Joe Biden and the Case of the Planted Apostrophe
"Garbage"? Whoop's!
Every day of the 2024 presidential campaign has been dumber than the day before. And the stupidity is now increasing exponentially.
Here’s a “Previously On” recap, in case you’ve been in a coma for the past week:
On Sunday, Republican nominee Donald Trump held a big rally at Madison Square Garden, right in the middle of solid-blue Manhattan. In response, one of the kiddies on Team Kamala googled “Madison Square Garden + Nazis” and struck gold: Did you know there was also a Nazi rally at MSG?
In, um, 1939. Before the grandparents of Kamala’s staffers were born. Hell, even before our current president was born. That’s a long, looooooong time.
But still, it counts! There’s no expiration date on a Democrat’s accusation of bigotry.
So that became the narrative among journalists and their fellow Dems: “Once again, the Nazis have taken over MSG.”
I think I heard something about MSNBC intercutting footage from the ‘39 rally with the Trump rally? I haven’t watched that network since they fired Olbermann, but it sounds like something they’d do.
Little did they all know what a gift they were about to be handed. One of the speakers at the rally was comedian and Kill Tony podcast host Tony Hinchcliffe, and everybody lost their minds about this joke:
Perfect. The headline wrote itself: TRUMP RALLY BASHES PUERTO RICANS!!!
If Trump wanted to convince everyone he’s not a bigot, Hinchcliffe certainly didn’t do him any favors. Even though, as a few lonesome bloggers shouted into the wilderness, it was a joke.1
The entire journalism industry then spent 48 solid hours pouncing and seizing on Hinchcliffe’s unfortunate wisecrack. “See? Do you see how racist they are? They’re just so… so… racist!!”
Oh, they were so happy.
But they forgot one thing: Grandpa Joe is still around.
And he wants to help.
Emphasis mine:
“The Puerto Rican that I know, or Puerto Rico where I’m, in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable.”
Oops.
Yes, Joe Biden just called Trump supporters “garbage.” It’s the only clear sentence in that whole paragraph of gibberish.
There are maybe six million Puerto Ricans in America. In 2020, there were something like 75 million Trump voters. I’m no mathematician, but that’s a lot more. If alienating the first group is bad, then alienating the second group is much, much worse.
No matter how much Joe Scarborough hates them.
If a dumb joke by a podcast host matters, then so does the sitting president of the United States telling tens of millions of voters that they’re “garbage.”
Biden’s enormous Kinsley gaffe2 stopped the Democrats and their media comrades right in their tracks. He put them on defense, just when they were having so much fun calling Republicans racists.
So they leapt into action to clean up the old man’s mess yet again. The intern running Biden’s Twitter account quickly typed this up:
And here’s the White House transcript. Again, emphasis mine:
“I don’t — I — I don’t know the Puerto Rican that — that I know — or a Puerto Rico, where I’m fr- — in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
Do you see what they did there? Do you understand how very clever they are?
You dumb peasants shouldn’t believe the evidence of your own senses. What Biden was actually saying is that the only garbage he sees belongs to one of Trump’s supporters.
He’s not saying Trump supporters are garbage. He’s saying Tony Hinchcliffe has garbage.
When Hinchcliffe made a joke about Puerto Rico being garbage, that comment itself was the garbage.
Yeah, that’s the ticket! Pull the other one, it plays “Hail to the Chief.”
It’s nice to have a big team of hardworking, ethically flexible, taxpayer-funded aides right there in his house, and an entire industry devoted to explaining away his stupid mistakes. But Biden called Trump supporters “garbage” and everybody knows it. Especially the people trying to convince you otherwise.
Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” gaffe in 2016 was bad, but at least she only meant half of Trump’s supporters. Joe smeared ‘em all. He f’ed it up twice as much.
Did you know Kamala gave a big speech last night? So much for winning this news cycle. She thought it was a good idea to lie to us over and over about the old coot’s mental condition, and now she’s reaping what she’s sown.
You know what? It might have been a mistake for the Democrats to cover up Joe Biden’s creeping dementia for the past four years. It might’ve been a mistake to wait until 100 days before the election to do something about it. And maybe, just maybe, it was a mistake to leave him in office.
But the Dems didn’t listen to us. And now they’re paying the price for their own institutional dishonesty.
Tee-hee!
The journos are now digging into Hinchcliffe’s voting history. They’re investigating a comedian for telling a joke. And they wonder why we hate them.
A Kinsley gaffe, named after pundit Michael Kinsley, is when a politician inadvertently utters something he actually believes.
After all the lies Joe has told during his half-century tenure in Washington, speaking from the heart might be the biggest mistake of his career. We’ll find out next week.
Maybe.
If the Dems win, they'll conclude that this kind of gaslighting is effective and good. Expect to be told in much more profuse ways that we were always at war with Eurasia.
And we still got six days to go.
The anxiety is sky high. I just want all this shit to be over. I truly hope Trump wins, but that would mean four years of this absolute bullshit on steroids. I'll take that any day over 4 years of The Cackling Fellatrix.