Posted on 10/21/2018 12:39:07 PM PDT by super7man
The old man walked slowly through the dry, fallen leaves of autumn, his practiced eye automatically choosing the bare and stony places in the trail for his feet. There was scarcely a sound as he passed, though his left knee was stiff with scar tissue. He grunted occasionally as the tight sinews pulled. Damn chainsaw, he thought.
Behind him, the boy shuffled along, trying to imitate his grandfather, but unable to mimic the silent motion that the old man had learned during countless winter days upon this wooded mountain in pursuit of game. He's fifteen years old, the old man thought. Plenty old enough to be learning. But that was another time, another America. His mind drifted, and he saw himself, a fifteen-year-old boy following in the footsteps of his own grandfather, clutching a twelve gauge in his trembling hands as they tracked a wounded whitetail.
Almost didn’t read it.
What a horror story.
Without Trump, that was the course we were on.
So am I understanding correctly that he is turning in Gramps?
Yes, that is the horror.
The whole scenario is a horror, that just doubles down on the horror.
Yep. Loving this turnaround. Trump team is amazing!
Lots of time between ‘tonight’ and ‘tomorrow morning’. If Grandpa has one tunnel, it’s a fair bet he has at least one more for snitches.
Yep. They knew sooner or later Gramps would turn over the responsibility to the Grandson. But he was already corrupted by the system.
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