This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Bless her heart! Gosh, I’m a fan already. Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Cortina Machado graciously thanked the orange nightmare for his peace efforts. (give the baby his bottle and maybe he’ll stop whining and shut up!) Machado said, “how grateful the Venezuelan people are for what he’s doing, not only in the Americas, but around the world for peace, for freedom, for democracy”. It was a peace prize, not an honesty prize. It’s called lying for peace.

What he’s doing is arbitrarily killing Venezuelans. How do you thank someone for that? It illustrates our busted world. You thank the bloodthirsty dictator in hopes his blood lust will be satiated and he will kill less. The orange madman threatens to not pay the military in a “good” Trump “bad” Trump scenario. Bad Trump! The military won’t get paid! Good Trump, I will pay the military! He didn’t even have to get up out of his chair. He did nothing! He knocked them down just so he could set them back up! (What a nice man!)

Now comes the threatened mass firings. War declared on the American people. Mass firing’s in the face of a collapsing economy. Fighting fire with gasoline. Driving the government and the economy into a ditch. Already Trump has become the most hated chief executive in American history, and he’s only getting worse. What rhymes with Caligula? Or better still, what rhymes with Nero? I got it, Zero!

A funny story; this guy was a chief executive, and his popularity was hovering somewhere around 39%. Then the economy went into a tailspin. He’s credibly accused of being a pedophile and is clearly hiding evidence. Plus, he’s practicing piracy on the high seas and putting national guard troops in major cities. And his popularity numbers? Still 39%! Or Winston Smith 2.0. Did you see the way they buried the story about the minister shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE goons? Gone, gone and gone. What minister? Where? What are you talking about?

The media spent three years telling us Hunter Biden’s stupid fucking laptop was important. Now they tell us shooting an ordained minister in the head isn’t. The goons showed their hand. Those weren’t trained officers, those were goons. Pool room thugs, bully boys and failed policemen. Where do you stand on the ordained minister scale? Would ICE shoot you? You bet! Would they shoot someone handicapped in a wheelchair? Why not? Would they shoot a child? Depends on how small. Under six, probably not. Probably just squeeze off a couple of warning shots. Over six, you better start watching your ass.

Will they use real bullets someday? Why not? Who is going to stop them? Will the media protect you? The media will say it was all your fault. And you deserved it, and you made them do it. Will the Republicans in congress save you? Trump would like nothing better than to see blood in the streets. That’s the problem with playing chicken with a madman. He’s not chicken, he’s insane! As long as he gets his cheeseburger and diet choke each day. He doesn’t give a shit about the rest of us. He does all this with a recession, staring him in the face. It’s like Trump wants to see a disaster.

But there are whispers in the dark, and messages mumbled under their breath in the halls of congress. Republican congress critters see an abyss staring at them in 2026. Trump’s crazy and doesn’t give a shit, but the congress critters mostly have futures planned. There are rumors and rumors of rumors, Republicans in the house are reaching the end of their Trump tolerance. They too fear where this is all leading and potentially in their names. Spine is to Republicans as iceberg is to Miami. But when I heard of these rumors, it made me laugh.

Stand up to the orange dictator, now? “If I do this, you guys will all back me up, won’t you?” Oh, yeah, sure, sure, we will! You go tell him we’ve had enough of his crap, and we’ll wait here!

They begin to realize they have created a Frankenstein monster. To understand they have no means of stopping him. And if they try to restrain him, he will tear them into little bits. They just wanted tax cuts and comfort for the rich. They never signed up for an authoritarian dictatorship. At least, they didn’t think so at the time, and now they begin to understand. The industrialists in Germany felt certain they could control Hitler too!

Peace in Gaza! Peace and there will be a council running Gaza. With American troops as peacekeepers! And at the head of the council is… ? Three guesses. Come on, guess! Rhymes with Frump. Oh, peace is going to be wonderful, just you wait and see. Just look at what Frump has done to America. He’s going to do that for Gaza too!

This made me laugh. The other day, Trump bragged America made the best weapons in the whole world! Except now, our allies are afraid to buy them because of Donald Trump’s madness and instability. Suddenly, there is new interest in the Saab Gripen and the Eurofighter. Maybe our allies best not tie themselves too closely to the United States, because Trump is insane!

Look at Great Britain. They gave Trump a horsey ride in a carriage. And they let him spend the night in the palace. And they got low tariffs. Kindly king Charles did his nation a great service. He entertained Trump and Malaria for an entire weekend! It ain’t always easy being king. I wouldn’t have done it. I would have fobbed him off on the Prime Minister and headed for Balmoral.

There are those among the idle rich who ascribe to the theories of Ludwig Von Mises. In a nutshell, If you are born rich, goody for you! But, if you are born poor, tough! They believe there is only ONE RIGHT which actually exists in our world. The right to property, all other rights are just  made-up fictions. You have no right to free speech or assembly. No right to healthcare or an education or social security. YOU are owed nothing! They believe taxation is theft. They believe the world is theirs to do with as they please. It’s their world by divine right of property and you are like a flea on a dog.

Remember when Bush the idiot said the Constitution was just a goddamn piece of paper? He meant it! They mean it. In their eyes, your life means nothing, and you are owed nothing. It’s what the uneducated might call organized barbarism. But if you put on a black robe, a mortar board and dress it up with a college degree and an MBA, you can call it a legitimate economic theory.

“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.” ― Mark Twain

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