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By Sajjad Suhail-Sindhu, Edited By Adam Rizvi, The India Observer, TIO: Comedic interpretations of everyday events are often made easy by the main players involved. A recent example is Trump vs. Harris.

Former President Donald Trump’s embarrassing, incoherent, and shamelessly dishonest debate performance on Tuesday night, after Kamala Harris successfully baited him and exposed his delusions, has everyone talking. It is highly likely that Trump’s “handlers” advised him not to fall for her trap. However, being the thin-skinned man-child that Trump is, he fell for it—headfirst.

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Seymour Hersh, that scion of investigative journalism, used the descriptor “chumming,” which was extremely appealing. He described the debate by explaining, “the key unspoken word for last night’s presidential debate was chumming, defined as a fishing technique of throwing bait, usually fish parts and blood, into the water to attract predatory fish like sharks, tuna, and grouper.” Time after time, Vice President Kamala Harris threw out the bait, and Donald Trump bit hard. Hersh remarked that Trump was “not a shark, but a minnow.”

Hersh’s assertion that Harris proved she could handle America’s most demanding job in terms of domestic policy is, however, at odds with me. While she was supported by the powerful machinery that is the Democratic Party, she unequivocally came across as “able.” According to Hersh, she “deftly separated herself from President Joe Biden, who is now a figure of yesterday.” I would like to point out to Mr. Hersh that such a machinery as the Democratic Party has MANY scriptwriters and only one actor, whose sole requirement is to speak the lines written for her.

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Mr. Hersh may have noted that the script required Kamala to speak in a lower tone—several octaves below her normal shrill voice—at the start, and then return to her normal self toward the end. When exasperated, she disrobed herself of that audio guise. Trump, meanwhile, stuck to his usual mode of attack, even though Biden had left the field. He continued to invoke Biden’s name to the point where Harris, in her exasperated, shrill voice, reminded him that “he was not running against Joe Biden.”

Hersh confessed to being horrified by Harris’s foreign policy stance. She showed no intention of deviating from Biden’s horrific and dangerous foreign policies, particularly in two areas: his continued personal and military support for the ongoing Israeli terror in Gaza and his administration’s support—both financially and militarily—for Ukraine and its delusional president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

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Putin was provoked by the West’s expansion of NATO eastward, despite American promises made more than three decades ago not to do so. Inflammatory language from Biden’s foreign policy aides, led by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, only worsened the situation.

I eagerly await Mr. Hersh’s recognition that there is a much better choice for Americans to consider. While the appealing go-to topics such as Gaza, Ukraine, taxes, and illegal immigrants were thoroughly mulled over, the subjects that truly matter to the future—those that concern the young people of America—were not even touched upon. The destruction of the planet, a topic only the Green Party, led by Dr. Jill Stein, seems to care about, ought to have been at the forefront of the discussion.

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Perhaps Mr. Hersh will do justice by writing a fitting tribute to Dr. Jill Stein and her plans for the future of America’s youth and the planet, rather than constantly looking back and catering to interests vested in the past.

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