November 6, 2024:
“Y’wanna know the main reason Trump won yesterday?”
“Sure.”
“It’s ’cause he loves us so much.”
“Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.”
“I’m serious. He loves us but not unthinkingly. He loves us in a tough love kind of way, so we’ll improve ourselves, so we’ll succeed just like him.”
“Tough love. Yeah.”
“And judging from yesterday’s results, the majority of us crave that love.”
“Yeah. Including blacks and Latinos. And the poor.”
“And me, apparently, heh heh.”
“You voted for him?”
“I would have, if I’d bothered voting. I don’t really need too much tough love, though, just enough to make me even more perfect.”
“Riiiight. I would have voted for Kamala, if I’d bothered voting.”
“What a surprise.”
“I thought she would have appreciated at least one vote from a guy.”
“You and Kamala, sittin’ in a tree—”
“A coconut tree.”
“Coocoonuts.”
“Plus I don’t sit in trees. No back support.”
Copyright © 2024 by David V. Matthews
November 6-8, 2024
DAVID V. MATTHEWS 