In the press - Debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris: "A plexiglass window, symbol of American divisions"

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In the press, the televised debate last night between the two running mates in the US presidential election, Republican Mike Pence, and Democrat Kamala Harris.

The two vice-presidential candidates debated separated by a plexiglass window - an accessory that has become a symbol of the deep divisions between Republicans and Democrats, opposed on everything, including on the best way to fight the Covid epidemic - 19 - which transforms this window into armor, into a shield for "Donald Trump's world", according to Matt Davies.

The designer shows his vice-president, Mike Pence, locked in a plexiglass cage, away from the "real world", embodied, according to him, by Democrat Kamala Harris.

The ultra-religious Mike Pence, who says his principle is never to dine alone with a woman who is not his own, is the object of sarcasm, also, of Slyngstad, with a drawing where he is sees himself literally terrified at the idea of ​​being “alone on stage with two women”, journalist Susan Page, who moderated the debate, and Kamala Harris.

Two drawings shared on

.

During the debate, Joe Biden's running mate declared that Donald Trump "measures the health of the economy by the success of the richest".

If this is the case, the President of the United States will no doubt welcome this study carried out by the Swiss bank UBS and the audit firm PWC, cited, in particular, by

.

According to their survey, it appears that the richest on the planet - a privileged circle of 2,189 billionaires, 31 more than in 2017 - have become even richer since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

According to the bank and the audit firm, their fortune is now reaching new heights, with more than 10,000 billion dollars accumulated against 8,900 billion dollars, only, if we can say so, in 2017. At the top of this ranking of super super rich: the giants of technology and health.

At the other end of the food chain, nearly 150 million people around the world could slide into extreme poverty because of the pandemic, according to the World Bank.

In a study published yesterday, the institution observes that "many countries have experienced a drop in labor income of a magnitude rarely observed" since the start of the epidemic.

This causes a fall in the global economy which could in turn lead to the destruction of nearly 195 million jobs by the end of next year, according to the International Labor Organization.

These job losses, synonymous with the deprivation of resources, risk plunging up to 150 million people below the extreme poverty line, set at $ 1.90 per day.

“For the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, extreme poverty will increase,” announces

.

The rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

In Wilcox's drawing, also posted on

, a woman comments bitterly on this explosion of inequalities: “The gap (between the richest and the poorest) didn't narrow when the economy was doing well, anyway. so there is no reason for that to change now ”.

In an attempt to limit the spread of Covid-19, several cities and countries in Europe are tightening the restrictions.

After Paris, the Belgian capital in turn is closing its bars and cafes - a measure valid for at least a month, according to

.

"In Brussels, the party is over": the daily asks "the political authorities, at all levels, to stand together", to prevent Belgium from entering "a terrible vicious circle (where) public speaking n 'is more crude, the measures are no longer respected and therefore the situation worsens, forcing the political authorities to take harsher measures, which people want even less to follow, etc., etc. ”- a“ suicidal ”circle, warns the newspaper.

In Scotland, authorities have also ordered the closure of bars and pubs in the two main cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

“Last Orders,” headlines

with a pint - a hint of regret.

The closing of Scottish bars is giving the English neighbor a cold sweat.

warns that Boris Johnson will probably not be long in announcing the same turn of the screw for England, at the risk of provoking the revolt of his compatriots, compared to the rebel Mel Gibson in the film Braveheart: "They can take our pubs, they can take our freedom away.

But they will never take our strawberry daïquiris and our chips ”.

Before I left you, I wanted to share with you this

revelation

, which reports on a study that concluded that women should be wary of men with deep voices, statistically associated with more frequent infidelity.

A study that could not be more serious, it goes without saying, which inspires the newspaper this comment: “Do not be seduced by low frequencies since they go hand in hand with infidelity.

If you want engagement, choose a squeaky man ”.

Personally, I prefer Barry White.

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