Barking at the moon

| 2:01 pm EDT October 20, 2020
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After the debate commission announced on Monday evening that it would mute the candidates whenever it’s not their turn to speak, Donald Trump didn’t respond on Twitter, but his campaign issued a juvenile statement confirming that Trump will still participate. We’ll see if that changes, and how many times he end up flip flopping. But considering Trump’s rapidly unraveling psychological condition, such a debate would unwatchable with or without this new rule.

At this point it’s not unrealistic to imagine a scenario in which Joe Biden is giving an answer that Donald Trump doesn’t like, and Trump tries to interrupt only to remember that his mic has been cut, and instead begins screaming at Biden from twelve feet away, in the hope that his voice gets picked up by Biden’s mic.

At that point you’d have to imagine the debate would abruptly end, and so in effect would Trump’s candidacy. But when you consider that Trump has spent the past week threatening to shave his head, dancing like an idiot, and threatening to flee the country if he loses, are we really expecting him to be able to play by the debate rules for two full hours? At this point, this guy is barking at the moon.