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Staring at an Eclipse: Only Way to Watch That “Debate” Was With Mute Button
Oh, Americans. Look at us. If we want anything resembling this shell of a democracy to continue, we have to pay attention. But paying attention to this man is like staring at the sun. Or staring at a solar eclipse without glasses protecting your eyes, as he himself did last August.
Perhaps someday we will be able to laugh at how the United (divided) States lasted four years with this 4th-grade bully in office. Perhaps. The equation goes: comedy equals tragedy plus time. We might need 30 years until we begin laughing.
The “debate” was nearly impossible to watch, which was not at all surprising. Knowing he’s facing an election loss, the bully resorted to ever more lies, punctuated by 128 interruptions, over 90 minutes, and continuously attempted to urinate on the potential of a democratic election with mail-in ballots, making ridiculous statements about the “fraud.”
According to Jeremy Stahl (poor Jeremy must’ve taken a handful of Xanax to accurately count the interruptions) at Slate,
Trump interrupted former Vice President Joe Biden or debate moderator Chris Wallace at least 128 times. This number dwarfed the 51 times Trump interrupted Hillary Clinton during the first presidential debate in 2016. For his part, Biden interrupted dozens of…
