Real Characters Episode 13 Democrat Debacle

                The Democratic debates are coming up and the 20 presidential nominee hopefuls are preparing with their focus groups on how to answer questions and preparing to debate.  Although Joe Biden is leading the polls, it’s early and a lot can happen.  He is emboldened because he shined when he had to debate Paul Ryan during the 2012 election and is looking to show his debate prowess once again as he is a seasoned politician.

                Bernie Sanders, however, is also an experienced politician.  He battled Hillary Clinton in 2016 and had his nomination stolen from him as Hillary Clinton bought the DNC.  He thinks that this time around he’ll get a fairer shot.  He meets with his advisers and they bring up his Medicare for All plan.  The campaign aid advises, “Now, when they bring up how to pay for the plan, focus on taxing the rich.”

                Bernie replies, “I don’t need to do that.  When people realize they don’t have to pay deductibles or co-pays they will be more than happy to pay more in taxes for a system like that.  The middle class is going to pay more in taxes and they’re going to like it.”

                “I don’t think that will sit well”

                “I don’t care.  I’m going to be honest. There will be massive tax increases and everyone is going to chip in to pay for the healthcare of everyone in America.  They will gladly pay the higher tax rates because what they get in return for their money.”

                “Okay, let’s move on to abortion.  Governor Northom’s abortion after the baby has already been born may come up.  I think you should focus on how you’re okay with third trimester but no mention about aborting a fetus after birth.”

                “It’s irrelevant.  My Medicare for All program will pay for abortions regardless of how far the pregnancy is.  That’s what free healthcare means, you get any procedure you want for free.  That includes abortion.”

                “That’s good.  So you’re plan is to just keep harping on the free health care and free tuition and that you’re going to massively raise taxes on everyone to pay for it and that people will love it?”

                “Yes”

                “Okay.”

                Meanwhile, in Kamala Harris’ camp, her advisers are coaching her on what to say in the debate.  Unlike Sanders, she is not well seasoned.  The adviser offers, “You need to go after the person leading the polls.  You keep knocking off the leader until you are the leader.  That means going after Biden.”

                “Well yea he consorts with racists and is proud of it.”

                “We can get away with calling Republicans racist but it could backfire with Biden.  I would preface it by saying you don’t think he’s a racist.  That way the people hear that there’s an implication that he could be one.”

                “That’s a good idea, I will do that.  I’ll also talk about my personal story and how all black people are victims of racism and that I was bused to school so his being against busing is offensive to me.”

                “Personal stories are good.  People love personal stories.  Remember, this is the party that nominated a black candidate and the first black president.  If you can eliminate the white people, you are golden.”

                “I’ll take out the biggest white guy leaving room at the top for someone else.”

                “Also, if they ask, make sure you say that you’re in favor of abolishing private health insurance.  We don’t want Bernie Sanders getting all the credit for that one.”

                “Didn’t Obama say that if you like your plan you could keep it?”

                “Yes, but that was before people saw how great ObamaCare is.  Now, they hate their private health insurance.”

                While Harris is preparing to beat the identity politics and race card to a pulp, New York mayor Bill Deblasio is flying to Miami.  He speaks with his advisors and they propose, “Remember you represent a state that has more Puerto Ricans than there are in Puerto Rico.  There are a lot of Hispanics in New York so you need to be the Hispanic candidate.  Use a Spanish expression that will rile up the people. 

                “Can you give me one?”

                “Sure, just remember you’re the tallest candidate and people associate height with power.  Here’s a quote that talks about revolution.  Right now there is a strike with the employees at Miami airport. Show solidarity with them and use this quote.  It’s from Che Guevara.”

                “Yea, I see college students all over New York wearing Che shirts.  He’s a national hero for our base.  Thank you, that’s perfect.”

                While De Blasio thinks that Puerto Rican, Mexican and Dominicans, though abundant in his state of New York, are representative of how Cubans think, South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Bettigieg is sitting with his aides discussing the debate.  The aide pronounces, “Everyone is going to be talking about free healthcare and open borders so you have to differentiate yourself.”

                “How do you want me to do that?”

                “Well, remember that our side hates religion.  You should attack religion as that will rile up the Democrats of this country since they hate religion too.”

                “I’ll soften it by saying they want separation of church and state.”

                “Even better, link it to the border.  Say that Christians are hypocritical because there’s nothing Christian about ripping kids from their parents.”

                “I like your thinking.  Keep the prevalent talking point but add another twist to make me seem different.  It can work,”

                It is now time for the debates and the candidates gather on stage and they stick to their points that they spoke about in their debate preparation.  Only four candidates raised their hands to abolishing private health insurance.  They are Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Bill DeBlasio.  All ten members said they would give free healthcare to illegal immigrants.  That means that anyone that is in America gets access to the healthcare the Americans are taxed at high rates to get.  The Cuban community is in outrage over De Blasio’s Che Guevara comment as Che Guevara was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Cubans and imprisoned homosexuals and people for their religion.  De Blasio claims he didn’t know it was Che Guevara’s quote and backs away immensely.  As Puerto Rican Ozzie Guiillen found out when he was the manager for the Miami Marlins, there is no forgiveness if you side with the Cuban communists.  Cubans risked theirlives to flee it and anyone with anything nice to say about Castro or Guevara is not welcome in their community.  Guillen tried meeting with Cubans and apologized in both Spanish and English but in the end he was forced to resign as manager because he was no longer welcome in Miami.  Due to this, De Blasio’s simple apology is not going to curry him any favors. 

                Meanwhile, the person with the most to lose because he was leading the polls, Joe Biden, realized the hard way that this is not Paul Ryan in 2016.  When Harris came after him, he tried to talk about his record but even he wasn’t convinced as he cut himself off for being over the time limit.  He was so enraged that Harris would insinuate that he was a racist; he stopped himself before saying something he would regret. 

                All 20 candidates turn to the mainstream media as they are accustomed to having them back them up on everything and make them look good but all they get is criticism.  Nobody is confident that any of them can beat Donald Trump.  Two commentators on CNN say that Biden isn’t woke enough and doesn’t know the terminology of the time.  Buttiegieg is criticized because there is no record of a Christian saying that they are detaining children at the border for religious reasons so his comments are nonsense.  In a rare moment, he is criticized for not offering solutions to the border problem.  This is odd because nobody offered solutions.  In fact some, like Julian Castro, said that it shouldn’t be illegal to cross the border.  The conservative media was a little harsher as they pointed out that the kids that are accompanying the adults to the border for asylum are not their parents.  It seems Buttigieg inadvertently advocated to give kids back to child traffickers and pedophiles rather than detain them.  Just as how the Cubans are angry because they remember when they were persecuted by the communists for their religious beliefs, they know that it’s governments that attack people for their beliefs not Christians. 

                As Harris established her far left credentials, conservatives are quick to point out that the last time she said she’d abolish private insurance, she was heavily criticized and retracted it.  Now she’s back.  This makes her look like a flip flopper, which would hurt her in a general election. 

                Sitting in Kyoto, Japan, President Trump is watching the Democratic debate.  He is constantly laughing as he realizes that of the 20 candidates, none of them seem like a threat.  He tweets out one word, ‘boring’ and goes on with his duties preparing to meet with government heads like Xi of China and Putin.  While meeting with Putin a reporter yells out if Trump is going to tell Putin not to meddle hoping to put him on the spot.  President Trump turns to Putin and points his finger and says, “Hey, don’t meddle” in a off handed tone and turns back.  Putin chuckles in response embarrassing the reporter.

                As the various mainstream media outlets see the video of Trump they are relieved that they have a red herring from the disastrous Democratic debates.  President Trump called them all socialists and although the mainstream media knows he’s right, they are back to their primary focus; attacking Donald Trump.  They criticize him heavily for his lighthearted response to the question.  They have spent three years attacking him and they want to know that they’ve gotten under his skin but the president just won’t give them an inch.                              

                The mainstream media aren’t the only ones that are discouraged from the debate performance.  Far left social media company twitter is enraged and they feel they need to help.  Even though a project Veritas video had come out proving that big tech such as Google, YouTube and Twitter purposely ban conservative content in a goal to make sure President Trump doesn’t get reelected, Twitter decides not to lay low and announces that they will down rank tweets.  That means if someone tweets something of conservative content, people will have to click on it to see it.  They single out Donald Trump as someone they will do it to.  After all, twitter feels it’s their job to suppress any opposition to liberal talking points.  Knowing how weak all 20 candidates are, they need to really suppress it because all their arguments are so easy to debunk.  Big tech has a lot of work to do.  Meanwhile alternative posting sites like Parlor and GAP are growing in popularity but nobody at twitter is worried. 

                Just as how twitter is interested in the debates, Supreme Court justice John Roberts is intrigued as well.  As he watches, he talks to those close to him and utters, “I think I may have caused this.”

                The person he’s speaking to has known Justice Roberts for a long time and is not afraid to give him hard truths.  The response is, “Yes, I think your blocking the citizen question on the census made the candidates think that they need to pander to illegal immigrants in this country.”

                “That’s not what I intended”

                “I know but that’s what happened.”

                “But the Democrats always complain about how unfair we are now that it seems like we have five conservatives and four liberals.  I want to show them that we don’t vote on political lines, we take the facts.  There’s no such thing as Republican or Democrat judges, we’re all just Supreme Court justices”

                “Yes but the other eight do vote on party lines so you’re seen as a traitor”

                “If I vote with the conservatives, the social, media will attack me and my family.  I don’t want to subject my family to that.  They didn’t choose to go into politics.  I chose that and I don’t want them to suffer for my choice.”

                “So you want to be seen as a man that votes on the facts and his reason not his party?”

                “Exactly”

                “Well then how do you reconcile that in the Auer case, you defer to the executive branch to interpret the rules that may have a little grey area?  You basically give up judicial power to the executive branch but then you vote down citizenship saying that Department of Congress can’t be trusted.  You actually admitted that on a legal basis, their argument is sound but you don’t like the way they explained it.”

“The President said he would explain it in simpler terms.   What’s wrong with that if the president stands by me?”

“The President didn’t stand by you, he mocked you.”

“I just can’t win.”

                “No, I mean you just said that you only care about the law but then you voted against something that you yourself admitted is legally sound.”

                “It’ll blow over.”

                “Remember, the Republicans hold a majority in the Senate.  It’s not by one anymore, it’s by five so they can afford to lose a couple.  They are talking about impeaching you.”

                “For making a decision they don’t like? That’s not fair.”

                “Well, you’re not going to get support from the Democrats even though you voted with them because they hate Bush still.  They also don’t support Republicans.  You aren’t going to get support from Republicans for stabbing them in the back so many times.  I’m not quite sure where your friends are going to come from in this.”

                “You really think I’m going to be impeached?”

                “No, I don’t think so.  I’m not telling you to vote Republican all the time but don’t admit that something is sound rationally or legally and then vote against it.  Maybe when you vote against the Republicans, you refrain from writing the majority opinion.  Let one of the Democrat justices do that.”

                “We’re all justices, it’s not political affiliation”

                “I think you may be the only one to believe that.”

                Justice Roberts hangs his head.  He pours himself a drink and takes a long gulp to take the edge off. 

                The Democrat primary has officially begun.  After two days of debates, no candidate has risen to the top but there’s still time.  Big tech seems to be the most willing to do damage control as the mainstream media isn’t sure what they want to do.  They know they can’t support Trump but they are getting sick of trying to cover the Democrat’s gaffes.  They are thinking to just sit back and wait for the winner so they can put their full support behind them.  It’s not a bad idea because covering for 20 people is a very difficult task to do. 

Larry the Billionaire Episode 17 Don't Vote for What You Fled

                Clarissa was in her Mid-20s but she had an eventful path that brought her to America.  She was born in Trinidad, moved to Venezuela after college where she worked for a couple years.  When the political system collapsed and people starting killing pigeons for food and sewing their bills because they were worth anything with the hyperinflation, she escaped to America where she had cousins that could take her in.  She got a student visa and went to graduate school in the states and now she was looking for work.  Since she experienced communism, she was against socialists like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but living in Queens, New York, all the other East Indians from the Caribbean were telling her that Republicans were racist so she needed to vote Democrat.  Since she wasn’t knowledgeable enough to debate American issues, she claimed to be a Democrat. 

                Clarissa was an attractive girl with smooth brown skin, long straight black hair that went halfway down her back and stood at 5’8” with long legs and short torso but amble breasts and a round butt.  The area in Queens she lived in had various places where she could get doubles to remind her of her home in Trinidad.  Doubles is like a breakfast burrito except the wrapping is thin like a crepe and the inside is various spices and curry.  As she was listening to Democrats talk, she kept hearing an abolition of student loan debt.  Seeing how much her post-graduate degree cost, she was all for it.  Part of her wondered how the American government had the money to do that though.  It was July and she was being invited to her cousin’s house for her baby’s 2^nd birthday.  She went excited to be listening to music from Trinidad and drinking the night away. 

 

                Larry was a single white male that had sworn off playing the dating game long ago.  This led him to focus on work and now that he had amassed a fortune, he still had no desire to play the game.  This was especially true with the current atmosphere of no fault divorces leading to people using divorce as a profit-making scheme.  He never understood the rules of dating as they were very hypocritical to him.  The girl pretends not to like the guy because he wants him to chase.  If he asks permission to touch her, she’ll say no because she wants him to have the confidence to make a move without permission.  If, however, she really didn’t want you to make the move, then you’re labeled a sex offender and people can search you as a sexual predator.  In order to amass the wealth he had, risks had to be taken but that was one risk he was not willing to take.  What made it more hypocritical is he saw a certain logic to it.  If a guy has to work hard to get a girl then he doesn’t think another guy will steal her because of how hard she made him work.  Given the popularity of break ups and divorce, however, it seemed clear that that logic hasn’t played out.  With this mentality, he had become pretty good at suppressing his carnal need for pleasures of the flesh.  He tried professionals who indulge in accommodating these needs but never found them exciting.  To him, corrupting someone more innocent was better for him.  It costs a lot more than the professionals but it was satisfying and money wasn’t a problem for him.  The one thing he tried to avoid was giving women money straight up.  Instead, he wanted to pay for a bill that they may not be able to afford.  This had ranged from an expensive outfit to a life saving medical procedure.  Either way, it was exponentially more than he’d pay an escort.  He travelled around the country eavesdropping on conversations and if he found an attractive girl, he made the offer.

                One day a man he used to work with invited him over to her house for his son’s 2^nd birthday.  He hadn’t seen him in a while so was looking forward to going.  He had married a woman that also worked with Larry and he so Larry was friends with both of them.  He bought a nice gift and brought it over to the house by the Aqueduct casino in Queens, New York. 

                His friend was a blue collar guy who worked construction so Larry found himself with a lot of union welders and construction workers.  These were tough men with calloused hands that Larry respected but knew he could never do what they do.  That actually made him respect them more.  His favorite thing about them is political correctness was not something that they practiced so Larry could feel free to spout off whatever was on his mind and expect bluntness right back.  This was the type of people that he loved.  The Democratic primary debate had just been on TV and he walked in on the discussion.  A man named Duck said, “I think Elizabeth Warren won the debate.”

                There were a couple weird looks and Larry spoke up, “I don’t know; that question about if she was in favor of eliminating private health insurance and having everything government run may have hurt her.  Only she and DeBlasio raised their hands and DeBlasio has no chance in hell.”

                Duck responded, “They all want free healthcare, just nobody raised their hands.  People didn’t really jump on her for that, I don’t think it’ll be an issue.”

                “It will come back to haunt her.  Al Gore brought up the weekend furlough program of Dukakis during the primaries.  Nobody cared when it was just Democrats but George H.W. Bush jumped all over it and personalized it with Willie Horton who went on a murdering spree during his furlough.  Dukakis got destroyed.”

                “Well she’s got to win first before we find out.”

                “True, but she is one of the top candidates right now”

                “I was really impressed with John Delaney”

                “Yea, he spoke the least and got a lot of buzz so he was definitely efficient.”

                “He’s the only one that made any sense.”

                “Yea, he basically repeated the Obama line ‘if you like your plan, you can keep it.’  Of course Obama lied when he said it so Delaney is too but among the insane the semi-sane is king.”

                Clarissa sat down at the table and chimed in, “I didn’t think Gabbard did too bad.”

                “She sounded good when she was debating the guy from Ohio.  I mean he messed up saying the Taliban was responsible for 9/11, and she fired right back that it was Al Qaeda.  She echoed what a lot of conservatives say in that we need to stop trying to police the world and take care of us.  The Taliban was there before us and they will be there after.  She mentioned her military experience.  I agree with you” replied Larry

                Duck spoke up, “I think we all agree that Beto O’Rourke was the biggest loser.”

                The whole table laughed and Clarissa chimed in, “Yea like when he tried to speak Spanish.  Look, I lived in Venezuela, I’m fluent.  That was really shitty Spanish.”

                Larry piled on, “And that look that Corey Booker gave him was priceless”

Duck added, “Well, he stole Booker’s idea, he was going to do that.” 

Clarissa uttered, “He still could have.  You can show someone up and since O’Rourke set the bar so low, it wouldn’t have been hard.”

Larry declared, “I think NBC was a loser for not shutting off the microphones of the people in the back when they switched moderators.”

Duck retorted, “No, that was hilarious.  I wish someone said something incriminating.  I mean all we got was ‘who took my binder.’  It would have been awesome if they were like, ‘Wow that Warren is a retard’ or something.”

The hostess of the party, Varuna, came over to the table.  She realized what they were talking about.  Not one to mince words, especially in her own house, she blurted out, “That Julian Castro was a mother cunt last night.”

The table got uncomfortable but Larry was used to her speaking like that.  He didn’t react and just rejoined, “I think they all were but why Castro specifically?”

                “He said he wants to decriminalize border crossings.  He just wants to let all the spics in no matter what.”

                Varuna was also from Trinidad and had emigrated to America legally so viewed the people who did it illegally as taking the shortcut, which she viewed as unfair because she had to go through a lot of hoops that they should’ve too.  Also, Trinidad has had a problem with Venezuelans and Columbians fleeing to their country and bringing crime.  It was Clarissa that spoke out against her cousin, “Oh come on, don’t use that word.”

                Larry pronounced, “Especially because you’re married to an Italian and ‘spic’ was used for the Italian workers by the Irish immigrants because they didn’t like them here.  So you’re using a racial slur that was originally meant for your husband’s people.”

                Clarissa turned to Larry and admitted, “I didn’t know that.”

                Larry just nodded his head but then announced, “Although, in 2013, Julian Castro testified in front of congress that it was direly important to enforce the border and keep people out who are undocumented.”

                “Illegal” cried out Varuna

                “Yes, illegal.  Since I was quoting Castro, I had to use the term he used but if you come to this country illegally, then ‘illegal’ is a fair description.”

                The food was ready so the table got up to get food and beer and the conversation halted.  Later on Clarissa walked up to Larry.  She remembered him from Varuna’s wedding in Trinidad.  Back then, she was a teenager and he was in his late 20s.  Now that he was 35 and she was in her mid-20s, it wasn’t so bad.  She offered, “I remember you.  You stayed at my house for the wedding.”

                “And I remember you.  We spoke Spanish together.”

                “Yes we did”

                “Your parents treated me like a king.  I got huge meals, everyone was so jealous.  It was great.”

                “How have you been?”

                “Pretty well.  I made some good investments that will carry me over for a while.  How about you?”

                “Well, I got my dream from last I saw you and moved to South America.  Unfortunately it was communist Venezuela so I had to leave and now I’m massively in student debt.  All my education is on Spanish relations and I can’t really get a good job here, which sucks.  I just got a graduate degree so I could stay in this country.  Now, I’m on a path to citizenship and I’m probably going to be paying off my student loans for the rest of my life.”

                “Join the club”

                “I mean, you’re older than me.  Have you paid yours off?”

                “Mine were paid off before I met you.”

                “Oh” was all Clarissa could say. 

                “If you don’t mind me asking, what party are you affiliated with.”

                “I’m a far-right conservative.”

                “Oh, nice.”

                Larry laughed and uttered, “That’s not normally the reaction I get to that.”

                “I know but that’s my point.  Everyone here is liberal so I like hearing the other side.  Do you mind if we talk politics?”

                “Not at all”

                “So, we had two supreme court cases decided recently, are you familiar?”

                “I am, the one about state governors being able to draw districts and the one about if you can include the question ‘are you a citizen’ on the census”

                “What are your thoughts on them?”

                “I hate one, like the other.  I’ll start with the one I like, the redrawing of districts.  Conservatives want more power to the states and less to the federal government. Actually, more accurately they want more power to individuals but states come second and the federal government is dead last.  Bottom line is a state representative probably knows their state better than any federal government bureaucrat so the governor should be in charge of drawing the districts.  Yea it may unfairly benefit one or the other but it’s better than someone who doesn’t know what’s going on arbitrarily deciding on something that doesn’t affect him at all.  Keep it a state issue.”

                “And the other”

                “it’s retarded.  I mean why even have national elections?  Just have the world vote on our president if you don’t need to be a citizen of this country to vote.  There is no rhyme or reason to it.  Now the Democrats are really going to open the border so they get more people in their states, which mean more representatives to counteract the citizens living here.  I mean tourists come her all the time, why not let them vote and add them to the population?  It reminds me of when our country had slavery.  There was a big debate about whether slaves should count in the population.  They agreed that slaves were worth ¾ of a person.  Just like now, the Democrats, who were the slave owners wanted them to count and the non-slave holding Republicans wanted them not to count at all.  Now, the racist slavery-loving Democrats won without a compromise.”

                “Why does the population matter?”

                “Our elections are based on the electoral college.  Each state gets two senators.  The amount of electoral votes you have is based on the amount of Senators plus the number of house of representative members you have.  The house of representative is determined by your population.  The more House members you have, the more electoral votes your state gets and the more important that state is in choosing the president.”

                “Oh, yea that’s a big problem since all the immigrants want to come to big cities, that is predominantly Democrats”

                “With that decision, Donald Trump is going to be the last Republican president.  Texas is going to be swarmed with more illegal immigrants that will be allowed to vote now that it will turn it blue.  Once Texas turns blue, there’s no way a Republican will win again.”

                “That’s a little dark”

                ‘But true, mark my words.”

                “Is that the only reason you think that?”

                “No, big tech bans conservatives from their networks.  It’s like Big Brother except it’s not the government, it’s Google, YouTube and the like.  Of course Orwell didn’t know about those companies when he wrote his book but same concept.”
                “Well, I just came from Venezuela so yea I know all about big brother and socialist tendencies”

                “Even the alternative sites are jumping on.  Redditt just banned a group, ‘The Donald’ that supported President Trump.  Since they kept winning the uptweets or whatever they’re called, they just get banned.  You can search them, you can’t join them, they wiped them out for being too popular.”

                “I’m not sure about that”

                “They were the only group they made follow the rules.”

                “So you think the government should break them up?  I mean that’s what Elizabeth Warren wants.”

                “No”

                “Good because you said you don’t like the federal government getting involved in things.”

                “That’s pretty good that you picked that up just from my conversation about the district maps”

                “Thanks” Clarissa said with a wide smile

                “I think there needs to be a Bill of Rights.  Clearly explain the rules and when you get banned, you have to have a written reason as to why you were banned.  It needs to explain how you can fix it.  There needs to be someone you call and hold responsible for the banning.  Just transparency.  Now they just ban you with no explanation just poof no you’re done.”

                “That sounds reasonable.  You know, you Republicans aren’t the evil people that liberals make you out to be.”

                “Well yea, that’s why they suppress us from speaking so people don’t listen to us and realize they’ve been lied to.”

                “Well, consider me informed.  I mean, I’m a Democrat because, well….”

                “Everyone you know is a Democrat but listen to what the Democrats say and they sound very similar to Chavez and Maduro.”

                “Just AOC and Bernie, the rest are progressives”

                “Not too far off.”

                “Yea but they want to wipe out my student loans”

                “You do realize that they’d raise prices on everyone to do that. So you’re going to be paying yours and other people’s through increased taxes”

                “No, they just would tax financial transactions, I don’t own stock.”

                “Student loan debt is 1.7 trillion dollars.  The whole US economy is 20 Trillion.  You really think you’re going to generate 8.5% of the entire US economy from a .05% tax on stocks.  First off, people will stop investing.”

                “I never thought of that.”

                “That’s because they never talk specifics.  They lie to you.  So you’re willing to destroy this country you fled to because the one you left had plummeted to the point that everyone is starving and the currency isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on by voting for and advocating the very policies you left.”

                “Nobody explains that to us.”

                “I just did”

                “Yea but it’d be nice to not have to pay my student loans.”

                “So you’re willing to destroy the country you live in for it?  You really want those loans paid off.  Tell me something, would you do anything for those loans to go away?”

                Clarissa looked inquisitively at Larry and shyly inquired, “What do you mean?”

                “Would you do anything to have someone pay your student loans?”

                “I don’t know.  Depends what it was.”

                “What if a politician said that he’d pay your student loans if you vote for him?”

                “Well, that’s pretty much what I said on why I like the Democrats”

                “So you’d switch if it was a Republican?”

                “Yea, I guess so.”

                “What if that Republican said you had to post and tell all your friends you’re a Republican?”

                “Sure, they’re my friends. They’re not going to change their opinion of me”

                Larry smiled at her condescendingly as he knew that conservatives almost never stop being friends with someone over politics. Liberals, on the other hand, do it all the time.  He decided to go for the kill, “Alright, now all the cards are on the table.  If you fuck me and become a Republican and tell your friends you are, I’ll pay your student loans.”

                “For how long do I have to be a Republican?”

                “Well, I’ll pay them off right away so that’s on your honor.”

                Clarissa chuckled, “So basically you just want to fuck me?”

               
                “For a very large price yes.”

                “You’re really rich aren’t you?”

                “Yes but don’t think it’s anything more than it is.  It will be a one night stand.  There’s no marriage, you’re not going to trap me or anything.  It’s just one night.”

                “So you basically think I’m a prostitute.”

                “A very high end one.  I mean you were going to vote for a person you didn’t know, and he’ll charge you for it by raising your taxes.  At least with me, there’s no pay back of any kind.”

                “You’re like those 19 billionaires that wrote a letter to the government to tax them more.”

                “No, they are liars.  The tax code clearly has a clause that you can voluntarily give money if you want to.  They call it, ‘gifts to America.’  You send a check to P.O. Box 1328 in Paresburg, WV.  You don’t have to wait for congress to raise taxes, just give it to them.”

                “Do people do that?”

                “The most the government ever got was $ 12 million”

                “If each one of those billionaires gave a million that would be more than that”

                “Yea, see they’re liars”

                “Well, you can come back to my place after the party.”

                “You are going to have to sign something saying you consent so you can’t pretend it’s rape later.”

                “Wow, okay.”

                “So, yes you’ll take my deal?”

                “Yea why not” she stated as she shrugged her shoulders, “it’s just sex”

                They walked inside and people were watching the Women’s World Cup.  Larry rolled his eyes and asserted, “I hope the US loses”

                “Why?” asked Varuna

                “Megan Rapinoe keeps running her mouth how she hates America and won’t put her hand over her heart to sing the national anthem.  She jabbers on about how if they win, she’s not going to the fucking White House.  If you hate the country that much then don’t fucking join the national team.  I get pissed when people represent America and shit on the flag and the anthem.  Fuck you bitch.”

                Nobody disagreed with Larry.  Every country in the world understood the importance of nationalism except America.  It was one reason immigrants were always perplexed by Americans.  It’s like they didn’t understand what they had. 

                The night was over and Clarissa left first giving Larry her address.  She told him to meet her at her house in an hour so it didn’t look suspicious.  Larry agreed and after an hour, took an Uber to her house as he had drank a lot.  He got Clarissa on video signing the contract with her phone out.  He had her demonstrate that she could make calls and had her leave the room to demonstrate that she could dial 911 if she was in any danger.  Larry knew that this contract would never hold up in court.  It was just a bluff that hopefully Clarissa didn’t know.  Thus far, he hadn’t gotten in trouble for these indecent proposals but if one woman did, then everyone else may pile on because people wanted to be famous even if it was for being a rape victim.  Of course, he had never raped anyone.  The truth was it was always consensual but women do lie. 

                They didn’t waste time as Larry stripped himself first.  Clarissa did the same and then walked past Larry and lied on her back with her arms behind her head on the bed.  Larry mounted her and she placed her feet against his thighs and underhooked his arms resting her hands on his deltoids pulling him towards her.  Larry followed suit and was surprised that despite no foreplay, Clarissa was already wet.  He humped her using his leg muscles to overpower hers then let her lightly push him away only to drive back in.  After a bit, Clarissa showed how strong her legs really were and put her feet on Larry’s chest hoisting him to his feet.  Clarissa got up as well swinging her right leg over Larry’s shoulder and kissing him as her right leg straightened aside his head still on Larry’s shoulder.  Larry drove himself into her repeatedly as Clarissa moaned.  Larry then swept Clarissa’s left leg from under her and lied her back on the bed.  Clarissa lifted her left leg over Larry’s shoulder and Larry bent her legs behind her head as he deeply penetrated her driving himself harder and harder into her.  He swung her left leg over and entered from the rear with his hands firmly grasping her butt.  Clarissa was on her knees but Larry straightened them out.  He straddled her right leg and licked her right butt cheek but despite withdrawing from Clarissa’s birth canal, his testicles still sent an army of semen through his shaft and instead of salt covering Clarissa’s butt, it was ejaculate covering her right leg.  Larry rolled off her and Clarissa used the sheets to wipe off the semen a little relieved that it landed there as they clearly forgot to put a condom on Larry.

            Larry lied on his back panting and Clarissa did the same.  Clarissa was the first to speak as she posed, “I keep hearing this stuff about ‘unmasking’ what is that?”

            “When the intelligence community has a foreign person under surveillance, they can record their phone calls without a warrant because they’re not US citizens.  If, however, the foreigner is talking to a US citizen, the intelligence agent listening will mask their name and redact it so that it’s not in the record who he was talking to.  This protects the American’s 4^th amendment rights protecting against unlawful search and seizures.  If it comes up later that this American may be involved in illicit activity with the foreigner, they can file a request with a court to unmask the names.”

            “That seems like a loophole into spying on everyone”

            “It is and that’s what it became under Obama because a mask is only as good as the people who know who you are’s ability to keep the secret.”

            “So under Obama, they weren’t good at keeping people masked?”

            “It’s worse than that.  People are supposed to be unmasked by a court, but the person authorizing an obscene number of unmasking was Samantha Powers”

            “Who’s that?”

            “She was the ambassador to the United Nations under Obama”

            “Why would she have that authority?”

            “Precisely, she’s not an intelligence agent.  She doesn’t work in a legal role.  She’s not in the judiciary branch.  That’s a blatant abuse of power.”

            “Yea, I ‘d say.”

            “What’s worse, she’s supposed to be neutral but she used government servers to attack Donald Trump.  As Ambassador, it’s your job not to be partisan and she made it very known.”

            “Well, it seems a lot of people did that.”

            “And they should all be prosecuted for it.  They broke the law.”

            “Why would they be so dumb though?  Obviously if it’s on a government server, the government can find out.  I mean they probably listen to all our calls but they definitely listen to shit on their server.”

            “Nobody thought Trump would win so they didn’t bother to cover their tracks.  They knew Hillary would win and Hillary would cover it all up.”

            “Yea, not so much.”

            “Not sure about that as none of them are in jail.  I mean the anti-Trump people arrested Papadopoulos, Manafort, Flynn, Cohen, Etc. etc. and all we got is Michael Avenatti.  It seems now if you’re Democrat, you’re above the law even if a conservative is president.”

            “Well, I guess I’ll see how our side gets discriminated against.” She declared with a smile.  Clarissa took out her phone and changed her Facebook affiliation to conservative.  She also posted on all her social media platforms that she switched to a Republican.

            She put her phone down shrugging her shoulders.  Larry grinned and said, “Now watch how people attack you.”

            “I don’t think they will.”

            He again gave her a condescending look and articulated, “You’ll see”

            Larry cradled Clarissa in his arms and fell asleep surprised at how she relaxed in his arms.  The next morning, Larry wired the money online to the government body that loaned her the money for school paying it in full.  They got breakfast together and Larry went home hugging her good bye.  Clarissa quickly found out what real discrimination and vitriolic hatred was about with the comments that came back.  She was called a White Supremacist even though she was brown.  Some friends refused to talk to her anymore.  With each comment though, she became more and more bold.  She researched conservatives and found that Google kept steering her away from conservatives so she had to do some serious research to find them.  When she did, she realized that they really were the opposite of what she fled.  What started out as a deal became a reaction to the hatred she got from friends and family.  Not all of them but enough for her to deem it ridiculous.  She was pushed further and further right the more she found out and when it was time to vote a little under a year and half later, she cast her vote for Donald Trump.  She and Larry still saw each other at Varuna’s parties but they were cordial and remained civil.  They never had anything more than a casual plutonic relationship again.  With her student loans paid off, Clarissa was free to work without a massive debt on her shoulders.  She never regretted what she had to do in exchange for that freedom.