How about going to the beach, a mountain, a national park,
anywhere just to get away from the madness.
Well that didn’t go well for one Donald J Trump. I do not think
Harris knocked it out of the park, but at least she didn’t come across as an
angry old man with no vision.
Harris spent most of the debate either goading Trump or
painting some rosey future with no substance behind it and Trump told us all we
live in a dystopian hell.
The little Harris did offer for the economy was some quaint
ideas that might help a few families specifically, but the rest of us are now
going… well what about us?
Like many I do not think the moderators should have fact
checked as they went along, yet it was nice to see Mr. Trump challenged on his
incessant madness of lies on occasion. Harris
should have been the one that challenged him on his facts, so she got lucky
that she didn’t have to waste her answer time to question what Trump said.
Did it appear the moderators favored Harris? To an extent
yes, but it wasn’t as bad as right wing media plays it out. And the comments
that only losers complain about the refs is probably working in Harris favor
for a minute portion of the undecided voters.
And another randomly small portion of the undecideds that
pay attention to world politics probably were scratching their heads at the Orban
reference. Why use him as an example of someone to tout your leadership skills
on the world stage? Is that the best you can do? Not a good look for anyone
that is aware of what is going on in Europe. Just in general Hungary isn’t a
country most Americans pay attention to and since Trump didn’t reference where
Orban was from, the reference went somewhere into foul territory in left field.
It wasn’t hit in the park. And there is nothing wrong with Hungary, I hope to
include it in a long sightseeing trip through Europe one day. Actually I have
three or four separate self planned European tours on my bucket list I hope to
accomplish. I hope I get to make them all.
Anyway back to the debate, or really maybe not. There wasn’t
much of the debate on policy. And the actual statements of help for first time
homebuyers, family care and for small businesses, we didn’t hear much else
about the economy except for it can be rosey or you are living in that dystopian
hell. No one mentioned the budget or lack there of, no one talked about taxes,
oops we did get a bit about healthcare or that it exists and we need to make it
better. For some strange reason, the Affordable care act or Obamacare got some
burn, Trump saying he made it better in lieu of creating his own program, and
Harris saying she wants to make it even better. Since it is mediocre at best, won’t
be hard to make it better and I am not sure how Trump made it better during his
tenure as President. Yet as always, he loves to tell us he made everything
better. I wish I could say that and get away with it. I could tell the better
half how wonderful our budget is as I struggle to pay the monthly bills. Just
look up at her and smile while my stomach turns as I see the checking balance
go down with each bill. Wouldn’t that be nice.
Overall Harris avoided policy issues she could be called out
by triggering Trump and Trump has never offered any specifics on policy except
for the occasional drill baby drill rhetoric, some statements about the border
situation which we all want improved and he is going to tariff the rest of the
world into economic submission. Not sure how that is going to work though.
Overall we still need new candidates, new ideas, really any
ideas with some depth would be helpful and new parties. If Harris doesn’t jump
dramatically in the polls from this debate it still proves the economy is voter’s
most important issue and she needs to get out in front of that fast otherwise
why would anyone want Trump except for his fans at this point.
Cheers
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