Wednesday, September 28, 2016

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“Then I’d tell America to plead the Fifth Amendment.”

Monday night’s Presidential Debate was, um, interesting in the Chinese curse sense. Analysis of who won the debate itself is all over the spectrum, because no one knows anything anymore about what, if anything, is going on in the minds of voters. So Hope n’ Change will share our honest and considered opinion, but it hardly matters – rationality is no longer a major factor in this race. Nor a blessing to those still afflicted with it.

In our view, we saw a largely out-of-control contest (nice moderating, Lester!) between a master schemer and a stream-of-thoughter. Hillary wore a robotic smile as she lied and lied with well rehearsed, entirely scripted answers. Trump seemed somewhat unclear on the idea that “answers” should be at least tangentially related to the “questions,” lacked anything remotely like specifics, but did not disappoint in the bombast category.

There were multiple opportunities for Trump to utterly destroy Hillary – and he unfortunately missed every one of them. He was like a man at a buffet who had no plate. In the future, he needs to listen harder to what Hillary is actually saying so he can take advantage of her more ludicrous statements.

All of that considered, Hope n’ Change still believes it’s vitally important to vote against Hillary on election day. Largely unchallenged, she spouted nonsense like Reagan’s economic policies being the cause of the 2007 financial crash, Rudy Giuliani’s “stop and frisk” policies in New York being ineffective (they dramatically reduced crime), the tremendous “success” of the Iran nuclear deal, the idea that jobs will be magically created by making the evil rich pick up the bill for meaningless “free” college educations, and the implementation of new, draconian training programs to force all police officers to deal with their “implicit racism.”

In recent weeks, we’ve actually seen considerable improvement in Trump’s demeanor and rhetoric at rallies, so it’s possible that debates simply aren’t his thing. For that reason, Hope n’ Change isn’t devoid of hope – but we are looking forward to more change in Mr. Trump’s next debate appearance.

BONUS: MORE FROM THE BIG CHEESE

Just to lighten today’s somewhat grumbly mood, here’s another old cartoon by Stilton’s father. This pretty much captures what happens in the Jarlsberg household every time Hillary opens her mouth

This article is republished with permission from our friend Stilton Jarlsberg at Hope n’Change