The following program may contain language that is explicit and by explicit, I mean implicitly, not too words.

It's Wednesday, September 30th, 2020, from Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesco.

On Monday night, a candidate for federal office pulled out a pair of scissors and cut up a surgical mask during a televised debate.

Symbolically, I want to cut these masks.

And that was only the second wackiest that someone acted on a debate stage during the last 48 hours.

Because while piles of surgical masks lay scattered on the floor at the feet of main independent candidate Max Lin,

our president of the United States, Donald Trump, is actively shredding so much more.

Civility tradition norms laws, the Constitution and last night are patience.

The reaction was all but unanimous.

That was a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck.

That was a shit show.

Never in my life could I imagine anything.

I'd never seen it.

I couldn't even imagine.

I'm a screenwriter, a novelist.

I couldn't dream that up and have that in a script or a novel and have anybody believe it.

That was CNN's Jake Tapper, CNN's Dana Bash and NBC's Fertie Pacheco.

Pacheco was being quoted not about last night's debate.

He did die about 10 years ago.

He was being quoted moments after Mike Tyson bit the ear off a van der Holyfield, 1997.

Fertie, as I said, has passed away and maybe the debates themselves need to go to.

And we should just be doing a post-mortem.

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