There was no raucous audience cheering and jeering last night in Atlanta, but the first presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump was a painful affair. Even the most steadfast Biden partisans were devastated, panicked, and dazed, many of them waking up this morning saying the quiet part out loud: we can’t possibly run this candidate in November.
Here to break it down this morning are Mary Katharine Ham and Ben Smith. Mary Katharine is a Fox News analyst and the co-host of the podcast Getting Hammered. Ben Smith is the co-founder and editor in chief of Semafor, a former media columnist for The New York Times, and the host of the new podcast Mixed Signals.
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The view from afar...
You guys in the US don't *actually* live in a democracy.
Given that there have been at least two elections in recent times when the candidate that the majority of people - who bothered to vote - voted for did not actually win the election.
That is not a genuine democracy guys.
On top of that, the best that anyone can come up with to potentially lead a major Western country are two pale males who are so stale they would be mandatorily retired in any other sector in any other country.
The US political system is so f%$#d
Good luck guys!
- Love from Australia
I can't seem to access the podcasts anymore. Keep getting a playback error. Is it just me?