A whole new group of Dinosaurs…the American Republican Party
Hey, Republican Party faithful, have you seen the big light in the daytime sky? It’s pretty damn bright and I am very sorry to be one to tell you but it is coming for you. Straight down in megaton fashion. And when it lands —
KA — BOOM!…
You see, scientists figure it will have a large effect on the entire health and well-being of the party planet and for a long time. They say that it will land; rather, collide with the surface of Earth and ecological calamity will result. To be honest, it will be more like catastrophic and apocryphal — maybe something equivalent to the energy of one billion atomic bombs, just like the ones you guys dropped on Japan in August, 1945.
Oh well. The moral of the story is something like this — don’t fuck with the good old U.S.A., certainly the GOP. We invented airplanes and the know-how to carry airborne advanced incendiary and explosive devices and we know how to eradicate folks, and countries, for that matter, that piss us off, if you know what I mean.
Sorry, I digress but back to the main topic, Dinosaurs. They prevailed for a long time, millions and millions of years. They had to adapt or die. Their environment was harsh and unforgiving. One misstep and you were crunched or perhaps eaten — not nice at all.
I’ll offer a bit of pre-history here. There was the Trisassic Period, about 248 to 146 million years ago, when a a serious mass extinction of early species occurred but with this came the introduction of flying animals; this was followed by the famous Jurassic Period, some 208 to 146 million years ago, give or take. Perhaps the term ‘notorious’ would be a more description for this era when the largest and meanest and hungriest of these carnivores thundered and stomped about the place devouring anything in their path. The planet had become quite lush by then.
Thereafter, we had the Cretaceous Period, 146 to 65 million years back, a time of shallow seas, new amphibious and reptilian species including snakes and crocodiles, insects, tree-climbing mammals and flowering plants.
Then came the aforementioned KA — BOOM!
Cataclysmic doesn’t begin to describe the aftermath when a massive celestial- borne object — an asteroid, a meteorite or comet, no less, struck the planet. This wrought significant ecological devastation and the radiation and nuclear winter that ensued destroyed 75% of the plant and animal species; no critter larger than 50 pounds survived. Photosynthesis was render ineffective for an interminable spell.
Adapt or die — this is what Charles Darwin told us in his Origin of the Species. Evolution is absolutely necessary for survival and a promulgation and propagation of the species.
So, why am I prefacing my remarks about the the American Republican Party, the good old GOP with talk of dinosaurs and prehistorical events? Well, in a very recent epoch another group of dinosaurs made their presence felt in our world. We thought creatures of this kind were extinct. The major difference between this period and those previous is that homo sapiens now travel upon the landscape and certainly did not in those times long, long ago.
This has been identified as a sub-species called Trumpublicanosaurs. The supreme and most predatory and joyless leader of these creatures is named Tyrumposaurus Wrecks. This alpha-type character creature mated with a number of female members, namely Melaniasaurus, Ivanasaurus and Marlasaurus, all of the sub-species and created progeny one might call disaffected. Offspring were produced.
They rose up. They were hungry as hell, they had an appetite for greenbacks and power and control of the ecosphere. Didn’t matter how in came into their midst — they just bloody well had to have it. Bunch it, munch it, crunch it — you know.
Previous epoch era dinos would just come right up and eat ‘ya, no questions asked. Today’s dinos though use stealth-like methods to get what they need. They are not the big and nasty carnivores so much from prehistoric era now long bygone, they are the lizards ands snakes like those we see on TV a lot these days. Watch out, out there.
Then, there are the common folks, just trying to make it day by day. Pissed off they are and largely ignorant and so very disillusioned, relics from another past and looking for something to feed and fuel their future. They, too, have an abiding sentimental attachment to Tyrumposaurus.
They just might be depicted as follows …
On a serious note, the Republican Party we see operating in our current time has become jealous and vindictive, rapacious and malevolent. It provides domain and sanctuary for white supremacy and white nationalism, bigotry, inequality and racism and social disharmony. This is not the party of John McCain.
I suppose there is another important distinction to make here. Your typical dinos did not lie or in any way misrepresent the truth. It is what it is. The creatures in question here, though, Trumpublicanosaurs, tell Big Lies. Often.
I am sorry to be the one to conclude with such a sorrowful message, but the future of the party may just be extinction and this would appropriate given its recent behaviour, particularly over the past four years.
Best take care y’all.