This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

“The Oil Crisis is Here” says the Wall Street Journal. Politico says the White House is frustrated and “There’s not much they can do about it.” I’m shocked that such professional journalists and editors could leave out the most important word in the headline. NOW! There’s not much they can do about it NOW! They’ve have screwed the pooch big-time. Forty billion dollars in direct losses. Over a hundred billion dollars in losses to the American consumer. This is only the beginning! There’s not much they can do about it NOW!

But in the Trump administration, when things go wrong, they simply change the subject and move on. “Do you want Iran to have the bomb? A big red herring as this war wasn’t ever about a bomb. It was about controlling the oil market, and now it has all blown up in their faces. Gosh, they’re frustrated. Poor babies! When the going gets tough, the tough whine like a rusty gate. Act in haste and repent at leisure.

Trump’s energy secretary was asked how long the pipeline in Saudi Arabia would likely be closed. He answered with the technical, scientific answer of “not long.” Non-Trump monkey experts predict the pipeline would be out of action for at least six months to a year. While the sock puppet media try to Seconal you back to sleep. “Also in the news, President Trump played golf today in Ireland.” Costco is limiting purchases on its Kirkland brand motor oil. What does that tell you?

Costco has gotten the word through its oil jobber that there is supply trouble on the horizon. “Not long” trouble, but real trouble. Six months to a year trouble. Gas and diesel fuel shortage trouble. Soaring prices trouble. Odd and even gas line rationing trouble. Already there are places in the world where the pumps have gone dry. Kudos to the American North Korean media for covering up the riots and disruptions occurring around the world.

Meanwhile, back at the monkey house. Peterless Pete Hegseth is combing the ranks for a beauty contest. He wants only the best-looking and best-groomed (white soldiers with one token minority) soldier standing behind him for the “The State of the Service” speech. When the fuck did the “State of the Service” speech become a thing? Right now, the equivalent speech would be the state of the Titanic speech. We have the greatest potential political crisis since Pearl Harbor and Dickweed wants to make a rah, rah speech. High yo, testosterone, away!

The Pentagon says it will take five years to refill our weapons larder. That price is not included in the forty billion dollars. Meanwhile, the orangadon blames Ukraine for the fuel shortage. Maybe if King Dong had assisted Ukraine instead of playing footsie under the table with Vladimir Putin, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

Did you see where the NATO fighter jet shot down a Russian drone yesterday over Lithuania? Don’t say you weren’t warned. What Donald Trump has done is to destabilize the entire world. It’s not just the United States headed for hard times; it’s the entire fucking world economy at risk. But this administration can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. They can only focus on one issue at a time. Do you know what scares me most about artificial intelligence? Donald Trump calling our fears a hoax. A hoax in Trump speak is something which is true that they wish to discredit.

Treasury Suckretary Scotty Bessent went before the Senate and said he’s ready to issue those $5,000 checks to every American. Squeaker of the House and peon of the month, Mike Johnson said he’s ready too! The most ludacris and insane idea since Jalapeno hemorrhoid cream. Donald Trump talks complete and utter bullshit, and the monkeys see no evil, hear no evil, or speak no evil. This has gone beyond even Orwell. If Trump blamed it on Sasquatch, they’d be out there in the woods hunting them with nets. The feral federal government has no basis in reality. Krash Patel won’t say if the FBI will attempt to seize ballots or close polling stations during the midterm elections.

Krash is most likely going to prison along with Todd Blanch, if sanity ever returns. Krash speaks to Congress with the contempt of a mob boss and refuses to answer fair questions.

There is a rule of thumb which says, “When the boss steals, everyone is free to join in.” Rapper Boosie Badazz says he gave $600,000 to two lobbyists from “Pardon Us Incorporated” (not really. I made the name up) for a pardon from Donald Trump. Pay your money and here’s your pardon. The lobbyist casually threw around names of prominent Republicans involved, like Laura Loomer, Natalie Harp and even Squeaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Boosie paid his money but received no pardon. Under the terms of the contract, he’s entitled to a $300,000 rebate. The lobbyist now claims the contract was invalid. There is no honor among thieves.

But God damn it, if this were Hunter Biden offering pardons for money. You would already be sick of hearing about it on TV. It would be on every front page of every news site in the country. Instead it’s a non-story. Crickets chirping at night. Trump corruption? Oh, we can’t talk about that. But I ask you, do you doubt it? Do you doubt the Trump regime would sell pardons? Do you doubt that they would sabotage our friends and make deals with our adversaries? Do you still doubt Donald Trump would sell out the American people?

There is no historical precedent for this. No equivalent even among the most corrupt regimes of all time. But the crime above and greater than all of them is the media cloak of silence around it. “The White House is frustrated and doesn’t know what to do about it.” That is their fucking job! It didn’t just happen. It didn’t just fall from the sky. They made it happen! The administration isn’t just innocent bystanders here. They are its authors. They planned this! This is their baby! And now the media soft peddles the disaster and a world war as if they were innocents caught in the rain.

Do you know who’s fault this is? It’s Donald Trump’s fault! Not Vladimir Putin, not Zelensky or the Aitolia in Iran. It’s Donald Trump and his carnivorous gang of criminal apes at fault.

And that — that brings me to the second mode of civil disobedience. There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus — and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it — that unless you’re free the machine will be prevented from working at all!! – Mario Savio