In September 2016, in the middle of the election, Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump’s supporters “a basket of deplorables.” The MAGAts screamed and cried about it for months and tried to use it as a rallying cry, all while they were calling Latin-Americans rapists and criminals, and on and on. It’s just one more thing Hillary was right about – Trump’s supporters are some of the worst people in the world. They’re all in on a mush-brained authoritarian fascist and adjudicated rapist who wants to punish all American women by taking away their voting rights, their reproductive rights, their personhood, their citizenship. A few days ago, Donald Trump organized a festival of hate, a neo-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, in which racist jokes about watermelons and “Puerto Rico = a floating island of garbage” flew around. Well, President Joe Biden is the latest Democrat to call out Trump supporters for being the f–king worst people ever:
Damn!! Biden is truly out of fucks to give and I love it! 🤣
"The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) October 30, 2024
The significant quote: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters…His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.” I agree and I’m glad Biden said it. Still, Biden and his people instantly knew that the thin-skinned losers of the MAGA cult would sob into their soiled cots about it, so he quickly clarified in a tweet:
Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage—which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's all I meant to say. The…
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 30, 2024
This hasn’t stopped the MAGA cult from throwing a performative national tantrum. Meanwhile, Trump (their orange god) literally calls America a “garbage can” in his stump speech. One of my favorite pieces of thin-skinned commentary is from Trump’s running mate, who has spent years demonizing “childless cat ladies” and said outright that childless women shouldn’t be allowed to vote. On Monday, Vance also said “But we have to stop getting so offended at every little thing in the United States of America. I’m so over it.” But that was about Trump’s Nazi rally, in which a speaker called Puerto Rico a “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.”
This is disgusting. Kamala Harris and her boss Joe Biden are attacking half of the country.
There's no excuse for this. I hope Americans reject it.
https://t.co/oLXa0Misng https://t.co/Y67u7rZXVs— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 30, 2024
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I hope everyone responds to Vance’s tweet with his quote about getting offended about every little thing.
Good one!
And keep helping people to the voting locations.
Trump says stuff like this all the time, so beyond stupid of them to whine about it.
Focus on the goal, not this noise.
I swear the double standard when it comes to parsing what Biden and Trump say is so effing unfair and infuriating!!!!
I’ve decided that I need to post something semi useful about voting: https://theconversation.com/what-to-do-if-your-vote-is-challenged-practical-advice-from-a-civil-rights-attorney-for-election-day-239066
We all know that certain voters have more difficulty getting their votes to count and it’s not the people screaming about Biden’s remarks.
Vance is waiting to apply the 25th Amendment. Eff him too.
Oh, but he meant people who aren’t rich white cis males getting offended by MAGA trash’s racist/misogynist/transphobic rhetoric. They’re just supposed to take it. Fragile white MAGA cult trash shouldn’t have to hear about what they really are. How dare anyone?
Trump has spent FUCKING MONTHS waxing poetic about siccing the military on his domestic opponents. GTFO with this fake outrage horseshit.
He literally called anyone not voting for him the enemy within, and all I’ve heard from his running mate is that I’m useless and evil and can’t care about anything because I don’t have children.
and, yet, the media is making a huge stink about this and how it will hurt Harris’ chances
I think the media WANT it to be a problem for Kamala, but I don’t think it will be. If Biden had said this like, a couple of months ago, maybe? But we’re less than a week out from Election Day, and I don’t think that there are any minds left to be changed. Harris supporters are voting for her because we know very well what’s at stake and we’re not going to be shifted by something so trivial as a deliberately misinterpreted soundbite from a POTUS who is famous, even beloved, for his “gaffes”/accidental honesty.
It’s not even what he fully said if you look at the transcript. He was using a singular so everyone knew he was talking about the reporter. I was so sick of the Beltway media running with this crap again. And then saying that Biden should step down.
Thank you! IS, not ARE.
Well he didn’t call them garbage ( though he should have) just that their rhetoric is and that’s also true. JD Vance needs to be quiet because he literally said that he’s tired of people being so sensitive on Monday after the rally. The difference between now and the basket of deplorables remark, is that we’ve had eight years to see people behave deplorably. If you’re upset that someone views you as a garbage human being, because you support the literal fascist, are okay with women dying due to not having access to preventative health care, are perfectly okay with demonizing children, are okay with describing the Homeland of US citizens as a floating island in the trash, okay with describing the vice president as the antichrist, are okay with the country you lived in being described as the garbage can, okay with supporting a felon, an adjudicated rapist, someone who admires Hitler, and too many other things I can’t remember from just this summer spare me the false outrage. People who are a-ok with the above are trash, stop trying to pretend it’s just a difference of ideals. This isn’t conservative versus liberal.
He speaks the absolute truth! The only trash are MAGA cult members, starting with their leader.
So trump and his minions are only ones allowed to say mean things 24/7 but when Joe responds to that particular garbage statement and turns it on them this should end Kamala’s campaign? What a load of malarkey. It’s true what they say that trump can be lawless but everyone else must be flawless.
The coddling of the maga bums is at levels I have never seen. After 2016 the press gave them the excuse of economic anxiety even though President Obama left us with a robust and bustling economy. They did interview after interview with these people and listen with bated breath to their complaints.
I don’t remember any such interviews being done when President Handsome was elected. Why didn’t they talk to those of us where disgusted with DT and his degenerate and incompetent leadership? Why? Because they cater to white racist who worship a hateful dolt.
PJB is right about those cultists, and I hope he stands by it.
Amen Girl_Ninja. At this point after everything we have seen and heard, if anyone can still vote for Trump then I don’t care if their feelings are hurt. We are in a freaking existential crisis as a country because of such people.
Exactly. I don’t care. They continue to vote in favor of white supremacy at the detriment of the country.
RIGHT?? Remember all the think pieces and endlessly dissecting of the Trump voter? Remember how JD Vance used that to make himself a household name? (well relatively)? Yes I know Hillbilly Elegy came out before the election but that and Strangers in a Strange Land were sure treated like canon after Trump was elected.
Where’s the lie
Actually, I agree with the clarification. If you look at what JB said in context, he was talking about the so-called comedian: supporter’s, not supporters. He’s been around long enough to know that whatever thoughts you have about them, you don’t call voters names. And everyone remembers how Hillary was damaged by the “deplorables” comment even though it was true. My own sister still thinks it cost HRC the election. I love Hillary but it didn’t help.
They are selectively editing POTUS’ remark … as usual.
Sure looks like it. This is a problem for Harris regardless of how we feel.