Bleach blonde butch body - American politics goes full Jerry Springer

Bleach blonde butch body - American politics goes full Jerry Springer

American legislators in the House are hurling personal insults at each other - meanwhile Biden and Trump have committed to debate each other on TV and Trump is using an attack ad - a riff off of a Tom Petty song- to accuse Biden of “free falling“.

What has happened to rational discourse in America?

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