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Via: The Week:
The first presidential debate of the 2020 general election cycle was the most embarrassing spectacle of its kind this country has ever witnessed.
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96 minutes of shouts, insults, interruptions, stray thoughts, and loose babble. It was like witnessing an argument about an arcane procedural rule during a senior bingo night at a nursing home in purgatory. It was vicious, tasteless, witless, and (surprisingly, alas) painfully unfunny.