Real Characters Episode 41 7 year plan blows up in a week

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in her large house when she receives a call.  As she looks at the caller ID, she knows she needs to answer it as it is one of her largest donors.  She answers the phone and hears a gruff Russian accent, which makes sense since she’s talking to a Russian in his home country.  “Hello Ms. Secretary of State”

                “Oh come on Victor, we’ve known each other a long time, call me ‘Hillary.’”

                “I’m afraid the formality is because I want to talk some business as this is not a personal call.”

                Hillary puts on a lighthearted tone and says with a tinge of sarcasm, “Oh, that’s unfortunate, I thought you were calling because you wanted to help with all the great work my foundation is doing.”

                Victor laughed, “Well, it goes without saying that if you help me with this then not only I but you will find many of my wealthy friends will be flowing money into your wonderful foundation.”

                This perked up Hillary and she got serious on the phone, “In that case, what can I do for you Mr. Vekselberg?”

                “It is time that Russia and America put this cold war behind us as it has been over 20 years since the Berlin Wall has come down.  I see no reason why we cannot start working together and help each other advance our great nations.”

                “I would agree with that.”

                “I recently took a trip to your Silicon Valley and I was highly impressed with all the high tech firms so close together feeding off each other.  They are still competing but they also aid each other and the competition fuels innovation and they all become better and better but keep their costs low because of close proximity so supplies are cheaper to get to them since they don’t have to spend as much on trucks and planes to get to the corporation.”

                “We call that ‘economies of scale.’

                “Yes, I’d like this economies of scale in Russia too.”

                “Alright.”

                “We will call the project ‘Skolkovo, and I would like you to pass on the good word to American companies.  Let them know that it’s okay to come to Russia and work with us.  The last 100 years has been Russia and America at the cutting edge of technology. Could you imagine what heights we may reach if we start working together rather than against each other?”

                “I will do that.”

                Hillary fulfilled her end of the bargain and her foundation became very wealthy as 17 of the 28 companies in Skolkovo heavily donated to her foundation and campaign.  She, however, couldn’t publicize her work in helping Skolkovo become the success that it was.  She was able to convince President Obama to come on board and due to the premise of Skolkovo, he recommended to the World Trade Organization to allow Russia as a member so that more countries could benefit from Russian trade. 

                The real point of Skolkovo was revealed when Vekselberg hung up with Clinton.  He immediately called Russian President Vladimir Putin.  Putin answers, “Victor, is it done?”

                “Yes Mr. President.  She bought it.  American technology companies will be coming to Russia to exchange ideas.”

                “Excellent.  I will send all our military technology companies to set up a shop in Skolkovo.  It is high time we get back to being a power to challenge the Americans.”

                Even though two of the highest politicians in America, President Obama (The highest) and Secretary of State Clinton were on board, there were some Americans that saw Skolkovo for what it truly was.  The army issued a series of statements informing anyone who would listen that Skolkovo was an alternative to clandestine industrial espionage.  The only thing that set it apart was that it was highly more efficient and done at an incredibly higher scale.  They knew it was a scam by Russia to steal our technology in order to kill us.  It could be understood for the army to be as skeptical as they were considering the decades long strategizing of the Russian threat during the cold war and trying to minimize their influence on Europe and Asia subsequently.  The FBI, however, joined in the army’s fears as they informed the president and Capitol Hill that Skolkovo was a dangerous pathway for Russian technologies to develop military weapons. 

                As these reports came in, Hillary sighed, “Why can’t people stop living in the past?”

                It was President Obama she was speaking to.  Obama replied, “Are you sure this is on the up and up?”

                “Of course it is.  I just convinced Craig Barrett and John Chambers to go to Russia to set up shop in Skolkovo.”

                “The head of Intel and Cisco?”

                “Yes, we are going to teach these Russians some good old fashioned American business savvy from people that built multi-million dollar companies.  They want technology; I got the head of Intel to help them.  I did my job.”

                “I hate to ask but how much did they pay you for this?”

                “That’s not relevant Mr. President.  Yes, I got compensated for my work but I worked hard to make this happen and in America people are rewarded with their efforts by money.”

                “I’m not faulting your making money.  I’m just hoping you don’t let it cloud your judgment.”

                “The Ukrainians are becoming Russia’s sworn enemy and they’ve given me more money than the Russians so if it was only about money, I wouldn’t be assisting Russia yet.”

                “Half of Ukraine is loyal to Russia.  Be careful which Ukrainians are your largest donors.”

                “You don’t think I know that?”

                “I do, I’m just saying to be careful.  If you’re right, this will be a great legacy for both of us but if you’re wrong, then we’ll have to cover up our involvement.”

                “You’re saying that the worst case scenario is that we become rich.”

                “I’d like to be rich and have a lasting legacy as the President that brought peace between Russia and America.”

                “Well, if that doesn’t happen.  At least you’ll still be a wealthy man.”

                “And you a wealthy woman.”

                “Precisely”

                The conversation ended and the former head of Intel, Craig Barrett calls Hillary.  She clicks the ‘accept’ button,  “Yes Craig, how are you?”

                “I’m well.  I have set up a satellite office in Russia and Skolkovo has my help.”

                “Excellent, and I received your very generous donation.”

                “One to five million dollars seems like a lot to be a part of something but I do think it’ll work out.  The Russian mind is an untapped resource and they were the first ones to get to space so they’re not chop liver.”

                “You wouldn’t have given me the money if you didn’t believe it was worth it.”

                “Quite right.”

                After that conversation, Hillary made a call to former Cisco CEO John Chambers to thank him for the seven figure amount he donated that is estimated between one and five million dollars. 

                It is true that Hillary was being paid millions, but she was definitely working for it as she was constantly on the phone.  She received a call from a financial firm in Russia known as the Russian Direct Investment Fund.  The conversation starts, “Mrs. Clinton, as you know we are heavily invested in the Skolkovo project that you and Victor Vekselberg have been promoting.”

                “It’s going pretty well from what I understand.”

                “It is but we need more help from American congress.  You and President Obama have been great but I need some of your famous lobbyists to work on our behalf.”

                “There are a lot of people that are very suspicious about this.  I’m willing to help you out but I’m afraid I can’t just have you send me money and then provide you with American lobbyists.”

                “It is not difficult to hide money transfers.”

                “Yes of course, however, I’m not going to be the one to tell you how to do it.”

                “You know, your husband Bill is a great speaker.”

                Hillary chuckles, “Yes, he is.  Speeches are definitely a skill of his.”

                “We would like him to come to Russia to give a speech.  You know, rouse up the men and garner support.  When he speaks, people give money.  Look at all the money he raised for Haiti after their disaster.  I think $500,000 would be enough to lure him away from other speaking investments he may have.”

                Hillary smiled, “Yes, I think that would suffice.”

                After the phone call, Hillary calls a meeting with two of her lobbyist bundlers after speaking with Vekselberg.  Their names are Richard Sullivan and David Jones.  As they sit down, Jones is the first to speak, “How can we be of assistance to you Mrs. Clinton?”

                “I want you to represent the Russian financial institute known as the Russian Direct Investment fund.  They are heavily involved in Skolkovo and I want to garner support from the Hill and government officials for the project.  They have a lot of enemies from the army to the FBI so you’ll have your work cut out for you.”

                “Anything for you Ma’ame.”

                With that, two of Clinton’s best lobbyists aid Russia.  By 2013, things aren’t progressing as quickly as Putin would like.  A year earlier, Putin spoke with Obama personally about this and Obama told him that after the election, he would have more flexibility.  Unfortunately for both parties, microphones picked this up and it had leaked to the public and Republicans quickly let their supporters know.  This being 2013, it was after the election and still Obama wasn’t showing his flexibility.  Vladimir Putin was not a patient man.  He calls a meeting between Vladislav Surkov, Viktor Vekselberg and himself.  Surkov has been a loyal ally of Putin for quite some time and specializes in Russian disinformation.  He has told the Americans that he is in their head and there is nothing they can do about it.  He will prove that this isn’t an idle threat three years later when he uses Christopher Steele as a puppet to generate a fake dossier that Hillary Clinton paid a company called Fusion GPS to generate.  Glenn Simpson, the owner of Fusion GPS, will provide most of the information but Surkov added some Russian color through Steele to really throw the American media into a tizzy.  That, however, is three years down the road.  Russians not being one to use filler words or beat around the bush, Putin starts by adressing Vekselberg, “Viktor, I thank you for how well you’ve done so far with Skolkovo but I’m afraid that it is time for some fresh blood.  Vladislav will take over as the supervisor.”

                “Did I do something wrong Mr. President?  I got the Clintons and Obama to come to our side.  American companies came.  We are stealing their technologies, things are happening.”

                “I’m tired of getting close.  You are not in trouble; I just need someone to pour gasoline on the fire you started.  You’ve done great work getting it off the ground but it’s time for Vladislav to put on the finishing touches.  You are a wealthy man.  Enjoy the fruits of your labor.”

                “Yes Mr. President” Vekselberg responds unable to hide the dejection in his voice. 

Although he’s disappointed, you only get one defensive comment against Putin.  If it doesn’t work, retreat is the only smart option.   With that, Surkov is now in charge of the overt espionage plan to steal American technology to be used to bolster the Russian military.

Barbara Barrett is pale faced in her kitchen.  She has just been named as Air Force Secretary to bolster her already being a representative for Arizona.  Her husband Craig comes downstairs and Barbara has coffee waiting for him along with breakfast, She utters,“Honey, we need to talk.”

“Alright, what about?”

“Russia.”

“Wow, this early in the morning?”

“Yes, it’s important.”

“Alright, I’m listening”

“You were involved in Skolkovo right?”

“Yea, you know we went over there and schooled some Russians on technology.  It was kind of fun having them listen to us as we showed them how much further we’ve advanced than they have since Sputnik.”

“I don’t know how to tell you this but it appears that it wasn’t a good idea.”

Now Craig got serious, “How do you figure that?”

“The Russians just developed a hypersonic missile that could bypass our missile defense system.  It was developed by Skolkovo companies.”

Craig has a dire expression on his face.  His shoulders slump and he looks over at his wife, “What?!”

“Craig, I can’t have you involved in this.  It will hurt my standing as the Air Force secretary.  How is it going to look if my husband aided an enemy combatant to come up with technology that can thwart our defense capabilities?”

“It obviously goes without saying that I’m done with Skolkovo.” Craig contemplates this as his entrepreneurial problem-solving mind races to come up with a solution.  He stops looking up and looks at his wife, “There’s nothing to worry about it.  I have it all figured out.”

“Care to tell me?”

“Hillary Clinton has the government bought and paid for.  Obama has been using the DOJ as his own personal law enforcement to go after his political opponents for years.  There’s no way that they let this get out.  Hillary Clinton is going to be the next president of the United States so she’ll definitely continue to cover it up.  If they do come after you to take the fall for them, which I don’t think they will, then you can sell yourself by saying that the man that helped them develop the technology, me, is also the man that understands it so is best equipped to devise a counter to the hypersonic missile they just developed.  Tell them that I aided the problem so I have an incentive to make it right.”

                Barbara relaxes and gives her husband a hug and a kiss, “Thank you Craig.  I appreciate you taking responsibility to help me out.”

                “No problem babe.”

                During the 2016 election, Donald Trump makes many promises to the American people.  One point he constantly brings up is that the United States has unfair trade agreements and he will renegotiate them.  He singles out China in that they use their trade agreements to steal American technology.  President Trump knows that Russia had also done this with Skolkovo but the American people are sick of Russians always being the bad guys.  Most Americans look at Russia as a collapsed nation and not a threat to the United States but they are worried about China so Trump only talks about China doing what they both did.  The truth is that Russia gave China the hypersonic missile as they are allied against the United States.  The rhetoric worked as Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton, became Obama’s successor.  Craig Barrett was right though when he said that Clinton and Obama’s tentacles were deeply entrenched in the American justice system.  Even though they were out of power, the intelligence community declared war on President Trump and came at him with everything they had.  That is when Skolkovo’s supervisor Vladimir Surkov made himself available to Christopher Steele.  He wasn’t alone as another Putin ally named Vyacheslav Trubnikov used his contact Stephan Halper, who was a CIA spy, on the Cambridge campus to fill the United States media with disinformation that Donald Trump colluded with Russia.  This is how Great Britain became an integral part in the fake Steele Dossier that Hillary Clinton paid for through a law firm named Perkins Coie to take down Donald Trump and first, stop him from being president and then when that failed, undermining his presidency.  The deep state, however, didn’t have all their eggs in the British basket.  What better way to attack the president than to use assets already living with him in the White House?  The White House Security Council was filled with people loyal to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and like the good lap dogs that they were, they would do anything for her.  Since the star of a TV show that made “you’re fired” a catch phrase for the Real Estate mogul turned TV star turned President, didn’t utilize this catch phrase for all Obama loyalists, his first term would be an all out war.  The White House National Security Council (NSC)  wasn’t even going to wait long. President Trump was sworn in in January 2017 and that’s precisely the month that they got started.

                A Democrat lawyer named Mark Zaid immediately starts posting all over twitter after the inauguration that the coup has started and it would be the first of many steps of their rebellion.  Zaid goes on to say that impeachment will follow ultimately.  In the halls of the White House, NSC members Eric Ciaramella and Sean Misko are talking loudly about how they need to figure out how to remove President Trump from office.  Colleagues overhear them but do nothing since they know that Hillary Clinton and Obama still own them but they’re not ready to condemn Donald Trump on the first day on the job. They’ll stand by and wait and see what he does.  To Ciaramella, Misko and Abigail Grace, however, the coup has started and all their efforts are set to taking down the President of the United States.  They are almost giddy about it.  As they see Zaid’s tweets, they reach out to him and begin strategizing with him on how exactly to do this. 

                It took three years but Zaid’s client Eric Ciaramella becomes a whistleblower about a conversation with Ukrainian president Zelensky and President Trump.  A series of things had to happen before this.  First, the Democrats had to take control of the house and they did that in 2018.  Then they had to see if the Russian collusion hoax would pan out but it failed miserably.  Taking a page from the Russians, Ciaramella wasn’t patient and the day after Mueller testified to congress and put a nail in the coffin of his investigation and Russian collusion, he filed his whistleblower complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson.  Abigail Grace had already resigned from the NSC and was now working with Adam Schiff to help take down the president.  Sean Misko will follow a month after Ciaramella files the complaint and the three of them collaborate with their lawyer Mark Zaid to impeach the president.  The Senate acquits the president exonerating him for the second time in his tenure as president.  This prompts President Trump to issue a press conference and he sums up the last three years in one sentence, “first it was Russia Russia Russia then impeachment, it was all bullshit.”

                This statement is indicative of Donald Trump.  His supporters like him because he talks like an average American.  It’s the one thing that made a billionaire like Trump seem like an average person, which endears him to many Americans.  In fact, almost all politicians attempt to relate to their constituents by calling themselves regular people.  They try to act humble as they do the most arrogant thing someone can do; assert that you’re the one that should be in charge of everything.   Since the founding of America, politicians have tried very hard to not be looked upon as super-humans and Donald Trump not only did that with himself but exposed every other politician to be the whiny, tantrum throwing, hissy fit hacks that they were.  This destroys the overall Democratic narrative that they are the ones that should be in charge of health care or any other problem that the American people suffer from.  With their sophomoric attacks on the president and his equally underhanded name calling back, the American people are left thinking that politicians by and large should have very limited power, which is the essence of conservatism.  Even when American founding fathers were discussing their new government after winning the Revolutionary War, John Adams proposed calling the President by a more impressive title like ‘supreme leader’ as all organizations have ‘presidents.’  It was quickly shot down because the founding fathers were working to limit the power of the government so they needed to devalue and knock down the positions as best they could.  A title goes a long way in doing that. 

                Along these same lines, Wall Street Journal writer Peggy Noonan is very critical of the president’s rhetoric.  After a week that saw Democrats fail miserably in using an app or a hotline to count votes in the Iowa Caucus, a State of the Union where President Trump pulled no punches and went after the Democrats enraging Nancy Pelosi so much that she ripped the speech at the end, to the following day having President Trump acquitted by the Senate sparking the Democrats to do what Democrats do best and complain about the system.  When Donald Trump won the presidency, they attacked the Electoral College.  Now that Donald Trump wasn’t removed from office, they attack the Senate just like they did when Kavanaugh was confirmed because every state shouldn’t get the same amount of Senators.  It should be based on population, which shows just how ignorant they are as to the point of the two branches of congress.  It’s because of all this that even a Trump hater like Peggy Noonan has to ask if the Democrats know how bad they look after this week of hissy fits and failures.  She sums it all up with the question ‘do you think this week could’ve gone any worse than the Democrats.’  To Trump supporters, they hope the answer is an emphatic yes as they believe President Trump should be commended for exposing the inefficiencies of government as they can’t count votes so how do you expect them to solve your problems?

                Almost as if they were trying to answer Noonan’s question, the job reports comes out and shows that although the vaunted government experts that Never Trumpers claim are always spot on, their prediction that 160,000 jobs would be added in January was completely off as the actual number turned out to be 225,000.  Only in government and the environment can you be 41% off and still claim you’re credible.  To add to the indication that that the Trump economy is not slowing down, the labor participation and wages shot up as well.  Trump detractors point to the unemployment rate going from 3.5% to 3.6% put that is quickly explained by the labor participation rate rising 0.2% points.  The definition of the unemployment rate is the amount of people looking for work but don’t have a job divided by the people who are currently employed.  A fact that most people aren’t thinking of, is that the new AB5 law in California took effect in January so every free lance writer and independent contractor in California became unemployed at the start of January.  Since many Uber and Lyft drivers use it as a supplement to their employment, they may not be taken into account but for free lance workers such as writers, this was their profession and now they needed to scramble to find another job but given that they can’t work long hours, which is why they were free lance to begin with, they will probably struggle with this making them an addition to the unemployment rate through no fault of Donald Trump but with the California legislature.  With the very positive jobs report, it seems that yes, it could get worse for the Democrats. 

                One person who has joined the labor force is a struggling writer.  He doesn’t label himself as a conservative but his views are in line with those right of center making it difficult to find a job in the heavily liberal dominated print media. As he is a Ukrainian American named Markian, he is finally given a chance to go to Ukraine to find out what he can about the impeachment and Trump collusion.  Markian lands in Ukraine and finds one official that’s willing to talk to him.  His name is Viktor Shokin and he was the former Prosecutor General to Ukraine before Biden threatened to withhold a billion dollars in aid to Ukraine unless he was fired.  This gives him a bias but Markian didn’t know that yet.  Markian conducts the interview in Ukrainian hoping that it endears him to Shokin.  Little does he know that Shokin is very eager to talk about this as he has been in constant communication with John Solomon who has gone off on his own to form a website for himself as well as a company called ‘Just the News’ which is about to launch.  Markian asks, “Let’s start at the beginning with the Black Ledger that exposed Manafort’s crimes.”

                Shokin responds, “What you need to understand is the black ledger is just another scheme that your Democrats fell for.”

                “I’m sorry, I’m new to this.  What do you mean?”

                “Russian collusion was based on the hoax document known as the Steele dossier.”

                “Right”

                “Ukrainian collusion is based on a hoax document known as the black ledger.”

                “That came from Lutsenko though.”

                “Who was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton, who also paid Fusion GPS to generate the Steele dossier.”

                “The dossier has been covered as being a hoax, but why hasn’t the black ledger been exposed?  Did you tell anyone in the United States?”

                “Yes, when Bob Mueller came to Ukraine, we told him that it was fabricated but Mueller didn’t bother mentioning that in his report.  We did the right thing by letting him know that the things that prompted the government to look into Manafort were a lie.  Mueller just didn’t want to hear it because everyone that was on the special counsel with him had worked for Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton so they were loyal to them. ”

                “This is hard to believe.”

                “Why do you think that Manafort wasn’t charged with anything that had anything to do with President Trump?”

                “I hadn’t thought of that.”

                “Look, I’m not defending Manafort.  He was friendly to Yanukovych, who was pro-Russia and I want a free Ukraine but yes.”

                “My parents are from Odessa so we don’t like the Russians either.  They fled Ukraine for the United States.”

                “They were some of the lucky ones.  Half of this country will never forgive the Russians for starving them.”

                “Nor should they.”

                “You won’t get an argument from me but I don’t think that’s the purpose of your being here.”

                “Of course.  Why do you think the Black Ledger was a hoax?”

                “For one, it wasn’t in the accountant’s hand writing.  The accountant also had no knowledge about it.  Also, during the revolution, all the documents were burned so it seems hard to believe that this highly revealing document just happened not to be destroyed in the fire.”

                “That does seem a little too convenient.  You’re trying to say that Russian collusion and Ukrainian collusion is the same scam perpetuated by the same people and funded by Hillary Clinton.”

                “That is exactly what I’m saying.”

                When Markian returned to the United States, he found himself part of the 3.6% as his superiors didn’t like that he was given a chance to find dirt on President Trump but instead found exculpatory information for him.  He then applied for a job with John Solomon on Just the News and hoped that his fluency in Ukrainian would endear him to Solomon to help in Solomon’s biggest issue of exposing Joe Biden and the Democrats for their colluding with Ukraine to take down President Trump.  It is unclear at this point if Solomon will hire him.

                The miserable week for the Democrats just gets worse and worse as poll after poll and facts and data keep destroying their narratives.  A woman who worked for Bloomberg on his mayoral campaign in 2005 when she was 19 is now debating with a Democrat that yelled at her for making insensitive comments.  Her name is Lauren and the Democrat she is fighting with is named John.  Lauren expresses, “I’m glad I get to keep more of my money with the tax cuts.”

                John fires back, “The tax cuts were for the rich, not you.”

                “Are you kidding?  Most of the tax cuts were for lower and middle class.  A family of four that makes $73,000 a year saw a tax cut of 58%.  With all those mouths to feed, they need that extra income.  The tax cuts were for the middle class.”

                “You’re just misguided.”

                “Show me any facts and data backing up your point.”

                “Okay Hannity.”

                “That’s not an answer.”

                “Look, you’re anti-illegal immigrant rants echoing the president has really polarized this country.  Race relations are worse than they’ve ever been.”

                “Not according to Gallup.  According to Gallup, favorability with race relations has increased 14% since Trump took office.  Haven’t you heard of Candace Owens and Blexit?  President Trump’s favorability with black people is between 34-42% depending on which poll you look at.  It used to be considered good to be 15%.”

                “Look, your guy will probably be re-elected but I’m not too big a fan.  I can’t really support any of the Democrats running but I do like Bloomberg so I’m with him.”

                “Bloomberg?! I worked with that asshole when I was 19.  He’s a piece of shit.”

                “He’s the only one brave enough to take on the NRA and their lobbyists.”

                “What lobbyists?  Bloomberg only knows one thing; how to throw money around and smother his opponents.  He was a Republican when I worked for him and a real conservative named Tom Ognibene was running against him.  Most interns like me are unpaid and were volunteers but he paid us and a few other College Republicans to go into all the districts where Ognibene was popular and get signatures so that they couldn’t sign for Ognibene.  We succeeded as Tom Ognibene couldn’t get enough signatures to be on the ballot based on our work.  It only cost him $10 an hour and free lunches but he got it done.  That’s a lot for college kids.  That was my first exposure to fake news because, I think it was AM New York, said that Bloomberg wasn’t fair because he offered $20/hr to have people collect signatures.  That’s twice what we were making but hey, I wish Bloomberg made that a reality.  One guy from NYU brought in the paper and asked but obviously he was turned down.”

                “Alright, well your personal animus aside, he is going after gun lobbies.”

                “Right, I got off topic.  By the way, our reward for our success was to bring in a bunch of college Democrats who fucked the supervisors so they could be promoted over us while we were sent to shitty neighborhoods to canvas and get attacked by dogs and shit.  Anyway, that’s besides the point.   Bloomberg has spent $200 Million in just a few months during the primary.  The NRA has spent $ 6 million dollars in that time lobbying congress.  Bloomberg, in a couple months, has outspent them by $194 million.  Who do you think is the real financial Goliath?”

                “Well, he has to catch up.  The NRA had a head start.”

                “Fine, we’ll do the entire year.  The NRA spent $30 Million on lobbyists during the 2016 election.  Bloomberg has that beat by $170 Million already.  Do you understand that nothing you say has any basis in facts or reality?”

                “Look, you’ve clearly done your research but this started because you attacked undocumented workers and living in New York, that just baffles me how someone can be as racist as you.”

                “You think the New Way Forward Bill is a good idea?”

                “I don’t know what that is.”

                “It’s the new thing by AOC….”

                “See, you guys are way too obsessed with her.  She’s like the most famous low level house representative.  Can you even name any others besides the squad?  You people constantly attacking her gives her relevance.”

                “People said the same thing about Hitler and Maduro before it was too late.  Like everything else, people start low and work their way up.  AOC is already challenging Schumer for the Senate seat.”

                “She won’t win.”

                “Don’t be so sure.  She’s gotten 44 Democrats to sign on her New Way Forward bill.”

                “I admit I don’t know what that is.”

                “You no longer get deported if you’re an illegal immigrant for violent crimes like rape, murder and human trafficking.  Ilhan Omar and AOC are spearheading it.”

                “It will lose just like the Green New Deal.”

                “Which people still support and attack McConnell for being a bully and forcing a vote since it was just to ‘raise awareness.’”

                “Nobody voted for it.”

                “This makes that look tame.  This is the single most radical piece of legislation in American history.”

                “You’re being hyperbolic just like the president.”

                “It specifically says that convictions shouldn’t lead to deportation.  That’s their words not mine.”

                “Well, that’s obviously ridiculous.”

                “Wait five years when Donald Trump is no longer president.  Remember this conversation as the Democrats will be promoting this and the media will back them.  It’ll be the same gas lighting technique they used to oppose the wall, which everyone, including Democrats, were for before Trump.  It’s just like gay marriage and killing Islamic terrorists before Trump.  It used to be bipartisan support or opposition, until it wasn’t.  You people make me sick because you have no values, no principles and sell your ideas down the river the second the mob turns against you.”

                “You’re way too young to be so angry.”

                “Fuck you.”

                “There it is.  Good bye now.”

                It’s nine months before the election and it’s becoming abundantly clear that if Donald Trump doesn’t win, the country can look to Venezuela as to what will happen.  It will be open season on women as illegal immigrants from countries that don’t have the same respect for woman that America has will rape with reckless abandonment knowing that it is illegal to deport them and American jails aren’t a deterrent to them.  It has already happened in Ilhan Omar’s state of Minnesota and it is about to extend across the country if Donald Trump is not re-elected president and the communist threat of AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlib, and Bernie Sanders isn’t wiped out.   

Real Stories Episode 25 Chaos Economics

                A sad fact of the world is that one county’s chaos destroys the lives of most of its citizens.  Their suffering, however, provides economic gain for other people.   Some people expertly toe the line between right and wrong.  Sure, they are exploiting a horrendous situation but they do some good in the process.  Others are in for their own greed and they will tell you that they weren’t the ones who caused the chaos so they can’t be blamed. 

                To give an example of this, take the chaotic event that was the holocaust by the NAZI’s.  The 1993 Academy Award Winning Best Picture chronicled the former of these people.  Oskar Schindler convinced Jews to give him all of their money.  He then used them for cheap labor to produce things.  Although he had no experience running a factory, he had the Jews do it.  Their payment was protection from the NAZI’s while Schindler made money.  In any other time, it would be a despicable offer to tell someone to give you all their money so that they can work for you.  For those that have seen the movie, Schindler’s entrepreneurial endeavor doesn’t work out for him as the NAZI’s forced him to stop making everyday household items and start making weapons for the military.  How Schindler reacts to this shows how he is not an unscrupulous man and what he proceeds to do is what made for a great movie and why, to this day, thousands of people flock to his gravesite to pay their respects to the man.  For the purposes of this discussion, we aren’t interested in the subsequent action but the prior one; the one that people living in more civilized societies, like America, would call reprehensible.

                The latter example, the one that sees no foreseeable benefit to the oppressed, can be personified in the Hungarian Billionaire and enormous liberal and Democrat donor George Soros.  Soros was a young boy not yet a teenager when the holocaust was going on.  As a Jew, he was on the chopping block and threatened to be sent to a work camp or, worse, a death camp.  Soros’ uncle gave young George a cross to wear and told him to pretend to be a Christian.  This, in and of itself seems like mere survival.  How many people of a particular faith would renounce said faith at the wrong end of the barrel of a gun?  What Soros’ Uncle and young Soros did next, however, seems culpable.  They went to the NAZI’s and told them that they had lived in the community for a while and had worked with Jews.  In reality, they attended temple with them and were in the same Yeshiva.  They told the NAZI’s that for a price, they will tell them where the Jews were hiding.  The NAZI’s accepted the offer and Soros’ uncle became rich helping the NAZI’s round up George’s fellow Jews and sending them off to work and death camps.  George is an old man now and commends his uncle’s business savvy to take a chaotic situation and use it for his own economic gain.  Makes one wonder with a role model like him, just what did George do to amass his billions?

                European history is filled with chaotic events.  Since the holocaust, it normally centers on the spread and collapse of communism.  Both its rise and fall has created chaos in various counties.  Yugoslavia gets broken up into not two countries but eight as just one example.  Some countries are happy to get rid of the communists; others prefer the devil they know.  There is no clearer example of this than the country of Ukraine.  Although it is not like Berlin in that there is an actual wall separating East and West, there is an ideological and symbolic wall that is almost just as effective.  West of the capital, Kiev, you will find marked animosity toward the Russians and a severe hatred.  This is understandable as Stalin cut them off from natural resources and those that didn’t comply with the communist way were denied food and water.  Although not very well known in America, in other parts of the world, what Stalin did to the Ukrainians is labeled genocide.  Given that you’d be hard pressed to find a western Ukrainian living that didn’t know someone that died as a result of Stalin, the term is not an exaggeration. 

After learning this tumultuous history, one would be hard pressed to understand what happens as they travel east and enter Kiev and head toward Russia.  The language may sound similar to the untrained ear but it is no longer Ukrainian being heard on the streets and in the towns.  They are all speaking Russian.  This is common in communist countries as even most Cubans speak Russians though few will admit it.  In Cuba, however, they also speak Spanish.  In Kiev and east of Kiev, if someone were to speak to them in Ukrainian, they would be just as confused as if you talked to an average American in Ukrainian.  For the inhabitants of Kiev and east of Kiev, they will tell you that they are Russians; they speak Russian and are just as Russian as if they had been born and raised in Moscow.   It is this dichotomy that makes politics in Ukraine very chaotic indeed.

                To make a long story short, the number one issue in Ukrainian politics is leaders whose loyalties are with Russia and those that want to be independent of Russia.  Every election, the country is ripped apart with these two conflicting sides butting heads.  The results of the election is catastrophic for the losing side so the battles are much more serious than anything experienced in the western world.  This chaos has attracted outsiders from America like Hillary Clinton, George Soros, President Barack Obama, longtime political strategist Paul Manafort, and Vice President Joe Biden to name just a few.  Books can be written about this recent battle but in the interest of time I’ll let you know that the winner was Petro Porchenko of the Ukrainian side.

                One result of this chaos of the election was that Joe Biden was able to secure a job for his son Hunter.  Hunter Biden has had no energy experience of any kind, which makes it odd that the largest Ukrainian energy company,  Burisma, would hire him as a member of their board and pay him a salary in the seven figures.  This captures the attention of the Ukrainian prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin.  As an oversimplification, Shokin investigates Burisma and Hunter Biden to see if there are nefarious connections with the large swaths of money leaving Ukraine and going into Hunter Biden’s bank account.  It doesn’t take long for word to reach the Vice President and Hunter’s father about this investigation.  As it so happens, President Porchenko is on the phone with Barack Obama asking for a billion dollars in aid.  A little known fact is that when the President is on the phone with a foreign leader, there are many people listening in on the phone call on both sides.  Advisors and various experts need to advise the president and rather than have the president give them a summary of what was said, it’s better that they actually heard it directly and took their own notes.  That is why it is not unusual that Joe Biden is listening in on this phone call between President Obama and President Porchenko.  At the end of the call, Biden sees another opportunity in Ukraine so gets on a plane and flies to Kiev. 

Biden’s official role in Kiev is to announce that the United States is going to be giving Ukraine the billion dollars in aid.  The day before Biden and Porchenko are going to have a press conference announcing this, Biden approaches Porchenko and asks, “I need you to do me a favor.  I need you to fire your prosecutor general”

 “Mr. Shokin?  Why sir?”

“The reason is unimportant.  I just want to be perfectly clear; we need you to fire him.”

“Okay sir, we will”

As the press conference is just moments away, Viktor Shokin is still prosecutor general Shokin.  This prompts Biden to approach Porchenko and declare, “We’re not going to give you the billion dollars”

Porchenko responds, “You have no authority, you’re not the president.  The President said….”

“Call him.  I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I’m leaving here in about six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. ”

Porchenko doesn’t make the phone call to Obama.  Instead, he fires inspector general Shokin and the investigation into Hunter Biden is not picked up by his successor.  True to his word, after this, Ukraine is a billion dollars richer.  Biden considered this a great deal that he procured.  So great, that he bragged about it at a council of foreign relations meeting on January 23, 2018 when he was no longer Vice President.  Conveniently, he left out any information as to why he wanted the inspector general fired. 

The year is now 2016, and Barack Obama is no longer the president.  The new president is Donald Trump.  Ukraine also has a new president by the name of Volodymyr Zelensky.  DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa has been tasked by lame duck president Obama to find dirt on Donald Trump or his campaign members.  Chalupa goes to the Ukrainian embassy on a tip from Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden who recognize Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, from the battle in Ukraine.  The Ukrainian embassy tells Chalupa to go to Ukraine and meet with Porchenko to find out what she wants to know.  Chalupa does exactly that.

                Ukraine is very busy in the 2016 American presidential election.  They’ve also been contacted by Fusion GPS, a firm that Hillary Clinton hired through a law firm named Perkins Coie to find dirt on Donald Trump.  Their contact is a woman by the name of Nellie Ohr who is fluent in Russian.  The Ukrainians decide that it’s time for a little payback for how the Democrats meddled in their elections.  Just like the actual country, the embassy has pro and anti-Russians in it.  The Russian side helps the Democrats and Fusion GPS with Russian contacts such as Viktor Surkov and Vyacheslav Trubnikov.  This Russian and Ukrainian collusion by the part of the Democrats will result in a near three year investigation of President Donald Trump for doing exactly what they are guilty of.  Projection is a very common trait amongst Democrats so why wouldn’t those at the highest levels engage in it?  All this, however, comes later.

                Chalupa goes to Ukraine and is handed a black ledger document.  What Chalupa doesn’t know is that this ledger is a complete hoax.  In it, however, it documents how Paul Manafort was paid millions of dollars to work for a foreign company, in this case Ukraine, but didn’t report it.   The reality is that it wasn’t reported because it never happened but the ledger alleges that the payments were made in cash so that it wouldn’t be able to be traced and Manafort can evade taxes by accepting it. Chalupa calls Obama’s team and the DOJ, which is really just a part of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s personal mafia.  With this ledger, they open up an investigation into Paul Manafort.

                As the investigation is unveiled, Donald Trump meets with Paul Manafort.  Trump declares, “You know, when you applied to be my campaign manager, you told me that since you’ve been out of politics for so long, you were an outsider like me.”

                “I guess I meant American politics sir.”

                “Look, this looks bad”

                “Yes, I know I’ll resign immediately”

                “Thank you and just so you know I’m going to instruct my team to comply fully with the investigation.  I am also advising you to do the same.”

                “Understood sir.”

                With that, Manafort’s very short tenure as Donald Trump’s campaign manager has come to an end. 

                The Mueller report looking into Donald Trump’s collusion with Russia has finally come to a close after wasting $ 40 million in tax payer money and doing everything they can to thwart Trump in trying to make America great.  Despite his efforts, Donald Trump has thrived so well that Obama, who previously said the economic numbers Trump claimed he could deliver were impossible, is now claiming that he is responsible for them and saw them coming.  This is laughable since Donald Trump reversed almost every policy Barak Obama had.  Reversing almost ever economic policy and then claiming the trajectory will be unaffected is something only people who trust mainstream media would believe.  To non-sheep and people who can think for themselves, they know the credit goes solely to Donald Trump despite having the Democrats stop at nothing to take him down. 

                Now, it is time for Donald Trump to take the offensive.  He hires a new Attorney General Bill Barr and has Inspector General (IG) Horowitz investigate the origins of the Russian collusion investigation that has been unraveling since its inception.  They are looking for malfeasance by the Democrats and the DOJ; especially the FBI and CIA.  It is currently September of 2019 and the IG report is finished.  It is currently under review to see what is to be redacted and what will not be.  President Trump has given the authority of declassification to Bill Barr, which is unprecedented.  The negotiation between FBI director Wray and Barr is only a stall tactic by Wray.  The Democrats have their lackeys, the mainstream media, leak perceived scandals so they can claim them as an excuse later for why they did what they did to Donald Trump.

                While Bill Barr and Horowitz were conducting their investigation being stonewalled by the FBI, CIA and congress at every turn, President Trump calls President Zelensky of Ukraine.  Just like with President Obama’s call to Porchenko years before, this one is being listened to by several people.  The nature of the call is President Trump is trying to find out the extent of the corruption and collusion by Zelensky’s predecessor by Trump’s predecessor.  Unlike Obama, President Trump is not looking for dirt on his political opponents.  He’s trying to assess the damage and the extent of how the Ukrainians and Russians interfered in an American election by tricking the Democrats by giving them disinformation.  He is most interested in the fraudulent black ledger document that got Paul Manafort fired from his campaign.

                The conversation is very troubling in a lot of ways.  Like everything else with this case, when you try to answer one question, several more arise.  This one has to do with Joe Biden threatening former president Porchenko to fire his prosecutor general.  As Trump realizes this is getting more complicated by the second, he advises one of his lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, to keep digging and follow the bread crumbs wherever they will lead.

                Now, one listener on the call who is loyal to former President Obama has leaked to the Washington Post anonymously that President Trump revealed sensitive information on this phone call.  He files a complaint with the attorney general who sees it for what it is; complete nonsense.  For one, the president is the final arbiter on what is classified and what is not.  His subordinates, the FBI and CIA, can disagree with him but ultimately their opinion is irrelevant.  Furthermore, several people were listening to the conversation and only this one person had a problem with it.  Barr knows that the reason for this is politically, not security, based.

                As Giuliani looks into the Black Ledger, he finds an awful lot of information about Joe Biden.  He knows all about the threat to Porchenko to fire the prosecutor general Shokin or else he wouldn’t get the billion dollars in aid.  He also knows that Shokin was investigating Hunter Biden and that’s why Joe Biden targeted him.  As he tells his team this information, some try to defend Biden by pointing out that Shokin was corrupt.  Giuliani simply states that even if that were the case, given the nature of what he was investigating, Joe Biden should have recued himself from the investigation as he was obviously biased.  Now Giuliani is looking into the cover up of this extortion scheme by the mainstream media for the last five months, if not longer.  CNN employee Chris Cuomo, whose brother is the governor of New York and an avowed anti-Trumper, calls Giuliani onto his show.  Cuomo framed the narrative and does what Democrats have always done and project their past sins on the Republican Party.  Many people are unaware that the Democrats were responsible for segregation, Jim Crow laws, the KKK, and slavery.  Many who do know this have been hoodwinked to believe that there was a ‘big switch’ and the values of the racist Democrats were now the values of the Republicans.  They wave around Strom Thurmund as proof as he is one of only two former racist Democrat politicians to switch to the Republican Party.  Other evidence they point to is that the South used to vote uniformly Democrat when it was racist and blacks started voting Democrat.  Their time line is off as blacks only started voting Democrats in the 1940s when FDR offered them free things in the new deal.  Southern Whites didn’t move to the Republican Party until the 70s when the South started prospering economically and getting less racist and more integrated.  The reality is that if you take all the Ku Klux Klan leaders and add in prominent leaders in racist organizations.  You then add all the Democrat congressman from 1860 to 2000 and throw in everyone that voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  This makes up 1600 people.  Less than 1% of them became Republicans.  This lie can still be found even on Fox News as Juan Williams unapologetically says there’s a double standard for Republicans and Democrats because of the racist history of the Republican Party. 

                  As Giuliani listens intently to Cuomo frame his narrative perpetuating the lies Democrats have been telling for years, Giuliani responds “I’m glad I’m here because everything you just said is totally erroneous”

                Giuliani then outlines the Democrat corruption in Ukraine as Cuomo tries to shift the narrative back to trying to blame Trump for it all.  It’s a contentious interview but Rudy Giuliani took down the Italian mob rule in New York, ended the corruption in the NYPD and cleaned up the cesspool that was New York City so that Chris Cuomo’s brother could be Governor of a safer and great American city.  Given Giuliani’s history, this interview is a walk in the park.

                Unfortunately, the Democrats have succeeded in one thing very well.  They have severely inhibited President Trump from building a border wall with Mexico.  This was his number one promise to the American people so, naturally, it was the number one target for his opponents to stop him from doing it.  It has worked too.  Ann Coulter, who wrote a book entitled In Trump We Trust is now an outspoken opponent of President Trump because he didn’t defy Democrats and assert his presidential power to build the wall without congressional approval.  Coulter, being a lawyer, knows that he is legally allowed to do just that but it wouldn’t be the first time that a federal judge, congress or the mainstream media lied to the American people on what the president is legally allowed to do.  Giving them ammunition didn’t seem practical.  The past few months, however, President Trump has started building the wall.  He even tore down ineffective walls in existing areas to rebuild much to the dismay of Coulter and her followers.  The wall is being built and hundreds of miles have been erected and more is scheduled to be erected before the election.  The entire border, however, will not be.  Coulter is not one to compromise and anything short of a solid concrete wall is not going to be sufficient for her.  In order to assuage the damage people like Ann Coulter have caused, Donald Trump is visiting the border wall.  As he is the president, the media follows quickly thereafter. 

                Since President Trump is the most transparent president in American history, he has no problem giving impromptu interviews with the media.  He stands in front of the wall and starts talking about the one thing, unlike politics, he’s been doing for decades; talking about construction.  He starts talking specifics about what the concrete is made of and why it’s effective.  He compares it with what was there originally and does a compare and contrast in a calm comfortable manner.  As this is a topic he knows well, he stands there for a while answering and explaining all the reporter’s questions.  What results is a billionaire who is endearing himself to blue collar working class people.  If any of them are paying attention, they would realize the blue collar salaries and work has skyrocketed due to President Trump’s policies.  There is no better candidate that is for the manufacturers and builders than Donald Trump as it has been his entire adult life.

                When President Trump is finished inspecting the progress made on the wall, he goes back to an area set up for him to work.  An advisor comes in and informs him, “Mr. President, Colt is discontinuing their manufacturing of the AR-15.”

                “Okay, that is their prerogative”

                “I think you should take a pulse check of the times sir.  People need some concession on gun control.  The Universal Background Check would be a small concession to appease the outcries to do something about the mass shootings as of late.”

                “The more I consider it, the more I’m thinking it’s a veiled attempt to have a gun registry so that a future Democrat President can confiscate law abiding citizen’s guns.  It’s not a power I’d like to give them.”

                “Respectfully sir, if a gun manufacturer is getting on board, I don’t think it will be met with much opposition”

                “I disagree.  Colt could just be another company cowing to social justice pressure.  Companies haven’t figured out that liberal boycotts don’t work.  The left doesn’t have the courage of their conviction to see it through.  Apologizing and giving in to their demands just emboldens them to do it again and again.  They are out for blood and conceding to them only makes them thirstier.”

                “Colt has not made an apology sir”

                “Do you have their statement?”

                “Yes, Mr. President, it’s right here” as he hands him a document.

                President Trump reads it quickly, “This says that they are discontinuing it because they’ve overproduced the AR-15.  It mentions nothing about the mass shootings”

                “I realize that sir but the reason why the market is saturated with the guns is people have stopped buying them because of the shootings”

                “That’s a stretch. Do you have any evidence to back that up?”

                “No Sir, I do not.  I just think it makes sense.”

                “You may be biased in this matter.  Colt’s own statement says that they are focused on the military’s needs for weapons.  It seems to me that they are being good businessman and supplying a need in the market at the cost of another product that is not in high demand due to the massive supply.  Once their inventory depletes, I see no reason for them not to stop making them again.  Is there any fault in my logic?”

                “No Sir, there are no holes in that line of reasoning.”

                “Alright, thank you for your advice”

                “Thank you Sir” as the advisor leaves.

                President Trump turns on the news and sees a story about an abortion doctor that passed away.   He is a little confused on why the public should care but this is a common thought when watching the news.  The story answers his confusion as when the family of the deceased went to his house to raid his things, they found a plethora of fetal parts inventoried.  President Trump shakes his head.  He understands how a lot of Americans are pro-abortion but even a pro-abortion person has to be horrified that a doctor would keep the parts.  Ophthalmologists don’t keep little mementos from cataracts they extract. This is just another reminder that there are sick people in the world.

                He switches over to the Democrat debates as it is the one thing that seems to be helping his re-election chances more than anything else he’s done.  The Democratic Socialists Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders keep lying to the American people by saying they aren’t looking for the socialism of Cuba, Venezuela or Russia but of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.  Trump knows it’s a lie.  One of his advisors is watching with him and President Trump declares, “There they go lying again”

                “Yes Sir, they only get half the story”

                “What do you mean by that?”

                “Well, it is true that the citizens of Scandinavian countries are taxed heavily, that part Sanders and Warren have right”

                “And the part they have wrong?”

                “Well, respectfully sir, their corporate tax rates are lower than ours.  There is not much red tape for corporation s to grow.  This is the opposite of Sanders and Warren’s proposal to target the rich to pay for their programs through high corporate taxes.  Instead, Scandinavia taxes the middle class and lets the corporations flourish.  By doing so, the corporations end up financing their government programs because even though they pay a lower rate, they end up giving up more money because of their growth.”

                “Kind of like how my tax break gave the government record high revenues because people moved up in income and jumped into higher brackets.  Even though they paid a lower percentage, they made more money so the actually dollar amount was more.”

                “Yes, it was a win-win for everyone involved.  Government and citizen get more money.”

                “Maybe someone should explain that to Sanders and Warren”

                “They have sir.  Several former prime ministers of Sweden and Denmark have publicly attacked them for calling them socialists when they’re not.  A Danish economist named Otto Brans-Petersen even did a PragerU video on the topic chastising Bernie for lying about his country.”

                “I guess they didn’t get the memo”

                “Wouldn’t make much of a difference if they did”

                “Why’s that?”

                Swedes in America are outperforming Swedes in Sweden.  They have a great work ethic so they thrive in both countries.  Saying the poverty rate among Swedes in Sweden is low is true but there aren’t many Swedes in poverty in the United States either.  It seems to be a good case study.  Take the same people and put them in two different economies to see if there’s a difference.  The results are in; Swedes do better in America so even if Sanders and Warren did implement Scandinavian style market economy here, your economy is still better.”

                President Trump smiled.  He merely responded, “Yes, I know what it takes to lead and to keep America great.  No matter which Democrat wins the nomination, they will make the America I hand them worse than when I gave it to them.”

                “I agree Mr. President.”