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I canNOT believe we have made it to this day…actually, that POTATUS is still on the fight card and hasn’t chickened out. Knock me over with a feather boa.

But here we are.

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I don’t believe I have any expectations for this evening as the possibilities for catastrophe are so ghastly and so real and could take so many forms – it would take me an hour to list them. 

To my way of thinking, the most important would be Trump’s demeanor. Does he maintain this good-natured, presidential, unflappable face he’s had through all these trials and travails imposed on him by the very villain he’ll be facing? Or does he lose his orange cookies at something Biden says that just hits the wrong way? I am hopeful Trump plays this like a fiddle. That’s all he has to do. He has the record to refute every single thing they’re projecting he would do in a second term as if a Trump first term had never existed. What could be easier? 

Being affable and not an a**hole will be the key.

Trump has to remember that there are other needles in that room besides the one they pump into POTATUS’s asterisk right before he comes onstage and not to fall for it. Everyone knows Biden’s a nasty piece – it’s second nature for him – and his handlers will want to have him snarling and baiting Trump while he’s still fresh off his meds.

As for the dementia-riddled geriatric sack of carbon who’ll no doubt be clinging to the other podium after standing in his special shoes for an hour and a half- oy. This could go off the rails in a million different ways, all of them excruciating and cringe-inducing because God help us and forgive 81M of them – he IS the 46th president of this country. Which leaves us wondering not what brilliant foreign policy points he argues, or touts which supposed economic success, but whether he comes out screaming and waving his fists at the audience in his head. 

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Can Biden form complete sentences and give voice to cogent thought as answers? Or does he mumble-jumbo and collapse into mushed-mouth incoherence?

Will POTATUS even have a visible pulse, or does he slip into zzzzzzzzz, deflating like a witch in the corner after being doused with a bucket of water? 

Man, this is grim.

And what role do the CNN anchors play…because they always have. It’s a time-honored tradition over there, saving flailing Democrats.

Speaking of which, here they go…

This could be something else. 

Now, four months out, it’s hardly make or break for Trump, whatever the prognosticators and doom-sayers are moaning about in the background.

But for Biden? If he can’t pull this off, as low as the expectations are, Lizzo will be warming up in the wings and Hillary Clinton’s chipmunk cheeks will glow with an evil fire.

As The Spectator put it today…

…Biden has got the debate he wanted. It’s up to him to deliver.

Alrighty, you guys – at a couple of minutes to 9 pm EST, I will kick this pig and make sure it is refreshing and scrolling.

Lemme repeat my long-standing rules of engagement.

*I will also have a full glass of cabernet, with the bottle standing by* 

The rules are simple:

1) Be nice to each other

2) Don’t you dare say a word about any spelling or grammatical errors as I’ll be typing like a fiend, not to mention trying to visit with you guys in the comments

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3) See Rule #2

DON’T MAKE ME COME DOWN IN THE COMMENTS TO GET YOU, Y’HEAR?!

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Tonight should be fun.