The Unseen Debate

“No, no, no, this whole attack on Joe Biden about his debate performance is a crock. He did a great job, you just did not see it. This was – don’t you get it – a deep fake, replacing the real man with a cardboard cutout, putting all those muddled, muddy, messed up answers in his mouth with a fuzzy mic. Republicans did this, probably with the Russians, same old same old, a big set-up.”

“It was?”

“Yeah, yeah, it was. Be smart, jeez these Trump people will stop at nothing. Biden was great, but no live audience, so you didn’t see it. Think about that. I think Trump wanted no audience and convinced CNN to offer that, like Br’er Rabbit, you know ‘Don’t throw me in the briar patch’ sort of thing, but that’s what he wanted. So no one saw the good stuff, no audience.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, Biden did a great job. It was the Republicans like they invent everything and start businesses, they used AI to pretend Biden got messed up. But speed up the clips and he’s there.”

“He is?”

“Oh yeah, come on, they used Artificial Intelligence, and pulled the wood over everyone’s eyes.”

“Wood? You mean wool?”

“Yeah, no, maybe, whatever … you know it’s just words, then they pretended Biden was using amphetamines, Botox, photoshopped his eyes to look weird, did freezeframes, and turned the volume down, remixed his words, made him sound, you know, like a moron, a MAGA insurrectionist sort, like he was just ‘an elderly man with a poor memory’ or something.”

“They did that?

“Yeah, yeah, then the post-debate spin-room... Didn’t you see how Trump people were there, but no Biden people? Not even one pro-Biden person to talk with the media … did you see that?”

“Yeah, not good …”

“No, it was good… Get real. They obviously locked the pro-Biden folks in a closet, didn’t let ‘em out, gotta be that, just the way Trump wanted to lock up Hillary and the other good guys.”

“Was she a guy?”

“What? Oh no, I don’t think so, just saying they stop at nothing to bring Biden down. Gosh, what a leader he is, takes it all, everything they throw at him, and keeps going. Did you see how he stood there for 90 minutes… now, there’s a man.”

“But Trump did too, and he had lots of energy, remembered stuff, didn’t he?”

“Bub, come on, don’t let ‘em fool you, that’s the other side of AI. They did voiceovers, obviously. No one is that good, not even Trump, I mean they delayed transmission or something, to tan his face, insert good lines, and calm him like a real president… too good, another a deep fake.

“Man oh man, are the Republicans that good?”

“Oh yeah, they are sneaky good, good like a fox, probably had moles at CNN, put stuff in Biden’s coffee, made him look so goofed up and old and nutty, you know?”

“But I thought he was cardboard, all that other stuff you said?”

“Well, one way or the other, it was their fault, not Biden‘s. I mean, right down to it, Biden isn’t Trump, and that’s what matters? This was just a debate. Biden had a cold, maybe COVID, overprepared, but did a great job, even with that speaking impeachment.”

“You mean impediment?”

“Yeah, that too… He was the best, George Washington, George Floyd. They tried to make him look stupid, look void, but he was a dynamo, , you know.”

“I don’t know Kamilla … He didn’t seem to have the old coal miner’s daughter, Neil Kinnock, ‘vote for me or you ain’t black,’ ‘enemies of the people’ or Uncle Cannibal punch …”

“Yeah, maybe, but it’s still their fault… I mean AI is a kind of fancy thing …You have to know what you know about what you know, and Joe knows, it’s time for us to be doing what we have been doing, and that time is every day. Gosh, he was great. Say, had your blue pill?”

“Nah, think I am done with that, gonna go red, not go to bed and wake up blue. How ‘bout you?”