This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

It’s more than just the soybeans, you know? There is a growing list of nations detaching themselves from the orbit of the United Snakes. The following is but a partial list of countries who no longer trust us. Canada, China, Denmark, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico, The Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine, Colombia, Venezuela, NATO and both of the Koreas! Georgia governor Brian Kemp recently flew to South Korea on a grand apology tour. The state’s governor apologizing for the actions of federal idiots.

Please, come back to Georgia! Pretty please? The battery factory remains unfinished and will remain so for the time being. A billion-dollar investment bungled and buggered by bumbling boobs. Future investment in Georgia from Korea is now only imaginary. The Netherlands recently announced they would limit the covert intelligence they would share with the United Snakes because… Three guesses and the first two don’t count.

Canada was in the process of buying 80 F-35 fighter jets valued at around $100 million dollars each. But due to the evil one’s runaway pie hole, that deal has been put on hold. Enter Saab, from Sweden. They offered to build a factory in Canada and build Gripen fighter jets there. Jobs and jet fighters, hard to resist a deal like that. Lockheed-Martin is not pleased. Because of the pinwheel nature of Donald Trump, these countries fear making any further aircraft purchases. They fear being banned from buying spare parts someday. They fear the advanced US computer technology might be switched off from Washington, making these jets largely useless.

Yesterday, the government of Ukraine signed an agreement with Saab to purchase 150 Gripen fighters. Do the math. The Gripen is much less expensive and noted for its dependability and ease of maintenance, but best of all, it’s Trump free! The market and margins for purchasing new fighter jets are small and, thanks to Donald Trump, it’s getting smaller all the time.

Europe was said to be overrun with tourists this season. It’s a record year for tourism almost everywhere except… Loose lips sink more than just ships. Visit the US! See the soldiers in the streets! Witness our gun violence and maybe even get arrested yourself! Pay our exorbitant visa fees! And maybe even make a side trip to El Salvador with a free haircut.

In response to a question about inflation and the high-cost of beef. The orange moron says he’s considering bringing in beef from Argentina. Ranchers and cattleman’s associations across the country perked up answering, WTF! “Let the markets work, they cry!” Trump’s deepest reddest Maggots and he sells them out for a song. Ironic, isn’t it? When they win, they say let the market work and when they lose, they scream for a bailout. Heads I win, tails you lose.

But recently, overseas central banks are buying fewer dollars in the form of treasury notes. The difference is being made up by private hedge funds overseas. And if there should be a hiccup in the US economy, that will stop like turning off a light switch. Unlike central banks who play for the long-term, hedge funds only look to the next quarter. They are under no obligation to do what’s best for a nation, only for themselves. It amounts to a bubble valued at 1.4 trillion dollars.

In the reddest of red states, over 900,000 Alabamians depend on SNAP benefits. Benefits which will cease November first. They have Republican senators and Republican congressmen. Republican governors and Republican mayors. And yet, they find now they have no one to help them. One third of Alabama counties have no pediatricians. And when the Medicaid cuts come, it’s going to get ugly, and it’s going to look like a third world shithole country. Imagine owning a grocery store and suddenly 20% of your customer base are penniless. They robbed the crown jewels from the Louvre. Rank amateurs, if you want to see real thievery, watch the Republicans.

The orange dick weevil now demands 230 millions dollars from the Department of Injustice. This rich rapacious, racist rapist is never ever satisfied. A greedy slimeball willing to starve the people while he enriches himself at our expense. Feigning innocence at the destruction of a national icon. Explaining, lots of presidents remodeled the White House. Without ever mentioning he is the first to do so WITHOUT congressional approval.

The Feds say Nebraska’s GDP dipped by 6%. The largest dip ever recorded on record. Then, they said the economy bounced back by 5% in the second quarter. Ping! Pong! The state famous for its corn production as farmers estimate they will lose between $130 to $300 an acre this year. A ping without a pong. Farmers going broke all across the farm belt states. And the sad fact is the government can’t save everyone.

One of the largest auto finance companies in the country just shut its doors and filed for bankruptcy due to customers being unable to repay their loans. Strangely, CarMax says they’ve been exempt from such troubles, but Wall Street suspects they are lying. That they aren’t picking up the delinquent vehicles because it would give away the game and their credit sources would dry up overnight. They sold overpriced cars at over market interest rates to under qualified buyers and if they took all of those cars back. They would be the one getting fucked. Repossess thousands of cars at half of their loan value. Boom! There it is.

Wall Street still soars based mainly on the seven tech giants. The same ones Goofus Rex extorted to finance Trump’s ball less room. The orange man is playing chicken with his own administration’s future. And the chickens are coming home to roost. Rent prices are falling in Phoenix. Home prices are falling in Floriduh. Home foreclosures at 2009 levels. Wholesale lumber prices just fell off the table yesterday because Wall Street suspects the lumber won’t be needed anytime soon. Overall, 58.3 million American workers, or 43.7% earn less than $15.00 per hour. Now take away their food stamps and their healthcare and watch what happens next.

“…and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”  ― John Steinbeck

“Every society is three meals away from chaos.” ― Vladimir Lenin

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