I waited for the cackle to get me in the Halloween spirit but alas, it never came.
Vice President Harris had clearly been coached by the Greatest Showman of All Time, President Barack Obama.
Nonetheless, the un-primaried surrogate for liberal policies mirrored a half-step from communist manifesto. Remember in the President Obama interview when he said he would prefer not to be president a third time, but run the country instead as the guy in pajamas in his basement?
“Somebody is playing president and you have a microphone in their ear,” Obama told his interviewer at the time. No joke. Google it.
The presidential debate had a few key points of interest I thought I would share with the group.
First, this is all going to hell in a handbasket.
“We have a nation in decline. We have a nation that is dying,” said President Donald Trump.
Harris called him a felon. A threat to democracy. The bankruptcy-ridden, sexual assault administering a-hole.
He spoke of his father, the Brooklyn builder who gave him a very small fraction of that which he turned into “many, many billions.”
The patriots grinned.
National security and foreign policy were focal points of the debate. She said Kim Jon Un sent President Trump love letters.
“Putin endorsed her last week,” he retorted, adding, “What he’s gotten away with is absolutely terrible and it wouldn’t have happened with me.” He pointed out that Biden killed the Keystone Pipeline – then a massive Russian oil distribution deal went through on his watch.
“They don’t like me as much as they like weak people,” Trump said.
She admitted to meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a couple of days before Russia invaded Ukraine, and she called USA support their “righteous defense.”
Or perhaps a waste of a few billion in federal tax dollars while most people can’t afford groceries?
President Trump called her a real “talent” in negotiation – sent her in and three days later, Putin invaded, he said.
“We are the leader” – we have to “protect our friends” said the vice president - making the multi-billion-dollar industrial complex, I mean Ukraine War, sound like a school-yard fight.
Much ado was made about America being priority, both vying for the Pennsylvania swing state vote and an energy/jobs/economy focus.
“I built one of the greatest economies in the history of the world. And I’m going to do it again,” said Trump.
Trump called the botched Afghanistan withdrawal by the Biden administration “the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.”
Kamala shed no remorse and attacked Trump instead. He made a deal with the Taliban at Camp David! she gasped.
“Abduel is the head of the Taliban and I told that dude ‘don’t do it anymore,’” he expounded in a matter-of-fact tone.
“Why did you send me a picture of my house?” asked the leader of the Taliban, in Trump’s account. Trump grinned while describing how he let him wonder.
The establishment wants us to believe Trump is an outsider, vindictive outlaw who is lacking in “temperament” and has the support of the world’s outcasts.
Wyoming’s establishment pundits can’t understand how the Freedom Caucus is taking over Wyoming. See any similarities? Establishment politicians are out. Renegades are in.
What did the long-term incumbent miss? Must be the nasty mailers. Those darn out-of-staters.
We should all wake up to the reality – we may be on the cusp of a revolution.
When I watched the debate I couldn’t help but wonder – what does Putin think as he turns on his TV tonight, listening to the Americans bicker on the world stage?
Perhaps he sits back inside a mahogany-colored library with the debate droning in the background – a cold vodka on the rocks in one hand, and a stout cigar in the other.
I think he studies, closely, before smile spread across his face. And he probably thinks, “America, the whole world is watching. What will you do?
“Are they on the cusp of a revolution? Imagine an American revolution…We’ll see if the establishment lets the election happen,” Putin smiles with a sinister smirk.
He knows all too well how predictable these things can be. He turns off the tableside lamp and puts out his cigarette, leaving the television drone on into the night.
The villain sleeps, and America applauds – with fire in their bellies for a shot at tomorrow in a new light.
Cassie Craven can be reached at: ccraven.law@gmail.com
