Day 1334 – The Debate

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Before:

Expectations are high; expectations are low. What does she have to do?

Ignore him, brush off the personal attacks, talk her policies, show she’s presidential?

That’s what I’ve heard.

The media? The moderators? Hold him to account! I’ve heard. Drill down! Expose his lies!

Yeah. Right. It turns out that even when the reporters do that their bosses write the headlines and they aren’t trying to expose the truth. The people writing the headlines are trying to get clicks. Truth? Not so much. In fact, not at all. Drill down? Are you kidding me? How would you even do that? Ask about child care and he says childcare is childcare, and he’s got numbers. What’s there to drill? Maybe the response is, “So, you’ve got nothing. Okay. Moving on.” And if they did that after every policy and economic question maybe after fifteen or twenty repeats people would get the idea that Trump has nothing to offer.

Yesterday was North Korea’s birthday and they had big celebrations. Putin and Xi congratulated the third generation dictator. Did Donald send his lover flowers? I don’t know. (Remember, Trump repeatedly said he was in love with Un. Is that gay? Where are the Christians? )

You can’t engage. You have to stick to your agenda. 

Nancy Pelosi’s interview in Rolling Stone was terrific. She pointed out all that she, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris accomplished. Adding two trillion to the economy. Creating more jobs. Making us and the world safer. Standing up to dictators like Un, Putin, the guy in Venezuela, and Xi.

What has Trump got to show? He said he could have gotten the hostages out of Russia. You know, the media barely covered the great success Biden and Harris had on that front. I liked what Joe said about Trump’s boast. “Yeah? Why didn’t he do it? He had four years.”

After:

OMG! “They’re eating the dogs!” “I’ve got concepts.”

Nine years talking about health care and he’s got concepts.

The “you don’t see any dogs or cats around a Chinese restaurant” got a side-grade (not an upgrade) to Haitians. 

The Day After:

I saw a thing on FB slut shaming Kamala. The basic line is “She’s a woman. She’s in a powerful position. She must have slept her way there.” Who’d she sleep with? Joe Biden?

Listen, there’s only one slut in this race and he has a track record to prove it. Remember all those women in 2015 and 2016 who said he grabbed their genitals? And then he told Billie Bush, “They let you do it.” Then he got that law suit for a few million for attacking E. Jean Carroll. Not content he continued to defame her and he got hit for $85 million. This doesn’t count the dozens of women who have come out and told stories of him molesting them. And there’s Stormy Daniels who thought she was going to a business meeting only to be forced into sex with him. (Okay. Maybe some want to argue that last point. But I think he and she should do commercials for Crepe-Erase given what she said about his hide.)

And then there’s Karl Rove’s analysis. Where he said Trump said Kamala was dumb as a rock. She mopped the floor with him, so what does that make him?

And there’s the Taylor endorsement. Talk about smart timing! But Donald likes … uh … (did you see him struggle to try and remember Brittany Mahomes first name? He couldn’t remember it. Gave up and called her Mrs. Mahomes. Brilliant.)

It’s like Alex Baldwin said about playing Trump. You see him searching for the right word. Can’t find it. Gives up and picks another word and then repeats it several times as if that takes care of it.

And Seth Meyers who worked with him when Trump was the host on SNL. He said the guy didn’t laugh at humor. He watched other people and if they laughed Trump concluded it must be funny. Donald’s idea of humor is to talk about putting someone down. Isn’t that funny? (No. No, it is not, but that’s what he thinks funny is, because he really truly doesn’t understand, at a gut level, what humor is. For that, I feel sorry for him.)

There’s one last thing, and this may come as a shock to Trump supporters. Just because he says something doesn’t make it true. Shocking, I know. But:

I’m better looking than Kamala. (On what planet? And what does that have to do with being President?)

No one leaves my rallies early. I have the biggest crowds. She pays people to come to her rallies and buses them in. Said the man who paid people to be at his down escalator announcement. And I guess he hasn’t watched the tapes of people walking out of his rallies while he’s talking? But let’s be fair, the next day he had a rally and like 2,700 people showed up. Yeah, baby. Kamala had a rally and over 17,000 were there. Wait. What? Is that like 15.8% the size of her audience? Hum. Ya know, reality can be a tough place to be, and for that guy? Wow. No wonder  he doesn’t want to debate her again. I mean he couldn’t even look at her because she kept bringing up the truth and that reality is a hard place for a serial liar to exist.

Okay. Gotta go.