In the final days of her campaign, Ms. Harris is trying to separate the man from his movement. Gone is the framing of Republicans as “extreme MAGA,” the catchphrase attack adopted by Mr. Biden during the 2022 midterms. Instead, in ways big and small, Ms. Harris is extending an open hand to Republicans who may have voted for the former president in the past....
Some in the Democratic Party — including the man who lives in the White House illuminated behind her on Tuesday — appear to be still reckoning with that new approach. Just before she took the stage, President Biden seemed to refer to those who support Mr. Trump as “garbage”...
Just before she took the stage!
... in a campaign call that quickly ricocheted across the internet, was seized upon by Republicans and the president himself soon sought to clarify on social media. Mr. Biden said he meant only the comedian at Mr. Trump’s Sunday rally who had called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage.”What Biden said — here's the video — is: "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."
The Weave here is so beautiful. The throughline: "terrible". He mixes in Hillary's deplorables, adds pity and forgiveness for Joe while emphasizing that Joe knows nothing, and then slides a delicious dig at Kamala before returning to "terrible". Anyone who can't appreciate The Weave should study this reaction. And it's all off-the-cuff.
And the Jesus joke. Who off-handedly tosses in a Jesus-on-the-cross parody? Is that a sacrilege? Or is it striking evidence that he really is a Christian? To think of forgiveness is to think of Jesus Christ.
ADDED: I can see that the White House transcript, linked above, has a transcription that is either accurate or designed to support the explanation that Biden was using the word "garbage" only to describe the remark the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made about Puerto Rico ("floating island garbage"). Here's the transcription:The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.
The idea is that "his supporter" — singular — is Tony Hinchcliffe, and it only seems to be plural because of the possessive apostrophe-s. The 2 sentences are connected into one, and the "his" in "his supporter's/supporters" and the "his" in "his demonization" are not the same "his."
The first "his" is Trump's — Trump's supporter's/supporter — and the second "his" is Hinchcliffe's — Hinchcliffe's demonization.
This is the linguistic problem of coreference. You can explore it by replacing the 2 usages of the word "his" with the "his"s with referents. There are 2 interpretations:
1. The only garbage I see floating out there is Trump's supporter’s — Trump's supporter’s demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.
2. The only garbage I see floating out there is Trump's supporters. Trump's demonization of [Latinos?] is unconscionable. And it's un-American.
A problem with interpretation #1 is that the word "is" appears twice. You have to see Biden as restarting the sentence. In the first effort, the subject is "garbage," but then he rearranges it, making "demonization" the subject. They could have used punctuation to stress this idea: "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable...."
I feel as though I'm deeper into the weeds than anyone will go. Is anyone still with me? Anyone interested in the problems of coreference and misperceived coreference? I doubt it. I suspect Harris supporters will snap up interpretation #1 and Trump supporters will laugh at the apostrophe argument and find interpretation #2 so obvious that I'm wasting their time.
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Such weak reverso-gaslighting!
Its sad how little the New Soviet Democraticals have to work with now that they have been exposed and their legacy media Pravda-vian info monopoly has been obliterated.
A democrat party plant "comedian" versus the actual President.
Isn’t anyone deeply concerned that the USPS has made it so mail ballots do not transit the sort centers where a digital record of the mail is created?This seems like another way to secure large scale cheating with mailed ballots.
I'm pollworking this next Tuesday (in a county in far-northern Calif.); and during training earlier this month the leadership observed that mail-in ballots mailed via U.S. Mail on election day, or even maybe the day before, won't receive a proper postmark for that day—they'll go to, like, Sacramento and get stamped there perhaps the next day—unless the sender speaks to a clerk in the local post office, and has him or her hand-stamp it right then and there. In response to a question, they (Clerk's Office officials) acknowledged that no, that little detail's not mentioned in the election materials.
Still nothing compared to the Dark Brandon screed which actually did invoke Hitler.
"Disqualify Trump, but extend a hand to his voters."
A hand with a big middle finger pointing at them.
American's supporting Trump are both garbage and not garbage depending on what the person opening the box reports to you.
Moments ago Richweed had a comment about if only there was a racist pro choice party..as if "You ain't black" "Put y'all in chains" Pedo Pete isn't at the top.
..with an entrepreneurial nanny.
Too much cart before the horse. My working theory is still the steal with the now added accent of ‘she’s a true underdog story with the full support of the American people’…
Jon Stewart defended it and went further, saying we need more of it. Apparently he cut a whole album of hideously inappropriate jokes.
"Just moments ago, Joe Biden stated that our supporters are Garbage."
Needs a picture of Shirley Manson in a MAGA hat.
Nah, Biden’s old man gaff didn’t take anything away from Harris’ speech.
Well, that would certainly explain why I see three stories on the front page of my local news station (in Seattle, no less) talking about Biden's 'garbage' comment and not a single word about Kamala's speech.
Seriously. Find another hobby. You suck at politics.
Deplorable nazi garbage? So much to unpack. So much imagery. And all I did was sit here and say a few nice things about Trump.
there’s been a lot of trash talk on both sides.
One is a so-called comedian. The other is the President of the United States.
Notice the difference?
"It does seem many people are getting tired of democrat's version of democracy in action."
Democrat's version is "STFU and do as you're told."
Now do Kimmel, Griffin and all the other crazy, Progressives who have called most of us a lot worse.
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