By Barry Hastings
So, the silver-ha
ired coyote (not to call him a skulking scavenger), Mike Pence certainly belongs on the ticket he’s part of. I didn’t hear him make a single truthful statement in an hour-and-a-half Tuesday evening in the vice presidential debate.
Nor did I hear him answer a question asked by the moderator. With the first question asked of him, Pence demonstrated his take on Trump’s debate strategy, if asked a disquieting (or embarrassing) question by moderator or audience. That is, to immediately create a new, or related subject, blame everything on Hillary Clinton, or Barack Obama, then attack her, or him, on matters in no way connected to questions asked, and to use Hitler’s method — big, BIG lies, repeated often.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again — these people are among the very nastiest in America’s existence-span. They don’t love the country. A vote for Trump marks a traitor’s trail.
No, they don’t love the nation, and prove it every time they open their mouths. Their version of our past is, principly, the victor’s justification of thievery, slavery, anti-intellectualism, amongst many other un-Godly crimes. Just in their recent “campaign”‘ they’ve managed to rattle (shake) the entire foundation of the Western world’s primary defense against revival of the Marxist Cold War and new enemies as they arise. They have our allies questioning whether we’re the heirs who’ll meet the promises made by our parents and grandparents, or become a nation of greed, seasoned with screed, and spread by minions who “just barely” read.
Oh, they’re not all idiot ‘detestables’. As many of them are economic, political, big business opportunists. The Donald, Donald Trump, is a largish portion of the ‘Two per cent’ who’ve been ripping us off, Liberal/Conservative, Republican/Democrat — all victims of a political conspiracy to keep most Americans living on the edge of ruin.
And thanks to the last Republican administration, the cost of fighting a 15-year war offers much lucre to creative criminals. Let me name a few; Halliburton; Kellogg, Root, and Brown; Blackwater (Cheney, Shrub, & Company, as well). They, and many more grew filthy rich on proceeds from a war which (often enough to be disturbing, since we’re still fighting it 15 years later) often costs 14 or more billions per month.
The thing is, it was so much fun listening to Trump’s factlessly futile efforts against Hillary the previous week, his cokie running nose (you can bet he was), and his utter failure to speak to the real point once, in an hour-and-a-half. The next day, headlines confirmed my opinion — she slaughtered him. Within a few days her poll numbers were rising, rapidly. But when Trump claimed he’d “won the debate” next day (while the whole world referred to him as “loser,” “asinine,” “ignorant” and worse (much worse), it just tickled my funny-bone.
Pence did an admirable job impersonating Trump’s method and medium with no substance, more BIG lies, repetitively (the whole freaking hour-and-a-half).Remember, these are all people who don’t believe in Darwin, or his theory of evolution despite proof from almost every field of scientific endeavor. They believe (for all they’re worth) the earth was built, peopled, and well-stocked with every thing, living and inanimate, and all in a single week, a bit over six thousand years ago.
This segment of American citizens, almost alone, pretty much forms the heart of America’s Anti-Intellectualism. They certainly make up a very large portion of the deplorables in Ms. Clinton’s now famous basket.
The Colombians tell their government: No!
The poor of Colombia told their government (by way of referendum) there’d be no peace beneficial to the terrorists who killed many tens of thousands of poor, innocent farmers, laborers, other impoverished folk, over a 50-year span. 
The government down there recently signed a much “cried-up” peace with the murdering, thieving, FARC. The decades of fear, terror, murder, kidnapping, they personally handed to the Colombian people, will not be reconciled so quickly, or easily, as President Santos hoped.
Who knows what will happen now? We might hear things about our war on drugs down there. Several U.S. government departments kept “armed people” in Columbia since birth of the futile wars on vice/drugs, and the Red Menace. The deplorables, about whom I wrote above, in an earlier incarnation, were a big cause of Prohibition, and the feed-pen for organized crime which still permeates America. Many of them are now in big business, casinos, even politics.
Political courage a rare event
Publishers of the country’s largest circulation newspaper, USAToday, is asking readers and the public in general to avoid voting for Trump. The act follows a 34-year period in which the paper backed issues, or opposed them, never taking a stand on candidates.
They cite the whole of Trump’s ignorant lies, and thoughtless commentary about nearly everyone, from Ms. Clinton to the wounded mom and dad of a young Arab-American military officer killed in Iraq a few years ago. The editors also cited a 2012 article by the papers founder, Al Neurath. In it, Neurath presented his “picture” of Trump. “He’s a clown who loves doing, or saying things, no matter how ridiculous.”
USA Today’s editors wrote of their belief, “Trump is ill-equipped to be president, and commander-in-chief. He also traffics in prejudice, religious and racial. His business career is checkered with fraud and failure.”
The editors next claimed, Trump is not leveling with the American people. Their last word, important to writers, “He’s coarsened the national dialogue,” then added, “He’s a serial liar.” BRAVO! How wrong was I?
