I was going to put this out there without any context. You most likely will not need it if you watched last night’s debate.
Wow.
From the opening seconds when she marched across the stage into trump’s space to shake his hand, Kamala Harris was in control, making the ex-president*** look old, weak, stupid, bitterly angry, rattled, and out of control.
Certainly not presidential.
To me, he seemed more like a speed freak holding court in a bus station. His eyes appeared very dilated and he spoke extremely fast as he rattled off what was often pure nonsense or threats and predictions of doom.
And like those commuters avoiding the speed freak in that station, he wouldn’t making eye contact with Harris at any point.
It was pure weakness.
He also lied incessantly, a mixture of pure falsehoods and absurd and already debunked internet conspiracies. For the debate, the oddsmakers set the over/under for the number of his lies at 19.5, meaning that you could bet that he would either have less or more than that number. According to Daniel Dale, the well-known independent fact-checker, the number was 33 in his preliminary examination of the debate. I was surprised that the number was that low.
Kamala Harris dominated the space, even though trump was allowed to speak five minutes more than her. He spoke for 42 minutes to her 37 minutes. She was well prepared and strong with her responses.
I am not a fan of these debates in the form to which they have now evolved. A candidate can’t come out and simply present their policies and plans for the future, especially when facing a candidate who lacks both and whose whole schtick amounts to outrage, insult, and doomsaying.
I think Kamala Harris appeared strong, intelligent, confident, and on message, providing as many details as one could in such a debate while still serving up healthy doses of the required performative aspects that now make up modern debates.
How anyone could look at the performance of the other guy and still think he should be once again leading this country is mystifying to me. He is totally unfit for the position. No vision. No plan though he claims to finally have concepts of a plan for his long-promised healthcare solution.
Perhaps the time has come for him take a long break to go yell at that dark cloud hanging over Mar-a-Lago. That is one job for which he is fully prepared.
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