2024 Sep 14 - Kamala Trump Debate
A lot happened this week. The actor James Earl Jones passed away, presumably now referred to as James Earl Bones. To be fair I recently rewatched Star Wars and his breathing sounded pretty bad even back then.
It was also the 2 year anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth and I was thinking back to that day and how I spent most of it checking my phone, for poor taste jokes from friends. It's funny now with hindsight to realise now that Huw Edwards was also doing the same thing, checking his phone every few minutes, when the BBC cut to a different presenter. Albeit for very different reasons.
But there was also a presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris which as always was rather a waste of time. Two people reading out preprepared lies for well over an hour, it was like watching a couple at a dinner party going through a divorce except at least you might get a beef wellington or a risotto out of that. I did find it hilarious about how the organisers did their hardest to only fact check Kamala and thus give her the edge but then the only soundbite to come out of it was the one about how Haitian migrants in Springfield are stealing and eating pets in Springfield Ohio. As a reminder the way the argument works is that we're at stage (1) "No one is eating anyones pets" In another week we will move to stage (2) "Why do you care so much if people are eating pets?". Then in October the newspapers will have an article (3) "Why eating pets is a good thing" before eventually putting out campaign adverts (4) "Refusing to eat pets is white supremacy #VoteKamala"
I did get a chuckle out of a satirical piece by the Babylon Bee about how a local Chinese Restaurant had been forced to close due the lack of available animals to pass of as Sesame Chicken and in mosts respects I think the story is partially true albeit wildly overblown, but it's irrelevant. Nobody changed their minds on who to vote for and that's still probably true even after they tried to get Taylor Swift to endorse Kamala Harris. My reaction to that is probably just to remind everybody that 90% of Taylor Swift's songs are about she's terrible at choosing the right guy.
It was also the 2 year anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth and I was thinking back to that day and how I spent most of it checking my phone, for poor taste jokes from friends. It's funny now with hindsight to realise now that Huw Edwards was also doing the same thing, checking his phone every few minutes, when the BBC cut to a different presenter. Albeit for very different reasons.
But there was also a presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris which as always was rather a waste of time. Two people reading out preprepared lies for well over an hour, it was like watching a couple at a dinner party going through a divorce except at least you might get a beef wellington or a risotto out of that. I did find it hilarious about how the organisers did their hardest to only fact check Kamala and thus give her the edge but then the only soundbite to come out of it was the one about how Haitian migrants in Springfield are stealing and eating pets in Springfield Ohio. As a reminder the way the argument works is that we're at stage (1) "No one is eating anyones pets" In another week we will move to stage (2) "Why do you care so much if people are eating pets?". Then in October the newspapers will have an article (3) "Why eating pets is a good thing" before eventually putting out campaign adverts (4) "Refusing to eat pets is white supremacy #VoteKamala"
I did get a chuckle out of a satirical piece by the Babylon Bee about how a local Chinese Restaurant had been forced to close due the lack of available animals to pass of as Sesame Chicken and in mosts respects I think the story is partially true albeit wildly overblown, but it's irrelevant. Nobody changed their minds on who to vote for and that's still probably true even after they tried to get Taylor Swift to endorse Kamala Harris. My reaction to that is probably just to remind everybody that 90% of Taylor Swift's songs are about she's terrible at choosing the right guy.
A lot happened this week. The actor James Earl Jones passed away, presumably now referred to as James Earl Bones. To be fair I recently rewatched Star Wars and his breathing sounded pretty bad even back then.
It was also the 2 year anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth and I was thinking back to that day and how I spent most of it checking my phone, for poor taste jokes from friends. It's funny now with hindsight to realise now that Huw Edwards was also doing the same thing, checking hi ......
It was also the 2 year anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth and I was thinking back to that day and how I spent most of it checking my phone, for poor taste jokes from friends. It's funny now with hindsight to realise now that Huw Edwards was also doing the same thing, checking hi ......