which is a tame way to describe an unmitigated disaster (narcissists aged 74 to 74 who are him)

October 2020

“A full two days after the disastrous first presidential debate, and I’ve almost rinsed all the blood out of my ears. The debate was a colossal waste of time that diminished anyone unfortunate enough to have watched it, including its moderator Chris Wallace. The Fox News anchor told the New York Times on Wednesday that the debate was ‘a terrible missed opportunity’, which is a tame way to describe an unmitigated disaster.” —Stephen Colbert

“Trump’s debate performance was so bad that even those in his orbit have publicly criticized it, with some GOP senators calling it ‘awful’ and an ‘embarrassment’, while the Washington Post reported it ‘stokes fears among Republicans about November’. Oh, now they’re worried? Imagine the Republicans’ logic: ‘You know, when he ignored a pandemic, and paid no taxes, and called dead soldiers suckers and losers, and asked Ukraine to interfere in our elections, and was credibly accused of multiple sexual assaults, I thought, that’s my guy. But then, he interrupted Chris Wallace, and I’m starting to think we backed the wrong horse.’ Nevertheless, at a rally in Minnesota on Wednesday, Trump declared victory – ‘the verdict is in and they say that we, we, all of us won big last night.’ So it appears his debate performance polled well with one demographic: narcissists aged 74 to 74 who are him.” —Stephen Colbert

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“A magisterial collection. An emotional roller coaster. Soon to be a cult classic. 

A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night On Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”