This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

I guess it’s actually all my fault. I was proud to have lasted for a full fifteen minutes into the king of corruption’s speech last night. In case you missed it, I’ll summarize. Blah, blah, blah, blah, Joe Biden. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, Democrats. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, poor me. Blah, blah, blah, blah, I’m wonderful. Blah, blah, blah, blah, you should appreciate me more! Blah, blah, blah, here’s some money for the soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. They’ll love me! (Caution; be very wary of Geeks bearing gifts.) Trump gives nothing away for free. Merry Christmas, and for all you heathens out there, nothing.

It was an unserious speech and I’m stuck in patterns of presidents taking to the airwaves when they truly have something important to say. Trump was visibly angry. Why don’t you love me? Why don’t you appreciate me more? I have a whole host of made-up facts and figures here. You’ve heard them all before, but I’ll say them all again, in case you forgot. What’s wrong with you people? No mention of the murderous war mongering in Venezuela. He’s brought peace to the middle east! There hasn’t been a single American serviceman killed there in over 48 hours.

No mention of Dan Bongino or Krash Patel. No mention of Suzie Wiles. And of course, no mention of Epstein. No mention of an eroding stock market or a weakening economy. Bitcoin was at $93,000 last week at this time and $86,000 and dropping today. A jobs report added 64,000 jobs when the king was angry about 76,000 jobs, just ninety days ago. The markets had expected 50,000 jobs. But as Jerome Powell has complained, they throw out a good number and then revise it down the next month. So, the 64,000 number is perhaps only 30, or 40,000 jobs in the rear-view mirror.   

Trump, Chief of staff Suzie Wiles offers that Trump has a drunk’s personality. She’s closer to him than I, but a drunk’s personality is all about hiding their pain. They are mean and vindictive to make you feel and share the pain which they feel. They have alcohol as an excuse for acting so belligerently. Trump is a malignant narcissist and a sadist. That’s why Trump brags about closing the border. He’s taken the vision of America from a shining city on the hill to a wretched fetid wasteland. Not only are immigrants not crossing the border but 30% of American scientists and researchers say they are either looking for a job overseas or would jump at an opportunity to leave the United Snakes. Not to mention the untold millions of us regular Americans who would leave if they could.

I have considered leaving myself, but I can’t. I’m too cantankerous for that. They won’t run me off that easily and besides, I hate snow. So Canada is out, as beautiful as it looks. Mexico is too corrupt and I don’t speak the language. Japan is surprisingly cheap; you can get a nice apartment outside of Tokyo for half of what I’m paying now. The Philippines is even cheaper still. I could rent an entire house for less than half the price of a one-bedroom apartment here. But what would I do there all day? Besides struggling with the language. “How about those Bears, huh?”

His ballroom is a sign of his of creeping megalomania. Emphasis on creep. Mommy and Daddy didn’t love him enough and he’s cursed with a micro penis. And he hates and abuses women because of it. The abuse is generational. Trump sends his son in law and leaves his own sons, Tooty and Eric behind in pretend jobs

Besides here, I have job security as the corporate media melts down to a multifloras blob of useless protoplasm. An independent journalist is a growth field. The other day, I read an article in the corporate media stating that tensions were rising between the United Snakes and Venezuela. Tensions are rising everybody! And they said that with a straight face too, just like Tass or Pravda. There are no tensions rising between the United Snakes and Venezuela. There is only a calculated pressure by the United Snakes to intimidate a third world nation with oil. It’s calculated theft and imperialist gunboat diplomacy. It’s Nazi Germany intimidating Czechoslovakia or Poland. It’s all one sided.

I had wondered if maybe that was the message of the king’s speech. To lay out his phony reasons for war like George Bush, the idiot did. But Trump doesn’t care about our opinions, unless they are unfavorable. How dare you disagree! Don’t you love America? Yes, I do, but this ain’t it! This is a malignant fascist state too ugly to see itself in the mirror. Jeff Bezos just spent $40 million to buy the rights to Malaria Trump’s video biography. “Malaria! my struggle” From rags to Mrs.! The next highest bidder offered just $14 million. Several other popular media outlets offered nothing. You have something brown on your nose, Jeff. Flattery (and money) will get you anywhere! Oh, it isn’t a bribe. How often does an exciting media project like this come along? It could replace Star Wars or Harry Potter in children’s imaginations. “Mommy, Mommy, who is that scary lady?

It is like living in a perverse dystopic fantasyland. Job layoffs this year have topped 1.1 million for the first time since 1993. Home prices are starting to stall. Home foreclosures are rising nationwide. Farm bankruptcies in Iowa were higher in the first quarter of 2025 than in all of 2024. Farm commodity prices are falling like a ball rolling off a table. Trump’s farm bailout amounts to, Here’s a dollar! Go buy yourself an ice cream. The entire fast-food industry is teetering towards default. The non-existent inflation is driving them out of business.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics website has been chloroformed. Gone are the charts to read and glean useful information. Replaced by a People Magazine format with snippets of positive information. Big Brother is increasing the chocolate ration! Everything is wonderful, truly wonderful, couldn’t be better! If you didn’t know better, you might think this was a golden age. Where Americans can no longer afford to buy a home or a new car. Where healthcare is about to go the way of the dinosaur. Where millions live in their cars and millions more live in the streets. Where the airwaves are filled with advertisements for investing your wealth. Just like in 1929.

Farmers are going broke. Workers are going broke and reaching the end of their credit. Store prices are rising as this year’s Christmas sales look to be an utter disaster. And all because of the king of corruption’s favorite word…tariffs.

“Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home–but not for housing. They are strong for labor–but they are stronger for restricting labor’s rights. They favor minimum wage–the smaller the minimum wage the better. They endorse educational opportunity for all–but they won’t spend money for teachers or for schools. They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine–for people who can afford them. They consider electrical power a great blessing–but only when the private power companies get their rake-off. They think American standard of living is a fine thing–so long as it doesn’t spread to all the people. And they admire of Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.”
― Harry S. Truman

Or in Trump’s case, steal it.