Monday, September 30, 2019

Theo the Trump Employee Episode 29 Professor vs, Drunk


                It has been a very tough week in the White House.  Impeachment proceedings have gone from mild rumblings to loud roars.  Whether or not they have anything that is actually impeachable, however, hasn’t changed.  They do not.  Theo is an employee at the White House and has been dealing with this. As his co-workers ask him what he thinks, he merely states, “I thought they’d impeach him when the Democrats won the house.  I’m surprised it’s taken them over a year.  I still don’t think they have the votes in the Senate so I don’t think he’ll be removed.  It will piss off and motivate his base and they’ll come out to vote in 2020.”

                The latest thing under the title, “We got him now” is a whistleblower complaint about a conversation that President Trump had with the Ukrainian President Zelensky.  The transcript has been released and it came out that everything the media reported on was a lie.  There was no quid pro quo, there were no promises made, it wasn’t a threat, there was no pressure and it wasn’t to get the notes of a pre-existing investigation.  President Trump simply asked for a favor to look into Joe Biden meddling in a Ukrainian investigation into his son and the company he worked for, Burisma.  Theo leaves work and goes to a bar in the Georgetown area.  He enjoys debating liberals and now that the Whistleblower story is a week old, it’s fresh on everyone’s minds.  He goes in and orders a drink.  Usually, people don’t pay any attention to him but today, students have conniving smiles on their faces.  He smiles back and is unsure what joke he’s missing.  He writes it off as being the oldest person in the bar, which he’s become used to as he trolls college bars to challenge college students.  As he looks around, however, he starts noticing that he actually is not the oldest person in this bar.  A girl walks up to him with the same sinister smile as everyone else and charmingly says, “Hi”

                “Hello” Theo responds nonchalantly

                “How do you feel now that we got your boy Trump dead to rights?”

                “I think this is like the 204th time someone has claimed that.”

                “You don’t think the Whistleblower story is open and shut?”

                “Not by a long shot.  It was a pre-planned hit and is just one more indication of the deep state’s effort to perform a soft coup on President Trump”

                To Theo’s surprise the girl smiles even widen.  She giggles a little bit and turns around.  A man older than Theo’s 35 approaches him.  He extends his hand and remarks, “Hello, I’m Professor Vikas.  I teach political science at Georgetown University”

                Theo shakes his hand, “Hi, I’m Theo.  I work for your sworn enemy Donald Trump”

                Theo doesn’t know Professor Vikas.  For all he knows, he’s not even a professor.  Theo merely assumes that every college professor’s enemy is President Donald Trump.  Professor Vikas smiles with his mouth but it doesn’t reach his eyes.  “My students have been telling me that you frequent this bar a lot and spout your propaganda”

                “No, I lay down some truth.  In the old days, people encouraged debate.  That used to be the point of University but you people ruined all that by suppressing conservative thought.  I merely come in and give them the opposing view.  Usually I’m grossly outnumbered yet apparently I’ve made an impact since they got back up.”

                “It’s not hard to convince impressionable college students.  I won’t have you corrupting their minds and exploiting that they are away from their parents so have their first taste of freedom.  You take advantage of their alcohol affected brains and insert filth in their drunken stupors.”

                Theo burst out laughing, “Wow, I knew liberals were masters of projection but that was brilliant.  I mean, you’re entire existence is lecturing to a bunch of those same kids you mentioned in the exact same predicament.”

                “I don’t do it at bars”

                “Make no mistake about it; some of your students go to your class drunk or hungover.  What time are you lectures?”

                “Some are in the morning, some are in the evening”

                “The ones in the morning, some are hung over, the ones in the evening, some are drunk”

                “You seem to love stereotyping”

                “As do you.  I know you’re not a psychology of biology professor but let me tell you how the human brain works.  Your mind processes information in categories call schemas.  These schemas have basic characteristics of something essential to that item.  It then fills in the rests as context provides.  The way it is normally described is the ‘grandmother’ neuron.  Now, you know what your grandmother looks like.  Your grandmother, however, looks differently depending on what angle you’re looking at her.  Since the amount of angles is infinite, you can’t have a neuron for every possible position your grandmother is in.  Therefore, you have core characteristics you look for and identify her that way.  Now, if she changes her clothes, gets her hair cut or whatever it may be, you can still recognize her because you use your schema.  This is what people call generalities and stereotypes.  You do it with other people too.  That’s why older people usually can understand things quicker because their experience has seen a similar situation or group and they have a head start in understanding.  To vilify generalities and stereotypes is to vilify the way your mind processes information.  If you do that, you’re just retarded.’

                The professor frowned.  He was used to people respecting him and this punk just called him a ‘retard.’  Now, he wanted more than ever to do what he was going to do.  “Finish your drink.  We have set up a room.  I challenge you to an impromptu debate.  Just so you know it will be recorded”

                “Can we have a live feed to the internet?”

                “Are you that confident?”

                “Yes”

                “How about a wager?”

                “No”

                “Why?  If you’re so confident?” There was a smug expression on his face

                “Because these are your students.  Their grade depends on you.  If they were to vote against you, even anonymously, they can be punished whereas I can’t do anything to punish them.”

                “Why do the debate at all if you think you’re going to lose?  This is an open school event, they’re not all my students.”

                “Because even if they vote for you, they know in their hearts who really won the debate.  My goal is information not to win over some asshole I don’t know”

                “Why the name calling?”

                “Because I hate college professors for all the reasons you indicated about why I come here.  I believe that professors are too afraid of the real world so they go to their one safe space where they manipulate college students.  I don’t have to tell you how because you very eloquently described it before.”

                “Well then let’s go.”

                Theo finished his drink and follows a crowd of people to the classroom.  A student queries, “Is there anything you need?”

                “A lab top linked to some sort of projector screen”

                “Right, all our rooms have that.”

                “Are you over 21?”

                “Yes” the expression on his face made Theo think that he wasn’t but he just had a fake iD.

                “Do you have Venmo? I’ll send you $30, get a bottle of Sapphire gin and tonic water and then you can do what you want with the rest”

                The student gave him his Venmo name and Theo sent the money doubting that he would do it.  They set up the monitors and a crowd of students gathered.  Theo looked out into the crowd and was shocked he made that much of an impression on them.  As everything was set up, the moderator, quickly introduced Professor Vikas and Theo.  The moderator explained, “This is not a formal debate.  No candidate can speak more than five minutes and then the opposing side gets to retort.  Theo, you start first”

                Theo was a little unnerved by all the phones on him right now but he stated, “First, I want to talk about why the whistleblower is coming out.  The inspector general report is coming out soon and it will be devastating for the Democrats and the DOJ, which encompasses the FBI and CIA.  They are covering up the Democrats collusion with the UK, Ukraine and Russia.  Basically everything they pretend President Trump did, they are guilty of themselves.  Democrats are projection artists nothing more.  The whistleblower scandal was a pre-planned professional hit job”

                Theo hears snickers from the crowd.  There’s a brief silence and the moderator declares, “If you’re not going to use the full five minutes, say ‘I yield my time’”

                “I yield my time” Theo announces

                Professor Vikas responds, “Thank you for being here students and fellow faculty members.  What you just heard is completely fabricated.  It’s not Theo’s fault as he’s been influenced by Fox News.  There is absolutely no evidence that Democrats spoke to any foreign power about Trump.  I yield my time”

                Theo furiously types on his laptop and pulls up an article in Politico, “This is an article from Politico, which is a left wing fake news outlet trusted and respected by liberals and Democrats.  Look at the subtext on the headline, ‘Kiev officials trying to make amends after openly advocating for Hillary’ I’ve highlighted certain parts of the article in which the Ukrainian officials say not to bother with Trump because Hillary is going to win.  When the good professor says that Fox News made it up, he forgets that the fake news has changed their story so many times that things that were covered up or taboo to report on, weren’t just a couple months ago.  If you want a CNN clip, here’s Katie who had Mark Short on.”  Theo plays a clip where Katie accuses him of Russian propaganda when he mentions Hillary and Obama colluding with Ukraine and Short interrupts ‘Actually it’s a Mark Vogle piece from politico” and holds it up ‘and he now writes for the NY times’  Theo continues, “Here is a Daily Caller piece entitled, “Steele indentified Russian Dossier sources notes reveal.  Here’s a highlighted excerpt where it says that Steele’s sources are Russians Surkov & Trubnikov..  Tell me something.  What is the name of the Russian President Trump colluded with?  I gave you names and notes from Kavalec speaking with Steele.   As for the final claim I made, here is a CNN article, “British intelligence passed Trump Associates’ communications with Russians on US Counterparts.’  Theo runs the mouse over to highlight parts where it says UK’s GCBQ (Their DOJ) and Mi5 (Their FBI) spying on President Trump.  So, my question to you professor is when you say I have no basis to make these accusations, what do you mean?”

                “This debate is not about Obama or Hillary.  We are here to talk about the Whistleblower.  You called it a pre-planned hit but all of this came out a week ago.  There is no deep state. This is just a concerned citizen who doesn’t like pay for play deals made by the president.”

                “Biden is on tape withholding a billion dollars in aid if they don’t fire their prosecutor general”

                “He was corrupt.  The EU said he was corrupt.  Various Ukrainian officials said he was corrupt”

                “Why would Biden care that the Ukrainian prosecutor is corrupt?  Isn’t that a Ukraine problem?”

                “We don’t like working with corrupt politicians”
                “He’s not a politician, he’s a prosecutor general”

                “Biden was still concerned”

                “Because Inspector General Shokin was investigating Burisma and their hiring and paying Hunter Biden $50,000 a month when he had no experience at all.  Burisma is an energy company and Hunter had no energy experience.  He was kicked out of college for doing too much drugs.  That was his qualification”

                “The investigation was over when he was fired”

                “False. Shokin has sworn in an affidavit that he was still investigating Burisma and was only fired because of Biden.  Don’t you think that Biden should’ve at least recused himself since it involved his kid? There were three investigations open, only one was closed.”

                “We are getting off topic.  This is about the Whistleblower.  California Democrat Adam Schiff, who is very hesitant to say anything he can’t back up, was shocked by these revelations and has claimed he just heard about this.  He’s an impeccable source.  Why would you believe this guy who you only know from a bar over a respected congressman?”

                Theo laughed, “Adam Schiff lied to you for three years about the Russian collusion hoax.  He is anything but hesitant to say things.  You claim that everyone found out a week ago.  Well here’s a tweet from Adam Schiff, who you have told us is an impeccable source, this tweet is from 8/28/19, which was more than two weeks ago.  It’s actually a month ago, ‘Trump is withholding vital military aid to Ukraine while his personal lawyer seeks help from the Ukraine government to investigate his political opponent.’  What does that sound like to all of you?  Oh yea, the whistleblower report!  Let’s move on from Schiff as I already told you he’s not credible.  Here’s 60 minutes with Pelosi that was taped over two weeks ago.  Pelosi says, ‘But I know what was in the call.’  I ask you, ‘How did she know what was in the call?”

                “Pelosi’s next statement is that it’s public information”

                “Was it though?  You just told me that nobody knew about until two weeks ago.  If it was public information, then you’re story can’t be true.  Pelosi can’t be right that it was in the public domain if congress didn’t know it about it at the time she said that.  Right?”

                The student came back with a bottle of gin, tonic and ice.  Theo thanked him and Professor Vikas snapped, “What are you doing?”

                “You said it was informal.”

                “You’re drinking.  This is a mockery of this proceeding”

                “Yes it is.  You told me at the bar that I take advantage of people with alcohol affected brains.  You ignore that my mind is also affected with alcohol.  This debate isn’t going well for you by objective reasons.  I want to make it fairer by drinking”

                The professor shook his head and opined, “You mention Trump’s personal lawyer.  That is Rudy Giuliani.  Every time he gets on TV, he hurts Trump by spouting his lies.  He humiliates Trump and there’s internal pressure to shut him up.”

                “I work in the White House.  I am on the inside.  There is no internal pressure.  Of course, if you don’t believe me, here’s a letter that Joe Biden sent to various news outlets like Fox News, ABC, MSNBC and CNN demanding that Rudy Giuliani is kept off the air.”

                “If you read the letter, Biden admits several times that the media does a good job debunking Giuliani’s points in real time.  It is not a confession”

                “Your point to me was that Giuliani is hurting Trump.  If that were true, why would Biden want Giuliani off the air?  Wouldn’t it help Biden if someone who’s damaging to Trump stays on the air?  I’m an economist, we study incentives.  Ask yourself, what would be Biden’s incentive for sending that letter?  Does it make sense that it’s because he’s doing damage to the president or is Giuliani hurting Biden and the Democrats?  What seems more plausible?”

                ”Biden understands the integrity of the office of the president.  Giuliani hurting the office, not the man, is why he wants him off the air.”

                “That doesn’t even resemble a rational thought.”

                There’s laughter from the crowd and the professor sternly cries out, “I want to know how he was so prepared.  You have all these articles ready for you.  You somehow had them all saved on your e-mail.  What student prepared you?  Someone set me up.”

                “I keep notes on my phone.  A lot of people do.  But, you challenged me.  You came to the bar and told me about this debate.  Obviously, you knew about it.  The question isn’t how was I prepared, it’s how were you not?”

                “I have refuted everything you said.”

                “The crowd will be the judge of that.  Back to the Whistleblower.  Here’s a piece where Sean Davis reveals that they recently changed the rules on what constitutes a Whistleblower.  They removed the rule that you have to have firsthand knowledge of the conversation.  This reminds me of Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix.  Remember when Dumbledore scolds Professor Umbridge for doing something she’s not legally allowed to do.  She then calls the ministry of magic and gets the law changed so she can do it.  The walls of Hogwarts castle is filled with all the new ministry decrees based on things that Umbridge wanted to do to undermine Dumbledore but wasn’t allowed.  This is the same concept”

                “The piece says some time between last year and August 2019.  The rule could’ve been changed a year ago.  Not necessarily right after the conversation between Trump and Zelensky.”

                “Why would they secretly change it?  Almost like they didn’t want Trump to know that the law had been changed.  Why would they want that?  Maybe to catch him off guard and set him up?”

                “That’s speculation.  Sometimes the person with firsthand knowledge is afraid to come forward”

                “A lot of people had firsthand knowledge of the call.  Don’t you find it suspicious that none of them came forward?  If the initial person who heard it wasn’t bothered enough, why would someone that heard it from someone else be so bothered?  This is called hearsay and, as of right now, hearsay is not admissible in court but they may change that rule next because they can’t get Republicans with the rules now.”

                “Hearsay is an outdated principle”

                “Our constitution says you have a right to face your accuser.  That’s why it’s not admissible.  The person that heard it from your accuser is not your accuser”

                “Who cares of the reason? The bottom line is they changed the rule so new rule applies”

                “Does it though?  Here’s the 9/23/19 change to the urgency requirement, which is what the Whistleblower referenced.  Odd that he wrote it with legal footnotes and references.  Usually whistleblower complaints are just a description of what happened.  You don’t have legal cases referenced.  This addendum, four days before this controversy, they changed the guidelines.  There’s a suspicious footnote that it only refers to senior intelligence officials.  For those of you who don’t know, that doesn’t include the President.  It also provides how it can be shared with congress.  Here is the exemption for POTUS.”

                “We are in unprecedented times.  I thought we had to yield to each other.  What happened to decorum?”

                The moderator looked confused, “Ummm, you guys have been doing a good job going back and forth.  You’re not even really interrupting each other so I’m just letting it slide”

                The professor blurted out, “These are unprecedented times.  We need transparency”

                “This president has been the most transparent president in American history”

                “We need the transcripts of all his conversations”

                “Absolutely not.  It was a mistake the first time.  You guys still pretend he said things he didn’t and the transcript is out.  Trump is under no obligation to tell the media anything.  Schiff wants the transcripts with Putin so he can twist more things around just like he did with Zelensky.  The only precedent is this week.  You can’t release the transcript.  There are two things done best behind closed door; sex and diplomacy”

                “If he has nothing to hide, why be against it?”

                “If the Whistleblower is so legitimate, why hide his identity?”

                “60 minutes reports that the Whistleblower fears for his life.”

                “Yea, speaking about precedent; we heard this a couple years ago.  A man named Stefan Halper.  He set up George Papadopoulos, Mike Flynn and Carter Page at his Cambridge campus in London.  As I told you earlier, it was England that did all the spying on Trump and his team and passed it to US counterparts.  Everyone said he can’t be questioned because his life is in danger.  Three years later, he’s still alive.”

                “We aren’t looking for all of the conversations; just the ones that he put on the top-secret server.  Never before have presidents decided their conversations with foreign leaders were top-level classification.”

                “Unfortunately, our professor is lying again.  Here’s Susan Rice of the Obama administration saying that Obama put calls on the top secret server too.”

                “She also claims it was rare”

                “Well, people didn’t leak things like they do in the Trump administration.  The intelligence community isn’t against the president like they are Trump.  When you have as many enemies as Trump, you need to be more careful with classification.”

                “Donald Trump is the president of the rich.  Obama championed the middle class”

                “Median income has risen $ 4,144 since Trump took office.  That’s 6.8%.  After 8 years of Obama, the median income raised $1,000, or 1%.  Who champions the middle class again?”

                “Obama had an economy that had collapsed so bad they called it ‘the great recession.’  It was the worst collapse since the Great Depression.  You can’t blame a slow recovery on Obama”

                “What are you talking about?  If you hit rock bottom, you have a long way to go up when you’re at the bottom.  Even if he gets to even, that’s a huge increase.  He didn’t do that though.  Trump had to rise to new highs and break records.  Obama just had to get to even but he couldn’t even do that.”

                “I will not standby and listen to your racist attacks on Barack Obama”

                “Why is it racist?  Because it’s not worshipping him?  When is criticizing, racist?  When the president is black?”

                “Yes”

                “No, you can criticize people’s performance regardless of their race.  Blacks aren’t little kids.  You don’t need kid gloves.  They can handle criticism”

                “Don’t justify your racism in this Ivy League bastion of intellectual excellence”

                “You are ruining that reputation.  I can’t even do that because I don’t represent the university.”

                “You even look like a racist with your bald head”

                Theo laughed, “Wow, attacking my looks.  DIdn’t you yell at me for generalizing and stereotyping?  Didn’t you just stereotype bald people?”

                “I’ve said all I wanted to say.  Do you have any most lies you want to profess?”

                “No, I’m done laying down truth.”

                “Then let’s put this to a vote on who won the debate”

                The moderator announced, “Okay, so if you logon to the website barfight.Georgetown.com, you can vote on the winner.  We’ll give you two minutes to vote.  Voting is open now. 

                The screen lit up with the website.  After two minutes, the moderator called, “Alright voting is closed”

                Theo poured himself another drink and took a long sip.  He knew he was going to lose.  It was enemy territory.  The moderator stated, “Alright, let’s find out if the alcohol affected Theo was able to take down the respected professor.”

                Theo snickered.  He didn’t care about the results.  When arguing with liberals, it wasn’t about convincing the liberal, it’s a third person who may be on the fence listening in.  The screen lit up and a bar graph was shown.  Theo hardly paid attention but was alerted when the professor scoffed and stormed out of the room.  Theo looked up and saw that 70% of people voted for Theo.  His eyes went wide and he turned to the crowd.  He gave them a nod and mouthed “Thank You”

                The moderator could tell Theo was shocked so he chimed in, “Congratulation Theo.  Seems like you need to give young impressionable college students more credit in their ability to judge objectively”

                Theo responded, “I’m just glad you don’t think ‘objective’ is a dirty word.

                “Yea, maybe you can give us more credit.”

                “I appreciate you judging fairly.  Now, I need to go home.”

                Theo got up and shook hands with the moderator.  As he walked out, he shook a lot of hands as people congratulated him.  He left the building and went to the metro to go home.  Although it was over an hour train ride, he was stunned the whole way home.  He couldn’t believe he won.  He knew his information was better and his argument was far superior as he backed up his statements with articles but he really thought they would side with a Georgetown representative rather than an outsider.  He wrote it off that the drinking while debating endeared him to the younger crowd.  As he thought this, it crossed his mind that maybe he needs to give these college kids more credit.  It was just one example though.  The jury was out if it would be sustained.  Still though, he decided there was hope for the future. He got home and went to sleep with a smile.  The debate had cheered him up from a very stressful week at the White House. 

Friday, September 27, 2019

Real Charachters Episode 26 Ukrainian past fight back


                Victor Pinchuk lives in Ukraine.  He has built up a steel company named “interpipe.”  Through this and other business ventures, Victor has amassed enough money to be considered a billionaire.  With this new found wealth, he does what many people in politically unstable regions do; he buys influence and political protection.  Through his businesses, he had met Hillary Clinton in 2010.  From there, they had business dealings in the United States, the Alps and Ukraine so became very familiar with each other. 

Victor has decided he’s going to sell his first company, interpipe as his heart is no longer in steel.  He finds Iranians that are willing to buy it for a sum over a million dollars.  He accepts the offer and the sale is made.  Shortly after this deal, Victor’s phone rings.  He answers it as the number is familiar to him.  “Hello Hillary”

“Hey Victor, we need to talk”

“Is something wrong?”

“Yes, there is.  You know that deal you just made with the Iranians?”

“Of course I do, it just happened”

“Well, it was done in violation of US Sanctions against Iran.  Due to the sanctions, our State Department compiles a list of all companies that do business with Iran for sums over a million dollars.  Interpipe, and by extension, you are now on the list.”

“Oh no, I had no idea.  Ms Clinton, you know I need America.  They are the world’s best customers.  I can’t have them put sanctions on me; it’ll cripple my other businesses.”

“That’s why you are getting this courtesy call.”

“I appreciate that but what can be done?”

“Well, as it so happens, I run the state department.  I’ll delete your name from the list but I’d like you to help out with our foundation in exchange for this favor”

“Certainly Ma’ame, thank you very much.  It’s no problem at all.  I cannot expect something for nothing”

                “I’m glad we could come to an agreement”

                Victor and Hillary hang up the phone and shortly after this phone call, Victor Pinchuk donates $ 25 Million to the Clinton Foundation and the state department’s list conveniently doesn’t include companies that Victor Pinchuk owns currently or has in the past. 

                With this contribution, Victor is now the largest single donor to the Clinton Foundation.  This isn’t too new for him as he’s also the largest single donor to the Tony Blair Foundation.  After all, Victor, like most wealthy people, play both sides and hedge their bets.  He can’t only help the Secretary of State but all her allies as well so that as powers shift, he has powerful friends in high places to lean on if things get bad.  As the years progress, Barack Obama’s presidency is coming to an end.  Pinchuk knows that Hillary Clinton is leading the polls and will probably beat Donald Trump.  Like any good businessman, however, he has to hedge his bet just in case.  He offers Donald Trump $150,000 to give a speech, which Trump agrees to.  It’s not a lot of money but in the unlikely event that Trump beats Hillary, then he can say that he helped him and hopefully a President Trump will be kind to him as he tries to conduct business in the United States.  Little did he know what would result from this donation that he felt was a drop in the bucket.

Around the time Victor is hedging his bets, in March 2016, Joe Biden is in the Ukraine.  President Barack Obama has just approved a billion dollars in aid to Ukraine.  Vice President Biden has been the point man in Ukraine for the last couple of years.  In order to curry favor with him, the largest energy company in Ukraine, Burisma, has given Joe Biden’s son Hunter a job on the board of their company where he will be paid $50,000 a month despite having no experience in the energy field.  The Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Viktor Shokin, has recently opened an investigation for tax fraud and corruption into Burisma.  Part of that has to do with the money they’re paying Hunter Biden.  Joe Biden can’t stand for this so right before the conference, he tells the Ukrainian President Porchenko that he isn’t getting the money.

                Porchenko is shocked.  How could he do this now right before they are going on stage to announce it.  He replies, “You have no authority, you’re not the president.  The president said…”’

                “Call him” interrupts Biden, “The President and I are in agreement on this.  I’m telling you right now that I leave in six hours.  If your prosecutor general isn’t fired by the time I leave, you’re not getting the money.”

                They make the announcement and President Porchenko fires Viktor Shokin.  Shortly after this, Joe Biden is bragging in the American press that they ousted a corrupt prosecutor general and replaced him with someone honorable and decent.  As Burisma’s American lawyers read the press release, they sigh.  They are centered in Ukraine and any links between Ukraine and corruption is bad for business and bad for Ukraine.  Burisma’s American lawyers call Ukrainian officials and apologize for the dissemination of false information by US representatives and public figures about the Ukrainian prosecutors.”

                “We appreciate your apology but keep in mind that although you represent a Ukrainian company, you don’t live in Ukraine.  The American press went on TV and insinuated we were corrupt when we have done everything they have asked us to do.”

                “We are aware of that.  That is the nature of this phone call.  What can we do to make amends for this?”

                “I’d like to have our new Prosecutor General Lutsenko meet Barack Obama but I cannot go through Joe Biden.  He made me fire a good prosecutor and then he bragged about it and dragged us through the mud.  Please find another link.”

                “I can do that”

                The CEO of Burisma is on the Atlantic Council where Victor Pinchuk is a board member and the major funder of the organization.  Mr. Burisma calls Pinchuk and says, “Victor, I need a favor”

                “Sure, what do you need?”

                “I need you to arrange a meeting with the new Ukrainian prosecutors and Barack Obama”

                “You’re asking me because the government isn’t too pleased with Vice President Biden right now”

                “That is correct.”

                “I can arrange that.  I don’t see it being a problem”

                After a few phone calls, Victor does arrange this meeting and Burisma successfully makes amends for Biden’s big mouth. 

                Later that year, Donald Trump did win the presidency and all the Democrats are worried because all the shady things they have done over the last eight years, especially in the last year against Donald Trump may all become exposed because Hillary is not president so can’t protect them.  As Hillary and Barack have taught them to be Alinskyites, they know the rules.  They need to deny and project and that’s just what they do.  The Democrats call up their propaganda machines also known as the mainstream media and accuse Donald Trump of everything the Democrats are guilty of themselves.  The media prints it all and repeats over and over again to fool the American public.  President Trump puts up mild resistance and fires the FBI director James Comey.  In retaliation, the justice department sets up a special counsel headed by a man named Robert Mueller.  Although Mueller is a Republican, he hates Donald Trump and everyone he hires on his council is a Democrat that either worked for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.  Its primary focus is to shut up everyone and anyone that knows the truth that Hillary and Barack Obama colluded with Britain, Russia and Ukraine to take down Donald Trump. 

                Victor Pinchuk is in Ukraine.  The American election didn’t bother him too much as he is not on Donald Trump’s radar.  It would have been nice to have his friend Hillary as president but in the grand scheme of things, it didn’t hurt him too badly.  He receives a phone call from a number he doesn’t recognize but he answers it anyway.  The voice on the other line says, “Mr. Pinchuk, my name is Robert Mueller”

                “Oh, hi, I believe you’re heading a special counsel investigating Donald Trump’s Russian collusion”

                “Yes, I am.  I’m glad you are familiar”

                “What can I do for you?  I’m afraid I don’t know much about Donald Trump and the Russians”

                “But you did give him $150,000 to speak at an event you funded”

                “I did but I pay a lot of people to speak.  I’ve had other speakers at around that amount so it’s not out of the ordinary.”

                “That may be the case and I’ll be willing to look past that.  Or….I may just charge you for it.  Your being a Ukrainian and Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort spent a lot of time in Ukraine.  I just may tell the media things that put your two names in the same sentence.  I then call you a Trump donor….”

                “I gave much more to Hillary Clinton”

                “And it’s talk like that that will get you in trouble”

                “What do you mean?”

                “If you want your name out of the papers, I’d highly suggest that you forget that you know the Clintons”

                “Oh, so you just want me to keep my mouth shut?”

                “Yes, the Clintons are going to be distancing themselves from you.  You’d be wise not to refute them on this.”

                “You know, I’ve known the Clintons for almost a decade.  If they wanted a favor, all they had to do was ask.  They didn’t need to have you threaten me and try to strong arm me into silence.  We go way back, I’ll keep my mouth shut for the Clinton’s.  That’s not a problem.”

                “I’m glad we are in agreement.  I apologize for the strong words but you can understand that people are on edge right now.  We can’t let things get out.”

                “Completely understood.  I just want you to remember, we’re on the same side”

                “I will keep that in mind.  Thank you for your time”

                “Good night Sir”

                “Good Afternoon here.”

                They hang up and Bob Mueller calls Barack Obama.  “Sir, Victor Pinchuk isn’t going to be a problem”

                “Glad to hear it.”

                “Look, if I’m going to make sure nobody finds out about things you don’t want them to, I need to know what it is I’m silencing.”

                “Well, the Russian angle is that Christopher Steele used Russian sources to compile his dossier, which is really just a reprint of an article from 2007 in the Wall Street Journal entitled ‘How Lobbyist use Ex-Soviets to Woo Washington’, Also, anyone who knows about Skolkovo, Uraniam One and the DNC Server hack.”

                “Why did we make Pinchuk a priority?”
                “Because he heavily funds the Atlantic Council that has members linked to each of these things.  He can do the most damage if he talks.”

                “But he’s Ukrainian”

                “True, but a lot of Russians are on the Atlantic Council so there’s that connection.  The Ukrainian angle, he obviously would be a crucial part of.  He knows all about how the Ukrainians gave information to DNC surrogates and streamlined it into the FBI so they could act on it.”

                “So my responsibility is anyone that links you and Hillary to any of these scandals needs to be silenced and then when I’m sure they won’t talk, link them to Trump any small way I can.”

                “Correct”

                “Understood sir.”

                Three years after this, it is now September 2019.  There is a new Ukrainian president and Trump calls to congratulate him.  This phone calls opens up a lot of old wounds as President Trump is interested in what Joe and Hunter Biden were doing in Ukraine.  Since Victor is a Ukrainian, he is paying very close attention to see what’s going on.  He kept his deal with Bob Mueller and didn’t talk about his ties to Hillary and let her deny that they knew each other.  He hasn’t said a word to anyone but he does feel a little slighted that after nine years and millions of dollars, they tossed him to the curb the second the going got tough.  Joe Biden goes on TV and says “My getting Shokin fired had nothing to do with the investigation into Burisma.  That investigation was concluded by the time I got him fired.  I got him fired for being corrupt and that’s that.”

                Victor stares at the TV and fury enters his eyes.  He blurts out, “Lies!” He thinks back to that time three years ago in March and the favor he had to do for Burisma.  He asks to nobody in particular because he’s alone, “Why would Burisma need to make amends if it was just because he was corrupt?”

                Pinchuk is furious that Democrats once again are lying about Ukraine.  He decides to double check to see if he’s right about this.  He calls officials in the justice department and asks, “Shokin was fired for the Burisma investigation right?”

                “Victor, is this important?  We got a lot on our plate right now.  This conversation with President Zelensky and President Trump is blowing out of proportion.  We were on the call.  We weren’t pressured in any way.  It was a simple request.  No threat was made.  Working with President Trump is a lot friendlier than working with Hillary, Joe Biden or President Obama as they always incorporated threats when they speak”

                “I know President Obama and Hillary well. You don’t have to tell me their tactics.  Biden I’m not too familiar with but based on everything I know, he’s lying.  Can you just confirm that for me?

                “Of course he’s lying.  There were three investigations into Burisma; A British based one, a tax one and a corruption charge.  Only the British one was closed when Shokin was fired.”

                “The other two were still open”

                “Yes, they didn’t close into January 2017 but the new Prosecutor General Lutsenko knew to keep Hunter out of it.  Though, we probably didn’t need to since in January 2017 Donald Trump was president.  We closed it because he knew how we helped take down Manafort thinking Hillary would win.  We mistakenly thought that what the previous administration wanted, so did Donald Trump.  America wanted Burisma to go away so we closed it when Trump became president.  As you know by now, we were wrong since he asked us to do him a favor and open it again.”

                “It took you this long to figure out that President Trump doesn’t like Hillary and Barack Obama?” Victor inquired incredulously.

                “No, we’ve been trying to offer an olive branch to the Trump administration.  In the summer of 2018, we tried to get all this information to the US DOJ because it might be evidence of possible violations of US ethics but they weren’t interested.”

                “Yea, Hillary still owns the DOJ”

                “We found that out the hard way.  Then we tried to give it to the US attorney in New York but again he didn’t care”

                “New York is one of the most anti-Trump places in the United States.  That and California”

                “Again something we found out.”

                “Now, we are reaching out to Rudy Giuliani.  In fact, President Zelensky specifically asked President Trump if he would send Giuliani so that we can discuss this information.  Both Giuliani and Trump seemed interested so finally we are making some headway to move forward”

                “Well, it is a new administration”

                “That is true and we are happy because a good relationship with America is good for Ukraine.”

                “Alright, thank you for the information”

                “Any time”

                Victor Pinchuk hung up the phone and then called Viktor Shokin.  After pleasantries, he queried, “Viktor, how come you didn’t fight after you got fired?”

                “Fight what?  Hey President Porchenko, turn down the billion dollars that our country desperately needs because I want to keep my job?”

                “You could have documented it.  I guess there really was no way around firing you.”

                “I did document it.  I swore in an affidavit and testified that I was fired because Biden was unhappy about the Burisma probe and Hunter Biden’s hiring was one of the things we were looking at.”

                “Oh. I was unaware of that.  I think the current administration would love to know”

                “That’s what we’ve been trying to do but I think it’s finally going to happen.  Rudy Giuliani is supposed to come to Ukraine so I can finally tell my story and try to get back at Biden without angering America”

                “Good luck”

                “Thank you”

                As Pinchuk is trying to get to the bottom of Biden’s lies, Democrat Committee chairman Adam Schiff is reading a report made by someone in the government that has been working with Schiff and others to take town President Trump.  They’ve tried four strategies, the latest being that Trump obstructed justice but nothing is sticking.  The deep state has written a whistleblower report saying that Trump is colluding with Ukraine.  It is well written with multiple references to legal cases and footnotes referencing various things.  Schiff can’t contain his excitement and tweets out on August 28, “Trump is withholding vital military aid to Ukraine while his personal lawyer seeks help from the Ukrainian government to investigate his political opponent.”  As a retweet to Natasha Betrand’s tweet: “Breaking: Trump has asked his national security team to review funding for Ukraine to ensure that the money is being used ‘in the best interest’ of the United States.  The funding has been put on hold.”

                Bertrand and Schiff were front and center during the failed Russian collusion hoax and the obstruction case.  It doesn’t take long for other Democrats who are angry with their incompetence and making Trump look better with every victory he gets over them.  The Democrat asks, “How do you know any of this that you tweeted?”
                “We heard rumors”

                “Good.  Stick with that story.  We’ve waited a long time for this and we don’t want you messing it up”

                “I’m not sure I follow”

                “We know you got your hands on the Whistleblower report.  Don’t lie to me.”

                “I didn’t deny it.  I’m just curious why you’re upset with me.”

                “Look, the Russian collusion hoax was easier because Steele had credibility with the FBI and we have been doing it for 12 years.  We’ve become experts and calling anyone and everyone a Russian colluder.  Ukrainian collusion, on the other hand, we don’t have a blueprint for like we did for Russia.”
                “There’s no one we can get to write a dossier?”

                “Right.  For Russia it was already written in 2007.”

                “Alright, I’m with you so far”

                “Since there was no dossier, we had to wait for the Ukrainian election because then we know that Trump would call to congratulate the winner.  Trump doesn’t do many things that Presidents normally do but this would definitely be ready for him.  Now we can pretend Trump did everything we did in Ukraine.”

                “How many people know about this?”

                “Most of the Democrat Senators.  We called them because this is the moment we’ve been waiting for.  It’s finally here, he fell for our trap.  We finally got him”

                “This is similar to Mike Flynn.  We waited for him to go to the Dominican Republic where he’d be away from the strict security the US gives him so we could spy on him.  Then President Obama expels the Russians so that Mike Flynn would get a call from the ambassador and we could arrest him for a FARA violation”

                “Yes”

                “Do you think it’ll work?”

                “It worked for Flynn didn’t it?”

                “That’s true.”

                All the planning comes to fruition two months later at the end of September.  The Democrats successfully got President Trump to release the transcript of the call with President Zelensky.  On the face of it, there’s nothing wrong with the conversation but the Democrats are very good at spinning words and making up that words mean something different than they have for the entire existence of the language.  People believe them every time so they will do that with the transcript.  Adam Schiff calls a committee which he is the head of and calls the Director of National intelligence.  This is round three.  Schiff was beaten on Russian collusion and obstruction so this is the third try to take down the President.  Unfortunately, the whistleblower complaint is also released.  He clearly states that he had no firsthand knowledge of the event and doesn’t even know if anyone was in the room with President Trump.  Despite this, though, it looks really formal and professional with various footnotes and references to legal cases to provide precedent for his accusations.  Although this is good if you’re a lawyer, when you’re claiming to just be a whistleblower reporting on something you saw, the formality of it makes it scream that it is actually a professional hit job rather than a concerned employee or citizen.  What’s worse is that it lies and says Trump promised Ukraine something in a quid pro quo to take down Biden.  That never happened. 

                Adam Schiff is sitting in the highest chair and realizes that he didn’t prepare for this.  He didn’t coordinate with the mainstream media and other Democrats to get their story straight so they aren’t contradicting each other.  Schiff decides off the cuff to mock the president in the context of the phone call.  He even smirks during it as what he’s saying is so obviously ridiculous that it’s hard to say with a straight face.  His words are, “In essence, what the President Trump communicates is this: We’ve been very good to your country.  Very good.  No other country has done as much as we have.  But you know what I don’t see much reciprocity here.  You know what I mean?  I hear what you want.  I have a favor I want from you though.  And I’m going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good.   I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand?”

                There is laughter in the Capitol as Schiff takes this hearing to be equivalent to a Saturday Night Live set.  From a parody stand point, it does hit on some classic Trumpisms as it boasts that nobody does it better and repeats itself.  Even a hint as to an accurate portrayal of what the transcript said, however, it is not.  Everything the media alleged about this phone call was false.  From the left, it didn’t contain any promises, there was no quid pro quo and President Zelensky brought up Giuliani first.  In fact, Zelensky invited Giuliani to Ukraine.  By no means did Trump pressure him or send Giuliani to get to the bottom of it.  President Zelensky asked Trump for a favor to send Giuliani to Ukraine.  From the right, President Trump did ask him to look into Biden and the 2016 election meddling.  The reports from conservative outlets were that Trump asked him for existing notes from before Shokin was fired to see his progress.  That was a lie as President Trump clearly asks for an investigation.”

                Dr. Wenstruf is a Republican on the committee that Schiff is chairing.  He uses his time to call out Schiff for making parody and joking when the hearing should be serious.  He calls it irresponsible and a cover up to the truth that nothing even remotely illegal happened.”

                As the backlash to Schiff’s comments escalates, Schiff is firm on one point that he didn’t see the Whistleblower complaint till that week.  This directly refutes his August texts but Hillary Clinton had trained all the democrats in the way of Alinsky; Deny deny deny.  That’s exactly what Schiff does.  He knows what he’s doing as it’s been his MO for three years.  He has opened Spygate Part II and so now his job would be to lie lie lie like all collusion hoaxers. 

                On the other side, the Republicans are meeting on their strategy to combat the new hoax to try to take down the president.  One suggests, “We need to call the Whistleblower up to testify under oath.  Grill him on who he spoke to and when.”

                Another responds, “I can’t believe they’re doing this again.  First they take a Wall Street Journal article and insert Trump’s name.  Now, they’re documenting all their corruption and changing their names with the preisdent’s.  It’s despicable”

                First responds “The virtue is the sin.  They pretend to be fighting the good fight but really they’re covering up their sins.”

                “Let’s see how other congressional committees are going”

                They go over to a monitor and watch a committee headed by Democrat chairman Jaypal.  Tom Homan is the witness they’ve called as he used to be an ICE agent at the border.  Homan starts his speech saying that we wonder why ICE agents are attacked and kids are bullied in schools.  It’s because of people like you that call me a racist and a bigot for enforcing laws you guys made.  If I’m a racist for enforcing the laws that you made, then what’s that make you?”

                The Republicans watching on TV are shocked but they like it.  Chairman Jaypal is not amused and scolds Homan for disrespecting the committee and the chair.  Homan interrupts her and bursts out, “this is a circus”

                Jaypal picks up her gavel and slams it in frustration several times.  Homan is unimpressed and just repeats a couple times, “You work for me, I’m a tax payer.”

                Chairwoman Jaypal is so appalled her mouth drapes but says nothing right away.  This Republicans fighting back thing has been happening more and more lately. A 26-year-old man in Iowa named Carson King went to a football game with a sign and an empty beer can of Busch Light saying that he was running low and needed more beer.   He couldn’t possibly have predicted what happened next as over a million dollars came to him through people donating to his fake beer fund.  He decided the right thing to do was to donate the money to charity.  Venmo and Busch light match his donation to the Stead Children’s hospital.   

                While any sane person would consider this a noble and commendable thing that King did, a journalist for the Des Moines Register named Aaron Calvin decides he wants to destroy this hero.  He looks into King’s social media history and finds tweets from 10 years ago when King was 16 that are considered hateful by today’s standards.  As the old saying goes, however, don’t throw stones if you’re in a glass house.  In retaliation, people look into Calvin’s social media feeds and find him when he was an adult and not a teenager, saying “Fuck the NYPD”

                If this wasn’t bad enough, they find another one saying “Too many of these n*ggers as b-made nowadays.  Don’t pardon my French”

                One has to take his advice and people don’t pardon his words at all.  He is ruthlessly attacked and then a third tweet is discovered from Calvin where he says, “I just got hit on by Tori Amos’ make up guy.  Never talk to strange gay men.”

                As gays are now the most protected group in America, it doesn’t take long for the Des Moines Register to fire Aaron Calvin.  Although Busch and Venmo have disavowed Carson King, they did make good on their donation to match him.  The country has no sympathy for Calvin and excuses King’s behavior.  Although this is a contradiction for how they treated Kavanaugh, the Republicans decide to just take the victory.  After this week with a new hoax to try to take down the President, Trump has increased 15 points from down 11 to up four on Biden according to Rasmussen.  Looks like these witch hunts are finally waning on the patience of the American people.