This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

We can all take a breath. He’s out playing golf and won’t be back until he’s through cheating on Tuesday. I thought it was just me at first. Then I began to hear others say the king looked a little rough around the edges. He looked unwell, unhappy and friendless. Disgruntled, surly “Get outta my way! I’m going to play golf, damn it!” He looked like a tired man who truly needed a day off. Spreading joy like sunshine wherever he goes.

I guess he’s taking the appeals court ruling against his tariff program pretty hard. Now he’s got to kick it upstairs to the Extreme Court. The king declared an emergency when there was no emergency. To access powers set aside for an emergency use only. So, the court will be forced to decide. Can the king just make stuff up out of thin air? No Reichstag fire, no nothing? He says it, ergo it must be true? It does sound like that though sometimes, doesn’t it?

Clearly, it’s a flaw in our system of government. Back when they made up these laws, they assumed there would always be honorable people at the helm. Can the king declare a weather emergency on a sunny day? Can he declare a national emergency without an enemy present? Sure, of course he can. But can he do it legally, when there is a lot of money involved?

The court is pushed into a ticklish situation now! They have to figure out a way to give the king all knowing, all seeing super powers. If the king says it’s raining, by god it’s raining. And it feels like that sometimes. The king can say the Vietnamese patrol boats fired torpedoes at us and missed. And it’s here we go. boys! We can claim Saddam had nuclear weapons and chemicals, and it’s here we go, boys! But this is different, this is about money.

About billions of dollars changing hands. About upsetting the balance of world trade. TACO Alert! Trump will back down on the de minimis tariff package exemption. He will have to. There are thousands of shipments bound for America being held up at post offices around the world. American orders are being cancelled on trading platforms. The shippers don’t want to be involved! They send out a $800 laptop that can’t be delivered and you won’t pay for it because it can’t be delivered to you. So, it’s easier and cheaper to just cancel the order.

Dare I say it? But that dreaded shopping season of shopping seasons is soon ahead. Throw a wrench in the gears of Santa shopping? Are you crazy? It’s like they haven’t fully thought this program through. “Hey, do you know what I just figured out? This could really hurt the economy! Hello? Is there anyone there on the line listening?” It’s ideology over methodology. Tariffs are declared the law of the land. Now, you guys figure out how to make it all work. We’ve done the hard part for you already. We thought of it!

Didn’t anyone happen to think of this when they were spit balling the idea around the room? But could this idea really hamstring online shopping? Sorry: no deliveries available in North Korea, Antarctica or the United States. Price listed does not include insane trade tariffs! Objects appear larger in the rearview mirror. Now imagine you’re in the package delivery business. And you have this growing mountain of undeliverable packages taking up space. Packages the shipper will have to return gratis. And it means a lower volume of new packages in the future.

This is an easy problem to solve. Just put the exemption back until they can figure out what to do? Maybe you just put it back and just not talk about it anymore. Move onto other things. The Ideology Department wouldn’t like that. They have to squeeze out every nickel, especially when squeezing the little guy. But wait until grandma doesn’t get her embroidery hoops and dad doesn’t get his new laptop because nobody sat down and figured out what was going to happen.

The King went whining to the Congress again about Alina Habba. He wanted a rule changed so he can get what he wants. He wants Habba in office and the blue slip rule stops him. The blue slip rule allows senators to block judicial appointments in their home state. Trump wanted it changed and Chuck Grassley said no. The king as would be expected of a king, or a petulant child then attacked Grassley on Twuth Social media. But the king was rebuffed.

They said “no” to the king. Now imagine yourself as a king. You’ve just given orders to your unworthy underlings, and they dared to say “no.” They weren’t angry or rude about it, but they just said “no.” just the same. Maybe they’ve seen the future? Maybe they feel the temperature in the room changing.

Trouble brewing in every corner! Calls for Robert F. Kennedy to resign. Trouble at the Federal Reserve. Trouble at Federal Express. Trouble with Congress and now the king’s Tariff regime has been overturned by the courts again. And Epstein, Epstein, Epstein! And it is going to take a herculean effort to get the Extreme court to play along with the king having “magical powers.” If he says, he sees little green men. The court rules there must be little green men somewhere!

If the court rules against the king and they say he can’t make up emergencies any time, he wants. The king will be struck dumb and naked. His signature unpopular issue gone by the wayside. Leaving the king with nothing. Chaos, madness and overflowing town halls. Watch closely. There is a reason why Trump was so angry. The push back has begun. His power evaporates as fast as his polling numbers. This was a high-water mark event and by the Senate rebuking Trump. The water has crested and is starting to fall.

The honeymoon is over, and the ugly divorce is about to start.

Thanks for reading, “This Carbon-Based Life” seeing as how you’ll probably never get a government job because of it!