This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

It was an unnecessary war inspired by the easy conquest of Venezuela. It inspired the Trump monkey and the peterless Pentagon to dare do more imperialist conquests. It was going to be easy, and only take a few days or a few weeks, and now they whisper into Dumpty Trumpty’s ear, it might last for another year or so. But much like World War One, the war won’t stand still to be saddled. Instead, the war begins to spread like an infection.

Just a quick review. You can’t tell the players without a scorecard. Countries currently involved in Donald Trump’s Iran War that are rarely ever mentioned by the meat puppet media. So here’s a quick reference. Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Israel. But we have a new player just entering the war: China. Sound like fun? A Chinese “entity” meaning the Chinese government “entity” was supplying satellite photos to Iran, which made possible the attack on our Jordanian air base that killed three Americans. A direct line from Beijing to dead Americans.

The drones that struck the Saudi oil pipeline originated in Iraq. Of the five Iranian oil tankers struck by Centcom, three belonged to the Russian shadow fleet. China is one of the largest customers of Iranian oil, and they are loving Trump’s blunder. They’ve everything to gain and nothing to lose. They are enjoying our distress gleefully. The Untied Snakes has run aground on the rocks of a Middle Eastern war. The American nation is humbled and humiliated by Donald Trump’s failures.

Worldwide stocks of diesel fuel are falling, and Donald Trump, as is his nature, quickly tries shifting the blame away from himself. It’s all Zelensky’s fault in Ukraine for successfully eliminating Russia’s refining capacity. No, no, it’s not Trump’s fault! No never! Trump is blameless; this is all Ukraine’s doing! Of course, fuel prices didn’t begin their precipitous rise until after the US had attacked Iran. It must be all Zelensky’s fault! In that war, the war that Mr. Trump was going to solve on his first day of his misadministration.

Like focusing a telescope, suddenly the picture clears to sharpness and comes into view. The pot is beginning to bubble as a Russian drone attack struck a Ukrainian train carrying the former head of the CIA and the Ukrainian ambassador to Poland. An accident maybe? The train was struck just a few miles outside the Polish frontier. A message maybe? A diplomatic train struck on the way to NATO territory. And Trump says NOTHING about the event. A train filled with diplomats was attacked by Russia.

Diesel prices have reached nine dollars a gallon and six dollars a gallon for regular gas in California. Look into my crystal ball; for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee! Lithuania prepares for war and begins a crash program of military training for all civilians. Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we put Donald Trump in charge of anything. Oh, heavens! The Kennedy Center is going broke! Oh course it is. Name something, name anything that Donald Trump has taken over that isn’t going broke?

Trump’s attempt to replace the Kennedy Center entertainment that people actually wanted to see with kazoo bands and jugglers which prompted the popular acts to abandon ship. And now the Kennedy Center is going broke. But they have an answer. If they’d just allow Donald Trump’s name on the building, the donations from Russian oligarchs would pour in faster than you could say “Don Junior’s wedding.” You gotta love Eric Trump. If he were in Oz right now, he’d be traveling to the Emerald City with Dorothy in hopes of getting a brain. Asked about the Russian oligarch and very close personal friend of Don Jr. who financed Junior’s latest wedding. Eric answered, “Who? Never heard of him.” Don junior’s brother and business partner has never heard of him.

Look at all the pieces. What do you see? It’s no longer several regional wars; it is becoming all the same war. Mr. Trump has alienated our allies and isolated ourselves. Peckerhead Pete has drained our stockpile of advanced weapons. The United States is weaker on the world stage now than at any time in the last one hundred and twenty-six years. Mr. Trump has drained the strategic oil reserve so he could refill it from his private stocks of Venezuelan oil. And who will pocket all that money? Do you really need to ask? Only one problem: it’s going to take ten years. Are you in a hurry? Will you need any oil before 2036? Mr. Trump brags the US is self-sufficient in oil reserves. Yeah, we get almost sixty percent of it from Canada…what woah!

The good news is that we don’t really need to worry about AI destroying humanity after all. Donald Trump might do the trick the old-fashioned way first. I had this weird dream about AI destroying humanity. What if AI took over and realized that the billionaires, oligarchs, and satraps were the root of most of humanity’s problems? And overnight, AI stripped them all of their wealth and locked them out of the world order, leaving them all penniless. With no access to funds or credit and AI began redistributing their wealth to the people of the world who actually needed it. There is destroying the world; and then again, there is destroying their world.

Gosh, it has been a while since the Republicans had a candidate like Bo French. For an old-timer like me, he sure brings back memories. Bo is running for Texas Railroad commissioner, the office which handles all of the oil and gas revenues. And Texas was celebrating their football upset over Ohio State, and Bo thought this was the perfect opportunity to play the race card. Boy, back in the old days, they all did it! Lester Maddox, George Wallace and Strom Thurmond. Then, when outright racism fell out of fashion and became unpopular, Republicans developed a thin veneer of the civilized Republican, compassionate Conservatives reverting to, “It’s not about race, it’s about wokeness.”  But yes, thanks to Bo, it is about race again after all. Segregation now! And segregation forever!– George Wallace. How many beers would it take before Bo used the “N” word?

Funny story, funny peculiar, not funny ha, ha. The first time George Wallace ran for the presidency in 1968, he ran as a Democrat. His goal was to siphon away votes from the Democrats to assist the Republicans. The second time George Wallace ran in 1972, he ran as an independent candidate, no longer injuring Democrats. This time Wallace would siphon away Republican votes and George Wallace ended up getting shot. Today, they would erect a statue of George Wallace and place it next to Charlie Kirk’s as martyrs for the fascist cause.

Donald Trump. Blunder, plunder, and slumber.

“My opponent is a humble man. He is a man with much to be humble about.” – Winston Churchill