Gavin Newsom tweeted the phrase that had been ringing in my head since the beginning of the Fox News Republican debate:
Truly.
This is how the debate ended. It’s amazing. Watch:
Whatever transpired at the Reagan Library wasn’t a presidential debate. It was a reality show for a niche audience of people in America who can’t stop watching political theater no matter how dishonest, banal and stupid it is. It’s a warm cup of grievance always at the ready to warm up the morning, or settle the evening.
Last year, I was visiting my sister and her partner in New Hampshire. I took Jarvis the cat for a long walk in his stroller:
When I returned to their home I took a shower, a short nap and came upstairs. I found my sister and her partner engrossed in a reality show about a woman who wouldn’t stop eating the couch stuffing. Yes, the couch stuffing.
The only thing that I could think to say was “what the hell are you watching? What is happening?!”
I haven’t felt like that again until last night. Truly.
The chaotic ending was beyond farcical. It was a “Veep” episode meets “The Outer Limits” and “The Jerry Springer Show.”
Watching two hours of Fox News during the reality show pre-game was genuinely shocking in two regards. Firstly, the racial animus, scapegoating and demagoguery of Fox lightweight Jesse Waters is simply astounding. It’s overt, aggressive and utterly carefree.
Secondly, the commercials I saw were equally shocking from Mike Huckabee hawking sleep supplements for Relaxium in one ad, to a Trump children’s book in the next:
Then there was old school wing nut Michelle Bachman appearing in ads raising money to feed Holocaust survivors in Russia. It was truly “griftacular.”
Surreally, the first person to appear after the debate to offer an expert opinion was Kellyanne Conway, the most prolific liar to ever work as a White House aide. Fox, it seems, is unchastened by its $787 settlement for lying, and untroubled over its future billions in liabilities. What a cesspool.
Incredibly, Donald Trump remains 50 points ahead in the race for the MAGA nomination in a country in which 75 percent of the country doesn’t want the rematch that the two political parties demand they are going to get no matter what. It is an extraordinary moment in the annals of American politics.
Those people on the Fox stage weren’t candidates. They were contestants on the sickest reality show yet aired. It was appalling and depressing.
The ending, with the Scott/Haley exchange, was perfect. Personally, I want our UN ambassador to have nice curtains in her official residence. It definitely beats MAGA towels hung over the windows.
I do have a suggestion for the next debate: each Fox host should get a big red button that they can use to open a trap door beneath the contestant’s feet. If they act up, swoosh! They disappear! I’d even consider letting Judge Jeannie work a gong. Anyway, there is definitely room for improvement. Until then, wow. Just wow.
“Secondly, the commercials I saw were equally shocking from Mike Huckabee hawking sleep supplements for Relaxium in one ad, to a Trump children’s book in the next.”--Steve Schmidt
First off, I had no intention of watching that shit show; it would have been two hours of my life I could never get back.
Secondly, I was temped to go to Huckabee’s website just to see what propaganda was in the Trump’s children’s book and guide. Then my senses kicked in, and I realized, as soon as I gave my email and phone number, I’d be inundated with get rich quick schemes, donations to wing-nut politicians in Huckabee’s mold, and all the nonsense I try to avoid nowadays. Of course, If its a Trump book, my sense is it’s a pop up book; otherwise, it would be to complex for Trump to sycophants to understand.
Ironically, while Moms for Liberty and other right-wing religious groups are trying to ban books throughout America because of LGBTQ themes, and left-wing indoctrinations by award winning authors; it’s amusing how these wing-nuts have no problem trying to indoctrinate our kids with their Christian version of Sharia Law, and propagandist books with little educational value about the anointed one.
That said, I often wonder if Jesus were living on earth, preaching the gospel’s, and staring these people in the face, would they recognize him, or just have him crucified, again, as a left-wing radical, liberal Jew?
My money’s on the latter...:)
A mashup of burlesque and Dr Evil-esque sci-fi, with a smidge of Keystone Kops, topped off with a hearty dollop of Dumb and Dumber.
Well, there's always Relaxium in a pinch.
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