To be clear…I’m not a huge fan of Donald Trump and Joe Biden was not one of my choices from the starting field of Democratic candidates. I very much consider myself a reasonable centrist.
I tried watching last night’s first presidential shit show which was advertised as a presidential debate.
I was born in 1957…so I’m somewhat old. Last night’s presidential debate for me was the lowest point I’ve witnessed as a human living as an American in my lifetime. There was nothing even remotely presidential about this debate-shit show.
It turned me off completely. This performance by Donald Trump showed how little respect he actually has for the office of the U.S. presidency. It shows how little concern he has for the 330 million humans who like me call themselves Americans.
It was a disgrace of historical proportions.
Even Nixon in his latter days or at the least other Republican leaders never subjected the nation to a perfromance like the one witnessed last night.
It is simply stunning how far the Republican Party has fallen off the cliff to keep power. I would assume not one of the current fifty-three Republican senators agree with me this morning.
This is why I’ve been hiding as much as possible in the NHL and NBA bubbles…so I wouldn’t have to face the truth about how far our country has fallen in the past four years.
How low the bar is in relation to the level of our national discourse.
I actually have a history degree and could teach if I wanted to. Can you imagine me in a classroom with all these Trump progeny in Oklahoma? I wouldn’t last a month. I’d be removed for throwing an eraser at one of my students for calling WWII fake news. It would be worse than me being on the Daily Thunder messageboard.
This is how far we’ve fallen. Nixon seems like Bambi compared to the grifter Trump. Senators Barry Goldwater and Howard Baker went in person to require that Nixon resign. Then RNC chairman Bush 41 also sent a private letter to Nixon telling Nixon he had to leave office.
Anybody see three Republicans like that around circa 2020?