CSI: American Carnage (Monday, November 5, 2018)
Washington. The Post guy walks into the Off the Record bar and sees his pal. He walks over and sits down, orders a Brewdog, and says, I didn’t expect to find you here. The Times guy says, I bailed on Chattanooga. I’ve been at every rally for the last week. They took pity on me. The Post guy says, Interesting piece on the women. The Times guy says, Yeah, they’re gonna go for him. A couple said they were so sad that they let themselves be talked out of voting for Donald back in ’16. Not this time, though. One of them says she regrets it — he’s like a father for this country. A father! Can you believe it? The Post guy takes a long pull on his Brewdog. He says, If that’s the case, I’d wager most women wish they were orphans. The Times guy says, True. But there is a large chunk of women who love him. The Post guy says, Don’t they care that he lies? Don’t they care that they’re being played. The Times guy says, They don’t seem to think it’s a con. They are scared. Why are they scared? That I don’t know. It’s like the bogeyman syndrome. You know he doesn’t exist but people are still scared of Freddy Kreuger. My theory is that this is all a show, right, with Donald as the ringmaster or the emcee. We know we’re at a show, we know it’s all being orchestrated, but we still show up and take our seats. And when he tells you that the bogeyman is coming and he’s going to rape and pillage and take your job and take over your lake house, you believe him. It’s like all these people have a latent fear of having their identities stolen by Mexican rapists or black thugs. That’s their American DNA. There is an innate fear of the foreign and the black. All these pols and pundits say, We’re better than that; that’s not who we are. Guess what. The Post guy says, What? The Times guy says, That is who we are and we are not better than that. The Post guy finishes his beer in one long pull and orders another. He says, It’s a sexual thing, a gender thing. The Times guy says, What do you mean. The Post guy says, Well the guys think TrumpTalk is macho talk, they get their bravado from it. Trump says whatever he wants, they can too. Trump does whatever he wants, they can too. Trump grabs em by the pussy, they can too. And the women, they’ve got some weird thing going on. In your piece there’s the woman who says she has an infatuation and a love for this man, she says, and that’s not normal. That’s a woman who expects aggression and is okay with it. The Times guy says, Yeah, but she goes on to say she gives the highest respect when people are telling the truth and giving their political power. If anything, she says, I have a deeper respect now. It’s like the more he lies, the more of a sexual glow he takes on. Then you throw in the stereotype of the blustering guy who’s going to keep you safe and warm by bashing all those strangers, and, well, there was a woman in the piece who says Donald wants to protect this country, and he wants to keep it safe, and he wants to keep it free of invaders and the caravan and everything else that’s going on. The Post guy says, But that’s all made up shit, dude, made up. The Times guy says, Yeah, yeah, but it’s Donald and he can grab em wherever he wants because he’s a star and the emcee and maybe Freddy Kreuger all rolled into one.
–Monday, Nov. 5, 2018