I’m Not Watching Tonight’s Debate.

Mike Weisser
5 min readJun 27, 2024

I have decided not to watch the debate tonight, because if I were to watch it, I would be admitting, at least tacitly, that Donald Trump should be allowed on the stage as one of only two Americans who deserve to appear on a national ballot to elect the President of the United States.

And I don’t believe that he has earned the privilege to talk to the entire world about what he will do if he moves back into the Oval Office next year and plops his fat ass down again behind the real Resolute desk.

Yea, yea, I know all about how someone’s innocent until they’re proven guilty. And if can steal enough dough from his campaign donations, our legal system gives someone like Trump the ability to postpone the final decision about his guilt versus his innocence in the hush-money case for maybe another year or two years.

And then of course we have the chorus of dunderheads out there who are saying that, after all, he wasn’t found guilty of a ‘violent’ crime. What’s the big deal about some wrong information being put down on some business forms?

Trump’s New York conviction doesn’t represent one big deal — it represents two big deals. First, by lying about the payments to his attorney which were really payments to a high-class hooker (and I have nothing against sex workers but let’s call a spade a spade, okay?) Trump was…

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