SAME OLD, SAME OLD

      As millions of others last night, we watched the debate. Correct, there was no shouting over the top lunacy displayed. Furthermore, there were no insults traded as to personalities of the debaters. And here the differences stopped. The same interruptions of the Democratic candidate by the Republican. The same refusal to obey the rule agreed upon, dismissing the very weak attempts by the moderator to shut Pence down when he ran over - which was basically, all the time! The same refusal to meet and answer difficult questions. And the same old, same old lies. Again and again. Did Pence think he was fooling anyone with his tightly controlled hair, his pursed looks of derision as Harris spoke? Even that damned fly knew where to find his food of garbage - Pence's head. So much for Mother Nature and her opinion of all this.

I was basically listening for several things. And there they were. Pence, the head of Trump's disastrous virus fight, repeated the same lies, replete with sickening praise about it. Pence refused to answer the question about peaceful transfer of power. Bad question not to answer.  He refused to admit Trump's obvious and dangerous preference for extreme right wingers, lack of condemnation of their behavior, shaking his head when those nasty statements of "stand by" and the like were quoted.

The same lies, over and over again. Harris, constrained by the double standards placed upon women who dare to speak up, pointedly told Pence that "I am still speaking" when his constant overruns and interruptions became too much. She warned him of the difference between opinion and fact, facts clearly being in short supply in his answers, other than made up ones.

In the meanwhile, the Demented One speaks of his 'blessing' from G-d - to be ill with COVID. What an ass! Ask the 211,000 people dead, or rather ask their grieving and bereft loved ones. Ask those millions and millions infected, struggling, and dealing with debilitating long term after effects. Ask all those denied the same treatment he received, as he promises them the same thing! Ha! Want to buy some bridges and tunnels? Ask those who lay dying, all alone, cut off from the comfort of a son, a daughter, a spouse, a parent, unlike the treatment he received. There is no comparison at all. And no one else went home to a fully staffed oversupplied hospital setup in their home - but he did! But his pea sized brain cannot take it all in. As usual, the lights in that dark and echoing head, were off, useless.

The only way to return to sanity, to people willing to use science, true science, not the quackery land lies of his chosen 'scientists', is to vote this man and his ilk out, way out and far away from the halls of the Congress where they have perpetuated so much harm, long lasting, perhaps permanent. Climate change and man's role in that, but we are told that the hurricanes remain the same! Guess he does not live in a hurricane affected area, nor does he live where the homes are burned down as the land is afire. Existential threat? Bah, humbug! 

As for church and state, yes, faith is an important question  but one's own faith has no place in official policy nor on the courts of the nation, and yet there they are. All those incompetent judges called out as such by their own fellow lawyers, but nevertheless, on the bench due to Trump and his complicit Senate. A new rushed candidate for Scotus, one who is heavily enmeshed up to her neck, or even over her head, in an extreme Christian sect. The shivers down my back are now on the permanent running setup, and I will admit - I am frightened, truly and massively so.

Thus, all in all, albeit in a more polite and civil manner, the debate was the same old, same old, with the Democratic Party participant coming out on top. As for readiness to serve at a moment's notice - Harris all the way. No doubt about it. A Pence presidency would be Trump Redux, much to our detriment, a final touch on our road to perdition.

People. Time is running out. 26 days left for us to save this country, to save this world, this globe of ours on which we live. We have no other home. No aliens have contacted us with invitations. No one has contacted his ridiculous 'Space Force' to ask us over for talks and tea. We must get real and save ourselves- the right way. VOTE. Take your neighbor. Mail his/her ballot. Drop it in at the office. Anything that will help further the reformation and return to sanity within this country. No more disunity. No more instigation of hatred and violence. Just VOTE for hope, for goodness, for possibilities. The Biden/Harris ticket and the Congressional people who will further it all the way.    VOTE. VOTE. VOTE.