So I just got home from a pool party on a downtown rooftop. I hung out with some promising young professionals. It was a very chill affair. I then headed home, filled up the tank and tried yet another official Rolex jeweler to put down a marker for the watch of my dreams. I listened critically to my latest podcast on the way home. Ron, the watch guy, took my name and got me the official Rolex catalog for that special timepiece. It has been a very good, relaxing day for me. I’m hopeful.

So I sit down to respond to Ron’s email so we can confirm things and I see this weird email from my brother. ‘Swing and a Miss’. WTF? I don’t open it. Now I check XTwitter and somebody says “This changes everything”. God what simple minded… I go to WSJ, maybe something is up.

Uh Oh.

I watched the video three times. I listen to the pops again. There’s an iconic photograph coming out of this one. Just the other day I read a headline saying that Democrats should loosen up and hope for a Dewey Defeats Truman moment. These, my friends, are desperate times. The way I see it, we’re back to the 70s. This is the moment where America turns more pathetic and reactionary.

I remember the afternoon when President Reagan was shot. In the most embarrassing moment in my life, I blurted aloud “Did they get him?”. You might forgive me for being an idiot 20 year old, but the look of shame in my boss’s face immediately made me realize how wrong I was. It was a shameful day. By the end of it, I was glad he survived. Today I was immediately glad Candidate Trump survived. We all just dodged a bullet.