“In a world that was not easy for Alice to bear or understand, flies were the final and malicious burden laid upon her.” ― John Steinbeck
Poor Mike Pence must have felt like Alice last night. Imagine going to your handlers after last night’s debate and saying, “How did I do?” Only to be told that you were upstaged, not by your opponent, but by a damn fly. The world can be a cruel place when you are Donald trump’s number two.
I kept looking at that fly on Pence’s head last night and thinking: Sometimes it’s good to be bald. If Pence was bald like yours truly he would have felt that little sucker dancing on his head and stealing the damn spotlight. Instead, the little guy sat on that perfectly coiffed white dome as if he was feeding on a raw meat.
You have to ask yourself, though, why did the fly land on Pence’s head and not on the head of Kamala Harris? Could it be that he is more full of shit than the senator from California.
The debate itself went as to be expected. If you were a trump supporter you thought that Pence won, and if you were a Biden supporter you are more likely of the opinion that Kamala Harris kicked his ass. The folks at CNN had Harris winning by a lot. I am not sure what the FOX VIEWS poll said, but I would suspect that it was the opposite. The thing is, Biden is in the lead, and trump world was hoping that the man with the funeral home director demeanor would score some major debate points and shake up the polls. It. Did. Not. Happen.
I must say that it felt good to see Harris, a woman of color, holding her own on the debate stage and showing the folks in America that if Uncle Joe should happen to expire before his time (as Mr. Orange seems to be hoping), she will be ready to be president from day one. Maybe that’s what has Mr. trump so shook. He called her a monster and a Communist today, as he could see his four years of work to bring back white supremacy being threatened by the uppity Indian/Jamaican from California.
Mr. trump will have his chance to get another crack at Biden next week. Although he said today that he will not participate in a virtual debate, which is what is planned because of him testing positive (we still don’t know when) for the “hoax”. Mr. trump has to do something, because he is losing the coronavirus battle, and it shows.
He was certainly in rare form earlier today on a right-wing radio program, and he has been rage tweeting all day as well.
“This monster that was onstage with Mike Pence who destroyed her last night, by the way. This monster, she says, ‘no no, there won’t be fracking,’ there won’t be this. Everything she said is a lie,” Trump said during a phone interview on Fox Business.
Trump claimed that Biden “won’t be president for two months” if elected because he is not “mentally capable of being president,” before tearing into Harris.
“He is not mentally capable of being president. You know that, everybody knows that, everybody that knows him. He can’t be president,”‘
Be best.
Originally posted Thursday 10/08/2020
