The "Debate" Between Trump and Biden Was a Joke | Debate Breakdown

This is probably the best, most cogent account of the "annoying or, at best,  mildly amusing" presidential debate of 2020; I'm afraid it tells us more about it than merits hearing--or seeing. Now, please, I do realize that things have come to a deadly serious pass, and I do not mean to trivialize--but C'mon, this is an unseemly farce.

What I like about being a native English-speaker is having a lovely word like "unseemly" in my vocabulary, and knowing almost instinctually what it means, and knowing that no other word would convey quite the same disdainful opprobrium that one means to asperse.  Seems it (the word "unseemly") entered the the language in the 12th century from Old Norse, whence come, meseemeth, the skin and bones of what is half-mistakenly thought of as Anglo-Saxon English; and not only core words and third person plural pronouns from Old Norse, but also infinitive-splitting and adverbial "prepositions" at the ends of our phrases and sentences. I lucked out--plainly--in the providential acquisition of a mother-tongue which is at the same time, as it just so happens, virtually a universal lingua franca spoken--or at least understood--by most of the people on the planet, and a very interesting, expressive and comprehensive-of-much language in its own right.