News: My Takeaway From the Debate is…We’re Screwed.

Thursday night, we all got to watch the first presidential debate of 2024 on CNN (or Dailywire+ if you have the subscription). It was a historic rematch between Trump (a.k.a Orange Man) and Biden (a.k.a Dementia Man) and my expectations were very low. I expected Trump to be his normal Trump self (which I was wrong about) and I half-jokingly expected Biden to start having a mental break on stage; I thought Cornpop would make an appearance, or he would at least call Trump a “Lying dog-faced pony soldier,” and maybe crap himself at some point. However, while none of that happened (to my knowledge), Biden’s performance was terrible, Trump pretty much ruled the stage, and the debate turned into dark comedy gold.

#1: Trump

I do not have Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). I don’t believe Trump is the Antichrist and I don’t believe Trump is the Messiah. He definitely is not my favorite (I would’ve preferred that DeSantis be on that stage), but Trump is a lesser evil than Biden. That said, if I was of voting age, I would most likely vote for him just because another four years of Biden would make me start considering moving to Mars to set up my own country consisting of potatoes (it worked for Matt Damon).

There’s not much that I can say about Trump’s answers in the debate. He’s Trump. He was just doing his thing for the entire debate, speaking the facts about everything that has transpired since he left office, from the disastrous Afghanistan pullout in 2021, to the border crisis and the economy. There wasn’t anything that we didn’t already know; his responses aren’t going to go down in the annals of history as something school children will have to study for weeks. However, some lines did go down in the annals of memedom, so there’s that.

#2: Biden

If you had any doubts that Biden has dementia, I’m sure they’ve been dispelled at this point. From the moment he doddered out on stage, said “Hey, folks,” to what I’m assuming were the CNN anchors and camera men, and got to the podium, I knew that the debate had been won fair and square by Trump. Biden’s doctors must be skilled in necromancy or something, he looked that dead. Throughout the debate, he had a few moments of lucidity, before seemingly falling asleep on stage or staring off into the abyss (maybe he saw the Grim Reaper trying to tempt him to death with ice cream). According to one of Dailywire’s reporters that was there, there was an audible gasp in the newsroom the moment Biden trailed off in one of his sentences. And after the debate, the Democrat party and reporters (but I repeat myself) were basically acting like this Spongebob meme as they tried to figure out what to do next:

What’s even worse is that after the debate, someone recorded Jill Biden leading Joe off the stage and after that, she basically treated him like a baby who had just figured out how to walk.

Everybody, this is our president. The doddering old guy who should be in a nursing home is our president. If you go to the comments section on YouTube, they are brutal, with most of them joking about Biden’s condition. One person even said that it felt like an SNL skit. Another person said, “Biden sounds like when I’m trying to yell at someone in a dream and it’s not coming out.” Someone else said, “I think South Park wrote the script for this episode.” If that doesn’t worry you, I don’t know what will.

On top of that, Biden straight up denied or played down everything, especially when Trump mentioned the Afghanistan pull-out, where Biden left behind billions of dollars of military equipment, killed 13 American servicemen, left the most strategically located airfield to the Chinese, and left thousands of American citizens and allies to life under the Taliban. This isn’t something that can be played down, especially not today in a time where everything is published online for millions of people to watch. The fact that he had to resort to lies when he wasn’t falling asleep shows how screwed the Democrat party is.

#3: My Thoughts on What Could Happen

Like I said in the title…we’re screwed. Maybe that seems pessimistic but think about the possibilities of what could happen. The Democrats still have some time to pull Biden out of the race and replace him with someone else. Who? I don’t know. RFK Jr. is a possibility since he probably just had the best night of his life watching Biden stumble around his words. If that happens, unless Trump steps up his game, I don’t know if he would be able to defeat his opponent. I think most people will vote for someone who isn’t Biden at this point, but there’s also still enough people who hate Trump enough for him to have a much harder time winning the election.

Then there’s the possibility for Biden to stay in the race. That is what the Republican party wants so that Trump’s job becomes easier, but, on a human level, it would be inhumane to let him continue to run. I agree with Ben Shapiro that this is essentially elder abuse.

There’s also the question of who is actually running the country? Is it Obama? Is it Kamala? Is it the Chinese? We don’t know and may never know, but whoever it is, they weren’t elected, and they’ve certainly done their damage and it may take years to repair it.

Either way, we’re still stuck with Biden for the next few months (hopefully) and even if Trump becomes president, these are very dangerous times. As Trump pointed out during the debate, because of Biden we have never been closer to WWIII. If Biden has an accident while still in office, our enemies are going to move and they’re going to move fast. If that happens, who knows if our country is going to have the firepower to hold off an attack. The FBI has already confirmed that we have sleeper cells in our country and it’s only a matter of time before they attack.

I don’t say this to fear-monger, that’s not what this blog is about. All I’m saying is that we need to be alert and really think about what is best for our country.

Until next time,

M.J.