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Spencer and I: A Halloween Story

Oct 31, 2020 7:00 pm By Robert Spencer 16 Comments

My latest in PJ Media:

The incident occurred at about ten o’clock in the morning on Halloween, October 31, 2020. It was a beautiful day, and I was sitting on a park bench overlooking a river, enjoying the sunshine, when suddenly I had the overwhelming sense that I had been at that very spot before. At that precise moment, a young man with rather overlong hair sat down on the other end of the bench. I had wanted to be alone, and so would have gotten up and moved to another place, but I didn’t want to seem rude. Then, with more puzzlement than horror (at least at first), I noticed that he looked familiar. In fact, he looked just the way I did, thirty-six years ago.

I cleared my throat and stammered, “Pardon me, but…but…what is your name?”

He looked at me with neither interest nor recognition. “Robert Spencer,” he said. I asked him where he lived, and he told me – an apartment I had moved out of in late 1984.

“Don’t you recognize me?” I said, practically shouting. “I, too, am Robert Spencer. I am you and you are me. We are in the year 2020.”

He studied me with wariness and growing amusement. “Today is October 31, 1984. It’s only ten o’clock, old man, and you’re drunk already?”

“Show some respect,” I snapped. “I have not had a drop to drink. Here, I can prove to you it is 2020. I’ll tell you the future. In the election you’ll have next week, President Reagan will be overwhelmingly reelected.”

He wasn’t impressed. “Everyone sees that coming. Look, buddy, if you’re me in the future, tell me who’s the President in – what year did you say? – 2020.”

“Donald Trump.”

He snorted. “Come on, man!”

“No, really. Donald Trump is president. He has restored confidence in America and has been an effective president who has stood up to America’s enemies in a way that his predecessors did not. But many people see him just as a TV personality, and don’t take him seriously as a politician.”

“You’re just describing Ronald Reagan, except Reagan was a movie star before he went on TV,” he said, and looked out at the water.

I kept going. “Trump is in a reelection battle against a very weak candidate. The Democrats are running a man who was the vice president in the previous administration, which many regard as having been one of the most disastrous presidencies in American history.”

“Yeah,” he said, “Walter Mondale was Jimmy Carter’s Vice President. So far you’re still just describing 1984.”

There is much more. Read the rest here.

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Comments

  1. Crusades Were Right says

    Oct 31, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    1984 was a book written in 1948 about life in 2020.

    lol

    Reply
    • b.a. freeman says

      Nov 1, 2020 at 1:50 am

      😀

      i like that, CWR; thanks for the laugh!

      +1

      Reply
      • Crusades Were Right says

        Nov 1, 2020 at 8:13 am

        Gotta grab those chuckles where we can!

        ; ¬)

        Reply
  2. Crusades Were Right says

    Oct 31, 2020 at 7:14 pm

    Hey, leave off with that time travel stuff, Robert! Has “Family Guy” taught us nothing?

    lol

    Reply
    • GOLDMANN says

      Nov 1, 2020 at 1:42 am

      Family guy disgusting program 👎👎🤨🤢. Shows you up what sort of person you are . Crusades? You a papist 👎

      Reply
      • Crusades Were Right says

        Nov 1, 2020 at 8:15 am

        Nice try, “GOLDMANN”…

        …but no cigar! lol

        Reply
  3. Cornelius says

    Oct 31, 2020 at 9:55 pm

    Clever piece Robert. Your sense of humor remains in tact.

    Personally, I can’t stand Trump as a person….I think he’s a buffoon…but I support most of his policies and I surely voted for him. He’s by far the lessor of two evils in this election. I think he’s going to lose….and I’m foreboding at the prospect. My great hope is that it’s close enough that the Republicans can hold on to the Senate and thereby prevent the Dems from shredding the Constitution.

    If Trump can eke out a win, I would be ecstatic….but should he do so folks, be prepared for a plethora of court challenges on the vote.

    You’d think that in an era of the data base, we could have orderly, clean elections…with each registered voter recording one vote. But the Dems don’t want clean elections….which is why they’re opposed to voter ID laws. Even European leftists are mystified at the absence of voter ID laws in certain American states.

    Between the media bias and voter fraud, the deck is really stacked.

    Reply
    • Andrew says

      Nov 1, 2020 at 12:49 am

      Then I guess you have never heard a gentleman speak truth to power like President Trump does, direct, in yer face, to the point, like the true blue New Yorker he is.

      Reply
  4. gravenimage says

    Oct 31, 2020 at 11:09 pm

    Spencer and I: A Halloween Story
    ……………..

    Very funny visit to the “Twilight Zone” from Robert Spencer! Let’s just hope things work out in 2020 as they did (more or less) in 1984.

    Happy Hallowe’en!

    Reply
  5. Relic says

    Oct 31, 2020 at 11:29 pm

    Mai Tais

    Reply
  6. Terry Gain says

    Oct 31, 2020 at 11:59 pm

    Beautiful. This is Robert Spencer as his most creative and eloquent.I will save it and read it again and again.

    Thank you Robert. And good luck to you and to all of us on Tuesday. I am going to say the rosary tonight for Robert Spencer and for Donald Trump and for me.

    Reply
    • James Lincoln says

      Nov 1, 2020 at 8:50 am

      Terry Gain says,

      “I am going to say the rosary tonight for Robert Spencer and for Donald Trump and for me.”

      From another one of those “pesky” Christians…

      I actually said a prayer yesterday for Pres. Trump – and the future of the United States…

      Reply
  7. Linde Barrera says

    Nov 1, 2020 at 4:30 am

    Halloween is a pagan holiday from the Druids and it was like their New Year’s Eve with an emphasis on people in their families and society who died.

    I think this was an interesting story and Robert Spencer shows again what a great writer he is.

    I too pray for Robert Spencer, his boss David Horowitz, all the people connected to JihadWatch and The Freedom Center, as well as Trump and Pence, and all these individuals’ family members, staff members and staffs’ family members. God bless them all. + 🙏

    The thought of a Biden/Harris win is terrifying. 😈

    Reply
    • RichardL says

      Nov 1, 2020 at 6:27 am

      Trump will get around 312 votes. I am grateful to Robert and David Horowitz, too!

      Reply
      • James Lincoln says

        Nov 1, 2020 at 8:54 am

        RichardL,

        That would be great, but as long as he gets at least 270 I’ll be VERY happy!

        Reply
  8. eduardo odraude says

    Nov 1, 2020 at 11:41 am

    I wish this extremely fun story could be put into video form by David Wood.

    Reply

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