Presidential Debates 2020

I’m a get into these debates, y’all — for realz!

I don’t know if anybody really bothered to watch the debates from front to back. I did. A lot ‘o folks on the left are making fun of Trump’s seem-like mindless and childish outburst and interruptions. People still wanna see Trump as either the devil or a fool. Both o’ those takes are wrong AF, and prolly what put Trump in the White House the first time. Remember 2016 when folks was like, “ WTF?” We may get a repeat if people don’t wise the F up?

There was a real clear message coming through in Trump’s “mindless” blathering. One thing I heard clear as muh’ fugging day was that race theory is making people hate America. I haven’t heard that in a single sound bite. Mind y’all, I ain’t combing social media and the news outlets for sound bites. People remember Joe Biden sayin’, “Man, will you shut up!” People don’t seem to remember the things Trump actually said.

Like it or not, the “Make America Great Again” which translated in the 2016 election to “Keep America White, Please” worked on a lot of people, regardless of their race. People associate Whiteness with order, prosperity and familiarity. One way or other, White Supremacist beliefs have made their way into a lot of people’s brains. It’s also a way of saying law and order, and in a time of what feels like chaos, that comforts a lot of people too, I imagine.

I ain’t saying Trump has the answer. I’m saying the person had a clear message. One that is easy to understand, regardless of the level education a voter might have. So far, I ain’t heard anything quite as powerful from the left. Well, “change,” yes, but people don’t like change...period. I have heard a lot of information that makes sense to me, wit’ a Master’s mah’ fugging degree from an Ivy League as institution. But I ain’t heard shit to have people quoting it, other than the aforementioned “Man, shut up.” That’s a problem.

Of course, who the fuck am I to criticize anybody. My name ain’t on nary a ballot. I ain’t no high-paid campaign advisor. I’m just a person and people ain’t qualified to say what they see. We need Jeremy Peters and Politico to tell us what we see and hear. Our eyes and ears lie, right?

It ain’t over ‘til it’s over. As Kamala said many times (and that was quotable), we got 27 days left. A lot can happen in 27 days, y’all.