This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

We so often look at King Trump’s failures without appreciating his successes. Trump has successfully destroyed the North Atlantic treaty alliance. Once thought unshakeable, it now lies in ruins. Germany plans to nearly double the size of its army. Poland is preparing for war. Estonia is building a new Maginot Line, because the last one worked out so well. Estonia, being such a small country, really doesn’t have much of an alternative. The UK seeks to modernize its military forces, if they can find the money. They had better.

Europe is heading for a post United Snakes future. The ally who can’t be trusted. The ally headed by a crazy person. The ally who really isn’t an ally at all. The ally who is duplicitous and conspires with dictators against them. During the Cuban missile crisis, the American ambassador offered to show French President Charles De Gaulle photos of the Cuban missile sites. De Gaulle replied, “The word of the president is good enough.” You would have to be an idiot to answer such as that today.

I wouldn’t believe Donald Trump if he told me the house was on fire and I smelled smoke. Blurred inside the corporate media lens of the almighty self-correcting self-contemplating navel, we Americans really can’t fully appreciate the true gravity of Donald Trump. To the rest of the civilized world, it’s as if Hitler had a twin brother. Donald Trump has destroyed the White House, the congress and the courts. This extreme, supreme court is willing to bend laws into pretzels assisting in their own self-destruction. Eventually, a dictator tires debating with a rubber stamp court and will dispense with them entirely. If 100 bulldogs took a huge shit on the steps of the supreme court building, it would only improve its ambience.

The Republican congress lies (Pun Intended) in dread terror paralyzed in fear. They now slowly begin to understand. like Dr. Frankenstein, that they have created a monster, and the monster has broken loose. The Republicans are always so boastful and patriotic, do what boastful American patriots always do, they run away and hide. They are resigning in droves. Running away! When the going gets tough, the phony tough get going. Margaret Taylor Greene, for all of her faults, which are many and notable, at least has the gumption to stand up to the mad king. Just imagine if twenty other Republicans did the same. Instead, they check their retirement accounts and run for the door.

“THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated” ― Thomas Paine

Those who will not stand up in a crisis should stand down in bitterness and ignominy. King Donald the turd says that he is disappointed in Ukraine. What a shock! Wipe your face Donald, you have something brown on your nose. A Russian peace proposal with only the font changed. Delivered and debated by a known Russian asset. Then, Russia moves the goal posts, and then moves them again. And Trump is disappointed in Ukraine. France and Germany have warned Ukraine to not sign anything, because the United Snakes can’t be trusted, any more than Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia could be trusted.

When China threatens Japan, Japan looks to Washington only to hear crickets. The king wants his Nobel Peace Prize, while he brings the world closer to a world war. New wars in Cambodia and Thailand. New wars and invasions in Syria. A murderous holocaust in Gaza. Coup d’état’s and military overthrows in Africa. New wars in Somalia and the king asks, dude, where’s my peace prize? As he threatens Venezuela. When the cat’s away, the mice will play. The United Snakes is no longer the world’s policeman. We have become the world’s pickpocket.

Give credit where credit is due. Donald Trump did that. China eyes Taiwan jealously. What would the United Snakes do about it? Nothing! And you know that’s true! This is an administration of bluff, bluster, bullshit and bravado. Gutless, cowardly, and open to bribery. No longer Ronny Ray guns shining city on the hill, but a ghetto of homelessness and the unemployed. An economy detached from reality and trying to win the lottery. Always looking for the next big thing, while always ignoring ever doing the right thing.

ICE thug chief, Tom Holman, stole $50,000 from an FBI sting and smarmy General Pam Bondi won’t even question him about it. King Donald is willing to sell Ukraine down the river in exchange for Russian oil leases. Willing to attack and kill fishermen as a diversion from his pedophile sex scandal. Pardoning convicted drug traffickers, while baselessly accusing others of drug trafficking.

Farm commodity prices are falling off the table to record lows. Farmers face bankruptcy and destitution and what does the America first president offer? Crickets! Nada, nothing, eat shit and die! The USDA could start purchasing commodities today, this morning, but they won’t. In this case, shit rolls uphill. When the farms go, the equipment dealers and manufacturers also go. The grocery chains begin to suffer and close locations. But it’s only unemployment for the little people and who cares about them? But it’s also the big people. Top level Apple employees are abandoning the company like the building is on fire. Ask yourself, why?

Success with the emphasis on suck. The unitary executive has made the United Snakes the unitary country. A country devoid of any real allies or friends. A disastrous junta of bagmen and thieves propping up a dilapidated destructive con man. Melting into a geriatric senile wonderland of delusion and fillet-o-fish sandwiches. These colors never run; but these Republicans damn sure do! They propped Trump up when he should have gone to prison and now, they run away when their country needs them most.

Concentration camps with masked thugs disappearing people. Robbing the people of healthcare, wages and survival, and not giving a shit. In Arkansas, crops have been left rotting in the fields, too expensive to harvest, just like in the 1930s. An overvalued stock market puffed up on speculation and easy credit money, just like the 1930s. When Herbert Hoover did nothing to save it, it all fell apart. But while Herbert Hoover may have been inept, he wasn’t corrupt or dishonest. See the difference?

“The reason, I think, lies in the fact that the Republican Party has become a collection of special interest groups. A special interest group, by definition, can never see beyond the limits of its own greediness.

The insurance companies, for example, back in 1935 and 1936, couldn’t see anything in social security beyond the fact they would not be writing the insurance policies. So they were violently against it, and they got the Republican Party against it. And yet now they have more insurance policies in force than ever any country had in the history of the world.

The utility companies couldn’t see anything in those great public power projects beyond the fact that private companies would not be making a profit out of the power. So they were against these projects, and then automatically the Republican Party came out against them, too.

The real estate lobby couldn’t see anything in low-cost public housing beyond the fact that houses were going to be built and their members would not make any money out of them. So they were against public housing, and automatically the Republican Party is against it, too.

And so it goes, down through the whole list. The policies of the Republican Party are the total of all the negative attitudes of all the special groups that put up the money for it, and pull the strings.” – Harry S. Truman

A country which takes no interest in the wellbeing of its citizens isn’t a country at all. It is a tyranny state.