I only managed to watch about two thirds of the recent US presidential debate.
What a ridiculous, cringe-worthy clown show. The reason why I’m writing this is because I can now see why German political commentator Thomas Röper suspected that the debate was announced to be held much earlier than ever before because Biden would not be fronting Trump at the elections.
He said on 20 May1 the Democrats needed a pretext to swap out puppet Biden for another one, and an early debate, before the party’s big bash on 19-22 August, would give them enough time to do just that.
During the debate, my impression was that Biden wasn’t actually quite the demented bumbling fool I’d expected him to be. Of course, both candidates were incapable of doing anything better than slinging mud and repeating the same tired old phrases ad nauseam.
Despite Biden not completely imploding on stage, at least some of the US mainstream media channels played ball and described Biden’s performance as ‘disastrous’, ‘alarming’, ‘unsteady’, ‘inadequate’, and an ‘unmitigated disaster’, with suggestions Biden should make way for another candidate.
So, Röper was absolutely on the money. Holding this event so early would allow it to be the catalyst to remove Biden, even though they refused for so long to acknowledge that he has been losing his marbles for a long time. Suddenly, with Trump as the obvious opponent and polling better than expected despite a criminal conviction, the Democrats desperately needed an excuse to make a late change.
The interesting questions are now: how will the Democrats go about getting rid of Biden, and who will the strategically selected, no doubt attractive and charismatic, Democratic candidate be that can deny Trump a second term in office?
