MidWeek Memes
So the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris starts in a few minutes. I might tune in some highlights, or lowlights as it were, but I’m sure many writers on substack and elsewhere will be fast with hot takes. I expect it to be hot air.
There’s the black pilled types who won’t vote for either out of disgust, because the candidates are selected to further agendas that have nothing to do with the well being of the people. Some cheerleaders will butt in with lesser of two evils thinking and that change is possible (usually if you vote for Trump). I doubt the presidential debates themselves move the needle on very many voters opinions though a disastrous performance by one or the other such as Joe Biden’s appearance in June could lead to reshuffling. Stop the jabs stop the wars stop the migrants taking our jobs and making our people unsafe seems to be the platform that’s trending. It’s 2024 and the Titanic feels like it is going down, so all bets are off.
Of course even if you believe that say Trump can save us all, that he will end the wars, wrangle the deep state, and won’t be fooled again by some lockdown until bioweapons rollout, there’s still election fraud to contend with. I can’t read anything about betting odds or poll numbers in swing states with the realization that who counts the votes is all that matters. It was already blatant gaslighting regarding this in 2020. I’m not sure they care if it is obvious fraud.
The change has to come from within each of us. Uno!
War is good for business interests. Peace is simply not profitable
This seems counterproductive, but I’m sure that somehow it raised share prices for a time
This also seems counterproductive. I told Ka that this was what our underwear models look like now. He laughed and laughed. On the plus side I don’t feel insecure:
We used to call that 2% something else when I was growing up:
People seem to be drowning in debt the same as our governments. Maybe more free money will fix it?
Of course that free debt only goes to those closest to money spigot, which prioritizes pretty much everything that regular people don’t want.
I suppose I should tune in at least the lowlights of the debate. Hot takes are welcome as I have trouble listening to any political candidate talk for more than one minute before I realize they are saying something not in my best interest. But if we didn’t have all of these government sector employee busybodies, what would people do for a living? It’s an honest question. Advances have drastically lowered the number of labor hours required to procure basic necessities in life such as food, water and shelter. Regulations keep people busy managing other people.
Yesterday I painted my first meme in a long time, based on an unattributed philosophical musing I read. It seemed so paintable and only took a few hours to sketch the scene out. I know Phar Percheron has offered to pay me for memes and I am still considering some. It’s just a matter of getting the right outline in my head for it.
I was only wearing a dress because with all the rain it was the only clean thing I had left to wear. The sun came out yesterday though and laundry is done! I am smiling below the lights of 7 Eleven, which do indeed have nice safe well affixed plastic covers. I learned that lesson the hard way!
The nice thing about the Victoria’s Secret models is it does make me more willing to show off…
Love the dress picture, you have fabulous open energy!
You look great! Speaking of hot takes, here's mine on what little I saw of the debate—like maybe the last half hour. First, my bias: I grieve over a persona like Trump’s in our political arena, especially domestically. On the other hand, I think we badly need his domestic and foreign policies again. I don’t like Kamala. Period. I think she is a vapid empty-suit and the public face and tool of a dangerous cabal.
Tonight, Trump was Trump with less energy. He did not do his homework. He seemed irritated, grumpy, and disgusted to be there as if the debate was a BS waste of his time. He was largely and predictably off-the-cuff. In contrast with a sneering Kamala apparently coached to exude an air of ridicule and mockery, he appeared at times set back on his heels and reactionary rather than in control. If he didn’t lie, at the very least he exaggerated, and he didn’t directly answer some pointed questions.
Kamala did her homework and cribbed notes. If there’s a plausible explanation for why she kept looking down at the podium—just like someone READING—I’m open to it. Otherwise, I don’t doubt she cheated. Her cheating seemed so obvious, online commentors speculated she also had an earpiece. When she wasn’t looking at her notes, she wore a belittling smirk when Trump spoke and when she spoke about him. She lied, or at the very least distorted facts to the point of lies, and she dodged some pointed questions. She put up a plausible defense of the Biden/Harris admin and offered some glittering generalities about the future. As a news junkie, I found none of it based on facts or the Dem track record, but liberals can point to it as evidence she now disavows Biden/Harris and is now a change agent.
Many Trump supporters are no doubt certain he won. Others, that he didn’t but that it won’t make a difference in the race. Many Kamala supporters are no doubt certain she won. Her supporters may have the more convincing argument, especially those who believe the Obama smirk is genuine and justified, and particularly those suffering from TDS. Overall, the debate itself changes nothing, but the CNNs of the world will portray it as a blowout for Kamela, and that is likely to change some minds.