Trump self-immolated. Good times. 

The last chance to see Trump! Don’t miss it!

8:05 – love the beautiful white suit of our next Commander in Chief. 

8:07 – the losing candidate informed us that “the Supreme Court is what this is all about.” It’s not but what do you expect from a losing candidate?

8:09 – hey, Trump will appoint 20 justices to SCOTUS. The more the merrier. 

8:13 – “Hillary was angry, extremely angry!” whines the sore loser. 

8:17 – the moderator has the voice of an old, unhealthy goat.

8:18 – Hillary is very strong on reproductive rights.

8:21 – this whole thing about people killed by illegal immigrants is incomprehensible to me. Murder is a tragedy. How does it help to know that a person was killed by a citizen as opposed to an illegal immigrant?

8:25 – in desperation, Trump trots out the tired old line about NAFTA.

8:26 – the old goat tries to control Trump. 

8:27 – Trump should stop saying “bigly” because it reminds everybody that he looks all “pigly.”

8:29 – I’m glad that Hillary is connecting Wikileaks and Putin. 

8:30 – yeah, people will totally pour across the border that the US shares with Syria. 

8:32 – Trump is so deep in with Putin that he doesn’t dare repudiate him during the debate. Wow, that’s huge. 

8:45 – it’s clear that Hillary has been desperate to talk about the economy. Which is the Dems’ strongest point. 

8:46 – I’m almost going to miss the Trumpazoid and his limp ramblings. “She gave us ISIS.” What a wimp.

9:07 – wow, the wimp is refusing to say he’ll accept the results of the election. What a little crybaby. Even the moderator calls Trump the loser. 

9:21 – Trump is using his very last chance to lick Putin’s boot like an obedient little doggy. 

9:36 – Trump thinks it’s a good idea to close with “our women are disrespected.” What a dweeb. 

We all know how I feel about Zygmunt Bauman but his new book on refugees  (Strangers at Our Door) is not up to his usual standards. 

For one, Bauman trots out this line of argument that I detest and that defends the right of refugees to humane treatment by portraying them as ticking bombs or creatures who all hide monsters within. If refugees don’t feel included, Bauman says, they will be tempted to run off and join ISIS. He argues that the young people who run away to ISIS are the downtrodden and the excluded from Western societies. I, however, don’t buy this argument for a second. 

Young people in opulent societies run away to join murderous gangs because they are spoiled, bored brats. I fail to notice any important differences between the female mass murderers who joined the Charlie Mason cult and the male idiots who join mass murderers in ISIS. I wish that ISIS were excluded from the discussion of migrants altogether because it’s an altogether separate issue. 

Of course, I will have more on Bauman later because when did I ever not have more on him?

I ordered a free record player (called “turntable”) from Vine. I’m going to listen to records of Christmas songs (“Have Yourselves a Merry Little Christmas”, etc) on it. 

I’m not sure whether that makes me a hipster or an old fart.

I can’t believe tonight is the last debate. I got pregnant, gave birth, and have seen Klara turn 8 months old to the sound of these debates. When you think about it in these terms, you realize how long this campaign was. Incredible. 

The peroxide lady who directs Trump’s campaign just said on TV that he has “a 5-point plan to defeat Islam.” She pronounced it as “EASE-lahm.”