I just have two links to direct everyone to today. As I said, I didn’t watch the Trump/Biden debate, and from what I have caught of it since, that was a good decision. As with when I watch Farage, watching Donald Trump speak automatically makes me fly into an intense, red hot fury: I do not understand how that total disgrace to human civilisation can have the audacity or arrogance to spout the bullshit he does. Thus I don’t think I can comment much on the debate itself, given I didn’t watch it. I will, however, direct you all here, to Steve Shives evaluation of it. It’s somewhat long winded, but shives makes some veery good points: Biden’s performance wasn’t excellent, and his age was clearly showing, but that is no reasons not to loose faith in him. Shives advises his fellow American Democrats not to panic, and that above all Biden is still a far, far better candidate than trump.

The second thing I want everyone to watch is on the same subject, but is far more lighthearted. When I watched it half an hour ago, this piece from Wierd Al Yankovic blew me away. It’s a brilliant piss-take on the debates, but what impressed me most was how Yankovic created and got it online so fast: barely forty-eight hours after the actual debate and we’re already seeing rap parodies of it, with clips of the two candidates speaking being re-edited, mashed up and put to music. Brilliant!

Both pieces of media are very different, of course. But in their own ways I think they both show just how concerned progressive, liberal America is becoming about their upcoming election; as well as just how worried – even petrified – they’re understandably becoming about the prospect that Trump could return to the White House.