This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

No matter what Donald Trump tells you and no matter what Donald Trump does. This is all about Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein and Jeffrey Epstein. Send ICE into the streets of Minneapolis? Jeffrey Epstein. We need to remove Maduro! Jeffrey Epstein. We need Greenland for our national security? Jeffrey Epstein. Famously, Donald Trump is a counter puncher. When you hit him, he hits you back.

As a career criminal, he’s been through the court system so many times it doesn’t scare him. He plays the courts like a Stradivarius. How do you get Epstein out of the headlines? Create a bigger crisis! Why did we attack Venezuela? Oil, politics? Jeffrey Epstein, oil and politics. But Venezuela was a failure. It didn’t excite the base, and it didn’t excite anyone in the voting public. But it did offer an opportunity to steal. But the oil executives wouldn’t play along. Trump is in real estate, not oil. Trump doesn’t understand oil.

Trump sees a free gold mine. And doesn’t understand why the oil executives aren’t excited like he is. The executives see Venezuela as disruptive and more trouble than it’s worth. So, Trump being Trump, he gets angry with Exxon for saying out loud what everyone else in the room was already thinking. The polling numbers were bad. Donald Trump wasn’t winning, so Donald Trump changed the subject. Now it’s Greenland, Greenland, Greenland! We must have Greenland, or it’s the end of the world! And just like that, Epstein is out of the news. Donald Trump doesn’t care if he rattles European allies. What is the most important thing in the whole wide world and Texas? Protecting Donald Trump!

Trump sees the killing of Renee Good as a happy accident. The eventual byproduct of the poorly trained, overpaid, intellectually limited and misguided. “No, the army said I was too fat. The police department said I was too dumb.” – Homer Simpson. The event draws thousands into the streets in angry protest, but not about Jeffrey Epstein.

What about NATO? Doesn’t Donald Trump care about NATO? Let’s see, on the one hand you have NATO, and on the other hand the survival of Donald Trump. Which do you think he cares more about? He’s a malignant narcissist. Donald Trump would throw his wife and children into the fires of hell to save himself, and it wouldn’t even spoil his appetite. He is a sick, sick man. He doesn’t see himself as evil, but as clever. He thinks he is smarter than you! He’s gotten Epstein out of the headlines, and that’s all that matters to him. It’s the same reason old guys buy Corvettes, so you’ll forget about their gray hair and small penises.

Jeffrey Epstein is a matter of life and death, win or die. Pedophiles never want to be identified as pedophiles. And if Trump looks like he’s a pedophile, he’s finished. Trump knows that what he did was wrong, but he always wins. It’s not about guilt or innocence, right or wrong, but winning or losing. Either in court or in the court of public opinion. But Epstein is different. The Republicans ran on Epstein for years, demanding answers and assuming a big cover-up was to blame. Trump ran for office promising to tell all and expose everything. And now he’s trapped and has proved the big cover-up, so he shouts. “Hey, look over there! Look at that! Venezuela and Greenland! We need that for national security! Quick, before Russia or China try to steal it!”

Russia is broke and on its ass. Russia has run out of money and armored vehicles and is bringing up supplies to its beleaguered, starving troops on pack mules. Russia is running out of personnel and using mercenaries and drafting the elderly and mentally handicapped into the army. It is losing ground in Ukraine and has about as much interest in invading Greenland as in conquering the moon.

China has a large army and a large navy. But most of China’s navy is composed of smaller coastal vessels. It has one large diesel aircraft carrier. But it breaks down so often, they rarely take it out to sea without bringing tugboats along. China is building a new state-of-the-art aircraft carrier but it’s not ready yet. China has a fleet of aircraft, but not any trained aircraft carrier pilots. China has neither the desire nor the capability to invade Greenland. China has a host of domestic issues far more pressing than Greenland. “Say, I’ve got an idea. Let’s ruin our economy!”

It is one of the clearest signs yet that Donald Trump’s mental elevator no longer reaches the top floor. The porch light is on, but nobody is home. Trump’s polling is a train wreck, and he is losing ground on every issue. But to Donald Trump, he’s winning. He’s gotten Epstein out of the headlines and off the front page. Will Trump ever be impeached over Venezuela or Greenland? But would he be impeached, if the truth came out about raping little girls? Nothing else matters. While in a delusional haze in the middle of the night, the other night. Trump calls himself the tariff king.

The following day, Trump threatened European allies with additional tariffs if they don’t support his unlawful invasion of another sovereign state. Does that sound like he cares about NATO? It’s about headlines! Pump up the jams! Get everyone too upset to remember Epstein. Donald Trump is under a law that he signed to release all the Epstein documents. Thirty days later, less than one percent have been released and all are highly redacted. Gee, I guess there’s only one thing left to do. We’ll take him to court! That’s what we’ll do! We will demand swift American justice and Donald Trump will laugh in our faces. We’re going to out Tarzan, Tarzan, in his own jungle.

My first thought when Trump promised new tariffs was, “I wonder how that will play in the farm belt.” That’s just what they need, more impediments to selling their crops. But the markets have learned to take Trump’s insanity with a grain of salt. Give it a week or two to see if he’s serious or just talking out of his ass. But lest we forget, Trump’s tariffs are paid by Americans. “If you Europeans don’t behave and do what I say. I’ll kick the shit out of this American economy!”

An economy already hemorrhaging jobs. An economy with record auto repossessions. An economy that saw home foreclosures rise 14% in a year. An economy with a farm crisis. An economy with a credit crisis and an economy with a healthcare crisis. But does Donald Trump care about those petty little side issues when Donald Trump is imperiled? Donald Trump only cares about the survival of Donald Trump. He isn’t crazy, like Crazy Eddie. He’s crazy like Charles Manson or Adolf Hitler. He’s criminally and hopelessly insane. And if the Greenland matter is somehow smoothed over. Donald Trump will create a new and even larger crisis. It’s his bread and butter. It’s his roadmap to survival. Whatever keeps Epstein out of the headlines, is exactly what Donald Trump will do, whatever it takes.

Inside that corrupted, corroding cranium, Donald Trump thinks he is winning. And until Donald Trump is impeached and removed from office, he’s correct. They also stand guilty who enable the criminal to commit the crime.

“At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.” ― Albert Speer