This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Watching the Trump Administration this week has been like watching a boxer who has taken too many blows to the head. Becoming slow and sluggish and dropping their guard. Allowing further blows to take effect. The sacking of Dan Bovino for doing what he was ordered to do until the administration finally understood. He shouldn’t be doing that anymore. Fired for doing what they told him to do. Donald Trump wavering, first calling the murder victims domestic terrorists to “let’s have an investigation!”

But everything keeps going wrong as Trump’s newest excuse offered that Pretti shouldn’t have brought a loaded gun to a protest. (Did someone say Kyle Rittenhouse?) Trump’s remarks erupted amongst the Second Amendment crowd. Blood red conservatives, angry about what the big cheese whiz had just said. But, but, but wait! Trump goes to Iowa and gets heckled and booed! Wait, a minute! That’s not supposed to happen. Cluelessly, like Marie Antoinette Trump laments his standing in the polls after the stock market was doing so well. How many Iowan Trump supporters care about the stock market more than the grocery market?

Iowa is famous for corn and farms and corn prices are way down to breakeven levels and farms and farmers are in trouble. “Let them eat Wall Street!” But it’s just like the last time they let Trump out of his cage. Just try to find photographs of the crowd. Like Leni Riefenstahl, don’t show the crowd! Keep the camera focused on the fearless leader with a few tight shots of the dignitaries Mr. Trump was asked if he thought the Pretti shooting was justified? Mr. Trump referred to it as a “sad situation.” How far he’s travelled, Grasshopper. In just a few days; from domestic terrorist to firing Dan Bovino to a “sad situation.” But this is Donald Trump we’re talking about. What he means to say is that this is a sad situation for himself, Donald Trump.

Kristi, the sky is falling, Noem spent two hours (God, that must have been painful) Trying to convince the President not to fire her. Talk about harder than teaching a Cocker Spaniel Algebra! Holy shit! She really wants this job! Two hours of trying to keep Mr. Trump’s attention focused on one subject? “No, I don’t want to look out the window again, Mr. President! I’ve seen the ballroom.” Trump later told reporters that Noem was doing a good job. (Note: He didn’t say she was doing a great job.) Frosted Flakes are Great! Noem is only good. Tony the tiger’s job isn’t on the line. Trump’s vote of confidence means absolutely nothing. Mr. Trump would throw his wife and her son under the bus to save himself. So Trump’s promise could almost be construed as the opposite of whatever his lips said.

Scuttlebutt says Noem threw her own lover boy toy Corey Lewandowsky under the bus, and pointed fingers at this administration’s Heinrich Himmler, Stephan Miller. The knives are now out and the lights just went out. And it’s every last pirate for themselves! It illustrates two things, the administration knows it’s in big trouble, and has no idea what to do about it. They quake in fear of whatever catastrophe might happen next. Hey! Watch this! They send Chief thug Tom Holman into Minnesota just as they pull all the Gilligan’s Island ICE agents out.

Slowly, it begins to dawn on them that this could be an existential crisis. The Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota has just dropped out of the race because of conscience! Unprecedented! Who knew Republicans even had a conscience? The poll numbers are brutal, so bad, they won’t even make them public. This could be the first administration to lose a house majority before the midterm elections. Republican House members are condemning the White House over ICE in a definite case of Congressional cover your ass, or suffer the consequences. They know, they know.

But the hits keep coming. The dollar is falling to its lowest level in four years. As Mr. Trump says, “He’s not scared!” which obviously means, he is scared. Just another case of there’s never a Treasury Secretary around when you really need one. Mr. Trump’s recent volatile remarks are pointed to as the reason. Investors don’t want to invest in a country ruled by a madman. Volkswagen just cancelled a second planned factory in South Carolina. Not delayed or postponed, but cancelled outright. Thanks, but no thanks!

With FIFA ticket cancellations and threats to move more games to Canada and Mexico. Now, it’s the Winter Olympic Games. Holy shit! Who thought this up? The administration had planned to send ICE goons to Milan to work security for American athletes at the games. Prompting the mayor of Milan to retort. “You’ve got to be fucking kidding me!” Of course he said it in Italian, “Non ci posso crederi!” Tua Madre era la findanzata del diavolo!. That’s Italian for over my dead body. That sums up the current state of the Trump administration. Able to create an international incident, without even getting out of bed in the morning.

No forward progress whatsoever on anything. Who remembers Venezuela? God! That seems like it was months and months ago, doesn’t it? Peterless Pete Hegseth warned the vestiges of the last lawful Venezuelan government. Not to try any funny stuff. Their cooperation is mandatory or we will be back with more bombs. Or walk softly and carry a big mouth. All across the fruited plain and Indian reservations everywhere, ICE requests for new prison camp locations, are greeted with a public outcry of “Hell No!” But, but, but, it means new jobs for your community. “Please mama. Let me be a goon! I hear it pays well!”

The administration is dead in the water, a victim of their own hubris and incompetence. Knock on any door and a fuck up will answer you. The question now is, can they repair the shattered fishbowl on the floor and put the fish back inside before it’s too late? They have no place left to run. Immigration once their strong suit has now turned into a pox upon them. America First! Right after we finish with Greenland and Venezuela, Iran, Syria, Canada and the European Union! Then we’ll get right on that.

Despite Trump’s claims that he has cured inflation, it hasn’t been cured. A lower dollar makes imported goods more expensive. It means the value of your wages are falling. But Mr. Trump is a billionaire with a license to steal, and he’s not worried about it. But behind every Mystery Date door, Jeffery Epstein is waiting. It’s all gone wrong and the little orange trolley is back sliding down the hill with no way to start again. The second Trump administration has shit in their own Easter basket. And no amount of spin or propaganda can convince the American public that it’s only rain falling on their backs.

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” – Harry Truman

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy