Presidential debate. Cartoon of 29/06/2024 in CTXT
I don't learn, before each of these debates I usually promise myself that I won't watch it. At least not in full, let alone live. I always succumb and end up swallowing it whole.
The first Trump/Biden debate before the presidential election on 5 November was no exception and, as always, I ended up regretting it. Time wasted.
The spectacle seemed to me to be another purely personalist clash more useless than the new soft drink cap. I can imagine someone who knows nothing about American politics, society and culture watching this debate and being left with the feeling that they have learned and discovered absolutely nothing, and if they have picked up anything, it is almost certainly false.
The sociopathic and criminal Trump, who does not need, nor knows how, to do anything other than keep spreading the lies his fans want to believe and hear, did his thing. Biden showed up curdled and, at times, with servers down.
One thing is one's personal impression and another, sometimes very different, is what the media offers. The New York Times called on Biden in an editorial to step down as a candidate, "for the sake of American democracy", while some are even suggesting names for a possible replacement for Biden.
In the text, entitled"To serve his country, President Biden should drop out of the race". The NYT, while throwing flowers at him to embellish its advice, considers that he should drop out of the race because he .
"Biden has been an admirable president. Under his leadership, the nation has prospered and begun to address a number of long-term challenges, and the wounds opened by Trump have begun to heal. But the greatest public service Mr. Biden can render now is to announce that he will not continue to run for re-election."
"The president appeared on Thursday night as a shadow of a great public servant. He struggled to explain what he would achieve in a second term. He struggled to respond to Trump's provocations. He struggled to hold Trump accountable for his lies, his failures and his chilling plans. More than once, he struggled to get to the end of a sentence."
Other sympathisers, too, were close to the proposal of a necessary retirement of a senile Joe, and not a few considered both debaters to symbolise "the decline of the empire".
"A dying empire run by bad people": Survey reveals young people's despair at US policy / Semafor.
The second debate, hosted by ABC News, will be held on Tuesday 10 September.
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