Another treat from Nick Caraway

If I’ve learned anything about hanging out with the Buchanon’s it is that they are experts at the self-own. There is no better self-own than the joke at someone else’s expense. They sounds so smart and so smug. What they don’t realize is that this joke ends up making them look bad in the end.

We saw the following on Twitter right after the debate. “Did @realDonaldTrump

just say 545 kids they can’t find their parents for came over through “cartels and coyotes”?! How the hell does a coyote bring a whole human across the border?! Lord—–stop talking. #FinalDebate“

Of course, conservative twitter and those on social media couldn’t resist the temptation. The struck on the representative’s naïve nature and pounced. Seems she didn’t know that coyotes referred to drug smugglers. It was a general theme from the night. Trump played the Fox News greatest hits while most of America was puzzled.

Conservative folks got a cheap laugh out of that picture. I have to admit it was funny. The problem is that the joke is on them. Most people pay enough attention to know that those 545 kids were separated from their parents. They weren’t smugglers, coyotes, or very bad people. They just wanted a better life for themselves and their children.

So, maybe they got a cheap laugh. They also showed their true colors. We always knew these folks. We knew what they were all about. The few undecideds know too. It might be too much to hope that a few people will be turned off by the president and these cheap jokes. It’s one of the main reasons I left New York in the first place.”