Indulging nostalgia may be a sign of advancing age, but I can’t help longing for the Good Old Days.  The days, not so long ago, when our world was normal.  Remember Normal?  That’s a question often posed by conservative talk show host Chris Plante (WMAL radio 105.9 9-noon, and NewsMax TV).  Chris Plante even sells “Remember Normal?” apparel.  It’s a pertinent question these days because the concept of normality (or what President Warren G. Harding called “normalcy”) has been stood on its head.

The things that used to be normal are normal no longer.  Once, politicians from both Parties agreed that illegal immigration was unacceptable.  Not anymore.  Once, all officials agreed that law enforcement was beneficial and necessary.  Not anymore.  Once, all officials agreed that excessive public debt was ruinous and unacceptable.  Not anymore.  And most importantly, once, we had journalists who saw it as their duty to uncover government corruption and malfeasance.  But not anymore.

In less than a month you have a choice to make.  It’s a stark choice, between two diametrically opposed visions of the future.  It’s not a political choice any longer, not simply a choice between two political Parties.  It’s a choice between a future of freedom,  normalcy and plenty, or one of fear, servitude and deprivation.  As Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden says, “No lie.”

This is not an election where we must choose the lesser of two evils.  This time, Democrats have cornered the market.  Kamala Harris clearly represents both the lesser and the evil.  Which is not to say that I view Donald Trump through rose colored glasses.  He’s not perfect.  None of us is.  But when we weigh the blunt, braggadocios, abrasive, billionaire business man against the lying, hiding, vacuous, Socialist wrecking ball that is Kamala Harris, it’s no contest.

LBJ was fond of quoting his mentor, Sam Rayburn, who taught that, “Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.”  The 2024 election is a contest between the Carpenter and the Jackass.

Consider their backgrounds.  Trump the real estate developer and builder.  Sure, he grew up in a well to do family, but that’s no vice.  The woods are full of heirs to businesses who turned millions into thousands.  It’s the rare heir who has the ability to turn millions into billions.  Donald Trump is such a man.  Kamala, on the other hand, is a creature of government, who’s been handed every job she’s ever had, including the presidential nomination.

And as for all the lying hand-wringing about Trump, the threat to freedom and democracy, remember this – only one candidate in this election has a proven track record of accomplishment.  We need not speculate about what Trump will do because he’s done it already.

In his first term, Trump gave us lower taxes, higher wages, no inflation, low energy prices, energy independence, a secure border, law and order, greatly improved trade agreements, no wars, and China, Iran, Russia and North Korea under control.  He can do it all again, and we need it more now than in 2016.

On the other side of the ledger we have Kamala, the heir to the legacy of Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden.  Harris and Biden took each of the accomplishments listed in the above paragraph and made every one of them worse.  Runaway inflation has stolen the bread from the table of every American.  The world in on the brink of war.  The admission of millions of illegal aliens has cost us billions, sacrificed our safety, overburdened our schools, housing and hospitals, and put the jobs of millions of Americans at risk.

In a rare interview, Kamala was asked whether admitting the millions of invaders was a mistake.  As usual, she dodged and dithered.  “It’s a longstanding problem.  And solutions are at hand.  And from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions.” The reporter pressed her, “What I was asking was, was it a mistake to kind of allow that flood to happen in the first place?”  Harris replied that “The policies that we have been proposing are about fixing a problem, not promoting a problem.”  It was no mistake.  Erasing the border was Democrat policy.

Kamala is often accused of spouting word salad, but that’s a euphemism.  She’s not a word salad purveyor, she’s a lying bullshit artist.  She’s not fixing any problem.  She and her senile boss created the problems, and their actions have proven more ruinous than anyone suspected.

Democrats bashed Trump for saying that the illegal alien invaders were coming here from prisons and asylums, remember?  Last week we were informed, by the Immigration and Naturalization Service that, among the untold millions of illegal aliens Kamala let loose on unsuspecting Americans, are nearly 14,000 convicted murderers, more than 16,000 convicted sex offenders, and more than 400,000 other criminals, convicted of a variety of crimes.  Who does that to their own citizens?  I guess we should have expected as much from the person who raised money to bail out rioters, and as California AG, ensured that convicted murderers could get sex change operations at public expense.   It’s just not normal.

We’re $36 trillion in debt, but Kamala wants to spend several hundred trillion more.  Trump lowered taxes.  Kamala wants to raise them, “to make the rich pay their fair share.”  The top 10% of earners now pay 72% of the taxes, while the bottom 50% pay under 3%.  When do we reach fairness?  Kamala even wants to tax unrealized capital gains.  You bought a stock that doubled in value, but haven’t sold it yet?  The value of your house increased?  Kamala wants 28% of the paper profit.  Where will you get the money?  Forced sales of stock that will crash the market, or a home equity loan so you can transfer your equity to the government.  It’s just not normal.

Kamala and company have supported positions that are designed to destroy America as we have known it.  The military is less concerned with fighting wars than with gender equity and pronoun purity.  The CIA is actively recruiting transgender agents.  Consider that.  The model for a spy is a low profile person, someone who will blend into the crowd.  So does this make sense?

Hardly.  It’s just not normal.

Kamala keeps bleating that it’s time to “turn the page,” by which I guess she means a new president with new policies.  There a a couple of problems with this.  First, she has announced no policy changes.  Secondly, this week, Kamala went on a TV show, The Herd, or was it The View?  Anyhow, one of the heifers asked her, “Would you have done anything different than Biden?”  Surprisingly, the truth slipped out,”There is not a thing that comes to mind.”

That Kamala is on the same inept and dangerous page as Biden became abundantly clear this week, as they proved themselves unable to manage the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which devastated North Carolina.  Joe Biden, on the beach in Delaware, neglected to mobilize the many nearby military bases to get aid to the area.  When asked about it he said, “What storm?,” and then said the people had everything they need.

Then, after Trump arrived with tractor trailers of food and water for the storm victims, Kamala belatedly visited the D.C. offices of FEMA to boost the morale of the bureaucrats.  This was political malpractice, and a blatant disregard for her constituents.  It proved her unfit to lead, and it’s just not normal.

So, soon you need to choose.  Trump likes to say, “Even if you don’t like me, you have to vote for me.”  He’s got a point.  We’re desperately in need of a strong leader.  You can choose normal, or what Mel Brooks once called , “Abby Normal.”  You can have Trump and Vance, or Kamala de Vil and Elmer Fudd.

Not such a hard choice after all, is it?

As the calendar turns from September to October, we’re in the home stretch of the 2024 presidential election.  Trump continues to be Trump, with the outdoor rallies in swing States.  Or at least he tries to continue the rallies.  In an unprecedented abrogation of its responsibilities, the United States Secret Service this week actually told Donald Trump that it was unable to guarantee his safety at a planned outdoor rally in Michigan.  They forced the rally indoors, where of course, Trump’s message could reach far fewer voters than it would have in the outdoor setting.

The reported reason for this action was a lack of manpower, due to the United Nations General Assembly meetings.  Secret Service decided that the protection of corrupt dictators was more important than the protection of a presidential candidate who already has experienced two assassination attempts, and who Secret Service admits is being targeted by Iranian hit squads.  In a word, this is bullshit.

The government is being run by a Party that says it seeks to avoid bad optics.  Remember?  When Trump offered the Democrats 10,000 troops to protect the Capitol on January 6, 2021, they turned it down.  The optics, they said, would be ruined by the presence of troops.

Now, late September 2024, and the Secret Service has fostered the following optics.  While the Secret Service expends resources to protect the President of Iran in New York, the man whose nation openly has announced that it’s going to kill Trump, Mike Pompeo, and other Americans, it is withholding resources to protect a former President of the United States, and current presidential candidate.

If America had real journalists, this would be a scandal.  But we don’t.  And the reality is that 30% of Democrats, and I suspect a greater percentage of so-called journalists actually are rooting for Iran to finish Trump off.  The truth is that this Administration, and its Secret Service: A) don’t care if Trump is killed; and B) are using limited Secret Service protection to hamper Trump’s campaign in swing States.  Example – after protecting Kamala at her Wisconsin rally, they refused to permit Trump to have his rally in Wisconsin.  The fact is, we don’t need foreign meddling in our elections, the Biden-Harris Administration is doing a fine job by itself.

Meanwhile, the Hollywood production that is the Kamala Harris campaign rolls on.  You will recall that we had Kamala – The Sitcom, with her campaign resembling a Show About Nothing.  No plans.  No policies.  And no straight answers to any question.

Much like a sitcom, though, The Kamala Show featured a catchy tagline.  You know, The Big Bang Theory had “Bazinga!”  Fonzie on Happy Days had “Hey!”  Bart Simpson had “Eat my shorts.”  And That Seventies Show had “Burn!”  Not to be outdone, Kamala has “What can be, unburdened by what has been.”

At first, we didn’t know what that line meant, but now we figured it out.  I think it means she can change every position she’s ever held on every issue with impunity.  She can lie to the American people.  And she can continue to hide until election day.  Who knows?  It worked for Biden.

Anyhow, after the sitcom, we had Kamala’s game show, The Price is Wrong, where she announced she would end inflation by prosecuting supermarkets for price gouging, or was that price gauging?  No matter.  Either way it was bullshit.

The game show was followed by the Kamala dramatic series, The Fakest Show on Earth.  This was a mystery series, like Murder She Wrote.  Only it should have been called Bullshit She Spread, because in it, Kamala ducked all real interviews, then sat for a couple of softball sessions with friendly outlets, which perpetuated her lies.  It wasn’t much of a mystery, though, because all the viewers soon figured out, like in Clue, that person who murdered the truth was Kamala, in the studio, with the word salad.

New for October, however, is the next installment of the Hollywood production of Kamala, the candidate.  This one is Kamala, the Musical.  That’s right, they’ve brought back the Broadway production of Camelot, this time, aptly renamed, Skamalot.  The title song is a very catchy tune.

SKAMALOT

Kamala made it plain four years ago man,
A border wall is just medieval rot,
But now she says the wall was always her plan,
It’s Skamalot!

She hopes that voters really won’t remember,
The socialistic policies she’s got,
She needs to keep on lying till November,
It’s Skamalot!

Skamalot! Skamalot!
I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
But in Skamalot, Skamalot,
That’s how conditions are.

She once assured that she would banish fracking,
Today she says that’s simply not the case.
So now she’ll frack for gas,
She’s talking out her ass,
She’s out to fool the uninformed right here in Skamalot.

Skamalot! Skamalot!
It should give a person pause,
That in Skamalot, Skamalot,
This Jackass made our laws.

She used to say all cars must be electric,
But now she says that’s not what she stands for,
Her flip flops may seem strange,
But her values haven’t changed,
Kamala’s just a lying twit,
Right here in Skamalot!

Wow!  That should have them rolling in the aisles over at MSNBC.

The moral of the story is, that no matter how many times the Democrats change the lyrics, the song remains the same.  Kamala Harris is nothing more than an empty pantsuit masquerading as a leader.

The only offices she led in California were political plums supplied by her Sugar Daddy, Willie Brown.  Kamala ran the DA’s office in San Francisco, and then the California Attorney General’s office.  She ran both offices, along with the entire State of California, directly into the ground.  And now she wants to apply her nonexistent talents to the presidency.  “What may be, unburdened by what has been.”  A slogan is not a policy.

Laurence Peter developed what became known as the Peter Principle. (There’s a lot I could do with that, but I’ll stay away from the implications).  The principle is that a person tends to rise to the level of his or her incompetence.  Kamala reached her level long ago, and now has no place to go but down.  Don’t let her take the rest of us with her.

Well, it took us 40 years, but we’ve finally achieved the government that George Orwell warned us about in 1984.  In his book, Orwell described the Ministry of Truth building as a pyramid-shaped structure with slogans on each of its three faces – “War is Peace” “Freedom is Slavery” and “Ignorance is Strength.”  As you might have guessed, the job of the Ministry of Truth was to perpetuate lies, to help Big Brother keep the populace obedient.

In Orwell’s fictional land of Oceania, Big Brother had the power to offer any lie as the truth.  Anyone who objected to being lied to was dealt with by the Ministry of Love, whose job it was to imprison and torture all dissenters.  To those of you who think America could never turn into such an Orwellian dystopia, hold on to your hats.  I have seen the future, and it’s disturbing.

One of the things that made America the envy of the world is our Constitution and Bill of Rights.  Not because we have one.  Many dictatorships have Bills of Rights that surpass ours.  Check out the Soviet Constitution.  The difference is, Americans actually enjoyed the rights they were promised.  At least so far.

You’d think that with so many lawyers running (or infesting) the government, there would be a reverence for and dedication to the rule of law in general and the supreme law of the land, the Constitution, specifically.  But there isn’t.  An alarming number of so-called constitutional scholars from prestigious schools are advocating  disregarding or summarily changing the Constitution to help the Left succeed.

A sane law professor, Johnathan Turley, sounded the alarm recently in a Wall Street Journal op ed.  Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of UC Berkeley Law School (Harvard Law School, 1978), wrote a book complaining that the Constitution threatens the U.S.   He describes conservative justices as “partisan hacks.”  (Apparently the three liberals on the Court who rubber stamp every Leftist policy aren’t hacks).  New York Times critic Jennifer Szalai (London School of Economics) decries “Constitution worship,” writing that, “Americans have long assumed that the Constitution could save us; a growing chorus now wonders whether we need to be saved from it.”  You get that?  The Constitution guarantees all of our rights, but we must cancel our rights to save ourselves from it.  Orwell would be so proud.

In 2022, law professors Ryan Dorfler (Harvard) and Samuel Moyn (Yale) called for liberals to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.”  Other “scholars” deride what they call “rights talk,” railing against individual rights, the very thing that the Bill of Rights was enacted to protect, and the very thing that, as law professors, these numb sculls are supposed to be teaching their students.

Professor Barbara McQuade (Michigan) calls free speech (which is Number One on the Bill of Rights Hit Parade) “America’s Achilles heel.”  Professor Tim Wu (Columbia) says, free speech “now mostly protects corporate interests” and threatens “essential jobs of the State” like protecting national security.” Sieg heil Tim.

Professor Mary Ann Franks (Harvard) complains that the First and Second Amendments are too “aggressively individualistic” and are a danger to “domestic tranquility” and “general welfare.”  Sorry Mary Ann,  but you’re an idiot.  How can a list of individual rights be too individualistic?  And the general welfare clause only applies to things the Constitution authorizes the federal government to do, it doesn’t expand federal rights, and you know it.

Then there are the so-called “journalists.”  MSNBC’s Elie Mystal (Harvard), the guy who’s hairdo looks like he stuck his tongue in the light socket, calls the Constitution “trash,” and wants to abolish the U.S. Senate, without which, the Constitution never would have been ratified.

One of these constitution deniers, Harvard Professor Michael Klarman, is in favor of enacting “democracy- entrenching legislation” designed to ensure that Republicans can never win another election. (You know, “democracy”).  But he’s worried.  “The Supreme Court could strike down” their unconstitutional Acts, “and that’s something the Democrats need to fix.”  His pal, Professor Dorfler, says that all  “tools of retaliation,” like defunding the Court, should be used.

In fairness, not all Democrats favor an end to all free speech.  They’re willing to permit speech that originates in the government, and all speech that they have preapproved, to prevent the spread of “disinformation.”  You remember disinformation.  In 2016, 51 lawyers and intelligence community operatives said the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation.”  Well, maybe that’s a bad example.

From 2016 to 2018, government officials told us they were sure that Trump was colluding with the Russians.  Uh, let’s not go there.  Oh yes, from 2020 to 2023 they told us people who said Covid came from China, that there were available treatments for Covid, and that the Covid vaccines didn’t work, and were dangerous for some people, were spreading disinformation.  No, better skip that one too.

You get the idea.  According to Democrats, the government not only is authorized to, but has a duty to decide if what’s being discussed by private citizens is true or not, and if they decide it’s not, is authorized to and must censor it.  If you’re expecting the First Amendment to save you, see above.  Democrats want to save you from the constitutional provision that guarantees you the right to speak your mind.  If you think I’m exaggerating this, then you haven’t been paying attention.

In 2020, in the name of disinformation, the government successfully forced social media and other media outlets to censor the speech of a presidential candidate, as well as that of anyone else who attempted to support him.  It was for our own good, of course.  If they hadn’t cancelled free speech, you might have been exposed to disinformation during an election campaign. (I always thought “disinformation” was a synonym for “election campaign”).

Cancelling the First Amendment for the 2020 election was only the start, however.  The 2024 Democrats say they’ve only just begun.  VP candidate Tim Walz says, “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation and hate speech, especially around our democracy.”     That’s totally wrong and stupid, but he’s not a lawyer, so he’s got an excuse.  Then who gets to decide what is and isn’t true?

Even George Orwell couldn’t dream this one up.  Who’s the last person on Earth you would rely on for the truth?  That’s right, Hillary Clinton.  She’s a lawyer (Yale).  Last week, she told Rachel Maddow (who else?) that the federal government should criminally prosecute, and presumable imprison, Americans who “share propaganda” a/k/a speech.

I shit you not.  As always, the irony was lost on Democrats.  Hillary Clinton, you may recall, was the source of the Steele Dossier, a pack of lies about Trump, propaganda if you will, that she knowingly foisted on the American people, and which caused the two year Mueller investigation.  Christopher Steele later admitted it was untrue.

Hillary, of the illegal email server, the woman who ignored subpoenas and FOIA requests, and who destroyed computer hard drives and deleted 30,000 emails.  Let’s face it, if propaganda was a crime, Hillary would be walking the Green Mile.

But three cheers for the Democrats.  I nominate Hillary for Minister of Truth in the Harris Administration.  We might have to change Ministry of Love to Ministry of Joy.  Jack Smith can run that.  All the elements are present.  The world’s on fire but Kamala says, “War is Peace.”  Tim Walz wants to cancel the Bill of Rights.  “Freedom is Slavery.”  And the media keeps lying to you and you keep pretending to believe it.  “Ignorance is Strength.”  Consider this before you vote.

Over the weekend, yet another would be assassin tried to kill Donald Trump.  Barely a month after a gunman in Pennsylvania shot Trump in the ear, killed a man and wounded two others, a second crazed leftist set up a sniper’s nest on the outskirts of Trump’s Palm Beach golf course and lay in wait for the former president, who was approaching the sniper’s location.  An alert Secret Service agent saw the rifle barrel, and fired at the gunman.  The gunman fled and was apprehended by Florida police.

The armed kook, whose name I will not repeat (but suffice to say he’s yet another three name assassin), turned out to be a Democrat activist, who had a Harris-Walz bumper sticker on his truck, and who is or was a recruiter of foreign fighters for Ukraine.  He has expressed his hatred for Donald Trump on social media, but as his son explains, his father is not violent, but simply hates Trump, “just as every reasonable person does.”  Whew!  That apple didn’t fall far from the tree did it?

Sadly, the son’s reaction is not an outlier, for in today’s polarized political atmosphere, it represents the Democrat Party line.  In a sane world, repeated assassination attempts on any political figure would result in calls for unity.  However, we don’t live in a sane world any longer.  As a result, it took the mentally ill Leftist slobs mere minutes to decide who was to blame for the repeated attempts to kill Donald Trump – the answer:  Donald Trump.

That’s right, Trump is only getting what he deserves.  CNN said that Trump’s rhetoric made the attempts to kill him inevitable.  RINO Republican former Congressman, and traitorous scum Adam Kinzinger said that MAGA lit the flame.  MSNBC was upset by the incident – only because they feared it might help Trump politically.  Never Trumper David Frum fumed that Trump and Vance “want to present themselves as near victims of violence.”  I’d have thought already having been shot in the head would have met that standard.

Then it got worse.  Remember former Army officer Alexander Vindman, the Ukranian immigrant who helped get Trump impeached (the first time) because of a phone call to the Ukranian president?  His brother is now running for Congress in Virginia.  He tweeted that Trump is inciting violence.  His wife, Rachel, then posted this message on social media, “No ears were harmed.  Carry on with your Sunday afternoon.”  Very sympathetic, huh?

Let’s see, the assassin was working to keep the Ukraine war going.  Vindman is a Ukranian who attempted to depose his Commander in Chief because Trump was trying to uncover corruption in Ukraine.  In Tuesday’s debate, Trump pledged to end the war in Ukraine.  And a few days later, one Ukrainian activist tries to shoot him, and another one says Trump had it coming.  You think maybe the opposition to Trump (the Cheney’s come to mind) and the attempts to kill him might be motivated by people who have an interest in continued warfare in Ukraine, and everywhere else around the globe?

Democrat Congressman Goldman of New York is on record stating that “Trump must be eliminated.”  Last, and decidedly least, we have one Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader.  Two hours after the shooting in West Palm Beach, Jeffries posted a denunciation of “Extreme MAGA,” concluding, “We must stop them.”

No matter what they do to Donald Trump, no matter how many times they try to kill him, the message of the Left remains unchanged – “Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy, who must never be permitted to win election.”

This is not a new phenomenon.  Beginning in 2016, Democrats have treated Donald Trump shamelessly.  They spied on his campaign.  The FBI treated the newly elected President as a criminal target from day one.  They used Hillary’s phony Russian dossier, which they knew to be false, to perform illegal wiretapping on Trump and company.  They impeached him twice.  They perverted our justice system to indict him four times.  They disparage and lie about him 24 hours a day.  Now they’ve tried to kill him twice, and we’re told by these vicious pricks that its all Trump’s fault.

This meme – “Trump’s rhetoric is inciting violence” is a function of Trump’s populist appeal.  Democrats hate Trump, and are constantly urging others to hate him, because he’s a different kind of Republican.  Democrats much prefer more orthodox “good loser” Republicans like McCain and Romney.  Weaklings, who almost apologized for their positions, and who could be counted on to keep smiling, no matter how badly they were abused by Democrats.

Trump doesn’t play that game.  He fights back.  And that’s what Democrats object to.  Never forget that Leftists are brain damaged, suffering from delusions of rectitude, which cause them to believe they’re always right and in the mainstream, no matter how nutty they get.

Democrat complaints about Trump’s “rhetoric” come not from truly extreme and inciting comments, but rather from their own aversion to hearing the truth.  The very people who tell Trump to tone down his rhetoric are employing rhetoric which is designed to cast Trump as a villain who must be destroyed.  They call him Hitler, Nazi, fascist, and a threat to democracy.  They falsely accuse him of planning to destroy the Constitution, to jail opponents, and to resort to violence if he doesn’t get his way.  At the same time, they blatantly ignore the Constitution to go after Trump, and are trying to imprison him for life, while at the same time, two homegrown kooks, plus the government of Iran are trying to kill him.

The real threat to democracy comes from Leftists suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome who fail to grasp that, when you convince enough people to believe Trump is Hitler, then anything you do to him, including murder, is justified.  Trump mentioned this at the debate last week.  “I probably took a bullet because of overheated Democrat rhetoric.”

The real threat comes from the unhinged ravings of the Left, which are aided and abetted by elected Democrats, like Nancy Pelosi, who in addition to trying to impeach, jail, and kill Trump, who have pledged to “never permit him to become President again.”  If they can’t defeat him at the polls, all that’s left is violence.  But they’re playing with fire.  If they keep it up and one of the demented army of the Left succeeds in killing Trump before the election, it may spark a fire that will be hard to put out.  I don’t want to see that happen.  If Democrats were the sane protectors of democracy that they pretend to be they would be well advised to curb their pie holes.  Don’t hold your breath.

The long awaited debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris took place Tuesday night.  On the whole, I thought that Kamala succeeded in  distracting Trump with her incessant attacks.  She succeeded in avoiding word salads, and she successfully parroted canned attack lines, most of which were false.  On his part, a distracted Trump missed a number of opportunities to go after Kamala.  In the end, the debate turned out to be full of sound and fury, which I believe will do nothing to move the polls one way or the other.

For its part, by all accounts, ABC News shamelessly weighed in, time and time again, on Kamala’s behalf.  They falsely fact-checked Trump, while not once pointing out blatant Kamala falsehoods.  In the first debate (Trump-Biden), CNN was largely neutral.  Since the media’s just an arm of the Democrat Party, I’ve concluded that the CNN moderators were fair because they were in on the plan to expose and purge Biden.  The ABC moderators were simply doing their jobs – to damage Trump.

Sure, Trump was off his game, he was a bit ham-handed, as he often is, and he took Kamala’s bait a few times, but after the debate smoke has cleared, some fundamental truths remain – Kamala Harris has nothing substantive to offer America; Kamala can’t sell herself as an agent of change, who will turn the page on Biden policies; and Kamala, although good at spewing memorized attack lines, can’t make a convincing attack based on actual facts.

I’ll get to Kamala’s long list of lies in a moment, but first here’s what I consider the most important takeaway from the debate.  It happened in the first five minutes.  It was the first question, and to my mind, the only relevant question in this election.  Kamala was asked, “Do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?”  She never answered the question, because even she couldn’t lie herself out of that one.  Instead, she went off on a story about how she was raised, and she said her “plan” is more government spending (“I’ll give you $6000 to buy a new crib”), which is what caused the inflation that’s killing Americans.

Kamala’s performance was a recitation of every lie and hoax that Democrats have been spreading about Donald Trump for 8 years; lies which the moderators never once challenged.  Don’t take my word for it.  This from Megyn Kelly, no Trump lover she – “All she does is lie.”  When MSNBC’s Chris Hayes tweeted, “ABC moderators doing an excellent job,” Ben Shapiro retorted, “This is how you know they’re complete shit.”  Ron DeSantis’ Press Secretary Jeremy Redfern gave this description of the questioning:   To Trump, “Why are you bad?”  To Kamala, “Why is he bad?”

The relevant question for voters is, “If Kamala Harris can’t offer policies that change course from Biden’s disasters, and must resort to bald faced lies to smear her opponent, why should she be promoted to President?”

Let’s revisit the many lies of Kamala Harris.  She began by resorting to the usual Saul Alinsky tactic – accuse your opponent of what you’re about to do.  Kamala, “You’re going to hear a bunch of lies.”  We did.  From her.

1) Trump will implement Project 2025, a list of policy recommendations from the Heritage Foundation.  Trump has denied that repeatedly.

2) Trump is responsible for the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco. Biden and Harris refused to listen to the military, pulled out, killed 13 servicemen, handed the Taliban $85 billion in equipment, and gave China the Bagram airbase.

3) Kamala won’t ban fracking.  There is video of her saying “I absolutely will ban fracking.”

The “Trump is a threat to democracy” meme sported multiple lies.

4) Police officers were killed on January 6, 2021.  False.  One person was killed.  Ashley Babbitt, and unarmed Air Force veteran was murdered by a Capitol Hill Police Lieutenant.  He was never even investigated for the crime.

5) Trump instigated an assault on the Capitol.  False.  Fearing unrest, he offered Nancy Pelosi and the D.C. Mayor 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the Capitol.  They repeatedly refused them.  At the time Trump, at the White House, was telling people to act “peacefully and patriotically,” protestors had already entered the Capitol, two miles away.  His speech had nothing to do with what happened.

6) Trump promised “a bloodbath” if he’s not elected.  False.  In Detroit, speaking to auto workers, Trump said a Biden reelection would result in a bloodbath for the auto industry due to lost jobs.

7) The Charlottesville “fine people on both sides” hoax.  This has been debunked even by liberal outlets.

8) He’ll be “a dictator on day one.”  False.  He said he’ll restart oil drilling and close the border on day one.

9) Kamala accused Trump of supporting anti-Semites.  Really?  Half his family are Jewish.

10) Trump sent “love letters” to North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un.  The fact – Obama told Trump North Korea was the most dangerous problem.  Trump met with Un and kept him under control.

11) Kamala supports Israel.  Give me a break.  She refused to go to Netanyahu’s speech and later told him to curb his attack on Hamas.  She called for a ceasefire, despite the fact that Hamas has refused to attend talks.

12) Kamala denied that she supports abortion up to the time of birth.  She voted for it.

13) Trump will sign a national abortion ban.  He’s repeatedly denied this, and he explained to Kamala that after the Supreme Court case, the federal government has no authority to do this.

14) Trump will ban invitro fertilization.  False.  Last week he promised federal subsidies for IVF.

15) Trump had the highest unemployment since the Great Depression.  This ignores the fact that the Wuhan plague caused Democrats to shutdown the entire economy.

16) Trump “gave us” Covid.  No.  The Chinese gave us Covid, a fact Kamala and company denied, and denounced as racist.

17) Trump sold out to China.  Huh?  Trump imposed crippling tariffs on China, which Biden maintained.  Trump even convinced China to stop buying Iranian oil.  It was Biden and family who were paid millions by China, and it’s Kamala’s running mate who “loves” China.

18) There are no American troops in a war zone.  False. American troops were injured in recent Hamas and Hezbollah attacks.

19) Trump’s tax cuts benefited only billionaires.  False.  Lower and middle income Americans got the most benefit.

20) Trump will impose a 20% sales tax.  Pure fantasy.

21) Crime is down.  False.  Cities are hellscapes.  Kamala’s San Francisco is an unlivable nightmare.

The foregoing are just the lies that immediately came to mind in the wake of the debate.  I’m sure I missed some.  The question I have for American voters is quite simple.  If, after being presented with no more than a tissue of lies from a woman who is partly responsible for destroying our economy and perverting our culture, you still think Kamala Harris is a better choice than Donald Trump, “Are you stupid?”

Instant analysis after the debate seems to support the proposition that Kamala’s lie fest did little to move the needle.  A post-debate poll showed Kamala’s rating for trust on the economy slipped from 37% to 35%.

A Pennsylvania focus group concluded that, while Trump spoke facts, Kamala only repeated what Biden has been saying, motivating a black focus group member to ask, “How is that a new way forward?”  6 of 10 members of a Reuters focus group favored Trump.  The New York Times no less (and there is no less), surveyed undecided voters, most of whom said Trump was more convincing, “His facts were better than her vision.”

Democrat pollster Doug Schoen was unimpressed.  He said that, despite Kamala’s rhetoric, the country’s still on the wrong track, and he noted that Trump’s closing statement recounting Kamala’s failures was true.

Kamala Harris offered America no more than empty platitudes sprinkled with lies.  So, “Do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?”  If you do, “Are you stupid?”