This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

One year into the Trump presidency. The United Snakes has bombed Gaza, Invaded Venezuela and bombed Iran. Threatened Greenland, Canada, Mexico, China, NATO, Colombia and Panama. They bombed Gaza in hopes of a real estate deal and blind ambition. (Just to show we could, and we would.) Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges! Venezuela was all about oil, money, and control. Iran was about nuclear politics…or so they said.

Can we talk about the most inept nuclear program on the planet? Forty years on and no bomb yet. North Korea has a bomb; Israel has the bomb. India has the bomb. Pakistan has the bomb. You don’t need Einstein and Oppenheimer to build a bomb anymore. Some rumors say Saudi Arabia secretly has a bomb or is in the market to buy one. My point is some pretty lame third-world countries have the bomb these days. The secret is out, and it has become more a question of money than technology.

Iran has the money. So what’s the problem? Iran’s adversary in the region is Saudi Arabia, not Israel. It’s the same old big lie. If Saddam had the bomb, he would bomb the United States! In the same way, if I had a BB gun, I’d attack the 82^nd Airborne. Saddam attacking the US would have been absolute, immediate suicide. Saddam’s enemies were Iran and Saudi Arabia. This is the genesis of Iran’s nuclear ambition. This was about regional politics. Iran wanted the bomb because Saddam wanted a bomb and Saudi Arabia wanted a bomb. But yet, for forty years American presidents have made out that this is a life-or-death issue for the United Snakes. If Iran really wanted a bomb, it would have one by now.

Iran has used religion as its sword and shield in the same way the Soviet Union used communism and political commissars for control. Anyone who steps out of line wasn’t Islamic enough or communist enough. Same, same. The Soviets corrupted themselves into oblivion, and Iran has corrupted itself into a corner. Religion and political theory are great until there’s no food in the cupboard. The prophet and commissars can’t hear your “I’m hungry” prayers.

Iran has squandered its water resources to serve manufacturing over drinking water. Then, as they face the worst water crisis in modern times, suggest moving the capitol. It was not just bizarre and unworkable; it was insane. As if Atlanta were out of water, so we’re moving it to Nashville! It was about the government making its getaway and getting the hell out of Dodge before the shit hits the fan. “You’re all on your own now! Meet us in Nashville! See ya! May the prophet be with you because we’re gone!”

But it’s the irony and the stupidity. Why did the Trump regime try to rename the Defense Department the War Department? Officially, it is still the Defense Department. It would take an act of Congress to change the name officially. Congress? Who are they? Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges! It’s the War Department! Okay, so what does the War Department do when it’s at home? Defend us or fight wars? Enter the Donald J. Trump’s Carrot and Stick Department. The International Thuggery Division.

Why did Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin say you didn’t have to follow illegal orders? Because duh, they are following illegal orders. Ever seen the film “The Caine Mutiny?”

If you don’t do as we say, you might find aircraft carriers off your coast department. Why hasn’t Donnie won his Nobel Peace Prize yet? But there is always room for negotiation. There doesn’t have to be a war, you know. Let me send my personal peace representative, Jared Kushner, to negotiate a reasonable $$$$ settlement and explain how the piece process works. Let Uncle Donnie wet his beak and the horrors of war can be averted.  

Recently, the last Shah of Iran’s son has been foisted up as a reasonable alternative to the corrupt Mullah’s. The CIA put the last Shah on the throne in 1941, and we can do it again! Call him Trump’s man in Tehran. Ready to negotiate yet? Heads we win, tails you lose!

For decades, South Floriduh was a Republican bastion filled with Cuban Batista refugees. We tried to overthrow Castro; vote Republican! Now, with Trump’s inhuman and, of course, illegal actions in Cuba. Elderly and unneeded anymore wedge politics. The refugees are just regular Hispanics now. International thuggery on display. A blockade is an act of war. The threat that anyone who feeds my enemy immediately becomes my enemy is immoral and despicable. Cuba isn’t a threat to anyone. It is an enfeebled regime. But Trump is reshuffling the board. This is OUR hemisphere now! Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!

Did you happen to notice how fast the [For Sale] signs went up in Venezuela? When the oil companies remained skeptical, Trump proposed tax cuts. All talk of rebuilding Venezuelan oil infrastructure went out the window. Discount Don’s Garage Sale Oil Depot! It’s corruption at the highest level on display. Or, we’ll take whatever we can get. If you don’t want to invest, that’s fine, boys! Just pony up to the bar.

Notice how there is no fine talk about establishing democracy or the rights of man. Nope! Trump is in charge. How about a second-hand Shah Iran? Never been used! Elections? What would you want elections for? You already have a choice. War or a dictator! Trump warns the mullahs not to shoot demonstrators, or else! While Trump’s thugs shoot American demonstrators. And no one in the American media even bothers to mention the irony.

 No, the Washington press corps is busy asking Carol, lying Leavitt, which Super Bowel half-time show the President watched? Wow, such tough questions! Do you have to go to school to be a urinalist? Carol, Lying Leavitt, true to form, lied. “Oh, he watched Rid Kock! Despite the TV sets at Mar-a-Lago being obviously tuned to Bad Bunny. If they didn’t watch, what would they have to bitch and complain about?

Reality is officially out the window. Madness rules the waves. Politicians and big shots around the world are losing their jobs over Jeffrey Epstein. But who is mentioned more times than anyone else in the Epstein files? Do the press ask any pointed questions? Of course not; they’ll throw you out. If you want the Epstein news, you’ll have to look overseas. What are you? Some kind of troublemaker?

Did you happen to see the big news story? No, of course you didn’t. Malaria Trump doesn’t live at the White House and doesn’t live with Donald Trump in Floriduh. She has an apartment under her own name in New York, in Trump Tower. She’s an employee hired to play the part of the old orange bastard’s wife. A soft-core porn actress she once was. A porn actress she remains. In a preemptive lawsuit brought by author Michael Wolfe. Malaria plays fast and loose with her address, so as not to be deposed. Wolfe has now submitted evidence to the court that Malaria Trump is a legal resident of New York.

Use your illusion too! A fake marriage, a fake foreign policy, robberies and thuggery disguised as negotiations. The US military used as a dictator’s henchman. A fake defense Secretary. A propaganda minister disguised as a press secretary. A fake Presidency. A lawless dictator pretending to be a president of the United States . Like that old guy with bad breath and a fake beard down at the mall pretending to be Santa Claus.

“His eyes can see
His ears can hear his lips speak
All the time the needles flick and rock
No machine can give the kind of stimulation
Needed to remove his inner block

Go to the mirror boy!
Go to the mirror boy!

I often wonder what he is feeling
Has he ever heard a word I’ve said?
Look at him in the mirror dreaming
What is happening in his head?

Go to the mirror boy!
Go to the mirror boy!” – Pete Townsend

Smash the mirror! What do you see?