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Time Magazine has succinctly summed up what most Americans are feeling in one of the simplest covers ever.

The new issue follows the disastrous Biden vs Trump debate that played out like a slow-motion car crash last week and simply features the word ‘Panic’, with an image of Biden seemingly wandering off the page.

Biden and Trump squared off for the 90-minute televised debate last Thursday during which Biden frequently mumbled, trailing off his sentences and getting fiercely mocked by former US president Trump for his at-times unintelligible statements.

 

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Trump did not cover himself in glory either, talking so much kak that most self-respecting fact-checkers likely gave up and went for a beer. But despite Trump’s mendacious chittering, all eyes were on Biden’s performance during the night, with the mood inside the Democratic Party after the debate aptly summed up as “Panic.”

Concerns about Biden’s cognitive decline were exacerbated by the debate, which saw him appear to freeze during one early question about national debt.

“We’re making sure that we’re able to make every single solitary person … er, eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the … uh … with the Covid. Excuse me, with, dealing with everything we had to do with … uh … look”.

After a brief pause, he then said “We finally beat Medicare” as his final comment before the moderators moved on.

Speculation that Biden might step aside and allow another Democratic candidate to step in has, however, been shut down, and his campaign peeps say he intends to see the campaign through to election day. Before then, he will go toe to toe with Trump for a second debate in September, according to CNN senior White House correspondent Kayla Tausche.

Unless you get your news from the likes of Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson, there should be no doubt that Biden is an infinitely better candidate for president than Trump. But with both candidates in their 80s, there are serious concerns about whether either is the right choice.

Biden seemed a bit more lively during a North Carolina rally a day after the debate, telling the crowd, “I know I’m not a young man. I don’t walk as easily as I used to. I don’t talk as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to.”

“Well, I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done. I know, like millions of Americans, when you get knocked down, you get back up.”

Meanwhile, the Orange One was gloating at his own campaign rally, telling his supporters in Virginia that Mr Biden was “grossly incompetent” and a “trainwreck”. Ironically this also sums up Trump’s personal and political life.

To illustrate just what a sh*tshow the US presidential race has become, a retired public affairs professor told the media afterwards:

“This was a disaster for Biden.”

“Trump, on the other hand, was clear and relatively coherent. He looked like he knew what he was talking about. Even though he repeatedly lied, he lies in an articulate way.”

The Democrats seem to have little choice but to Weekend at Bernie’s their candidate through the next few months, while the Republicans use their articulate liar as cover fire as they scramble to get onto the Project 25 list of sycophants.

Panic indeed.

[source:news.co.au]