This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Why, oh why, does the great orange dictator suddenly want to give you two thousand dollars? Is it to distract you from the Epstein scandal? Is it to shore up his base? Perhaps, like the grinch, he’s had a change of heart or had one installed, understanding the two grand will help the poor pay for health insurance the Republicans recently stripped away? Maybe he’s just a nice man? Okay, forget that one.

Did you know money is leaving Wall Street faster than piss poured from a boot? Did you know the recent hiccup in the stock market wiped out Bitcoin’s entire gains for 2025? Suddenly, for some strange reason, the great orange dictator wants to roll back tariffs on certain food and beverage items he so recently imposed. Maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with the Federal Reserve holding a private meeting the other day.

The big boys are leaving the stock market just like Joseph P. Kennedy did in 1929. Chinese investors are putting their money in gold. The other day, it was discovered that those oh so expensive, super computer chips needed for the AI data centers have a life expectancy of less than two years. So those billions and billions of dollars invested will require billions and billions more just to stay current. You thought that new house was going to cost you $300,000, only to discover it will be $300,000 every two years.

AI is turning into OS (Oh, Shit!) But it’s a gold rush mentality. First one finished gets the gold. So investors have poured in billions only to discover it’s going to cost billions more, and more and more. No profits yet! But maybe in a year or two, maybe possibly, it could be.

The Trump tariffs have sucked the money out of the consumer economy like a shop vac. Home prices are starting to tremble as foreclosures climbed 20%. Car repossessions are at record levels and because the consumer economy has been sucked dry, there are no buyers at any price. Shhh! Don’t tell anyone! The Fed meets in secret because if word ever leaked out. There’s no telling what might happen. It could start a panic.

 “Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership,  – FDR

The great orange dumpkin has been hounding the Federal Reserve for months to lower interest rates. Assuming that cheaper money will fix the hole in the bucket. But the problem isn’t the cost of credit, it’s the amount of credit which can’t be paid back. It’s the amount of bad debts and over credit, and offering cheaper credit can only make the problem worse. It’s sort of like giving a 79-year-old man Adderal. It perks him up for a little while, but the crash will soon come. Banks are hoarding cash because they sense a hard rain is gonna fall.

Dementia Don wants a cash infusion to keep the patient from dying. Ten million repossessed cars times twenty or thirty thousand dollars each? Loans made on an asset which only loses value and when combined with ten million current and millions more to come? Combined with a falling job market means an economy sucked dry of consumer spending while wallowing in bad debt.

Et Tu, Walmart? The CEO of Walmart joins the swelling ranks of CEOs retiring early and getting the hell out of Dodge, before the bottom falls out. Back in those heady days of the early 2000s, I knew of a financial whiz kid. He was the investor everyone trusted in Atlanta. But in 2007, he decided he’d had enough success and sold out to his partner in 2008. He really was a whiz kid, wasn’t he? “Here, you take the reins while I bail out!”

Remember the big trade deal Hrump signed with China a couple of weeks back? The Chinese agreed to buy billions of soybeans this year. Hazza! The farmers are saved! Except, the Chinese haven’t bought a single bean…yet. They’re currently sitting on a surplus of soybeans they’d bought cheap. So, don’t call us child, we’ll call you! Why, oh why, would the Chinese ever want to rescue the old orange wooden head? Is it a sin to lie to a lying liar? Is it wrong to cheat a cheating cheater?

Gripen Aviation is building a factory in Canada to supply Canada with 88 new fighter planes to replace the F-35s the Canadians no longer want. Too expensive, too US controlled and to kick Trump in his big fat orange ass. You sell more aircraft with honey than you do with vinegar. Just call it nine billion dollars, Hrump’s gum flapping has cost Lockheed Martin. Ditto Ukraine. Ukraine is buying 150 Gripen fighters due to the on again off again nature of US support under dementia Don’s leadership. 1.5 trillion dollars out the door!

The Koreans arrested by the Gestapo in Georgia are suing. Does that mean they’re not coming back anytime soon to finish up the battery factory? Trumpinstein told Laura Ingram we need them to come back because Americans are too stupid to do the job. Maybe they can repurpose the building as the world’s largest waffle house. Or as the national monument to Trump’s stupidity! You know, I’m reasonably certain if I had fucked up a three-billion-dollar battery deal. I’d get fired! But not so at the Gestapo! Good work, boys! That’s a real fine job. No firings and no disciplinary actions taken.

It’s scandal Rama at the big orange house. Kristi Noem’s two aircraft purchases. Krash Patel using the FBI jet for date night. And of course Epstein, Epstein, Epstein! Trump growls at Marge Tater Greene, “I’ll get you and your little dog too!” But after giving away the largest tax cut to billionaires, the Trump team now proposes to give each working American the equivalent of two cents. There, that should fix it! Trillions for the rich and pennies for the poor.

It’s like playing Chenga, and trying to put the piece back in you never should have taken out in the first place. It’s like trying to fix an airplane in flight with duct tape and Elmer’s wood glue. The ignorant, led by the unknowing, are trying to fix their mess without letting you know what they are trying to do. Did you really expect honesty? Really? Really?

The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact…. They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesman for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power, so that using the power of the State and the power of the market simultaneously, they can keep the common man in eternal subjection. – Henry A. Wallace

The rich and powerful exclaim Socialism is bad and Socialism is dangerous. And they are correct! Socialism is bad… for the rich and the powerful. You don’t want any of that! You’ll be much happier, hungry, cold and naked.