People seem to think Kamala Harris made a fool of Trump in the debate, but real fool was us, New Zealand. 

Within 24 hours of the debate we got news of 230 jobs lost due in part to an energy crunch caused by moral grandstanding on climate change. 

That's 230 jobs, but up to 1000 people including families. That's half the population of Raetihi and Ohakune. 

Shane Jones calls it the hollowing out of regional NZ, and there's much more to come. 

We also had news Methanex is consulting on mothballing, indefinitely, one of its two remaining plants. 

Why? You guessed it - in part it's moral grandstanding on climate change. 

More on that in a second, but first back to the debate. This is the most left, progressive political leader in America, Kamala Harris, boasting about fracking. 

"I will not ban fracking. I have not banned fracking as Vice President of the United States. And in fact, I was the tie breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act which opened new leases for fracking." 

And here, Kamala Harris boasts about record domestic oil production while she and Biden were in charge. 

"We have had the largest increase in domestic oil production in history." 

Drill baby, drill. 

Meanwhile, we're basking in nuclear free moment bliss down here at the bottom of the Pacific. Sending manufacturing jobs and regional jobs off to the slaughterhouse. 

And yes, climate change is real, etcetera. 

But why would we cut our noses off to spite our faces, when the most progressive, climate conscious contender to run the world's largest economy, and biggest user of oil, is boasting about drilling for it? 

Sitting watching that debate yesterday it wasn't Trump I thought looked stupid, it was us.