes to the Justice Department to bare his fangs and call out his enemies by name. Attacking free speech and the free press, suing 50 of the most prestigious Universities in the country. NBC News did a story about the protest at Big Baby Tower. How the students were occupying the building in support of a Palestinian activist facing deportation. Do you know what they forgot to mention? Short of time, I guess. They were Jewish students. Their story was about a Palestinian Activist being deported. Not about Jewish students speaking up for free speech in defense of a Palestinian activist being deported. Clever! Don’t you think? A real Winston Smith job, that.

Nothing like a free press in America. Do you own one? Do you know of one? I hate it when the Liberal Media helps a Fascist Big Baby. But the media is in free fall. It’s not what you say but what you might say inadvertently. There is no rule book. If something you say strikes the Big Baby wrong, it’s curtains. So, they must be extra, extra careful about what they say about anything. Still living in the dream world. This won’t affect our ad revenues any, will it? When the economy crashes and burns there will still be plenty of customers around? I’m almost sure of it!

Home prices are stagnating, and foreclosures are rising. But they never feel the water growing hotter. Instead, they boast. See! Inflation is moderating. Your house is no longer gaining in value. You’re welcome! That blowing a hole in the economy large enough you could drive a semi-truck through makes real estate stocks a buy now! How bad is it? Investors in real estate are getting out. People who do this for a living are saying goodbye to the industry. Real financial wizards, I bet huh?

The Big Baby fires tens of thousands of Federal workers and a Federal Judge says stop it. Fascist Rule Number one. Always use the legal system to tie up the system and sow havoc and confusion. So, the legal wrangling will go back and forth like a tennis match for weeks and months. You’ve got a job! You don’t got a job! Finally arriving on the desk of the artificially sweetened Supreme farce. We all know a case is going there. Meanwhile, the agency dies on the vine. You can’t operate up in the air and not knowing from day to day who still works here? Who will still work here tomorrow? The Fascists win!

But Shhh, don’t tell Wall Street, but Fascism is bad for business. It demands such naiveté to unleash a system of corruption and a fuck everybody mentality! Certain they themselves will never ever be cheated or ever get fucked. Certain the corruption won’t reach their business.  Why me and ole Al Capone is real good friends! He’d never do anything like that to me.

It can’t happen here; It can’t happen here.

All of this while pretending the Big Baby won’t do something even worse tomorrow. Living in a dream. Stocks aren’t going up. Stocks are going down, way down! Let’s drink to the good ole days and pretend they were still with us. The Big Baby and his Republican rubberstamp plan to take Billions of dollars out of your state’s economy and Wall Street pretends that’s okay! Everything will be fine, just like it was before, everything will be just like it was before. It’ll be fine and he’ll calm down eventually, dream world.

What do you know about Neo feudalism and getting rid of all the useless eaters? The infirm and elderly the maimed and the crippled. It is hard to grasp sometimes. Turning the peasants out from the castle to  graze in the fields. And without so much as even a death panel.

The business consciousness is unable to accept what is going on all around them and so they live in complete denial. There is no turn around coming for Tesla stocks. Soon, there won’t be any Tesla stocks. Wait until the cars don’t get bought. Wait until crops don’t get picked. Wait until the farmers start going broke. In the face of a unilateral trade war Wall Street asks, what trade war? Huh? A trade war you say…really?

“If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization” ― Ludwig von Mises.

Understand my fellow peasants? Not your world at all, but private properties world. That is their vision of civilization. My world, not yours. I own it, not you. Kings and pawns. You can’t tell ME what to do. So shut up. I’m important and you’re not. Fuck your sick kids and your grandma!