Theo is heading to the White House for
work. It’s a long commute from his home
in Rockville, Maryland but he liked houses over apartment and the train ride to
D.C. gave him time to mentally transition from the suburban mentality to the
hustle and bustle of the city mentality.
This sort of mental preparation was needed because it was a tough time
in the country today. Since it was a
tough time for the country, it was a tough time for the White House as
President Trump has replaced the Jews as the usual scapegoat for all
problems.
The incident now is that in
Odessa, Texas, a stain on human kind started a massive shootout with cops
during a routine traffic stop. The
officer pulled him over for failure to use a turn signal. When he approached the car, the driver fired
a riffle and drove off. The driver
engaged in a shootout while driving and ended up being shot and killed in a
parking lot of a crowded movie theater.
Predictably, Democrats were using this incident to argue to force people
to sell their guns back to the government.
Beto O’Rourke couldn’t wait to go on TV and say exactly that. Unfortunately, politicians routinely use
tragic events as an excuse to take away Civil Liberties.
Theo had a different take than
most people on this. Gun advocates would
always point to that you can’t punish innocent people for bad people’s
behavior. All gun control would do is
inhibit people from defending themselves against assholes like this. They would,
however, be open to stricter mental health screenings and background checks. When he got to work, he heard some of his
co-workers talking about how the statement ‘sell back to’ is inaccurate because
they didn’t buy the guns from the government.
A transaction by force is not a real transaction. These people were consistent as they were
against the Patriot Act as a reaction to 9/11.
To Theo, however, it was about
not advocating any aspect of socialism.
His basic thought was if socialists do it, then we should do the
opposite. Socialist countries like
Russia and Venezuela confiscated guns and then oppressed the people at the
force of a gun that they knew they didn’t have.
Confiscating a gun and then turning it on someone is basically what
happens in communist countries, which Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez wanted. More recently, Chinese authorities have
started beating Hong Kong citizens in train stations to suppress their peaceful
protests. Theo would agree with all this but really he just thought people were
too stupid to realize what was really going on.
Most conservatives blame the media, Hollywood and academia’s leftist
propaganda to brainwash them. Theo,
however, loved watching movies and found that although Hollywood tries to be
left, they end up proving conservative points.
Take the movie V for Vendetta.
They do claim that the government is conservative and religious but if you look
at the policies, it’s all liberal. The
idea to have mandated curfews for your protection is a big government,
therefore leftist ideal. Conservatives
would tell you that it’s up to you to protect yourself; the government
cannot. Also in the movie, the
equivalent of the President is screaming at his KGB-style law enforcement and
officials, ‘Make them remember why they need us!’ There is no more blatant comment about big
government than this as conservatives argue that the nine most frightening
words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to
help.’ He often wondered how people
can’t see beyond the label. That is why
every time he met someone that said, ‘I don’t consider myself
Democrat/Republican/conservative/liberal, I just take the issue and think about
it logically’ he considered them a conservative because they almost always came
on the conservative side. Drug use was a
common exception so basically people who deny labels are just drug using
conservatives for the most part.
Despite Theo being an avid
supporter of gun ownership, he had never personally owned a gun. With all these massive shootings and the
rising and media defense of ANTIFA, for the first time in his life he began
thinking he needed a gun as the pocket knife he carried wouldn’t be sufficient
for the imminent communist revolution started by the liberal libelous,
scandalous, anarchist violent scum that have hijacked the Democratic
party. As these thoughts surfaced, he
reminded himself that historically, this happened in the 60s as everyone loved
communist Russia. Before that, even FDR
referred to Joseph Stalin as ‘uncle Joe’ and wanted America to be like
communist Russia. Like the Democrats
now, FDR wanted to pack the Supreme Court by adding more justices so they could
get their own way. This war had been fought and won before by Theo’s side but
he was skeptical that they would win the re-match. Admittedly, last time the opposition had the
presidency so it looked worse than the current situation.
This was the conversation at
work. Debates between the three camps:
Guns are a Constitutional Right given to us by God vs. The more school
shootings there are, the more good people need guns to protect themselves vs.
we need gun because it stops oppressive governments. As the debates went back and forth, Theo
realized the other problem with those right of center; they suck at
uniting. Why can’t everyone just agree
that they came to the same conclusion and the real enemy were the gun control
advocates? Instead, they wanted to take
on all parties. There’s a reason why
‘united we stand, divided we fall’ is a cliché.
The right’s inability to unite is the only reason there is still a
left. All this gun talk, however, needed
to take a short respite as Theo was called into a meeting with security
advisors.
A security official started the
meeting and explained, “As you all know, one of our canary traps has come full
circle.”
Before leaving, Jeff Sessions
gave a press conference that there was a behind the scenes campaign to weed our
leakers. Theo often believed that
Sessions wasn’t interested in discovering the leakers as he and multiple
members of the DOJ, FBI, and CIA were the ones trying to take down the
president by leaking. Instead, former
attorney general Sessions was warning everyone involved in the spying,
entrapping and deep state conspiracy to first stop Donald Trump from becoming
‘President Trump’ and then, when that failed, making sure they removed
President Trump from office to be careful.
Unfortunately, not everyone heeded this warning. The strategy used by the new Attorney General
Barr, Inspector General Horowitz among other was not a new strategy. It was called a ‘canary trap.’ It was seen on such TV shows as Miami Vice and Game of Thrones so it’s not like people didn’t know of its
existence. To use the Game of Thrones example, Tyrion realized
that someone on the hand’s council was leaking information to Queen
Cersai. He was unaware of who the leaker
was so he approached everyone he suspected individually and told them that
because they were worried about his niece Marcella’s, the Queen’s daughter,
safety, they were sending her out of the capital King’s Landing. He told each person a different
destination. In reality, the hand of the
king Tyrion had no intention of shipping Marcella anywhere but when his sister,
the queen, came into his chambers and berated him for trying to send her
daughter to Dorne, Tyrion knew that the Maester was the leaker because that was
the only person he told Marcella was being sent to Dorne.
Despite shows exposing this
strategy, it didn’t change the fact that it was effective. In the last three years, Theo was personally
privy to three incidents of this happening.
The first was when Donald Trump Jr. was accused of given an access code
by Wikileaks to access encrypted e-mails presumably by Hillary Clinton. The piece of information that changed to
various people was the date that Trump Jr. got the code. The real date was after it was public
information when anyone, including Don Trump Jr., could just read it in any
newspaper. All the false dates were
before it was public information. The
papers printed the date that Don Trump Jr. knew, which exposed who the leaker
was and they were summarily fired.
As if this wasn’t a warning to
others not to leak, there was another situation in which General Mike Flynn was
accused of contacting the Russian ambassador on behalf of the Trump
campaign. The real story was that he was
asked to contact the Russians after Trump won the nomination because General
Flynn was the incoming national security advisor so it was his job to meet with
the Russians. The information that
changed was who Mike Flynn was working on behalf of. Contrary to President Trump’s constant
attacks on the media, the media was instrumental in finding the leakers because
you could always count on them to print information that was damaging to Trump
without bothering to verify it. This
then tells the White House who is leaking.
Just last week, a canary trap
came back as the rumor was President Trump was given a loan by Deutsche Bank
and his co-signors were Russian oligarchs.
Who the co-signors were changed but that is what was printed so another
leaker was weeded out and removed.
Unfortunately, this one had more press conference as Lawrence O’Donnell,
the MSNBC propagandist pretending to be a journalist, in a rare moment of
honesty, retracted the story and admitted he didn’t verify the information and
he acted irresponsibly.
After that, Theo thought that the media was on to the
canary trap and they weren’t going to fall for it anymore. Just a week later, however, he was back to
these meetings to find out who among them was a traitor. As the Russian collusion hoax is dead or dying,
the story needed to just be a personal attack on President Trump. This one was about how the president refused
to be photographed with his daughter Tiffany because she was on the heavy
side. President Trump’s assistant
Madeleine Westerhout went to a bar and had drinks with a Washington Post writer
and told him off the record this made up story.
The Washington Post lived up to Trump’s accusations by acting
unprofessionally by publishing information revealed to him off the record and
Madeleine Westhout was fired. This one
affected Theo as he thought she was a nice person and had been with President
Trump since the beginning. Theo joined
later. Trump had to win the election
before he quit his New York job to come work for him. Given there were so many people the justice
department was throwing at Trump to be spies, there was a grueling background
check but it all worked out. He was more
suspicious of his co-workers now that he found out that there had been a mole
since the beginning. Like he normally
did after work, he went to a bar to relax from more evidence at the downfall of
this country as the swamp is being exposed and the roaches are scurrying and
fighting tooth and nail to remain in power.
At the bar, predictably people were very vocal about how
insensitive President Trump was that he didn’t want to be photographed with
Tiffany. Trump did what Trump does and
adds fuel to the trick he created by declaring that he loves Tiffany. In a sane society, announcing that you love
your daughter is not news but since the media hates him, they attack him
pointing out that the fact that he felt the need to say that means that he
actually doesn’t love his daughter.
Luckily, Tiffany was made aware of this trick so she wouldn’t be
affected as she agreed. It was just a
sad state of affairs that it worked.
Theo didn’t want to discuss the canary trap because then he would be a
leaker by exposing the plan. He waited
for someone to talk about anything besides the shooting in Odessa or whether or
not President Trump loves his daughter Tiffany.
As he finished his drink, he finally found someone to
remark to his friend, “I don’t know why I keep hearing shit about Mike
Flynn. He already pleaded guilty, the
case should be closed.”
Theo walked over to the man and asked, “You don’t believe
people can be forced into pleading guilty for a crime they didn’t commit?”
The man was taken aback by the question from a stranger
but people don’t like being rude to strangers.
Theo used that to bait him into a conversation. He knew it was temporary though. Eventually the person does get frustrated if
the stranger doesn’t say anything of note.
The man responded, “I’m not saying that, I’m just saying I don’t know
why Flynn would.”
“He remortgaged his house and
his legal fees had surpassed a million dollars.
The government threatened to indict his son on something if he didn’t
plead guilty. There are over 20,000
people in jail for pleading guilty to a crime they are innocent of for similar
financial or predatory reasons so he’s not an anomaly. Do you think that would be a reason?”
“Bankruptcy and defending your
child would probably be the two biggest reasons to do it. I’m Diego by the way.”
Theo shook his hand, “Theo”
“Sit down, let’s talk some
politics.”
Theo smiled, “I’m warning you,
I’m going to lay down some truth.”
Diego smiled back and responded,
“I’m warning you, I welcome it but I will fire back.”
“I’d expect nothing less.”
“So, now that it’s possible to
plead guilty when you’re innocent, why don’t you try to convince me that Flynn
is innocent.”
“First, we have to talk about
intentions”
“Alright”
“Would you agree that if a
prosecutor isn’t completely straightforward and withholds evidence that there’s
a reason for doing that that may not be pure?”
“Doesn’t the prosecution have to
reveal everything they have to the defense by law?”
“You’re making this way too easy
on me.”
“Well, I learned that from My Cousin Vinny”
“Movies generally are wrong about legal
trials but in this case, that’s correct”
“Are you getting to a point?”
“So Flynn fired his legal team
that gave him the shitty advice to plead guilty. The new lawyer, Sidney Powell, is much more
of a bulldog and he’s a fighter.”
“Stop stalling”
“He filed a motion for contempt
of court because Flynn’s prosecutors refused to reveal what’s known as ‘Brady
material’ or exculpatory information”
“What does ‘exculpatory’ mean?”
“Evidence that the person is
innocent.”
“Why is it contempt of court?”
“The court ordered them to turn
over all their information and they didn’t”
“How do they defend that?”
“What the government always says
when they don’t want to reveal embarrassing information, ‘it’s classified.’”
“Alright, well in the movie, the
guy didn’t put up a fight. I assume
there’s a reason for that. I mean, he
has to by law but how serious of a deal is this?”
“Huge. You normally get disbarred for doing
something like this. This has ended
careers. I’m not saying it’s going to
now because Obama and Hillary still own the DOJ, CIA and FBI and nobody cares
if you do something illegal so long as it hurts Donald Trump or his supporters.”
“That’s kind of a stretch.”
“Then why is this case still
going on? The judge should’ve already
dismissed the case, bitched out the lawyers, and put in to disbar them. Any other non connected person would be.”
“Well, what did they withhold?”
“That’s honestly irrelevant but
they won’t reveal conversations between the FBI agent Joe Pientka and Bruce Ohr
who, at the time, was the fourth highest ranking member of the DOJ.”
“What does that have to do with
Flynn?”
“The whole Russian conspiracy
hoax was based on a dossier allegedly written by Christopher Steele. Steele was an FBI informant that had done
good work in the past so the FBI trusted him.
Once they found out he was unreliable, they fired him to save face. Since, the FBI still wanted to take down
Trump and use his information, they had Pientka ask Ohr to reach out to Steele
to launder information into the FBI. Joe
Pientka was Ohr’s handler and the degree of separation would give the FBI an
opportunity to claim they aren’t using Steele.
Joe Pientka also went to the White House to interview Mike Flynn.”
“I’m not making the connection”
“What if when Pientka talked to
Steele or Ohr, one of them told him that Flynn had nothing to do with Trump’s
Russian collusion?”
“You’re speculating”
“If they have nothing to hide,
why not just give the transcripts of the conversations? Why not give up the FBI memo’s of Pientka’s
conversations with Ohr and Steele?”
“Maybe it really is classified”
“At this point, the information
is at least three years old. You can have
closed court cases. There are ways to
have a trial of confidential information.
Besides, if you can’t reveal all the information because you’ll have to
reveal classified information, then why file charges in the first place? You can just wait till the information no
longer needs to be classified.”
“Well, maybe they can just
reveal redacted versions or summaries of the conversations”
“Nope, we can’t trust them. Once you violate trust once, you can never
get it back. Last month, they fired a
Pentagon employee for exposing the Pentagon paying a CIA spy named Stephen
Halper. Their reaction was to fire the
whistleblower. His name was Adam
Lovinger by the way. The summary of the
transcript stated Lovinger ‘did yield classified information. When they looked at the transcript, however,
the actual line was Lovinger “Did not yield any classified information.’ So we
can’t trust them to summarize as the summary was literally the opposite of what
the transcript actually said.”
“What happened to Lovinger after
this came out?”
“He was cleared”
“So, Flynn can be cleared in the
same way.”
“Yes, I don’t think they only
messed up once.”
“You seem like you don’t think
it was an accident at all.”
“I don’t”
“Yea, so we need to see if the
transcripts and the summaries add up.”
“And it has to all be unredacted
because we now know the FBI lies when it comes to Trump supporters.”
“I don’t really want to believe
that.”
“Too bad, it’s happening”
“What if I just write you off as
a conspiracy theorists?”
“That’s your prerogative. It doesn’t change the fact that I’m right.”
“Well, happy hour is over so I’m
going to leave.”
Theo shook hands with him and
they each voiced that it was nice meeting each other. Diego offered, “You’ve given me a lot to
think about.”
“Never trust the
government. Trust me, I work for the
White House, I know more than anyone”
Diego laughed and agreed. Theo went back to the bar and ordered another
drink. He wasn’t ready to leave. He noticed a girl leaning over the bar that
looked like she had the weight of the world on her shoulders. He approached her and uttered, “Are you
okay?”
She seemed startled but popped
her head up. “Yea, I’m fine.”
“Really? It looks like you can use someone to talk
to.”
“I have family in Florida, and
there’s a hurricane coming right for them.”
“Yea, it’s looking category
5. There’s still a chance that it can
turn out to sea.”
“Let’s hope.”
“Have they evacuated?”
“No, they just boarded their
windows. They already have emergency
food and generators so they’re prepared for the worst case scenario.”
“Yea, well, I hope they’re
okay. The good news is that Florida
isn’t an island so if it’s as bad as they say, they can get supplies and aid to
them rather easily. Americans have a way
of hurrying to the aid of people suffering from disasters.”
“That is true but Trump used
some of the FEMA money for the wall.”
“One, that was just this year’s budget. Unlike the calendar, the year’s budget ends
on September 30 for the government. He
didn’t use all of it so there’s enough to sustain a relief effort for a month. Then, the new budget kicks in and they have
all the money again.”
“Well, that’s comforting except
it looks like this month is going to be expensive.”
“I agree, but FEMA doesn’t do
nearly as good a job of helping after a disaster as regular people.”
“Maybe”
“Luckily, Florida will have
both.”
“I hope you’re right.”
“I am. I know people normally die in the Caribbean
but American deaths are rare despite the severity of the storms. Americans have more resources to make sure
they survive.”
“I just wish they evacuated.”
“Well, that I agree with.”
“Climate change is really
scary. These storms get worse and
worse.”
“Actually, that’s false. We had the longest streak of years without a
hurricane above category 3 that ended in 2017.”
“Well, we’ve had a lot since
then.”
“Yea, but still below average”
“The UN says that there is a worldwide
famine and we’re all going to be starving soon.”
“Ah, that would be the UN
department with all the letters. It’s
like the UNPCC or something”
“I don’t know the name either, I
just say ‘United Nations’”
“Well, you can’t do that because
the UN panel for food and agriculture organization reports that there are
record highs for global corn, wheat and rice production.”
“Two branches of the UN
contradict each other?”
“Yes, luckily this is a food
issue and the one that has ‘food and agriculture’ in the name is reporting good
news.”
“Are you a climate denier?”
“Of course I am. I don’t trust any argument where no matter
what happens, you claim victory. When
there was 12 years of no severe storms, people said climate change was to blame;
now that we’ve had a few the last couple years, they blame climate change for
the severity. If it gets warmer, they
point to climate change. If it gets
colder, they point to climate change. So,
no matter what happens, climate change claims victory.”
“Well, the weather is
complicated”
“Exactly, which means nobody, including
climate advocates, has any idea.”
“Clean water and air is good for
everyone.”
“Yes, but using it as policy to
regulate businesses and force people to do things and taking away civil
liberties is wrong. Besides, China and
India are the biggest polluters and nobody does anything about them. It’s always us that participates but we do it
the least.”
“You know what?” she snapped,
“I’m a real shitty mood right now. You
came over to try to cheer me up and instead you argue with me. I’m not in the fucking mood.”
Theo put up his hands and
retreated. He closes his tab and goes to
the train to go home. While on the
train, he sees an argument between a Hispanic couple. Like every other person on the train, he
ignored them. Theo was standing behind
the man who was yelling with a short girl.
There was about eight inches between them and Theo was four inches
taller than the guy, so the girl was really petite. While they were standing there, the girl
yelled out, “Your friend is a slutty bitch.”
The man’s response was to raise
his hand presumably to hit her. Theo
grabbed the man’s arms and calmly articulated, “That’s a woman”
The guy turned to Theo while
pulling his arm out of his grip. The man
turned to Theo and Theo looked back seemingly bored. The guy extended both his hands toward Theo
but he nonchalantly moved his arms in opposite directions; one up one down,
swatting the man’s arms away from his body.
Now that Theo’s hand was cocked at his hip, he thrust it forward nailing
the man in the solar plexus with his palm knocking the wind out of him. The attempted woman beater took a couple
steps back and then charged. Theo
reached to the bar on the side of the train rather than the middle pole so he
could lean over and balance himself as he lifted his knee and drove it under
the charging male’s arms and hit him in the same spot. The guy dropped to one knee dry heaving
trying to catch his breath. Theo
pronounced, “Dude, I don’t want to fight you.
Trust me, it’s harder fighting a guy than it is a girl.”
At the next stop, Theo
commanded, “This is your stop. Get off.
You can change cars but your privileges to this car has been revoked.”
The male got to his feet holding
his midsection and walked off the train.
Theo didn’t even bother looking to see if he got back on. Theo turned to the girl unsure if he was
about to be thanked or berated. He
decided to say something neutral so offered, “I’m Theo”
“Stacey”
“Are you okay?”
“Yes, I am because of you.”
“Well, I wouldn’t go that far.”
“How else do you look at it?” Theo contemplated this and realized he didn’t
have an answer. He merely shrugged his
shoulders. When Stacey realized he
wasn’t going to respond, she continued, “What do you do?”
“I work at the White House”
“Ah, I’m in finance”
Theo tilted his head to the
side, “I normally get a reaction when I bring up the White House.”
“Well, when someone beats up a
guy that is about to hit me, I tend not to hold someone’s employment against
them.”
Theo smiled, “I guess that makes
sense.”
“Well, the economy has been
doing pretty good but I’m a little worried about the dollar”
“Why? We are the reserve currency of the world.”
“Yes, but the gap is narrowing.”
“If the dollar declines, then
our debt is more affordable.”
“Only if you have foreign
currency, which would make the dollar problem worse.”
“Most international transactions
are done in dollars. I think it’s like
70%, even the ones that don’t involve the US.”
“I agree but again, that number
used to be much higher.”
“Isn’t it good if the world
starts picking up the slack? The whole
world operating on one engine is getting to be a little too big a burden for
us. I want someone else to help out.”
“Be careful what you wish
for. Because of the worldwide demand for
the dollar, the treasury can print money indiscriminately and there’s still low
inflation because the dollars get eaten up by the rest of the world to pay for
non-American products. By keeping the
amount of things that dollars are buying higher, inflation stays low.”
“You’re saying it’s a good thing
then because we don’t have to worry about hyperinflation like Germany and
Venezuela had when they printed a bunch of money.”
“Not exactly. Because it forces us to round up massive debts
and since the government loves spending money we don’t have, we already spent
the money we needed to pay the countries buying up our debt back.”
“I’m not following”
“If we lose our world reserve
currency, then they’re going to want their money back and inflation will
skyrocket because now all that currency is coming back and chasing only
American products.”
“But Trump talks about the
strong dollar being a problem. He wants
it to devalue to drive more demand for American products since it’ll be relatively
cheaper for the rest of the world to buy American.”
“That is true to an extent but
if it falls too fast, then America would go from number five in the world in
per capita GDP down to like 109th and there’s only 115 countries.”
“You’re beginning to scare me.”
“That isn’t my intention. it’s just my job to worry about these
things. I don’t mean to attack your boss
or anything”
“Do you think this will happen
before the election next year?”
“Oh hell no. This isn’t an imminent problem. Right now, 62% of the global currency reserve
is dollars. Second place is the Euro
with 20%, so we got a long way to go.”
“And like 15 years ago, everyone
was worried that people would have a bucket of currencies that would be a
combination of Euros, Yuan and Dollars and that didn’t come to fruition”
“In the 1870s, England thought
that the pound would always be the global currency reserve. Until it wasn’t”
“Well, I guess we’ll cross that
bridge when we get there.”
“By then it’ll be too late. We should take precautions before then.”
“If you’re saying congress needs
to stop spending so much money, I wholeheartedly agree.”
“Then tell your boss to stop
approving omnibus spending bills. You
know, like he said he wouldn’t.”
“I have no argument to
that. I agree. Do you want to get dinner? I got to take the train to Rockville and
you’re cool as fuck.”
“Sorry, I get off at the next
stop. Besides, I kind of like guys that
are smarter than me.”
“Ouch, that was a little harsh.”
Stacey smiled, “I know. Thank you for helping me out but I’m not
really ready to go on a date right now.
Yea, you were the one who rescued me but I’m not too high on men right
now.”
“I can understand that.”
The train stopped and Stacey
hugged Theo and thanked him again. Theo
hugged back and thanked her for the conversation. Theo rode the train to Rockville and went
home. It was a rough day but it was over
now and he gets to do it all over again tomorrow.
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