This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

I didn’t write anything yesterday. I was overcome with facts which greatly depressed me. Like announcing a death in the family, and I just didn’t want to be the one to do it. Years ago, I was in a near-fatal car accident and my last thought as the car skidded off the road was. “We’re not going to get out of this!” Locked in with no other possible outcome. That’s why I didn’t write anything. I was too overcome and depressed by reality.

Floriduh is on track to lose $100 billion dollars in tourist revenue. Due to snowbirds who have flown away forever. 51^st state anyone? As Floriduh governor Ron DeSantis bubbles, “We’re going to make the snowbirds pay the taxes!” (Sound familiar somehow?) Along with new onerous fascist laws about foreigners owning property and fingerprinting them. The tourists have gone, and they’ve taken their money with them, and they won’t be back anytime soon.

New Car Dealerships aren’t in trouble. Car companies are in trouble, and some might not survive. The banks, always the banks. The banks have been allowing cars to be sold out the door at 150% of the value of the car. Car companies and dealers have been taking advantage of this. They sell a car valued at $10,000 for $15,000 by adding floor mats, pinstripes and chrome windshield wipers. Then, they extend the terms and if you’re not currently wanted by the police, your credit’s good! But as soon as the sucker drives off, the car’s worth $8,000 and a year later, you’ll be lucky to get $6,000 at the auction.

Already, the inventory is to the rafters. With no buyers in sight. Millions of car owner’s way upside down and there is no way to collect. CarMax has shown a sharp rise in delinquencies without the corresponding number of repossessions. Because CarMax doesn’t want the car back. Oh, hell no! If they started repossessing all of those overpriced cars, it would destroy them.

The list of slow selling cars is eye popping. A who’s who of the auto industry. Models they list in stock nationwide. 2,500 of a particular model and they’ve sold maybe 130 in forty-five days. Twenty-five million dollars in inventory and they have sold less than $1.5 million in six weeks.

Last month, the BLS report, or 60 days ago, said + 75,000 jobs and the American dictator Pol Potbelly was furious. This month’s private estimate was negative 32,000 jobs! With only 20,000 new jobs created nationwide. It’s not just a bad number, as it’s a catastrophic number. Beyond belief, catastrophic. If you are looking for that red flag?

In the shipping news is a word to the wise. If you have a gift picked out this Christmas for that special someone. Buy it right away. Because of the tariffs, many importers and retailers stuffed the warehouse to the gunnels with inventory before the tariff deadline. Now, in the wake of slow sales and a general fear of busting the budget, they are tepid about ordering more inventory for Xmas sales. They’ve spent billions of dollars on credit buying inventory and it’s been sitting in the warehouse for two months already, and they won’t sell it for another month and time is money.

The crash may have already begun. Wall Street yesterday had a down day which spread to most of the indices around the world. The Russian stock market is collapsing. Investors are fleeing as it crashes. That should mean that some of those investors should have put some of their money in the good ole US of A. The market should have been up. But the Russian economy is in free fall, and no one knows where it will end up. There is instability all around and investors hate instability.

In our own economy, there is also a free fall. There is instability all around and no can tell where we are headed, but there is a sense of panic about it. The Pol Potbelly administration sees these figures and the writing on the wall. There’s a tsunami coming!

The farmers are all fucked and waiting on a bailout. Potbelly says, “Sure thing, quick as I get around to it. Oh wait, the government is shut down. You don’t need that money right away, do you?” Pol Potbelly’s programs have destroyed the economy and brought about the instability of an insane dictator.

ICE thugs yesterday shot a Presbyterian Minister in the head with a pepper ball, knocking him to the ground. Do you know what that shot was worth? Millions! That video went all the way around the world and shouted out in a loud voice to everyone watching and listening. Don’t you ever fucking put your money here! They shot a minister from a rooftop who was standing on the street below who couldn’t possibly do them any harm. But they shot him anyway.

“The time has come. The walrus said to talk of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.”

The government isn’t functioning because of Donald Trump. Our domestic economy is fucked and failing headed for 1932, because of Donald Trump. Every day, he becomes more bellicose and threatening. Pol Potbelly’s policies have destroyed tourism in the United States. It’s time to admit we no longer have a functioning democracy. But an illegitimate Junta operating outside of the Constitution. They are an illegal entity and should be arrested and prosecuted. If you shoot an unarmed man on the street from a rooftop, you should be prosecuted.

We asked South Korea to invest in the US to avoid the tariffs. When they do, we arrest them and put them in jail. That was a three-billion-dollar arrest/mistake, courtesy of Barney Fife and Gomer Pyle. Madness! Bloody madness. Arrest first with chains and manacles and ask questions later? Would you ever build a factory in this country?

Did you know when Disney/ABC fired Jimmy Kimmel they lost 1.7 million subscribers and then shouted “Oh shit! Fuck Trump! Put him back on!” 

This isn’t like Richard Nixon, where Dick did a bad thing one day. This orange apocalypse does bad, criminal and illegal things nearly every day. We all know that. Then understand we are at war with our own government. Because you can’t be at peace with an illegal government. You can’t be at peace with the politicians protecting an illegal government. You can’t be at peace with people out to destroy your way of life either by a sinister plan or gross stupidity.

The orange nightmare is clearing off a spot on his mantle for his Nobel Peace Prize. But Trump’s plan involves putting 200 American soldiers in Gaza as peacekeepers. Who remembers when Ronald Ray Guns sent the Marines to Lebanon as peacekeepers? Who remembers how that turned out?  Because this is just like that, only with Donald Trump in charge.

Rumor has it the Great Dictator’s plan is to invoke the Insurrection Act and cancel or mangle the 2026 elections. The old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink. Well, they can take away our freedom’s, but they can’t make us buy.

On that day, we stopped buying.

On the next day, we stopped going to work.

“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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