Por via de regra, não assisto a debates políticos, nem mesmo os do Portugal dos Pequeninos. Não votando nas eleições americanas, estava fora de causa abrir uma excepção. Ainda assim, não querendo privar os nossos visitantes de uma apreciação do show off Trump-Biden, escolhi um post de Rita Carreira, que cito na língua original porque me pareceu sem sentido traduzir para português um texto em inglês escrito por uma portuguesa.
«We are stuck between a rock and a hard place. If there is any take away to be had from the first Presidential debate it is that Joe Biden is a terrible candidate. He is too old, lethargic, and his tongue gets tied in knots. Trump is a compulsive liar, but he has spent his whole life swindling people, so he's very good at it.
Plus, the standard rules do not apply to Trump: he lies and contradicts himself like it's nobody's business. He goes from saying that the Spring shutdown was a necessity and saved a ton of people to affirming with great conviction what a big mistake shutdowns are. Biden can't even connect the dots and push back.
At another time, Trump prods Biden to admit that he's planning on packing the court, i.e., increasing the number of Justices in the SCOTUS--he cannot, only Congress has that power. Biden coyly tries to get out of it. Then when Trump is asked about the election ending up in the courts, he admits that he is packing the courts as much as he can, since Obama left a bunch of openings left to fill. And, yes, he is counting on SCOTUS to give him the election.
Perhaps Biden's funniest moment was when he called Trump a clown, after which he immediately apologized. He should have owned it. He should've said "You're a fucking clown and people are dying because of how incompetent you are!" There, go for the kill, surprise your audience and you adversary! Don't act like a little boy who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.»
Lembrei-me de Juan Carlos, o rei espanhol caído em desgraça, que perguntou «¿Por qué no te callas?» a Hugo Chávez, o coronel tapioca que reinava então na Venezuela, num encontro em que este último debitava ininterruptamente baboseiras.