Theo the Trump Employee Episode 43 Georgetown education

                Theo is back to work in the White House.  The mood has changed as the possibility of war is palpable in the air.  As a microcosm of the country, those in the White House are conflicted about what the policy is.  The one thing that most of those in the White House believe, however, is that the Commander in Chief is up to the task to make the tough decisions.  They have learned that what their boss says on twitter is normally exaggerated to give him wiggle room for negotiations.  Part of the head of the house’s genius, however, is he was unpredictable.  You never really knew what was exaggeration or completely accurate.  President Trump had tweeted out that he has 52 targets in Iran if they attack Americans or American soil.  In response to Iran-led attack on the US embassy in Iraq, President Trump authorized an attack on an air strip to kill Quaseem Soleimani, who is an Iranian international terrorist who has worked all over the Middle East.  Since then, Iran has been shooting rockets near the embassy.  Although this frightens many Americans, Theo looks it at as posturing.  President Trump’s statement was attacking American soil, which the embassy is.  By shooting near the embassy, they are not attacking American soil but still showing strength.  It appears that the president is willing to let this go so long as no Americans are killed.  It’s either they are acting like children who wave their hands in front of your face as they taunt, ‘I’m not touching you’ or they are really bad at aiming their missiles and continually miss their target.  As work ends, Theo heads toward Georgetown to do his weekly ritual of debating liberals.  Unlike other times, he isn’t quite sure he has a strong footing as he is conflicted himself.

                He orders a drink and sits down with his ear out for anyone willing to speak politics.  Finally he hears a redhead girl opine, “I mean we’ve never even heard of Soleimani and now we’re to believe he was this huge threat?”

                The group she’s with nods and voices their agreement.  Theo smiles and turns to her and utters, “Do you think that when we went to war with Iraq that they had leaders of their armies and generals?”

                “Of course.  They may not call them ‘generals,’ but every army has rankings and officers.”

                “Name one.” The girl looked around and opened her mouth as she stuttered.  Theo continued, “Do you think that American soldiers have died in Iraq?”

                “Not as many as Iraqis”

                “Not even close, but that should be what we wanted since we are Americans so, theoretically, we should be rooting for the Americans to kill more Iraqis than vice versa.  My question to you is do you think that they’ve killed any of our soldiers?”

                “Yes, obviously”

                “Who is responsible for those deaths?”

                “You have a lot of questions.”

                “Just admit you don’t know.”

                “I just don’t think we should be in the Middle East in the first place.”

                “That’s a different debate but we are there and we  have people targeting us and trying to kill us.  Even now when we’re merely trying to establish a stable environment and government in Iraq so they can govern themselves.”

                “What are you getting at?”

                “Soleimani is responsible for at least 607 American deaths in Iraq.  His training and strategic strikes account for 17% of all American deaths in Iraq.  So, when you tell people that he wasn’t really a threat; I think you’re proving your retardation.”

                The redhead’s eyes widened as she gave an expression of disgust and offense.  Her chin went down to her chest before she replied, “Well, I read in the New York Times that the video Pompeo showed was labeled in a way to mislead the public.  It wasn’t them celebrating Soleimani’s death.”  Her voice got more snippety as she was gaining confidence and asserted, “I would think the people who actually live there would know if he was so bad.”

                Theo nodded and snickered, “You just read the headline didn’t you?”

                The girl went back to looking around the room, “Ummm, no I read the article” but there wasn’t much conviction in her voice.

                “How was it misleading then if you read the article?”

                “They were cheering something else.  It was taken out of context.”

                “Despite you’re vague, safe comment, it still wrong.”

                “Well, fine, I don’t remember”

                “They had a problem with Pompeo calling it a ‘dance.’  They were adamant the people weren’t dancing but running.”

                “That’s it?  I mean he showed the video, people could call it whatever they want.”

                “That, we are in agreement on.”

                “I had a lot of studying to do so I don’t have time to read every article.”

                “Well, if an article catches your eye and you think you may bring it up in a public debate, you may want to actually read the article next time.”

                “Fuck you asshole.”

                The redhead scurried to the other end of the bar.  A bald boy approached him and scolded, “You could have done that a little nicer.”

                “I could have but then it wouldn’t have been as fun.”

                “You do know that before doing any military action, the president has to consult congress.  Trump is acting like a dictator with these unilateral decisions.”

                “False, check your constitution.  The president, as commander in chief, can engage in military action for up to 90 days without consulting congress.  Bill Clinton was famous for this as he did more than every president before him combined.”

                “That’s not what I heard….”

                “Stop listening to mainstream media and read the Constitution jackass.”

                “You really don’t like tact.”

                “No, I really don’t”

                “I think that former military advisors know more than you do.”

                “I would hope so but I’m not that confident in that.  To your point, Jeh Johnson tried to educate Chuck Todd about this as he told Todd that there’s no necessity for President Trump to call someone a terrorist before killing him.  It is fully within his rights to kill Soleimani no matter what he calls him.”

                “Of course he’s going to say that; he works for Trump and Trump will attack him on twitter and fire him if he says anything else.”

                “Jeh Johnson was Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary.  He is no longer in a government position and never was in President Trump’s administration.”

                “Wait, so, it was Obama’s guy?”

                “Yes, Obama’s guy doesn’t think that President Trump broke the law when he killed that savage terrorist Soleimani.  Since you believe former DHS secretaries know more than I, do you think they know more than you?”

                “Why would Todd say that then?”

                “There are international rules that you can’t assassinate foreign leaders so if you pretended that he wasn’t a terrorist, then you could argue it’s an assassination and they could try to indict President Trump because every other time they change the meaning of words and rules, it has failed but they are persistent.”

                “Basically you’re accusing Todd of what he accused Trump of.”

                “If Democrats didn’t have projection, they would have nothing.”

                Scrambling, the boy declares, “Look, with all these scandals and stuff, you have to admit that it doesn’t strengthen our country.  After this impeachment, I mean he’s only the third president ever to be impeached. Don’t you think he’s a little too weakened to be talking tough to the world with any credibility?”

                Theo was about to respond when a black haired girl beat him to it, “Ask Soleimani.”

                Theo had a perplexed look and as his mouth was open to speak, he closed it and looked at her realizing that he had nothing to add to it.  The black haired girl extends her hand, “Hi, I’m Patricia”

                “Theo”

                “Nice to meet you.”

                “Likewise.  Good comeback by the way.”

                “Thanks, look, I’m not saying I agree with you as you seem to be a Trump supporter but I just think the Democrats nowadays are just crazy.”

                “Yes, you may not like the president but you have to admit TDS is real.”

                “TDS?’

                “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

                “Oh, most definitely.  He became president and people went fucking crazy.  He’s made everyone so nuts that they are no longer capable of rational thought.”

                “Not everyone but definitely the Democrats.”

                “Even I have to admit that.  I mean, they’re defending horrendous people.  You have Pelosi complaining about Trump calling MS-13 ‘animals.’  They are a violent gang that rapes women and kills people.  You really want to defend them over Trump?  Trump may be bad, but he’s not a gang thug.”

                “How about the mainstream media complaining that President Trump met with Kim Jung Un to negotiate denuclearization?”

                “Right, they seemed to be rooting for Kim!  They wanted instability and aggression from Kim just to embarrass Trump.  They would have rather had him nuke South Korea than have Trump look good.”

                “There is nobody in the world that the Democrats hate more than Donald Trump.”

                “Even now, Michael Moore sent a message to the Ayatollah in Iran to coordinate an operation to take out Trump.  He urged him to let us impeach him or beat him in the election in 10 months.  Who the fuck does he think he is?”

                “That’s why I was happy that at the Golden Globes, Gervis destroyed the Hollywood elites.  Nobody cares what they think because they don’t live in the real world and have less education than Greta Thunberg.” 

                “Yea, comedy is a security blanket because culture is down stream of politics.”

                “The funniest jokes have an element of truth to it.  It moves people away from the fringes in a non-aggressive or forceful way by highlighting something that everyone knows but never really thought about or wanted to say.”

                A blond girl snapped, “I don’t think he was that funny.”

                Theo chuckled, “That’s because you’re a little snowflake.  Gervis went after political correctness so no safe space for you little snowflake.”

                As if she was trying to prove his point, the blond shook her head as he eyes watered and she covered her face as she walked away.  The black haired girl sighed, “If we don’t change the culture, than politics don’t matter.”

                “AIn’t that the truth?”

                A blond boy walked over as word got around the bar that a Trump supporter was starting problems.  He inquired, “I supposed you’re excited about Durham’s report.”

                “Not really.  I’m not going to be happy for anything less than indictments and incarcerations but I don’t think that’s going to happen.  Because of that, I don’t really care.”

                “Who do you want to get indicted?”

                “Hunter Biden, James Comey, John Brennan, Peter Strzok, John Kerry, Joe Biden….”

                “I get that point.  Why Comey though?  He investigated both Hillary and Trump?”

                “He lied to a FISA court and pushed a hoax dossier that he didn’t even bother to verify.  In fact, he knew it was a lie filled document but passed it off as true anyway.”

                “What crime did he commit?  I think Brennan is the problem.”

                “I’ll just go with the least controversial one.  First off, I agree, Brennan misled the FBI because the CIA has no prosecutorial power.  He needed the FBI to prosecute for him.”

                “So Comey just got shitty information by the CIA so it’s not Comey’s fault.”

                “He knew it was BS within a couple months.  The fact that he didn’t nip it in the bud when he realized that it was salacious and unverified, makes Comey culpable too.”

                “Again, what’s the crime?”

                “I’ll just go with the least controversial one.  On one hand, you have Brennan saying Comey pushed the Steele dossier to be included in the intelligence community assessment that they bragged about; the whole 17 agencies agree nonsense.  Comey, on the other hand, tells us that Brennan was the one that pushed it.  Both of them said it under oath in front of the House intelligence committee.  One of them is lying because both those statements can’t be true.  Someone lied to congress and committed perjury and George Papadopoulos and Mike Flynn all got indicted and George was incarcerated for lying to congress.”

                “Clinton was impeached for it.”

                “Right”

                “Which one do you think is telling the truth?” Patricia posed

                “Comey”

                “How much of a liar do you have to be when people believe Comey’s word over yours?”

                Theo laughed, “That’s a good point.”

                The blond boy was undeterred, “How?  Brennan didn’t see the dossier till December 2016.  That assessment was before the election.”

                “He misled to the media.”

                “What proof do you have?”

                “Can we agree that besides the dossier, there is no other document that says President Trump colluded with the Russians?”

                “No, they talked about a corpus of information and mosaic.”

                “Like what? Name one other thing.”

                “I don’t know, but I’m sure it’s classified and the government knows.”

                “Nobody has insinuated anything.  So much has leaked and you’re telling me that all these sources have been successfully kept under wraps?”

                “I don’t know, fine it was just the dossier.”

                “In August 2016, Brennan briefed the house gang of eight.  After the meeting, Harry Reid tells the FBI to open the investigation into Trump colluding with the Russians.  The information Reid gave the FBI is only found in the dossier.  If he knew about it after meeting with Brennan, then what does that mean?”

                “So he lied”

                “Maybe not”

                “But you said…”

                “I know what I said but he has a lot of contacts in England and he’s friends with Steele’s former boss, Richard Dearlove and Bob Hanigan.  He may have been talking to Steele directly.”

                Patricia offered, “Or he was spying on Glenn Simpson and Steele too.”

                It was Theo’s turn to have his eyes widen as he was stunned by this possibility.  He replied, “I mean, he was CIA.  That is what they do.  They spy on people and, like I just said, he had many contacts in London.  He lured people to Britain so he could have his birdies spy on them in ways that are illegal here.  Glenn Simpson did go to London to meet with Steele.  Yea, this could actually be legitimate.”

                The blond boy rejoined, “Maybe Brennan and Comey were working together against a common enemy Trump.”

                “Unlikely because during sworn testimony, Lisa Page seemed legitimately surprised to learn that it was Brennan that told Reid about the dossier and Russian collusion.”

                Patricia added, “She was also surprised that the CIA had Steele as a source too.  She admitted it would be unusual for the CIA not to give them the documents directly and share their source.”

                The blond boy retorted, “Comey probably prepped her.  She is FBI and a lawyer.  She prepped herself.”

                “I agree that’s what she would have done but she stutters and seems to be trying to get her thoughts in order by muttering and constantly going in a different tangent as she appears to be attempting to figure something out in her head and speaking just to buy her time.  If she rehearsed it, then she would have had the answer and stated it firmly.”

                “Could all be an act.”

                “Could; but unlikely.”

                Patricia glared at the blond boy and he got the message to just walk away and he did.  Theo closed his tab and turned to Patricia, “Well, I better get home.  It was nice talking to you” he articlulated as he extended his hand.

                Patricia looked at his hand and gave him a dirty look.  She wrapped her arms around his neck and Theo hugged her back, “It was nice talking with someone that actually has a brain and isn’t just parroting what the news tells them.”

                “Likewise.”

                Patricia kissed Theo on the neck and his body tensed up.  He gave her an apologetic look and walked out of the bar.  Theo got on the train and headed towards his house in Rockville, Maryland.  While on the train, an elderly woman pronounced, “Now that they’re letting illegals vote, California is going to have more electoral votes so it will be harder for Trump to win.”

                Theo blurted out, “Actually, there’s a mass exodus of people from California.  203,000 people have left in the last year so the census believes they will actually lose seats.”

                “Where are they going?”

                “Mostly Texas but also Arizona and Colorado.”

                “Why do you suppose that is.”

                “Well, the optimistic way to look at it is that people are wising up and realizing that liberal states suck and it’s better to have freedom and not be taxed up the ass.”

                ‘You would see it in other liberal states if that were true.”

                “Illinois lost more residents in 2010s than any other state.  New York is also losing people.”

                “I guess it helps the president.”

                “Not necessarily.  A lot of times when these people flee high tax liberal states, they end up voting for people who support the very thing they fled.  People are stupid.  If enough Democrat Californians move to Texas to turn it blue, then not just President Trump but a Republican may never win again and America may become a socialist country after all.”

                “Let’s hope people are smarter after suffering”

                “History would say otherwise. Florida is purple because of the all the New Yorkers that moved there and continued to vote Democrat.”

                “What do you think of this Iran conflict?”

                “So far I agree and commend everything the President has done.  If he invades Iran though, then it’s going to seem to be against his criticism of going into Iraq when Bush was president.  I wouldn’t agree with him if he did that but targeting people, killing Mullahs, huge bombing campaigns and defending our embassy, he has my full support.  I really don’t want to invade Iran but it’s not up to me.”

                “Well, they keep chanting ‘death to America’ so we may have no choice.”

                “There’s always a choice but it’s one man’s to make.”

                “I would concur.”

                Theo reached his stop and got out and went back to his house.  Unlike most times he takes on college liberals, this time he really felt he learned something.  Patricia has some insights he hadn’t thought of before and knew he’d be pondering it.  That kiss on his neck did excite him but college girls were a little too young for the 35-year-old. Still temptation was strong and he technically he was single.