Fanis the Bodyguard Episode 12 Inside scoop

                Kera is a Chinese art dealer living in London.  She travels the world trading in Chinese art.  As many countries don’t have the same respect for women that western countries such as America and England have, she travels with a bodyguard.  Kera has never been one to trust people so the closest she came was her cousin Fanis.  Kera got him highly trained in hand to hand combat and weapons in order to be the only person allowed close to her. 

                Fanis loved travelling the world.  When he first took the job, he was surprised how often Kera needed help.  He was naïve to think that there was a slight possibility this was about more than Chinese artifacts but he purposely ignored any evidence of nefarious activity.  Fanis was very close to Kera and Kera was four years his junior so he would always be his little cousin in his eyes.  Though, now that they were both in their 30s, their age difference was no longer notable. 

                Fanis is a far-right conservative whereas Kera is a Democrat.  While watching the BBC, AOC, Ilhan Omar and the rest of the squad are attacking Nancy Pelosi for not doing anything about the death threats they’ve received.  Fanis calls out, “Kera, how do you support these morons?”

                “I don’t support them.  They are radicals.  I just ignore them as none of them are running to challenge your boy Trump in next year’s election.”  Although they live in England, both Kera and Fanis were born and raised in America to Greek parents.

                “Well, I don’t ignore them. I call them out for their retardation”

                “And waste a lot of energy doing it”

                “People ignored Hitler on his way up and made small concessions and look where that got us.”

                “When they start killing people, then you can compare them to Hitler.  Don’t be like them”

                “Omar and Talib are openly racist.”

                “Fine, but they haven’t killed anyone yet.”

                “That I agree with.”

                “Regardless of their lack of intelligence or hatred of white people, they are just annoying.  The way they raise their voices to seem vulnerable so people are discouraged from firing back at them is insulting to women.  Also, the way they drag out their words toward the end.  I mean they say it’s to make them sound intelligent, instead it just makes them sound like they’re talking into a fan.  Even if they had something to say, you can’t take them seriously when they talk like that.” 

                “Furthermore, everyone receives death threats on social media”

                “Every celebrity yea”

                “So, let’s not even bother with them.  They’re not worth it.”

                “Speaking of big tech, did you hear they’re going to send out ‘go vote’ announcements to only Democrats and not Republicans?”

                “I actually don’t have a problem with that.  What people want to do with their company is their business.  If Republicans needs a reminder from Facebook to vote than they probably shouldn’t be voting.”
                “You can say that about Democrats too.”
                “I could, but I want Trump to lose” she said with a smile. 

                “I do think that Democrats need the push more than Republicans.  Facebook’s own data said that if they did this in 2016, 450,000 more votes would have been cast.”

                “How can they determine that?”

                “Based on how many people voted when they did it in 2018”

                “When Democrats won back the house”

                “Right”

                “Hmmm, Facebook may just win this election for the Democrats”

                “Well the argument is that Facebook won it in 2016 because the Russians posted Facebook ads in favor of Trump”

                “Yea but nobody seriously believes that.”

                “You’d be surprised.”

                “Not really, even the people that say it just do it to annoy Trump and keep the heat on.  Just so you know, we’re leaving tomorrow.”

                “Where are we going?”
                “Costa Rica”

                “Nice!”

                “I need a favor from you though”

                “What’s that?”

                “It’s a personal visit, not business”

                “Okay”

                “No being an overprotective older cousin.  You may not care about sex or getting married but I do.”

                “You’re 32 years old, the time of me being an overprotective older cousin has long passed.”

                “Glad to hear it.”

                Kera and Fanis board the plane for Costa Rica with a layover in Miami.  Fanis hates the Miami airport because it runs extremely inefficiently.  Despite having three hours to make the transfer, Fanis is convinced they’re going to miss their flight because there is no way you can go through customs in Miami, get your bag in order to re-check and go through security again to get to the gate.  Kera thinks he’s crazy as this is done in about an hour or less when you fly into Newark or JFK where Kera is accustomed to re-entering the country as she was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York.  While on the plane, Kera notices Fanis shaking his head as he listens to liberals advocate against having a citizenship question on the census.  Kera said, “Looks like sanctuary states are going to get more electoral votes.”

                “Yea, it’s stupid.  We might as well include tourists too.”

                “Well, they are living in the state so I see their point”

                “Illegally.  You can’t get rewarded because you smuggle people into America”

                “Ehh, the electoral college is only important once every four years.”

                “It’s not about that, it’s about giving money to states that notoriously waste it.”

                “What do you mean?”

                “There are 300 Federal programs that allocate federal funding based on population.  A state is paid $ 2,7000 in tax payer money per citizen.  California is already bankrupt and you want them to have more money to that money pit?”

                “Well yea, I mean they need money to maintain the jails to house all those criminals.  After all, you think that all illegal immigrants are gang members.” Kera stated sarcastically.

                Fanis retorted, “I wish that was the case”

                “You wish that all the illegal immigrants were gang members?”

                “No, that they incarcerated the ones who are.”

                “Don’t they?”

                “No, they constantly release illegal aliens from jail.”

                “Yea for like drug possession”

                “No, they release the rapists and murderers too.”

                “Why?”

                “As a fuck you to Trump”

                “I don’t believe that.”

                “In the last two years, 5,600 criminal illegal immigrants have been requested by ICE to be detained by them and California refused.  Of those,  3,400, or 61%, were level 1 or level 2 offenders, which includes crimes such as homicide, kidnapping, sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault”

                “That’s ridiculous”

                “What do you think ‘sanctuary city’ means?  It means they’ll protect you from being arrested by ICE.  If you’re in jail, ICE can find you.  So they release them so ICE can’t find them.  Meanwhile there’s no consequences for them to rape and murder the people of California.”

                “Remind me never to go to California”

                “New York is a sanctuary city too.”

                “Well, your stats are for California right?”

                “Yes”

                “So the NYPD Is better at protecting us despite these lax rules than the LAPD is.”

                “I’ll give you that.”

                They land in Miami and immediately start power walking to the passport booth to get their passport stamped and go through customs.  They will need to claim their bags and recheck them on their continuing flight to Costa Rica then go through security.  Shockingly, a process that takes about an hour in every airport in the country, takes three and half hours in Miami.  As Fanis and Kera are walking to the gate, Fanis points out that they should go to the ticket counter to talk about getting another flight.  Kera replies, “When you join the 21^st century, you’ll realize that your phone can tell you that the flight hasn’t left yet. “

                Fanis had no idea but kept his mouth shut.  They got to the gate and saw the “delayed” label on the screen.  Fanis shrugged his shoulders as for one of the rare times in his life, he’s happy that his flight was delayed.  He goes to the agent anyway and says, “Why are we delayed?”

                Kera rolls her eyes because she is just happy that they got lucky.  The agent responds, “One of the tires on the landing gear is flat.  We need to replace it.”

                Fanis smiles.  He had a feeling it would be something that doesn’t normally happen.  Sitting at the gate, Kera declares sardonically, “While in Costa Rica, maybe we should encourage the citizens to form a caravan and go to the border.  I mean, Texas could use more electoral votes and federal funding right?”

                Fanis gives her a dirty look and she giggles.  Fanis smiles back and rejoins, “They passed a new law that you have to file for asylum in the first country you go to after leaving your home country.  Costa Rica doesn’t border America.  Sorry, it won’t work.”

                A man sitting near them butted in on the conversation with, “Wow, the racism of Donald Trump knows no bounds.  I mean how is he going to burden Central America with something that only he sees as a problem?  The nerve of that guy.”

                “Well, a country without borders isn’t a country so it’s not a problem only Trump sees.  People like you just naturally hate any idea of President Trump.”

                “That’s bullshit.  You don’t know me, you can’t make generalization like that.”

                Fanis was playing with his phone and pulled up a video.  He turned it towards the man.  It was Barack Obama at a podium when he was president giving a speech in which he said the exact same policy Trump is now espousing.  Fanis sarcastically articulated, “Wow, the nerve of Barack Obama to say something so discriminatory and outrageous.  The poor people of Central America have to be inconvenienced by an American problem.  How asinine is that?”

                After seeing the video, the man took a calmer tone and pronounced, “Well, I mean I guess it makes sense.  Asylum seekers are looking to escape the harsh conditions they face in their country so it should be the first country they enter.  It’s only logical.”

                “Funny it was logical when Obama said it but not when Trump did.”

                “I just had to think about it for a second.”

                “So you admit that you don’t think when President Trump says something.  You just automatically hate it without even bothering to ponder it?”

                The man didn’t respond.  He just turned his back and went about his business.  Fanis expected this and grinned widely.  An hour and half after getting to the gate, Fanis and Kera were on the plane pushing back from the gate.  Fanis sardonically commented, “Wow, I guess changing a tire on landing gear isn’t like doing it on a car.  Three hours to change a tire.”

                “Shut up” Kera scolded “If it left on time, we would have missed our flight.”

                “Can you just admit that I was right about the ridiculousness of Miami airport?”

                “I will admit that this trip was ridiculous”

                “Can we please never use Miami as a transfer stop?  If we’re actually going to Miami then fine but not as a layover.”

                “We’ll see.”

                “I need to fly separate from you.”

                “That kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a bodyguard”

                “You can hire your own goddamn bodyguard only for when you are transferring in Miami.”

                Kera chuckled and shook her head, “This is very important to you isn’t it?”

                ‘Yes”

                “Well, if it’s that Important, then fine never again.”

                “How are we getting home?”

                “Layover in JFK”

                “Perfect”
                They land in Costa Rica and Kera’s boyfriend Dan picks them up from the airport.  He lives two hours away from the airport and the three of them talk the whole way.  Fanis starts talking to Dan in Spanish and Dan is surprised at Fanis’ fluency.  Kera gets annoyed by this and reprimands Fanis in Greek.  Kera switches to English and says, “If you keep speaking Spanish with my boyfriend, then I’m not going to give you your surprise.”

                “I have a surprise?”

                “Yes, Dan and I arranged it.”

                “What’s that?”

                “Well, you’re going to meet with an American intelligence asset.  You’re going to find out some secrets that  are about to come out.  I know you like that shit.”

                “You do know that I realize you’re distracting me for some alone time with him right?”

                Fanis could see Dan’s hands tense on the wheel but Kera was not deterred.  She fired back, “Yes, I do.  And we talked about this.”

                “Exactly, so there’s no need for any pretense.  You could just be like, hey I want some alone time with my boyfriend because we live in different countries so I don’t get to see him too often.”

                Dan smiled and Kera rolled her eyes.  She snapped back “I did something nice for you.  Yes, I could have said that but I decided to give you something to do.  You’ve been here before so you’ve gone on the excursions.  Don’t yell at me for being considerate.”

                Fanis didn’t really have an answer to this so he just muttered, “Thank You.”

                “You’re welcome” Kera mentioned with an exasperated tone.

                They got dinner and then went to Dan’s house.  There was a guest bedroom that Fanis slept in while Dan and Kera had the master bedroom.  In the bedroom, Kera told Dan “I forgot to tell you, don’t tell Fanis you’re Jewish.”

                “I already did when we were talking in Spanish”

                “Oh shit”

                “Why?”

                “He’s anti-Semitic”

                “He didn’t seem to react when I told him.  So I don’t really think he is.  He kind of wears his emotions on his sleeve.”

                “Oh yea, he’s very blunt.  He’d tell you if he’s mad at you.”

                “So, I don’t think he cares.”

                “Well…..fine, what else did you talk about.”

                “He asked if he could eat a snake in Costa Rica.  At first, I thought his Spanish was just bad but he clarified that that’s what he meant.  I had to tell him that we don’t do that here.”

                Kera nodded her head, “Yea, he always wants to try new meats when we travel.”

                The next day, Fanis got dropped off at a non-descript building and went inside.  He met with a plan clothed man and Fanis couldn’t contain his excitement.  The agent started, “Now, if you release any of this to the public, I will deny I ever spoke to you.  You can’t leak this to the press.  If you do, there will be no corroboration from any official sources and you will look like a conspiracy theorists.  Understood?”

                “Yes sir”

                “Alright”

                “So, is this about the election?”

                “Well, everything’s about the election.  More specifically, this is about IG Harrowitz’ report.”

                “The inspector general?  Nice.  Jeff Durham is helping him right?”

                “Yes he is.”

                “I hear he’s a real bulldog.  What did he find out?”

                “Well, they did interview Christopher Steele.”

                “Something that Mueller refused to do.  That’s good.”

                “Well, it may have some unintended consequences.”

                “Like what?”

                “Well, the Democrat congressmen that we had to loop in on this think this means that Steele is credible otherwise we wouldn’t have interviewed him.”

                “But we are interviewing him about whether or not he lied to the FBI and DOJ.”

                “Right but why ask a liar anything?”

                “Same reason you interrogate any criminal.  See if they change their story and you get a confession”

                The agent nodded, “Yes, that is true.  And that is exactly what happened.  Steele admitted to giving fake information to the FBI and DOJ to attack Trump.”

“That’s awesome.”

“Not really because it is being spun that he’s credible since he told the truth.”

“He only told the truth about being a liar.  He was credible about the fact that he wasn’t credible

before and that’s why the FBI had to fire him.  Admitting to lying doesn’t mean that your lies were true before.”

“We know that, but the mainstream media won’t paint it that way.”

“Look, if anyone still believes the mainstream media about this bullshit, then there’s no helping

them.  They’ve been so categorically wrong that they’re beyond help.  You’re never going to get to everyone.  The facts are good.  Yea it’ll be spun but that’s how this game is played.”

“We will do that around mid-September.”

“Why warn them and give the mainstream media a chance to get ahead of the story and frame

it the way they want to?”

“Like you said, ‘that’s how the game is played.”

“What would be your headline?”

                “IG report says fake dossier was used to spy on private citizens.”

                “So you’re going to talk about Carter Page and Mike Flynn too.”

                “Nobody said there was a FISA on Mike Flynn”

                “I’m pretty sure there was.”

                “Anyway, that is what the findings will be.”

                “Yea, but the Democrats will just complain that Steele tricked them too.  They’ll claim plausible deniability and people will eat it up.”

                “We do have a counter to that”

                “Being what?” Suddenly very intrigued.

                “The FBI has a spreadsheet that shows Steele’s claims and then a determination on their verifiability.”

                “Oh that is juicy” Fanis exclaimed with excitement in his voice. 

                The agent grinned widely and asked, “Would you like to know the findings”

                “Stop teasing me, just spit it out” Fanis replied jovially

                The agent laughed and admitted, “You caught me.  90% of the claims were either wrong, non-verified or results of an online search.”

                “I knew it!  Good stuff.  Durham’s awesome.  As advertized!”

                “I’m not done.”

                “Please continue”

                “The FBi did verify one thing.”

                Fanis cast him an accusing look and declared, “You’re teasing me again.”

                “Yes I am…..The FBI verified the Russian source from 2017 who talked to Steele misinformed or exaggerated his story.”

                “Let me guess, they still went to the FISA court with it even though they made this determination.”

                “Three times.  Three times they went to the FISA court with information they themselves deemed misinformed or exaggerated.”

                “People need to go to jail for this.” Switching to a more serious tone.

                “We are working on that”

                “Yea, that’s all I keep hearing but I’m losing faith.”

                “I can understand that.”

                “Thanks for showing me this stuff and informing me.”

                “No problem.”

                Dan and Kera came to pick up Fanis and they headed out.  Kera asked, “So how was your visit?”

                “Awesome.  I learned a lot.”

                “Good, I’m glad.”

                Fanis thought about asking how their day was but realized that no matter what they said, he would take it as a sexual innuendo so he didn’t bother asking.  Instead, he posed, “Is there a beach around here?  I’d like to go swimming,”

                Dan replied, “There is but I wouldn’t recommend swimming.  There’s a lot of sea snakes in the water so it’s better to just stay on the beach.”

                “I like going into the ocean.  It’ll be hard to go to the beach if I can’t hop in.”

                Kera challenged, “You’re going to have to get over it.  I love laying out.”

                Fanis shrugged his shoulders and they went to the beach.  It didn’t take long for Fanis to sweat profusely as he sweat more than most people.  He cried out, “Fuck this, I won’t swim for long, I’ll just run in and wash off for a second and come back.”

                Dan cautioned, “Be careful”

                Fanis walked to the water and bent down splashing ocean salt water to wash off the salt water on his face from sweat.  As he did, an arm slammed against his back knocking him into the water. He felt a large hand grip the back of his neck and force his head under the shallow water.  Fanis squirmed and wrapped his arm around the man’s leg trying to trip him up but he lacked the torque.  Luckily, nature would help him out as a large wave crashed onto the beach.  It knocked the man off balance and Fanis dove down into the now deeper water to break the grip and swam out into the ocean.  He shot up and stood in water that went midway from his ankle to his knee.  He turned and looked at the man who attacked him as he sucked in much needed air.  The man didn’t even look at Kera.  He was there for him.  The man came into the water after him and Fanis locked arms with him.  They were about the same size so they took turns trying to force the other down.  Fanis kicked the side of the man’s knee and pulled his arms toward that side tripping the man down.  He mounted him and tried to force his head underwater by wrapping his large hands around the man’s throat.  The man shifted his bodyweight back and lifted his right leg flinging Fanis over his head and landing on his back in the water.  Fanis immediately got up and saw the man charging.  Fanis planted his feet ready to counter when the man stopped suddenly.  He reached to his side and screamed as he grabbed a sea snake.  Unfortunately for him, he grabbed it by the middle and it curled around and bit him on the hand causing him to drop it.  Fanis scurried out of the water and stood on the beach as the man looked up horrified.  The snake crawled out of the water and was slithering on the beach.  The man no longer was interested in fighting Fanis and he hurried on to the shore.  Fanis charged the man and drove his shoulder into him knocking him down.  The man got up and Fanis grabbed the man’s arms and draped it over Fanis’ shoulder while Fanis put his other arm in between his legs.  He hoisted the man onto his shoulder so that his body faced behind him.  Fanis ran over as the snake was no longer moving.  He flipped the man onto the snake causing the snake to coil and bite the side of the man.  Fanis used this as his chance and gripped the snake by the back of the neck and picked it up as it coiled around his arm.  Fanis walked nonchalantly over to his towel with snake in hand where Kera and Dan were lying.  They had watched the whole thing and all their stuff was packed ready to make a quick retreat.  When Fanis approached, Dan said, “What the hell is in your hand?”

                Kera scoffed, “He’s got a snake.  He wants to kill it and eat it.”

                “Damn right” Fanis yelled out.

                Dan just shook his head and Kera voiced, “I didn’t really get a good look at what happened but didn’t that snake save your life?”

                “No, the wave saved my life because it broke the guy’s grip.  Speaking of which, why are you still here?”

                “That dude walked right by us to get to you.  He wasn’t after me.”

                “Still though, you should be more careful”

                “I was, that’s why our shit is packed.  We were ready to go but once you emerged and faced him, I knew you had it.  Then again, that snake seemed to save you.”

                “Oh I had him”

                “I’m sure you did” she teased with doubt in her voice

                “Just hand me my knife.”

                Kera handed Fanis his knife that he always carried on him when he wasn’t going into water.  Fanis lowered the snake as Kera and Dan jumped back crab walking away from it even though it was nowhere near the range needed to strike since Fanis had a firm grip on the neck.  Fanis used his left hand to decapitate the sea snake and then dug a hole in the sand burying the head. 

                Kera scolded, “You just killed a snake that saved your life.”

                “That wasn’t its intention.  And the snake didn’t save my life, the wave did.”

                Dan offered, “I suppose you want to cook that.”

                “I do”

                “Fine”

                Kera was a cook and commented, “Well, I think that since it’s very muscular, we’re going to have to slow cook it to tenderize it.”

                “You know better than I do.”

                Dan spoke up, “You know, wind and the tide will probably dig up that snake head.”

                “What do you propose?  That’s where all the venom is.”

                “I guess it’s fine”

                They turned to the beach to find the man gone.  Fanis didn’t know how long it took for the venom of a sea snake to kill a man but he thought three bites would make him good as dead or maybe he’ll survive in the hospital.  Either way, he was gone.  The three of them went back to Dan’s house and Kera cooked the snake for Fanis.  It took a couple hours of slow cooking it but she finally deemed the meat tender enough and served it to Fanis wanting nothing to do with it herself.  Fanis didn’t think it was too bad but he definitely had better meat before.

                They enjoyed Costa Rica and then Dan drove them the two hours back to airport where they boarded a flight to New York to connect to a flight to Heathrow.  While on the plane, a woman in the third seat sparked a conversation with Kera.  After small talk, she asked, “I know this isn’t really what people say in a first conversation but I’m hoping that a Democrat wins because I’d like free healthcare in America.  Health insurance is too damn expensive.”

                Kera retorted, “Well, I don’t really want free healthcare.  We have that in England and the wait times to see a specialist can go on for like seven months.”

                “Really?”

                “Yea, I mean half the people in Britain that make over 50,000 pounds pay for private insurance anyway to avoid the wait times.”

                Fanis interjected, “And in Sweden, 600,000 people that already pay $20,000 in taxes for healthcare per family, pay an additional amount for private insurance for the same reason.”

                “Whoa, I mean, the free healthcare will just be for poor people.  Like the people that can afford health insurance can still keep their plan.  I just mean for the lower income people.”
                Kera rolled her eyes because she knew what was coming next.  Fanis blurted out, “Wrong! Government option destroys private insurance.  Remember when Obama said if you like your plan, you can keep it then hundreds of thousands of people had their insurance providers drop them as clients because of it.”

                “Well that’s on the insurance companies” the woman fired back angrily

                Kera calmly stated, “I apologize for my cousin here.  He sucks at tact but he is actually pretty informed on this.  Put like a filter in your ear and try to ignore the tone and focus on the words.  I know it’s hard.  I’ve known him my whole life but he’s actually a pretty nice guy that loves to hide it in his first impressions with people.”

                The woman chuckled and brought up, “Well, we can learn from Obama’s mistake”

                “Which was what?” Fanis asked

                “I don’t know but someone must”

                “It’s not realizing what single-payer means.  It wasn’t just Obama’s problem, they tried this in Hawaii.  The government option destroyed private insurance.  They had to scrap the plan in seven months.”

                “Why?”

                “85% of people that had private insurance dropped their plans to go on the government option.  This made hospitals and doctors lose too much money so they started closing hospitals and practices”

                “Why would they lose money?”

                “The way the government option works is that they underpay for their Medicare and Medicaid patients.  In order to recoup those losses, hospitals and doctors overpay health insurance companies.  That’s why health insurance is so expensive because Medicare patients tend to be elderly and need more medical care so they lose a lot of money on that so they have to make up for it.  If Medicare were expanded to everyone, why would anyone pay the higher rates, when they could get the cheaper rates?”

                “Well then only have it for poor people.”
                “We have that now.  The Democrats are proposing Medicare for all.”

                “I don’t know.”
                “I do.  Underpayment from Medicare and Medicaid surged to $ 76.8 billion and that was just Hawaii.  That bill was passed on to tax payers.  You think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it’s free.”

                “Whatever, Trump is a racist, he needs to go.”

                “How does that come up in a conversation about healthcare costs?  Under Trump by the way, was the first time in decades that the cost of prescription drugs went down.”

                “We just live in a racist country.”

                “We live in the least racist country in the world.”

                “What?  Look at the moon landing.  It was all white men.”

                “Because White men are the only ones adventurous enough, or dumb enough, to go on such a dangerous mission.”

                “That’s racist”

                “Against white people? For calling them dumb?  Tell me, who are you talking about?  What minority or woman was denied a chance to go to the moon that you want to call them racist?”

                “They didn’t even bother applying because of the blatant discrimination.”

                “Ah, so nobody.  By the way this was in 1969.  There was still segregation then.  Which, by the way was a Democrat law.  As was Jim Crow and the KKK was made up almost exclusively of Democrats, some were even Democrat politicians.  Whereas the Republicans are responsible for desegregating schools and giving minority white house employees equal pay as white people.”

                “The Civil Right Act was 1964”

                “More Democrats voted against it than Republicans.  The Civil Right Act was a Republican bill passed by a majority of Republicans.”

                “You know, I think I’m just going to watch some movies” as she put on her headphones. 

                Kera gave Fanis a condescending look and Fanis stared back with fire in his eyes.  He loved putting liberals in their place.  When they landed, Kera received a call from Dan. She gleamed and answered, “Hey we just landed, we’re safe”

                “I need you to apologize to Fanis for me” Dan remarked with seriousness

                “Why?”

                “That guy that attacked him was a government official.  He targeted him because of the meeting I set up with the agent.  Since they couldn’t go after the agent, they went after the low hanging fruit which was Fanis”

                “They didn’t want him telling anyone the information that will be public in a couple months?”

                “Yea”

                “That’s kind of retarded.  I mean, these extremists are making Fanis seem right and I don’t like it.”

                “Well, just because extremists are trying to hijack our party, doesn’t mean that we need to stop being Democrats.  We just need to curb the extremists.”

                “Well, Fanis doesn’t care.  It’s kind of an occupational hazard to have his life in danger.”

                Fanis heard the whole thing and Kera was right; he didn’t care.  They went back to their house and decompressed.  Fanis hung out just waiting till Kera informed him they were leaving again.