Oof, I ate too much tonight. My bad, lol. So I need to do something while I digest, so here goes. LOL. Ow.
Well, I watched the debate. Well… I half watched it, really. Mostly I spent the time searching for new watch faces and apps for my smartwatch while kinda/sorta listening in on the shenanigans. TBH my watching the debate was more a way for me to bond with my mom than anything else, since the debate was really important to her.
Some initial thoughts: it’s really just the same old stuff.
I’ve haven’t cared about anything political in a loooooong time. But I mean… there was Trump, being Trump, and Kamala, being… whoever she is, lol.
IDK who won. Most people in the media seem to think Kamala won, I guess because they just… dislike Trump personally, lol.
I would call it a draw.
Trump came off kinda weird and illogical sometimes, and kinda obsessive too, but he did seem to be, IDK, interesting. Kamala was just there, being a democrat.
Kamala is reeeeally, I don’t know, boring. She comes off like any off-the-shelf democrat. There’s nothing… undemocrat about her, I guess, and that’s her appeal.
Honestly, you could have taken any democrat in congress or from any governorship in the country, put them on stage against Trump, and received essentially the same performance and the same talking points.
Yeah, Kamala. She’s very… democrat-y. I guess that’s her schtick.
A lot was made about Kamala’s reactions to Trump’s claims about illegals eating pets and such. IDK, any liberal with a room temperature IQ and rudimentary knowledge of English would have reacted in the same way to those statements.
When Trump pressed Kamala for an economic plan, Kamala responded by saying that she wanted to help small businesses and the working class and such. Woah! Help small business! Would have thought of that? lel.
I’m in my mid 40’s, seen my share of political stuff, and I can’t recall a democratic candidate saying anything else. I mean, she verbally attacked billionaires. *Yawn*.
*Yaaaawn*
I guess you could say that she was, though, personable. Perhaps moreso than Hilary, I guess, but not as much as Obama, or Bill Clinton, though maybe a smidgen more than Howard Dean, say, or Biden. So she’s… adequate, perfectly average, as a democrat.
IDK, Trump cares too much about himself to help the country, and Kamala is just relentlessly same-y.
A big deal was made about her choice of Tim Walz as running mate, a virtually unknown and unremarkable democrat governor.
People (Democrats) were impressed by this. Why, he’s just as good as she is! Well, yes, but stop to think about that, lol.
Trump is just… Trump. There is no reason to think he will do anything if he gets into office again that he didn’t do the first time around. It will be his first Presidency, just another four years of it. I’m not expecting much, but at least he’s entertaining.
I guess the question boils down to whether you find him threatening or entertaining. Those that find him scary will vote Kamala, those that don’t will vote Trump. I, of course, will be sitting on the sidelines and just watching, lol.
I watched the debate on MSNBC. Afterwards, there was a bunch of Democrat-related fluff. The commentators did what they were expected and paid to do and bashed Trump, promoted Kamala, etc. but they also spent like 10 whole minutes talking about a fucking instagram post from Taylor Swift and in addition to that nonsense there was the usual spate of commercials about this or that democrat-y thing. Big Pharma ads, etc.
There was a commercial being played then that pretty much encapsulates the sheer Democrat-y-ness of the whole thing. It was this commercial featuring a bunch of child actors who were pretending to be hunger-stricken kids in some third world country or the ghettos of America or something, with an overall message of like… “Please give, kids are starving all over the world, and especially in the poor parts of America or in such and such a place”.
IDK, all of these commercials are annoying, but this one especially so, because 1) MSNBC plays this fucking thing relentlessly, I mean I swear I’ve seen it off and on for over a year now, and 2) it implies that there’s some kind of epidemic of starvation amongst kids or something, when that obviously isn’t true, except in small, isolated and vanishing pockets in places like India.
It’s just… Democrat-y propaganda, disguised as a plea for charity. It’s so obviously designed to pull on liberal heartstrings that it’s shameless. It’s even worse than those charity pleas featuring the hurt dogs and such.
There isn’t a country in the world that doesn’t have a problem with obesity, most especially in the poorer communities, thanks to government “aid” and private charities showering these places with free and discounted food. Every nation on Earth now, except for maybe Japan, has a rising obesity rate, and in some places the figures are just jaw-dropping.
I once did some checking online and found a couple of studies that said that the underweight percentage of the world’s population had dropped into the mid-single digits, like it was at 6% of the world’s population or something, and it was falling fast. And this would include people in rich nations like the US and China, so it would include people who are just… naturally very thin.
It’s all just so… dumb, and echo-chambery, and ridiculous. Even the ads are fucking stupid. IDK, everything Democrats do just comes across as being merely tangential to real-world stuff. Not that the Republicans are any better, but that doesn’t excuse Democrats. It’s just the usual shit with them, a lot of posturing and “feel good” and nothing concrete, nothing real.
It’s the same song and dance that some people in our country have been seeing now for 70, 80 years.
*Ugh*. Yawn.