You’ve got to hand it to them. They know how to put their collective thumb on the scale. Deep State must have cracked open the champagne bottles after that ridiculous Trump-Harris debate.

I’m coming to terms with the idea of “President Harris.” It’s the most embarrassing thing that’s happened to America since it elected a community organizer from Chicago in 2008.

Her idiotic proposal to raise the capital gains tax to 33% is going to bang up the economy. That would include the normal CGT of 28% plus an “investment income tax,” whatever that is, of 5%.

But on the bright side, I’ll have plenty of writing fodder for the next four years.

Kamala Couldn’t Believe Her Luck

Enough about Springfield’s pets already!

It doesn’t matter if it’s true. Why? Because tarring all the migrants with the same brush as one migrant who has a fetish for cats is unseemly.

But Trump bit. She must’ve thought, “Thank God he’s such an idiot sometimes!”

Newsweek writes:

"What they have done to our country by allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country—and look at what's happening to the towns all over the United States," the former president said.

"In Springfield, they're eating the dogs—the people that came in," Trump continued. They're eating the cats. They're eating the pets of the people that live there, and this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame."

Talk about kids getting beaten up, fathers getting murdered, mothers getting assaulted. All of those things have happened. Pets getting eaten? For Pete’s sake, there are about 1,000 ways of making a better point. As I wrote in yesterday’s Rude, free trade doesn’t have to mean the free movement of people. All he has to do is emphasize the community doesn’t want to be overrun and be done with it.

Even The Babylon Bee had some fun with this:

Credit: @ConceptualJames

And this leads me to my next point.

Trump Doesn’t Want It Badly Enough

Donald Trump may want to be President again, but he doesn’t want it badly enough. If he did, he’d get debate coaching, learn to shut up while ahead, and avoid silly traps.

Until then, I’m going to assume he’s okay with losing. If he’s so arrogant that it’s not worth it for him to change, then we’ll have to deal with a Democrat in the White House for another four years.

Oh, I know, “He just got shot for crying out loud!”

I know that. But what this shows is just how short our memories are. Deep State tried to kill him, missed, and yet, somehow, Trump is behind in the polls, losing to a cackling imbecile with a load of titles on her résumé but absolutely no accomplishments.

And that brings me to his would-be Veep.

JD Vance is a Liability

JD Vance is a YAILEI, alright. Yet Another Ivy League-Educated Idiot.

You’d think a Yale Law School-educated person could read the room better. I think Trump would’ve been better off going with Vivek or RFK Jr.

When Vance, the junior Senator from the great state of Ohio, was asked about the fowl-eating migrants, he headed straight towards the fire.

The Washington Examiner writes:

“This is what Kamala Harris’s border policies have done,” Vance said to CNN host Kaitlan Collins following the debate. “And I think it‘s interesting, Kaitlan, that the media didn‘t care about the carnage wrought by these policies until we turned it into a meme about cats, and that speaks to the media‘s failure to care about what‘s going on in these communities. If we have to meme about it to get the media to care, we‘re going to keep on doing it because the media should care about what‘s going on.”

Collins then pushed back and asked if Vance and Trump have a responsibility to not promote false information, prompting Vance to reiterate his desire to “take people seriously” when they describe how the “migrant crisis” has impacted their lives.

“And again, if every single thing that the media says about this story is false, the verifiable facts are that this community has had their lives destroyed by 20,000 migrants coming in and uprooting life,” Vance said.

He’s correct. But as my grandfather once told me, “Say what you think, but think how you say it.”

I would’ve started with the last bit first. When you mass import a third of a city’s population, you’ve planned an invasion. You’re terraforming life there as the townsfolk knew it. But there’s no reason to continue with the pet-eating claims. Ignore them and move on.

Even Karl Rove had this to say in The Wall Street Journal:

Trump enthusiasts will be upset that the ABC interviewers fact-checked the former president far more than they did Ms. Harris. Then again, he gave them plenty of material to work with—such as repeating the bizarre claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating the pets of local residents. That was probably Team Trump’s lowest moment.

The Media Industrial Complex Did Its Job

ABC News is a disgrace. Peter Jennings must be rolling over in his grave.

How many times did David Muir fact-check Trump? And how many times did he fact-check Harris?

Harris said the Trump presidency “left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression.”

Nothing from ABC. It’s utterly ridiculous.

Deep State must persuade their doggies very well.

The media wouldn’t make the same mistake they made when Trump debated Biden. No microphone cut-offs. Let Trump drone on like the arrogant ass he can be. No one strangles himself with his own words better than Trump does when he gets on a rant.

Wrap Up

With all this going on, at least the firefighters Joke Biden (who?) visited had a sense of humor and handed him a real hat:

And the market recovered from an awful start yesterday, thanks to better inflation numbers. We may be rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. But it’s better than being miserable until the election!

Have a great day.