This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

Maybe we could have a national lottery based on your best guess (without going over) of how many times Donald Trump says, “The Iranians are begging him to make a deal.” Standby, (cups earpiece) The director is telling me to be prepared. An announcement is due at any minute! (Three months later) It is one of Mr. Trump’s favorite and most repeated lies. Not since Mr. Trump promised to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it has a lie been so freely espoused.

Just how long can they keep singing that same tired song? “The Iranians are begging him to make a deal.” Yet, they keep attacking. Someone’s story isn’t adding up. Generally speaking, countries at war and seeking peace don’t attack during a ceasefire, unless provoked. So maybe somebody really doesn’t want peace? Unless they can have it on their own terms.

Mr. Trump and Peterless Pete are learning an age-old lesson kings, emperors and potentates have learned throughout the dark night of human history. Be very damn careful about who you go to war with. Your allies are just as dangerous as your foes. Iran wanted a ceasefire in Lebanon as a precondition for peace. Suddenly, Mr. Trump is on the phone blessing out Netanyahu and ordering him to stop immediately. (I’m not buying it for a second.) Israel stops, and there is a momentary ceasefire. Then it starts again, What is Mr. Trump to do now? Now Mr. Trump’s fate is tied to Israeli guns in Lebanon.

Since Mr. Trump has failed to stop his ally’s military operations, it exposes his weakness. His ally pretty much does whatever the hell they want to do. Old Chinese proverb, “The emperor’s power ends at the palace gate.” Keep making those proclamations! Peace is just around the corner, any minute now! But we’ve now reached 100 days. Only a castrated and mutilated news media would try to tell you that 100 days in, this war is almost over. Everyone falls for that one, the myth of the short war.  

Somehow, a miscalculation occurred. Venezuela was too easy for those who dare more. It becomes irresistible to a Las Vegas gambler winning not to play one more hand. And then, he has a list of future targets. He’s learned nothing from his folly. He’s having a good time as a “wartime” president with his new wartime powers to loot the treasury still further. Next year in Havana! And then on to Ottawa and Nuuk too! Do see the ridiculousness of saying Mr. Trump wants peace? Anything but. Mr. Trump has plans…crazy plans. So does his ally, but their goals and timelines may be different from his.

Just imagine; Mr. Trump can say 100 days into a war “It’s almost over” unchallenged. Our top story tonight. Mr. Trump says the war is almost over. Unquestioned, unchallenged. When will oil prices fall? “Oh, any day now!” Its blind massiveness in plain sight should make the North Korean news media weep with envy. No specific questions were answered. We are in America waiting for Big Orange Brother to speak. And if it’s contradictory information. Who are you to ask? We’re going to put your name on a list, ya hear? What’s your boss’s name?

I understand now how Donald Trump always goes broke no matter how profitable a business he’s in. I’m worried about Mr. Trump’s DIY fix-up of Washington, kick, but I understand. Don’s an old builder who just can’t resist swinging a hammer one more time, painting the reflecting pool or fixing fountains, planning a massive arch and remodeling a city golf course. All that, and a president remodeling the White House too? No wonder he falls asleep during cabinet meetings. Orange Gramps is puttering around in the Oval Office choosing what to paint next. While “someone or someone’s” runs the government and the war.

I was so proud of Fox News. By God, they went there! Most organizations no matter how crooked or deceitful, wouldn’t have done it, but Fox did! Fox promoted a news story about the deadly screwworm crossing the border from Mexico into Texas, without once mentioning that it was a cattle disease. Details at the top of the hour! Fox News viewers ordering cases of pesticide from Amazon trying to protect themselves. But the screwworm isn’t new. It was eradicated back in the 1960s with one of those big govment programs.

The government bred millions of sterile screwworms and dropped them in affected areas with screwworm porn, and in no time, nature didn’t take its course, no screw worms. Dual income, no kids. Sixty years later, we need to do it again but DOGE, remember them? They had fired the people responsible for keeping up with the whereabouts of the old screwworm. News flash: They’re in Texas. “Heck of a job there, Brownie!”

Famously, Mr. Trump projects. So When Mr. Trump says, “The Iranians are begging him to make a deal.” It’s Mr. Trump saying he’s eager to make a deal. But his ally isn’t as anxious to make peace as Mr. Trump. Their goal is the subjugation of Lebanon in their greater Israel madness. Maybe Trump knew that, or maybe not. But it’s too late now.

How many more 100 days can this go on and maintain the status quo? Without the ramifications which must eventually come with this kind of economic disruption. Pushing poor and rich countries alike into economic trouble. Destabilizing the entire world. How long will that dam hold? When it’s not our decision alone to make anymore.

Just imagine if Joe Biden or Barack Obama had involved this country in a quest for world domination with five dollar a gallon gasoline. The Republicans would have their hair on fire. The media would be screaming from the rooftops, “Look what he’s done!” Oh, wait, they did that already, didn’t they? Now you get a speed blurb, “Fuel prices continue to rise.” That’s it! Without any dispute or questioning argument. No editorial comment. No, look what I did? Eat your heart out North Korea. American propaganda is the best there is ever!

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell