This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Fifty-seven Texas Democrats fled the state to deny Republicans a quorum in their attempt to gerrymander the state’s voting districts. In response, Greg (Bubba) Abbott threatens to have them removed from office. Way to North Korea there, Bubba. Not to be outdone, Ken (Take my wife please) Paxton threatens to prosecute and have them all thrown into prison. Way to Texas Ken! Criminals get really angry when you mess up their crime.

This is called idle threat 101. You kids quiet down back there or I’m turning this car right around and we’re going home. It would take a judge to remove the Democrats from office. If the Governor tried to remove fifty-seven at one fell swoop, you would have the mother of all constitutional lawsuits. The special session only has two weeks left, so it would hardly be worth the effort. This was supposed to be all about fast and quick and not long and messy. That just won’t do.

This is about running scared. King Donald got booed at WrestleMania. Loudly booed. A hired propagandist for Bloomberg says consumers aren’t really afraid of tariffs. So, no biggy. 40% of the world’s coffee comes from Brazil and King Donald just imposed a 50% tariff. Sure, consumers won’t be bothered one bit by a doubling of coffee prices. Starbucks will have to open a credit window. Talk about whistling past the graveyard. The Republicans know well they are in big trouble. They wouldn’t try this illegal stunt if they weren’t.

Procter & Gamble has already warned if the tariffs go into effect prices are going up. Warren Buffet is selling and hoarding 3.7 billion in cash. Why? To pick up some deals when the markets hit the wall. The storm clouds are gathering, and the next Bureau of Labor Statistics is going to be a real barn burner next month when it revises down this month’s weak 73,000 job report.  

Sure, put them into prison that will look good going into the by-year elections. The lone star Fascist state! Do you get the feeling the walls are closing in? Epstein, Maxwell, immigration and the Bureau of Labor Statistics? And this one, like the cherry on top. King Donald, having never heard the expression “loose lips sink ships” announces he’s sending US missile submarines closer to Russia because he feels threatened. Now, those of us without rich daddies or bone spurs know the submarine service is called the ”Silent Service.” Because you don’t ever talk about where you’re going.  

If only voters had somewhere to turn. Hakeem Jefferies says, “People who work hard should be rewarded.” Yawn, I’ve heard that exact same line for over forty years now and I’ve yet to see one step in that direction. Democrats are going to have to run on more than their mouth this time. Kamala Harris ran a good campaign but promised nothing. In New York, Zohran Mamdani will be elected mayor in a landslide because the working electorate has had a belly full of Democratic promises and platitudes. The candidate that runs further to the left will be elected our next president.

If the Democrats run on two chickens in every pot, they will lose, again. But if the Democrats can gain control of the House of Representatives, the Smithsonian will have to revise their impeachment attraction, yet again. We’re headed for big time trouble.

The influence of the United States is on the decline. The King threatened back breaking tariffs on any nation who bought Russian oil. India just told the king to go pound sand. The fart of the deal extorted promises from the European Union to invest $600 billion in the US economy without any mechanism to make it happen. Not worth the paper it’s written on. Canada is in full boycott (buy Canada) mode. Air Canada has eliminated flights to the US for lack of demand.

Trump’s tariffs are going to raise the prices on beer and wine. But don’t worry, the paid propagandist says people won’t care about that. New car sales have fallen every month since March, when the king introduced his tariffs. But don’t worry, people don’t really care about stuff like that! Here in Phoenix, home prices dropped on average $3,000 last month. That’s nearly $100 a day! Home prices are dropping across the country and still sales aren’t increasing. Do people really care about such?

Humpty Trumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Trumpty had a great fall. When you lose the professional wrestling crowd, that’s a bellwether. All the King’s Texans and all the King’s felons couldn’t put Humpty Trumpty back together again. First, they notice you. Then they like you. Then they love you. Then they can’t get enough of you. Then you reach that Achy Breaky Heart stage. Where they get tired of the same damn thing over and over. Then they get tired of you. Then they are sick of you and want you to go away. Then their coffee prices double and their grandma gets kicked out of the nursing home.

The king is underwater in every polling category and is well on his way to becoming the most unpopular president of all time. Even lower than in his last term! And this is just the beginning of the fall. As James Carville famously put it, “It’s the economy stupid!”

Wait until November when the Medicaid reductions hit, and hospitals and retirement homes begin to close their doors. No more PBS, no more NASA, no more farm workers. An America of concentration camps and arresting legislators who don’t do as they are told by the Governor.

“The greedy, profit-seeking exploiter cannot see beyond the end of his nose. He can see a chance for an “opening”; he is cunning enough to know what graft is and where it is, and how it can be secured, but vision he has none-not the slightest. He knows nothing of the great throbbing world that spreads out in all directions. He has no capacity for literature; no appreciation of art; no soul for beauty. That is the penalty the parasites pay for the violation of the laws of life.”
― Eugene V. Debs