{"id":75536,"date":"2020-10-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75536"},"modified":"2020-10-08T08:10:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T13:10:35","slug":"veep-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75536","title":{"rendered":"Veep Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Remember during the impeachment fiasco, when a few Democrats who weren&#8217;t smoking pot outside school during civics class remembered the order of succession?   And realized Mike Pence, not Hillary Clinton, would be taking over?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fear they felt?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You could see why last night.  Mike Pence mopped the floor with Harris.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How bad?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bad enough that &#8220;feminist&#8221; pols had to revert to calls for victorian deference, that&#8217;s how bad:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What women are feeling right now: Do not lecture. Do not condescend. And do not underestimate us.<\/p>&mdash; Tina Smith (@TinaSmithMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TinaSmithMN\/status\/1314033980803633152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Pence showed that talk radio background of his.  He controlled the tempo, seized the initiative, and led Harris into more traps than the Road Runner vs. Wile E Coyote.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He got her to contradict herself on tax increases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made her deflect to &#8220;diversity&#8221; when the question of packing the court came up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He got her to sweep her record as a prosecutor under a rug of bluster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He reduced her to a smirking, hectoring blob.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How bad was it?  Even NPR had to step in to do Harris&#8217;s deflecting for her:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vice President Pence decried &quot;rioting and looting&quot; that followed the police killing of George Floyd.<br><br>The overwhelming majority of demonstrations associated with Black Lives Matter and racial justice have been peaceful. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gtvlc2nSPJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/gtvlc2nSPJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nprpolitics\/status\/1314054424441085952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One pundit called the Veep debate &#8220;the first debate of the 2024 campaign cycle&#8221;.   Judging by tonight, Harris isn&#8217;t going to do any better this time around than in 2020. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember during the impeachment fiasco, when a few Democrats who weren&#8217;t smoking pot outside school during civics class remembered the order of succession? And realized Mike Pence, not Hillary Clinton, would be taking over? The fear they felt? You could see why last night. Mike Pence mopped the floor with Harris. How bad? Bad enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-20","category-campaign-24"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75538,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75536\/revisions\/75538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}