Paused! 2023-08-04

Paused! 2023-08-04

Bard Prompt:

Please give a dialogue for two nameless brothers meeting for a break social chat at the younger brother's car in the parking lot of his company. And, both are Naval veterans and are keen on their oath to protect the constitution from domestic enemies like Trump. Older Brother broke his right arm when his electric bike fell on him traveling to work. 

The dialogue focuses on the younger brother's insistence on voting for the GOP nomination even if it's Donald Trump. The older brother see his younger brother's gestalt thinking as Dietrich Bonhoeffer saw the Germans that had become mesmerized by Hitler!

Please allow this to be a light hearted rhetorical dialogue! The older brother even jokes that the conversation is absurd and being Camus' absurdism in nature!

Bard's Response:

**Scene:** Two nameless brothers, both in their late 50s early 60s, are meeting for a brief social chat at the younger brother's car in the parking lot of his company. The older brother has a splint on his right arm.

**Older Brother:** Hey, buddy. How'ya doing?

**Younger Brother:** Not bad. Just got off a tough conference call with a tech-rep. How's your arm?

**Older Brother:** It's healing!  Do you need to know how the mind numbing painful it is when its jarred?

**Younger Brother:** Nope! So, I heard you're not happy about the GOP nomination.

**Older Brother:** That's an understatement. I'm appalled that Trump is even being considered.

**Younger Brother:** But he's a Republican. You're a Republican.

**Older Brother:** I was a Republican. But I'm not anymore. Not until after Trump was already threatening to nullify the vote in 2020 because of voter fraud from mail in ballots, and many Trump's allies are quoted in "Rage" as being deeply troubled by the President.

**Younger Brother:** Come on, man. Don't be so dramatic. That was a long time ago now, and Trump is still not in jail. 

**Older Brother:** I'm not being dramatic. I'm being serious. Trump is a threat to our democracy.

**Younger Brother:** He's not that bad.

**Older Brother:** Yes, he is. He's a demagogue. He's a racist. He's a xenophobe. He's a misogynist. He's a threat to everything we believe in.

**Younger Brother:** You're exaggerating.

**Older Brother:** I'm not exaggerating. I'm just stating the facts, and you're being ignorant. 

**Younger Brother:** Well, I still think you're being dramatic.

**Older Brother:** Fine. Be a Trump supporter. But you're not going to get me to vote for someone who lies about blame the way Hitler did to the Germans.

**Younger Brother:** I won't.

**Older Brother:** What? Are you changing your mind?

**Younger Brother:** It's no longer worth discussing and it is disturbing me.

**There is a pause.**

**Older Brother:** So, what are you going to do if Trump wins the nomination?

**Younger Brother:** I don't know. I guess I'll probably vote for him.

**Older Brother:** Even though you think he's a threat to our democracy?

**Younger Brother:** I don't think he's as bad as you say he is.

**Older Brother:** Well, I do. And I'm never going to vote for him again!

**Younger Brother:** That's your choice.

**Older Brother:** It is.

**There is another pause.**

**Older Brother:** You know, I'm starting to think that this conversation is absurd.

**Younger Brother:** What do you mean?

**Older Brother:** I mean, we're two Naval veterans who swore an oath to protect the Constitution from domestic enemies. And here we are, arguing about whether or not to vote for a guy who's a threat to our democracy. It's absurd.

**Younger Brother:** And, you say you are sure you're right, when I am not so sure.

**Older Brother:** Yeah. It's absurd. Camus-whoo, he yodels!

**The two brothers laugh.**

**Older Brother:** Well, I should probably get going. I have to get home and take care of my arm it's starting to ache pretty bad.

**Younger Brother:** Okay. I'll see you later.

**Older Brother:** Bye, dude!

**The older brother gets into his utility van and drives away. The younger brother watches him go, then gets into his own car and drives off north to his central valley suburb.**

**As he drives, the younger brother thinks about what his older brother said. He knows that his older brother is right. Trump is a threat to our democracy. But the younger brother still doesn't know what he's going to do if Trump wins the nomination.**

**He laughs and shakes his head at his funny brother. This is absurd.**