This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

I just watched a forty-minute video yesterday. Forty minutes of Trump voters singing the blues and filled with buyer’s remorse. People hurt and hurting from the policies of the vacant king. The inflation number is up, but you knew that already, but the figures are now in confirming it. The tariffs and healthcare were the main drivers.

And yes. Mostly they were the less than your average sophisticated consumers. And most thought the president-controlled gas prices. Schadenfreude does us no good here. Their boat is also our boat. Is this a general sampling of the Republican mindless herd? I wondered? Or is this the fierce opinions of some outraged outliers filtered and collated and collected? The farmers are singing the blues. Thanks to the king’s tariffs, the farmers have lost vast overseas markets overnight. Markets the farmers depended on, from pork bellies to soybeans. Gone!

Their hearts wanted something their heads didn’t really understand. If it sounds too good to be true. Vote for it! Falling for the tent preacher’s gospel or the fancy pitchman on late night television. They wanted a feeling. They wanted to be told everything was alright. The Democrats missed that by assuming common sense alone would prevail. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris focused on things needing to be fixed.

Trump told them. Shit! I got this. Everything is going to be fine, America! I’ll have all this cleared up by next Tuesday around lunch time. Trust me! Seems we missed the mark on the enthusiasm angle. The smiling, shining, fast-talking late-night pitchman won out. It whitens and brightens! It’s safe to use around pets. And now it’s not working so good, and they’ve lost the receipt and so can’t take it back. And now they’ve placed the bar across our knees. We’re going for a little roller coaster ride. Ready or not.

The Administration does its level best to put forward a professional front. When it’s actually a middle school production of The Pirates of Penzance. It seems Gilligan and Tom Holman at the Gestapo made a little mistake. They had their eyes on a big score. Reporters and bright lights. ICE raided a battery factory in Georgia and arrested the entire Korean workforce. Building a new battery factory in Georgia didn’t just fall from the sky. There were butts kissed and palms greased. And they just arrested the entire Korean workforce setting it up?

These weren’t migrant workers or refugees fleeing central American gang violence. These were Hyundai employees, literally bringing jobs to their community and getting arrested for it. People are funny! I don’t want to say it’s Koreans, particularly, because I don’t know that many Koreans. But some people, if they get arrested even just one time in an ICE raid. They tend to get their butt on the shoulders and behave stiff necked about it for a long time. They culturally resented being arrested and treated like criminals!

When this slight little error was discovered. All the Koreans were all given the opportunity to stay in the warm bosom of Georgia and finish building that new battery factory. Only one Korean worker chose to stay. They simply did not want to be deported; they wanted to leave willingly of their own accord. They asked for and received a Korean Air charter jet to come pick them up and take them home immediately. Now, just imagine you’re the Barney Fife who thought this raid up. Millions of dollars on the table and ICE Barney just arrested the factory construction staff.

But absurd is the word, have you heard? Just don’t mention it and maybe no one will notice. There’s so much crazy shit going on right now. Who cares about a battery factory in Georgia? It was only an international incident involving the South Korean government and officials from the state department. Nothing for the American people to worry their pretty little heads about! Just a minor fuck up along the way. Nothing to be too concerned about. They’ll get over it. But over in Korea they don’t see it that way. They’re taking it personal. Arrest our people and throw them in prison, will you? Treat our people like criminals, will you?

Right now, in Canada, there is a consumer driven boycott of American products, and something tells me South Korea is probably going to be next. The raid never should have happened. This wasn’t a Home Depot parking lot on Saturday morning. These were long-term Hyundai employees. A couple of phone calls would have cleared the whole thing up. A major scandal made insignificant by the weight of all the other major scandals.

Trump officials claim Trump’s obvious signature on the Epstein birthday card isn’t Trump’s obvious signature. How desperate do you have to be to go there? The squeaker of the hovel Mike Johnson claimed Trump was an undercover informant for the FBI. Hinting Trump was trying to take down the Epstein organization from the inside. How quickly they pivoted away from that suggestion. The very idea of the king as a rat was intolerable. “Snitches get stitches bitches!” ”Da, da, da, da, Trumpman! Da, da, da, da, da, Trumpman, Trumpman!  (Pow!) (Goof!) (Fuck up!)

It shows their desperation and their mania. Made up stories about the king working for the FBI? Are you kidding me? Amateur hour! The right hand doesn’t know what the far-right hand is doing! Hey boss! I just raided a factory with over three hundred illegal Koreans! “No, that’s not my signature. It may look just like my signature, but that’s not my signature!”

When in doubt, simply pretend reality doesn’t actually exist. The king claimed arbitrarily that Russian drones shot down in Poland never happened. The king declares it a non event. Claiming the drones fell into Poland after they were shot down over Poland but weren’t aimed at Poland. Just claim reality doesn’t exist. Case closed! Poland and Lithuania have mobilized troops along the border and closed the airspace along the border. But Trump claims it’s a non-issue, which never really happened.

It just gives me this sinking feeling in my gut that something bad is about to happen and this won’t end well for any of us. Soon the regime’s soap bubble of deception will pop, and reality will stand up and clear its throat.

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”  ― Frank Zappa

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