When I was a kid, my brother, Dad and I used to watch World Wrestling Federation matches on the TV. It was a hoot! My brother and I were thrilled big time when Dad took us to the Uptown Arena, a ramshackle place filled with the smell of cigar smoke and stale beer, to see Pepper Gomez, Haystack Calhoon and others in person. It was exciting to watch them throw each other around the ring. Tag teams were the ultimate. Lots of cheating went on like with two guys from the same team in the ring at once pounding the one from the other team and the ref running around not knowing what to do. But we knew it was all good fun. No one got hurt and if they acted like they did, we knew it was fake.

A few years down the road, we gave up watching wrestling. Things had changed. The event had gotten too glitzy and was over the edge for us. They started bringing metal folding chairs into the ring for weapons, and that turned us off. Later, managers, friends, lovers and all sorts of people connected to the wrestlers jumped into the fight. It was still all fake, but the WWF vaulted over the top and we weren’t interested any more.

We just watched a political debate that reminded me of the WWF tag team matches. The difference was that one team only had one member while the other team was beefed up with at least three. I think it was clear that Trump had an uphill battle from the start. He was “fact checked” constantly and Kamala was not. The questions to him were framed in such a way as to be traps. My favorite was the question about Ukraine. The moderator kept asking, “Would we win the war?” Trump answered that he would stop the killing but that wasn’t enough. The question had to be asked again and again as if he were avoiding it.

Now, I want to make it clear, especially to those with Trump Derangement Syndrome, I do not support Trump, nor do I support the laughing hyena. I feel we deserve better candidates for president and for all elected offices. That is a discussion for another time.

What I do want to highlight is that I have never seen Kamala talk so well and I wonder how she did it. Every other time I’ve seen her need to say something unscripted and without a teleprompter, she’s produced an incomprehensible word salad punctuated by her crazy laugh. Having two other people on her side was certainly a big help. It also appeared she had was given the questions in advance and had memorized some of the answers. Who needs rules anyway?

Speaking of rules, it was against the rules to have an earpiece. Did Kamala break that one too? Could this help explain how she was able to put words together so well? Would the Democrats go this far to win a debate?

The answer to the last question is a resounding, “yes.” (Note: Trump could have worn Bluetooth earrings if his team had thought of it. Anyone objecting would have been labeled misogynistic transphobic haters and that would have ended the debate in his favor right there). The answer to the other questions, I’m leaving to you to figure out. The details are that the Bluetooth earrings in question do exist. They are currently out of stock, says the company. When asked if Kamala used them in the debate, the company said they didn’t know if Kamala was wearing their product. OK. Fair enough.

Several people have pointed out that the earrings Kamala wore during the debate were not produced by NOVA’s Icebach Sound but bore a stunning resemblance to some produced by Tiffany’s that had no receiver in them. That’s a bucket with no bottom that holds no water. With all the money at stake and the ability to make a receiver so small, why would it not be possible to copy Tiffany’s design for a pair of receivers?

I throw the ball into your court, dear readers. I have no answers that I can prove. What I can prove is that we, as a society, seem to have accepted the “we’ll do anything to win,” philosophy because the other side is so dangerous. This has caused our political elections to look more like the WWF with emotional character assassinations thrown about than a carefully considered choice of candidates, both with different but good ideas.