QAnon and Trump's Peanut

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist

(Disclaimer:   Having already voted in next month's election and not feeling a compulsive need to suffer even more election rhetoric, I did not watch either of the dueling presidential town halls last night - but I am currently enjoying the new season of "Schitt's Creek" on Netflix.)

While not having personally watched either town hall last night, I did take time this morning to scan the reviews.  It looks as though the Biden performance on ABC garnered about three times as many views as the Trump show on NBC.  Trump regards ratings as paramount, so a loss to Biden in that realm has to hurt.   Most of what I read this morning gave Biden credit for being the most calm and focused of the two, a feat undoubtedly made much easier by the fact that he did not have Trump pig-snorting over him every time he spoke.  Trump, on the other hand, got credit for still being the most volatile and combative of the two.  

Biden spoke of policies and plans for returning America to some semblance of normalcy after four years of turmoil under the Trump administration.  He is still being needled by the press to state whether he would try to add members (what the Republicans call "packing") to the Supreme Court to counter the imbalance that has been imposed by Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump over the past four years of their own court-packing, but Biden continues to sidestep that issue and says the he will have something to say on the matter once the Barrett nomination is disposed of - but before the election.

Trump, who hit a wall in the first debate when he refused to renounce white supremacists, suffered another unforced error last night when he refused to renounce the crackpot QAnon conspiracy theory.  The following description of QAnon was lifted from Wikipedia:

"QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory.  It alleges that a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against President Donald Trump, who is battling against the cabal.  The theory also commonly asserts that Trump is planning a day of reckoning known as "The Storm," when thousands of members of the cabal will be arrested.  No part of the theory is based on fact."

And yet Donald Trump cannot bring himself to renounce it.

So far the most notable people who have been arrested on charges related to trafficking minors for sex have been Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell - both of whom were friends of Donald Trump!

Trump also made news in last night's town hall when he admitted that he did in fact have outstanding loans totaling more than $400 million, an amount that he described as both "minuscule" and a "peanut."  Trump has previously denied all of the tax stories released by the New York Times two weeks ago, stories which highlighted $421 million in debt to some unnamed lender - but last night he changed his strategy on dealing with the story and acknowledged the debt.  He also said that he would reveal the name of the lender who owned that debt to the American public - and then promptly failed to do so.

So with just eighteen days to go until the most important election of my lifetime, Joe Biden is playing canasta with a fulll deck, Donald Trump is rampaging through a game of Texas Hold 'Em with less than a full deck, and the lovable oddballs from "Schitt's Creek" are awash in quirky personal issues as they try to put together for a big, fat, gay wedding - an affair that Justice Thomas and Judge Barrett would both undoubtedly rule against if they had any jurisdiction in Canada!

And I have a room at the Rosebud Motel and don't plan on emerging until things make more sense!