Theo the Trump Employee Episode 50 Changes forced by Coronavirus

                Theo has found himself in a precarious situation.  After failing miserably in the stock market despite a surging economy, he long went by the tortoise mentality rather than the hare with regards to building his finances.  He found the bank that gave him the largest interest rate for a savings account and put most of his money there and let it collect the nominal interest rate every year.  Although many shunned this, he had lost money over the years investing and realized he had learned nothing for all the lost revenue so he had given up. 

                Even though he worked at the White House and was a firm believer in the Trump economy, his money stayed in the savings account as the head of the house constantly boasted about his record high numbers.  That was until Wuhan China had contaminated food that caused a worldwide pandemic known as the Coronavirus.  The Trump economy still blew job expectations out of the water but the market had its largest single day drop since the housing bubble burst.  Still, Theo refused to buy.  Then the market shot up 1,000 points in one day and Theo had a feeling it was coming but there was a couple days lag between transferring his money from his savings to a bank that recognized his investment app to transferring it to said app.  The very next day the market tanked again for the same reason.  Finally, Theo had had enough and he initiated the transfer as more and more cases of the Coronavirus were coming out and the markets panicked more and more.  There was nine months before the election and if Donald Trump wasn’t re-elected, he could just sell everything and put it right back in savings. 

                The White House had signs everywhere telling you to wash your hands frequently and there was a no-handshake policy put into effect, which was odd for politics.  Various memos were sent that if you were feeling ill, you should stay home and try to work remotely.  People were encouraged not to have meetings with more than 10 people.  If there was a need for a large meeting, video conferencing should be set up.  Cleaning services were required to clean work places more frequently than they had before.  With all these new precautions put into effect, various people at work started worrying.  Theo, on the other hand, walked in and went about his day as if nothing happened.  One of his co-workers was commenting how scared he was and asked Theo, “How are you so quiet about this?”

                “It seems to only really affect the elderly.  I’m 35 so I’m not too worried.”

                “People have died.”

                “More people have died of the flu.  I just don’t think the panic surrounding the virus is proportional to the threat it actually is.”

                “It is deadlier than the flu.”

                “I have conflicting reports on that.  According to the Italy data, it wasn’t but I looked at the South Korea data and it has the mortality rate at 0.68%.  As a basis for comparison, Swine Flu was .02% and the actual flu is .03% on the R0 scale, which is the only one that really matters.”

                “So it’s three times more deadly!”

                “Do you work for MSNBC?  Try that math again.  .68 and .03”

                “Oh, I thought you said 0.3”

                Theo doubted that this was the case but let it go. 

                “So why aren’t you worried?”

                “For the same reason I told you before.  It’s worse, the median age in Italy of contracting was 60 and the death rate median age was 80.  I’m nowhere near that.”

                “You don’t think it’s a threat?”

                “Of course it’s a threat.  At first, I admit, I thought it was like SARS where one person died but that was before an American died from Coronavirus.  Now, American deaths are climbing so it is a threat but when the media calls it 3.4% and it’s actually 0.68, that’s called overhyping it.”

                “It’s more contagious than the flu.”

                “Much more contagious than the flu.  There’s no question but, again, I don’t think the panic justified a like 4,000 point drop in the market.”

                “If you agree it’s very contagious and it’s over 20x more deadly than the flu, why aren’t you afraid?”

                “I have no fear of dying from the flu at all.  Multiply it by 20, it’s still not a large fear because 0 times 23 is still 0.  I’m also a dork and I’m not very popular.  When the H1N1 came out, it affected popular people more than introverts for obvious reasons.  All my friends know each other.  I have the same group so given the people I associate with; it’s a more of a minor risk for me.”

                “I guess it’s good to be a weirdo then”

                “Yes, it is; especially during a pandemic.”

                After work, Theo goes to American University.  He would be going from a group where he was one of the younger ones to a group where he was the oldest one.  Somehow, he thought the young college kids would be just as scared as his co-workers.  As he enters the bar, he’s a little surprised to find it relatively full.  He sits down and orders a drink.  The bartender hands him his drink and he sits down.  A brown haired woman sits next to him.  She’s got a thick build with a smooth face and brown eyes.   Just as Theo was thinking that maybe college kids were being rational about the Coronavirus, a boy walks in and asks, “Sam?”

                “Yes” responds the girl

                “Hi, I’m Michael” as he extends his hand

                “Oh no, I don’t shake hands.”

                Michael grins and nods in understanding and just waves.  Sam had been smiling the whole time and waved back.  Michael states, “Yea, this Coronavirus is crazy right?”

                “It’s got some perks.”

                “Like what?’

                “I saw on the news that it may be Trump’s Katrina.  It proves the government is ill prepared to handle crises just like Katrina showed Bush’s incompetence, which led to Barack Obama winning.  This highlights Trump’s incompetence”

                Michael seems to contemplate this and nods, “Yea, that’s a good point.”

                Theo chimes in, “How do you figure?”  Both students are taken about by the interjection.  Theo continued, “I saw Nicole Wallace say that too and it sickens me that people can delight in people’s deaths because they don’t like the president.”

                  Sam fired back, “We’re not excited, we’re just looking for a silver lining.”

                “Oh no, I saw the segment.  Wallace was excited about it.   How can you compare a hurricane and a contagious virus?  It’s not even the same government organization.  One is FEMA and the other is the Department of Health and Human Services.  As for the response, even California Governor Newsom, who hates President Trump, had to admit that his response to the cruise ship was commendable.  Also, he called a travel ban from affected countries a month ago when Schumer and all the Democrats were calling him racist for doing so.  Who knows how many lives he saved by doing that.  Furthermore, are you trying to say that government is incompetent to solve problems?  That’s the basic tenant of conservatism; limited government.”

                “Look, I agree it’s bad but my way of dealing with it is to find a silver lining.”

                “That is not what you’re doing.  You’re politicizing it.”

                “Republicans politicize it too.”

                “How so?”

                “I saw a tweet by Chris Hayes that a Republican called it the ‘Wuhan virus.’  They used it to attack China.”

                “It’s amazing that people take China’s side over the country they live in.  Aside from that, both Politico and CNN called it the ‘Wuhan virus’ in articles.  Do you condemn them for politicizing it too and being racist toward China?”

                “No they didn’t”

                Michael looks it up in his phone and finds both articles, “Umm, he’s right, they did.”

                Sam’s shoulders slump but she declares, “You know if a Democrat was president, the Republicans would be doing the exact same thing.”

                “No, I don’t know that.  Republicans have standards and morals that Democrats lack.”

                “Fine, Trump may have stopped a cruise ship from docking and the travel ban, but he’s done nothing to treat the virus.”

                “Except he cut regulations that prohibited schools and labs from developing tests for diseases. That means he wants all hands on deck.  If you’re a scientist and you think you can figure it out, the government isn’t going to stop you anymore.”

                “I didn’t hear about that.”

                “Of course not, because you may look into who passed that regulation and you probably wouldn’t like the answer.”

                Sam gives Theo a dirty look, “Is it a president in my lifetime?”

                “Yup”

                “You’re right, I don’t want to know.”

                “But, you know Republicans could have highlighted that but they didn’t because we don’t politicize serious events like a natural disaster or a pandemic.”

                “I just don’t think people are excited about it.”

                Theo pulls up his phone and shows a screen shot of Andrea Junker taunting Trump about the market crashing and oil plummeting ending with ‘are you tired of winning yet?’”

                “That’s one person on twitter.  There’s a lot of crazy people on twitter.”

                “She has tens of thousands of followers.  It’s not just a random person.”

                “What’s your point in all this? Just to attack someone you don’t even know?  What does that say about you?”

                “I’m just saying that mocking something that destroys jobs and kills people is sick.  I don’t know how that’s a controversial point.”

                “Fine, I agree.  Are you happy now?”

                “Yes, I am actually”

                Sam walks away and Theo is surprised that Michael stayed.  As Sam’s voice was a little tense, Michael’s was calm.  He states, “I’m just glad you’re not one of these far-right people that is calling the Coronavirus ‘fake news’”

                “I am on the far-right and I literally don’t know anyone that is calling it ‘fake news.’  They just say it’s overhyped; there’s a difference.”

                “It’s amazing that three years ago, ‘fake news’ wasn’t even a term and now Trump says it like every day.”

                “The funny thing is it was originally started by leftists to explain why Donald Trump won the 2016 election.  They accused Russian troll farms of using fake news to influence the public.”

                “No, they said that Trump colluded with Russia.”

                “That’s what they stuck with.  Go watch the last season of Homeland as it talked about the fake news as defined at the time. It was Russian disinformation campaigns.  They accused the Russians of ‘fake news’ about Hillary and then President Trump, as he does so well, flipped it on them and accused them of it.  The only difference is it stuck when President Trump said it and in just a few short years, you don’t even remember when the left said it.”

                “I’m going to have to research that.”

                “Why bother?  The left has no creativity, which is odd since artists and stuff are normally liberal.  NPR just came out with a piece claiming Russian trolls have evolved their disinformation campaigns to make it harder to track.”

                Michael pulls out his phone as he determines this is easier to check.  He finds the article and looks perplexed, “Well, maybe they are.”

                “We had a three year Mueller probe that found no evidence of it.  Now, they’re just recycling a fake news story.”

                “The Russians are very sneaky”

                “Bloomberg and Tom Speyer spent almost a billion dollars on ads and got one delegate.  You’re telling me Russia can spend thousands of dollars and turn a bunch of states in a candidate’s direction?  If anything proves that Russian collusion is a hoax, it is the abject failure of Bloomberg’s campaign.”

                “Well, Bloomberg came off as very smug and arrogant in the debate so that’s why he failed.”

                “Are you suggesting that President Trump never says something he shouldn’t in public that may be construed as arrogant, bullying or smug?”

                “Or on twitter….touche.” Michael replies quietly

                “Just know that every time you see something in the mainstream media, there’s a 90% chance you’re being lied to.”

                “I’ll keep that in mind.  In the mean time, I have to go.  It was nice talking to you.”

                “Likewise”

                As he orders another drink, a redhead skinny woman comes over to him with freckled skin.  “Are you suggesting that the right never lies?”

                “Not never but they tend to use facts and data more than the left.  This is not for any moral reason but just because they are normally on our side and why would you use information that disproves you?”

                “What do you call that video of Biden endorsing Trump?”

                “Accurate.  He really did misspeak and say that.”

                “The video was doctored.”

                “No, it wasn’t.  Unless you mean that stuff was said before the clip started and after, but that doesn’t count.  When you play an excerpt of a speech, you just play a part.  They didn’t splice it.  Biden was fumbling over his words, which he does a lot, and in his lost train of thought stuttered that out.”

                “You really think Biden is endorsing Trump?”

                “That’s not the point of the video.  The point of the video is to highlight Biden’s mental status as he constantly makes gaffes.  The dude is losing it.”

                “See, that’s a low blow.  Attacking a man ‘s mental status who’s in his 70s belongs in the gutter.”

                “This man is looking to be the most powerful man in the world with the codes to our nuclear arsenal.  Questioning his mental capacity is more than fair game.”

                “Ryan Lizza disagrees with you.”

                “Ryan Lizza is a hypocrite because he attacks President Trump’s mental state all the time.”

                “Well, Trump is crazy and mentally unfit to be president.”

                “And now, you’re a hypocrite too.”

                “Like you said, the Russian collusion isn’t going away.  Christopher Steele is back and he’s defending his dossier.”

                “He’s been discredited seven ways from Sunday but since the media has nothing else, they have to help him and push his false narrative one more time.”

                “Give me an example on how he got discredited.”

                “The FBI interviewed his sources and the sources told him that Steele misrepresented what he said and accused him of lying.  They actually distinguished that some was just misrepresented but others were flat out lies as it wasn’t what they said at all.  They accused Steele of just making it up.”

                “Whatever, it’s not all they have.  The New York Times reported that Erik Prince had recruited foreign spies to go after liberal groups.”

                “Yea, Erik Prince is their favorite target.  All he did was set up a private army to assist the US military when they got bogged down by government red tape and shit.  He even sold the company and people still won’t leave him alone.  I mean, that’s what the left does.  Once they know they can get to you they never stop.  That’s why conservatives should never apologize to the libelous, scandalous, treacherous left.  Besides, that article was written by Adam Goldman.  He’s the lead collusion pusher and if people knew it was a hoax, he would probably be fired because he would have no credibility since he’s held on to it almost as long as Steele and Steele has to because it’s his work.”

                “Why go after Prince if he sold Blackwater?”

                “A few reasons: One, I just mentioned, secondly, his sister, Betsy Devoss, works in President Trump’s cabinet and they love attacking anyone connected to President Trump.  Thirdly, and probably the most important, Steele used Russian sources for his dossier.  This looks bad because he colluded with Russia to take down President Trump and used those Russian sources to accuse President Trump of colluding with Russia to take down Hillary Clinton.  In order to rectify the blatant hypocrisy of this, they have to pretend that people do this all the time and it’s not a big deal that Steele’s sources were Russian.  Personally, I think it’s a retarded argument because if people believe that narrative, then they should believe it’s not a big deal if Trump colluded with Russia to take down Hillary.  Then again, leftists love double standards and constantly engage in projection without realizing the hypocrisy so who knows, it just may work.  Considering that I’m sitting here after the Mueller report and IG Horowitz report and people are still believing the Russian collusion nonsense, I guess the public is too dumb to realize Steele’s bias and hypocrisy.”

                “You shouldn’t generalize and stereotype.”

                “That is how the brain processes information.  It’s called ‘schemas.’  Not doing that is literally impossible and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how the brain works.”

                “Don’t talk down to me.”

                “Then say something that contains something that can be considered a rational thought.”

                The redhead’s eyes go wide and her mouth gapes open.  She scoffs and scurries away.”

                Theo closes his tab and goes to the train to take his long commute back home.  As he gets on the train, he sees a black man around his age.  He exclaims to a friend he’s with, “Hey man, did you see Fiona Hill on 60 minutes?”

                “Who’s Fiona Hill?”

                Theo interjected, “An Obama holdover that worked for the National Security Council (NSC) in the Russian department.”

                They turn to him and the same man that started asks, “Is it a problem that she’s an Obama holdover?”

                “Yes, but that’s not the main problem.  The main problem is she’s an impeachment witnesses and all of them were lying sacks of shit.”

                “Damn, with strong words like that you better be able to back them up.”

                “She pushed the Bolton narrative and even Bolton has now admitted that he only said he wanted to testify to sell his book.”

                “She just wanted witnesses.  I don’t think that warrants because a ‘lying sack of shit.’”

                “She called Ukrainian meddling in the 2016 election a Russian disinformation campaign.  It’s very well documented.  Even Politico wrote an article right after President Trump won the election that Ukraine was trying to make amends after they attempted to sabotage Trump.”

                “You don’t look like someone that believes what Politico says.”

                “I don’t.  They are definitely fake news.”

                “They can’t be real news when they agree with you and fake when they don’t”

                “They’re fake because they admitted Ukrainian meddling in our election before the Democrats accused President Trump of it.  Then, when Russia failed and the Democrats pivoted to Ukraine, they changed their story to back up the Democrats.  They are a political arm of the Democrat party.  Both positions are consistent with that theory.”

                “All you’re telling me is that they’re unreliable?”

                “Fine, you want to know how I know”

                “I do.”

                “There was a Ukrainian lawmaker named Lutsenko.  He gave a black ledger to Alexandra Chalupa of the DNC to take down Manafort and, by extension, hurt President Trump since Manafort was his campaign manager.  Now, Lutsenko admits that the black ledger was a falsified document.  He admitted it was all a hoax to take down President Trump.”

                “Well, Chalupa was a low-level person.  How much damage could she really do?”

                “Nellie Ohr of Fusion GPS admitted under oath that she got her Russian information from Lutsenko.  Her husband was the fourth highest member of the DOJ at the time.”

                “I’m thinking you’re not crazy.”

                “I’m not even finished.  Then you have Ukrainian officials taking out op-eds in newspapers and social media posts attacking Trump.  It was an all out assault, which is why they needed to try to make amends.”

                “What are Democrats supposed to do though?  Ignore the allegations?”

                “That’s what you wanted President Trump to do with Hillary information from Russia.  Besides, Telischenko, who worked at the Ukrainian embassy in Washington, has gone on the record saying that Democrats constantly came up to him to ask him if he could find dirt on President Trump.”

                “Well, look at what happened.  Trump bombed Russian special forces in Syria, he armed Ukraine so they could defend Crimea and stop Russian aggression, he didn’t repeal Magnitsky, he increased sanctions on Russia and banned Germany from building a pipeline straight to them so they could more cheaply supply Europe with oil so that Russia wouldn’t have a monopoly.  Russia benefits if Donald Trump isn’t president.”

                “Well, I’m glad you don’t think President Trump colluded with Russia.  Everything you said is true but just because Russia benefits, doesn’t mean that it’s a Russian disinformation campaign.  Sometimes you share a common enemy with someone and the enemy of your enemy is your friend.”

                “I feel you.  I just have a problem with billionaires running the country and telling us what to do.  Stephen Crowder was talking shit on YouTube but he’s a millionaire.  He doesn’t know what it’s like to struggle.  This dude, Carlos Maza is trying to demonetize him and kick him off YouTube; mad respect that someone punched that rich boy in the mouth.”

                “You do know that Carlos Maza’s parents are multi-millionaires too right?”

                “No”

                ‘Yea, they live in Boca Raton, which is where all the wealthy former-New York Jews live.”

                “Not everyone in Boca can be rich.”

                “True, but he just sold his home for $ 10.8 Million so it’s a little weird when he attacks rich people.”

                “That motherfucking phony.”

                “Yea, I agree.  There’s something about millionaires like Bernie Sanders and Carlos Maza that love socialism.  That’s how you know it’s not about distributing wealth; it’s about power.  If they cared about the little guy, they would give more money to charity.”

                “I wish Barbara Walters called Fiona Hill out on her shit.”

                “Me too but mainstream media will never do that.”

                “I guess not.”

                The train stopped and the black men got off.  Shortly after, Theo did as well and went home.  He watched some NBA basketball and then went to sleep ready to start the next day.  All that was on his mind is when his money would show up and if he was making a big mistake.  There was only one way to find out. 

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Larry the Billionaire episode 49 Curious Case of Joe Biden and Ukraine

                Larry has flown to Los Angeles.  Even though he is not too fond of the city, he had to see something for himself and given that he’s a billionaire, frivolous travel was not uncommon for him.  As he walked the streets, he asked people what they thought about AB5.  AB5 was a bill passed two months ago that banned independent contractors.  It was done to target Uber and Lyft since taxi unions are strong in California.  What they hadn’t intended is that musical concerts, art exhibitions and journalistic publications would all be canceled or, in the latter case, stop hiring people from California.  Larry always believed this was a plot by the predominantly liberal government in California to try to increase the unemployment rate in order to hurt President Trump.  What he was trying to see is if it worked and the people blamed President Trump or if they knew the real reason for their hardship.

                As he talked to people, it was one story after another about how they or someone close to them lost their job because of AB5.  The ones that didn’t know anyone affected were upset that they could never find an Uber or a Lyft anymore.  It’s not that they were banned, it’s that Uber and Lyft would have to hire them as full time employees, which they weren’t able to do financially.  After these talks, Larry wondered the unthinkable; could Donald Trump win California?  Here he was in one of the most liberal place in California and everyone was pissed at the Democrats for what they did to him.  Would they vote Republican just to spite those that hurt them?  Larry would admit it was a long shot but he wasn’t so sure anymore. 

                Larry had a friend in Los Angeles named Lyubov who was a nurse.  Larry and Lyubov had dated in high school but since then they weren’t close as exes tend not to stay close after breaking up.  Lyubov was aware of Larry’s billionaire status and how he used it to lure women to have sex with him in exchange for high ticket items.  In fact, Lyubov had found him some potential women who needed medical care either for them or someone they care about but couldn’t afford it.  That’s where Larry came in.  He called her up and they arranged a day to have dinner. 

                Lyubov was an Ukrainian-American who stood at 5’8” with a slender build and average sized breasts and butt.  She had a natural eloquence to her that is difficult to fake.  Lyubov chose an upscale sushi restaurant and Larry obliged.  After pleasantries, Larry opined, “I’m surprised you picked an Asian restaurant.  Most people are afraid of all things Asian because of the Coronavirus.”

                Lyubov waved her hand, “Oh come on! That thing has made work a living hell.  Everyone is coming in and panicking thinking that every time they sneeze, it means they have it.”

                “It seems like the flu rebranded to me.”

                Lyubov contemplates this and responds, “That’s not entirely accurate but really not off either.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s a serious threat but we’re talking about the degree of the threat.”

                “Yes, it is a threat, but it’s not worth destroying the entire economy because of it.”

                “Yes, it’s not a Doomesday event.  Everything you do is a risk.  I took a risk crossing the street or taking a cab here; the question is if it’s an unnecessary risk or a low enough risk that refraining from it wouldn’t be worth it.”

                “Like everything else in life, it’s a tradeoff.”

                “Precisely”

                “The problem is that it gets good ratings so cable news is going to continue to fuel the hysteria.”

                “And medical professionals will suffer.  We can’t even get masks anymore because people are buying them out before we can get them.”

                “I mean, about 30,000 people have already died from the flu.  The Coronavirus is only at 2,900 and that’s in China which has a bigger population than we do.  30,000 people here is like 127,000 there but no, they’re at 2,900”

                “The more you keep comparing it to the flu, the more sense it’s making. I’ll go with the analogy.  Yes, the flu is deadly for the elderly and small children yet still half of the people won’t get a flu vaccine because they don’t think the risks outweigh the benefits.  A flu vaccine is free with most medical insurance and, if you don’t have insurance, it’s like twenty bucks.  It takes about 20 minutes of your time.  Yet, people think that’s too much to ask to inoculate themselves from something that, as of right now, is 2-3 times more deadly than the Coronavirus.”

                “Coronavirus is more infectious and contagious though.”

                “Yea, but it’s not going to kill you if you’re under 50.”

                “You can’t trust Chinese data.  Communist countries are notorious for downplaying and suppressing news that makes their country look bad.”

                Lyubov gave him a dirty look and fired back, “You do remember that my parents fled the Russians in Ukraine right?”

                “Yes, I do”

                “So, yea, I know exactly what you mean but I’m not talking about Chinese data, I’m talking about Italian data.”

                “Alright, that is more reliable.”

                “The median age to get the virus is 60.”

                “Yea, it’s worse for the elderly.  Unlike the flu, it doesn’t seem to harm children too much.”

                “It doesn’t.   That isn’t my point though.  My point is, the median age to die from it is 81.”

                “So, if your 60, you probably are equipped enough to battle it and beat it.”

                “Yes, to the point that, like Pence said in the press conference, if you’re under 40 like us, you may not realize you have it.”

                Larry was 35 and Lyubov was 36.  “Let’s just hope it doesn’t mutate.”

                “It already did.  There are actually two strains of Coronavirus, L and S.  L is more aggressive and dangerous.  This is the more common one people are getting as it makes up 70% of the cases.”

                “Yet, still not more deadly than the flu yet.”

                “No, but you’re missing the point.  L cases have been declining since January.  In a way it’s good that it’s aggressive because people seek treatment and get quarantined so they don’t infect others.  Since people get treatment right away, it doesn’t spread as quickly and burns itself out.”

                “But, for those who have S, they don’t know they have it so don’t get treatment or quarantine so infect more people.”

                “Exactly.  Luckily, Donald Trump got rid of the red tape so now labs and schools can get involved in testing for diseases.”

                “One more horrible bureaucratic red tape signed by Obama that President Trump did away with.”

                “I never understood why.”

                “So that this wouldn’t happen.  He wanted to control the news and narrative about diseases.  You can’t suppress a new disease if independent laboratories and schools are discovering it and testing for it.”

                “Speaking of letting your image get in the way of your citizen’s health.”

                “Yea, Obama was very socialistic.  The funny thing is after all the talk about how travel bans are racist, you didn’t hear much of that with President Trump’s travel ban this time.  Now, if you’re travelling from South Korea, Italy and China, you are tested multiple times before you go on a plane.  I think this has helped keep it relatively rare in America.”

                “I think there’s no question that’s true.  Even his inspectors into nursing homes that usually look for abuse of care to the patients, Trump has changed the priority to treat and test for Coronavirus first and foremost.”

                “I thought you said it was overhyped.”

                “It is, but the elderly are more exposed than anyone so the nursing home thing is a good idea.  The thing is, I think that’s all we really need.  I guess the research too so we can get good tests.”

                “You’re against the 8.3 Billion dollars then.”

                “Absolutely, it just shows that the government loves throwing money away.”

                Larry picks up the check and dinner is over.  They hug good bye and then head their separate ways.  A few days later, Lyubov calls Larry who answers.  She asks, “Are you still in LA?”

                “Surprisingly yes”

                “Do you want to meet up?”

                “Of course, dinner again?”

                “Yea,” and she gave him the name of the restaurant. 

When the time came, Larry showed up and Lyubov arrived ten minutes later.  They greeted each other with a cheek to cheek kiss and sat down.  Lyubov goes into her purse and pulls out some documents and hands them to Larry.  As he takes them, he frowns thinking that this was a set up and he’s about to get bad news like being served a subpoena.  Instead, it’s medical records confirming that Lyubov is free of any STD’s and that she had an IUD inserted.  He looks up intrigued, “Is there something you want?”

“Tickets to next year’s Super Bowl.  We met in Greece and the Super Bowl is in Tampa, which is right by Tarpon Springs which is basically the Greek capital of America.”

                “That is true”

                “I know that they needed it but I’ve helped women get what they want from you and I think it’s my turn.  After all, when we dated you weren’t a billionaire and I wasn’t ready for sex.  Now, we can make up for both those issues.”

                “I agree.”

                “Good, now that that’s out of the way, are you upset that Biden retook the lead so it’ll be harder for your boy Trump to win?”

                “I’m not worried about Joe Biden.  The dude is already crying that he wants a Secret Service Detail because two people got on stage to protest his support of dairy farms.”

“Well, clearly his security wasn’t doing a good job considering they were able to get on stage.”

                “So call in the big guns?”

                “Yea, why not?”

                 “It’s worth a shot I guess.”

                “Why aren’t you worried about Biden?”

                “He’s a weak candidate.  If President Trump can’t beat him, he probably doesn’t deserve to win.  Let’s just forget all the scandals he’s involved in with Ukraine, but he’s losing it.”

                “That’s a low blow.  You can’t make fun of someone for his age.  He’s only a couple years older than Trump.”

                “Yes, but Trump doesn’t forget people’s names and mess up what state he’s in all the time.  Trump is very lucid but Biden is not.  Why can’t you question his senility?  This man is opting to become the most powerful man in the world; you best believe that a question of his mental status is highly relevant and fair.  If you can ask any question you want to a high school athlete to see if you want to give him a scholarship, you sure as hell can ask a presidential candidate about his mental fitness.”

                “Biden is lucid.  I don’t know if you remember the 2012 Vice President debate.”

                “Yes I do. He kicked Paul Ryan’s ass.  Paul Ryan spent half the debate drinking water presumably to figure out what he was going to say next to rebut him.  It was a great performance that probably helped Obama win because Romney was beating Obama in their debates.  I don’t think that’s the reason because I think Sandy contributed more than anything because right before the election, people saw Obama building sand bags on a beach in New Jersey while Romney was campaigning still.”

                “Right, so how can you not call him lucid?”

                “This isn’t the same guy as the 2012 Biden that debated Paul Ryan.  When I say he’s ‘losing it’ that implies he once had it.  I admit that he did but he doesn’t anymore.”

                “What if he’s doing what Trump did in 2016?  In order to mask one gaffe or inappropriate thing, he commits multiple ones so people get accustomed, therefore immune, to it and nobody cares on Election Day because it’s just him being him.”

                “That’s a fair point but there’s no buzz around Biden.  Bernie stirred things up and there was a buzz among his supporters.  There’s nobody too excited about Joe Biden.”

                “I hear people on the media and elsewhere defend Biden all the time.”

                “But they don’t talk about what he is or what he stands for; all they do is tell you what he isn’t”

                “Trump supporters do that.”

                “Only to justify his brashness and brutal honesty.  We explain to people the fight we’re in so we need a fighter like President Trump who may be rough around the edges, but he won’t back down when the libelous, treasonous, scandalous, treacherous liberals attack.   You don’t hear them say that ‘he’s not Obama’ you hear that Obama spied on him and used the justice department as his personal revenge service.  President Trump is ending the deep state.”

                “So, you don’t think Biden has a chance to win?”

                “Of course he has a chance.  Who know what will happen from now till Election Day.  The market already tanked. If it does that closer to November, then President Trump is in trouble but Biden is the ultimate deep state influence peddler.  He’s probably the biggest in modern politics.  Hatred for influence peddling is bipartisan.”

                “Yea, nobody likes when people get a job or a promotion they didn’t earn.  They got it by someone they know or sleeping with the supervisor or something.”

                The check comes and Larry pays it and inquires, “You ready?”

                “Lead the way”

                They drive back to Larry’s hotel and he enters first and turns around to find that Lyubov has stopped at the door.  At first, he thinks she’s backing out but the expression on her face lets him know that she’s still in; almost excited. 

                Lyubov scurries into the sex room and kissed Larry backing him toward the bed.  She shoves him onto his back and mounts him.  She rotates her hips against his groin to erect his penis.  After he was fully erect, she rotated her body so her legs were bent resting on Larry’s left side. She sat down onto his penis letting him penetrate from behind and then leaned back putting her arms back for support as her body sat perpendicular to Larry’s laid body.  Larry used one hand to caress her legs while the other fondled her breasts while Lyubov grinded her hips using her arms to lower and raise her pelvis up and down on Larry’s member.  Larry switched his hands that were on Lyubov’s breasts and scooped them under Lyubov’s knees.  He interlocked his arms under her hamstrings and lifted her upper body off his rotating himself so he was kneeling in front of her.  Larry draped Lyubov’s legs over his left shoulder and jammed his member way back behind Lyubov’s vaginal walls.  He kept his left hand on Lyubov’s leg while his right stroked Lyubov’s cheek and grabbed the back of his head as he leaned in driving Lyubov’s legs back.  He made out with her as he drove his penis deeper and deeper into her.  Lyubov moaned loudly between kisses.  Larry pulled up and Lyubov opened her eyes to see how Larry was looking at her and it bothered her.   She seemed to see that Larry was letting old feelings creep up.  As if Larry was sensing the same thing, he removed his right hand from behind her head and grabbed Lyubov’s legs twisting them turning her onto her stomach.  He wrapped his legs around both legs and interlocked his ankles holding her in place.  He reached and clasped the salt shaker and leaned over licking Lyubov’s left butt cheek.  He sprinkled salt over the moistened area and then bent down circling his tongue along her butt scooping the salt up.  He poured tequila into a shot glass and placed it in Lyubov’s anus only to grab it with his mouth and empty it.  He refilled the glass and placed it in Lyubov’s rectum again and gave equal treatment to her left butt cheek.  He kneeled up freeing Lyubov’s legs and lunged his penis into her from behind reaching around to play with her breasts as he humped her.  When Lyubov came, Larry slowly withdrew and Lyubov wrapped her leg around his midsection and shoved him onto his back.  She rotated her body to mount him and aggressively rode him.  As she did she said, “Don’t get attached” still wary about what she saw before.

            Larry reached around and grabbed Lyubov’s ass and pulled her into him as she continued to ride him harder and faster.  Now it was Larry’s turn to climax to slow down Lyubov.  She immediately dismounted him and got dressed.

                After getting dressed, she lies back in bed.  She utters, “I don’t like Biden either.”

                “Why did you defend him?”

                “I didn’t, I was taunting you that the weaker candidate was out.”

                “I’m not so sure about Bernie being the weaker candidate but whatever.  President Trump seems to be excited as he has already said he’s going to bring up Ukrainian collusion a lot since the other Democrats and media won’t.  He’s curious if he has an answer.”

                “Well, this topic is very close to me as it is my home country.  I’ve followed it very closely and even read Ukrainian newspapers about it.”

                “Care to share?”

                “Yea, I’m glad that Senator Johnson has subpoenaed Blue Star Strategies for documents.”

                “What do you think they’ll say?”

                “That they dropped Hunter Biden’s name to convince the United States government to drop sanctions or investigations into Burisma.  Burisma hired Blue Star to clear their name and they used Hunter Biden’s name to get their foot in the door to get a meeting with top US officials.”

                “The Burisma investigation was like five years ago; why is it just coming out now?  Why don’t we have these documents?”

                “A man at the Ukrainian embassy named Andrii Telizhenko refused to hand them over without a subpoena.”

                “I’m actually okay with that.  It does seem suspicious that he has something to hide.  I just wish, it didn’t take this long to get that subpoena but whatever everything about the deep state and the despicable things the Democrats did moves at a glacial pace when it comes to justice.”

                “Well, Telizhenko will be huge in that justice you’re talking about because he worked for Blue Star Strategies so he knows everything.”

                “If he stood up to the President’s pressure, then why does the media attack him so hard?”

                “He knows too much and they want to suppress and discredit him before he comes out with anything publicly.  Like you said, his gaffes may get him in trouble so the fewer distractions, the better.”

                “The only thing I know about Telizhenko is that he helped Alexandra Chalupa take down Manafort when he worked in the embassy.”

                “Then the only thing you know is false because he advised the embassy to not give Chalupa anything without a warrant or subpoena.”

                “At least he was consistent.”

                “That he was.”

                “That’s probably why everyone attacks him.  Nobody likes someone who always tells the truth.”

                “Everyone that has attacked him has never disputed any of the facts.  Sure, they use words like ‘conspiracy theory’ and ‘pouncing’ or ‘crazy’ but they say what is.”

                “Typical liberal playbook.”

                “Yea, I’m beginning to notice that.  So, Telizhenko told Yahoo news that Chalupa told him she was working at the DNC and needed his help to get dirt on Trump and Manafort.  She took him to a fancy upscale restaurant in Georgetown.”

                “We could’ve gone there.”

                “No, here is fine.  I didn’t want to go there.  I’m just commenting that it is fancy.”

                “Fair enough.  You know Chalupa denies that story.”

                “Of course she does.  Nobody admits to doing something that could potentially be criminal.”

                “It was corroborated with anonymous sources.”

                “There you go; Yahoo made it up.  That’s always what ‘anonymous sources’ means.  This crap about them being afraid for their lives and shit is retarded.  You are deified for attacking Donald Trump.”

                “And persecuted if you don’t”

                “Chalupa can’t even keep her story straight.  In her statement, she denies knowing him and then admits they were introduced for help on a story she was working on.  That means they know each other.  Furthermore, this ‘story’ she was working on was probably the dirt on Manafort and Trump, which is exactly what Telizhenko suggested.”

                “Come to think of it, the Yahoo article is filled with common misconceptions.  It uses the terms ‘conspiracy theory’ and ‘Giuliani’s man.’  These terms are used to discredit someone without discrediting any of the information; you just want to undermine him personally.”

                “I really hope he doesn’t get away with what he did in Ukraine.”

                “I don’t know how he is.  He’s on tape bragging about threatening the Ukrainian president that if he doesn’t fire their prosecutor looking into his son and Burisma, then they’re not getting the billion dollars in aid.”

                “You would think that would be enough.”

                “Instead, the media just spun it that he was talking about corruption.  That is a pretty easy sell in Ukraine.  Now, it’s just his word against the prosecutor general Shokin’s word.”

                “Not exactly”

                “What do you mean?”

                “There’s a memo from Latvian intelligence urging the Ukrainians to open an investigation into Hunter Biden.  They brought this up because their system flagged payments to Hunter from Burisma that was laundered through Belize and Ukraine in the amount of 16.6 Million dollars.  This all happened a couple weeks before Joe Biden’s infamous threat of withholding aid unless they fire the prosecutor.”

                “Was that Privatbank?”

                “Very good, you know your corrupt international banks.”

                Larry laughed, “Yea, I guess I do.  Biden made his threat at the end of February 2016.  When was this memo?”

                “Mid-February 2016 so it was right before Biden coerced resident Porochenko to fire Shokin.”

                “Just to play Devil’s Advocate, what if Ukraine just ignored Latvia?  I don’t know how close they are of allies.”

                “Very close but there are documents that Shokin planned to interview Hunter Biden in March 2016.  That interview never happened because he was fired before he could.”

                “Shokin has been very adamant he was dismissed because he wouldn’t drop the Burisma investigation.”

                “If it wasn’t on the up and up, he wouldn’t care people knew this.”

                “I agree.  Hunter Biden, though, just can’t get out of his dad’s way.”

                “Well, he didn’t know his dad would be running for president to unseat a Republican in five years.  Everyone knew that once Obama’s time was over, it was time for Hillary.”

                “I don’t mean about Burisma and China and all the other influence peddling Joe Biden did for his family when he was Vice President.”

                “Then what are you talking about?”

                “Hunter Biden just applied for a job at UCLA law school to teach a course on drug policy.  During his pitch, he name dropped like a mother fucker about what speakers he can bring in.  They were all people he knew through Joe.  He’s pulling this shit now that his dad is running for president and Republicans can’t wait to use Hunter’s high level appointments and enormous wealth he received because his last name is Biden.  He even admitted in an interview that Burisma or China never would have looked at him if his last name wasn’t Biden.”

                “Name dropping isn’t illegal though.”

                “It’s not but everyone hates it.  People like fairness.  They know life isn’t fair but they still don’t like when unqualified people are rewarded.  I hated when I worked for Bloomberg and hot chics got promoted over me because they fucked the supervisors on their first day there.  People don’t like when the owner’s kids work at the company and start at the top.  Just because it’s not illegal, doesn’t mean that it’s not bad politically.”

                “You’re right.”

                Lyubov turned her back and announced, “I’m tired, I’m going to sleep.”

                Larry turned his back to her and closed his eyes.  Lyubov turned back, grabbed Larry’s arm and pulled it over her midsection as she turned his back once again and rested his hand on his stomach.  Larry slid his other arm under her neck as an extension of the pillow and felt Lyubov’s body relax.  They both closed their eyes and went to sleep. 

                The next day, they had breakfast together before Lyubov went home.  When the time came, Larry and Lyubov flew to Tampa and met up to watch the Super Bowl together.