“Hey there. I haven’t seen you since 2016.”
“I know for a fact we are over a thousand feet from that elementary school.”
“What?!? No, no, I did a mold assessment on your house back in 2016. Remember?”
“Uhhh, yeah, I guess so … it’s weird that you would remember me. We met once over seven years ago.”
“I know, right… Anyway, we talked about the election. You were big on Trump.”
“Best four years in the history of America.”
“Well, neo-Nazis rallied all over the country, my mother died of COVID, and I was attacked twice in Trader Joe’s, first by a woman complaining to the manager and second by a woman complaining about a manager wearing an N95.”
“Yeah, good times. And soon to be back again.”
“I remember, when we were talking in 2016, I was worried about his temperament. How I wouldn’t trust him with a nuclear weapon, he is too erratic, and you said, you weren’t worried because there would be controls and experienced advisors in place to guide him.”
“Sure.”
“Well, he’s running now, and he’s got a plan to remove all government employees who are not loyal to him.”
“Yep. Bye bye Deep State.”
“But those were the controls you mentioned before. Those were the people who stopped him from using nuclear weapons against Mexico. Against Europe. Against a hurricane. Doesn’t that concern you?”
“He’s got the experience, and he didn’t destroy the world in his first term. What more proof do you want?”
“He’s arguing in court that a president can assassinate his rivals without consequence. And his campaign theme is revenge and retribution.”
“Look, we could keep going back and forth on this, but I’m gonna support Trump no matter what. I said that thing in 2016 about advisors because it sounded good. And we had used it to great success for W.”
“But George W. Bush’s term ended with the economy going off a cliff and on the losing side of two wars.”
“Yeah. But he wasn’t Trump.”
