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 38 Into Deep Water

                Larry was visiting the city he grew up in, Cleveland Ohio.  While he was there, he met up with his high school girlfriend who was a nurse at the Cleveland Clinic.  Larry would never bring this up to her but he vividly remembered when Tatiana was contemplating what to pursue in college, she was between being a teacher or nurse.  Larry recommended nurse because of one incident when he was about to make a turn but couldn’t see if there was oncoming cars because of parked cars on the side.  His solution to this was to gun the car around the turn.  As he did, he slammed the break as a car came speeding towards him.  The car passed, in what Larry perceived, as inches from his car.  The experience shook him up so much that he froze.  In the corner of his eye, he could see Tatiana turn to him to scold him but after seeing how shaken up he was, she instead put her hands on his back and soothingly said, “It’s okay Larry, we’re alright”

                What happened next, Larry describes as one of the only times in his life he felt he didn’t have control over his body.  He could feel knots in his shoulder and back unwind as they dropped about two inches.  A calm consumed his body and he made the turn composed.  Reminiscent of Daniel Larusso in Karate Kid when Mr. Miagi cured his shoulder, Larry interrogated Tatiana as to how she did that.  He then told her she should be a nurse because she has a very soothing and medicinal touch.  They are now meeting up to watch the Ukraine hearings as Tatiana is Ukrainian.  As the hearing concludes, Devin Nunes declares, “For those of you at home, it’s time to change the channel, turn down the volume and hide the kids; put them to bed.  I yield my time to Mr. Schiff for story time hour.”

                Larry bursts out laughing and actually keels over.  Tatiana chuckles and asks, “Are you going to be able to pull through?”

                After a while, Larry stops laughing and Tatiana poses, “Isn’t it sad that something as serious as an impeachment hearing is relegated to a comedy routine?”

                “Did you listen to the witnesses this week?  It was a comedy routine.  If there was anything serious or to the phone call, then maybe the Republicans would take it seriously but it was clearly a waste of America’s time and tax money.”

                “Well, Sondland did admit that it was a quid pro quo.”

                “Actually, he said he presumed it was.  He later admitted that aid was not tied to investigating Biden and there was no quid pro quo and when he called Trump. Trump said he wanted nothing, he just wanted Ukrainian President Zelensky to do the right thing and do what he ran on.”

                “Yea, then he admitted that Zelensky ran on fighting corruption so the presumption should have been that Trump wanted Zelensky to fight corruption.”

                “Well, you’re Ukrainian. Do you have any specific insight in this?”

                “Nope, but I do like that the president isn’t pro-Russia.”

                “Well, yea you’re western Ukrainian so you hate Russians.”

                “You don’t have to be Ukrainian to see it for what it was.  Our congressman Mike Turner really put the nail in the coffin.”

                “Well, we did record it. Let’s rewind that.”

                Tatiana rolled her eyes but let him do it.  There was Mike Turner asking about a link between security link and opening investigations that Sondland mentioned in the opening statement.  Turner inquires, “Noone on this planet told you that President Donald Trump was tying aid to these investigations.  Is that correct?”

                Sondland responds, “Yes”

Turner: “So you really have no testimony today that ties President Trump to a scheme to withhold aid from Ukraine In exchange for these investigations?”

                 “Other than my own presumption”

                “Which is nothing….Made up testimony is when I presume it.”

                Tatiana turns off the TV and transitions, “Do you still overpay for regular women to fuck you?”

                “I do”

                “Well, I may have someone for you.”

                “Oh yea?”

                “Yea, she’s a resident.  Cute as a button.  About 5’4”, long black hair.  She’s Greek like you and she’s got big breasts and a nice round butt.  She’s got a little bit of a gut so it’s not the ridiculously unproportioned hourglass shape that a lot of you Greeks have.”

                “How old?”

                “Mid to late 20s, I never really asked.”

                “Is she cool?”

                “Yea, and all our doctors are forced to get STD testing so I can vouch that she’s clean.”

                “What does she want?”

                “You’ll see.  I want you to be surprised.  I’ll set it up.”

                “Alright then.”

                A couple days later, Tatiana invites Larry to her house.  As he comes over, he sees the girl and Larry introduces himself, “Hi I’m Larry.”

                “I’m Despina” she says with the kind of smile that’s full of perfectly straight pearly white teeth and melts men. 

                “Nice to meet you.”

                “Likewise, we were just talking about the impeachment hearings.”

                “That debacle?”

                “Yea, I can’t really figure out why Sondland completely contradicted himself.”

                “Well he tried to play both sides of the story.”

                “Well, Sondland owns a bunch of hotels and is relatively wealthy.  Liberals have been threatening his family and picketing his hotels for saying that Trump didn’t have a quid pro quo in the closed hearings.”

                “How did they even know about that?”

                “Schiff leaked it and then the Republicans leaked the counter.  He just wanted to appease the mob but not commit perjury.”

                “Yea, Representative Tucker exposed CNN for their false headline.”

                “The funny thing is CNN wasn’t even the worst of it.”

                “What do you mean?”

                “The AP printed that Trump contradicted Sondland’s testimony when he said that Sondland testified that during their phone call, President Trump told Sondland that he wanted nothing.  It was actually CNN that tweeted back to them that what they said was false in that Sondland did testify to that.  You know it’s bad when you attack the President and CNN calls you out for lying.”

                “Or maybe they’re just not fake news like the President says.”

                “Oh, no they are.  Telling the truth once doesn’t make you honest.”

                “Well, I can see where your bias lies.”

                “Yup; the facts”

                “Anyway!” interrupted Tatiana, “We were going to watch Tanked”

                “Do you like that show?” Despina asked Larry

                “Actually I do.”

                As they sit and watch the show, during a commercial, Despina announces, “I do think it was ridiculous by the Republicans to try to out the whistleblower.  I mean his anonymity is protected by law.”

                “Actually it’s not.  Despite what that sleazy liar Schiff claims, the whistleblower has no statutory right to privacy and anonymity.  The only protection is from being fired, punished, denied a promotion in any way due to his actions.”

                “Really?”

                “Yea, the only protection is from the ICIG”

                “Who’s that?”

                “The Intelligence Community Inspector General, basically the guy you should blow the whistle to.  Anyone else, including the president, is fair game.”

                “It would be interesting how non-biased people saw it.”

                “Obviously, I’m biased but aren’t you non-biased?”

                “Yea, and I wasn’t too impressed.”

                “Well, here are some polls to tell you you’re not in the minority.  53% of Wisconsin voters oppose impeachment now.  Two weeks ago, the MU poll had support for impeachment at 44%; now it’s down to 40%.”

                “I’ve never heard of the MU poll and who cares about Wisconsin?”

                “Well, it’s a swing state but fine let’s go to Morning Consult.  They found that among independents, support for impeachment dropped 10 points in the last two weeks and is now at 40%.”

                “Well, I can see that but they were really trying to damage Trump for the 2020 election.”

                “According to Gallup, they failed in that endeavor too as President Trump’s approval ratings have ticked up since Schiff began impeachment hearings.”

                “There really is no silver lining for the Democrats then is there?”

                “Nope”

                “Alright”

                They finished watching the show and Tatiana realizes that they want to talk about the hearings.  Despina pronounces, “I thought of something else.  Did anyone ask about the validity of what Trump thinks about the allegations of Ukrainian corruption?”

                Tatiana uttered, “Yea, I can speak to this”

                “I’m all ears”

                “So, I looked at Ukrainian newspapers and Ukraine has widened their probe against the Burisma founder.”

                “To what?”

                “Apparently he embezzled money from state funds.”

                Larry chimed in, “Like, a lot of money?”

                “The equivalent of $ 33 million that belonged to Ukraine’s central bank.”

                “What about Hunter Biden?”

                “Apparently Zlochevsky, Burisma’s CEO, laundered 16 million dollars to Hunter Biden that they’re looking into.”

                “Yea, now that there are no Democrats to tell Ukraine who to prosecute and who not to, they are free to look into all this.”

                Despina fired back, “Holmes testified that there was no do-not-prosecute list.”

                Tatiana responded, “Yea but he lied.  The former ambassador Yovanovich & George Kent admitted it in their testimony.  Kent acknowledged that he signed a letter pressuring Ukrainians not to look into AnTAC”

                Larry remarked, “Which is a George Soros group and we all know how much money he gives to the Democrats.”

                “The big thing is that they pressured them not to look into Yuriy Luschenko, who was Nellie Ohr’s source”

                “Nellie Ohr works for Fusion GPS, which drafted the dossier that started the Russian collusion hoax.” Larry offered

                Confused, Despina retorted, “I thought Holmes said Lutsenko retracted the story that he was pressured.”

                Larry fired back, “Another lie.”

                Despina looked back at Tatiana who nodded and piled on, “Even the New York Times admitted that.”

                “And while all this was going on, President Trump flipped the 11^th circuit court, which covers Florida.  It is now Republican.”

                Despina replied, “Yea, I haven’t really been following that but he does have a Republican majority Senate so might as well make use of it.  What about Fiona Hill?”

                “Ehh, saying that the Ukrainians meddling in the 2016 election was a fictional narrative is ridiculous.  Politico even wrote an article entitled “Efforts by Ukraine to sabotage Trump backfires.”

                Tatiana exclaims, “Anyway, let’s go back to less serious topics.  What did you think of ‘Tanked’ Larry?”

                Larry shrugs his shoulders, “I’ve seen it before.  I like the show.  They got cool fish tanks.”

                Despina smiled and cried out, “I love that show.  It would be so cool to have one.  I mean, normal fish tanks are boring but if I could get a personal one with exotic fish, it would be amazing.”

                With that statement, Larry figured out why he was invited and what she was getting at.  He grinned and expressed, “What would you be willing to do for one?”

                Despina’s eyes got wide and she clammed up.  She timidly mumbled, “I don’t know, I mean, even If I become a doctor, I’ll never be able to afford one of those.  They’re ridiculously expensive. That’s why all the people on there are celebrities with oodles of money.”

                “Yea, but you’re pretty enough to get some billionaire to buy one for you.”

                “I didn’t study my ass off and go through medical school and currently am killing myself in residency just to marry a man and be taken care of.”

                “Who said anything about marry?  Just for one night.”

                “It would be nice to come home from these 30 hour shifts to some cool fish.”

                “There you go.  You don’t want to wait.  While you’re still in residency, you could get someone to do it and then you got a cool fish tank.”

                “Well, if I got the offer, then maybe I’d think about it” Despina declared with a sly smile and a look to say it was a ridiculous scenario

                “I’m not really talking hypothetically, I’m making you that offer.”

                Despina’s eyes widened and she turned to Tatiana who gave her a guilty look and shrugged her shoulders as if to apologetically confess that’s why she invited them there.”

                “When do I have to decide?”

                “As long as you want.  I don’t want to pressure you.  Either you’re willing to do it or you’re not.”

                “Can we discuss this over dinner?”

                “Yea, absolutely”

                “Let me sleep on it.”

                “So, we’ll meet tomorrow for dinner?”

                “Yea, sure.”

                Larry uses that as his cue to leave and he does.  He knows that Despina is going to ask Tatiana a lot of questions about him and whatever Tatiana says is going to influence Despina’s decision. 

                As Tatiana was very complementary, Despina decides she’ll have dinner with him.  The next day, Larry calls her and they agree to dinner.  As they sit down, Despina expresses, “I don’t want to talk about the proposal.  I got more questions about Ukraine.”

                “Alright”

                “You said that they meddled.  How so?”

                “A bunch of ways.  The Ukrainian ministers openly attacked Trump and called him a clown because he said he would contemplate recognizing Crimea as Russians since the people live there believe themselves to be Russian.”

                “Is that true?”

                “Yes, but that doesn’t make it right.  History has proven that the ministers were wrong.  Unlike Obama, President Trump gave military aid to Ukraine.  He still hasn’t recognized Crimea as Russia and he put more sanctions on Russia so he’s not as pro-Russia as the Ukraine ministers thought he was.”
                “They’re just giving their opinion.”

                “Well, the Russian meddling was based on Facebook posts so op-ed pieces should qualify.  Even if you don’t believe that though, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, Valeriy Chaly, made a statement that President’s Trump position on Crimea was troubling to Ukraine and Kiev doesn’t want it.”

                “Again, just someone posting his opinion in a paper.”

                “A Ukraine Parliamentarian named Leschenko gave the black ledger to DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa.  The black ledger was a hoax document used to take down Manafort, who was President Trump’s campaign manager.  That was a direct attack from Ukraine government officials against President Trump since they thought he was Pro-Russian.”

                “Is that the guy Tatiana was saying was the source for Nellie Ohr and Fusion GPS?”

                “Yes”

                “Now, you’re making a good point about Ukraine meddling.”

                “Just to pile on, Ukraine’s president at the time Porochenko had a meeting set up with Alexandra Chalupa to discuss how to take down Manafort by linking him to the pro-Russian candidate he just beat named Yanukovych.” 

                “I think you just convinced me.  There’s a lot of people in Ukraine’s government, including the president, attacking the campaign manager for Trump.”

                “Yup”

                “Alright, let’s talk about other things.”

                They change topics and have a nice dinner.  At the end, Despina asserted, “About your offer.  I’ll do it.”

                “Alright, let’s go back to my hotel.”

                “Yea, okay”

                Larry stops by at a liquor store and gets a small bottle of tequila, salt and lemon slices.  They go back to Larry’s hotel and Larry takes off his clothes and Despina does the same.  - Despina wrapped her arms around Larry’s neck kissing him on the mouth.  They made out as they meandered over to the bed.  Despina lied down on her back and Larry placed a condom over his erect penis.  Despina had her legs straight up in front of Larry and Larry threw his upper body against them pushing them back towards Despina’s head as he lunged himself behind her vaginal walls.  He rocked back and forth with Despina’s legs following his progress while his hands reached around her legs and played with her breasts.  Larry then grabbed her by the arm and pulled her to her feet.  He turned her around and bent her over the table with the contents for a tequila shot.  He placed his hands on each of her butt cheek and squeezed hard as he eased himself into her penetrating her birth canal from the rear.  He humped her as he squeezed her butt pushing her hips against the table as he drove himself into her.  Despina said, “Man, you really like my ass.  Maybe your covering something up.” as she smiled at the end.

            Larry smiled and pulled out. He grabbed lubrication from the table and doused the area where Despina’s butt cheeks met with it.  Larry said, “See where your big mouth is going to get you” as he jerked his penis into her buttocks. 

He reached around and fondled her breasts and kissed her neck.  Despina grinded her hips surrendering to Larry.  Larry swept her legs and wrapped them around his waist followed by picking up her upper body.  Despina reached around and grabbed the back of Larry’s neck holding herself upright as Larry used his right hand to fondle her breasts and his right to feel the path from her cervix toward the womb stopping at the G spot.  As he was doing so, he used his thumb to stimulate the clitoris and surrounding area.  Despina climaxed and Larry switched hands.  When Despina let out a guttural scream again, he let her down, pulled out of her anus and slammed himself back into her vagina.  He hoisted her up in the same manner as his hands returned to their original tasks.  This time Despina’s screaming came quicker as he switched hands again.  He twisted his body to face the bed and dropped Despina unceremoniously to the bed face down.  He rolled her over to find her smiling widely.  Larry looked at her lustfully and mounted her undercutting her hamstrings with his arms bringing her knees to his shoulders.  He shoved her legs behind her head and pinned them down as she pummeled his way deep inside her.  Despina moaned with delight and Larry pulled out and, since Despina’s waist was in the air exposing her anus, he drilled her rectum once again with his penis.  Larry caressed her legs with his hands and kissed her lips, breasts and neck.

            After a bit, Larry picked up Despina and she dropped her legs to wrap them around his waist with her arms around his neck kissing him.  Larry carried her to the shower and turned the water on.  He grabbed soap and covered Despina’s body in it.  Despina jumped up and wrapped her limbs around Larry once again as he pinned her against the wall with his hands being squished between her butt and the wall.  His tongue was passionately working its way against Despina’s in her mouth.  His mouth dropped to her breasts and Despina protruded her breasts into his face.  Larry’s face buried in her breasts as semen shot out of his shaft trying to make its way into Despina but was held back by the condom.  As his body tensed up, Despina realized what was happening and was disappointed that it was over. 

                Larry walks to the bed and lies down panting.  Despina’s breath is a little heavy but it wouldn’t be considered panting.  She remarks, “I think you’re against Democrats.  Let me ask what you think about Sanders and that we’re all going to be dead in eight years.”

                “This is like the 214^th time they’ve made this claim in the last 100 years.  All the timelines have been wrong and they keep moving the goalposts.”

                “They got to be right eventually.”

                “Maybe, but if people really believed this then why is waterfront property still really expensive?”

                “Well, it hasn’t happened yet.”

                “You buy property to appreciate over time.  You’re really going to pay millions of dollars for something that’s going to be under water in eight years?”

                “Well, they don’t believe it.”

                “Everything is based on supply and demand.  If a majority of people believed this, as global warmists claim, then nobody would want it.  With the decrease demand, there would be a lower price.”

                “I’m not sure.”

                “How about this?  If there’s going to be a massive draught, how come farmers aren’t selling their farmland?  It’s going to be worthless in eight years, so get out while you can.”

                “Farmers are generally conservative.”

                “San Francisco, probably the most liberal city in the country, sold bonds.  When you sell bonds, you have to disclose all the risks associated with them.  Nowhere in the risks is that the whole city may be under water in eight years so they’re not going to be able to pay them back.

                “You really thought a lot about this.”

                “I think a lot about everything.”

                “Alright fine, no Bernie what about Kamala Harris.”

                “it was just weird when she was bragging about how she’s a fighter because she took on Kavanaugh, Bill Barr and Jeff Session so she can take on Trump.”

                “Yea, Trump is a little bit more of a formidable opponent than those three.”

                “Not just that, but she lost all three battles.  All three of those people got confirmed.  She failed.”

                Despina looks to the side and then up.  “See, that’s why I agreed.  You’re not just some dumbass that throws his money around; you actually are fun to talk to and are smart.”

                “Thank you, I like talking to you too.”

                “I hate to bring this up but…..”

                “What kind of tank do you want?”

                “Well, I’m going to let them decide the fish in one tank but I want a predator tank with Oscars and piranhas and stuff.  The other will just be exotic fish.”

                “Alright”

                Despina lies next to Larry and snuggles with him.  Larry obliges and falls asleep quickly.  The next day, Despina gets dressed and leaves.  She calls professional custom tank makers to appraise what she wants.  She agrees on a design that’s personal to her and gets her fish.  Larry picks up the bill and pays it.  After that, he had no interaction with Despina, which is what she wanted because with the long hours at the hospital she really had no time for anything else.