My wife hadn’t gone to bed so she was downstairs when it aired, everything in place, comfortable and cozy.
The debate didn’t strike me for the deep cerebral presentations from either party, even though in terms of grey matter it seemed there were as many cells in Trump’s head as there are fans at his rallies. Comical Donny would claim to the contrary that billions come to listen to him and that his debate against Harris was his best performance yet and that every world leader told him so.
Funniest of all, given JD Vance’s jibe that Harris was a childless cat woman, was the Trump claim that Haitian immigrants were eating pets – a sure warning to Harris as to what was in store for her 'cats' if the influx of immigration is not reversed.
It was that pet-eating part of the exchange which caused my mind to drift back to the Vance cat woman slur which seemed to have gone AWOL when a right wing columnist who does not have children launched a broadside against 17-year-old Gus Walz, the son of Harris’s running mate for Vice President in November’s upcoming election.
Funniest of all, given JD Vance’s jibe that Harris was a childless cat woman, was the Trump claim that Haitian immigrants were eating pets – a sure warning to Harris as to what was in store for her 'cats' if the influx of immigration is not reversed.
It was that pet-eating part of the exchange which caused my mind to drift back to the Vance cat woman slur which seemed to have gone AWOL when a right wing columnist who does not have children launched a broadside against 17-year-old Gus Walz, the son of Harris’s running mate for Vice President in November’s upcoming election.
For a while Ann Coulter was pretty prominent, even dominant, on the conservative commentary scene in the US. The literary equivalent of Marjorie Taylor Green, she was never short of some nasty bile. Like a poisonous snake she relished the venom that flowed from her pen. In the days following 9/11 – the one that was perpetrated on the US, not the one perpetrated by the US on Chile - Coulter insisted that the US:
should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
A former friend of Coulter until he realised she was a Christofascist referred to her appearance in Rob Lowe’s 2016 Comedy Central Roast.
Ann Coulter has written 11 books—12 if you count Mein Kampf,” joked Nikki Glaser. Pete Davidson piled on. “Last year we had Martha Stewart, who sells sheets, and this year we have Ann Coulter, who cuts eye-holes in them.
Sorta gives you a feel for where she sits on the conservative to far right spectrum. Even Trump was not harsh enough towards Muslims for her, prompting her comment when asked how he could make America great again, ‘maybe he could die.’
Toxicity her trade mark, and demonstrating that there is no hate like Christian love, she delivered a new strain of venom when she opted to sink her fangs into Tim Walz. who in the words of his parents has "a non-verbal learning disorder in addition to an anxiety disorder and ADHD, conditions that millions of Americans also have.” His crime - expressing pride in his dad.
Coulter was quickly lashed for it, eventually resorting to unCoulter-like action and deleting her tweet. Even some conservatives were appalled:
I am conservative and all these vile comments and attacks on a poor kid with special needs is unacceptable and must be called out. It isn't weird, he loves his dad and is proud of him.
Yet JD Vance, that cool for cats guy, threw no childless cat woman slurs her way. It was left to a former republican strategist Rick Wilson to make the cutting blow:
Ann Coulter will die alone, and forensic pathologists will discover her withered corpse is nothing but Marlboro reds and box wine.
At least without cats, digested by some immigrant who ate them and left the withered witch alone.
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The debate was a score draw---the undecideds are still that...
ReplyDeleteat that level perhaps as the true believers are not going to stop believing but his performance was woeful. Even the GOP attempt to suggest he won it is being made very half heartedly, with too many campaign strategists and party pollsters leaking to the media that it was a disaster for him.
Deleteif nothing else comes out of a Harris victory we might hear less from religious whackjobs for a while. Be thankful for small mercies.
On the debate..
ReplyDelete1, It did strike me that Harris must have had forewarning of the questions as I had the feeling I was listening to scripted answers.
2, Trump simply cannot control himself when it comes to obvious bait and the Democrats must have been overjoyed at how he looked derailed at times.
Tsk Tsk Anthony, snakes are venomous not poisonous! You can eat as many as you like and not get sick!
( Old Ozzie slaggin' lol)
There will be no replay as Trump is too cowardly to face another prosecutorial evisceration.
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