This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

While rereading “Inside the Third Reich.” I ran across this gem. Hitler was asked why the gauleiters and the men around him were all so uneducated and personally flawed. Only one in five had been to college. Goering was a morphine addict; Hess was possibly schizophrenic. Ernst Roehm was gay. Henrich Himmler was a fanatical mystic. Himmler was given a samurai sword, and it impressed him so much. He tried proving a connection with German Teutonic knights.

Hitler explained, these men were easier to lead. He didn’t want anyone smarter than himself in the room. And if they had a character flaw, all the better. They would never find better positions and so would remain loyal. And their flaws meant there was a built-in alibi to remove them, if the need arose. I found this all very interesting, all things considered in certain circumstances. It explains so much.

This is an administration which tries so hard to convince you that all is well, rather than trying to make all things well. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the cigar store wooden Indian, was asked at a business forum about inflation. Bessent responded that inflation is worse in blue cities, and the best way to defeat it was to move to red states. The host corrected Bessent with actual numbers from the last four years. Bessent answered that he meant…recently. The room laughed at him. Not with that was a good one Scotty, but with an are you kidding me? Can he be serious? RFK Jr. said the best way to cut the cost of healthcare was not to get sick. {see above}

The Hrump administration recently released their National Security Strategy. The document written like a neo-Nazi eleventh grade term paper reads more like, “Do you know what you guys need to do?” It is written from a position where the United Snakes is perfect and all you European countries should get on board the Trump train. Elect more right-wing authoritarian types. Stop fining billionaires and let them have their way. Then the strategy postulates the racist, “Great Replacement” theory, so popular in the Reich wing circles. These countries should stop all migration before they’re ruined by it.

These countries should be more like us, free and democratic with open economies. They should buy only US made products and do what we say…or else! The document reads like a Soviet era five-year plan. Only Russia escapes any serious criticism. Surprised by that, aren’t you? Russia is allowing in tens of thousands of migrants because its native-born sons are sleeping in their cemeteries. But never let facts get in the way of a good argument. Russia is BROKE! There have been runs on their banks and bank branches have firebombed. But they’re somehow above reproach.

Sberbank just laid off 60,000 workers. Unemployment insurance? What’s that? Workers are unpaid for months and on strike, taking possession of factories and demanding payment. The money not spent on Putin’s war has been removed by the wealthy from the economy for safe keeping. The average Russian worker is taxed up to their eyeballs, while the wealthy skate. Russians are struggling just to feed themselves. They keep butter under lock and key in grocery stores. Wake up Europe, be more like us!

Explaining the reverse perverse; Stocks rose on Wall Street because of the worst job report in twenty years. Meaning the Fed is more likely to lower interest rates. Because the economy is in such a poor state, lowering interest rates will allow the party in the Fuhrer bunker to go on a few more days. Every fast-food chain in America is nearing the brink. Burger King is shuttering 400 restaurants. Subway has closed 3,200 locations since 2020. McDonalds and Taco Bell report business off by 30%. Boston Market is gone and Denny’s is right behind them.

Car repossessions have never been higher and home foreclosures are spiking. The jobs report was negative 32,000 jobs. But Wall street shouts, Hooray, they’re probably going to cut interest rates! Not a solution, but a transfusion. A band aid on a gunshot wound. But do you know what Europe really needs to do? Be more like us!

The administration’s policy is to ignore and snore and maybe it will all go away. Smoke and empty promises. Happy talk. Inflation is only in blue cities. You should just move! Stay healthy and you won’t get sick! But the inflation is tied directly to Trump’s tariffs and now the forgotten man is reaching their breaking point. The average American worker can no longer afford to purchase a home or a new car. After buying a home, the next stop is for paint and shutters and a fence and flowers. No house and no nothing else. But Europe really needs to get their act together and do like we say!

Millions of honest, hard-working Americans are living in their cars because they can’t afford rent. Millions more are homeless and can’t even afford a car to live in. In response to such a deplorable situation, the orange king of corruption threatens to cut off food assistance in blue states. But those Europeans could really learn a thing or two from us!

The Hrump administration, being good conservatives all, desiring sound banking practices have incurred 2.5 trillion dollars in NEW debt. For schools, hospitals and infrastructure or big government spending programs, perhaps? Nope! Tax cuts for the wealthy. And Wall Street cheered that move as well. As the price of a new car soars, so the price of car insurance soars as well. Just $ 10,000 down and a $1,000 or so, per month, plus $250 per month for insurance for 96 months and you can drive this baby home! It’s the American way!

Wages have not kept up with inflation for forty years and now we’ve come to the end of the road. Struggling farmers are promised help maybe sometime next year, maybe. Car sales, home sales, retail sales and fast-food sales are all flashing red check engine lights. But the gelatinous, geriatric simply ignores the problem by denial and distraction. Using Venezuela to distract from Epstein. Using Somalis to distract from Venezuela.

• “JPMorgan analysts predict Bitcoin could reach $170,000 within 6-12 months based on a volatility-adjusted gold comparison model.” – Bloomberg

“We’re off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of OZ. We hear he is a wiz of a wiz, if ever a wiz there was. If ever oh ever a wiz there was the wizard of Oz is one because. Because, because, because! Because of the wonderful things he does!”

Bitcoin is back under $90,000 down 3.2% on Friday. It’s like they are living in a dream world detached from everything in real life going on all around them. Careless and callous to the needs of tens of millions of Americans. Daring to stand on a stump and piously preaching to others about right and wrong, and about how things ought to be.

“Well there’s people and more people
What do they know, know, know
Go to work in some high rise
And vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico
Ooh yeah,
And there’s winners and there’s losers
But they ain’t no big deal
‘Cause the simple man baby pays for thrills, the bills,
and pills that kill.” – John Mellencamp