Cult of Fools Weekly (Oct 6, 2024) — “The VP Debate”

It was tempting to lead with the Jack Smith filing that dropped last week, but I’ve gone with the VP debate. We will also cover that filing a bit further on.

As with the presidential debate, the VP debate has had plenty of coverage. Overall the long term impact will be minimal. It was civil, restrained, and not personal, but instead focused on issues.

Clearly Walz won … but … for some Vance won.

Why?

The way a person can conclude JD Vance won that debate is if they are fixated on optics and delivery and not on substance. Unfortunately that description encompasses a large swath of the voting population.

To illustrate that point, here are a few moments that really do deserve to be highlighted because they should, in normal times, have been debate deal-breaker moments.

Fact-checking: Even the Harris Campaign picked this one up …

• As in … “Not fair, there was an agreement that I could lie and get away with it“

Then there was also this very damning non-answer …