The Terrible Debate

It’s So Joever. Or At Least, It Should Be

Laura Jedeed
4 min read3 days ago
Screenshot from CNN Debate, 6–28–24

It is 2:00 AM. I have had several drinks. I am tired, and I am furiously angry.

I did not start this evening angry. I started it drinking an enormous frozen margarita at a swank Manhattan bar with some friends waiting for the debate to come on. I was nervous, yes, but hopeful.

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Laura Jedeed

Freelance journalist, filthy pleb. Politics mostly. Find my work at NYMag, Politico, Rolling Stone, New Republic, and https://bannedinyourstate.com