This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Hats off and kudos to Indiana Republican congresswoman Victoria Spartz. I don’t agree with a word she says, but I admire her pluck. I’d be damned before I’d face down an angry mob of simple country people. That takes guts going into the lion’s den to announce no supper tonight or tomorrow either for that matter.

Spartz had brought along the requisite charts and graphs showing imminent doom ahead if we don’t cut taxes for billionaires immediately and cut our social services radically. Let history note, here was thrown the first punch outside. Say it again and watch what happens! This town hall was large at 500 seats. With an overflow crowd outside first angry at not getting in, and then, just plain angry.

Ms. Spartz was doing yeoman’s duty. Trying her best to explain the ins and outs of corporate Fascism and neo liberal Feudalism to the little folks about to feel the brunt of it. Do you hear the alarm bells ringing? This is Indiana folks; nobody bussed these folks in. These are Red, red, red Republicans in nice calm sedate Indiana, the main street and main spring of middle America. Pissed off! And looking to take some scalps!

Taking questions for nearly two hours Spartz should be commended. That’s longer than some whole Republican congressional delegations. Yet, no matter how she tried, she failed to sway the crowd with her arguments. The mood shifted from simmering anger to violent anger back to an exhausted simmering anger. Few went home satisfied. Unconvinced that doing without and losing everything they’d ever known and worked for to benefit the billionaire class would be better for them in the long run. You know how skeptical country people can be.

And the flowers bloom like madness in the spring. Buckle up buttercup and wait until the Summer sun starts to warm things up. You’ve seen the lightning, now wait to hear the thunder. The plan to make Social Security identify people in person was immediately scaled back. After the White House and Congressional phone banks were swamped with angry and frightened seniors. In Florida, a special election is drawing attention as a congressional seat might go Democratic. In Florida, blue. Alarm bells! The King’s not worried but scuttled Elise Stefanik’s UN appointment, just in case.

I saw this headline but have been unable to verify its veracity. But supposedly, the King told NBC News that he didn’t care about the price of cars. What are the chances the King cares about a congresswoman’s career from Indiana? Or Indiana farmers? Or simple country folks either? The King announcing, he will do whatever the hell he wants to do just like Hitler after the Reichstag had passed the Enabling Acts.

Meanwhile out on Diego Garcia, the B-2 stealth bombers pile up left out on the tarmac. So as to be sure the Iranians will notice our invisible bombers. War is coming! We’re going to war with Iran because they won’t knuckle under to the king. Cooler heads in the Pentagon have warned against tangling with Iran for years. An unnecessary war, but while we tank the world economy. Let’s settle some scores while we are at it.

We’ve seen the Administration claim the Houthis have been defeated nearly every day this week. Wait until they tangle with a big country. Wait until the oil tankers start to get hit. In Europe, the land the King forgot. Great Britain and France are sending “advisors” to Ukraine. Trying to “help” the situation. The King did that his own self! For the young folks unawares, “advisors” is a euphemism for “Advance Men.” See: President Kennedy sends “advisors” to South Vietnam. Europe readies for a general War. The King did that!

The 46-billion-dollar Australian nuclear sub deal could be on the rocks. Because of Australian fears about the King’s future reliability as an ally. Oh well, it was a nice defensive strategy to both make millions and hedge in the Chinese while it lasted. But I’m sure the Administration will think of something else as a strategy now that our allies don’t trust us anymore. The King did that!

Houthi’s, Iran, Panama, Greenland and Canada. No future territorial ambitions but Mexico had better watch its step, or else! Hooded policemen arrest dissidents on the street and disappear them into secret prisons. “We don’t make mistakes!”

Wall Street took a beating on Friday and prepares for another beating Monday. The King doesn’t care about the price of new cars. Or the price of steel or groceries or tariffs. The king cares not for trifles; he is planning a brave new world. The counter reformation to the New Deal and the end of government as you have always known it. If you ain’t got one and you need one, tough! If you’re sick, get better or die and reduce the surplus population.

The Grand abandonment. No more FEMA, no more NOAA. No more public health, no more student loans. No more aid programs buying up tons of farm commodities from American farmers. No more affordable cars as more an more Americans become pedestrians. The third world won’t explode with abandoned hungry people. The ghettos won’t explode with angry abandoned people this summer.

International travel to the United States is off by 70%. Somebodies going out of business and doesn’t know about it yet. But if the Republicans have lost Indiana?

“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.”
― George Orwell