This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

“I’m not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great. That’s all it is. I’m not a king at all,” – The Orange Dictator.

Do you see the disconnect? Trump thinks kings are really lazy and don’t do anything. I know of one king who had to feed and water an orange-colored bastard and his porn star wife for an entire weekend. He even had to put them up in his own house and even pretend he actually liked them! But he did it for the sake of his country. You see, this orange nightmare is so emotionally fragile. If you cajole him and pretend to like him, he will exempt your country from his self-destructive tariff regime.

MSNBC says in the wake of the “No Kings” protest. Trump’s approval has dropped to 37%. In a pig’s eye! Do you lie to your mother with that mouth? I wonder if they believe such bullshit themselves? I just spent an afternoon on the pavement protesting along with 2,500 of my friends and neighbors in a Republican leaning small town and I didn’t see 37% of cars passing by showing any approval for the orange madman. I didn’t even see one percent supporting the evil bastard.

Where do they get this polling from? Inside some bar at the Country club in the Hamptons? I doubt if you could find 37% support on Wall Street. Maybe 37% support from the military? Not hardly! Montgomery, Alabama, is a military town. It’s the home of the Air War College. Attendance there is required for officers seeking higher promotion. Like any profession, there is a unique professional culture. These people take great pride in their profession. And inside of this professional culture are three words. Duty, Honor, Country.

If you think for one minute 37% of the officers in our military support a draft dodging chicken shit idiot. Then you are as crazy as Donald Trump. Calling all the senior officers to Quantico was a big mistake. Imagine that your boss called you to a meeting half-way around the world just to call you fat and out of shape. You’ve been employed there twenty or thirty years. You’ve put your life on the line for this country and suffered a great many depredations for it. Only to have a bona fide professional failure who has been fired from every job he’s ever held in his adult life. A drunk and a philander, who claims to love Jesus, but only the hateful Jesus. Then this worthless piece of shit boss of nine months seniority tells you, “My way or the highway!”

37% my ass! Try 17% or better still, try 7%. Check around the auto industry. See how many automotive CEOs still support Trump? Check the car lots, ask the salespeople and see if you can reach that magic number? Ask the farmers, ask the farm equipment dealers. A funny side note; I heard a farmer the other day talking about a farm bailout like it was already agreed upon and a done deal. Friends, that is clueless. He’s counting on incompetence incorporated to save him.

He’s assuming that this is a NORMAL administration. That puts on its pants in the morning and goes to work. Sure, Trump’s been shredding the government workforce. Sure, Trump and the Republicans are trying to destroy Medicaid and Medicare and throw millions of sick and elderly to the wolves. And yes, Trump is destroying public education. But he wouldn’t do that to US? Would he? We’re farmers! He needs us! Logically, that is the correct assumption. But this is no longer a logical government. If you’re waiting for this government to do the right thing, you had better bring your lunch.

The head of the International Monetary Fund warns Trump’s tariffs are causing an international economic slowdown. For countries on the edge, or overloaded with debt, it means disaster. It means default and possibly a domino effect culminating in a world-wide economic depression. Not a Republican or a Democrat saying it, but an objective third party economic expert. But will they listen? Not a snow ball’s chance in hell! Experts! What do they know?

Ask the restaurant and the tourism industry and see if you can find that 37% support. Ask the trucking industry or the heavy equipment industry. Ask the construction industry. Ask the medical industry how cuts to their customer’s healthcare will Make America Great Again!

Even if their heart was in the right place, and even if they had even the foggiest understanding of the economy, they can’t fix it. This administration is a non-administration and truly redefines the word incompetent! While American farms burn, President Nero bails out Argentina. If you’re waiting for this administration to rescue you. You had better learn to swim on your own. Note: Trump shut the government down three weeks ago, and federal workers and the military are facing non-payment of wages, but they will get right to work on that farm bailout for you. They will have that check ready for you no later than say, September of 2026.

This junta, this cabal, cancelled farm programs that supplied school children with fresh produce. But still, some believe Trump cares and will rescue them. Cause they are special! To quote Harry Truman, “How many times do you have to get hit over the head before you begin to realize who is hitting you?”

Nazis, Gestapos and concentration camps! Black sites, masked men firing pepper balls into crowds of peaceful protestors. That’s just for practice! The real bullets are coming soon enough! 37% Kiss my ass with your 37%!  Did you know mortgage defaults are at their highest level since 2009? Did you know the auto industry is dying on the vine? Overpriced cars and under-funded customers. One of the largest car dealerships in this country just went bankrupt. Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.

If you think the crowds were large at this “No Kings” protest. Wait until you see the next one! In response to the protests, the orange apocalypse posts a video of himself flying a jet fighter and bombing a crowd of protestors with shit. Translation: Let them eat cake! Or, in plain old English, fuck you bunch of shit kicking peasants!

“And that — that brings me to the second mode of civil disobedience. There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus — and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it — that unless you’re free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!” – Mario Savio

There is a film, and it’s probably one of the best films you’ve never seen or heard of. It takes place about a hundred years ago. But you will see yourself in it today, because It’s about people pushed to the edge by the rich and powerful. And if you watch the film, you will quickly understand why they didn’t want you to see it at all. And why they don’t make films like this anymore. It explains why they make films about monsters and space aliens! Superheroes and bullshit! They don’t want you to know what the REAL Monsters in this world, actually look like.

37%! Do you suppose they lie to their mothers with that mouth?