It's Still Ongoing? A Post-post Debate Fallout
It's Still Going On? The Fallout Continues, a Post-post Debate Wormhole
The first Presidential Debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump took place two days ago, September 10, 2024. Yet, the fallout from that pivotal moment endures.
Here's what Sirus XM host Julie Mason had to say about the topics that were outrageous, controversial, sensational, and down-right humorous.
The Political Wire news rag noted this eye-catching headline,
The description is just a pointed, "I got to chat with the great Julie Mason on her radio show this afternoon about this week’s debate and the craziness of this election season."
To Debate of Not To Debate - Who Cares?
Absent from the watercooler talk is whether there will be another debate between Harris and Trump. The New York Times states,
“At her first post-debate campaign events, Vice President Kamala Harris repeatedly challenged former President Donald Trump to a second onstage clash and sought to use her opponent’s erratic performance as a springboard into the race’s final stretch,” the New York Times reports.
Said Harris “I believe we owe it to the voters to have another debate.”
Meanwhile, on the Trump side, we get the following report,
Donald Trump on Thursday said he would not participate in another debate with Kamala Harris, squashing the potential for a second meeting between the two candidates before Election Day, The Hill reports.
"Said Trump, on Truth Social: “When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH.'”
He added: “THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!”
Where Does That Leave the Country? Who Cares?
The face-off events will continue until election day. There will be no shortage of mud slinging and jabs to be tossed back-and-forth. Mailboxes will be filled with paper waste ads. Radio, television, and social media campaigns will interrupt our already super-saturated days. The viewership at the first debate would almost certainly escalate if there were a second debate between Harris and Trump. The populist question in a McDonalized globalized commodity focused culture is, "Who cares?" (Political opinions aside, we all better start caring.)
Alan Lechusza, Author/writer
