This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

It can get frustrating past the point of tedious sometimes. Time was, I would have to look for a subject or some anachronism to report about. Some crack or some cruel oddity interesting enough for a thousand words. Nowadays they are coming like out of a firehose. I could write twenty hours a day on all the scandals and criminality and could never hope to be able to put a proper handle on it. And reading it twenty hours a day wouldn’t be any good for anyone’s mental health, either.

Compounded by a capricious right-wing corporate media. That which is never reported is still news! So what? So, what if they barely mentioned the new Axis alliance. Written down on paper and signed saying that Russia and North Korea are together now. With junior partners Iran and India. Trump did that! Trump has united all of our enemies against us.

The wheels on the bus go round and round like Trump trade negotiations in China. China becomes more bellicose and threatening towards Taiwan. His lordship, lord Chicken shit, says the Russian drones hit Poland accidentally. Little big man Marko Polio says it wasn’t an accident. Administration speak with forked tongue. Did they? Or didn’t they? Speak up like you got a pair and be heard or hand over your lunch money tubby.

The Administration is clearly being challenged and tries to avoid the matter at hand. Poland has declared a NATO article four emergency. Article five is War. The administration hems and haws like a chicken shit little coward. “It was an accident, that’s what it was! An accident!” Dodging their legal responsibility to fulfill their obligations. “Aw shit! We don’t want to do that right now. It’s Europe and you know how the king feels about Europe.”

Bumbling and stumbling through events every day while being reported on as doing a credible job. Do you remember the king’s visit with the head of the European Union in Scotland? The poor woman sat in her chair like watching the live action Exorcism. Trump talked the women’s head off for forty-five minutes and nothing credible was being accomplished. Only now, she knows who owns the most wonderful golf course in all of Scotland!

The greatest threat to European stability in eighty years. And the American president stands tall and says, “Maybe it was an accident? Maybe they accidentally launched two dozen drones and missiles into Poland. If you need me, I’ll be under my desk sucking my thumb. Harry Truman and the Berlin Airlift. John Kennedy “Ich bin ein Berliner! ” Even Ronald Ray gun at the wall. And now Commander Crème Puff says. “Maybe it was an accident? This is very inconvenient!”

Being a great peacemaker, the king claims to have brought peace or resolved issues in seven conflicts. Israel is still fighting with the Houthis. Pakistan and India are still fighting. Iran is still building a bomb. The war rages on in Gaza. The war rages on in Ukraine. An American president, an impediment to both peace and war. Incompetence incorporated, personified and on roller skates!

FBI director Crash Patel illegally fires four FBI agents. Crash tells them why they are being fired. Because Trump wants them fired. Lawsuit filed! Covered with Patel’s own words, admitting the firings were illegal and Crash knew it! Duh, maybe you should have been so specific, boss? Maybe admitting it was illegal and saying you knew it was too much information? Coming soon, yet another scandal of wrongful terminations.

Israel fires missiles at our friends in Qatar. Act of war, an act of terrorism. Israel answers “yeah whatever.” And the president boldly steps up to the microphone and says, “peep! Peep!” Commander Crème Puff says nothing! Qatar is the home of the largest US airbase in the middle east, and it would be a shame to lose it over something someone else did. The US claims it had no advance knowledge of the attack, While also saying it did have advance knowledge of the attack. See the trend?

They did, and they didn’t, all at the same time! No strongly worded public statement about attacking an American Allie. Events at the battery factory in Georgia will go down in foreign policy history. The largest single-handed screw up in all of foreign policy lore. ICE thugs arrest Korean workers building the factory. Barney Fife just made a mass arrest! The president of South Korea called Marko Polio on the phone personally saying. “Let my people go! Right now!”

And they were let go, and most will never return. The factory completion is said to be delayed by three to six months. Largely because the staff was terrorized and does not want to return to Georgia. Trump did that! Trump has damaged the tourism industry. Nobody wants to come here anymore. Nobody wants our corn or soybeans or Las Vegas hookers anymore. Our relations with the rest of planet Earth are at a low ebb. Trump has made us many new adversaries and no new friends.

Allies no longer trust us and adversaries no longer fear us. Trump always chickens out! The ersatz strongman in depends undergarments. With a clear-eyed vision or two or three for the world. They have no idea what they are doing. The king threatens Russia with even more sanctions, but that quiver is already near empty. The only things not sanctioned are AMF bowling balls and Hartz Mountain bird seed.  The paper tiger at his paperesty.  Throwing plastic lightning bolts from Mount Olympus.

The weakest and most dangerous President in American history. A President who cheats at golf cheats at everything and that is what makes them especially dangerous. They think they can cheat to get what they want. They think if they call it a success long enough, it will be a success. The United States Navy fires a Hellfire missile at an alien spacecraft and the king says nothing! Actual interplanetary aerial combat right here on our stage. And the king says nothing! Because nobody bothers to ask him!

“The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.” ― Vaclav Havel

The truth is real and tangible, with predictable outcomes and bad possibilities.