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in the Trump White House is very stressful.
It’s not because of the person in charge of the household; it’s that
that person is being constantly attacked on so many different fronts that it
puts you in a battlefield mentality.
This, of course, is the whole point of the outside threats, to isolate
and force people not to work for President Trump but those who work for him
know he’s the best man for the country.
One such employee is a 35-year-old man named Theo. Working for President Trump has made Theo
question his economic education that he learned at a very reputable
university. Having gone to a reputable
university, his faith in the American education system was severely decimated
but in the 13 years since he graduated, the faith was completely gone. He remembered in many economic formulas that
expectations were absolutely vital in understanding how markets and the economy
work. The analogy they gave was if
everyone thought the price of gas would rise by a dollar a gallon tomorrow,
then everyone would go and fill their car with gas today regardless of how full
their tank was knowing that those gallons would be far cheaper than they would
be the next day so they will save money.
If enough people did this, that would increase the demand for gas
without affecting the supply. When
demand rises, and supply stays the same, then the price goes up. With enough people, you can make that
expectation a self-fulfilling prophesy and make the price raise by a dollar a
gallon the next day. Everyone would
think the prediction was right but in reality, if there was no prediction, the
price of gas would have probably stayed the same the next day. Theo was
doubting this because mainstream media and the general public were constantly
told and convinced that the economy would collapse under Donald Trump. Instead, the economy soared. Maybe these expectations weren’t as important
as he was taught; or maybe, just maybe, not enough people actually believed
what society and the mainstream media were telling them. Could that many people be capable of not
being sheep and thinking for themselves?
Theo had his ideas but the answer isn’t very obvious.
Due to the stress of constant
attack, bombardment and hatred he experienced for working for President Trump,
Theo often found himself at a bar after work to take the edge off. That is where he was now. He was meeting up with his friend Tatiana but
she was running late at work so that meant he’d have to drink alone until she
got there. Since this depressed Theo, he
would often pick a discussion with people at the bar realizing that he didn’t
care who he offended. Oddly, people weren’t
as against it as he originally thought they would be. There was a couple that Theo could tell was
not romantically involved debating and the woman said, “Just Google it”
Theo rolled his eyes. He hated when people looked at the internet
as a bastion of truth that is incapable of stating a lie. Literally anyone can make a website and can
write whatever they want so how do you really know the website that came up is
the truth? The boy, obviously, agreed as
that was social convention. The argument
ended based on what the first website on Google said. Theo wanted to watch drama unfold so he came
up to them and said, “How do you know the website you looked at is fact?”
The woman said, “Well, I mean…”
“You mean what? Everything on the internet is true?”
“Well no, obviously not, but…”
“But what? If you know that everything on the internet
isn’t true then why do people look to it to resolve all disputes? Discuss it, rationalize, think for yourself
not what Google wants you to think.”
“What do you mean what Google
wants us to think? It’s just a platform
where people can put things up and we can see what other people are saying
about it”
“Oh no, Google isn’t a platform
anymore.”
The boy said, “What do you
mean?”
“There was just a project
Veritas video where they interviewed a Google executive in charge of the AI
algorithms and after 2016, she changed the algorithms to discriminate against
conservatives in an elaborate campaign to make sure Trump doesn’t get elected
in 2020.”
“How are they doing that?”
“Do you remember the Hillary
e-mail scandal?”
“Yea, but the FBI closed it.”
“Yea after a couple days
allegedly looking through 30,000 e-mails and analyzing them. But, it took over 600 days to look at
Trump. Anyway, that’s a different
discussion. What do you know about
Donald Trump e-mails?”
The couple looked at each other
with a confused look on their face and the boy finally spoke up, “I don’t
really remember a story about Trump’s e-mails”
“Excellent, now type ‘Donald
Trump e-mails’ in Google.” The guy did
and Google auto-filled a couple suggestions.
He looked up unimpressed. Theo
smiled and said, “Now type in ‘Hillary Clinton e-mails are’”
The boy did and looked up with a
defeated look on his face. Theo said,
“No autofill right? Trying to tell you
that nobody wants to know about this and nobody ever looks for it. People, though, are looking for Donald Trump
e-mails Google claims”
The woman said, “Well how do you
know they aren’t” in a snobby voice.
Theo nodded and said, “type
trans.google.com’ it has a graph of how many people are searching”
The boy did and the Donald Trump
e-mail was a straight line at the bottom showing nobody was searching but the
Hillary Clinton one showed a huge spike that went over 100 for Hillary in
October 2016 but then was lower as it got to current. The woman snottily retorted, “Well, that’s
just an algorithm problem, it was like when Google used to autocorrect ‘white
guy stole my car’ to ‘Black guy stole my car’”
“No, that was the algorithm
working correctly because more people searched ‘Black man stole my car.’ It wasn’t racist, it was facts. But liberals are immune to facts because
they’re morons”
“We’re liberals”
“Yea I figured as much”
The woman had taken over the
conversation, “Who was this Google executive anyway?”
“Jen Gennai”
“I don’t know her”
‘ “How many Google executives do
you know?”
The woman opened her mouth to
speak but then closed it as she realized she had nothing to say, “So, what she
just randomly said she’s making algorithms to stop Trump?”
“Yes, she specifically said that
a couple times. Which is odd because
Elizabeth Warren is the one that wants to break up Google.”
“Did your video say anything
about that? Did they bother to ask?”
“They did and although Genai
said that she loves Warren, she is misguided because if she breaks up Google
then the smaller companies wouldn’t have the resources that Google has to stop
Trump”
“She specifically said to stop
Trump?”
“Yup”
“Wow, this bitch really thinks
she’s God doesn’t she?”
“Well, when everyone goes to
their sites for truth without doubting anything and using it to settle debates,
she may not be completely off.”
“Well, I don’t know, so you want to
break them up? Then you’re on the side
of the Democrats and you want government interference.”
“I didn’t say I agreed with
Warren. I don’t want government
intervention. I want government to stop protecting them. They should not have the protection of the
security and decency act 230”
“What’s that?”
“Platforms can’t be sued”
“Well, then everyone wouldn’t be
able to post what they want. It kind of
ruins the whole purpose of the internet and social media”
“I’m not quite sure that’s a bad
thing but this isn’t supposed to be a nation of what I think. A lot more people would be hurt by that than
helped.”
“So do you have a solution or
you just like bitching?”
“Just say that if they can’t
explain in writing how someone violated their terms of service and how they can
fix it, then they are exposed to being sued.”
“So, you’re saying that this
written explanation will expose them if they’re like ‘well you’re a
conservative and we hate conservative speech’”
“Exactly, now they just ban you
with no explanation. Or, just demonetize
you.”
“What do you mean ‘demonetize?’”
“You’re not allowed to make
money off the posting. They block all
ways to be paid for what you put up.”
“I’m not sure how I feel about
that”
“It’s like 1984. Except Big Brother isn’t the government, it’s
Google”
“I wouldn’t go that far.”
“Suppressing any thought that
disagrees with them. Labeling everything
they disagree with as ‘hate speech.’
Removing content they don’t approve of.
Kind of sounds like double speak, and book burning in the book.”
“So, you’re anti-socialism too.”
“Of course I am”
“Well Bernie Sanders wants to
eliminate student loan debt. We have a
lot of student loans so that’s good for us.”
“You’re still going to pay it
through his increase of taxes”
“No, he said that only stock
transactions would be taxed to pay for it.
Just don’t buy stocks”
“Are you trying to say that only
rich people buy stocks? No Middle class
people buy stocks?”
“Well, no”
“And the people that employee
people, they buy stock right?”
“Yea”
“So, if they’re paying all these
taxes every time they buy a stock, that means they have less money to hire
people and give them raises right?”
“Well, I mean, I guess yea”
“Also people don’t want to
invest because it costs more, which hurts the economy right? IPO’s can’t get buyers so smaller businesses
suffer.”
“Well, I mean, it’s the rich
paying it, not us.”
“I just explained how it affects
you but do you really think the rich have enough to pay off over a trillion
dollars? Right now, the top 10% of
income earners are taxed at 75%. With
that, the government brings in about $ 20 billion. You think that taxing financial transactions
is going to generate as much money as five times more than all the current
taxes combined? And you think that’s
going to target only the rich and still generate that much?”
“Well when you put it like
that…..”
“Finish the sentence”
“Bernie Sanders is lying” the
woman declares after slumping over as her eyes dart down.
Theo ended the conversation and
went back to get another drink. As he
did, a man came up to him and said, “So, are you trying to say that socialism
can’t work?”
“Socialism only works for an
individual household. Tiny scale, not
big scale”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, in a house, the parents
need to be the dictators. It’s not a
democracy with your younger children.
Their vote shouldn’t matter. You
make the decisions as the parents. You
control the means of production as you have all the money. Policy is made literally because ‘I said so.”
The man laughed and said, “So,
no other context?”
“No, as the group gets bigger to
a community, town, state, country, you move closer and closer to capitalism.”
“So why would something work at
the small scale but not the large scale?
In science, experiments are always done in the small scale before
ramping it up.”
“Exactly they ramp it up to see
if the large scale works like the small scale.
Also the small scale shows you the best way to do an experiment as far
as materials or process without spending too much money.”
“Often times it works in both”
“Often yes, but not every time.
Otherwise they wouldn’t spend the money on the large scale.”
The man hesitated for a little
bit and pronounces, “I guess that makes sense but why don’t you think socialism
can work at the federal level if you get someone that loves their people as
much as parents love their children?”
“The fact that you’re asking
that makes me hope you don’t have children.
It is impossible to reach that level.
Aside from that, it’s about subsidiaries”
“What do you mean?”
“There’s only two things that
matter; knowledge and accountability. In
my home, since I live there, I know what goes on. Since I live with the people in it and spend
a lot of time with them, I know them very well.
That’s the knowledge part. If
they end up being assholes, people are going to hold me, the parents,
accountable. Also an individual vote
holds more weight so you’re accountable more to the people. The more people there are the less your vote
counts, the less incentive you have to do right by them. Despite all these spy devices like cell
phones and Alexa’s and stuff, the federal government doesn’t have intimate
knowledge of things that go on in everyone’s home. Therefore they lack the knowledge. Since there’s so many people, individual
votes don’t matter so you can screw people over. Better to give the power to the people so
they can take care of themselves. In
communism, since you assume that everyone is equally qualified, you assign
people with no experience to charge huge corporations and companies. When incompetent people are in charge of
tasks that need knowledge and experience, you get Chernobyl.”
“I think if you have the right
leader, it can work.”
“You can’t force people to work
for nothing. It’s not fair that people
who refuse to work get the same fruits as those who work. Everyone is going to choose to be the one who
doesn’t work and gets the same rewards.
But someone has to work so how do you get them to work if you can’t
offer more money?”
“I know what you’re getting at”
“You have to hold a gun to their
head or force them”
Theo’s friend Tatiana came up
and saw Theo talking and cried out, “Now now, Theo stop picking fights with
people and let people drink in peace.”
The man turned to Tatiana and
said, “Better listen to your better half, she’ll keep you out of trouble”
Tatiana smiled charmingly and
announced, “Oh that’s impossible.”
The man grinned and walked
off. Tatiana turned off the charm and
uttered, “I really can’t leave you alone can I?”
“Of course not” Theo replied
with a smile
“How was work?”
“Crazy as always. A project
Veritas video came out with Google executives admitting that they are colluding
to stop Donald Trump by suppressing searches for conservative content and
banning conservatives from youtube and demonetizing them.”
“Oh poor Trump” Tatiana said
sarcastically
“Yea, it’s amazing his success
when he gets attacked by everyone.”
“I’ll give you that. I mean he does get attacked from every
direction. Even conservatives because
Ann Coulter and her followers hate him for fucking up the border.”
“Yea, yet somehow I’m not
entirely convinced he’ll lose in 2020”
“Well, the Democrats have like a
reverse auction as campaigns”
Theo laughed and asked, “What do
you mean by that?”
“In an auction, you try to sell
something to someone. You want them to
buy as much as they can. What the
Democrats do is try to sell you free stuff and give you more and more by
spending other people’s money. It’s
like, ‘how much more of other people’s money can I spend?”
“Without telling you that it’s
actually your money that’s paying for it.
You just think it’s other people’s money.”
“Yea, we steal something from
you and give it away to other people. We
also steal things from them and give it to you.
But we keep asking you to donate more and more to make it possible to
give you that stuff because heaven forbid you just make money and buy what you
want yourself.”
Theo burst out laughing. Although Tatiana was generally left of
center, since her parents were Ukrainian immigrants, she was very
anti-communist and anti-socialism. “How
was your day?”
Tatiana was 5’8” with brown hair
and a slender body and pale skin. She
had shoulder length hair with bangs to make her look younger than her 36
years. She had worked for a few years in
her native Ukraine helping the pro-Ukraine faction ward of Russian
influence. What she found was a lot of
corruption and dirty politics that really blurred the lines between good and
evil. She realized quickly that
knowledge was an entrepreneurial activity and she survived by selling
secrets. With a wealth amassed, she came
back to America to do what she actually enjoyed, nursing, without worrying
about her finances. She had known Theo
since high school and randomly ended up in DC together even though they weren’t
from there. Despite her being out of
Ukrainian politics, however, she still read Ukrainian news and vowed to stay in
tune with what was going on. She said,
“Not too good.”
“Why’s that?”
“Do you remember a few years ago
when that cargo plane got shot down over Ukraine?”
“Vaguely but not really”
“Well a Malaysian airliner was
flying from Holland to Kuala Lumpur.
When it was over Ukraine, Russians mistook it for a military plane so
they sent a Buk missile to take it out and killed 298 people.”
“That sucks”
“Yea, that’s one way to put it”
she decried exasperatedly, “Anyway Dutch prosecutors are investigating it and
they found the three Russians that did it.”
“Well that’s good”
“Not really, Ukraine and Russia
don’t extradite their citizens. I mean
Holland has a law that people don’t have to be present to be prosecuted but
being found guilty in Holland just means they can’t go to Holland.”
“One less place”
“Yea, but the mastermind behind
it was this asshole named Vladislav Surkov”
“Do you know him?”
“Yea, he was Putin’s main
contact for Ukraine. He tormented
Ukraine. He’s a master manipulator and
disinformation specialist. He’s the one
that helped Hillary Clinton by giving all the negative information about
Manafort to Alexadra Chalupa of the DNC.
He got Ukraine to open an investigation into Manafort and other things
to hurt Trump. Shockingly, after the
election, they closed the investigation because Surkov didn’t care about it
anymore.”
“Well, you must be happy he lost
then.”
“I’m not a big fan of Trump but
I do enjoy that piece of shit Surkov losing so yea, I’ll thank Trump for that
small satisfaction even though he didn’t do it for me. Someone had to knock that arrogant piece of
shit down a peg.”
“You seem to know him personally
with all this animosity.”
“I do. When he found out I was
American he told me that the only good thing that came out of America is
Jackson Pollack. I think he had two more
but that’s the one I remember.”
“Well you can’t expect Russians
to like America”
“I know it’s just that he would
tell us that Russia controlled our thoughts and our consciousness and there’s
nothing we can do about it.”
“Well, I’ve actually heard the
name too.”
“In what way?”
“He was one of Christopher
Steele’s sources for the dossier.”
“Oh God, then it really is
bullshit.”
“Well, we knew that anyway”
“But it was on purpose. It was a disinformation campaign. Surkov would never betray Putin.”
“That makes sense.”
“That means that in his crazy
arrogant prideful brain, he’ll spin it that he won even though Hillary lost the
election.”
“How so?”
“Because he got our FISA court
to issue a warrant and spy on an American president with his disinformation
campaign. He created chaos and forced us
to have a two year investigation based on his fake information. Like I said, he doesn’t care about America or
Americans including Hillary Clinton. He
wanted to meddle and keep us in chaos.
He succeeded. Fucking asshole.”
“Well, don’t let him spin
it. He tried to influence the public so
Hillary would win and she didn’t. That’s
all. Who cares what he thinks. He lost.”
“Yea I guess” she rejoined
unconvincingly.
They talked about lighter things and then they went their
separate ways. As Theo was going home,
his friend Luna called him. Luna had big
eyes, long straight hair and brown skin typical of her Syrian heritage. She was a couple years younger than Theo but
they knew each other from college through a mutual friend. Luna didn’t like him at first because of his
right wing views but she grew on him and was now a lawyer in DC. She had emigrated to Long Island, NY when she
was young so all her memories was from America . Theo met up with her and gave
her a hug. They exchanged pleasantries and Luna inquired, “So anything upsetting
you about ‘fake news’ lately” in a mocking tone.
Theo figured two people could play the ribbing game, he
fired back, “Yea, the Starr Tribune ignored a story from 2016 of Ilhan Omar
marrying her brother so he could stay in this country. We call this fraud and is subject to
deportation and huge fines but of course nothing will happen because she’s a
Democrat”
“She’s married”
“Right, she had a religious marriage ceremony in 2007
with her current husband but it wasn’t legal. Then they broke up in 2011. In 2012, she married another man that
allegedly was her brother. They broke up
in 2014 but didn’t make it official until 2017.
A couple months later, she had a legal marriage with her first husband,
whom she has three kids with.”
“You do know that divorce proceedings do take years
right?”
“Well yea, but she conveniently got legally married a
couple months later.”
“That happens”
“It’s a little suspicious: Especially because she was filing jointly for
taxes when they weren’t married.”
“I’ll give you suspicious but not conclusive.”
“Well, there was an investigation into the interim guy to
see if it was her brother.”
“What was concluded? Should be pretty easy to prove; a simple DNA
test.”
“They concluded that it can’t be ruled out that it’s not
her brother.”
“Yea, so that’s what we call not guilty.” Luna had a wide
mouth and it was spread now staring back at Theo daring him to protest.
“Well, I can’t really disagree with you because you’ll
call my hypocritical for yelling at the people who support Mueller when he
concluded, ‘we can’t prove he didn’t collude with Russia.” Luna nodded
maintaining her grin. Theo continued,
“Well if they do this DNA test and it is in fact her brother, I hope they
deport him.”
“That’s because she’s Muslim and you’re racist against
Muslims”
“We’re friends and you’re the one that didn’t like me for
being a conservative so who’s the bigot here?”
“I took it back.”
“You still had that theory. I never had a problem with you so there you
go. I’ve always known you were Muslims,
I never thought less of you. I also get
along with your sister. I went to grade
school with Pakistanis so there you go.”
“But you hate Ilhan Omar”
“Right because she’s an
anti-American socialist. It has nothing
to do with her religion. She just hates
America and Israel and I have Jewish friends too.”
“Well you work for someone that
banned Muslims from America”
“What country has the most amounts
of Muslims in the world?”
“Saudi Arabia”
“Was Saudi Arabia on the travel
banned list?”
“I’m guessing no”
“No, they’re not. Nicaragua was on that list, is that a country
with a high population of Muslims?”
“Not that I know of”
“What percentage of the world
Muslims live in all the countries on the travel ban?”
“I’m not sure”
“Eight”
“That low?”
“Yup, so if it was a ‘Muslim
ban’ it failed miserably!”
“Back to Omar, let justice play
out. Don’t criticize until the facts of
the case come out then you can judge.”
“I will agree with you on that
but defending AOC’s comments comparing the border to concentration camps was
stupid”
“Well, she’s staying loyal to a friend
but objectively, yea there’s not much of a comparison.”
“The people in the ice detention
facilities can go to their home countries whenever they want. The people in concentration camps
couldn’t. That alone makes the
comparison asinine.”
“Look, I’m not defending Omar
I’m just saying that if you’re going to have a problem with ‘not not guilty
statement’ you need to on both sides.”
“And I did”
“Alright then”
A white male came up to them and
queried Luna, “Is this man bothering you?”
Luna shot him a look and
responded, “No, we’re friends. I’ve
known him for years.”
The man sized them both up and
gave a disgusted look and walked off.
Theo opined, “See, now I’m the discriminated race. He sees a white bald male with a brown girl
and automatically I’m harassing you and you are in need of saving.”
Luna signaled the guy over to
them again and articulated, “Why did you think he was bothering me?”
“Well, he was talking shit about
Omar so he’s obviously a racist.
Especially doing it to a Middle Easterner like you. He’s obviously a bigot.”
“Why? Because I’m bald and white. Yolu’re white too jackass” Theo fired back
“Yes, but I’m tolerant”
“Are you really? Then why did you see something wrong with a
white guy talking to a brown girl?”
“I head what you were
saying. You attacked her people.”
Luna rolled her eyes and Theo
beamed, “Why do you think Omar is her people?”
“Well, they’re both brown.”
“My friend here is from Syria,
Omar is from Somalia. Yes they both
begin with ‘S’ but they’re on different continents.”
“Yea but they’re Muslims”
“So, all Muslims need to get
along?”
“Well, yea, they stick
together.”
“Do you think the Sunni and
Shi’ite stick together?”
“Are they Muslim?”
Theo rolled his eyes and Luna
interjected, “Just walk away. I
appreciate you making sure I’m okay but now you’re making a fool of yourself.”
“Man fuck you bitch. You’re a race traitor hanging out with a
right-wing Neo-Nazi. You’re like a
Muslim Uncle Tom”
Luna slapped her right hand to
her eyes and shook her head. She sighed
and cried out, “Gosh, I’m trying to be nice here. Just walk away, please, just go away.”
Theo chimed in, “Yea, because if
you keep disrespecting my friend, then I’m going to take you outside and beat
the living shit out of you.”
The guy shook his head and
retorted, “Whatever man, fuck you haters”
Luna and Theo looked at each
other and laughed as the guy walked away.
Theo finished his drink and Luna finished her cranberry juice as she
didn’t drink alcohol. They left the bar
and the guy was waiting outside. He
sucker punched Theo, who merely snickered. Theo was six feet tall 220 pounds
and he was looking at a 5’9” skinny guy.
He offered, “You hit like a
girl.”
The guy wound up and punched
Theo in the face again with little reaction from Theo. Theo sneered and asked, “Is that the hardest
you can hit?”
The guy looked around confused
and Theo grabbed him by the throat with his fingers jammed into his carotid
arteries cutting off blood flow to the brain.
When you control the head, you control the body. He pulled the guy forward and drove his knee
into the guy’s midsection. The guy knelt
down gasping for breath as he grabbed his throat. Theo lifted his right leg and nudged the kid
in the side of the head knocking him to the ground. Theo stepped on his chest and applied slight
pressure. He advised, “You really
shouldn’t try getting into a street fight again. It won’t end well for you.”
Luna watched the whole thing and
Theo walked her to her car. They each
went home and Theo looked forward to another day of fighting the good fight in
the White House.
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