Jack of Harts

I make it a habit to text my family and friends on most of the major holidays. Christmas. New Years. Easter. Fourth of July. Thanksgiving. The big celebrations. I’ve got numbers going back twenty five years in some cases, back to when I had my first phone and some even before that. And in an example of how no matter how hard we try to keep things the same, entropy finds a way. Chaos wins in the end. Once a holiday I get silence or the other response I’m dreading from one of the messages. Who is this? It hits like a hammer every time. I don’t talk to family and friends every day. Sometimes our last exchange of holiday greetings is the last thing we’ve said to each other. And sometimes the person on the other side of the number asks Who is this? Usually its a friend who just changed numbers and left their old contacts behind. I don’t think they’re dead, but the new person who has their number doesn’t know who I am. This holiday it was a family member. There’s been a death in the family in the last few months, there are multiple phones in that branch, but this was the time that one of them came back Who is this? They just activated their new number two weeks ago. It doesn’t go to family anymore. Because the slow entropy of time always wins. All the contacts we have will eventually fade away. And the next time we reach out, only silence will come back, or maybe that dreaded Who is this?

On this week’s episode of Trump – The Presidency, Season Two…Donald Trump proves that he is the only man that could coerce CNN to go on the air to tell its viewers that it doesn’t hate America. Fact checkers, the American people, laugh at their alleged admission.

To prove that they are in touch with the common man, the Democrats rally behind a MS13 gang member, who came into the country illegally, who also repeated beat his wife. They demand he be brought back so that he can be deported properly, proving they are the true masters at wasting money and time. The President of El Salvador passed on their ridiculous demand.

Harvard decides to roll the dice against Trump because they mistakenly believe the President is due for a loss. What they accomplished was making regular Americans aware that we were wasting nine billion dollars annually with Harvard! Smooth move Harvard…let’s so how that plays out for you.

Meanwhile the political party that can’t define a woman continues to put themselves out as experts in international trade agreements.

As if to validate their ignorance, the Italian Prime Minster comes to the oval office with a promise to “Make the West Great Again.”

Will we ever see the Epstein files or the inside of Fort Knox? To find out, tune in next week, same MAGA time, same MAGA channel.

– Blaine Lee Pardoe

Raconteur Press is coming out with another new anthology this weekend. Another fantasy one about magical malfunctions. And if you haven’t checked it out yet, you might want to see what kind of crazy can come out of a good drink. Maybe you find a pathway to another world. Or maybe you get a glimpse of the future. What would you do if you could see things no one else can? And are real? Or could be made real? Check out From the Brim to the Dregs if you want so see what could be. Or maybe what is and we just don’t know it when Our Cup Runneth Over.