jest

I was told last week by Jason Miller, partly in jest, that I shouldn’t worry that there were plenty of people in front of me in line who will be imprisoned.

Councilmember Nithya Raman, who endorsed Jurado and voted against a package of police raises last year, called the comment “unfortunate” but said she thinks it was “made in jest.”

When asked by Politico what exactly Trump meant by that, a campaign official claimed that he was “clearly just floating it in jest.”

“We wanted to see what a ‘real’ cult meeting was like,” she said, I think in jest.

A few brief, halfhearted laughs gave way to stale air, where the jest hung heavily as the group took mental stock of my presence.