Real Characters episode 44 Coronavirus doing what Democrats couldn't.

                President Barack Obama is in the White House knowing that he can’t run for a second term.  He has overseen a presidency with many scandals from fast and furious to Benghazi, to using the IRS to attack his political opponents.  None of this really phases him as he is a Democrat so enjoys the full spin and cover by the mainstream media.  His plan is to pass on his legacy to Hillary Clinton to cement himself in the history books.  As he looks at the Republican field that has narrowed from nearly 20 candidates down to a just a handful, there is one clear front runner.  His name is Donald Trump.  Many precautions have already been made with all the leading candidates in how to use the awesome power of the government to attack them.  With Trump, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have gone to Ukraine, England, Australia and other countries to help them take down Trump.  They are all too willing to agree because they don’t want to strain relations with America and all indications point to Hillary Clinton being the next president of the United States.

                Although President Obama has used the IRS and DOJ as his own personal revenge arm, he is not the one spearheading this.  Hillary Clinton has taken the lead as Obama looks forward to enjoying the rest of his time in peace without the weight of the free world on his shoulders.  After all, it’s Hillary’s presidency they are ensuring so if she’s not going to be the most ardent fighter for it, then who would be?  In late July 2016, Hillary Clinton calls Barack Obama and states, “Mr. President, I need you to do something for me.”

                “What is it?”

                “I’ve had our friends across the pond dig up some information on Donald Trump.  They have been feeding information into the FBI through a variety of sources to make it seem like corroboration.  There is a man named Anthony Ferrante, who is working on your National Security Council in your white house.”

                “I’m with you so far.”

                “He needs to have some freedoms to assist me.  I need you to pass an order in reaction to a cyber problem that highlights our need for security and guys like Ferrante.”

                “Well, the DNC was hacked.  I could start there.”

                “Yes, the Russians hacked the DNC.  That would be a perfect message.”

                “In the meantime, I will have the FBI look into how the Russian were able to do that.”

                “Don’t bother.  Let’s just say that I have it under control.  I don’t want the FBI anywhere near it.  I’ll pay lip service to it and have an outside company that’s loyal to me named Crowdstrike look into it and find nothing.”

                “I will do what you ask.”

                After he got off the phone, Barack Obama calls Anthony Ferrante who answers, “Yes Mr. President.”

“I need to write a directive giving you some freedoms that you may not have now.”

“Yes sir, I am aware.”

“Since I’m not too keen on the specifics, I was wondering if you could develop it for me and see that it gets implemented.”

“Given I’m the one that needs it implemented, yea that would be great.”

On July 26, 2016, Barack Obama issues President Policy Directive (PPD) 41 in reaction to a US Cyber incident that involved the role of the department of defense.  A few days before that, Hillary is on the phone with Christopher Steele, the Englishman that is putting his name on a dossier written primarily by Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS, whom Hillary has paid through a law firm Perkins Coie.  Steele is an informant for the FBI and CIA though the FBI thinks he is exclusively their source.  Steele has been leaking his dossier to everyone from John McCain’s campaign to Buzzfield to the DOJ, to Mother Jones.  Steele answers the phone, “Mrs. Clinton, how may I have be of service.”

                “You need to add a memo to the dossier.”

                “Saying what?”

                “Russia’s cyber campaign to hack the DNC.  The president is going to issue an executive order about it soon.”

                “I’ll work on it right away.”

                As it turned out, the memo in the dossier was dated July 26, 2016, the same day as the directive.  Both the PPD and the memo in the dossier include the news about Russia hacking the DNC and it being a very serious threat.  Five days later, the FBI officially opened an investigation into Donald Trump named Crossfire Hurricane.  Around this time, Steele gave the dossier to Buzzfeed who leaked it to the world. 

                Despite Hillary’s best efforts in sabotaging Trump, Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton, became the 45^th President of the United States.  Even though Donald Trump had a hit TV show where he made the phrase ‘you’re fired’ a tag line, he decides to be diplomatic and not fire all Obama holdovers in his White House.  This would prove costly in a number of different ways.  One of which is that Anthony Ferrante is still with the NSC as their cybersecurity advisor.  Now that Trump is president, it’s his job to undermine him and get him impeached, which means desperately trying to get anything in Steele’s dossier to stick. He continually gathers information and reports back to the FBI where he was a former agent.  Eventually, it is determined he is not very effective inside the White House so he leaves in April 2017 because Rod Rosenstein, Jim Comey, Andrew McCabe and various other have decided to appoint a special council to investigation Russian collusion with President Trump even though they know that didn’t happen.  Upon their request, Ferrante leaves the NSC and joins a consulting firm named FTI.  From there, Buzzfreed hires him and pays him 4.1 million dollars to use what he learned as a cyberspy to verify any part of the dossier. 

                After two years, the special council fails and has to conclude that there was no obstruction and no collusion.  Technically, they don’t make a decision on obstruction but the new Attorney General Bill Barr is quick to determine that.  It is at this point that the supporters of the president know all about how the Obama administration illegally used the NSC database, manipulated the FISA court and illegally spied on the Trump campaign.  They fight back against the deep state Obama holdovers.  One group in particular, Judicial Watch, uses multiple Freedom of Information Applications (FOIA) to gather information.  One such FOIA is against the FBI for documentation about former FBI director Jim Comey’s spies in the White House.  As this includes Ferrante, his secret is exposed but he manages to become lost in the news of other more heinous culprits of the underhanded vile tactics used against a seated United States president.  Ferrante, however, does not evade the inspector General Horowitz report into the origins of Crossfire Hurricane as he confirmed Ferrante was reporting back to the FBI when he worked on the NSC.  Buzzfeed’s $ 4.1 Million turned out to be a waste of money because Ferrante never did verify anything in the Steele dossier despite his spying.  By 2020, only Arther Snell, who is a managing director of Steele’s company Orbis, is publicly defending the dossier.  He says it is valid but can’t give one single example of a verified claim.  This statement, however, didn’t come out of the blue.  It was in reaction to another article that confirmed what everyone by now knew; that the dossier was based on fabricated information. 

                In 2020, it is now the Democrats turn to have a primary with a crowded field that is beginning to narrow.  Once again, one man has emerged as the clear favorite and front runner and his name is Bernie Sanders.  Not learning anything from four years ago, those on the right start pumping up Bernie Sanders because they believe him to have the least chance to beat Donald Trump in an election.  Anyone who remembers the 2016 Republican primaries may remember all the candidates quoting poll after poll that Donald Trump could not beat Hillary Clinton in a national election.  Why would you believe them now?  More shrewd Republicans, however, know their history.  Nobody considered Adolf Hitler a threat as he rose through the ranks.  It was only after it was too late did they realize how damaging and charismatic he could be.  Bernie Sanders is similar as he has a cult following that is spreading.   Conservatives know that there is no such thing as near zero chance to win when you’re the nominee for a major political party.  It’s for this reason that Tucker Carlson, Dan Bongino, among others are preaching that he needs to be stopped immediately and nipped in the bud so that he truly has no chance to run for president because he lost the primary. 

                As any student of history can tell you, almost every socialist country had the infamous last words that it couldn’t happen there but it did.  It is easy to dismiss it as people being stupid and the continued prolonged ignorance of the populace but there is a less pessimistic and sinister view.  People long to be taken care of so they like hearing that something is ‘free.’  By offering people ‘free things’ you manipulate and play on this yearning.  Most people underestimate the power of free because they don’t understand this basic tenet of human nature.  The problem is that the same people yearning to be taken care of don’t realize that ‘free’ isn’t free.  There is no money fairy and someone has to pay for it.  Those who seek to benefit believe Sanders’ lie that the rich are the ones that will pay.  This isn’t a new phenomenon as Milton Friedman commented on this when he cautioned, “You think your neighbor is paying but he thinks the same thing.”

                The reality is everyone pays and it’s the middle class that pays the most since the most amount of money is centralized with them despite what the mainstream media and academia tell you.  In three years, President Trump has had enormous success with a booming economy that Obama called impossible and so unrealistic, you would need a magic wand to do it.  Trump’s popularity among blacks is between 35-42%, which is a marked improvement from the 8% he had in 2016.  This is due to unemployment in blacks being at a 50 year low.  The unemployment rate on any metric is impressive as women and Hispanics hit an all time low as well and Trump’s unemployment is below that of Bush’s.  With this economy, it would be hard for anyone to beat Trump. 

                In the last week of February, the Democrats finally caught a break.  After tariff wars and strong rhetoric with China, China has concocted a virus known as the Coronavirus and unleashed it on the world.  Luckily, President Trump acted quickly and put China on the travel ban list so the United States was less affected as no American has died from it as February comes to a close.  This, however, did nothing to stop Americans from panicking and the stock market lost around 20% in a week.  Since the Democrats love lying and spinning tragedy to attack their political opponents, they immediately blame President Trump for the virus that originated in Wuhon, China.  They called his travel ban premature and racist but, like most things they attack the president on, time would prove President Trump right.  The media and Democrats pounce and inform the world that President Trump cut funding to the CDC and that is why it can’t effectively deal with the Coronavirus.  They used this tactic against Bush during Hurricane Katrina and figured renewing the strategy couldn’t hurt. 

                As the Associated Press is reading what their fellow mainstream media is saying, the editors sigh.  As writers line up to pile on, the editor utters, “Look, the president has a unique ability to make us look like fools and turn our attacks against us.  This is so easily disproven that we’re playing right into his hands if we write a hit piece on it.  It’s time to save face and not get on this losing horse.  Someone write a piece calling the Democrats out on their bullshit with the Coronavirus.  Lauren Neergaard and Calvin Woodward raise their hands.  They both assert, “We’ll write the article.”

                “Fine, but keep in mind you may be vilified.  In this climate, anything short of pure unadulterated vitriol against the president is unacceptable. “

Lauren and Calvin explain in the article that President Trump didn’t cut CDC funding.  What happened was he proposed to congress to cut it but they said no.  By the time a new budget was in order, congress got the president to sign a bill that increased funding to the CDC.  The article goes on to discredit their sister organizations by dismantling the narrative that President Trump decimated public health organization leadership as almost all the top scientists in those fields have been there for over three years.

Unfortunately, not everyone has a problem with telling ridiculous lies.  The New York Times doesn’t hide their bias when they write an article entitled, “Let’s call it the Trump Virus.”   Elizabeth Warren tries to use the Coronavirus scare to defund the border wall by passing a bill to use border wall money for the virus.  Given that Americans have yet to be seriously affected by the virus, having open borders to let people who are not as inoculated from the virus is so intuitively stupid you wonder if Warren is even capable of rational thought.  Despite no Americans dying from the Coronavirus, President Trump calls a panel to investigate how to stop the epidemic.  As the media MO is to attack anything and everything that President Trump does, they point out that most people on the committee are white.  I guess the insinuation is that white people are incapable of finding root causes of diseases. 

During the virus scare, Warren is still on the campaign trail.  She is about to wish she had canceled it because a Navy SEAL calls her out for forcing tax payers to pay for their neighbors kids to go to school.  He brings up how he had to join the military to pay for school and now she wants to make him pay for everyone else to go to school.  As examples and analogies are the best way to drive a point home, he points out that nobody forced the students to take out the loans so why should others be responsible?  He wonders aloud that once this is established, why not force people to pay his mortgage too?  The Navy SEAL, like most conservatives, believe it is nothing short of immoral to take from others when you are fully capable of doing it yourself. 

As there is a lot of disinformation about the Coronavirus, a man named Gordan Chang who is an expert in China and South Korean affairs, starts doing media hits to inform people of the truth.  In an interview, he is asked, “What are your thoughts of President Trump overreacting and putting a racist travel ban on China?”

“I don’t think that’s an overreaction at all.  That is the problem that South Korea is having right now as their anti-Israel president has opened the border with China.  Due to this, the Coronavirus is now devastating South Korea too because they were unfortunate enough to have this happen under their far left leader now.”

“What of the reports that the virus is de-escalating and the crisis is better now than it was before?”

“You can’t trust anything that comes out of China.  China, like every other communist country in history, lies to save their reputation and their face.  If the virus was subsiding, they wouldn’t be bribing people to go back to work like they are doing.  If it wasn’t too bad anymore, they wouldn’t be trying to stop foreign virologists to examine the virus.”

“How close are we to finding a vaccine?”

“I’m not sure but I believe it to be a very difficult task because the disease is mutating.  Like I said, China is not taking the steps that resemble what you do for a declining virus.  This is dangerous.”

“Well, thousands of people have died from the flu and that isn’t a market killing epidemic, why can’t Coronavirus be that?”

“China is lying about the incubation period.  Like I said, you can’t believe anything coming out of their country.  It’s about twice as transmittable as the flue.”

 “What about those that claim this was a scorched Earth policy by the Chinese.  As communists don’t value human life, they are willing to kill their own people in order to achieve their objective.  By unleashing this virus on the world, they destroy the American markets and that is retribution for the trade war.”

“I’m not sure if I buy into that because China will take a long time to recover.  The point of a scorched Earth policy is you hurt yourself in order to hurt the enemy more.  In this case, you get hurt more than your target.  I don’t think that’s what this is but you have to remember, it’s not just affecting China but multiple countries.  When your business partners no longer want to work with you, it messes up the supply chains and demand.  China sent a message that they’re not safe to do business with and that will annihilate their economy for years to come because although they have a lot of natural resources, trade with other countries is essential.  As for the United States, our trade partners will still want to do business with us as we represent 51% of the world’s demand.  Our nation has gotten through Anthrax, Ebola, Sars, West Nile and probably some I missed, so this is just a temporary setback.  There’s nine months before the election so plenty of time for a rebound.  The infrastructure of the economy is still in place so as long as President Trump doesn’t overreact and try to spend his way out of it or use bailouts, then we should recover much quicker than they do. 

                President Trump has taken on and beaten a lot of powerful opponents but if voters go to the polls with an economy that is still reeling from the February market collapse, then voters may prove Trump’s declaration in his state of the union that the United States will never be a socialist country wrong. 

Larry the billionaire episode 48 Market Crash Opportunity

                Larry is relaxing on the beach near his Naples, Florida home.  Although he lives in Florida so he can go to the beach whenever he wants, he especially enjoyed it on days like this.  The market had been plummeting for six straight days losing thousands of points.  For a billionaire like Larry, this was an enormous sum of money lost but he knew it was because of the Coroavirus fears and it would rebound once the scare was over.  The best reaction was to just be patient and wait for it to bottom out.  Once there was a day that ended with the market up, then it was time to start buying in bulk.  Until then, he would stare at the Gulf of Mexico as the sun beat down on him.

                Larry was very methodical about his beach time.  He would spend 15 minutes in the water and then a half hour letting the sun dry him off as he lied in the sun before going back to the water for another 15 minutes.  These 45 minute cycles seem to make his beach days go quickly.  Naturally, sometimes things came up causing him to pause his schedule whether it be a call or text he has to attend to or if he finds himself in a conversation.  He sees two women in their early 30s on the beach talking rapidly to each other.  Larry was 35 so they were right around his age.  He walks over to the women and starts, “Hi, I’m Larry.”

                “Sarah” says a 5’1” petite woman with shoulder length black hair, a round face and unblemished olive skin.  

                “Michelle” states her companion with long blond hair, pale skin and stands at 5’5” with large breasts but thin and small in other aspects. 

                Whereas Sarah’s legs and arms were toned, Michelle’s were skinny and small.  Sarah asked, “So what do you think about this Coronavirus?”

                Larry shrugs his shoulders, “To be honest, I’m more worried about a shark attack when I go swimming here.  To show you how afraid I am of that, I swim here at least once a week.”

                The women laughed, Sarah responded, “Fair enough, but I think that’s why we need Free Healthcare.”

                “Why’s that?  If we had that then if you got diagnosed, you’d have to wait months before you see a specialist.  Now, if you’re really worried, you can call for a check-up and get seen in days rather than months.”

                “That’s just fearmongering.”

                “Have you tried to get medical care in countries with universal health care?  In England, I think the average wait time to see a specialist is nine months.”

                “Why would the Washington Post say that then?”

                “Well, you won’t like this answer but its fake news.  They hate President Trump so much that they’ll politicize anything.”

                Michelle interjected, “Well, I saw Pelosi on TV attacking Trump for only putting 2.5 Billion on the Coronavirus.  I mean, Obama gave five billion to Ebola so it should be equal to that.  Pelosi was also enraged that Trump wanted to use the left over money from Ebola for Coronavirus.”

                Larry tilted his head, “Did you think about what you just said?”

                Michelle seemed self-conscious as she responded, “Yea, I think it’s a legitimate point.”

                “Why would there be left over money for Coronavirus if the five billion was essential for Ebola?  Nobody is talking about Ebola now.  Obama made this decision at least three years ago because that’s how long he hasn’t been president so if there’s still money in that account then it seems we devoted too much money to Ebola so 2.5 is a good start.”

                Both women looked at each other and Larry could tell by their expressions that his logic wasn’t lost on them.  Sarah broke the silence, “I hadn’t thought of that.”

                Larry piled on with, “I would even go so far as to say that the travel ban is helping us now because the countries that are most prone have been banned from coming here.”

                Michelle shot back, “My mom is Puerto Rican so talking about Trump is not a very good idea.”

                “Why?  Puerto Rico isn’t on the travel ban.”

                Sarah inquired, “Are you a Trump supporter?”

                “Yes and the more information that comes out the more despicable it is what our intelligence community and justice department did to the President.  From an objective stand point, it’s hard not to feel sympathy for the President.”

                “Do you have an example?”

                “A lot actually; they made up a fake dossier and got a FISA warrant from it and set up a special council when everyone knew he didn’t collude with Russia yet they still dragged it on for 30 Million dollars and two years.  As for the most recent event, Rod Rosenstein’s 302 has just been released.  On May 10, 2017, Rosenstein admitted in a briefing that President Trump wasn’t a suspect and that he did nothing wrong.”

                “The Mueller report was that long ago?!”

                “That’s when it started.”

                “Oh, yea that makes more sense.  Wait, so when it started Rosenstein knew that President Trump didn’t collude?”

                “Yes”

                Sarah went to say something but then closed her mouth.  She declared, “I still don’t feel bad for him.  He’s a billionaire.”

                “So am I”

                With that, Larry walked away and dove into the water.  He wasn’t surprised when he found Sarah joining him a few minutes later.  She posed, “So, you don’t really find many Trump supporters.  I’m curious about this sympathy card you’re playing.”

                “They unfairly attack Trump and anyone associated with him.”

                “Like his son?”

                “Yes, but I mean more the political prisoners.  They actually arrest people for the crime of joining his campaign and they throw out all the rules of our justice system.  Look at Roger Stone.”

                “I didn’t follow it too closely.  Just that the prosecutors resigned because Barr interfered.”

                “You really call thinking nine years as too harsh a sentence for lying to the FBI interfering?  What happened to freedom of speech?  He’s allowed to give his opinion and the judge or the lawyers can take it or leave it.”

                “So, you think it was too harsh?”

                “Well no, he got 40 months, so it wasn’t nine years.  The problem is that one of the jurors has been all over social media talking about how much she hated Donald Trump.  She even ran for office as a Democrat.  Surely, that’s not a fair jury of your peers.”

                “Wouldn’t that be the defense lawyer’s problem?”

                “Yes, but she contradicted herself during voir dire.”

                “People lie on that all the time.”

                “Doesn’t make it any more legal.  She was asked if she was aware that Stone was a Trump associate before the trial and she said ‘yea.’  When asked again, she claimed she didn’t know that.”

                “Again, the defense lawyer should’ve picked up on that.”

                “I don’t disagree.”

                “So you live here?”

                “Yes, but I’m originally from the Midwest.”

                “Me too.  Still do actually.  I’m just here on vacation.”

                “How long are you in town for?”

                “Just the week.”

                “What do you do?”

                “I manage a Greek restaurant.”

                “Are you Greek?”

                “Yes”

                “Me too.”

                “I can tell” nodding at the Greek flag tattooed on Larry’s chest.  Larry looked down and laughed. 

                Sarah nodded and Larry articulated, “Sarah isn’t really a Greek name.”

                “Neither is ‘Larry’”

                “Touche”

                They both smiled without explaining themselves.  They made small talk and Sarah felt comfortable with him.  At some point, she took a deep breath and remarked, “To be honest, I’m not sure if this trip was a good idea.”

                “Why’s that?”

                “I want to put a down payment on a house so I should be saving my money.  The bank micro-analyzes every expense.”

                “That is true especially now with the market collapsing.”

                “I know, what a shitty time to try to get a loan from a bank.”

                “It shouldn’t be an issue.  I think it’ll pass by the time you go through closing and all that BS”

                “I still want the 20%.  I want 10% for the down payment and 10% for the closing costs.”

                “I could help with that.”

                “Oh God no, I wasn’t saying that.  I was just speaking aloud.”

                Larry shrugged his shoulders, “Well, if you’re willing to, I’d give you the down payment but it’s not free.”

                “Interest?”
                “Oh no, I’m not a bank.  All you have to do is have one night with me where I get access to that cute body of yours.”

                Sarah’s eyes widened in shock but her lips spread in an embarrassed smile.  “That was pretty blunt.  If you fuck like you flirt, I’m guessing there won’t be much foreplay.”

                “There’s really only one way to find out.  I will tell you that I don’t have any 50 shades fetishes.  I’m not going to whip you with a belt or anything.  You’ll have no permanent marks or need medical attention when I’m done with you.”

                Sarah looked back at the beach and then back at Larry, “Do I have to decide now?”

                “No, I’ll give you my number and the number of a doctor.  The deal is contingent that you get checked for STD’s.  If you’re not clean, the deal’s off.  She’ll give you my medical records so you know that I am clean.”

                “I still want to use a condom.”

                “I’m okay with that.”

                “I’m not making any promises.”

                “I expect nothing less.  You ready to get out?”

                “Yea”

                Larry went back to his towel and handed her a card that had both numbers on it.  It only took two days before Sarah called the doctor.  When the results came in, Larry actually called her, “As your trip is already half over, do you want to do it tonight?”

                “Yea, before I come to my senses.”

                Larry rented a hotel so that Sarah wouldn’t know where he lived.  He scheduled a time for Sarah to come over.  Although she was a little late, Larry expected this.  When she walked in, Larry was naked on the bed.  Sarah gave him an offended look.  She put her hands out, “Maybe this was a mistake.”

                “Why’s that?”

                “I just feel so dirty.  It’s just that I had invested pretty conservatively and the market skyrocketed so I finally had enough for the down payment but then Coronavirus happened and I panicked.  This was just a knee jerk reaction.”

                “Or you’re taking advantage of a situation you think is too good to be true.  Most women have had sex with someone that they regretted later.  Very rarely do you have a silver lining in the experience that you get a down payment on a house.”

                “Yes, I know we signed a contract but I can’t exactly take you to court.  One, you’re a billionaire so you can bury me in court fees and secondly, it’s prostitution so I don’t even think it’s enforceable.”

                Larry smiled.  Most of the girls he propositioned didn’t realize this.  “It’s your choice.  The door is right behind you but the money is already in escrow to be transferred upon you fulfilling your end.  Obviously, you can back out of the deal any time.  If it makes you feel any better, we can have a conversation so it actually feels like a date.”

                “I actually think that will help.  Then I won’t feel like a prostitute.”

                “Alright”

                “To be honest, I would have been out of here if you made any move to stop me or pressure me.”

                “I’m not a rapist.”

                “Clearly”

                “That’s not a complement.  You don’t get credit for not doing what you’re not supposed to.”

                “Here’s a topic.  Given the election coming up, don’t you think it’s unfair that people like you are billionaires and people like me in the middle class haven’t seen their wages increase in 45 years?”

                “That is an absolute lie by Bernie Sanders.”

                “Someone would have called him out on it.”

                “Many have just not mainstream media because they hate Trump.  In 1975, 45 years ago, employees didn’t have the health care, vacation time, family leave and other perks and benefits they have now.  You’re only thinking about the money, which still doesn’t make any sense but let’s just pretend that it does, the benefits alone gives the middle class a 45% wage increase since 1964.  Not to mention that a dollar of medical care now pays for more than it did in 1975.  We have more buying power because as technology increased, the price of those technologies went down.  Capitalism working at its best.  You have a supercomputer in your pocket.  Having a fraction of that computing power wouldn’t be around for personal use for another nine years or so and it was gigantic.”

                “Well, he’s talking about money I guess.”

                “Do you really think people were better off in 1975 than we are now?  You think technology was better then?  I mean by every metric: pollution, infant mortality, life expectancy, medical care etc etc. are all better now.”

                “I think he just means salaries.”

                “The median income in America is at an all time high.”

                “You need to take into account inflation.”

                “I did.  After adjusting for inflation, the median household income now is $61,372.  In addition to that, households have fewer people so you have more money to spread amongst fewer people so the number is even better than it seems like it is.”

                “What was it in 1975?”

                ”The average income per person was $ 19,500.  Now it’s $34,000.”

                “Fine, we’re better off but the rich have gotten richer at a faster rate.”

                “Not really, there are fewer households now that make under $35,000 and more households that make over $100,000.  More people are moving up than being left behind.”

                “You’ know, you’re pretty smart.  That makes this easier.  Thanks for indulging me.  I’m ready now.”

                Larry got up and Sarah scurried toward him and kissed him passionately.  Sarah rubbed her thigh against his scrotum enlarging his penis and then told him to sit on the bed with his legs out.  As he did so, Sarah placed a condom over his penis and swung her body around so that she was straddling him but face down lying on his legs.  Once Larry was inside her vaginal walls, she shifted her upper body to the side supporting herself on her hands.  Larry placed his right hand on her butt and squeezed while the other hand held him up.  He humped her and she thrust her pelvis back as she moaned loudly.  After a little bit, Sarah got off Larry and stood up.  Larry followed her up and Sarah jumped up wrapping her legs around his legs to his thighs and her hands on his butt.  Larry placed his hands on her lower back and drove her to the wall viciously ramming himself into her.  He lowered his hands to her butt as Sara kissed his neck and mouth.  Larry’s mouth followed a similar trajectory.  Larry took a couple steps back and Sarah leaned back as Larry massaged her breasts and legs.  Sarah said, “Okay, put me down” trying to hide the disappointment that Larry was still going. 

            Larry let her down and Sarah put one hand on his chest and shoved him toward the bed.  She pushed him onto his back and mounted him grinding her hips aggressively as she shoved her breasts in his face while Larry caressed her legs and squeezed her butt pulling her closer to him thus penetrating deeper.  After a little, Larry turned her around and knelt up.  He grabbed her by the shins and twisted her around forcing her onto her stomach.  Sarah pushed herself up to all fours and Larry jammed his penis into her vagina from behind.  He reached around and caressed her breasts driving himself in repeatedly while kissing Sarah’s neck.  Larry grabbed Sarah by the hips and dragged her back as he scooted toward the foot of the bed.  He stood up off the bed and hoisted Sarah up dropping his left hand to stroke her clitoris and surrounding areas as his right hand explored her breasts.  Sarah screamed out indicating orgasm almost immediately and Larry switched hands this time inserting his fingers behind her labia majora and worked the G-spot.  As Larry worked his fingers with his mouth kissing her neck and mouth when she turned her head, Sarah screamed once again indicating climax.  She wriggled herself out of his arms and turned towards him dropping to her knees.  She removed the condom and inserted his penis into her mouth.  She bobbed her head back and forth driving his penis to the back of her throat as her hands worked his scrotum.  Frustration mounted as Larry was groaning but no ejaculate was coming out.  Sarah placed another condom over his member.  Again, Sarah got up and wrapped her arms around Larry twisting him toward the bed.  Larry relaxed his body and let Sarah maneuver him.  She tackled him onto the bed and grinded her hips wagging her breasts in his face.  She lifted her upper body up and pushed on his chest digging her nails into his shoulders as she clenched her thighs rocking back and forth.  Sarah got what she wanted as Larry’s eyes rolled into the back of his head as he sighed.  His penis shot ejaculate out but it was consumed by the condom

                Sarah rolled over and panted while lying on her back and Larry did the same.  Sarah commented,  “I guess you’re paying attention to the Section 215 of the Patriot Act vote.”

                “Yea, after the massive and rampant FISA abuse, there will be a vote to allow them to keep the power that they have proven corrupts them.  80% of the about queries on the NSA database were fraudulent.  This should be a no brainer but they’ll probably extend it just to spite Trump.  Nadler is already banning Republicans from discussing it so Democrats will just use their majority again.  I mean, Republicans do the same in the Senate but this is why Democrats should never be in power.”

                “Maybe you’ll be surprised.”

                “Doubtful”

                “Ken Delaney, who was one of the most outspoken defenders of the FISA, Steele dossier and Russian collusion, just admitted that the reports of Russia meddling in the 2020 election were exaggerated and based on congressman misunderstanding the briefing.”

                “I will admit that was a surprise.”

                “I just wish Trump would take the Coronavirus seriously.  Not everyone has a doctor following them around.”

                “You do know that Trump is a germaphobe right?  He’s constantly using Purell on his hands.”

                “I didn’t know that but now that you mention it, I saw a press conference where he was talking about one of his friends who hugged him.  When Trump asked if his friend was well he said no and started describing the flu and Trump joked that he started washing his hands profusely because the guy was hugging and kissing him.”

                “Yea, he’s a big germaphobe.  That’s what made the Steele dossier so ridiculous.”

                “What does being afraid of germs have anything to do with Russian collusion?”

                “One of the allegations was that when he was in Russia for the Miss Universe contest, he was in a hotel with prostitutes watching a golden shower show.”

                “What’s that?”

                “Watching women pee on each other.”

                “Ewwww”

                “Right, and I’m pretty sure that’s what President Trump’s reaction would be given that he’s a germaphobe.  That doesn’t seem like something a health freak would be interested in.”

                “That makes sense.”

                Larry reached over and authorized the transfer completing the down payment on the house.  He showed the confirmation to Sarah.  She gave him a hug and a kiss on the neck, “Thank you”

                “Thank you”

                “Do I have to leave?”

                “You don’t have to.  I got the room for the night.”

                “Can I sleep here?”

                “Of course”

                Sarah turned her back to Larry and uttered, “Thank you”

                Larry turned toward her and wrapped his left arm over her side and rested it on her stomach.  He slid his right arm under her neck as an extension of the pillow.  Sarah threw her legs back and Larry opened his enveloping hers.  He immediately felt her body relax, which calmed Larry as well.  They both fell asleep quickly.

                The next day, Larry woke up first and showered and got ready.  He started working and when Sarah woke up she was disoriented then remembered where she was.  She got up and showered and got dressed.  They took the elevator down and Larry express checked out.  As they walked to the parking lot, Sarah turned to Larry.  Larry pronounced, “Good bye Sarah.  I had fun last night.”

                “I did too.  To the point that I think I ripped you off.  Thank you for being a gentleman despite the circumstances.  I was really nervous that you would do something to me that would make me feel dirty or regret this but I don’t”

                “Me neither”

                Sarah kissed Larry and he pursed his lips and slipped his tongue into her mouth to meet hers.  He pulled away and they both smiled and then went their opposite ways to their cars.  Sarah finished her vacation and closed on the house when she returned home.  Larry went back to his normal routine and still went to the beach frequently.  Larry and Sarah never crossed paths again.