This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

It all seemed so simple. Delta Force had practiced for weeks in a mock presidential compound. Snatch up President Maduro, silence their military. Claim victory, celebrate, loot their treasury and take their oil. Apparently, it was assumed all they needed was Maduro and the Venezuelan  government would instantly collapse. But the chief justice swore in Vice president Delcy Rodriguez, who offered to work with the US and cooperate in the future. Of course, this was all utter nonsense, as Rodriguez was immediately rebuffed. The US didn’t invade Venezuela to work with anyone. The US invaded Venezuela to take over and steal their assets.

As a side note, the Corporate News Network called Rodriguez the “interim” President of Venezuela. Sort of like how Lyndon Johnson was the “interim” president after JFK was murdered. An effort to delegitimize Rodriguez in the public’s eyes. When, in point of fact, Rodriguez is the new president of Venezuela. It’s inconceivable this wasn’t planned for. But such are the fortunes of all unsuccessful coup plotters. CIA, Can’t Initiate Anything.

The orange simian simpleton took to the airwaves to declare himself emperor in charge and he would “run” Venezuela like his casino in Atlantic city. Get out of the way, lady! We don’t need to talk to you! Trump declared Rodriguez as unimportant, as he was now in charge. But what was Trump in charge of exactly? They had Maduro, but nothing else. The Venezuelan government still stands and Delta Force and the army are all gone. They had captured Maduro and nothing more. The misadministration had come up empty. It wasn’t supposed to work out like this, but the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Rodriguez then took a more confrontational and defiant tone and declared Venezuela would never be anyone’s colony. What woah! What now McDuff? Draft a new indictment and start all over again? But the US can’t invade all over again, can it? The orange ape declares, “Ill huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down!” Insisting Rodriguez will get worse than Maduro, if she doesn’t do as she’s told. But the facts on the ground say the US has failed.

Little Marko Polio tried to pare back the emperor’s bellicose belligerent statements of conquest as the condemnations rolled in from around the world. No, no, no, the US wouldn’t run Venezuela at all, but work towards establishing a new government. But gee, Marko. They already have a new government. The emperor went on to threaten other countries in Latin America under the Monroe doctrine. The idiotic emperor, of course, had to rename it after himself (The Don roe doctrine) which only delegitimizes and makes a farce of this policy still further.

The Monroe doctrine was about keeping European nations from establishing colonies in the western hemisphere. It was never designed as an open-ended carte blanche promise of US hegemony over the peoples and lands of Central and South America. Dementia Don then included his demand for control over Greenland. Prompting the Danish Ambassador to remind Trump that Denmark was a NATO member and any invasion of Greenland would prompt NATO to take military action. Suddenly, the mouth that roared had gone from simple failed South American invasion to a potential World War three. They got the old orange fart excited and his few functioning brain cells got carried away with themselves.

Dig this; “The US is working to establish a pliant interim government in Venezuela, with Secretary of State Marko Rubio saying the focus is on setting policy and maintaining leverage.”  – CNN

Excuse me, I’m no expert on these things, but what leverage? The US is being roundly condemned by world leaders and world opinion, and unless the US is ready to invade all over again has just accomplished the most expensive arrest in world history. We have no leverage and if anything; we have less leverage than we had two days ago, because of what the gang who couldn’t shoot straight has done.

Even with the full court press of state propaganda, the reviews with the American public are mixed. The views and prospects of another forever war, however, are not. They signal a full-blown disaster. For a president needing some good news, this is the opposite. If the US is still fucking around in Venezuela in six months, the Republicans won’t be able to carry Mar a Lago in the upcoming elections.

The American people are hurting, and unemployment is rising. People are struggling as the emperor goes off on a wild pointless crusade in South America. It is inconceivable they thought this was a good idea. Now! Now! Now! The administration is planning what to do next. Act in haste, repent at leisure. Not since the Bay of Pigs has an operation gone off the rails so badly. The military did their ill-conceived dirty job, but the politics never got out of bed.

An administration at low ebb grounded on the rocks of another abject failure. Facing trouble at home and worse news overseas. Every time the orange Bandito opens his mouth about Greenland, he tightens the Canadian boycott of American products. Gym shorts Jordan, former Ohio State assistant coach and locker room attendant says Trump has successfully closed the border. And that’s true, nobody but nobody wants to come to this country anymore.  This country is no longer seen as a beacon of freedom but as a concentration camp watchtower spot light.

Failure upon failure upon failure. And this is the worst failure yet. But rest assured, they aren’t finished yet. There will be still more failures. But for a day or two at least, they have knocked Epstein out of the headlines and made the public forget that Donald Trump is a pedophile. A rapist of little girls and a despoiler of children. A bellicose, blathering ignoramus, and a dangerous predatory narcissist. A man who thinks of himself as Julius Caesar accepting the crowd’s cheering laurels when he’s nothing but a sawdust Hitler and mongoloid Mussolini.

He has destabilized world trade. He has destabilized world alliances. He has set about creating conditions for a world war. Over on Chinese social media, Trump was heaped with praise. That sure was a good thing he’s done. In fact, it was so good, social media called for China to do the same thing in Taiwan. If Trump can ignore international law, why not China? If Trump can’t successfully topple a third world government, what does China need to worry about?

We no longer have any allies in the world of any use. Europe is skeptical, Asia is skeptical, Latin America except for El Salvador is skeptical. In an effort to build an empire in the western hemisphere. Trump has painted this nation into a corner and set us on a course for a world war.

“I have, therefore, chosen this time and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived–yet it is the most important topic on earth: world peace.

What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children–not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women–not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy