Not Taking The Bait Of The Debate
No Cats For Obamala Harris
CNN proclaimed that Obamala Harris had “outperformed” Donald Trump on the “debate stage”.
It’s all there in the language.
Under a veneer of seriously debating the supposedly different platforms of their respective parties, it was nothing but a performative gladiator match of deception and hyperbole—peppered with those gotcha smirks and personal jabs so many television viewers delight in.
The projected image on the screen was what counted — the political issues mere ping pong balls to hit back and forth.
That’s entertainment!
Trump remains the boob galoot, absurd pretend insurgent—a perfect incarnation for shopping-mall USA—loaded with racist tropes, violent rhetoric, and stuff to bamboozle faith-blinded christian nationalists.
The Democrats finally had someone to debate Trump who was relatively coherent—someone who promised to support pro-capitalist policies at home and pro-imperialist warmongering policies abroad—someone to fulfill Biden’s promise and get comfy being a “nothing will fundamentally change” neoliberal.
“Goldman Sachs loves me” she proclaimed proudly.
And so does Dick Cheney—who Harris called a “well-respected leader” when he endorsed her.