The Garbage Gaffe
Joe Biden should be applauded for the honest and eloquent statement he made last week.
I am not being sarcastic.
On a video conference call with supporters, responding to a racist joke made by an insult comedian at a Trump rally about Puerto Rican people being garbage, Biden said, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his [Trump’s] supporters.”
Well said, sir!
The moment has been called a gaffe, another of the innumerable mistaken and embarrassing statements that Biden has made in his political career, with increased frequency during the past years of his mental decline, and he and his team have tried to walk back or explain away the comment.
It wasn’t a gaffe. He didn’t say anything untrue and he shouldn’t be embarrassed by it. People who support Donald Trump are garbage. Everyone knows it, including the garbage people themselves. The performative outrage and condemnation that’s been hurled against Biden is disingenuous and entirely unfair.
Despite being make-believe champions of free speech in recent years, their interpretation of the First Amendment right being that they can insult and demean anyone with impunity and air their bigotry without consequence, Republicans get all pissy in their britches any time someone calls a fascist or a nazi or a piece of garbage what they are. In this case, calling Trump supporters “garbage” is among the kinder descriptions Biden could have chosen.
Let’s also look at the balance here, at things Trump has said vs what Biden recently said. Trump has stated that people who oppose his political agenda should be deported, imprisoned, assaulted by the police, national guard and military, and/or killed. Given that, is it irrational for anyone, lame duck sitting president or otherwise, to asperse those who support such a vicious and megalomaniacal fascist?
I think not.
Trump has built his persona and political movement with lies, anger, and misdirected hatred. He has nothing to offer this country, its people, and the world, other than vindictiveness, pain, and buffoonery. He does not care about anyone or anything other than himself and his own profits. He does not love this country and he doesn’t love his supporters. He’d happily let the nation burn, and any supporter or ally suffer and die, if it benefited, or even just didn’t directly negatively impact him.
If you believe his lies, and continue to support him, then you are a gullible, willing fool. That is the kindest, most respectful thing that can be said about you. Frankly, if you’re still buying his bullshit, then the depth of your stupidity is astounding. I wouldn’t call you garbage because it’s unkind to insult people so intellectually feeble and pathetically credulous that it’s astonishing they manage to function in the world.
If you are intelligent enough to understand that he is nothing but an evil and petty narcissist who’d never do a positive thing to help you or anyone, but you persist in supporting him because you like the destructive and cruel actions that he intends to inflict on the country, the world, and on its most marginalized and vulnerable people, then you are garbage.
If you support his evil, his criminality, his cruelty, his idiocy, then you are as bad as he is. You’re garbage. In some ways you’re worse, because you barely even stand to benefit, if at all, from the damage and chaos he’ll inflict. You’re a bitch, a sucker, and a loser, in addition to being garbage.