This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

I’m going to tell you something you might find quite surprising. I 100% totally agree with Donald Trump! No, I haven’t lost my mind. You see, it’s like the old saying goes, Even a gruesome, murderously mentally ill, broken clock is right twice a day. The Time magazine cover IS the worst picture ever taken of Donald Trump, and I love it! For an American media outlet, the picture is brilliant! Kudos!

This is how you protest in authoritarian big boy town! I bet they spent days selecting that image. It had to be just right, and just fucking hideous. Like “A Picture of Dorian Gray” illustrating what is inside of Trump while purportedly an image of the outside of Trump. Was it an accident? Not a chance! An acceptance by the publication that they must from time to time put his picture on the cover. But! It doesn’t have to be a nice picture. And deservedly so!

And the best part [Mission Accomplished!] it really pissed him off. Trump still has plenty of time between being the President of the United Snakes and Gaza. To worry about his photo in Time magazine. “Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all?” Not you, fat boy! They did it on purpose just to offend him and Donald Trump knows it. I know it! Hell, we all know it! That’s how you protest in authoritarian American media these days. “Time” just made Donald Trump’s list.

You just can’t please some folks. The worst lady was angry because no one offered to put a 55-year-old woman’s picture on the cover of a fashion magazine geared for a twenty-something audience. Then her husband does get a magazine cover, and he doesn’t like the photo.

Al Jazeera- “Death Toll Rises from Israeli Attacks, Despite Ceasefire.” What was all that big hoopty doo all about in Egypt yesterday? The orange dictator announced, “Hamas will disarm or the US will force them to disarm, perhaps violently.” Welcome to the world’s shortest cease fire. Like using a croquet mallet to perform brain surgery. Sure, that strategy is bound to work. Good luck, American peacekeepers! The boss just volunteered to make your job that much harder. Good job! Threaten them and then send in the peacekeeping troops, like kicking a beehive.

You go right ahead and threaten them, Donald. I bet Hamas is really scared now! They see death in combat as their highest personal aspiration. Dying for the eternal lost cause. They see killing the enemies of Allah as their greatest opportunity for eternal reward. No different than threatening a Kamikaze pilot. “If you get in that plane, we’ll kill you!”

I had heard the number of 200 American peacekeeping troops bounced around. But in the land of Trump that’s subject to change, without notice. Maybe 2,000 or 20,000, but it really doesn’t matter how many. Because 200 isn’t enough and 20,000 is too many. Walking into a volatile urban war zone, green as grass. The natives know the area and have a full support network in the community. Like they used to say in Vietnam, you can’t tell the good Vietnamese from the bad Vietnamese. Maybe they smile because they like you. Maybe they smile because you’re walking into a trap.

The unapologetic, unphotogenic monarch is writing checks someone else’s ass will have to cover. Hamas, like Charleton Heston believes, you can have my gun when you pry my cold dead fingers off of it. Hamas isn’t about to disarm. Maybe they’ll turn in a couple dozen broken and worn-out weapons for show. The Al Jazeera headline is very clear. “Death Toll Rises from Israeli Attacks, Despite Ceasefire.” Knowing the history, would you disarm yourself? Would you leave your family’s future to the benefices of Donald Trump and Israel?

Peckerhead Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary who made Milwaukee famous, got his comeuppance yesterday. Declaring to the media that they must sign his fascist pledge promising self-censorship and doing what they are told or else. The pledge went over about like you would expect it to go over. Then the media told Pete to stick it so far up his ass the Voyager spacecraft couldn’t reach it. What now, shotgun Pete? How do you gracefully climb down out of that tree?

This is Republican genius, as it turns out 57% of the Americans using the ACA Obamacare subsidies are in RED states. But it gets even better! Nearly 60% of Republicans disapprove of trying to cut the Obamacare subsidies and 55% of those who identify as Maga disapprove. “Let’s shut down the government and try to make the Democrats look bad! Boy, we’ve really got them over a barrel now!”

Ask yourself! If it is so obvious that even an intellectual powerhouse like Margaret Tator Greene gets it. How stupid do you have to be to not get it? But the Republicans do get it. But they find themselves torn between their fear of their constituents and their fear of Donald Trump.

Many years ago, the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was giving a speech. Romania was a police state at the time. It was said one in four citizens were either secret police or police informers. Communist dictatorships were falling all over Eastern Europe. There was trouble in Romania, so Ceausescu organized a big political rally. Everyone was ordered to attend the pro dictatorship rally. And his speech was going along really well until suddenly something in the crowd cracked. Suddenly, there was a noise from inside the crowd like a spasm. And in an instant, the pro-dictatorship rally had become an anti-dictatorship rally.

One minute Nick’s speech was going along great and the next. The police whispered into Nick’s ear, “they’re breaking into the building!” Ceausescu support evaporated in an instant. His support was visibly miles wide but only a micron thick veneer. That thunderous crowd saw in each other that their views were everyone’s views! And everyone was sick of it. And Ceausescu was dead in 36 hours.

Their time grows short. And everything seems to be speeding up. The mad king is leading them to their destruction and they know it, but they don’t yet know how to escape from it! But like Ceausescu, the support will soon crack and the dam will crumble.

The orange skid mark accuses the Chinese of intentionally not buying US soybeans just to hurt Trump. (Farmers? What Farmers?) It’s the art of the deal, fella. Who knew malice and a short sided bassakwards economic policy could have such negative side effects? A picture is worth a thousand words.

“The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.”
― Gunter Grass

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“Don’t wanna be an American idiot
Don’t want a nation under the new mania
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mindfuck America.”  – Green Day