This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

“All media is propaganda” – George Orwell

The only difference is all in the way the message is delivered. Everything I say is just as much propaganda as the other guys’. The only difference is I don’t hide myself in sheep’s clothing of objectivity. Yes, I dislike them logically, morally, and sensibly. I dislike their policies and propose alternatives. Yes, I make fun of them. I make fun of their names, their stature, and shoes. I am profoundly Marxian – Groucho Marxian.

Ed “Big Daddy” Roth said the only two classes he passed in high school were art and auto shop. He made a million dollars. Me? Writing and wise cracking, so here I am. That’s my style of propaganda! Look at them! Laugh at them! “Nothing can stand in the face of laughter” – Mark Twain

And as long as Donald Trump torments us, there will be both fodder and need for sarcasm. Donald Trump gets a new airplane. Not new, but like new. New to him. Which he intends to take with him whenever he is finally expelled from office. It’s his! They gave it to him! Donald Trump stands in the doorway of his new airplane like Vanna White exposing vowels. Can we see inside? Sorry, no peasants allowed. Poor optics. In the middle of a Middle East fuel crisis, maybe now isn’t the time to show off your new flying gas hog? “Lookee what I got!” Trump gets a new plane and JD gets the hand-me-down.

No mention of where the plane came from. No mention of the cost of upgrading the plane to presidential security standards. No mention of Trump walking off with this asset of the United States government. See? They’re just telling you objectively a story unencumbered by colorful and sometimes useful details.

There was a story on Junta TV Fox Media today all about the algae in the reflecting pool. Fox News was outraged! Appalled! Wars, assassination attempts, environmental catastrophes, famines, and hurricanes! And what does the Liberal Media focus on? A little bit of green algae at the bottom of a reflecting pool. Donald Trump says “75% of it is gone!” Well, that’s all I need to hear. If DJT says it’s all gone, it’s probably not gone, as Trump blames tourists for tearing up the blue paint.

Complete misdirection. We just paid $14.7 million for a paint job and a filtration system. We can’t see the paint because of the filtration system. It hasn’t been two months yet, and the paint is already coming up. But you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Fox had to use what material they had available. It’s not shoddy workmanship or a rip-off of public funds. It’s the damn biased liberal media again! That’s who is doing this! The paint wouldn’t be coming up if they weren’t making such a big deal out of it. They are willing the algae into existence with their negative thoughts. Those Liberals would have bitched no matter what color the algae turned out to be!

But what’s the big deal? Nobody swims in the reflecting pool or drinks from it. We here at Fox just don’t get it. What’s the big deal? Can you drink from the reflecting pool at the Taj Mahal or the Trevi Fountain? That was the absolute best that Fox News could do. Compare our reflecting pool;  the one we just paid 14 million bucks to fix. To other reflecting pools around the world which have absolutely nothing to do with our reflecting pool or with this issue. “Yeah, you damn liberals, can go drink the Taj Mahal water, if you’re so thirsty!”

Personally, I thought it was a poor job of propaganda. Better to say nothing and be thought a fool than Fox News. The story was all over the media already, so Fox’s portrayal of “Gee, what’s wrong with this picture?” was a little ham-handed. “It’s green as hell with big chunks of blue paint floating in it.” So! It’s supposed to do that! It’s gonna fix itself! We wanted it like that!

When I saw them dumping gallons of clear liquid into the reflecting pool. I assumed it was chlorine “pool shock.” But when they mentioned Hydrogen Peroxide my hand went to my chin, and I became contemplative. I’ve just never heard of using peroxide on algae before. Gray roots sure, green algae, no. However, I do have serious doubts about using hydrogen peroxide on fresh blue paint. Did you know German V2 rockets were also fueled with hydrogen peroxide? “Boss, the reflecting pool is turning green.” Pour in this rocket fuel. That’ll fix it!

The peroxide incident will add at least a year to the coming “Reflecting Pool” litigation. The contractor will now insist that the peroxide damaged their work, and they will countersue. These are Donald Trump’s true monuments in Washington. A green reflecting pool with blue paint chunks floating in it. A pockmarked Kennedy Center. A muddy hole in the ground where the White House used to stand. And Fox News out there trying to defend it all.

You know how that Liberal media crowd are! They’re always just looking for any little detail to pounce upon, trying to make a big deal out of nothing. But this administration specializes in Winston Smith journalism. First, JD Vance was going to sign the turd in Switzerland. Then the deal was signed electronically. The dreaded autopen was used! “Unacceptable!” After beating up Joe Biden relentlessly for two years for using an autopen, that version of reality was quite unacceptable. Watch closely, the next time you see Donald Trump “sign” the Memorandum of Misunderstanding. Have you ever seen a treaty signed  between the water glasses before?

See? There was a hole in the official narrative which need to be filled. Understand? Not autopen! Signing ceremony! So they staged a signing ceremony between the water glasses. Donald Trump signed something. “A laundry list, instructions for the new microwave oven, or yesterday’s itinerary. What it was, no one can say. But who was it? Why was it? What good is signing a piece paper in France if the deal was already auto signed? Made for TV, TV! Winston Smith reporting. YOU TV Made up just for you!

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell

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