No comments on Madison Square Garden?

[ZiprHead]

Here’s the equivalent joke comparison (not the couch one):

“i hear there’s a giant garbage dump up in the mountains. I think it’s called Appalachia.”

"Basket of deplorables" certainly came close.
And Biden calling Trump supporters "garbage" is right there.

Yes, that was stupid too and Harris already distanced herself from it, unlike Trump did with the PR “joke”.

Yeah,all those Trump supporters who were going to vote for Harris may change their minds.

 

[TSwizzle]

At least Biden corrected himself and said his garbage comment was meant for the racist comedian and not all Trump supporters. Considering that Biden has had a life long problem with getting his words out correctly, he was probably being sincere. Either that, or he was angry and frustrated and said something off the cuff, later correcting himself for saying something mean. Of course, the MAGA leaders will use any little insult or misstatement made by a Democrat and blow it up, while they continue to get away with the most hateful, racist, sexist language that has ever came out of the mouth of a presidential candidate, publicly.

Oh puhlease Brandon's garbage remark was intentional.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Oh puhlease Brandon's garbage remark was intentional.

Yes, it was intentionally directed at an individual, but now The Party of Victimhood is intentionally pretending it's directed at all of them to convince people to give them sympathy votes.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

At least Biden corrected himself and said his garbage comment was meant for the racist comedian and not all Trump supporters. Considering that Biden has had a life long problem with getting his words out correctly, he was probably being sincere. Either that, or he was angry and frustrated and said something off the cuff, later correcting himself for saying something mean. Of course, the MAGA leaders will use any little insult or misstatement made by a Democrat and blow it up, while they continue to get away with the most hateful, racist, sexist language that has ever came out of the mouth of a presidential candidate, publicly.

Oh puhlease Brandon's garbage remark was intentional.

Well, you know Dementia Joe and his sharp intentional wit.

 

[thebeave]

At least Biden corrected himself and said his garbage comment was meant for the racist comedian and not all Trump supporters. Considering that Biden has had a life long problem with getting his words out correctly, he was probably being sincere. Either that, or he was angry and frustrated and said something off the cuff, later correcting himself for saying something mean. Of course, the MAGA leaders will use any little insult or misstatement made by a Democrat and blow it up, while they continue to get away with the most hateful, racist, sexist language that has ever came out of the mouth of a presidential candidate, publicly.

Biden's "correction" was not convincing. I don't think even most Democrats really believed it, and it just makes him seem dishonest and slippery. We all know his advanced age and its related problems, so maybe he could try the Uncle Leo approach to his mis-steps from now on:

 

[scombrid]

They have no choice. We sent 16,000 troops to conquer their island and bring it into our imperial holdings in 1898, and have wasted no dollar or muscle in trying to squelch any and all national independence movements ever since then. Roughly that same number of troops maintains that occupation to this day, "overseeing" the island and controlling our interests in the Caribbean from Fort Buchanan in the territorial capital of San Juan. It's honestly not all that clear why the US is so obsessed with keeping the territory, but your tax dollars pay for it and your soldiers are ready to lay down their lives to keep it. Blaming a conquered people for "choosing to live" under imperial domination is fucking absurd. I assume what you really mean is that you want PR citizens to stay on the island and never emigrate to the mainland, but that is no more reasonable. We claim their bodies and homes as our plenary property, and even so you want to deny them the most basic rights of the citizen, free transit within their own country? Fuck that.

I confess, I do not know anything about the Island of Puerto Rico's history and place in the USA. But to say I "want to deny them the most basic rights of the citizen, free transit within their own country" is just bonkers. I have said nothing of the sort.

Ignorance of history does not exempt you from responsibility for the statements you make about it. If you had an elementary education im the country, you were taught at least the bare outlines of this history.

Seems you have forgotten, I was not born in the USA and I went to school in Europe. So I think my ignorance on the subject of Puerto Rico should be expected. It's just something not covered in the curriculum.

It most certainly sounded as though you do not want Puerto Ricans to move to the mainland.

No it did not. This is you just making shit up again. Something you have a habit of doing.

You're ignorant about Puerto Rico because you're foreign born. Why do you feel qualified to comment on US Politics and vote? I thought we required more of naturalized folks when it came to civic knowledge?

 

[TSwizzle]

You're ignorant about Puerto Rico because you're foreign born. Why do you feel qualified to comment on US Politics and vote?

What a dumb question.

I thought we required more of naturalized folks when it came to civic knowledge?

How utterly uninteresting.

 

[Elixir]

Disinterest breeds ignorance.
Ignorance becomes its own punishment, but that takes time.

 

[laughing dog]

At least Biden corrected himself and said his garbage comment was meant for the racist comedian and not all Trump supporters. Considering that Biden has had a life long problem with getting his words out correctly, he was probably being sincere. Either that, or he was angry and frustrated and said something off the cuff, later correcting himself for saying something mean. Of course, the MAGA leaders will use any little insult or misstatement made by a Democrat and blow it up, while they continue to get away with the most hateful, racist, sexist language that has ever came out of the mouth of a presidential candidate, publicly.

Biden's "correction" was not convincing. I don't think even most Democrats really believed it, and it just makes him seem dishonest and slippery.

I seriously doubt there is any way President could have clarified his meaning that those who lean right leaning or who are Magatards would find convincing.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Biden wasn't thinking. It slipped out. Mistake. What does Trump want, a cookie?

 

[Elixir]

Biden's "correction" was not convincing. I don't think even most Democrats really believed it, and it just makes him seem dishonest and slippery.

Do you believe that Biden thinks people are garbage?
Do you believe Trump thinks people are vermin?
Do you believe Trump’s constant and repeated labeling of Americans as “the enemy within”?

WHICH IS MOST DAMAGING?

Biden wasn't thinking. It slipped out. Mistake. What does Trump want, a cookie?

Yes he wants ALL the cookies and will lie cheat and steal to get them.

 

[Shadowy Man]

At least Biden corrected himself and said his garbage comment was meant for the racist comedian and not all Trump supporters. Considering that Biden has had a life long problem with getting his words out correctly, he was probably being sincere. Either that, or he was angry and frustrated and said something off the cuff, later correcting himself for saying something mean. Of course, the MAGA leaders will use any little insult or misstatement made by a Democrat and blow it up, while they continue to get away with the most hateful, racist, sexist language that has ever came out of the mouth of a presidential candidate, publicly.

Biden's "correction" was not convincing. I don't think even most Democrats really believed it, and it just makes him seem dishonest and slippery.

I seriously doubt there is any way President could have clarified his meaning that those who lean right leaning or who are Magatards would find convincing.

Well, I sure as hell ain’t voting for Biden now!

 

[Playball40]

I knew you wouldn't be able to resist this! Too bad Rep. Johnson is only black -- if he were also a woman you would have hit the jackpot!

Because #1 rule of the Ilk is that no blacks or women must ever be criticized, right? Only white men are fair game.

WRONG! Joseph Ladapo is a moron.

 

[Gospel]

What was it that Obama once said? "Never underestimate the ability for Joe Biden to fuck things up"?

Biden may have handed Trump a big assist with his ‘garbage’ gaffe

CNN —
Joe Biden had largely been an afterthought one week before the election in which he’d once hoped to win a second term.

Not anymore.

The president inadvertently injected himself into the homestretch of the campaign and may have handed a big assist to his erstwhile rival, ex-President Donald Trump, who is struggling to quell a furor over his bigotry-filled rally at Madison Square Garden earlier this week.

Biden mentioned Puerto Rico, slandered as a “floating island of garbage” by a comedian at Trump’s event on Sunday night. But his clumsy defense of the self-governing American territory — and the vital swing voters in its diaspora on the US mainland — sparked a new political firestorm and distracted from Vice Kamala President Harris’ big closing argument speech against a White House backdrop on Tuesday night.

“And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico ‘a floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me tell you something … I don’t know the Puerto Rican that I know… or Puerto Rico where I’m – in my home state of Delaware – they’re good, decent, honorable people,” Biden said during virtual remarks in a Voto Latino get-out-the-vote call meant to help Harris.

“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said, pausing for a moment before continuing. “His, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it’s un-American.”

That escalated quickly. We went from some rando comedian saying "Puerto Rico is a floating island of garbage" to the sitting President saying that half the country (Trump supporters) is garbage. Of course, its being spun differently by the White House, but it doesn't sound very persuasive. This sounds eerily similar to Hillary Clinton's ill advised "deplorables" comment in 2016.

On the bright side, at least he didn't call them Latinx.

I know this might be inappropriate to say, but if I’d been standing next to Biden when he said that, I would've wanted to choke him out. "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT IS AT RISK!?! DO YOU EVEN REMEMBER HILLARY!?!?!" Go sit yo punk ass down!!".

Of course, I wouldn’t have actually done it, but the thought definitely would’ve crossed my mind.

 

[barbos]

At least Biden corrected himself and said his garbage comment was meant for the racist comedian and not all Trump supporters. Considering that Biden has had a life long problem with getting his words out correctly, he was probably being sincere. Either that, or he was angry and frustrated and said something off the cuff, later correcting himself for saying something mean. Of course, the MAGA leaders will use any little insult or misstatement made by a Democrat and blow it up, while they continue to get away with the most hateful, racist, sexist language that has ever came out of the mouth of a presidential candidate, publicly.

Biden's "correction" was not convincing. I don't think even most Democrats really believed it, and it just makes him seem dishonest and slippery.

I seriously doubt there is any way President could have clarified his meaning that those who lean right leaning or who are Magatards would find convincing.

Well, I sure as hell ain’t voting for Biden now!

Same here

 

[barbos]

I know this might be inappropriate to say, but if I’d been standing next to Biden when he said that, I would've wanted to choke him out. "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT IS AT RISK!?! DO YOU EVEN REMEMBER HILLARY!?!?!" Go sit yo punk ass down!!".

You do realize that he does not care? He is pissed off at Kamala for throwing him out of running for the second term

 

[Gospel]

No matter what the White House says about it or what Biden might have truly meant, it was an incredibly foolish thing to say at this stage in the election. Harris had stayed clear of any major negative press until now. What a disappointment. As vice president, you can’t just distance yourself from the president—it simply doesn’t work that way.

 

[barbos]

it was an incredibly foolish thing to say

For fucks's sake, he has dementia, that's what it does to people.

 

[Gospel]

I know this might be inappropriate to say, but if I’d been standing next to Biden when he said that, I would've wanted to choke him out. "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT IS AT RISK!?! DO YOU EVEN REMEMBER HILLARY!?!?!" Go sit yo punk ass down!!".

You do realize that he does not care? He is pissed off at Kamala for throwing him out of running for the second term

I doubt that. I think he saw he was falling behind in the polls and wasn’t making any significant progress. Plus, with the DNC and public opinion pushing for him to step down due to poor performance, it was what it was. I highly doubt he did this intentionally; he was just trying to help but handled it poorly.

 

[Shadowy Man]

No matter what the White House says about it or what Biden might have truly meant, it was an incredibly foolish thing to say at this stage in the election. Harris had stayed clear of any major negative press until now. What a disappointment. As vice president, you can’t just distance yourself from the president—it simply doesn’t work that way.

If JD Vance can get away with saying Trump is "America's Hitler", and he's Trump's actual running mate, then I don't think anything Biden says should be able to really reflect on Harris. Or that would seem to be the logic of the right wing. "Get over it."

And by the way, I'm not sure I've ever heard Vance actually apologize for that comment. Maybe he has, but I haven't seen it.