This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Something is going on, far beyond our eyes, inside the fortress of Trump. Something has broken; something has gone wrong. For all the world, it reminds me of January 6^th. When the orange madman went great guns stirring up chaos and had to be shouted down by his inner circle to stop, before it was too late or all was lost.

Dan Bovino is being publicly reassigned, fired, and sidelined. Gestapo agents are being removed from Minnesota. Why? The administration’s position all along has been more and more and more. And let the devil have his day. Of course, TACO, Trump always chickens out comes into play. But that only happens when Trump meets an immovable object like courts or foreign leaders. Something is going down on the inside. There is a disturbance in the Force.

Incompetence is the least likely reason for someone getting fired within the Trump orbit. Part of Trump’s schtick is that he always knows better and always has everything under control. If he fires someone, then he doesn’t have all the best people and doesn’t have everything under control. Kash Patel can fly his girlfriend around the country with her security detail on the taxpayer’s dime, without any repercussions. But for Bovino, it’s the ax, and he’s being replaced by his boss and chief thug and bottle washer, Darth Vad, I mean, terrible Tom Holman.

Experience teaches us, Trump is insensible and unreachable through public opinion. As Trump expert and all-around worthless POS Ted Cruz explains, “Trump is a malignant narcissist who believes his own lies when he says them.” If a poll says something negative about him, he disparages it. If a news source reports it and Trump doesn’t like it, he sues. Then, like on January 6^th, Trump suddenly reverses course? Inside the stone battlements of the White (orange) house, something is going on stealthily.

Suddenly, Trump backs off on his threat of 100% tariffs on Canada. Certainly, that was never going to happen. But again, Trump said it publicly. He put the best face on it and announced a new phony framework; he wasn’t at liberty to disclose. Something big is going on. When the Watergate hearings were coming to a head and public opinion was clearly turning. Republican leadership went to the White House for a short, come to Jesus meeting. Short and sweet, if it came to impeachment, Nixon was finished, and if it came to a trial in the Senate. Nixon would be removed.

Could such a come to Jesus meeting have occurred in the unconscious house or senile Senate? Could they have finally gone to spine school? Vertebrate cum Lauda? Could public opinion and the demonstrations against ICE across the country, the likes of which have not been seen since the Vietnam war finally reached critical mass? A Chernobyl point of no return? Trump’s even losing Fox News, but not really. The pressure has become so great that Fox News can no longer ignore it or softball it. “The Republicans need to get their act together, or the midterms are going to be ugly.” – Fox News.

Trump has left Davos defeated, with his tail between his legs. He has angered our former allies to a heretofore unknown and unbelievable levels. Has he finally gone too far and broken the through-brace of world politics? Behind the Administration’s back, Republicans carp and snark about Trump. Has push finally met shove? We will find out eventually, either sooner when it leaks out or later when a tell-all book comes out. Tell-all books are a staple of Trump administrations, and their quasi-retirement plan. I’m guessing sooner, because of the suddenness and fundamental shift in Trump. Something has shaken him badly. He’s suddenly grown quiet. Is Kristi play Misty for me Noem next on Tower Hill? Or her boss and Russian agent, main squeeze and top sleaze, Corey Lewandowski? Only in politics does shit roll uphill.

ICE agents raided several Phoenix sports bars yesterday, but were quick to point out they had received a federal search warrant from a judge first. (See? They’re following the law and stuff.) Sports bars? No children! No families! Safe territory. And the operation had probably been planned and ongoing before Mr. Trump’s sudden change of heart. But it was reported the day before yesterday on the CBC in Canada, not in the United States.

Trump’s ambassador to Canada and blowhard blowtorch, Pete Hoekstra had threatened Canada over F35 fighter jet purchases. Pure Trump/Mafia intimidation tactics. Warning, if Canada declines the purchase and goes ahead for the less expensive, equally capable Swedish Gripen fighter jets. It will fundamentally change NORAD. The US will have no choice but to undertake more US Airforce flights over Canadian airspace against perceived threats. From whom? That’s a real nice country you have there. It would be a damn shame if something bad happened to it. Didn’t he get the memo, or it’s all fundamentally changed now? New day, new policy.

Greenland is off the table. 100% tariffs are off the table. ICE Gestapo boss gets reassigned to guarding the cornfield. A complete reversal of everything. That’s not an accident; it’s a harbinger and a warning. Something is up. Someone had a bad dream and pulled the chicken switch on everything, everything  that just last week had been firm administration policy. Time will smell, when the time is ripe.

I come to praise Malaria Trump before the media buries her. Her new vanity Bezos bullshit movie. They don’t dare call it a documentary. Documentaries are informative, and this is just payola. “Malaria from Skank to Scuzzball” opens and closes in theaters this week. “It’s not a documentary; it’s a film that takes you on a cinematic journey.” – Fox News. A cinematic journey from tediumto the cinematic summit of who cares? And in her defense, it would be difficult to make an hour and forty-minute cinematic journey of any First Lady, let alone this one. A First lady who could make me shell out my hard-earned cash at the theater. What? No lightsabers or car chases, robots, aliens, or talking trucks?

The film (cinematic journey) is expected to gross (yes, that’s the right word.) $4,000,000 in its opening and final weekend. And I’ll bet you a nickel, some asshole nominates this crap for an Academy Award. (Best Vanity project of a dictator’s wife.) To put that in perspective, the gross from popcorn sales is five million dollars. Previews of the film have been met with boos and jeers. It’s the only film less popular than the advertisements. But it’s just another Trump grift. A hodgepodge of outtakes and B-roll spliced together so a billionaire could buy it for forty million dollars. Then spend another thirty-five million more plugging this putrid pig vomit designed to purchase influence and a dictator’s favor. It really sounds like a lot of money, but for Bezos, it isn’t even lunch money.

A film which will meet the fate of Heaven’s Gate or any Adam Sandler film. I’d wager I could rent the theater across the street and show “Hercules Versus the Amazon Women” and draw a better crowd. It’s such a sad little grift. It sort of gives you a new respect for bank robbers. If the Hollywood Walk of Fame has a back alley. Malaria’s star will be under the dumpster behind the fish market. Any man who can afford to spend $75 million on this silver nitrate tripe needs a tax increase!

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ― Socrates