The Debate!

 The debate. After a few days and a weekend to not throw myself off a bridge and think clearly about it, all I can still say is FUUUUUCK just as Jon Stewart said. It was bad for Joe, but it was worse for CNN and for American intelligence.

Look, yeah, I am honest enough to admit Biden looks really old, he moves like an 81-year-old, he stares into the distance sometimes as if he's thinking about his childhood in Scranton, and he stutters as he's done since birth. Yeah, it's not slick, it's not the Joe of 2012 when he chewed up Paul Ryan with the smiles and the get a load of this fuckin guy reactions to Ryans bullshit. Joe Biden is not Donald Trump and thank goodness for that.

Trump is a con man snake oil salesman from way back. He's 78 years old and he cannot keep a coherent thought in his diseased brain. He rambles on about sharks and electric batteries and somehow thinks an "electric plane" couldn't fly if the sun's not out, he thinks windmills cause cancer and makes birds extinct and he talks about slaughters like Gettysburg like it was a movie. Gettysburg wow! But the most important thing about this debate is that one candidate stumbled and the other just lied from the time he opened his big mouth till the closing remarks. But all anybody cares about is the lack of style on the part of Joe Biden. Yes, it was bad, very bad but it's not fatal. Despite the fainting couch reaction of various Democrats and the press obsession with Biden's age and not Trumps lies this race is not over.

CNN was a disgrace. The moderators were unnecessary. Trump never answered a question and just did his rally nonsense without any sort of fact check. He called Biden a criminal, he told a story of talking to Putin about Ukraine and how it was Putin's "dream" to invade Ukraine (what?), he debated his golf abilities even though everyone knows he cheats, he had his I am not a crook moment with the "I did not have sex with a porn star" statement, he lied about passing veterans bills signed by Obama (an oldie), he lied about Covid, he lied about Roe V Wade, he lied about his environmental record (immaculate water). he lied about post birth "abortions", he lied about crime (hundreds of thousands of Americans killed by immigrants), he lied about Ukraine, he lied about "illegals" staying in luxury hotels, he lied about Nancy Pelosi, he lied about everything, and he again refused to say if he would accept the results of the election.

But Joe's old. He was overprepared and his personality does not allow him to get into the gutter with the likes of a convicted felon. He tried with the suckers and losers, and he did have the line of the night with the old guy reference to the "morals of an alley cat" but it really was not good. Joe did get better as the night went on; it went from disastrous to simply not good. 

This debate changed no minds. The MAGATs chortled about Bidens age just as they have for years, the GOP nutcases continued the Biden is senile rants, and some panicky Democrats were ready to throw him off the ticket, not promote Kamala Harris (the female black voters would revolt as they should) and put Gavin Newsom on the ticket. Ridiculous. Nothing has changed. 

If you are on the fence between an old man whose presidency has been a rousing success, for chrissakes he actually passed an infrastructure bill, and an old man fascist monster like Trump, you're just plain dumb. Yeah, I am giving up all my views about abortion and opposing Putin and tax cuts for the rich and liberty because the guy was sick and sounded like he was at deaths door and voting for Orange Mussolini. No, that's insane.

It's June. Obama had a bad debate against Mitt Romney, Reagan had a bad debate against Mondale, and both recovered. And Reagan was old. 

Look, here's the deal. Do I wish that these two were not the nominees? Absolutely. Do I wish Biden would drop out? No. Do I wish Trump would go to prison? Yes. 

But we are stuck with these two. I don't care if Biden is in a wheelchair or if his brain is in a Futurama type container. This is literally a choice between democracy and fascism. The fact the two moderators on CNN did NOT bring up Project 2025 was journalistic malfeasance. But CNN is playing both sides as are most journalists. They're cowards. They bend over backwards to appear fair to a gang of dimwits who hate them no matter what they do. JFC, at least stand for truth. Letting a convicted felon lie without pushback, calling him "President Trump", and sitting there like a couple of potted plants was worse than anything Biden did or didn't do.

Calm down everybody. Yeah, it was bad. Really bad. But as long as the cowardly press keeps up the narrative that Biden was bad and ignoring the fact that Trump lied and lied and lied, this won't go away for a while. Hang on, cuz its only for a while.