“The Wheels On The Bus Go Round And Round.” And So Does Trump’s Pointy Head

This just goes to show what happens when you have a transitional megalomaniac running a campaign. It also goes to show just how far the worm can turn in about six weeks.

If you cast your mind back eight weeks, you’ll recall that it was actually the Biden campaign that was hell bent for leather to get a debate done before the Republican convention. Biden was flagging in the polls and just couldn’t get any traction. The campaign was working for a Gotcha moment to throw Trump off his stride going into the convention and give Biden a push.

One of the things that almost tanked the debate before it started was the Democrats insistence that a candidates mike be muted when it wasn’t his turn to speak. The Biden camp didn’t want Trump’s nonsense throwing Biden off of his game. Funnily enough, some analysts are now saying that leaving Trump’s mic hot may have focused Biden more and made his performance better. But Trump’s resistance to that one rule almost tanked the debate.

Now it’s eight weeks later, and it’s Traitor Tot who needs this debate a whole helluva lot more than Harris does. He’s the one now wallowing in the Slough of Despond, and unable to break into a media cycle still bedazzled by the Harris-Walz phenomenon. And they’re still bitching about the rules.

But this time on the opposite side of their mouths. Because this time it’s the Harris campaign that is saying that the mics should be hot at all times. In their letter to ABC, who is hosting the debate that The Trump campaign wants the microphone muted because their candidate can’t act presidential for 90 minutes. Then they stuck the shiv in, We don’t believe the campaign has mentioned this dispute to the candidate, because it would be too embarrassing to him.

The campaign is at least at the moment resolute on this issue, but once again Traitor Tot doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo. He’s playing a dime defense in a 4th and goal situation. Asked about the controversy following a public event yesterday, Trump stopped scrawling an X with a crayon in the book he was autographing, scowled, and said, I haven’t thought about it that much, but I suppose I’d have to say that I’d prefer that the mics were left on all the time.

I’ve said since the second week that Harris is living rent free in Trump’s head right now, and it appears she’s getting a free health club membership to go with it. In one fell swoop, not only has the campaign pitted Traitor Tot against his own campaign over this issue, but now she’s planted the idea of his own conduct in his own head.

Funny thing is, it doesn’t really matter whether the mics are hot or not. Harris is a career prosecutor, completely at home in a situation where a defense counsel keeps hopping to his feet to object to try to throw her off her rhythm and keep damning evidence out. She didn’t get her record by becoming flustered by such fluff-and-nonsense.

Better yet, we already know how she’ll handle His Lowness, and it will be the most humiliating experience of his life. Back in 2020, during the VP debate, Mike Pence kept interrupting her on an answer. Harris calmly folded her hands on the lectern, gave him a baleful stare, and in the voice of a teacher reprimanding an unruly student said, Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking now. This time around, being a former Senator, Harris may petition the moderator to reclaim her time from the interruption.

From where I’m sitting, while there may be more tomfoolery from the Trump campaign, the debate will go forward. Trump needs this debate. It’s likely to be his only chance between now and election day to horn in on a media cycle without having sentence pronounced. And now that the Harris campaign has an online meme out there with Trump talking about debates with a chicken Buck-Buckaw! soundtrack, his ego will sink him all by itself. Good times ahead.

I thank you for the privilege of your time.

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