By David Glenn Cox
Orwell called it “doublespeak.” To hold two opposite concepts in your mind at the same time. In our own day, I would call it string theory. The holding of two opposite realities, both in the same place at the same time. Trump the warlord and Trump the peacemaker. If at first you don’t succeed, shrug your shoulders and walk away.
The entire world was watching Trump in Alaska. Waiting, just waiting for Trump to stab Ukraine in the back. Everyone knows either through hook or by crook Trump is in Russia’s pocket. But yet, we exist in this sub reality where Donald Trump is some sort of peacemaker who’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. The leopard doesn’t change his spots. And we wonder how we get ourselves into these things.
We all know that Vladimir Putin came to Alaska looking for a victory, not a peace. He wouldn’t come looking for peace. That’s a slippery slope. As soon as you mention peace talks, it means maybe you fear defeat and are looking for the best deal you can get. It’s the sort of thing if someone was looking to overthrow you. It would be their signal to move against you. Talking peace while at war could have personal ramifications.
Putin is also in his own sub reality. Where Moscow meets with Washington like the good old days of the Soviet Union. Swaggering in like Brezhnev! I am great leader from huge, huge Soviet bloc with many, many army tanks. Fear Me! Instead, a second-rate power among third rate powers. Living on borrowed time and a thirty-year-old air force. A navy which lost the naval battle to a country without a navy. Fighting for a slice of another country’s land for some tribal (cause it used to be that way) argument. Back in my grandaddy’s day it was Russian. You’re going to stick with that, are you? He still thinks he’s scary like Nikita Khrushchev? Not hardly.
Putin playing the puffed-up little Charlie Chaplin dictator, trying to play Sam Spade acting tough. Two sad and awkward pretenders grappling with fictional parts of the Great Dictator meets with the lesser dictator to divvy up the world. Our King play acting as the nice guy who really just wants to do the world a good turn. “I am wise and know. I have but a few days on this world stage. I shall use them to bring world peace! This from a man who sells gold tennis shoes and autographed bibles? A man who would steal the pennies off of his own dead mother’s eyes? Is he really worried about world peace?
It’s one of Trump’s super powers. His ability to fail and yet call every failure a success in the rear-view mirror. The adventure to teach the Houthis a lesson was a disaster. The big bad bombing of Iran was a bust. Gaza is a disaster of unbelievable human proportions and scope. Trump pretends to be a spectator who has nothing to do with it. What can Trump do? He’s just the President of the United States. Innocently saying, “Oh my! What have we here?” And the media just lets him.
Whatever happened to those clever trade negotiations? 140 countries in 90 days or some such nonsense? That just all went away once the form letters were sent out. That is done and decided! But is it done? What happens when coffee doubles in price and new car sales tank and farmers start to go bust from low prices and high costs? It creates a near Herculean task of trying to make the King and his junta appear to be popular with the people.
Vice principal, I mean Vice President JD Vance and 86 proof Pete Hegseth went for a little stroll outdoors for some fresh air. They were raucously booed and jeered. With calls of “Free DC!” Just throw that log on the fire along with Trump being loudly booed at the Professional wrestling match. Congressman Flood getting gang fucked by the crowd at his town hall. Their policies are not popular. They have created a perfect storm. Frightening their supporters and invigorating their opponents.
All this to and fro in Texas, like the people aren’t right there watching. Five seats isn’t going to help them! It’s a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound. Their policies are scary, and livelihoods are at risk. The people don’t want a recession/depression for some nebulous Von Mises economic theory. They don’t care about immigration, if it means higher prices. They don’t want a 51st state if it means they won’t come to Vegas or Disney world anymore. But like the old saying goes, “When the going gets tough, the tough stop talking about it!”
They are flogging a dead horse by holding events to show the public their cruelty. Kristi Noem appeared before the Southern border wall. Just to show us girls can be cruel too! Explaining how they were now going to paint the border fence black. Cause that color will make the wall hotter and harder to climb. How much will that cost? Why paint it if it can’t be climbed, anyway? Because it was the King’s idea, that’s why! Are people actually still coming to the border anymore? Hasn’t the king already painted all of America black enough to stop people from ever wanting to come here yet?
And yet they try to tell you and me how not unpopular the King’s policies are. The King invades DC and tries to overthrow the local government. The move is unpopular with Republicans and Democrats alike. There is no emergency, there is no shortage of people. Five Republican Governors offer to send troops to Washington. Trying to backstop Trump while saying, see, it’s not such a crazy and unpopular idea after all. Five governors volunteered to send troops! But it is crazy, and it is an unpopular idea. It’s an administration filled with crazy unpopular ideas and scandals!
It’s becoming a bitter stew. Where once we could look past some administrative foibles. It is all rising up all round us now. They don’t know what they’re doing, and they have no way to back down from it. When you claim to know everything, it’s so hard to change. Just stumbling along from crisis to crisis. Hoping you’ve forgotten all about last week’s crisis. Hoping you’ll forget this crisis by next week.
Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister and Putin mouthpiece dumped all over the recent peace talks once Putin was home, calling them “clumsy.” Russia wants a veto over Ukrainian Security guarantees. Or. “we’re done here.” Trump boasts and parades shouting about his peacemaking prowess while Russia explains it was a great big nothing burger!
“Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.”
― William Shakespeare
Thank you for reading and supporting “ This Carbon-Based Life” Jesus is coming! Try to look busy.
This Carbon Based Life 
Leave a comment