About Last Night

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/)

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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: