Larry the Billionaire episode 40 Pelosi thinks she has unlimited power

                Larry is a bllionaire living in Naples, Florida.  As he looks at the current partisan turmoil in the United States, he’s glad that his investments and businesses are in a variety of countries.  He still isn’t sure who’s going to come out on top.  After reading how Glenn Simpson is now writing articles the for the British newspaper the Guardian and writing books linking Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, the Brexit leaders, to Russian collusion much the way Donald Trump was, he thinks Simpson is single handedly destroying the western world.  Larry has extensively travelled the world and the one thing he found was that the rest of the world was keenly aware of American politics.  Americans may not be able to tell you the heads of any other countries but most people knew who the President of the United States was regardless what country they lived in.  This was especially true in England.  After the debacle that was the Mueller probe and the IG report crucifying the Steele dossier, how could people in England believe this hoax?  How is Glenn Simpson not laughed at and mocked wherever he goes? It’s these kinds of things that made him lose all faith in humanity. 

                Larry found himself on a plane on his way to New York to take care of some business.  He made the trip often and given that he spent most of his life in New York, he considered himself more of a New Yorker than anything.  When his business was concluded, he wanders the city and ends up in a bar.  He orders a drink and takes a long sip losing himself in his thoughts.  He sees a bunch of people toasting as they are celebrating something.  As he listens in, he realizes what they are celebrating; the impeachment of Donald Trump.  He walks up to the group and asks, “You really think it’s something to celebrate that the first time in American history, a president is impeached for winning an election that nobody thought he could win?”

                “That’s not why he was impeached” fired back a male in the group.

                “Then why was he?”

                “Abusing his power and obstruction of congress.”

                “How did he do either of those things?”

                “He abused his power by threatening Ukraine by withholding aid.”

                “Did you listen to the testimony or hear the Ukrainian statements?  The Ukrainians didn’t even know the aid was withheld nor did they feel threatened.”

                “He’s the president; it’s intimidating when the most powerful man in the world calls you.”

                “By that logic, he isn’t allowed to ever talk to the head of a country.”

                The group thinks about this and comes up with nothing.  A woman tried, “Well, he didn’t let people testify.”

                “He’s legally allowed to.  It’s called ‘executive privilege.’  He used it less than any recent president.  He fully complied with the Mueller report but enough is enough with another fake hoax.”

                “Look, I’m sure congress knows better than you or I.  They had a reason or else they wouldn’t have impeached.”

                “That’s the problem with people, they refuse to think and trust the government to think for them.”

                “I can think for myself thank you very much.”

                “Really? Then how do you explain that there was bipartisan support against impeachment but not for it?  If the congressmen know so much, why did only Democrats vote to impeach?”

                “I don’t know.  All I know is that you’re just bitter because your president got impeached.”

                “No, I actually think it might end up helping Trump.”

                “How?”

                “Before, people looked at how inept the Democrats running have been and thought that President Trump, if the economy stays strong, was going to win by a landslide.  This discourages people from going to the polls.  It helped Hillary lose because everyone knew she was going to win.  Now, Republicans and independents are pissed that the Democrats ignored the constitution and impeached for personal reason and used it as a political tactic.  Now, all Trump supporters are motivated to go to the polls and vote out the Democrats so we can take back the house.”

                “People will calm down in 11 months.”

                “Oh, don’t worry the President and conservatives are good at holding a grudge and keeping the issue fresh in people’s minds.  Never before has America been so divided.  Maybe in the 60s with the same communist sympathizers but there are now two Americas.  There’s the MS-13 gang loving, Kim Jung Un rooting, Police tyrant left and everyone else.”

                “I suppose the Republicans never do anything wrong and they’re the solution.” This comment was riddled in sarcasm. 

                “That’s not what conservatives believe.  They want limited government so they don’t like either party.  We don’t believe Republicans are the solution to our problems, but we recognize that the Democrats are the cause of the problem.  All we do is remove the cause, the solution is on us.”

                “I think you’re in a minority.”

                “Not as much as you think.  Why else do you think President Trump’s approval rating is up six points since the impeachment launch?”

                The male spoke again, “Hey man, why don’t you just let us enjoy our drinks?  Who are you even here with?”

                “Nobody”

                “Figures, well you’re not welcome to join us.”

                Larry shrugged his shoulders and went back to the bar.  He continued to daydream and this time he ignored everyone.  A couple hours later, the girl he had been debating with came over.  “Hi, I’m Alex.”

                “I’m Larry.”

                “I’m sorry about my friend; he’s kind of an asshole.  That was pretty harsh what he said.”

                “I’m used to it.  Liberals can’t rest on facts and data so they resort to personal attacks.  When it happens, I feel like I won the debate.”

                Alex seemed stunned by the comment, “I’m not sure I would agree with that but okay.  I watched the impeachment. The Democrats kept saying that it was a somber day.  They didn’t want to impeach but they felt backed in a corner.”

                “How?”

                Alex looked back and forth.  She was 5’5” with long Japanese straightened red hair.  She was very thin with brown eyes but large breasts and a round tight butt.  Her skin was pale and freckled as was typical of redheads. After an awkward silence she uttered, “I don’t know.”

                “It wasn’t a somber day; they’ve been planning this for three years.  During the midterms, all they talked about was taking back the house so they could impeach the President.”

                “Pelosi was against it at first.”

                “Then she caved to the more radical members of her party.”

                “Talk is cheap.”

                “I agree, that’s why when Rashida Tlib took a video of her going to the Capitol building to impeach the president she was smiling and happy and her staff members were cheering.  Everyone was happy and having a gay old time.”

                “I must have missed that video.”

                “Did you also miss this picture?” Larry took out his phone and showed a Washington Post picture stating, ‘Merry Impeachmas’ with a table full of people smiling.”

                “Yea, didn’t see that either.”

                “You said that you watched the impeachment.  Did you notice what happened when Pelosi hit the gavel announcing that he’d been impeached?”
                “What happened?”

                “The Democrats started cheering, Pelosi gave them a dirty look and subtly signaled for them to the stop and then the Republicans called them out on it.”

                Alex took out her phone and searched for the video only to find it.  She put in her ear phone so she could hear and it confirmed what Larry had told her.  She sighed.  “Can we start over?  What do you do?”

                “I’m involved in a lot of venture capitalist deals among other investments.  You?”

                “I was a teacher.  I tried to be doctor.  I even took the MCATS but I couldn’t get into any medical schools so I went the teaching route.”

                “Are your scores still valid or did they expire?”

                “They’re still valid.”

                “Do you still want to go to medical school?”

                “Of course” Alex answered suspiciously as she was unsure where the conversation was going.

                “Well, I have a messed up proposal for you.”

                “I’m listening” she replied hesitantly. 

                “If you fuck me, I’ll get you into medical school.”

                “How do you intend to do that?”

                “I have connections.”

                “I think people just got in trouble for paying to get their kids and people close to them into colleges.”

                “Yes, but it still happens.  You’re not my kid.  You’re not my wife.  It’s going to be a tough sell.”

                “Have you done this before?”

                “Does the answer really concern you?”

                “No, I guess not.  It’s none of my business but how would I even know you can do it?  We just met.  Why would either one of us trust the other?”

                “You’ll receive an acceptance letter.  You can even call the school to confirm.”

                “Which medical school?”

                “Does that matter?”

                “If I’m selling my body like some fucking prostitute than yes it matters.”

                “McGill”

                “The one in Montreal?”

                “You know it?  Yea, like you said, American schools are looking hard at bribery so it may be better to go to Canada.”

                “McGill is one of the most prestigious medical schools in the world.”

                “I’m aware.”

                Alex went silent and her head dropped as her chin went to her chest and her mouth opened.  She didn’t really know how to respond.  Larry maintained eye contact with an indifferent expression on his face.  He knew better than to say anything at this point.  Finally, Alex blurted out, “Do I have to give you an answer now?”

                “Nope”

                “You didn’t even ask me if I was single.”

                “That would be your problem; not mine.” Larry pulled out his phone, “What’s your number?”

‘               Alex gave it to him and he called, “That’s my number.  Let me know If you agree.”

                With that, Larry got up and left Alex to think about his offer. 

                It didn’t take long for Alex to call him.  He answered the call, “Hello”

                “Hey, Larry?”

                “Yes, how are you Katie?”

                “I’m well.  Does your offer still stand?”

                “Yes”

                “I don’t want to do it in New York.  Is that okay?”

                “Considering I live in Florida, that’s not a problem at all.  Are you willing to do it here?”

                “Yes”

                “Okay, when do you want me to fly you out here?”

                They discuss a date and coordinate schedules and Larry books the flight.  When she lands, Larry personally comes to pick her up.  As she gets in the car, she announces, “I know I keep jacking up the price but can we get dinner?  I’ll pay my way if you want; I just don’t want to come just to fuck you and leave.”

                “I have no problem buying dinner.”

                “Really?  I feel like I keep jacking the price up.”

                “Trust me, I don’t mind.  You’re not asking for anything extravagant.”

                “Thank you.”

                “You’re welcome.”

                They sit down at a restaurant and Alex remarks, “Did you hear Pelosi is threatening to delay the articles of impeachment?”

                “Yea, unless her demands are met.  Kind of sounds like what they accused the president of doing?  Didn’t they call it an ‘abuse of power.’  She is withholding something unless it’s exchanged.  Kind of like a quid pro quo.”

                “You really don’t like her.”

                “I don’t but that doesn’t make what I’m saying any less true.”

                “Do you think liberals are stupid?”

                “Yes, just look at them on twitter.  They’re all freaking out that Mike Pence is president.  They don’t even know what impeachment is, they’re just happy they impeached president Trump.  And yes, he still is ‘President’ Trump.”

                “You can’t judge a group by a couple idiots in the group.”

                “It takes an ignorance to believe the government can solve problems and will take care of you.”

                “And Capitalism does?”

                “Better than any other system.”

                “That doesn’t make the people who get left behind feel any better.”

                “So because of them we have to lower millions of people to their level so their misery has company?

                “No, I’m not saying that.”

                “Then what are you saying?  The government is a benevolent force that can’t be corrupted?”

                “I won’t get into this.  We’re talking about Pelosi.”

                “She is only delaying the impeachment because she’s trying to do the impossible by appeasing the radical extreme left and the moderate Democrats in Trump districts who are going to be excoriated now that they voted to impeach Trump.”

                “How many of those could there be?”

                “31”

                “That is enough to turn the House back to the Republicans”

                “Now you know why they’re worried.”
                “But McConnell has already said it was a hoax so he can’t be a fair juror.”

                “Impeachment doesn’t operate like a standard trial.  It’s a political proceeding.  If it did, Cory booker, Amy Klobuchar, Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren couldn’t be jurors because they are trying to run against President Trump for the presidency.  It doesn’t get a more biased juror than that!  But, you don’t hear us complaining it’s unfair.”

                “Us….I wish it wasn’t ‘us’ vs. ‘them.’”

                “We all do but that’s not the reality.”

                “What do you think should happen?”

                “McConnell should declare impeachment null and void if Pelosi doesn’t pass it along.”

                “That’s really not fair.”

                “Yes it is.  The Constitution is very clear. The house has the sole power to impeach.  Once they impeach, it goes to the Senate.  It doesn’t say, ‘it goes to the Senate when the Speaker decides to send it.’  No, it happens automatically.  It’s out of her hands now.  She is abusing her power.  Just like she abused her power when she declared America was staying in the Paris Accords.  Pelosi thinks she’s president and thinks she has unlimited power.  Someone needs to remind her that she doesn’t.”

                “The Democrats don’t have enough witnesses.  They need more for the Senate trial.”

                “That’s not how it works.  When Clinton was impeached, the Senate didn’t call witnesses.  That shit is supposed to happen in the house.  Schiff didn’t want to wait.  They rushed the impeachment so now the Senate needs to decide based on the presented evidence, which was pathetic at best.”

                “There’s nothing wrong with trying to get more information.”

                “There was for Schiff.  What are you saying?  They didn’t have sufficient information to impeach but they impeached anyway?  If it’s good enough for the house, it’s good enough for the Senate.”

                “You’re a little biased.”

                “Not really.  I saw the polls.  With every impeachment hearing, President Trump raised more money and swing state polls swayed more toward against.  President Trump’s approval waiting went higher every time they had an impeachment hearing.  Independent voters also supported him more after the inquiries than before.

                “There were only two.”

                “The pattern is the same.  If they keep dragging this out, America will be distracted by it that they won’t notice the Democrat running  To my point, did you know about the Democrat debate the day after the impeachment?”

                “No, I forgot.”

                “There you go.  Nobody cares about the Democrats running for president.  All they care about is Donald Trump.  Every indication says that more hearings helps the president so my bias would be to have more of them since I know he did nothing wrong.”

                “Why aren’t you then?”

                “It’s bad for the country.  It’s annoying and it’s an indication on how far our country has dropped.  I think it makes our country weak so it’s better to just move on to important things like the national debt and the economy.”

                “Alright, thank you for dinner.”

                “You ready?”

                “Yes”

                Larry gets the check and they go back to a hotel room.  As Alex looks around, she starts getting nervous.  In the time between her phone call and her coming down, she had received the acceptance letter and even called the school to confirm.  She still couldn’t help feeling like a whore.  It was one thing when she was in college but she was 35 now.  On the other hand, there were fewer people on the street propositioning her as there was when she was in college.  She sighs, “I’m sorry.  Can we talk before we do this?”

                “Isn’t that what we’ve been doing?”

                “Yes, but I just don’t feel comfortable.”

                “You don’t have to do this.  I can call the whole thing off.  It’s not too late.”

                “No, I do want to.  I do.  I just need a little more time.”

                “What do you want to talk about?”

                “Let’s get away from impeachment.  What do you think about gun control?”

                “It only keeps guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens.  There is no good way to enforce it.”

                “That’s fear mongering.  Just a conspiracy the NRA tries to tell people.”

                “Tell that to Virginia.”

                “What do you mean?”

                “90% of Virginia counties have declared themselves ‘gun sanctuary’ counties.  The movement has spread to nine states already.”

                “Can they do that?”

                “Hey, if liberal cities can declare themselves sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants, they can declare themselves sanctuary cities for guns.  They have a better argument because it’s actually in the Constitution that we can have guns but nowhere in the constitution does it say anyone is allowed to come into our country in violation of US law.”

                “Where did this happen?”

                “Most of Virginia, now it’s in Illinois, Washington, Colorado, New Mexico, Tennessee and three other ones that I don’t remember.”

                “What does the local Virginia government who passed these law say about this?”

                “They’re threatening to sick the National Guard on them to force guns out of their hands.”

                “Ummm, I’m not so sure that’s a good idea.”

                “Yea, it creates very bad optics.  Now that everyone has a cell phone and can post videos, there will be no way to contain it.  It’s a very dangerous system and unfair to the National Guard.  It puts them in a really dangerous situation.”

                “Yea, the whole ‘you can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hands’ mentality.”

                “Yea, that does create a problem.”

                “Alright, thank you for indulging me.  You’ve actually been really nice and understanding through this whole process.  It makes me feel a lot more comfortable to be alone with you in a foreign city.”

                “Florida is hardly foreign.”

                “You know what I mean.  I’m kind of at your mercy.  I don’t know anyone in Naples and yea a couple people know I came down here but you have the resources to be long gone by the time they come.”

                “You must be really comfortable around me to tell me that.”

                Alex tensed up as she realized what he was getting at.  “Fuck it, let’s do this.”

                “Good idea” he said with a smile.

                They each stripped themselves of their clothing and Alex smiled and softly kissed Larry on the mouth.  Larry kissed back tasting her lip gloss and closing his eyes.  His eyes were still closed when Alex pulled back and she shoved him onto the bed.  Larry was already getting aroused and Alex shook her head.  She crawled on top of him and turned her body to face his legs and lowered her groin onto his penetrating herself with Larry’s penis.  Larry grabbed her butt and Alex leaned forward so he could get a better grip.  Alex gyrated her hips towards his feet vigorously and felt him grow inside her.  Larry sat up and grabbed Alex by the waist and eased her to the side on her back careful to exit her before she was brought to the side.  He mounted her and Alex bent her legs slightly along his torso.  Larry lunged himself inside her but straightened his arms so his upper body was elevated over her.  Alex smiled back at him and said, “What? You want to look at me when you’re fucking me?”

            Larry smiled and said, “Yea” as he humped her harder. 

            After a little while, Alex lifted her legs to his shoulder and Larry pinned her legs behind her head.  He jerked himself further inside of her penetrating deep behind her vaginal walls.  Alex tightened her legs around his head and shifted them to the side bringing Larry around and rolling with him so she was on top.  She gyrated her hips and rode him but didn’t get a chance to get a rhythm as Larry finished rather quickly.  The entire experience lasted only two minutes. Alex looked down at him and said, “Damn, we switched positions way too quickly!”

            Larry chuckled, “Well, I guess we’ll have to do better next time.”

            “What?  Next time…but…” as her face contorted but she was still straddling him

            “I’m just kidding.  Your debt is paid.”

            Alex rolled off him and lied next to him.  She was trying to get her thoughts straight.  After all the worrying she had done, now that is was over, she couldn’t believe she stressed herself out so much.  She knew that when she returned to New York, she’d have to get the IUD he forced her to get inserted taken out of her.  The silence was bothering her so she went right back to the only thing they seemed to be able to talk about.  She articulated, “When you say that all the information has backed up that Trump didn’t do anything wrong, the IG report did say that the FBI wasn’t biased so that was bad for Trump.”

            “Michael Horowitz did not say that.”

            “I heard…”

            “Fake News.  Did you see his testimony?”

            “No.”

            “That’s why they had the impeachment, to distract the country from the IG report and his testimony.”  Larry hands her his phone and shows her a video of Senator Ron Johnson asking Horowitz, “Did you find political bias during your investigation?’  Horowitz responds, ‘We found through the text messages, political bias, correct.”

            “Well, that’s pretty clear.”

            “Just in case you think he misspoke.” Larry shows her another clip where Josh Hawley (R-MO) inquired, ‘was it your conclusion that political bias did not affect any part of the Page investigation, any part of Crossfire Hurricane.”  To which Horowitz answered, “We did not reach that conclusion.  We have been very careful in connection with the FISA for the reasons you mentioned to not reach that conclusion.”

            “I’m beginning to believe in fake news at this point.  They clearly lied to us.”

            “There you go.”

            “So, what’s next?”

            “Barr and Durham release their report in the spring.”

            “That’s like six months from now.  That’s a long time.”

            “Unfortunately, yes it is.”

            “Why do you think it’ll be different from Horowitz’ report?”

            “Barr was on Fox telling Martha MacCallum that he is looking at everyone including private department and actors, so it’s a much broader investigation than the IG report.  He’s not just looking at the FISA but all the conduct before and after the election.”

            “So, it’s a more thorough investigation.”

            “Correct”

            “At this point, do you think we’re going to learn anything we don’t already know?”

            “Stefan Halper may have co-written the dossier.”

            “Wait, what?”

            “There’s an office of net assessment in the Pentagon that paid him a million dollars.  They say it’s for three reports that he never wrote but he still got the money.  It had to pay for something and he arranged for President Trump’s campaign members to come visit him in Cambridge at the school he worked for.  They include Mike Flynn, Carter Page, Sam Clovis and George Papadopoulos”

            “All people the FBI targeted.”

            “Yup”

            “But Comey said he was seven steps removed from the investigation.”

            “Barr told Fox that’s patently false.  First of all, an investigation of this magnitude, the director would be heavily involved and briefed.  Barr believes it went ever further than that.  He thinks the problem was that it was pulled up the seven levels to the highest executive levels of the FBI and only handled by the upper echelon.  This happened specifically so Comey could run it.  The idea that he had seven degrees of separation is simply not true.”

            “Do I have to leave or can I sleep here?”

            “Your choice.”

            “I’ll sleep here.”

            Larry put on a pair of boxers and Alex put on a T-shirt and short shorts and got back in bed.  Alex grabbed Larry’s arm and pulled it around her and rested it on her stomach as she nuzzled her back into him.  Larry used his other arm to slip under her neck as an extension of the pillow.  They both fell asleep quickly.  The next morning, they said good bye and Alex left.  She called an Uber and went to the airport to fly back to New York.  In the fall, she made the move to McGill to attend medical school.  As she did, she contemplated calling Larry but he never called her so she wasn’t going to initiate it.  She felt that he ripped him off but if he was okay with it, why should she feel bad?  It didn’t take long to move on but she never forgot how she was able to pursue a medical career.