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I was sadly delighted and proudly surprised. The big meltdown was tangible proof of gaslighting at its finest. It's also horrifying and sad to think Biden is allegedly at the helm. I was curious to see if Trump could keep his sh*t together and not get baited. And he did. The test was being accused of public rape and not going over the podium.

If Biden's entire performance hadn't been a monotonous repetition of debunked hoaxes and poorly executed attempts at 5th grade level one line zingers, he might have been better. 6 days and 16 debate helpers?

Liberals are still underestimating Trump. And they've truly boxed themselves into a corner.

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As an American citizen, I enjoyed your amusing observations on the presidential "debate." While I have sorrow for what has happened culturally to the once great "Empire", it's nice to read an intelligent voice for Western sanity, coming from a nation that truly did bring civilization to the Western world. I am equally sad for the U.S.A., that we have descended so far as to have one of our major political parties put up a candidate who is clearly not up to the job. They don't care, as power is everything in American politics these days. It's really too bad that Americans can't bother to look back and study the War of the Roses, fought some 570 years ago, to see where this all leads. Yes, America wasn't even a dream back then, but human nature has not changed since a major act of disobedience some six thousand years ago. I found your article to be excellent.

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Thank you, sir!

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Once again it seems we were both early to the I'm-tempted-to-believe-my-lying-eyes-hey-why-are-the-Democrats-running-a-clearly-unelectable-candidate? party, old bean. I'm wondering if the Dems will now draft Michelle Obama. This could, ironically, turn out to be a masterstroke. (At least in the sense that at least the legacy media commissars et al could declare post-election 'Yes, maybe pretending the leader of the free world wasn't in a state of cognitive decline and allowing him to run was a suboptimal arguably even disgusting strategy, but it all worked out in the end!'

PS - Looking forward to the inevitable McCarthyist lists of links/sizzle reels of NYT columnists, late-night-show hacks, Hollywood virtue-signallers etc praising Biden's youthful vigour and mental acuity!

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Chocolate rations are going up to 20 grams per week, brother.

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Sounds like it was pretty much what I expected. Thank you for watching so I didn't have to. I enjoyed a few Joe Mantegna led episodes of Criminal Minds, which I'd add would be a good name for the Plugs regime/family.

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Ah, the lurid carnival of American politics! Wherein a crass showman and a corrupt cranky quasi senescent hack can compete for the Presidency. Gotta love it.

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Enter Gavin Newsom...

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Perfect specimen of the out of touch elite: politics as posturing and performance art. I've thought for a while that a Newsom-DeSantis match-up would offer voters a clear choice. What form of governance do you want? Florida or California?

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Florida

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The correct answer.

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Dementia is indeed a cruel disease. I witnessed my gran and an aunt struggle with it. Jill Biden should be ashamed of herself. Time for the old guy to retire.

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Same. Seen a lot myself. Let the man retire.

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"In for a penny..."

A joke from that time: Bill asks Monica if she'd like to see the Presidential Clock. She's interested, so he takes her into an empty room and drops his pants. "Mr. President!" she exclaims, "That's not a *clock*... that's a COCK!" "Monica," he replies, "if it has two hands and a face on it, it's a *clock*."

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"As a child of the Nineties, I recall an inquisition in which President Clinton was harangued for receiving consensual relief from a young intern."

I was already in my 40s... and I remember seeing a billboard in the Tampa, FL area displaying a large photo of Bill and Monica, with the captions (two dialog balloons) on either side of Bill's head: the first read, "You say *intern*," and the second, "I say *my turn!*"

Your Da would've liked it.

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Sadly witnessed but hatefully assessed. It was disappointing rightfully, adults used to say “If you have nothing good to say about a thing then say nothing”. You piss on the candles burning for democracy.

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You're suggesting a journalist and satirist say nothing unless it's nice? I suggest you convene with the real world beyond that of childhood, the period to which that saying relates.

And 'hatefully assessed'? What part of, "Reader, it wasn't funny. It was sad," corresponds to such a claim? As for 'pissing on the candles burning for democracy,' I'd suggest a truthful assessment of President Biden's health would do much more than this silly, puerile comment.

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And anyway, America isn't a Democracy, its a constitutional Republic......I loved you assessment. Measured.

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