Jack of Harts

So we all know that the President got sick with COVID after the first Presidential debate. So we know that then the debate commission decided they wanted to change the rules for the next debate to make it virtual. And we know that the President said no to that idea. And he questioned whether the moderator could even be trusted to be neutral. Which was when the moderator reached out to a Trump detractor, asking if he should even respond to that. Then the commission canceled the debate entirely. Claimed their moderator’s account had been hacked. But he admitted to lying about that later, and was suspended.

So thanks to all of that, we got to see an entirely different debate this week than we had thought we were going to get. Biden was off getting a nice soft interview on another network. And instead Trump got to debate a reporter. Yes, it was billed as a Town Hall meeting, where normal people could ask questions of the candidate. But it was really the reporter who did most of the asking, and she did an excellent job of channeling a Democrat contender so she could interrupt Trump, talk over Trump, and tell him what he was really trying to do every time he answered one of her questions about what he was trying to do. He actually had to fight to get his answers out over her interruptions, and when he said things to the handful of people they allowed to ask questions that got applause, the reporter jumped in over it to say what the real truth was as she saw it.

One of my favorite lines in the debate was when she was haranguing him over something he was supposed to know because she’d just told him what it was, so he couldn’t say he didn’t know what it was anymore. And he just responded, “You told me, but what you tell me, doesn’t necessarily make it fact.” And that was glorious. The main stream media doesn’t get told enough that we just don’t believe their every word simply because they say it. They need to prove it. They need to show their work, as my teachers used to tell me, because we’ve learned long ago that they are simply not to be trusted. And it was good to hear a candidate say that straight to their face.

So overall, I think it was a good debate. Though next time I’m hoping Biden shows up for the debate instead of some random reporter. He really needs at least one good round of questions before we go out to protest on November 3rd. I mean vote.

Yeah. Vote.