Long Staten Island psychic has a dream
by digby
This story about Trump supporters in Staten Island is just great. On some level you just have to smile at this stuff:
“Do you believe in psychics?”
The first question that Linda Vinciguerra asked me when I wandered into Linda Lingerie — her boutique on Staten Island’s New Dorp Avenue, where the people tend to be as straightforward as the names of their small businesses — was an unexpected one.
“I don’t know,” I answered. “Why?”
Vinciguerra’s eyes lit up. She does believe in psychics, she told me — so much so that she regularly invites a woman with clairvoyant powers to set up in her store, where the woman charges $80 an hour for one-on-one readings with local proprietors and customers.
But Vinciguerra was having a crisis of confidence. During a recent session, she explained, she’d received some bad news from the psychic.
“I said, ‘Tell me about Donald Trump. Will he win?’” Vinciguerra recalled in her strong Noo Yawk accent, gesticulating with her hands for emphasis.
The short answer was a distinct “no.” Worse yet, the psychic added, the next president would be Hillary Clinton. However, the silver lining in all this was that a defeated Trump would launch an investigation into voting irregularities, the outcome of which was uncertain.
When she first received this news from the future, Vinciguerra was depressed. The psychic had been right about so much in the past that it was hard for her to continue supporting Trump knowing that he would lose the election.
But with Trump scheduled to appear on Staten Island this Sunday for a local Republican Party brunch and fundraiser, Vinciguerra is hoping she’ll have the chance to sound the alarm directly.
“I want to relay the message to Donald to make sure he has someone who can check to see that the polls aren’t rigged,” she said.
Vinciguerra said that most of the people she knows on Staten Island are avid Trump supporters like her, even if some of them are somewhat concerned that “he’ll start World War III because of his mouth.”
She acknowledges that Trump is a bully but admires that he’s not a coward and believes he’ll help small businesses like Linda Lingerie to prosper.
“I just believe he will turn this country around,” Vinciguerra said. “We are Staten Islanders. We believe in the American dream.”
I’m not making fun. Half the people I know here in LaLa Land swear by psychics. Maybe she did get this from the great beyond. But I’m going to be quite surprised if Trump takes on voting integrity as his mission in life when this is all over.
But you never know. His ego might very well demand this. I don’t know if it will work though. Trump’s supposed to be the guy who can see through the cheaters and outmaneuver them, right? Like the “cunning Chinese” and the “wily Mexicans.” If he couldn’t see through Reince Priebus and Ted Cruz well, I’m sorry. It doesn’t speak well for his ability to win so much we’ll be begging him to stop winning.
Correction: Title said Long Island, should have been Staten Island. I regret the error.