Kamala Harris Should Be Stuffed. Because She Ate Trump’s Lunch. And Dinner

I will start with this cautionary tale. In the first presidential  debate of 1980, in all honesty then President Jimmy Carter kicked Ronald Reagan’s ass. He was knowledgeable, forthcoming, and gave simple answers. Reagan struggled, seemed lost at times, and couldn’t formulate coherent responses to the questions.

When the debate was over, the Carter campaign was popping corks, and the Reagan campaign was getting ready to write their concession speech. The next morning the first snap polls came out, and it was the Reagan camp that was popping corks. Because people went into that debate expecting to see a rich, successful Hollyhwood actor going up against a peanut farmer. And the facts be damned, that’s exactly what they saw. So don’t jump to any premature conclusions.

That being said, there isn’t a single one of Kamala Harris’s debate practices that could have gone as well as her actual debate performance. She owned the debate from start until finish. And she accomplished everything she set out to do. Better yet, Traitor Tot bent over backwards to help her do it.

Right off of the bat, Harris accomplished Mission One. She demolished his ego. Earlier tonight, I wrote about the possible scenarios of The Handshake. She turned that on its ear. When their names were announced, Trump slumped out to head for his podium. Harris on the other hand, strode forcefully across the stage with her hand out, loudly saying Kamala Harris. In all honesty I wish she had completed it with For the people. Trump was stunned. He tried to back off, and she literally had to chase him across the stage until he gave her the winpiest handshake in history, and retreated to his podium. Mission Accomplished. Stick a pin in Trump’s ego in front of millions.

Once she started, Harris was brilliant. She put out a masterful mix of personal history, defense of the Biden administration, concrete plans and an agenda, and an almost casual disdain for Trump and everything he said. Let’s just hit a few highlights, shall we?

• To start, Teri encapsulated Trump perfectly whenever Harris was speaking. She said, Oh look, he’s doing his mug shot again. And she was right. Every time Harris spoke, Trump looked forward with that signature scowl on his face
• She also noticed something that I had twigged to viscerally, but the idea hadn’t coalesced. every time that Harris spoke, especially when she was referring to Trump or his policies, she looked directly at him and pointed. Never once in the debate did Trump look directly at Harris. When speaking, Trump might point over at Harris, but he never looked directly at her and made eye contact
• Harris had a cogent, coherent response to every question she was asked, and often used a bit of it to slap Trump around like a tetherball. And when Traitor Tot finished rambling, she had a withering response to his nonsense
• A personal aside here. I’m proud of the two ABC moderators. They kept things on track, held the nonsense, and asked the right questions and follow up questions. More importantly, on at least six occasions the moderators real time fact checked Trump on his more obvious abuses. This threw Trump off his stride and pissed him off
• Harris owned Trump on the issues. Not only did she have coherent plans and an agenda, but after His Lowness finished blathering, she almost disdainfully shot his tripe down
• By the halfway point of the debate, Trump’s concentration and coherence was shot. He lost his ability to complete a sentence, doubling back to the start or veering off on a different point. Harris played it perfectly, looking almost pityingly at him and at one point saying, I’m sorry, you seem to be having a problem making a coherent point
• As Trump got more and more flustered, he kept trying to turn the topic of his grievances to Biden, blaming Biden for everything and trying to tie Harris to Biden. She dealt with that flawlessly by saying, I think I have to remind former President Trump that he’s not running against President Biden, he’s running against me
• It turns out that El Pendejo ex Presidente did have a prepared fallback line. They’re letting millions of people in here from all over the world! Crime is down in every other country because they’re expelling their criminals and rapists and drug dealers over here, and she’s just letting them in. Whether it was the economy, inflation, global warming or whatever, when he was stumped he immediately pivoted back to that
• Worst of all, she killed his ego. At one point she looked directly at Traitor Tot and said, For the last 3 1/2 years I’ve traveled the globe as Vice President. And foreign leaders are laughing at you! Military leaders that you’ve worked with are calling you a disgrace! The American people deserve better than this.
• Harris accomplished her two primary missions perfectly. First, she made Trump look small. In every response she showed Trump to be a pathetic, doddering old man, unable to formulate a coherent response. Only brain dead Trombies think he kicked her ass.
• Second, she killed his voracious ego. Even Trombies were watching the great unmasking on FUX News tonight. And hearing that other world leaders were laughing at Glorious Bleater must have been bitter wormwood on the tongue. And even worse, Trump’s only lame ass excuse for that international ridicule was Victor Orban

Kamala Harris owned not only the debate stage tonight, she owned Trump. Her grace, calm, and poise were the perfect counterpoints to Trump’s disjointed ramblings and bullsh*t bluster. Harris showed experience, an agenda, and most importantly leadership, while Traitor Tot just kept recycling the same old tired platitudes. Game. Set. Match.

Late Additions

As I was writing this, MSNBC had two late developments, First, about thirty minutes after the debate, pop icon and Travis Kelsey boo bear Taylor Swift put out a long, impassioned release, featuring a black and white photo of her reclining comfortably with her cat. She noted that she did her due diligence by actually watching the debate tonight, and that she was voting for Kamala Harris. She has 280n million followers, and within minutes of her post it had more than 1 million likes. The kicker? She signed it, Taylor Swift   Childless Cat Lady

Second, shortly afterward, Traitor Tot did the unthinkable for a presidential candidate after a debate. Harris went to a nearby watch party to rile up the troops. Trump degraded himself by actually going to the spin room to try to play the refs. He angrily demanded another debate, a sure fire admission that he knows he got his ass royally kicked. After all, if you won, why offer your opponent a chance for better preparation and payback closer to the election?

And last but not least. MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff attended a watch party in Maricopa County, Arizona with largely undecided voters. He polled several of them before the debate, and after the debate, every undecided voter had the door open to the possibility of a Harris vote. Mission accomplished.

I thank you for the privilege of your time.

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