Charles Basarab is hanging out
in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Public transportation isn’t extremely popular in Pittsburgh but people
do use it. For Charles, he works near
the T station in downtown Pittsburgh. Although
most of Pittsburgh is extremely hilly, the downtown area does give people a
respite from the hills that riddle the suburbs.
While walking down the street, he accidentally bumps into a black man. Charles puts out his hands in a universal
sign of apology but keeps walking as he is in a hurry. The black man yells out, “Hey fuck you
man. We’ve been dealing with you white
people’s microaggressions for too long.”
Charles keeps walking as he
knows that nothing good ever comes with confronting someone that’s accusing you
of being a racist with absolutely no context or basis. Ironically, the black guy is being racist by
stereotyping Charles that just because he’s white, he’s a racist and goes
around purposely cross checking black people on the street. The man yells out again, “I’m going to kill
you just because you’re white cracker”
Charles doesn’t react and goes
into the T-station to go home. While
waiting for the train, he’s about to find out that although he’s been harassed
on the street before, this isn’t going to be like the other times.
Willie Hayes is a 46-year-old
black man living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He has grown up in a Democrat run district with politicians constantly
telling him that he’s a victim. Although
he always votes Democrat, the conditions in his neighborhood has not approved
despite the people that promised him he’d take care of him did win the
elections. Rather than ever blame
himself for his problems, he has convinced himself that everything is the White
Man’s fault. Due to this, he often finds
it difficult to contain himself from verbally assaulting white people when he
runs into them on the street. While
walking on a busy downtown street, a white man collides with him. As he voices his displeasure, the white guy ignores
him and keeps walking. Willie Hayes
doesn’t take this obvious sign of retreat to avoid a confrontation at face
value. Instead, he sees it as the white
guy acting smug and thinking him too superior to speak with Willie. He decides he’s going to make the White guy
notice him. Willie follows the white guy into the T train station and has
decided that the time for verbal diplomacy is over. He walks up to the white guy and punches him
from behind. The white guy doesn’t go
down but instead turns around in confusion only to be punched two more
times. The white guy, whose name is
Charles, is disoriented but puts his arms up to defend himself. Willie grabs Charles by the shoulders and
tosses him onto the train tracks. He
calls out to him, “I told you I’d kill you for being white” and repeats ‘I told
you’ several times.
Far away from Pittsburgh, Abby
is with her husband Nouno in Arizona. Right
now the state has received national news as a cop was asked to leave a
Starbucks because someone felt unsafe that he was there. This predictably had the right condemning
Starbucks and the left attacking the cops.
Given the obsessive national coverage with the border, the mainstream
media is used to attacking ICE Agents so taking shots at police officers is a natural
segue. Abby is a liberal but Nouno is a
far-right conservative. They have
debated police brutality often and Nouno constantly brings up that police
officers kill twice as many white people as they do black people but nobody can
name one white person but the black victims become household names. Nouno has Fox news on and is watching the
Laura Ingraham show. There is a debate
between a liberal named Johnathan and Don Bongino on this issue. Johnathan repeats the statistic that Nouno
always brings up and says that if the guy who complained was white, he can see
why he would feel unsafe around a cop when cops kill about 1,000 people a year
and most of them are white. Abby opines,
“Wow, finally the media brings up something you say they never report on.”
Nouno doesn’t respond at first
because Dan Bongino snaps and is condemning Johnathan for what he just
said. Nouno doesn’t think he does a very
good job as he just says that cops hate having to use force because they are
naturally repulsed by violence given what they see on a daily basis. On the other hand, when force is necessary,
it often means a threat to your livelihood and career. It’s a responsibility that almost all cops
take very seriously. Although this is a
legitimate point, it doesn’t address the issue of if all this is true than why
do they kill 1,000 a year? To Nouno, the
answer is obvious. He snaps back, “You
do realize that cops deal with the most dangerous people in society and while
everyone is running from an incident, they run towards it.”
“I don’t know, 1,000 is a lot.”
“it’s really not when you think
how much violent crime there is. Think
about it, the most dangerous people hate you.
Those 1,000 cases probably taken in context, almost all of them were the
criminal attacking or trying to kill them.
Guaranteed almost none of them is a policeman having a coffee at
Starbucks and just decides to get up and attack someone unprovoked because he’s
in a bad mood. The odds of being killed
by a cop in that scenario is practically zero”
Abby loves that Nouno still
responds and gets worked up when she is obviously being sarcastic. She responds just as sarcastically. “I don’t
know, this is like when you always talk about how people are afraid of sharks.”
“It’s irrational! The deadliest
summer was seven people dying from shark attacks. Do you know how many millions of people swim
in bodies of water that have sharks in them?
So yes, it is just as irrational of a fear”
“1,000 is not seven”
“Sharks aren’t tasked with
making sure dangerous people are off the streets and don’t hurt people.”
“They’d probably be pretty good
at it”
“Probably not since they can’t
come onto land”
“What do you mean? Haven’t you seen Sharknado?”
“Yea the girls were really hot
in that.”
Abby gives him a dirty look and
Nouno smiles guiltily. The TV talks
about how Mitch McConnell’s ancestry data has revealed he’s related to two
slave owners so that’s why he’s against reparations. Abby exclaims, “Oh my God, the truth comes
out.”
This time Nouno doesn’t take the
bait. He retorts, “Oh yes, let’s do
this. Make people responsible for
everyone in their family. If you’re
related to someone, you’re responsible for their actions. This includes back several generations of
people who died before you were born. Let’s
get this for every single member of the fake news media. Wait, let’s do it for Democrats in
general. After all, they actually chose to be Democrats. Now, they can embrace their KKK, Jim Crow,
Slave Owning, segregation and racist Dixicrat history.”
“You bring up that history all
the time.”
“Yea because that’s the history
of their party. They claim the big
switch so they don’t even deny it. It’s
a lie of course; they have always been like that. But, I don’t think all Democrats are racist
because of their history. I’m just
saying that when people talk about the ugly history of America, it’s always the
Democrat history. I never judged someone
for an ancestor that died before they were born.”
Abby shakes her head and changes
the topic. The next day, Abby is on her
phone and declares, “Honey, we got a case.”
“Where are we going?”
“Pittsburgh”
“Fuck Pittsburgh!”
Both Nouno and Abby grew up in
Cleveland, Ohio so are very big Cleveland Browns fans. The rallying cry, ‘fuck Pittsburgh’ is
referring to the big rivalry between the Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh
Steelers. Abby laughs and rejoins, “Yea,
I think when we go through with this, we’ll just pretend he’s a Steelers fan.”
“Pretend nothing, he probably is”
“Yea but we don’t really know that.”
“Fine, we’ll just assume, so
what do we know about the guy?”
“46-year-old black guy named
Willie Hayes. He randomly punched a dude
and threw him on the train tracks at a subway station. He then taunted him that he told him he would
kill him for being white.”
Nouno shook his head, “Could you
imagine the backlash if the situation was reverse and a white guy punches a
black guy and tosses him on the tracks screaming out that he did it because he
was black? It would be like a Jussie dream.”
Abby rolled her eyes and Nouno
scolded her, “Don’t roll your pretty little grey eyes at me.”
Abby walked up to Nouno and
kissed him on the cheek and smiled widely.
Nouno’s shoulders and eyes dropped and pronounced, “You cheated”
Nouno and Abby went to the airport
and flew to Pittsburgh. It was only a
two hour drive to Cleveland and since they knew people who owned a crematorium
in Cleveland, they would make the drive.
Abby researched all over the internet and social media about Willie
Hayes. She was a master at cyber
stalking. It doesn’t take long to figure
out Willie’s habits. Nouno, at 35,
realizes that he’s in the middle in age between Abby and Willie. It’s not a very important point but it’s
something he notices. They find him and
Nouno waits until Willie is alone. Abby
waits in the hotel as she isn’t much use in the hunt. Usually she’s used as a distraction but black
males tend not to like blond skinny stereotypical cheerleader looks. Although Abby does have curves, blacks
normally like a meatier woman. Nouno
decides to go in for the blow. They are
walking towards each other and Nouno has a syringe with a sedative cupped in
his hand. His plan is when he passes
Willie he’ll swing his arm back and inject the sedative in his butt entering
his blood stream quickly. To his
surprise, Willie punches him in the face causing him to drop the syringe. Willie calls out, “Come on man, I know how
you bald white boys are.”
Willie grabs Nouno and tosses
him against the wall and punches him again.
Nouno drives his palm into Willie’s sternum knocking the wind out of
him. When Willie backs up, Nouno uses
the time to get out of the corner and regain his composure. Willie charges at Nouno and drives his shoulder
into his stomach and tackles him to the ground.
Nouno brings his arms on the inside of Willie’s to not give him a direct
shot to his face. Nouno brings his left
leg up to Willie’s shoulder and then puts his right foot on Willie’s pelvis and
pushes himself to the right. He uses
both arms to chop Willie’s left arm across his body and Nouno tucks it into his
left arm pit. Nouno brings his right leg
to his left and interlocks his ankles and flexes his feet and shins. Willie struggles for air as he’s being choked
with his own arm with Nouno’s legs wrapped around his neck. Nouno’s hands push down on the back of
Willie’s neck and he leans back.
Unfortunately, it’s summer time and Nouno is wearing shorts. Willie starts pinching his legs but Nouno
knows this is desperation and he’s just going to have to deal with the nagging
pain and wait it out. Not long after,
Willie’s eyes glaze over in unconsciousness.
Nouno eases the grip but not the position to make sure Willie isn’t
faking it. Once he’s satisfied, he
shoves Willie’s dead weight off him. He
walks over to the syringe and picks it up.
He walks over to Willie and drives the syringe into his neck. Nouno and Willie are about the same size so
it’s difficult for Nouno to get his dead weight up and hoist him over his
shoulder. He walks to his car and opens
the trunk and tosses Willie in it. He
drives to the motel, which Abby has already set up for the kill. They tie him down with plastic on plastic.
Abby says, “Honey, you’re face!”
“Yea I know he got in a couple
shots”
“How? Didn’t you have the sedative?”
Willie chimed in, “His head
looks like a fucking toilet bowl! Bald
white guys are white supremacists, all black people know that. Let me go, and I’ll kick your ass again”
“Dude, I choked your ass out”
“Yea, like a bitch using your legs. Having me mount you like a faggot. Real men exchange blows.”
Nouno laughed “Well, this is
going to be easy”
“Why the fuck am I here?”
“I’ve decided that with your
proclivity to attack white people for being white, you need to be removed from
society”
“You can’t imprison me”
“I’m not you dumb mother fucker,
I’m going to kill you.”
“Bullshit, you don’t got the
balls. You probably want to rape me like
that other cracker Epstein”
Abby never knew why Nouno liked
debating them and not just killing them after telling them why. Nouno did counter, “Epstein fucked little
teeny bopper teenage girls. He’s a piece
of shit but he wasn’t gay.”
“He’s Trump’s friend”
“No he’s not. Trump met him once but Epstein was a heavy
donor to Bill and Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and other Democrats.”
“Trump’s cabinet member let him
off easy.”
“Only after the Democratic
prosecutor refused to take the case and referred it to the southern district
court of Florida. Since Epstein was
taking these girls across state lines.
Hell, he took them to different countries sometimes. It was a federal jurisdiction but Acosta
wanted to prosecute him so took the case.
You have a Democrat prosecutor refusing to try a Democrat
billionaire. Meanwhile, the same
Democrat prosecutor hounded Rush Limbaugh for prescription drugs.”
“Clinton said that he didn’t
know anything about sex with minors. He
just flew on his plane a couple times for his foundation in 2002 -2003.”
“Travel logs say he was on the
plane at least 26 times, not the 11 that Clinton claimed. Also, the girls that came forward to rat him
out mentioned Bill Clinton by name as being present. None of them mentioned Trump.”
“You know Trump got in on that.”
“No, I don’t. Trump kicked Epstein out of his club in Mar A
Lago for hitting on an underage girl. The girl was a daughter of a member of
the club.”
“Well, his surging economy is
about the collapse.”
“Oh you think we’re overdue
because we’re on the longest growth in American history?”
“Yea, why do you think Trump is
different from history?”
“There’s a thing called the
internet. Now, instead of having massive
inventory at the guess that something will be popular, you get real time data
on the demand so you know exactly how much to make. I mean you have pre-orders. Before, we had a world of snail mail and time
delays. All that is gone so there’s no
more guesswork and working time, energy and materials on making too much shit.”
“I don’t know about all that
shit.”
“I’m actually surprised you knew
we were surging”
“Fuck you cracker, I ain’t
retarded”
Nouno contemplated pointing out
that ‘ain’t’ doesn’t make you seem intelligence but held his tongue. Instead he baited him, “Yea, you’re probably
more focused on raising the minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour.”
“Fuck yea, why not? Economy is doing well enough to support it.”
“Well the CBO says if that
happens nationwide, 1.3 million jobs will be eliminated”
“That’s just Republican
propaganda”
“The CBO or Congressional budget
office is part of Congress. Congress is
dominated by Democrats right now. So,
Democrats came up with this.”
“Why?”
“Restaurants, movie theaters,
and other places that traditionally employ teenagers can’t afford to pay them
all that much. It’s harder for
unskilled, younger people to get summer jobs if that’s the case. The estimate is that for every one dollar
increase in the minimum there’s a 14% more likelihood a restaurant under 3.5
stars will close.”
“No, it’s Trump’s economy
hurting unskilled workers. That pay
increase from the tax cuts was for the rich.”
“According to Indeed, one of the
largest human resources firms, lower wage growth increased 4.5%, middle income
increased 3% and high income was 2.5% so it’s the exact opposite of what you
just said.”
“Man, fuck you cracker.”
“No, I’m going to kill you.”
“You don’t got the guts bitch.”
Nouno took a knife and drove it
into Willie’s chest killing him instantly.
He grinned and stated, “You got got”
Abby opined, “Really?!”
Abby and Nouno cleaned the room
and wrapped Willie in the plastic and placed them in the trunk of the car. They drove the two hours to Cleveland and let
themselves into the crematorium, which their friend had sent them the key
for. When the body was destroyed, they
removed the bones consistent with procedure and then stayed with family in
Cleveland. The next day they drove back
to Pittsburgh. During the drive, Abby
commented, “Man, I feel so bad about these kids at the border.”
“Yea, the adults that brought
them there are assholes”
“They’re getting sick. There’s measles, chicken pox, flu etc. etc. I
mean the conditions are making them sick.”
“What the fuck do you think is
happening? The border patrol is
unleashing pathogens into the cells to give them deadly diseases? You think they’re using chemical warfare
against them?”
“No, I’m saying the shitty
conditions lead to these diseases”
“No it doesn’t. Remember they’re
only there for 20 days. That’s not
enough time to develop all those things from dirty conditions. If that were true, like every bachelor would
be severely ill.”
“So what? Fake news is lying
about these kids having these diseases?” Abby asked angrily.
“No, the diseases are
pre-existing. The border patrol then
quarantines them and when they release them, they clean the cells before
putting more people in it.”
“Well, if that’s what’s
happening then it doesn’t seem that bad.”
“That is what’s happening”
“They could at least let the
kids take a shower”
“Have you ever tried to give a
kid a shower? They fight you tooth and
nail and that’s even if they know you and feel comfortable around you. These are strangers. What do you want them to do? Grab them and force them into the shower
kicking and screaming? Then they’d be in
a cell with Epstein. What they do is
they give them access to a shower every two days. It’s up to the kids if they want to shower.”
“What about brushing their
teeth”
“A lot of them never have. They actually brought people in to teach
these kids how to brush their teeth. So
yea, they get the opportunity but ultimately it’s up to the kid. The border patrol doesn’t force them.”
“They’re kids! Of course they’re
not going to choose to shower or brush their teeth. You got to be the adult”
“Only if you are the parent or
guardian. Not if you’re detaining them while the adult they came with awaits an
asylum hearing.”
“Why not have the adult force
them.”
“Most of them aren’t related to
the kid they brought. Giving a child
back to a child trafficker is unethical but even if it is a real parent, you
think you should be able to take your kids to jail with you? You think that just because you have a kid,
you should be exempt for going to jail if you break a law? That’s asinine.”
“You just love to argue.”
“You just like baiting me into
an argument.”
“No, I just forgot that you
spent time at the border with the minute men”
“Yea and when I did it, they
weren’t nearly as overrun as they are now.”
“Maybe there’s a reason for
that?”
“There is, more publicity. If you were gunning them down, then the media
shit storm would be huge!”
“Yea, that wouldn’t last very
long.”
“So, I stay low key and hang out
with you.”
“Yea, you’re a wife guy”
“Fuck yea I am. My wife is fucking hot and she’s really
fucking cool. Smart, gorgeous, fun,
outgoing, I got the greatest set up ever.”
Abby smiled and looked at him
condescendingly. She cries out, “Now
who’s cheating?”
Abby and Nouno arrived at the
hotel and went to sleep. The next day
they flew back to Arizona. On the plane,
Abby sighs and suggests, “We should have went to New York for the parade”
“What parade?”
“The Women’s World Cup parade”
“Yea, no thanks. I don’t support anti-Americans. Especially when they choose to represent the
United States in an international competition.”
“I agree Rapinoe and the other
one is ridiculous but you need to admit that it’s not fair that they win all
these world cups and the men’s team didn’t even make the last world cup. Why would the men be paid more for mediocrity
when the women are winning championships?”
“You can’t take pure
numbers. Large companies give their
employees more money not because they’re nice or because it’s fair but because
they have the means to do so.”
“I know that but what does that
have to do with soccer?”
“Despite not making the world
cup, the US men brought in $ 6 Billion whereas the US Women only brought in
like $ 140 Million or something.”
“Holy shit”
“Not really, 2 Billion people
watch Men’s World Cup. It’s the most
watched sporting event. Therefore, you
get more money.”
“More people in the US watched
the women’s final than the men’s”
“Why are you only talking about
the US? If money comes from foreign
viewership why wouldn’t that count?”
“So what do you think is fair?”
“How much do the Champion US
Women’s team make as a proportion of revenue as opposed to the men.”
“I suppose you know that number”
“I do”
“Let me guess, it’s the same”
“Not even close”
Abby becomes interested,
“Really? What is it?”
“US female soccer players make
20% of the revenue generated.”
“And the men?”
“7%, because they suck”
“So, the women make three times
more when you measure as a proportion of total revenue”
“Yea, women’s players only make
money every four years whereas the men play in other leagues and clubs bringing
in year round revenue. Maybe they should
make it even. Let’s pay the women the
same amount as a proportion to revenue; seven percent”
Abby rolled her eyes, “No I
don’t think they want a 2/3 pay cut”
“But that would only be fair”
Nouno said sarcastically. He continued,
“Or, pay the men 20% to get the equal pay as women”
“No, they suck”
“The under 15 team beat the
women. I’m sure that the men’s team
could beat the women’s team”
“That’s not the point”
“Why not? Supply and demand, there are fewer people as
good at soccer as the US Men’s soccer team as there is who are as good as the
Women’s soccer team.”
“Just shut up, it’s fair now”
“I would agree but you women are
all about equality.”
“You’re done”
“Fine”
They landed in Arizona and went
home. They went back to their routine
awaiting their next mission.
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