I didn't intend to watch it but a friend texted me, spoke of her enthusiasm to check out the debate between Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence. My friend noted, "I DO find her entertaining."
Since politicians aren't giving Americans anything after having screwed us all year, they might as well be a source of amusement. The debate gave us that in the form of a six-legged animal landing on Mike Pence's white hair and staying there for a few minutes. He talked without knowing there was a fly on his head; no one told him about it. The fly may have been wondering why the strange snow white surface wasn't cold. Pence himself is a cold man. He shows most animation when he's lying.
About the fly, my friend texted, "The fly was sitting on shit and is my hero."
Still, Pence held himself together throughout the debate, while Harris shifted a lot, spoke much too expressively with her hands and arms, didn't have much to offer when talking about justice, an area of expertise on which she should have a good grasp.
Not naming him but mentioning the specific amount of time to the number of seconds George Floyd was asphyxiated on camera by someone she backhandedly referred to as a "bad cop," Kamala Harris, former San Francisco D.A. who was in the habit of not prosecuting "bad" cops, called for the Minneapolis murdering cop, Derek Chauvin, to be prosecuted. It's not likely she would have done so had the same thing happened in San Francisco a dozen years ago. Like Amy Klobuchar, former D.A. of Hennepin County (where Floyd was murdered), Harris let cops get away with criminality; it's the way things are done in America--a Biden presidency isn't going to change it.
She spoke of the Biden ticket's commitment to banning choke holds by police, but that won't take away the military gear granted to them by Biden and Obama; cops will still treat the citizenry in times of protest as adversaries rather than people with legitimate beefs against a system of governance that's screwing them in the ass while enriching tycoons.
Kamala Harris's credibility problem runs deep. She pretends to care about ordinary people, playing often on the "little girl from Oakland" story. Her autobiography's book cover shows a picture of little Kamala with a pout on her face, looking at the camera. A cute picture marred by the fact that this kid will grow up to persecute African-Americans, punish people for smoking pot, ally herself with Wall Street interests, support the decades-long occupation of Afghanistan with all of its killing and exploitation, support Israel's execrable activities against Palestinians, will rise in the ranks of a corrupt political party lacking any semblance to a well-functioning organization offering decent policies to ordinary people.
She seeks Mike Pence's job. She knows what Mike Pence is, a functionary of the state, someone who goes along to get along (like Kamala). She knows Mike Pence compromised his soul decades ago, for she did the same.
I shouldn't be amazed, but I am amazed at how some people can look at Pence and Harris, Trump and Biden, and believe in them. Pence with his white hair, resembling a bust of some general, perhaps, who ran the occupation of Nicaragua in the 1930s. Expressionless, heart operating usually at thirty beats per minute. Cracked ideas about religion, a lapsed Catholic but retaining the guilt and sense of Original Sin. Trump, a Christian fraud lacking any real knowledge of the Bible or its teachings, especially the more humane ones. Joe Biden, frail, not really all that religious as far as I can tell. He doesn't, at least, make a noise about it. He is, though, destined to lose his shit in office, if elected. Like Ronald Reagan during his last year or two in office, Biden is soon headed for a land of mental fog guaranteed to be covered up by the news media as thoroughly as Franklin Roosevelt's time spent in a wheelchair.
A Washington Post article, "Joe Biden's campaign, summed up in one simple gesture," written by their fashion editor, Robin Givhan, exemplifies the willful blindness of mainstream news media journalists and pundits regarding the former Vice President. On October 5, 2020, the same day Trump checked himself out of the hospital, having conquered Covid-19 (if you're one of those who believe that kind of shit), Joe Biden answered reporters' questions on the tarmac of the Wilmington, Delaware, airport before boarding his plane for Miami.
I watched the video accompanying the article. Biden stands about three or four feet from the front rank of reporters. They're all masked. Background jet engine noise makes everyone talk loudly. I really think that politicians use machine noise to obscure language, to make the process of understanding painful. Trump's press conferences usually happen with his helicopter's turboshaft engines idling in the background. This creates a sense of tension as information is supposedly conveyed, but it just sounds like the Hieronymous Bosch factory Trump would secretly like to put everyone in. Have you ever had a meaningful conversation with someone in an environment of machine noise?
Anyway, the jet engine noise, according to Pulitzer Prize winner Robin Givhan (she did win the Pulitzer in 2006, but she won't win another for writing this shit article), caused Biden to get a bit too close (in this Covid-19 era) to the reporters. In dashes Dr. Jill Biden, intrepid wife (and nurse?) of the Democratic nominee. She performs "the gesture" of Givhan's article title by saying "Move back," and
pulling him back from the reporters to a more acceptable social distance.
Robin Givhan:
"Biden apologized for his spatial indiscretion and then carried on with his thoughts about the importance of following the science in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
'An entire campaign was summed up in that simple gesture--and by Biden's response to it."
Givhan makes a big deal out of Biden saying "I'm sorry," noting that Trump is incapable of uttering these words. I'll grant her that. Trump's never saying sorry practice is a long-practiced philosophy of asshole pig capitalist businessmen who rise to the top by climbing over even their family members. That most journalists have ever expected Trump to behave like a normal human being just goes to show they're often shitty at their jobs, not very perceptive, and maybe not bright, either.
When Biden says, "I'm sorry," it's obvious he's addressing the apology to his wife, i.e. his handler, the one who keeps the closest eye on the fact that he's not all there.
Biden didn't notice he wasn't socially distanced from the reporters. For me, when I'm out in public, this is an awareness popping off in my head automatically. For an old man losing his shit, it's a lapse we should also expect from someone who, in pre-Covid days, often got into women's and girls' spaces, sniffing or playing with their hair. Biden's a touchy-feely guy.
Robin Givhan concedes that "Jill Biden proved she's a fierce guardian of her husband--able to keep a watchful eye on him while he conducts retail politics...she's doing her best to body-block a virus. There was visceral emotion and power in her tugging on his arms."
If you watch that minute-long video, I'd be surprised if you would interpret Dr. Jill Biden's actions in the same way. "...doing her best to body-block a virus." Take note, writers; this is how you write when you're going for a Pulitzer Prize.
I'm done making predictions. I don't know who's going to win, but it won't be the American people. Just a week ago I predicted Trump would win, based on his cash cow status with the Democratic establishment and corporate news media. Fundraising off of Trump and the consequent making of great ratings have made "the Donald" a golden egg-laying politician for people like Nancy Pelosi and CNN's top man Jeff Zucker. Trump was selected President, by those who actually run the country, in 2016 for this purpose. I can't prove it, but it's damned convenient for the wealthiest people in America to have an ugly and grotesque leader acting as a scapegoat distracting ordinary Americans away from the fact that Trump is just one of many rich scoundrels driving this country into a deep hole, on purpose, for the last forty years; a bipartisan screwing of the poor and middle class.
That the fly in the room chose to land on Mike Pence's head instead of Kamala's doesn't mean she isn't also a spiritually empty, deceitful sack of shit.
Vic Neptune
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