Welcome to Home of the Brave. I slept next to the river and woke up in the morning not knowing where I was.

I sat up and looked at the river going by smooth and silent. On the other side a

grassland prairie reaching the hills with pine trees on the ridge lines. It had to be the Great Plains. I was in America.

The river was the Yellowstone. I checked my cell phone. September 11th, 2020. 19 years ago people were jumping from the

buildings. 19 years ago we went to war and then another war and another war. I stood up and looked around. I was

alone so I was safe. But I needed coffee 7-Eleven, not 9-11, coffee.

On the way out of the campground, I saw two older guys,

gray hair, who were also camping out. They had a boat, a skiff with a small jet engine, and they had a fire and were holding cups with steam rising, so I stopped to make some friends.

Richard Smith and Carl Gunn from Billings.

Richard did most of the talking.

Are you going to vote for Trump?

Who are you going to vote for? If I'm feeling really demonic and would like to see

the fall of so-called democracy I would vote for Trump. But Trump is definitely an

Adolf Hitler.

I mean, you can see the parallels.

If you knew anything about pre-Nazi Germany,

early Nazi Germany, he could be Hitler reincarnated. I don't believe in that stuff

really. Logically it doesn't fit by brain but...

Reincarnation. I, you know, I give it a little, I entertain the notion and the timing would be right.

You know, it goes in the provisional file. I'll give it some thought.

I always think of Mussolini.

Yeah. Yeah.

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