Theo is heading to work as a staffer
in the Trump White House. Just last
night there was a 60 minutes episode about YouTube where they admit they are
trying to censor conservative thought.
When the owner of YouTube tried a vanilla answer that she’s trying to
balance free speech with not allowing hate speech, the interviewer attacks her
that it’s not a free speech issue because they are a private company. 60 minutes informs her that she can do
whatever she wants and the YouTube owner agrees. It is a not so subtle threat by the liberal
mob that if they don’t suppress conservatives, then they will come after
them. Theo knows this will be the topic of discussion today and he wasn’t
wrong.
At work, a female co-worker is
complaining about this and Theo is echoing her sentiments. She says, “I hate to admit it but the liberal
pressure ad campaigns are working because Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube
are suppressing political ads.”
“Well, they know it’s their only
hope left. They can’t win in a vote
because their policies are constantly voted down by the people. They used to rely on judges to legislate from
the bench but with the President reshaping the United States Judiciary with all
his judge nominees, that option is gone.
Now, all they can do is intimidate businesses. They’re desperate and it’s hard to get
businesses to grow a spine.”
“Yea, even Chic Fil-A gave
in. The online ban on political ads is
attacking conservatives since they’re better at memes.”
A male co-worker chimes in,
“Come on guys. It affects both
parties. The rule isn’t that Republicans
can’t run political ads, it’s that nobody can.”
Theo retorts, “Not really. Google is having donor-funded ‘local news’
that would get around Google’s restrictions that persuade people to vote Democrat. If conservatives or Republicans try that,
they’ll call it a political ad but when Democrats do, it’ll qualify.”
That pretty much ended the
debate and they got back to what they’re actually paid to do. After work, Theo went to a Vanderbilt bar to
troll college students. He was in a
particularly bad mood because he was really looking forward to a trip he was
supposed to take with his niece but she had just cancelled on him. He gets a drink and sits down. A redheaded girl raises her glass and announces,
“To Lisa Page for refusing to be speechless.”
Theo smiles and turns towards
her, “Oh, so you saw the new Aladdin movie?” as Jasmine has a song that wasn’t
in the cartoon about her not being speechless.
“Hell yea.”
“So, do you agree with Lisa Page
on the Daily Beast that she did nothing wrong?”
“I don’t really know the issue
but, I mean, Trump repeatedly mocks her by making orgasm noises in a rally in
Minnesota and calling her out for treason.”
“She texted lead investigator
Peter Strzok thousands of time attacking President Trump supporters and vowing
to stop him from being president. It’s
actually against the law for FBI agents to be that biased. They talk about meeting with the White House
and CIA to coordinate the attack on President Trump. There are also texts of them discussing what
spy to send to the White House as they had a few during the transition
period. That can qualify as
treason. She was also dumb enough to do
this on an FBI phone.”
“I thought she defended herself
pretty well. The IG report is looking
into why they started the investigation and she explained that he was talking
to a Russian agent.”
“Joseph Mifsud?”
“Yes”
“There is no evidence that
Mifsud is a Russian agent. All his
contacts are with Western intelligence.
Even Mueller wasn’t dumb enough to claim Mifsud was a Russian
agent. Don’t you find it odd that she’s
going to the media a week before the IG report is about to be released? Something tells me she knows how badly she is
portrayed in it and this has nothing to do with President Trump’s speeches or
tweets.”
“I guess we’ll find out won’t
we.”
“Yes, we will but IG reports
never use strong language so it’s probably not going to be too damning. It was enough for her to come out though so
that’ll be interesting.”
The redhead walked away without
saying anything. She walked over to a
group of guys and Theo noticed her indicating his direction with his head. As much as new age women were feminists, they
still solicit men to do their dirty work for them. A student about 6’2” with a fit frame
approached the six foot husky Theo confrontationally. Theo smiled and uttered, “Hi”
“Hi, so you’re a Trump
supporter?”
“Not only that but I work for
him.”
“I suppose you think the
Whistleblower should be outed?”
“You mean Eric Ciaramella or
Adam Lovinger?”
The guy took a step back in
confusion. “Ummm, well, both I guess.”
“I’m sure you drank the Kool Aid
that it’s illegal to expose the name of the whistleblower but it’s only illegal
for the Intelligence Committee Inspector General and I am not him. What’s interesting is you protect the Ukraine
whistleblower who’s information was fourth hand but not the one that uncovered
the discrepancy himself.”
“I honestly don’t know what
you’re talking about.”
“How about this? Which one is which?”
“I don’t listen to people who
break the…wait….well…I don’t know”
“Eric Ciaramella is the one you
like. Adam Lovinger was a whistleblower
for the Pentagon.”
“I don’t care about this
shit. Bottom line is, the New York Times
admitted that nobody spied on the Trump campaign.”
“Did you read the article or
just the headline?”
“I read it?”
“You probably just had someone
tell you of its existence but didn’t see either. In the article it says that they sent undercover
agent to monitor and get close to Trump campaign officials. Just because you don’t call it ‘spying’
doesn’t’ mean it’s not. Especially since
in May 2019, the same New York Times wrote an article saying the FBI sent spies
to expose Russian corruption on the Trump campaign but that was before the deep
state and liberals decided to make ‘spy’ a dirty work because Bill Barr said
it.”
“I believe Whistleblowers”
“So, you believe Adam Lovinger
too?”
“Yes, anything to get Trump.”
“Well, Adam Lovinger exposed a
million dollars given from the Office of Net Assessment at the Pentagon to a
known CIA spy named Stefan Halper, who was a professor at Cambridge in London
and taught a course with a Russian intelligence officer that Steele listed as
one of his sources for his dossier.’
“How come I don’t know about
this? I’m a political science major.”
“Because the mainstream media is
a propaganda arm for the Democrat party and colleges and universities are
taught by only far-left activists who shield their young impressionable
students from the truth.”
“Or, it’s just a conspiracy
theory that nobody thinks is credible.”
“It was credible enough for the
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley to send a letter to the Principle Attorney General
Fine asking if the Office of Net Assessment contracts were used to support
partisan politics or other wasteful activities.
He also wanted to know about progress reports about the whistleblower
Adam Lovinger who was suspended without pay for exposing Halper’s
corruption. They paid him for
information on four papers and he didn’t contribute to any of them. He did however invite Sam Clovis, Mike Flynn,
Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, and Steven Miller to London where there
aren’t really surveillance laws. All
members of the Trump campaign and he was with Steele and a CIA spy for John
Brennan.”
“Wait, I thought it was illegal
to be punished for blowing the whistle.”
“It is but everyone that has
exposed someone who is attacking President Trump goes scot free from
prosecution. Yea, they get fired but
they are pretty much committing treason and are guilty of a soft coup. Meanwhile, anyone that supports Trump gets
arrested for process crimes that are widely discredited.”
“So, Halper ripped us off.”
“Not just with the four papers
but it’s becoming possible that Halper never even talked to Trubnikov, Steele’s
Russian source, about President Trump.
Since the office of net assessment uses tax payer money, either we paid
for a spy to spy on the President or he got it from a notorious Russian
disinformation propagandist who is very close to Putin. Given that nothing has happened to him and he
still lives in Russia and works close to Putin, we know that outing him talking
to Halper didn’t harm him so if they did speak, Trubnikov lied to him and
Halper fed the information to the US government. Then again, it’s beginning to look like
Halper just made the whole thing up.
That’s the other option.”
“We’re getting off topic. You harassed my friend for praising a woman
speaking up.”
“She picked the wrong
woman. Why doesn’t she praise Svelana
Lokhova, who was a Russian immigrant to England? She was Halper’s student and he spread a
rumor that she seduced Mike Flynn in 2014.
At the time, Flynn was a noted opponent of Obama’s Iran deal so Obama targeted
him and tried to ruin his marriage by saying he had an affair with
Lokhova. They called her a Russian agent
even though she hadn’t lived there in over a decade. Given that she was a student, that’s about
half her life. On June 5, 2018, she
emerged to reveal that Halper’s aid Steven Strange invited Steven Miller, who
you may remember was President Trump’s cabinet member that was in charge of
immigration reform. Funny, how all these
people in Trump’s circle end up being invited to London with Halper where the
UK has been complicit in spying on them and there’s a dossier from a former MI6
agent Christopher Steele, who is a close friend of Halper.”
“Do you have any evidence that
Halper just made the whole thing up?”
The male student’s tone was now one
of interest as he was realizing that he was intellectually overmatched. Theo replied, “Yes, an IG report looked into
the ONA (Office of Net Assessment) money and found that none of the 348
footnotes in deliverables attributed to source material to an interview
conducted by Halper. ONA personnel also
couldn’t provide any information that the sources contributed to the
India-China papers that it paid for. The
ones they contacted adamantly denied speaking with Halper. “
“So, he’s accepted money for papers
before from the same organization and just made up the information and who he
spoke to?”
“Yea, there’s a precedent. Of course the ONA is claiming that they don’t
require people to prove they travelled where they said they did and talked to
who they said they did.”
“Yea, but someone did look into
it and found no evidence it happened.”
‘Yup, he used us to fly around
the world as he pretended to work on the paper when he wasn’t.”
The man retreated back to his
group and Theo turned around beaming. A
blond approaches him stomping her feet as she walked with a purpose. She sticks out her hands, “Hi, I’m AJ.”
“Hi AJ, I’m Theo.”
“You hate women.”
“How did you get that? Because I attacked Stefan Halper?”
“No, because you attacked Lisa
Page.”
“I also defended Svetlana
Lokhova for speaking up against power too but you probably don’t care about
that one because she doesn’t agree with your ideology.”
“I am a woman, I know”
“No, you don’t. You’re a hypocrite.”
Her eyes got wide, “What did you
call me?”
“You’re a hypocrite. What do you think of Condeleeza Rice, Ann
Coulter, Candace Owens, Sarah Palin, Carly Fiorina, Laura Loomer, Danielle
D’Souza….”
“They’re all self-hating women!”
“You’re proving my point. Neither you nor your little posse has been
able to beat me with straight facts and data so you’ve resorted to name
calling.”
“What about Elizabeth Warren?”
“She’s evil and trying to
destroy this county. She also lies all
the time. She pretended to be Native
American so she could exploit affirmative action, she lied that she sent her
kids to public school when she sent them to private, she attacks millionaires
when she is one; what’s there to like?”
“She’s a millionaire, which is
why she knows that nobody does it alone so they should give back.”
“They do. They give almost half their income to taxes.”
“We paid for the roads leading
to their businesses or that were used to ship their products. We paid for the police to protect their
businesses from being attacked. We paid
for the firemen that came to help them when they got hurt. Good for them they got rich, now they got to
give back for the infrastructure of the social contract that made it happen.”
“You didn’t pay for shit. You’re a college student so probably get
money from the government in taxes not give it.
The middle class, upper middle class and rich paid for the
infrastructure.”
AJ scoffed, “I can’t believe you
just said that.”
“You want the numbers? The top 20% of earners, the highest income
bracket, pays 80% of the tax load. What
do you think would be fair?”
“What Europe has”
“Really? That’s interesting because they have higher
marginal tax rates on lower levels of income than we do.”
“Germany’s doing well.”
“Germany’s second highest
marginal rate kicks in for 42% of households.
You hit that when you make $124,000 a year. In America, that income bracket gets taxed
22%. They would have to make over $612,000
more get to the highest tax rate in the United States and they’re still only
paying 37%.”
“Fine, what about England? They have universal healthcare.”
“And it’s collapsing. 4.3 million British citizens are waiting for
hospitalization. That’s the highest
level in 10 years.”
“How can that be?”
“There’s only two ways to
distribute scarce resources, like a Doctor’s time; price and rationing. There’s no third option. Since it’s ‘free,’ you can’t regulate it by
price so it’s rationed. What that causes
is that doctors and nurses aren’t making any money in medicine so they quit and
do something else. People in school
don’t study medicine if they want to work in England. Foreign medical professionals don’t go there
because they’re not going to make any money.
That’s why 43% of advertized medical positions went unfilled last
year. That’s what you get for the ‘free’
price of doubling all your taxes….like England did to pay for it. This exodus of medical professionals makes
the resource, doctor’s time, even scarcer, requiring even more rationing and it
just keeps cycling.”
“Whatever, you’re a misogynist.”
Theo laughed, “When defeated, go
to name calling. That’s a good little
liberal.”
“Don’t patronize me.”
“It’s hard not to.”
“Don’t disrespect me either.”
“Then earn respect.”
AJ stormed off the same way she
came. Theo took this as his cue to close
his tab and leave the bar. He waits for
the train and the lights flash indicating that it’s approaching. It looks very futuristic and he prefers it to
New York’s even though he doesn’t like that you pay more based on how far
you’re going unlike New York. He gets on
the train and closes his eyes as it’s a long way to his home in Rockville,
Maryland. He hears an elderly man ask,
“There seemed to be something going on at the Supreme Court today. I wonder what it was.”
Theo opened his eyes and
responded, “They’re hearing Second Amendment arguments against the City of New
York.”
“Oh really? What did they do?”
“They passed a law that you’re
not allowed to transport guns from your house to anywhere else except a gun
range. It’s being challenged by gun
groups. When the Supreme Court took an
interest, they tried to change the law saying that they can go to other places
in New York just not leave the state.
That didn’t appease either the Supreme Court or the gun groups that are
attacking the travel ban in general.”
“What did the previous courts
say?”
“Well, the 2nd circuit
rejected Heller’s precedent applied
to the travel ban. New York argued that
it was a public safety issue and the court agreed.”
“That’s always their cop out.”
“That’s why it was appealed.”
“What was Heller?”
“That’s the Supreme Court case
in 2008 that ruled the 2nd amendment refers to individuals and not
federal guards and militias.”
“Oh, well yea, that’s
obvious. It says “People”
“Yea, but people argue that in
the same sentence, it mentions ‘militia’ so it really means people of the
militia.”
“That’s a stretch.”
“I would agree. I also think the public health issue is
stretch too considering that the data suggests gun owners commit less crime
than police officers.”
“That’s kind of scary.”
“Facts are facts. Later, they’re going to hear a case of the
government reneging on ObamaCare’s promise that if the private insurance
companies insure people that had a prior conditions and were ‘risky,’ they
would reimburse them to a certain extent.
They never did and many small insurance firms went out of business.”
“Sounds like they’re going to be
busy. When should it be over?”
“The second amendment case
should be over around June.”
“I guess we got some time.”
“Yup. It is the government, nothing is quick.”
Theo got to his stop and exited
the turnstile using his ticket. After he
returned home, he watched some TV to decompress. He was still sad about his niece cancelling
on him and he felt that he may have taken it out too much on the college
students. Then again, he did think they
deserved it. After all, two out of three
of them approached him.
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