This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

‘If at first you don’t succeed, try again.” – William Edward Hickson

“If you’re going to lose the vote, shutdown the government!” – Miniature, micro-man Mike Johnson

I vote we put Mike Johnson’s picture under “Toady” in the dictionary (the what?) to make it official. The Senate passed a War Powers Resolution over to little Mike, and it left him in a quandary. Should he let the War Powers Resolution come to the floor and let the will of the people be done? Certain with Democrats and defecting Republican votes, the resolution would surely pass. Or, should little Mikey, the little horn on the bighorn, just shut down Congress and deny the will of the people? Like any self-respecting banana republic.

Funny story…Before the council met to remove Mussolini from power, and Mussolini knew he was about to be removed from power. Yep, he tried to cancel the meeting. It’s not really fascist behavior, just because it looks like it. Shutting down representative government because the will of the people conflicts with the will of the corrupt and well connected. It puts that person in a special club as an elected Quisling representative, actively working to subvert the will of the people.

“If at first you don’t succeed, CHEAT!” – Mike Johnson

They never saw it coming; there was a vote on the resolution scheduled. Then there was a delay, and then another. And then Mike pulled the plug. Being it was a privileged resolution, microbe Mike was lawfully powerless to stop the resolution. So he shut down Congress instead…again! Mike did the same thing once before to stop the release of the Epstein documents, AKA, the Republican Pedophile Protection Act. Mike called an early recess to stifle the will of the people and kiss the royal pink ass of Donald Trump.

Obviously, a War Powers resolution would cut the legs out from under Mr. Trump. Does Mr. Trump listen to others? Does Mr. Trump respect the Congress and the law? Does Mr. Trump respect the will of the people? All of the above? We are in an undeclared war costing us two billion dollars a day, and no one got to vote on it. And when they did plan a vote on it, Micro-Mike shuts down Congress to prevent the will of the people.. The resolution isn’t carried and was defeated by a vote of one to nothing, with everyone else excluded. God Bless America! A democracy like our betters had planned for us! It’s good to be a Gamma!

The administration likes to put forward this tough, media-manufactured image of competence bordering on arrogance. They know everything and don’t need to ask anyone any questions. They’re ready to rumble! They’re rough and tough! Donald Trump was summoned before the Chinese like a schoolboy sent to the headmaster’s office. On that day, he was Trump: the meek and humble. Filled with courtesy at his poor treatment, listening attentively as the Chinese told Donald Trump to end the war and end it quick. Then, President Xi greets Vladimir Putin, using Putin to subliminally warn Trump and the West of the possible dire consequences.

The Gulf States have asked firmly for no further attacks on Iran. The Gulf States have said enough! Do you see the message transmuting as it travels through our day? God knows, you won’t see it on American television. Now, even the invertebrate congress of the Untied Snakes is ready to call a halt to the war. It’s the law. And the law should be respected, don’t you think?  Unless, of course, you can find some crooked, underhanded way of short-circuiting the process. Is it naive to ask, if they can shut down the government anytime things get contentious, eventually they’ll vote to just keep it shut down?

It’s funny because you never really know what moves people to change their minds. As the Senate was debating the War Powers Resolution. The President defect was giving a senile syllabus on the glories of oversized blow-up photos of his ballroom. “Do you see that muddy hole in the ground? Well! Someday, it’s gonna look like this!” There was a disconnect; Gramps was talking about his vacation photos from Cancun and the Senate was debating a war no one asked for. A war, even the Republican leadership runs for cover as fast as their fat little legs will carry them! But the House was about to PASS the War Powers Resolution with defecting and defecating Republican votes. Understand? They don’t give a shit about Thomas Massie! They give a shit about five-dollar a gallon gasoline.

You could probably power a small city with the electricity used to light up the Congressional switchboard as we near five dollar a gallon gasoline threshold. Something has pushed them over the line into the non-Trumper camp. Can you imagine what their office voicemail must sound like? Some say it’s the issues. Some say it’s the lack of focus. Some say he’s straight-up nuts. Sure, lots of people, not just teenagers, but 80-year-old men, post over a hundred times on social media in three hours. I bet that happens all the time.

So rather than large and in charge, the administration has been warned by the Gulf States and China, and now Mike the miniature, has had to shut down Congress trying to keep it all together, trying to buy some time. Meanwhile, Iran moves to institutionalize and normalize its toll system in the Strait. And the Trump administration answers with nothing! Clever negotiating skills, don’t you think? Iran does what it wants, and the US does nothing! Are the Iranians ready to give up yet?

It’s the end of the tether, it’s the furthest reach of the rope for the administration. The war is insanely unpopular and the president’s numbers are butt awful. Trump has lost the Senate, and he was about to lose the House when Mike Johnson quickly pulled the plug, like third-world banana Republic.  

The higher you go the harder you fall. The more they love you today, the more they will hate you someday. A good con man never unpacks.

“If hell’s in store for us someday, one of its most refined forms of torture will be to lock a person naked in a room filled with framed photos of his era.” ― Günter Grass,