Theo the Trump Employee Episode 18 All Time Highs

                Theo is a 35-year-old White House employee.  Although he does support the president, he finds that the constant barrage of attacks from all sides and directions takes a toll on him.  To him, though, he’d have it no other way as nothing good comes easy.  Due to this, however, he finds himself at bars often to decompress.  Although decompression is the goal, his argumentative personality finds himself engaging in debates with the predominantly liberal Washington D.C. populous.  Rather than have this discourage him from his intended purpose, it actually emboldened him.  When he witnessed the libelous, scandalous, treacherous, anti-American, vile, disgusting things that the left stood for and promoted, he knew that the fight was worth it.  He knew that Donald Trump may have flaws but in this environment, we need a fighter.  When the war is over, then we go back to more diplomatic politicians.  He likened Donald Trump to General Patton.  During World War II with the evil Axis powers of the NAZI’s and Japanese, a tough man with no patience for cowardice like Patton was needed to win.  Once we won, however, Patton was sold out to pasture because the focus was on dividing the world and being nice to Stalin who helped us.  Patton, on the other hand, wanted to turn his army east and attack the other communists in Russia.  History would prove Patton correct and Theo was sure that history would prove Trump correct.  He just hoped that Trump wasn’t sold to pasture upon victory like Patton was.  It still bothered Theo that General Patton is buried in Luxembourg, a country that most people don’t even know exists.  Right now though, he was hoping Trump would win over his opponents. 

                Theo goes to a bar in China Town.  While there, he sees a couple of college girls drinking and having fun.  At his age, he feels weird that he finds 18-22 year olds much more attractive than he did when he was their age.  He was beginning to think that the older you get, the hotter women become.  He gets a drink and sits down near them.  He’s not going to flirt with them but he will pick an argument with them if need be.  Almost immediately, a girl says, “I’m just really happy that they arrested that pedophile Epstein”

                Her friend responds, “Yea, it’s disgusting.  Just because of his connections and how rich he is, he got off with a small slap on the wrist”

                “And the lawyer that gave him the plea deal is in Trump’s cabinet.”

                “I know, this could finally be the end to Trump”

                Theo chimed in, “Can I ask you a question?”

                The girl who first brought it up answered, “Sure”

                “Why is it that people always focus on the slight, far off connections but not the deep and repeated ones?”

                “What do you mean?”

                “I mean that Bill Clinton was on Epstein’s plane at least 26 times.  Trump has only been on it once.  Yet, the story you’re going with is that Trump is going down and you say nothing about Clinton.  Why?”

                “How do you know Clinton was on the plane?”

                “There’s flight logs that document all this stuff.  How do you think we know the girls were on the plane?”

                “Oh right” she says self consciously.

                “I’m Theo by the way”

                “Simona”

                Theo shakes hands with Simona and turns to her friend.  The other girl says, “I’m Coco”

                Simona inquires, “So are you saying that Democrats are involved too?”

                “Of course” Theo replied,

                “I haven’t heard that”

                “Well, I guess you’re not paying attention.  Christine Pelosi tweeted that some of her faves are implicated in the Epstein case but we need to let the facts lie whether it be Republican or Democrat.”

                “I would agree with that but Trump is implicated.”

                “How?”

                “He said he’s a good guy that likes beautiful women like I do.  Especially the younger ones”

                “So, he’s a guy that likes beautiful women.  That’s scandalous?  Well, I’m in trouble too then.  You two are young beautiful women. Am I not allowed to like you?”

                “We’re not 14”

                “Trump didn’t say he liked 14-year-olds, he said young women.  The dude is 70, young is a relative term.  I mean I’m 35, Trump would consider girls my age practically babies.  Whereas you probably think I’m old.  There hasn’t even been a whisper of Trump having sex with a teenager, which is saying something since everyone makes up stories about him on a daily basis and demands months long investigations with every negative tweet.”

                The girls smiled politely but said nothing.  Since Theo was bald, he didn’t look young.  SImona broke the silence with, “Well, I mean he was friends with him and had been on the plane.  That one time on the plane there were probably some sketchy things going on.  He may not have participated but he didn’t condemn him.”

                “First off, I’m sure your friends do things you don’t do but you don’t judge them for it.  A lot of my friend smoke, I never did.  I didn’t stop them from smoking.  Some of my friends do cocaine and marijuana, I just didn’t partake but I didn’t condemn them for doing it.”

                “Yea but that’s not, well coke is illegal, but statutory rape I feel is much worse than snorting coke”

                “I would agree and so does Trump”

                “What do you mean?”

                “Trump owns a club in Mar A Lago.  Epstein is banned from that estate because Epstein sexually assaulted an underage girl at the club.  This is according to court documents, so yea he didn’t cover it up. He went to the authorities.  Sends the message that what Epstein does on his plane and his island is his business but he’s not going to do it on Trump’s property.”

                Simona lowered her eyes and looked disappointed.  She stirred her drink with her straw and replied, “I didn’t know that.”

                “So are you prepared to credit Trump for that?”

                Simona’s entire body tensed up.  Even though Theo predicted that, he still loved the reaction.  Leftists go crazy if they have to concede that Trump actually did something that wasn’t completely evil.  Coco spoke up, “One good deed doesn’t make you a good person.”

                Theo smiled and turned toward Coco and posed, “So you’re saying that it was a good deed?”

                Coco shrugged her shoulder and rejoined, “Yea, but that doesn’t mean I like him.”

                “I agree, I just wanted to see if you could admit it.”

                Coco was 5’8” with a slender build and skinny limbs.  Her body wasn’t curvaceous but her black skin was smooth and she had sharp facial features that gave a classic beauty.  Seeing that Simona wasn’t going to concede the point, she decided to help her friend by taking over the talking.  She put force behind her voice as she stated confrontationally, “So what do you mean when you say people make stuff about Trump on a daily basis?”

                “Well the big one is the Russian collusion hoax”

                Coco sighed, “That’s not for sure yet.  They didn’t find any evidence of it but they also didn’t find evidence that he didn’t collude.  The results were inconclusive.”

                “That’s not how this country works”

                “What do you mean?” she snapped angrily

                “In this country, you’re innocent until proven guilty.  You’re not guilty until proven innocent.  When you go to court, it’s up to the plaintiff to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you’re guilty.  The defense has no burden of proving they’re not guilty.  All they have to do is show that there’s a reasonable doubt to the case against them.”

                Coco frowned, “I know that, I mean….well….” she sighed, “There was just so much disinformation that it’s hard to know what happened.”

                “Right, now you have the FBI blaming the CIA.  Brennan and the CIA used to point the finger back at the FBI but now they’ve changed their strategy to blaming consultants”

                “For what?”

                “Opening an investigation with evidence that was never verified.  That’s the nicest I can say it. Based on the evidence, I think they systematically and knowingly used false information so they could spy on the Trump campaign.  This was done because the illegal spying was shut down when Trump won the election so they went into panic mode to cover their tracks.”

                “What’s the evidence for this?”

                “Various e-mails, text messages and sworn testimony by the highest echelon of the FBI, DOJ and CIA pretty much admitting it.”

                “Well if the information was wrong, you can’t really blame them.”

                “How come all the conservatives knew?  Republican congressman Devin Nunes has been saying this since day 1.  Dan Bongino, Margot Cleveland, John Solomon, Nunes, Jim Jones, and pretty much all conservative media outlets all knew so how did the FBI, DOJ, CIA and Democrats not?”

                Neither Coco or Simona said anything for a while and Coco cautiously retorted, “What do you mean the CIA is blaming consultants?”

                “A consulting firm named McKensie were efficiency consultants with the CIA.  They advised a different system to make them more efficient.  According to Politico, the CIA is claiming that this change in policy and strategy confused them so they didn’t know how to vet information well per the new system.”

                “Okay, I’m just going to say that I hope that’s wrong because the implications of that being the case is really fucking scary” Coco exclaimed

                “That we can agree on but I’m pretty sure it’s a bullshit excuse so don’t worry.  When this topic isn’t Trump, the CIA is very efficient.”

                “Why would the CIA even admit that to politico?”

                “They’re scared shitless of the IG report coming out soon.  It’s been done for a month now.  This is my problem with Trump; he delays the release of things and gives his enemies time to cover their asses before he drops the hammer down.  Now the intelligence community is leaking to the media to frame the narrative in advance so as to brainwash the public when the report drops.”

                “Aren’t you doing the same thing?  Framing a narrative so that when they make their excuses, we’d be like ‘ah this is the bullshit that guy was talking about in the bar.’”

                “Yes but the difference is mine is true.  I’m not making excuses.  For three years, the Republicans have been telling the Democrats there’s no collusion, no obstruction and there’s a crisis at the border.  The Republicans have said there was spying, the Democrats deny it.  No Republican has done anything even similar to damage control or making an excuse.  Do you want to know who doesn’t have to make excuses?  People who aren’t wrong and remain consistent.”

                “Some people still claim there was collusion and no spying.”

                “The numbers get fewer and fewer.  I don’t think anyone still says Cohen went to Prague.  Comey is the only person still claiming that Mifsud was a Russian agent.”

                “Who’s Mifsud?”

                “A Maltese professor that met with Trump campaign member George Papadopoulos.  The FBI is saying this meeting is what sparked the investigation because he told Papadopoulos that the Russians had dirt on Hillary because they hacked her e-mails.  Papadopoulos, months later, apparently told an Australian diplomat Alexander Downer the information and, boom, investigation.  Now Downer denies that e-mails were even mentioned and has flip flopped on the story several times but that has stayed consistent that e-mails were never mentioned. As for Mifsud, he has disappeared.”

                “So you don’t think he’s a Russian agent?”

                “No, he’s photographed with many western intelligence agents; especially British.  Even Mueller said that he just had Russian contacts but that’s a meaningless statement.  I know Russians, I’m sure you know Russians.  Who cares if you meet with someone that knows a Russian?”

                “So why would the FBI Director Comey be the last hold out?”

                “Because Brennan is good friends with a man named Stefan Halper who teaches at Cambridge.  Mifsud taught with Halper in Cambridge.  Comey wants to paint the picture that Halper, who is a spy for the CIA, told Brennan Mifsud was a Russian spy.  It fits the FBI narrative that the CIA is to blame.  He’s going to say, ‘Hey, Brennan said MIfsud was a spy so we believed him and when Papadopoulos met with him, we thought it was grounds for an investigation.  It’s not our fault that Brennan lied or was wrong.”

                Coco nodded and uttered timidly, “That actually makes sense.  How come nobody is saying all this?”

                “People are: the Hill, Washington Times, New York Post, Epoch Time, Guardian and every single conservative podcast.  It’s only fake news that isn’t saying this because they are propaganda artists for the Democrat party.  The fact that they’re wrong so often and change their story so much and make excuses and do damage control is why their rating suck.”

                “So we should all listen to Fox news?”

                “Why does everyone bring that up?  I don’t even watch Fox News.  Sure a lot of the people I mention appear on Fox News.  Some of them are Fox News contributors but Trump just attacked Fox News for hiring Donna Brazile”

                “Fine not Fox News, online publications and podcast”

                Coco looked over at Simona.  Simona took the cue that it was her turn to challenge him.  She turned to him.  At 5’5” with a round mousy face, long torso and olive skin with toned muscles and sporty build, she was easy on the eyes.  She decided to change the topic and said, “Well when the recession comes, Trump will be over.”

                “Ah, the 10y/3y yield curve inversion.  Funny nobody talks about the 10y/2y yield curve hasn’t inverted yet.  When people attack Trump, they always leave out exculpatory information.  It’s uncanny”

                “Well, the 10y/3y yield curve has predicted the last 10 recessions”

                “And the 10y/2y was also inverted before the last 10 recessions.  Also when the unemployment rate goes to a half a percentage higher than the 12 year average unemployment, it has preceded a recession the last 10 times.  So, there’s three things that I know of that were all true for 10 recessions in a row.  Only one of them is true now yet you’re so sure?  I mean, I think people are worried about Trump leaving office that’s why the two year is still good but three, not so sure.”

                “Trump may be out of office in a year and five months.”

                “Which only gives the new president seven months to fuck up the undeniably awesome economy that we have right now.  Record highs across the board.  The market may be confident it won’t happen that quickly but a year into the presidency is a different story.”

                “Well, it’s a record high now. You don’t know that it will continue this way till 2020.  I mean this is the longest we’ve gone without a recession in American history, we’re overdue for one.”

                “Ah yes, the whole business cycle.  Five years of growth then a five year recession and then growth again for five years”

                “Right”

                “How come no recession has lasted five years in my lifetime then?  The last one lasted a year and half.  Now, we’re going on 10 years of growth”

                “Well….I’m not a economic genius so I don’t know”

                “Of course not, you’re brainwashed by retarded professors that take advantage of the impressionable minds of 18-22 year olds.”

                “We go to Georgetown, we’re taught by some of the smartest professors in the country.”

                “Being one of the smartest professors in the country is like claiming that you have great vision because you’re on an island with the blind.”

                “So you don’t think the recession is imminent?”

                “Well, the latest job report had a 224,000 increase in jobs.  All your so-called experts predicted 165,000.  Trump continually makes economic professors and predictors look stupid.”

                Simona switched to a snotty tone and articulated, “Okay smarty pants, you tell me why we have this growth.  The Tax cuts?”

                “That’s part of it.”

                “Well, you know all this growth is going to lead to inflation.”

                “Look at the facts, inflation has remained low”

                “Yes but that’s not how it works.”

                “Stop listening to your retarded professors”

                “So why won’t it’?”

                “Because of the sharing economy that has never existed in the history of the world.”

                “What do you mean?”

                “Uber, Turo, Air BNB, now dormant assets are being put into use and people are paying for assets that weren’t on the market before.  With all this additional supply and multiple people using the same asset that used to only be for singular use, people have more places to spend their new found increase in income”

                “I’m not sure I follow”

                Theo took a salt shaker and put it in the middle of the table.  He explained, “Let’s pretend this represents all the products you can buy in America”

                “Okay”

                Theo took a dollar out of his wallet and declared, “Now this represents all the money in America”

                “With you so far.”

                Theo throws another dollar on the table and said, “What happens to the salt shaker when I do this?”

                “The price doubles”

                “Right, because if it didn’t, the additional dollar would be useless”

                “Yea, I understand, keep going.  Don’t manxplain”

                “I’ve never understood the difference between manxplaing and explaining but whatever” Theo took another salt shaker and put it in the middle of the table and continued, “Now what happens?”

                “The prices remain the same despite the additional dollar”

                “So there you go.  It’s because the shared economy has done the impossible by having ridiculously fast growth, especially considering we’ve been growing for 10 years, but inflation remains low.  This is all why Trump’s approval ratings are also at an all time high.  Like a Democratic strategist for Clinton I think said, ‘it’s all about the economy silly”

                “I don’t think his popularity is so high.  He’s a racist”

                “He’s a pretty shitty racist because half of all the new jobs he created have been filled by minorities and Whites still have a slight majority in the population”

                “So you’re saying it’s representative of the population”

                “No I didn’t, I said it’s skewed more toward minorities than the population would suggest”

                “But it’s close enough”

                “If the discrepancy were the other way would you say that?”

                Simona took a deep breath and sighed.  Coco was staring a hole in Theo now.  She exclaimed, “How can you say he’s not racist when you see what’s going on at the border?”

                “Even Martha Raddatz has attacked the lefists in congress about this bullshit.  How can you still be on this?”

                “What do you mean?”

                “Rasheeda Tlib was complaining about the deplorable conditions at the border and Raddatz pointed out that she Tlib voted against the increased funding to create more facilities so they’re not overcrowded and they can take care of the record number of migrants quicker.”

                “Well yea, that’s kind of contradictory.”

                “Yea people like her and AOC complain that kids sleep on floors then when Wayfair offers them beds, they protest it.  They want the kids to suffer so they can keep attacking Trump for a problem they won’t let him try to fix.”

                “What did Tlib say to defend herself?”

                “That even border agents say that money isn’t going to help the problem”

                “Alright, what’s wrong with that?”

                “Their point is that it’s not the only thing you need to do.  You need to build the wall.  You need to revise Flores Consent Decree and fix the asylum laws but the Democrats refuse all of that.”

                “What’s Flores?”

                “In 1997, a law passed that you can’t detain children for more than 20 days.  An asylum case takes over 20 days.  Now, people bring kids to the border knowing that the kids will be released in 20 days and since they can’t be unaccompanied, the adult gets to go free too.”

                “That doesn’t sound right”

                “Why else do you think there’s a market to rent children at the border?  Something like 80% of the children at the border are with someone that is not their parent.”

                “How do they know?”

                “They take a cheeks swab and test it”

                “Well, fine, so that’s a mess and who knows how to clean it up?”

                “I just told you; reverse Flores and have asylum cases in Mexico.  Mexico already agreed to it at the threat of the tariffs”

                “Trump is still sexist.”

                “Everything’s sexist nowadays.  You two accused me of being a chauvinist for explaining why inflation was so low despite the surging economy.  You even asked me to explain and I answered your question and I still got you to hint at it.”

                “You’re tone is a little condescending”

                “Exactly my point, you’re losing the arguments so you resort to insinuating I’m a chauvinist.  That’s what you leftists do.  You take things that were always neutral and pretend it’s discriminatory.”

                “We do not”

                Theo pulled out his phone and showed a tweet of a woman claiming that air condition is sexist because women get cold more easily so they get sick and have to miss more work making it harder for them to compete in an office environment”

                Coco read it and grinned but countered, “Well, I am always cold”

                “See, look at you jump on to defend the retarded statement.  Wear longer sleeves get a space heater.  There’s ways to combat this if it was so detrimental.”

                Coco shook her head, “I’m not going to argue about whether AC is sexist.  It’s not worth my time.”

                “I actually agree but you defended it”

                “Not really, I just said I know what she’s saying but she did take it too far.”

                “She’s retarded”

                “Fine, that’s your opinion but girls do get cold quicker than men”

                “Yes because they have thinner skin but don’t you leftists also claim there is no difference between guys and girls.”

                Simona opined, “Look, we need to vote Democrat because they are going to give us free tuition and wipe out our student loans.”

                “No, you’re going to still pay that with much higher taxes and since everyone has to fit the bill, the economy will slow down, fewer people have jobs.”

                Coco burst out, “So you think that the ridiculously high tuition costs now is fair?”

                “I’m saying the government created the high tuition costs.  Given that, the answer isn’t more government involvement because that’s pouring gasoline on the fire.”

                Simona exclaimed, “How do you figure?”

                In 1978, financial aid was expanded from poor people to middle income people.  First it was the banks and the government said they would reimburse the bank if the student defaulted.  This made them throw out momey indiscriminately since there was no risk because the government would pay them back if they lost their investment.  The college knew this so they raised their prices because they knew the banks could afford them.  This creates a dangerous cycle.  Then in 2009, the government decided to take the middle man out and instead of reimbursing the banks if they defaulted, the government just took over student loans completely.  Now, since banks still have profit-loss mentality, that habit of thinking did inhibit them a little from loaning money but the government has no such block.  That made tuitions skyrocket even more.  Shockingly they made a problem that was really really bad even worse but that’s what government does best.  Since the 1978 expanding of financial aid to middle income people, college tuition prices are 1,225% higher now than in 1978.  Some of that is inflation as inflation has risen 249% since 1978.”

                Coca gasped out, “1,225% and 249% is a huge difference”

                “I know, that’s why your claim that more government is good seems ridiculous to me.”

                Simona posed, “Well what happened before 1978?”

                “Glad you asked. From 1971 – 1981, higher education costs raised two dollars for a 2-year facility.”

                Coco replied, “That’s it? But most people go to four year colleges”

                “That’s is it but I’m not sure if your statement about most people is true but whatever. Four year colleges proves my point even more.  Four year public colleges decreased by $190 from 1971 – 1981.”

                Simona tried “And private four years, like us”

                “That decreased by $304”

                Coco accused, “I feel like you set us up.”

                “I did, but that doesn’t change the facts”

                Simona responded, “But 1978 comes before 1981”

                “That’s my point. The expansion in financial aid program came before the exponential rise in tuitions.  That’s how cause and effect works.  The cause needs to come before the effect”

                Coco said, “But the program was three years before, that’s a long time.”

                “Not really, the first people to benefit from the expansion didn’t even graduate college yet.”

                Simona opined, “If you’re theory was right, it would have happened in 1979”

                “No, that’s not true.  We don’t live in a vacuum.”

                Coco cried out, “Well Trump’s effect was only three years”

                “That’s almost everyone in America benefitting from a policy.  When 330 million people are reacting to a policy, results happen quicker than a smaller amount of people; like people going to college.”

                Simona stated, “Now who’s making excuses?”

                “Not me, I’m answering questions.  For 38 years the problem has gotten worse.  Every time the government gets involved, the problem exacerbates.  It’s very consistent.  You’re looking at the first two years of government involvement and ignoring the other 38 years.”

                Coco announced, “I’ve had enough of this, I’m going home.” As she got up and walked away.

                Simona sighed and switched to a flirtatious voice, “I have maintained straight A’s throughout my educational career.  I have tested in the genius level of IQ.  I can honestly say that I’ve never had someone make me feel as stupid as you did.  I’m sorry if we were defensive, I’m just not used to talking to someone smarter than me.”

                “Well let me have your number and we can do it any time you want.”

                “See, you and Trump do like women that are too young for you.”

                “If you go to Georgetown, I assume you’re over 18”

                “I’m 19”

                “So you are legal.”

                “Yea but I’m too young for you.”

                “Okay”

                Simona grimaced and declared, “Shame, I really enjoyed our conversation but then you turned into just another creepy old man that wanted to get in my pants.” As she got up and walked away.

                Theo laughed and closed his tab.  He shook his head amazed at the defense mechanisms of women these days.  He thought it was a very civil discussion and they got upset because he was able to answer all their points. 

                Simona waited outside hoping that Theo would come out after her to explain himself.  She wanted to take the upper hand and make him try to impress her but he didn’t seem to take the bait.  She looked herself over and took a mirror out of her pocket to check her makeup.  She touched herself up and held her head high as she headed home. 

 

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