This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

It’s like living in fantasyland. Scarlet O’Hara saying, Oh well, tomorrow is another day.” The market is UP, 550 points because…. The news isn’t nearly as bad as it could be, Aunt Polly. Huh, huh, ain’t that great news? The straits are still closed and oil prices have risen by 50% in less than a month. Ain’t that great? It really could be so much worse! I know, let’s ignore reality completely and forget all about the entire disaster they now find themselves in. In a real shooting war, with the world economy hanging in the balance. But maybe, maybe, just maybe, it will be alright. Sure, it’s gonna be alright. Because it’s not nearly as bad as it could be!

Denial is the first stage of grief, right? The stove blows up and destroys the kitchen, but it’s not as bad as it could be. Boy, it could be just fucking awful! Thank goodness, it’s just all fucked up! A Professional psychosis, a spasm of nervous desperation. Don’t talk or think about what’s coming in the next thirty days. When the concrete sets up hard and the reality sets in and it really is so MUCH, worse than it is right now! They have to play the game of buy and sell, even on a doomed ship. Try not to think about it. “Oh, well, tomorrow is another day.”

A Trump administration in real trouble, in a near panic mode. Peter Hegseth fell suddenly silent and perhaps fallen from favor after his Iranian “excursion” advice didn’t pan out as planned. They know and understand the big trouble they are in. And it’s rumored that someone orange has buyer’s remorse. “Make it stop, Mr. Wizard. I want to get off!” They are in the oh, shit! Oh, shit mode! What are we going to tell them? What are we going to do now, phase? How do you explain to the American people after promising not to get us into any foreign wars. We bumbled right into a foreign war.

“Gosh, it could of happened to anybody!” And despite having the mightiest military the world has ever seen, can’t seem to subdue the enemy. While Iran chokes off the windpipe of the world’s economy’s. Oh, well, tomorrow is another day. I’ll think about that tomorrow.”

In about thirty days, places around the world are going to begin the run short of fuel. Prices will rise and tempers will flare. And each day from there will become progressively worse. How can the administration possibly, credibly, explain to the public how they blundered into a war and then lost it? Either, we send in 100,000 troops for a year or two, or we back down. Either we back down, or the world economy takes two in the back of the head. It’s called being over a barrel. Either Trump backs down, or we go to the lightning round where anything can happen and the point values are tripled. Oh, well, it could be so much worse, I suppose, huh?

Whoever told President Cheese Whiz that begging for help was a good presidential look, should be fired. The President of the United States went begging to the world for help. And the world said, “Hell no! We have better things to do with our navies and our money than that. You’re on your own. But you had better get those straits opened up back again quick.

Only now, drip by drip, does the media begin to intimate that all isn’t going well. No news is know news. If you don’t mention how wildly unpopular the war really is, then you don’t need to mention how wildly unpopular the war really is. Explaining somehow, how Make America Great Again and war with Iran go together when that doesn’t compute. Wide-spread public outrage about the war isn’t a news story with legs. A president unpopular in all 50 states and territories isn’t news. Soft peddle me the bad news. Don’t be so specific, always imply these are only short-term burdens for the good of everyone. Don’t talk about how we got here or what’s already loaded into the pipeline. “Oh, well, tomorrow is another day.”

Just imagine the tone of the news if Barack Obama had attacked Iran or Joe Biden. The TV news would be apoplectic, interviewing every disgruntled nut-case or former Fox News host on the street. Most Americans don’t know we attacked Iran during negotiations. Just like Pearl Harbor or that the targeting of their leader for execution, without a trial is a war crime. Political assassination is frowned upon in most polite international circles. Without any shame or any remorse, the Trump administration commits war crimes right in front of us, and the media doesn’t even bother to mention it.

The United States is tied up in the worst diplomatic-political disaster ever in our 250-year history. A true Orwellian war. The proles don’t even know who we’re fighting or why. Great News! Huge victory over Eurasia! Never mind the retreats! Victory! Iran is fully in charge here. It’s the greatest defeat since Corregidor, but shhh, don’t mention it. No news is know news. Greatest military defeat in 100 years isn’t news. US Power Broken in the Middle East! Not news. Dying superpower, rain in the forecast, details at eleven!

It’s going to be one hell of a trick. Trying to convince the American public that an unmitigated defeat is some sort of victory. The clock has started its countdown. If the oil isn’t flowing in thirty days, there’s going to be real trouble. Human nature says after being bitten by the dog, it’s best to not try to pet him again. If they can escape this disaster, they promise never to try it again. If ever, they can escape this fiasco, all foreign adventurism is dead.

See how that works? Trump’s tariffs were thrown out by the court, and the administration’s economic mantra and agenda are suddenly dead and forgotten. Losing a war while trying to pretend that they aren’t. Live in the moment. It could be so much worse, tomorrow is another day!

They have been largely successful, in stifling the economic groans and economic spasms. Persistent inflation and spotty job creation. All the little needles are pointing into the red. Even before the 50% increase in fuel prices. They will have their hands full trying to explain that one away.

Just imagine, it could be so much worse. Joe Biden could have attacked Iran. Oh boy, we’re lucky that didn’t happen. Because Joe Biden, like every president since Ronald Reagan, took the advice of his  intelligence sources who have always warned to leave Iran alone.

Politically, the largest disaster in American history; but now is not the time to point fingers at those responsible. Naming those responsible won’t fix things now. They didn’t just act out recklessly, and criminally. They were warned ahead of time what might happen. They didn’t just ignorantly stumble in. They ignorantly stumbled in after being warned to stay out.

And now, the full-court press. Never mind the how and why. That’s not news! No news is know news!

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
― Lewis Carroll,