One reason Trump got smoked is because he's old. Father time has stripped him of his cognitive sharpness and ability to think clearly. Not as bad as Joe but bad enough to tank him.
The Trump of 2016 was still toxic, but effective. I suspect his mental decline started during the 4th year of his presidency when he began to rant meaninglessly about COVID.
Trump "rigged himself" this year, when he stupidly picked JD Vance, agreed to debate Joe before Joe was locked in as the Dems candidate AND agreed to debate Harris before he negotiated a fair debate playing field with their camp. For example, the first debate was on CNN. Why didn't Trump insist the next one be Fox? She wanted the debate more than him?
If he can't negotiate this stuff, which is obvious how can he outmaneuver Putin, Xi or any one of the other bad actors who wish this country unwell?
Don't confuse my pointing out the obvious with an endorsement of Harris. It's not.
So About That Rigged Trump/Harris Debate…
By John Kass
Sept. 13, 2024
For the past few days, the silver tongues from the left and right chattering classes have been hissing at each other like angry cats fighting over which one will be the last feline to be put in the stewpot in Ohio.
They’ve fought over media favoritism and selective partisan fact checking from the Trump Harris debate. Even the Germans are closing their borders now, but the Democrats in America and the Biden/Harris administration keep the gates wide open without complaint by corporate left-wing media.
And most of the post-debate bitching sounded removed from the concerns of Americans in real life, the bitching separated from reality, hollow screams from hollow men from the bottom of a long hollow tube.
I listened to a podcast of conservative pundit editors giving out debate grades. It was obvious they didn’t like Trump. I read them and I know their views, and their tongues curled as they said his name. And yet, at least at first, I thought it might be entertaining. But I switched it off, since it sounded like college sophomores from an Ivy League university giving nicknames and fingering their fathers’ meerschaum pipes, trading witticisms and bon mots, rich, preppy college boys not realizing how young they sound to the rest of us.
Did the ABC/Disney moderators (i.e. Democrat political activists) rig the debate for Kamala Harris and think they could get away with it? Of course they rigged it and they knew they could get away with it. They’ve been rigging debates long before Candy Crowley of CNN was ever hatched from a leathery egg.
Of course they rigged it and they spat on the republic as they did so. ABC’s Linsey Davis and David Muir embarrassed themselves. Should they run off to Florida and try to sell Disney tickets? Or scoop baboon poop? No. Who’d pay to go to Disneyworld? Only trans-supportive fools or morons who want their daughters to be raised up as victims, as future Disney princesses.
But did former President Donald Trump have a “good” debate performance?
No. Absolutely not.
He put old China Joe Biden away quickly, and the senile Biden invited the Democrat Obama coup that brought Kamala Harris forward. But Trump’s performance the other day against Vice President Harris was poor. I give Trump a D-minus. He was unprepared, and that made me angry because the republic is in the balance. He’s not lazy, but he approached this debate as a lazy man. And that pissed me off. I wanted more from him.
Trump is not a liberal Democrat, nor is he one of those bloodless establishment country club Romney Republicans that are liked by the media. They’re simpering as they finger their pipes and look to the establishment’s corporate world and Mitch McConnell for guidance as they, like Joe Biden, sell our nation to China.
Trump clearly is not one of the hollow corporate men. And he is not an articulate man.
He is anything but articulate and slippery. He is not some silver tongue. He is not some trout hiding under a rock for Nicol Williamson’s Merlin to catch him bare handed and tossed up on the mossy bank, all silvery.
Trump is an alley fighter. He’s direct, like a punch in the mouth, or a swift kick to the special purpose, which is why he was elected in 2016 and in my opinion why he should have been elected in 2020. But he wasn’t elected then. But after this last rigged debate, his voters are sure to come out angry. I think he’ll win.
He was almost assassinated on national TV and what did he do? He got up on his feet, made a fist and exhorted his voters to “fight, fight, fight.” The American people saw there was no backing down with Trump.
Harris? She did well for herself in a show biz sense, she presented herself rather reasonably well, and the ABC moderators protected her. ABC pretty boy David Muir could have played a pouty homicidal male-model in a Zoolander spin-off, but he did not fact-check her much. And neither did Linsey . They never challenged her. They gave off the vibe of protective helicopter parents at the playground, and this unnerved Trump.
Trump was wrong to say illegals were eating pets–although that has spawned many hilarious memes and it has focused attention to the 15-20 million illegals sauntering over the border. But when Harris made statements that could have been fact-checked, the moderators declined.
Harris said that Trump had threatened that there would be a “bloodbath” if he lost the election, and she characterized this as a threat of political violence. The ABC/Disney moderators Mousketeers could have pointed out that Trump was describing the auto industry in Michigan under prospective progressive rule, and that the auto industry in battleground Michigan would suffer a “bloodbath” from the leftist government mandates.
Harris also said there were currently no U.S. military service members in active combat zones. That was flatly untrue.
But the ABC Mousketeers did not fact check Harris on that dangerous whopper.
Then there was bias reflected in the questions the candidates were asked. Trump was deservedly grilled on his conduct surrounding the 2020–2021 transition, and comments he made about Harris’ race. He should have been prepared with a cunning pivot. He wasn’t.
Meanwhile, Harris fielded zero questions about her complicity in the coverup O. When she declined to give specific reasons for her flip-flopping on fracking—or even concede that she has flip-flopped—the moderators did not follow up.
Trump largely failed to show his vision for making the country a better place, and for that he has no one to blame but himself. Still, this debate was often a three-on-one fight, proving Democrats want to win and don’t care that the left wing media is torn up as collateral damage. But by the end of it, despite all the fawning from leftist media, the polls really hadn’t moved much.
Trump announced he wouldn’t do a third debate. He is wise not to roll in that rigged pigsty massaged by the Democrat Media Complex. And growing calls continue for an investigation into the ABC debate by independent journalist John Solomon and others. Who’ll investigate ABC? Clinton donor zero George Stephanopoulos?
And the question for voters remained as it always has been, the same question that the ABC Mousketeers asked Harris early on, the question that Trump didn’t do much with:
Are you better off than you were four years ago?
Kamala Harris dodged that one. But please do me and your country a favor and repeat it: Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
The great Ronald Reagan asked that of voters years ago.
“All of you will go to the polls and will stand there in the polling place and make a decision,” Reagan told Americans, looking straight into the camera and straight into the eyes of millions of voters. “I think as you make that decision it might be well if you would ask yourself: Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
No Mr. President.
We are not better off. And America is not better off.
This is the only question American voters will ask of themselves as they cast their ballots. It’s the one question the Democrats don’t want asked in public. Democrats are desperate to avoid it, because it was Harris who unleashed inflation by her tie-breaking Senate vote spending trillions of newly printed federal dollars. Trump should have crushed that one over the fence.
If I were an editor, I’d assign reporters to the supermarkets, to ask shoppers about being forced to put those “too expensive” items back on the shelf, the “luxuries” like eggs and and school supplies. And milk.
According to some…”Grocery prices are no longer climbing as much as they did in the last two years — but many Americans are still frustrated by what it costs to put food on the table. Some people have apparently hit their limit.”
People don’t vote for political theory. They don’t vote about a politician’s cackling laugh. They don’t vote on who had an unfair advantage in the debate, or how unfair the media has become or what flavor ice cream the politician loves? And after Reagan, it was a cranky old moderate Democrat who said, “It’s the economy, stupid!”
The people think about their nation. But they vote pocketbook issues, what’s best for themselves and their families. They don’t think of silver tongues or who “won” a debate. They don’t think of a Democrat candidate’s feelings or a Republican’s feelings. They think first of themselves and their families, and the rising cost of gas for the car, the high cost of meat, and eggs and vegetables, the rising costs of insurance, electric power. These aren’t luxuries. These are the things people need to stay alive.
Are you better off?
If you’re not better off, you know what to do.
Vote. Don’t whine or complain.
Vote.
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