Wednesday, October 02, 2024

On Last Night's Vice President Debate

Tim Walz surprised me with his breadth of substantive answers, I was expecting more fuzzy-Grandpa- coach; JD Vance lied with almost every breath but did well in pretending he was a human being so he won which is fine since nobody's going to remember/care in about 10 minutes other than Trump who I'm sure has been blistering the paint on the walls around him since the first "wow, look how nice JD Vance came across last night..." comment bruised his already bruised precious ego.

But seriously, why does this debate exist? We spend most of 4 years claiming the VP job is the least consequential job in the history of the world and then we spend 2 hours melting down that one of these two people is going to either save the world or blow it up. And if it does have to exist, why go through some carbon-copy bullshit like the varsity debate? Why not just sit these two at a table with a camera, say see you guys in 2 hours and see what happens? These two candidates happened to be stocky Midwestern men, we can't just fucking make them wrestle each other to the ground for the win?

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