This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Two soldiers and an interpreter are dead. For what? Why are US soldiers in Syria, anyway? Peace? Give me a break. This isn’t the Peace corps. This is the war machine incorporated (Remember? Department of War!) just trying to help out a “friendly” new government become established in the name of truth, justice, pickled Pete Hegseth and demented Donald Trump. They aren’t the cure; they are the irritation which requires a cure. What would you think of Russian or Chinese troops walking through your neighborhood planning where to build the new Walmart?

We have long ago poisoned the well of good fellowship. These are the soldiers of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the friends of Israel and American imperialism. Didn’t we learn anything from Vietnam? We can’t bomb them into liking us. Every time we send American troops into a civil war zone in the middle east, they become targets and trophy kills for the people who hate us. Ronnie Ray Gun sent US Marines into Lebanon as peacekeepers. A suicide bomber killed 200 US Marines. Then Ronnie Ray gun opened fire on the hills above Beirut with a battleship in retaliation. What lesson did the locals learn? Mixed messages, we’re your friends!

Demented Donald slurred of speech and, dragging his right foot, said the US will retaliate. Retaliate or seek retribution? Are they so certain of their intelligence in Syria as they are in Venezuela? Or are they just lobbing missiles into suspected hostile areas for the benefit of the American television audience? See! He’s not a wuss! “I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free. To spend millions of dollars to kill the folks because they don’t agree. And I’ll gladly stand up next to you as they take your healthcare away. Cause there ain’t no doubt I’m dumb as shit. God Bless the USA!”

This is the misadministration, which declares Antifa as a terrorist group. When Antifa means anti-Fascist. “We’ve come in the name of Donald Trump to help you poor dumb bastards with your shit hole country. We’re here to help because we want to be your friends! But don’t you ever get to thinking you can come visit US, because we don’t like your kind! We don’t like your religion or your off-white skin. Unless, of course, you have lots of money. Then come on in, friend!” Mixed messages.

We are abandoning Europe and siding with Russia. Did you vote for that? We’re abandoning Japan and siding with China. We wantonly kill people in Latin America on the flimsiest of pretexts. Now, tell me again how we’re the good guys. Are we after Syrian oil or geopolitically pushing of a pawn or building military bases? What is it that we’re after? The good guy ruse is over and the lone ranger has been unmasked. We want something or we wouldn’t be there at all. The new German chancellor said Europe must prepare for a NATO without the United Snakes. But we’re your friends, mixed messages.

Do you suppose the liar and thief and pickled Pete have some grand strategy to make the world a better place based on wealth and race? The Republicans in the remote sanity wing of the party are beginning to get cold feet. If the Obama care subsidies go away, they see doom ahead for their party. Let’s balance that equation and square that circle. We have US soldiers in Syria because we want to help. And we have US soldiers in the streets of Chicago being spit on by Americans because…

For the money being spent in Venezuela, we could triple the Obama Care subsidies. Let’s stop pretending. Do you know why Trump went to the Army-Navy game? Because it is the only public place where he can’t be booed. And Trump was in charge of the coin toss. I’d appeal it to the Supreme court. Let me take a real good look at that coin.

Oh, we’re fighting terrorism by indiscriminately bombing civilians. What is it that they don’t like about us? We’re fighting the war on drugs by indiscriminately bombing civilians. What is it they don’t like about us? We want to liberate the oil fields of Venezuela. I mean, we want to liberate Venezuela from an evil dictator. Does anyone actually believe that a misadministration that sides with murderous dictators like Putin and XI. Is really concerned about evil dictators? Maduro would be an honored guest invited to Washington and sleep in the Lincoln bedroom, if he would just pay up and do as he’s told. Gimme your oil fields…or else!

In a move reminiscent of 1984. Trump announces a farm bailout. Not for the farmers, but for you, the American public. The farmers are screaming up a storm, saying it’s nothing but smoke and mirrors! But the news media look at you confidently and tell you calmly, go back to sleep. We have solved the problem. Big orange Brother has increased their chocolate ration. Repeat after me; “There is no inflation. There is no inflation. You’re not unemployed. You’re just on a permanent unpaid vacation! There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home! These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.

Jerome Powell says the administration has been hiding the actual unemployment numbers and layoffs are the highest since 1993. He only wants to help us. Because he’s our friend. Would he lie to us? Our friend also gave the military a 4% pay raise because he is so nice and because he didn’t want them to notice he’s cutting back on their health insurance. He’s our friend, and he’s such a nice man.

The unitary unsanitary executive is about to be all alone. Mother always said you draw more flies with honey than you do with bullshit. Japan is dumping US treasury bills. Europe will be purchasing Saab fighter jets and Airbus airliners from now on. A new graphite factory was just announced, and the choices were Iowa or Ontario and they chose Ontario, for obvious reasons. They were looking for a stable government. A place where the laws in place would be observed fairly. A place without any mixed messages.

If you’re looking for the fall of the Roman Empire. Look no further. Caligula reigns supreme! He didn’t have a horse to name proconsul, so he named pickled Pete to the job instead. Trump announces that he’s brokered a ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia. The Thai Prime minister says that’s a damn lie. Even though Fox News and CBS say it’s so. When, oh when, will they give this poor man his peace prize?

“Let us not forget that violence does not and cannot exist by itself; it is invariably intertwined with the lie. They are linked in the most intimate, most organic and profound fashion: violence cannot conceal itself behind anything except lies, and lies have nothing to maintain them save violence. Anyone who has once proclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose the lie as his principle.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn