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About Last Night

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Personally, I think Trump won, hands down.  Kamala was over-prepped with bromides and Trump was righteously angry.  (See Helleniscope‘s perceptive analysis of it here: https://www.helleniscope.com/2024/09/11/trump-was-focused-and-angry-lying-kamala-was-phony-and-rehearsed/)

<—Nothing to see here, please move along.

I also believe that ABC/Disney did themselves no favors.  They were positively horrible.  The mask of “objectivity”  came off once and for all.  They –and the legacy media–won’t recover from this.  Ever.

I stopped counting the outright lies that David Muir and Linsey Davis spewed.  Don’t get me wrong, they were egregious.  (Yes Linsey, there are states where newborn babies are killed after birth.)  What was even more egregious was their incessant intervention on Kamala’s side.

Because this is so, it’s going to redound to the benefit of Trump.  Some say he was rattled, others say he was combative.  He was definitely the latter.  And he had every right to be.  (If he wasn’t combative, me and his millions of supporters would have been mighty disappointed)

As for Kamala, she didn’t collapse into tears or reckless cackling.  That was to her credit.  However, I noticed that she continuously looked to Trump when he was speaking.  She was the Woman of a Thousand Faces.  I also sensed fear.  Trump didn’t look at her once.  This indicates disdain on his part.  I also saw a woman who no foreign leader is going to take seriously.

Obviously I’m a Trumpista.  Everybody knows that.  That said, when the dust settles, I think it’s going to move the needle a little bit more in Trump’s favor.  (It’s already been going there in case you didn’t know.)

Why do I say this?

  1.  Kamala was engaging in prissy HR Director behavior throughout the debate.  Note to the Democrats:  men hate this.  Just ask James Carville.  He said the Democrat Party is “made up of preachy females.”  He’s right.
  2.  She didn’t engage in her typical word salads but her answers were mindless platitudes.  It was vapidity on stilts.  (If vapidity had enough substance to stand on stilts.)
  3.  Finally, it’s obvious that were it not for the “moderators,” she wouldn’t have stood a chance.   Like so many entitled diversity hires, she can’t stand on her own two feet.  To be honest, if the American voter buys this, then we’re over as a civilization.*

In other words, what she constructed wasn’t a word salad per se but a souffle.  On top of that, there was no “kill shot.”  No simple plan that anybody could point to and say “Yes!  That’s what I want to see enacted!”  As Gertrude Stein once said about Oakland, “there was no ‘there’ there.”   Like the sugar high she received in the immediate weeks after she became the announced candidate, her persona will revert to form.

As for Trump, he laid some carefully-laid traps that sounded preposterous but are not.  In fact, one of the most famous was his assertion that household pets are being rounded up and eaten by Haitian refugees in Springfield, Ohio.

The ever-smarmy David Muir, in his finest robotic fashion, assured everyone that this wasn’t true.  How did he know?  Because he called up the City Manager of Springfield and he told him so.  Heaven forbid that he should actually get up off his rear and investigate the claim for himself.  That would be too icky.

I have a feeling we’ll be seeing more stuff like this in the very near future.

Repeat after me:

The Left:  “No one is eating people’s pets.”

Which means:  we’re one week away from:

“Why do you care that people are eating pets?”

And three weeks from:  “Why eating pets is a good thing.”

And four weeks from:  “Refusing to eat pets is white supremacy.”

*And no, don’t wag your finger at me and tell about Queen Isabella of Castile, Elizabeth I of England or Empress Catherine II of Russia.  These were tough-as-nails women who inherited their place on the throne due to generations of breeding and deserved entitlement.   If you want to talk about Margaret Thatcher, you have even less leg to stand on.  That was one tough cookie.  She’d take one look at Kamala and know exactly how she got to where she’s at.

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For a very good take on the egregiousness of their interference, please take the time to watch this short podcast by Devory Darkins.  He brought all the receipts:

Comments

    • Brendan, here’s my take on the present situation: the DS/Oligarchy are realizing that the air is being let out of the Kamalamentum balloon. Trump grows stronger by the day. This means that DS is caught on the horns of a dilemma: remove Kamala which will result in a disastrous down-ballot defeats or keep her in and perhaps minimize down-ballot defeats.

      The only other option is continue to try and assassinate Trump while at the same time organizing terrorist attacks on the attendees of his rallies.

      If this last option comes to fruition, look for the outbreak of massive civil disobedience (at the very least).

      Neither of these options are palatable for the continuance of the Republic. In fact, the last one would likely result in the destruction of the US as the world hegemon.

      Is there a fourth option? Yes: immediately make side-deals with Trump. I believe this is going on presently.

      FWIW, some White Hat in Homeland Security has tipped off Matt Gaetz (R FL) that there are presently five (5) “active” assassination teams in the US tasked with taking out Trump. Two are domestic and three are foreign. (My money says that at least one of these foreign teams is associated with the Kiev regime.)

  2. I want to apologize to everyone here for the judgemental nature of my comments, particularly to you, Gail.

    Part of the problem is I do not believe in the value of democracy or any other ideas associated with it.

    Our equality before God is not political or social, it is an equality that calls each person to repent. Other than that we live in a creation that is hierarchical. The Orthodox Church reflects that reality, often badly because of a failure to repent and be merciful. We, as Adam and Eve, seek illusory control over a world that is fallen

    https://glory2godforallthings.com/2024/09/19/like-a-refugee/

    Fr. Stephen Freeman does a much better job than me.

    Also, I highly recommend the Church’s prayers for mercy, especially the Jesus Prayer: “Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a (the) sinner”. Plus regular Confession.

    As Orthodox we are called to the life of the Cross. It is even built into the structure of our Cathedrals and in our services.

    Like Forgiveness Vespers at the beginning of Lent. To the writers here I know: George, Gail and Rhonda: Forgive me, sinner.

    • “…we live in a creation that is hierarchical.”

      It was a hierarchy of Emperor and Patriarch of Constantinople
      and Metropolitan of Kiev, plus a whole raft of other bishops,
      that took (or tried to take) the Church into union with Rome.
      It was the people who howled down the terms of that Union.

      The hierarchy are our shepherds, but they are not our owners.
      If the shepherds try to drive the flock over a cliff,
      the sheep are entitled to scatter.

  3. Benny Johnson
    @bennyjohnson
    Kamala Harris: “My focus is very much about what we need to do over the next 10-20 years to catch up to the 21st century around, again, capacity, but also challenges.”

    What does this even mean?

    https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1834724530960343518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1834724530960343518%7Ctwgr%5E448551dec02ed03d12eba2a45862054b9c08afe7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2Flrc-blog%2Fmore-kamala-word-salad-for-your-entertainment%2F

    • It means “Today is today. And yesterday was today yesterday. Tomorrow will be today tomorrow.” She is the only one who needs to catch up and it will take her 10 to 20 years to do it. If she gets that far. No doubt she will face many challenges. – I think Hillary is going to replace her. How she is going to do it is anybody’s guess. I have a few (guesses). Scratch that. I have one guess and if I were Kamala, I’d be very afraid. They always announce what they’re going to do. They just can’t help themselves. https://tinyurl.com/mryzc8mu

  4. More commentary by Josh Slocum:

    https://disaffectedpod.substack.com/p/supply-your-own-title

    “The point is that Kamala Harris is a dangerous psychopath. She gets away with it in large part because she is a woman. She benefits from the false perception that women cannot be as dangerous as men.

    “If she is elected, Harris is going to practice psychopathy on all of us. Not just Donald Trump. I point out the narcissistic abuse so that you can see it and understand how it works, and how dangerous its effects are. I do not do it so that you’ll feel personal sympathy for Donald Trump. I do it so you’ll understand what she’s going to do to you, your family, your children, your legal system, the tax structure, and everything else she will be able to destroy if she is given more power.”

    • If (s)elected, Harris will be removed within 1 year. She is a psychopath, she also has social anxiety (that explains the cackle). The DS wants Walz, he’s the Manchurian Candidate and a Chinese vassal.

      Plus, his wife is a real Mdme DeFarge.

  5. Here is Josh Slocum’s take on the debate:

    https://disaffectedpod.substack.com/p/what-i-saw-in-the-debate

    Relevant quote:

    “If this country elects Kamala Harris, they will be electing a facsimile of my mother. I’ve said before that we’re all living in my childhood home, but it will be literally true if this happens.

    She is much more dangerous than I knew before watching this debate. Heed the commentators pointing this out; they’re right. She is a highly skilled Cluster B chameleon. Do not underestimate her. She is a clever serpent; I saw a new side of her in that performance.

    Many don’t wanna talk about ‘toxic femininity.’ I know. Toxic femininity is already talking to you. It can get worse.

    “I want to break the spell you’re under. Half of America is Snow White about to take the poison apple.”

  6. BTW, did anyone notice that I said, “I” am not voting? Nor have I attempted to convince anyone else they should not vote.

    I made that decision for a great many reasons. As noted in my longer explanation, voting is ALWAYS the lesser of evils.

    The first vote I cast in a Presidential election was for McGovern.

    I am intrigued by the vehemence of those who are voting that they seemingly want to compel me to vote.

  7. The debate showed clearly that this woman cannot do anything without tremendous amounts of help and playing dirty. It was painful to watch because I couldn’t help but fast forward in time and think about what life will be like if/when she wins. It is going to be extremely brutal for those of us with a conscience and a moral code. (See all her promises here: https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/09/12/everything-you-need-to-know-about-kamala-in-her-own-words-in-one-place/) Just her facial expressions unabashedly displaying her callous disregard for all the troubles that Americans are going through when Mr. Trump raised them! And Mr. Trump’s now infamous comment about Haitian immigrants killing neighborhood cats–instead of being a leader and saying, “I’ve heard these concerns recently too and will be looking into it” she just was disdainful of Americans. It is hard to know what to expect in two months. One thing we do know: the fabulous memes about Mr. Trump saving cats will endure far longer in history than her vapid responses to the debate. Long live MAGA, and may God save Mr. Trump.

    • She’s just going on “auto pilot” now. They planned this all the way back when they started infiltrating our schools.

      I remember picking my son up early for a doctor appointment or something. The school said they couldn’t interrupt the class. I asked them what the class was and they told me it was a “self-esteem” class. I started laughing and said, “Do you know my son?! Of all the things he needs to learn, self-esteem isn’t one of them.”

      You know that woman who fell to her knees and just screamed. I saw that woman! She is now back to being a guy and he’s voting for Trump!

      • It got even worse for Kamala today: As he was ascending the steps of Air Force One, Joe was carrying that bright red cap in his right hand.

        I expect if the dullards at the Deep State don’t get the message, he will address the nation wearing that hat.

        • Truly a man of principle;
          as in: “These are my principles
          and if you don’t like them, I have others!”

  10. Both candidates have peanut shells for brains and darkened hearts without love or compassion. I cannot in good conscience vote for either nor any on either ticket.

    I am not voting as we are already in a totalitarian state and have been for a long time.

    See http://www.lewcromwell.com for some persuasive documentation.

    • You’re not making a better choice by making no choice! There is no “good conscience” here! There is no “persuasive argument.” There are excuses. You’re free to do nothing but there is nothing laudable about nothing. Nothing is nothing. That’s the position you keep saying you’ve chosen and I want you to know we’ve heard you. Your position is officially acknowledged.

      • Gail, I apologize, since my stroke a year ago January, my short-term memory is bad. I had no recollection of posting that before.

        2. There are three choices in elections:
        A. Vote;
        B.Do not vote out of a sense of hopelessness;
        C. Do not vote out of feeling a deep need to repent.

        My reason is C.

        Before I took off to find Jesus, I was on my way to becoming a professional Presidential historian. Only in the very early stages but still a clear choice. All of our Presidents have been deeply flawed. Got that.

        My stroke also changed my brain and greatly reduced my desire to pursue rational courses at all. The need for repentance, personally and corporately seeking the Joy of the Lord has become paramount. Quite possible I will not be here for the next election.
        Therefore, as I look at this election in light of everything, I can only ask our Lord to forgive all the evil in our history and refrain from adding more.

        I pray for each and all for our Lord’s Mercy.

        Especially for you and George that anger and fear not overcome you. May His Mercy endure forever.

        This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

        • Michael, thanks for this response. I’ll let Gail respond on her own, as for myself, you’ve (perhaps unwittingly) touched on an insight that has been plaguing me for awhile. One that I hope to expound on in the very near future.

          And that is this: after the Fall, this is a deeply flawed world and any political arrangements that are made are deeply flawed as well. Some, more so than others. I personally believe that after the Protestant Reformation (1517) these flaws have only increased. In fact, I think they’ve accelerated.

          Your knowledge about the Presidents is a testament to this fact. While America was a source for good in the world (pre-1960), the intrinsic defects of our political arrangement has intensified and the chaos has intensified.

          Well, that’s a teaser of what my thesis is going to be. At least one of them. The other is going to be about political engagement and whether we as Christians should be involved in political affairs. (Short answer: yes.)

          Anyway, I pray for your recovery and hope that when the time comes (as it will for all of us) that it is peaceful.

    • The natural inclination of the State is to be totalitarian. The natural of Americans is to not acquiesce.

      I for one, intend to resist until my dying breath. (I think it’s time for me to write something about the present situation.)

    • Hi, Michael.

      Long time no see! 🙂

      I’m going to side with Gail on this.

      I was recently in a conversation with a couple of young bucks. Sorry, I don’t mean to be glib. I admire these young men in the Church who love the Church so much. But as young people tend to be, they are far too taken with their own idealism (says the idealist).

      They were having a crisis of conscience because, they said, clutching their pearls, that Trump had made that sweeping promise of IVF for everyone and the Republican party has reduced their abortion platform to nothing. They didn’t want to choose the lesser of two evils.

      They were quite contemptuous of my argument to the contrary. I told them that those of us who have been working to see Roe v. Wade overturned for decades shouldn’t have to see it all go up in flames because the younger generation doesn’t pick up the baton and run with it at the state level instead of looking to the big guys to fix everything for them.

      Suddenly that post was summarily taken down. So I went to check myself with a bit of wisdom from Fr. John Peck. I asked him if he would be voting this year. He said he would; that he always votes. I told him about these young bucks’ crisis of conscience with regard to the odious task of choosing the lesser of two evils.

      He said, and I quote, “(N)onsense. They make the perfect the enemy of the good. Between the bad man and the mad man there is no choice. You don’t empower those seeking your destruction. I vote because I’m an American and generations of my house have fought and died to give me this privilege. Whining about candidates doesn’t remove our God-given duty to act for the better of our society and the protection of our children. Those who abandon their duty will have to answer for it. In this life or the next.”

      I felt better.

      • Great comment, Ronda.

        It occurred to me that scripture is full of people standing for something. Not something “perfect.” Perfection doesn’t exist in this world, but to make choices. God, Himself, made choices. One could say He is the KING of choosing imperfect people like Moses, Gideon, and David. All of them lacking, yet all of them worthy, often by virtue of being chosen.

        Had they not been chosen, we wouldn’t know how a stutterer could find his voice to lead people his people out of captivity, how a fearful man could make an army out of a few good men and be victorious, or how a woeful sinner could be the one after God’s own heart.

        We are to anoint the one who is MOST likely to serve God’s purposes. I am honored that He chose me to be here, in this place, at this time, to help make that choice. To be able to choose is a great honor and a great responsibility. If people don’t know what the differences would be under these two administrations, they don’t care enough to pay attention. The “un-deciders” are the enemy. I can have a dialog with someone who cares enough to vote, even if their vote differs from mine, but no conversation can be had when there is no common ground. Lofty, esoteric reasons are really just excuses in my book.

        • Ah, Gail…..

          Trying to approach political life from repentant posture is an “esoteric excuse”?

          Praying for candidates and offering the Jesus Prayer on their behalf and on behalf of our country and myself.
          All of the sins of politics and government are in my own soul. I am praying that I and those I know be lifted up and, as much as possible, sin no more. That the way of The Cross conquer once again.

          That is not “esoteric”. I know esoteric from the 15 years I spent trying to follow Jesus outside the Orthodox Church.

          Is John Chapter 6 “esoteric” or Matthew 4:17: “Repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand”.

          Again I do not demand or ask anyone else here not to vote. In fact, I am praying for each of you too as much as I am able. I do not have many days left in this life I suspect. God knows.

          I want to thank you though especially because your questions and statements have brought me to much better clarity as to what I must do.

          May the Joy of the Lord be with you embedded in your heart.

            • Apparently not as that is too “esoteric”. The people I have known in the past who applied that term have often failed to appreciate prayer as foundational to the Christian life and to acknowledge our common sinfulness.

              Voting, IMO, and government has become like a pagan sacrifice with the big bloodlust every four years.
              So far our Presidents have not yet shot the losers.

              • Michael, I must disagree with you. To consider voting to be akin to “pagan sacrifice” is beyond the paie. If they asked us to sacrifice to an idol while doing so, you would have a point but the secret ballot is far from that.

            • Your tone Gail belies the statement that you are not demanding.

              Plus the word ‘esoteric’ is a word most often used to deny the reality of Sacraments , icons and monasticism in
              experience. So I tend to look at it as a way of denial of all that is Holy including the Divinity of Jesus and the power of the Cross to heal.

              “There is more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy”

              Hamlet, Act 1, scene 5

              • Michael, repentance for sin is good.
                Public repentance for public sin is particularly good.
                Perpetual public display of personal repentance seems excessive.

                Matthew 5:6 [KJV]

                And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are:
                for they love to pray standing in the synagogues
                and in the corners of the streets,
                that they may be seen of men.
                Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

              • Esoteric (adj) chiefly describes *secret* teachings,
                of the sort the disciples thought Jesus was covertly giving
                when he was openly preaching – as in the parable of the sower.

                As the OED (Oxford English Dictionary) expresses it:

                1.a.
                1660–
                Of philosophical doctrines, treatises, modes of speech, etc.: Designed for, or appropriate to, an inner circle of advanced or privileged disciples; communicated to, or intelligible by, the initiated exclusively. Hence of disciples: Belonging to the inner circle, admitted to the esoteric teaching.

                For a full exposition, see: https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/3712645007

                • Apologies. Due to the OED’s subscription model,
                  the link gives but limited access to the dictionary.

                  Well, I append the full entry below:

                  Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. “esoteric (n.), sense 2,” June 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/5705358350.

                  adjective

                  1.a.
                  1660–
                  Of philosophical doctrines, treatises, modes of speech, etc.: Designed for, or appropriate to, an inner circle of advanced or privileged disciples; communicated to, or intelligible by, the initiated exclusively. Hence of disciples: Belonging to the inner circle, admitted to the esoteric teaching. Opposed to exoteric adj. & n.
                  Esoteric Buddhism: a system of ‘theosophical’ doctrines, alleged by its adherents to have been handed down by secret tradition among an initiated class of Buddhists.
                  1660

                  The Auditors of Pythagoras..were of two sorts, Exoterick and Esoterick: the Exotericks were those who were under probation, which if they well performed, they were admitted to be Esotericks.

                  T. Stanley, History of Philosophy vol. III. i. 43

                  a1754

                  Rescuing the esoteric purity of his doctrines from that less amiable appearance in which their exoteric garb represents them.

                  H. Fielding, Comm. Bolingbroke’s Essays in Journal Voy. Lisbon (1755) 208
                  1755

                  The exoteric teaching [of the Pythagoreans] admitted fable and falsehood..the esoteric, only what the teacher believed to be true.

                  W. Warburton, Divine Legation of Moses (ed. 4) vol. II. iii. ii. 98
                  a1774

                  These two classes [the adept and the vulgar] must be addressed in two different languages, the esoteric and the exoteric.

                  A. Tucker, Light of Nature Pursued (1777) vol. III. iv. 478
                  1817

                  I considered..the Trinity..entitled to the rank of an esoteric doctrine of natural religion.

                  S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria vol. I. x. 200
                  1837

                  A hidden stream of esoteric truth was supposed to flow beneath all the surface of Scripture.

                  H. Hallam, Introduction to Literature of Europe vol. I. iii. 278
                  1883

                  Esoteric Buddhism.

                  A. P. Sinnett, Esoteric Buddhism (title)
                  Buddhism
                  1.b.
                  1842–
                  absol. quasi-n. = ‘Esoteric sense’. rare.

                  1842

                  The esoteric of the most suspicious turnings of his phraseology is ‘Glory to the true God’.

                  E. B. Browning, Greek Christian Poets & English Poets (1863) 52

                  2.
                  transferred.

                  2.a.
                  a1859–
                  Of motives, purposes, etc.: Not openly avowed.
                  a1859

                  His esoteric project was the original project of Christopher Columbus.

                  T. B. Macaulay, History of England (1861) vol. V. 206

                  1866

                  He had two motives in his visit, an exoteric and an esoteric motive.

                  G. W. Thornbury, Greatheart vol. III. 176
                  2.b.
                  1876–
                  Pertaining to a select circle; private, confidential.

                  1876

                  How could he aid in this esoteric interview?

                  W. Black, Madcap Violet xliii

                  1881

                  There is nothing to hinder them having also more esoteric meetings at stated intervals.

                  Nature 20 October 578/2
                  2.c.
                  1876–
                  Qualifying a personal epithet: That is esoterically such.

                  1876

                  Strauss had hardly the stuff in him to be an exoteric Conservative while an esoteric Radical.

                  A. M. Fairbairn, Strauss 11

                  3.
                  1860–
                  Physiology. (In etymological sense): ‘Applied to things which relate to, or have origin within the organism’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).

                  1860
                  R. G. Mayne, Expository Lexicon Medical Science

                  physiology

                  noun

                  1.
                  1711–
                  plural (after Greek τὰ ἐσωτερικά.) Esoteric doctrines; esoteric treatises.
                  1711

                  Aristotle’s Books of deep Learning, his Acroamaticks, Esotericks, Epopticks, and mysterious Writings.

                  translation of S. Werenfels, Discourse of Logomachys 99

                  1768

                  Our predecessors had their esoterics and exoterics.

                  A. Tucker, Light of Nature Pursued vol. II. ii. 146
                  1809

                  Alexander complained to Aristotle, that he had done ill to give the world his esotericks.

                  J. Jebb, Letter 23 February in J. Jebb & A. Knox, Thirty Years’ Correspondence (1834) vol. I. 488
                  1821

                  I must, in my esoterics, stand aloof from all controversies.

                  S. Parr, Works (1828) vol. VIII. 353
                  2.
                  1660–
                  One initiated in esoteric doctrines.

                  1660
                  [see sense A.1a]. ‘

      • George, the Orthodox Church has the best political model: leaders with authority meeting in council. Indeed that was one of the ideas floating around in the the early days of the US

      • Ronda, a long time indeed. Good to talk. I have a deep fondness for you. I hope you read my longer reply to Gail.

        To add to it, I have to say I have never been a fan of democracy. The manner in which the Orthodox Church is governed: by a hierarchy in councils, is much better.

        • It’s the people on the left who have normalized the term democracy knowing that few understand what it means.

          In a democracy, people elect leaders who make decisions without constraints. A democracy is essentially mob rule. For example, they’ve been known to pass laws to nullify the authority of the other branches. People waving the banner of “public health” took down the establishment by passing legislation that annihilated our freedoms, up to and including locking us out of our churches.

          They would not have been able to do that in a solid republic. In a republic, people also elect leaders who make decisions, however, the leaders are constrained by the constitution. They can’t force experimental vaccines on people or put them in lockdown. They can’t close your churches. They can’t punish you for speaking.

          The Church, unfortunately, is no longer governed by councils. If that were true, Ukraine would never have happened.

          The term hierarchical is used to describe non-Orthodox churches like the RC, Protestant, and Evangelical churches where there is a distinct head who makes the decisions.

          Orthodox Churches, on the other hand, are self-governing. There is no central authority.

  11. Another reason why government schooling has jumped the shark (courtesy PJMedia):

    What do you think of these questions given to seventh-grade students at the Middle Village Prep Charter School in Queens County, New York? These are questions they were told to ask one another. And they were asked to write about them.

    “5. On an airplane, you are talking pleasantly to a person of average appearance. Unexpectedly, the person offers you $10,000 for one night of sex. Knowing there is no danger and that payment is certain, would you accept the offer?

    14. What are your feelings about killing a handicapped child at birth?

    19. What has been the worst sexual experience of your life?”

    “These questions are disturbing. They caused a lot of stress to students, especially to my child,” said one of the parents. Indeed!

  13. When I hear about immigrants eating a cat, two questions come to mind.
    Was the cat cooked and was it prepared better than the local Chinese restaurant?

  14. The debate did not change the views of anyone already firmly in either Trump’s or Harris’ camp. Your blog is a case in point.

    The debate moved the needle a little among undecideds in Harris’ favor, and that’s probably what they were aiming for.