{"id":214454,"date":"2020-10-03T06:40:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214454"},"modified":"2020-10-07T05:17:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T05:17:39","slug":"world-reacts-with-shock-at-worst-presidential-debate-in-history-as-trump-and-biden-trade-insults-in-frenzied-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=214454","title":{"rendered":"World reacts with shock at \u201cworst presidential debate in history\u201d as Trump and Biden trade insults in frenzied showdown."},"content":{"rendered":"

Darkmoon \u2013 Oct 2, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

AP News Report, October 1, 2020<\/strong>
\nAbridged by Lasha Darkmoon<\/strong>
\nwith brief commentary<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Includes an added\u00a0 6-minute video featuring the most explosive highlights of the debate,\u00a0 described by one political pundit as \u201cthe worst presidential debate in history\u201d and\u00a0 \u201ca disgrace to America.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Biden Trump TV debate with quotes. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Many across the world looked on largely aghast as the first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden devolved into a verbal slugfest short on substance but heavy with implications for America\u2019s international image.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Emotions and adjectives ran the gamut but few observers appeared to come away thinking that the last remaining superpower could rise above its bitter partisan rancor as the election looms barely a month away.<\/h5>\n
\u201cIf last night\u2019s presidential debate was supposed to inform and educate, all it did was merely confirm the credibility deficit in U.S. politics, as President Trump, and Democrat nominee Joe Biden, engaged in what can only be described as a fact-free, name-calling contest,\u201d wrote Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK.<\/h5>\n
While many in Europe fondly recalled the more even-keeled America of yesteryear, others in Asia were monitoring the markets \u2014 which were little changed mostly. Share prices slipped further in Japan and the dollar weakened against the Japanese yen and the euro. European bourses showed few initial tremors.<\/h5>\n
One major worry to emerge from the debate was whether the election results might be challenged or delayed, in part because Trump raised concerns about ballots and possible vote-rigging that his critics say are a ploy to tamp down turnout or scare people away from the polls.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\u201cA highly polarized and possibly legally contested U.S. election is just around the corner,\u201d said Stephen Innes of AxiCorp, a foreign exchange trading services provider. \u201cWith mail-in votes likely to be too high (and potentially questioned), there is a chance that we still will not know the result by Inauguration Day, with constitutional chaos ensuing.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Europe and Africa woke up to reports about the cacophonous showdown overnight.<\/h5>\n
\u201cThe comments I\u2019ve seen from various European press outlets is basically: \u2018I\u2019m happy I\u2019m not an American voter this year.\u2019 It\u2019s just a mess,\u201d said Jussi Hanhimaki, a Finnish-Swiss professor of International History at the Graduate Institute in Geneva.<\/h5>\n
Kenyan commentator Patrick Gathara quipped on Twitter: \u201cThis debate would be sheer comedy if it wasn\u2019t such a pitiful and tragic advertisement for U.S. dysfunction.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen wrote on Facebook: \u201cAn election debate in the States last night, where interruptions and quarrels were allowed to fill up way too much. Fortunately, this is not the case in Denmark. And I never hope it will be like that. The harsh words polarize and split.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Amanda Wishworth, a lawmaker in Australia\u2019s center-left Labor Party, said: \u201cA lot of people would be scratching their heads, especially here from Australia, where, believe it or not, our politics is a little bit more gentle than the U.S. of A.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Other government leaders tuned in \u2014 but kept their distance.<\/h5>\n
Steffen Seibert, German Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s spokesman, said she was \u201cinformed about what took place last night,\u201d but he declined to comment.<\/h5>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t want to comment on this, don\u2019t want to provide an assessment, because it will be immediately perceived as an attempt to interfere,\u201d said Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin. \u201cThe Russian Federation has never interfered in the internal affairs of the United States and never will.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Walter Veltroni, a columnist for Italian newspaper <\/strong>Corriere della Sera<\/strong><\/em> and a former center-left mayor of Rome, said he had seen all the U.S. TV debates since Kennedy vs. Nixon in 1960, but \u201cI have never witnessed a spectacle similar to the one last night.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n
He said the debate showed how there are two Americas that appear irreconcilable.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\u201cThe impression is that of a country in stalemate, paralyzed by politics and tones that are foreign to its tradition,\u201d Veltroni said.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Hu Xijin, editor of China\u2019s nationalistic Communist Party tabloid Global Times<\/em>, wrote in the paper\u2019s microblog that the \u201cchaos, interruptions, personal attacks and insults\u201d on display were a reflection of America\u2019s \u201coverarching division, anxiety and the accelerating erosion of the system\u2019s original advantages.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u201cI used to admire this kind of televised debate in American politics, but I have much more mixed feelings when I watch it again now,\u201d wrote Hu, who personally and through his paper routinely attacks American policies.<\/h5>\n
The editor-at-large of <\/strong>The Australian<\/strong><\/em> newspaper, Paul Kelly, described the debate as a \u201cspiteful, chaotic, abusive, often out-of-control brawling encounter with both candidates revealing their contempt for each other.\u201d \u201cAmerica faces a dangerous several weeks,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Leslie Vinjamuri, director of the U.S. and the Americas program at the London think tank Chatham House, said many European observers already had \u201cvery low\u201d expectations of Trump, but even so the debate was jarring.<\/h5>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s still just a level of disbelief, just shock, frankly,\u201d that the president and former vice president \u201cwere talking over each other, talking over the moderator, in President Trump\u2019s case, telling each other off, going off-topic, off-script,\u201d Vinjamuri said. \u201cSo I think it was something extraordinarily upsetting because people want to be able to look to America to lead and to guide and to role model.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Foreign policy issues were largely absent from the debate, although Trump slung accusations that China had paid Biden\u2019s son Hunter for consulting work and Biden attacked Trump\u2019s trade deals with China for failing to deliver benefits.<\/h5>\n
Trump also repeatedly blamed China for the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 1 million people globally and ravaged economies around the world.<\/h5>\n
An Emirati political scientist, Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, wrote on Twitter that he saw the debate as a \u201ctumultuous verbal battle.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u201cHow did America reach this level of political decline?\u201d he wrote.<\/h5>\n

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Afterword<\/h3>\n

LD: In spite of\u00a0 the fact that Trump is trailing Biden by 10 points, I predict a victory for Trump. Both candidates, in my humble opinion, are equally unfit to rule. Whoever wins, America can expect to enter the valley of the shadow of death: a dystopian future from which there is now no escape. This is America\u2019s karma, brought on its people by their own iniquities over a long period. The innocent must suffer with the guilty, for that\u2019s the way it always is: the children are always punished for the crimes of their ancestors.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
For their crimes and misdemeanors, this most degenerate society on earth is now about to pay the price\u2014a society infinitely worse than imperial Rome was to produce in its heyday of decadence under the emperors Nero, Caligula and Heliogabalus. It is indeed regrettable that \u201cthe greatest democracy on earth\u201d cannot come up with two better candidates than these two brawling schoolboys engaged in an undignified bunfight before the cameras. But then, America was never a \u201cdemocracy\u201d in any true sense, was it? It was always playing at democracy. <\/strong><\/h5>\n
The sheeple, as they are led to the slaughterhouse, are being assured they really matter<\/em>, and most will believe it \u2014 even as the axe falls on their necks. [LD]\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n