Life & Island Times: Debate DemKu

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As life-long car types and gearheads, W and I watched another “new to us” show on the MotorTrend cable channel, skipping the Democratic Party’s first 2020 Presidential candidate debate last night. This 8-season long show’s title is an eerily scary harbinger of what this debate process will become – “Roadkill.”

While W did some early AM hours gardening this morning, I searched out and watched online highlights of the debates. After enduring some brief wincing pain, I can say that both of last night’s shows are endurance races – let’s call them the “24 Hours of Lemons.”

Tonight’spart deux debate will be more of the same automotive commercial material — entertaining trunk monkeys, dodgy but loveable used car salespersons impossibly offering highly valued services for no-money-down low-low prices (well, actually free), country shade tree repairmen who promise to put back the yeehaw into our nation’s Find-On-Roadside-Dead social fabric and political discourse, a few earnest Ernest Goes to Hollywood you-know-what-I-mean-Vern types, a Cal Worthington salesperson with his dog Spot (who was never a dog), someone who’s bound to offer voters an American made conversion van special approach to the next four years, and at least two outsized, threatening professional wrasslin’ types who all but say “Vote for me or die!”

Thanks to inspiration from the NY Times, I offer you in closing some short form, initial reactions to this political lemon show. Let’s call them DemKu.

Mayor Spartacus
Led a dangerous city
Where’s his friend T-Bone?

All these candidates
Are better than Hillary?
She lost to THAT guy

The debates begin
Commence Firing in Circle
Winner’s gonna beat Trump?

Dozen angry pols
Crabs in the TV bucket
Talkin OPM

To beat the tanned man
Give free stuff to everyone
Then bill AOC

Joe, Warren, Sanders
The rest are too far behind
Take cabinet spots

I think we’ll watch the real Roadkill show with its more believable auto chaos tonight.

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