The Opening Belle

Trainwreck, Mayhem, Chaotic, Explosive.

Circus, Unintelligible Jumble

Those are some of the words used to report on the 'debate'.

My 'hot take'

Two septuagenarians (I know words, I have the best words) shouted over each other, traded insults for 90 minutes and I'm glad I didn't stay up (or get up early) to watch it.

Really, the only thing that happened was the thing that didn't happen.

Neither of them cocked anything up completely, Biden was definitely coherent and capable, and we learnt nothing new about either candidate or their policies.

The only thing that seems highly probable at this

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