Can’t we all just get along?
From the one and only Babylon Bee:
“Listen up, you Nazis. Here’s the deal,” Biden said. “Dangerous, inflammatory rhetoric has no place in our political discourse. That’s why I’m calling on all of Donald Trump’s nasty, disgusting, disease-infested, Hitler-loving, supporters to knock it off. Got it?”
The president stressed the need to leave insults behind and for the nation to return to civility. “The idea… that these sewer-dwelling, racist, woman-hating, fascists would try to infect our democracy with such vile, and by the way!” Biden continued. “They’re the worst. The absolute scum of the earth. Walking pieces of human scat. But this is a time for unity. When we can come together… as one people… all of us… along with the hideous, festering, buckets of slime who support Donald Trump… to unite this country. And that’s… that’s the… that’s it. End speech.”
Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign agreed with Biden, issuing a press release calling for the arrest and imprisonment of all Trump supporters in an effort to heal division in the country.
The sad thing is that it’s not too much of a stretch from their actual utterances.
As for the question of whether Biden’s “garbage” speech was a deliberate sabotage – I don’t think so. I think he genuinely wanted to capitalize on what he saw as a grave error by the Trump campaign in having a comic at their Madison Square Garden rally who told what seemed to be an anti-Puerto Rican joke (I doubt Biden or most of the audience realized it was actually about a very real problem concerning actual garbage in Puerto Rico). Biden wanted to do some sort of clever little play on the word “garbage,” but wordplay is not his forte (hey, that rhymes!).
In addition, there is little question that many Democrats have contempt for Trump voters and people on the right. It comes out in myriad ways. I’ve experienced it many times in my own life, both directed at me personally and in my role as listener to conversations. Because I appear to others to be a typical well-educated woman possessing the demographics that would ordinarily point to my being a Trump-hater, people often assume I’m sympatico to their contemptuous point of view about the right. They are always surprised to learn otherwise.
NOTE: This post’s title is a well-known quote attributed to Rodney King in 1992. But King actually said something a bit different:
And uh, I mean, please, we can, we can get along here. We all can get along. We just gotta. We gotta. I mean, we’re all stuck here for a while. Let’s, you know, let’s try to work it out. Let’s try to beat it, you know. Let’s try to work it out.
Coming back to bite them in the butt!
As for the question of whether Biden’s “garbage” speech was a deliberate sabotage – I don’t think so.
I agree. There is nothing safer than the target Biden aims at. His former boss put it better.
Hilarious footnote: Snopes rates the Obama quote as “unproven” because it’s based only on an anonymous source who says he heard it. Would that all fact checkers were as scrupulous in all cases.
Question for commenters out there: is your wife/women in your life receiving postcards apparently handwritten and asking her to vote but not specifying for whom she should vote?
My wife has received two, both postmarked Washington state, regular postage, addressed to her by name, urging her to vote.
I presume the theory is the more women who vote, the higher the likelihood Kamala will receive undecided voters. It’s an interesting theory and impressively labor-intensive. First they need lists of voters, then they need women (judging from the handwriting) to write out these hundreds o thousands of women voters.
Anyone else seen these?
@F:apparently handwritten
Likely not. This outfit cannot be the only one out there.
This business will integrate with your mailing list on Salesforce or whatever marketing tools you use to “handwrite” and mail tens of thousands of letters to people you are targeting with not much more than one click and a deduction from your corporate credit card. They offer services tailored to political campaigns, non-profits, small businesses, etc.
You might check the sample images and see if they look familiar.
I think if I had to choose one word to describe this decade so far, it would be “verisimilitude”. People are able to sell us things that look real, because we used to value real things.
Yes, I received one of those. I thought it odd, since they did not suggest how I should vote.
Babylon Bee’s satire once again mirrors reality:
I am reminded of the e-mail my brother sent out soon after the 2020 election, where he stated that Biden would be a unifier. Unfortunately, my brother’s statement was not intentionally satire. Oh well….
Bow down to the Deep State and Cultural Marxists, that’s what they want.
Last minute abortions, millions more across the open borders, universal EVs and minimal energy.
Tedeschi Trucks Band does a great version of Space Captain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn8tfnF39ek
J, Niketas and Kate: I’ve received such a postcard. I can’t remember the exact wording, but it was clear that I received it because I had been a registered Democrat in DC until 2016 (it was DC — to vote in primaries, but too disgusted after that to go on). They had my current FL address. I know they are handwritten, as I am still a member of my former DC neighborhood listserv for spying/sociological reasons, and the residents there were madly virtue signaling on it about how to get more postcards to address etc. Apparently the outfit “Cat Ladies for Kamala” could get you more. Money to burn…
Talking to an acquaintance who is aware of her superiority to the common folk. I referenced the West Virginia coal miners who hauled their heavy equipment to Appalachia and repaired–more accurately “created”–a road where one had disappeared. In a week, on their own time and their own dime. The state had estimated months to a year.
“God bless the good ol’ boys and their diesel toys,”, I said, quoting someone better with words than I.
Couple of sounds from the phone on the theme of, “ohhh, I don’t knooowww”.
I still can’t fathom how and why that comic was put on the bill for the Msg rally. Was it a low level Trump staffer who put him on? Did they vet his material in advance? Did the comic lie about what he would say? Is the comic a Trump supporter or is he a plant? I hate to sound crazy but something seems fishy. One would think a real news reporter would ask some of those questions. Hah!
Play and forte. Thenewneo is neat-o.
Happy Hallow’s Eve, boys and ghouls.
Tedeschi Trucks Band does a great version of Space Captain
Marisa:
That is great! Loyal, but not slavish, to Joe Cocker and Leon Russell’s iconic performance.
Tedeschi Trucks is one of the few current “big band” rock groups I can think of. I see at least ten musicians on that stage. Of course, you would need that many to do justice to the Cocker/Russell Mad Dogs & Englishmen Band.
Plus Tedeschi Trucks has a very high level of musicianship, which I don’t notice so much with new bands these days.
Derek Trucks goes back to the original Allman Brothers, similarly talented. He is the nephew of the Allman drummer Butch Trucks. Derek carries the flag for Duane Allman’s amazing electric slide guitar (think “Layla”), as well as Derek’s own prodigious gifts.
The “deliberate sabotage” was having his event on the same day as Harris’s and taking attention away from her big event. Biden probably didn’t consciously intend to sink Harris’s campaign with his remark about Trump supporters. But subconsciously? Biden really isn’t control of his actions at this point. I doubt he thought things out, but if an impulse seizes him how different is what he does that different from an intentional, premeditated action?
“Biden probably didn’t consciously intend to sink Harris’s campaign with his remark about Trump supporters. But subconsciously?”9
I struggle to imagine what the Biden “sub-” conscious level might be. A perfect vacuum, perhaps?
If you don’t understand that this election has been turned into a a “race game”, then you are truly blind to reality!
Note to F on handwritten postcards: I participate in an online art class that holds Zoom meetings I watch after they’re recorded. On the October meeting one of the artists who lives in WA told the group she’d signed up to send out 1000 hand written postcards in order “do something about the election besides go crazy”. She didn’t share her own party leanings and instructor quickly and deftly changed the focus to something other than politics. I got the impression she was doing it as part of an larger organized movement. Looking up 1000 cards online, there appear to be several groups/churches etc sending out hand written cards to encourage people to vote. So much so that some areas are running out of post card stamps.
Great way to support the USPS!
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And in other—totally unsurprising—news:
Democrats gotta do what Democrats gotta do…
“WH edit of Biden’s ‘garbage’ remark about Trump supporters breached stenographers’ protocol: ‘Spoilation of transcript integrity”—
https://nypost.com/2024/10/31/us-news/wh-edit-of-bidens-garbage-remark-about-trump-supporters-breached-stenographers-protocol-spoilation-of-transcript-integrity/
Heh! As though “Biden”—the absolute master of flipping the bird at the Constitution—should give a damn…
“Because I appear to others to be a typical well-educated woman possessing the demographics that would ordinarily point to my being a Trump-hater, people often assume I’m sympatico to their contemptuous point of view about the right. They are always surprised to learn otherwise.”
A number of times this has happened to me and the look of utter shock to find out I’m conservative and a Trump supporter. All the way back to the 1st term. They really do believe the narrative as to what a Trump supporter looks and acts like. So naive.
Richard Aubrey…”an acquaintance who is aware of her superiority to the common folk”
See this great story at Ricochet:
https://ricochet.com/1732174/good-thinking-but-poor-manners/
Niketas Choniates on October 31, 2024 at 5:33 pm: at that handwrytten site I did not happen to see any drop down list of style/fonts, and was wondering if perhaps the AI writes based on obtaining a standard text/prose sample of your handwriting? That would be pretty dangerous to provide that into a hackable AI database, but I suppose they could take samples from any semipublic copy of your signature, etc.
Do you perhaps know the details of that process?
David+Foster 1134pm. Thanks. That was very good.
@ David Foster > “See this great story at Ricochet:”
“Good thinking but poor manners”
Wow – that was a hard-hitting piece by Dr. Bastiat.
The post is too finely wrought to excerpt fairly, but it’s basically about Dr. B suffering through a long narcissistic monologue by his elitist leftist seatmate on a plane, and finally giving him the kind of verbal drubbing that a theater script-writer would sell his eye-teeth for.
“I consoled myself that it might be helpful for him to understand that not everyone who thinks, thinks the same as him.
But probably not.”
It’s well worth the time to read, as are the comments.
I take the liberty of appending one of David’s with a similar theme:
David Foster @DavidFoster
I was coming back from Paris once, via Air France. They had to change out the plane at the last moment, and the new plane was configured with business class but no first class–fine with me, business class was what I was booked in anyhow. But my seatmate *had* been booked in first, and he was very unhappy about the change, and kept talking about how awful it was.
Wanting to get him to talk about something else, I asked him what he did for a living.
He was a Communist organizer, coming back from some Commie meeting in Europe.
…aaaaaand on the next page, David mentions a script-writer!
That comment also links to a good post.
(I never feel like reading anything David refers us to is a wasted trip.)
Final comment speaks for me, in re Dr. B’s title:
kedavis
“Frankly, the seatmate was the one with poor manners. Correcting someone with poor manners, is not in itself poor manners.”
Many years ago, I read this definition of a character-type we used to associate with impeccable manners.
“A gentleman is someone who never unwittingly offends someone.”
Works for me.
This is the post By Robert J. Avrech from David’s comment at Ricochet.
Very illuminating.
https://jewishaction.com/jewish-world/people/confessions-shomer-shabbos-hollywood-screenwriter/
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?view=detail&q=peggy+lee+ed+sullivan+show+october+1960&mid=8EE65F116C148CBDB69F8EE65F116C148CBDB69F&FORM=VIRE
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Peggy Lee on how we all get along.
The funny thing is that so many people on the left are tsk tsking that “Hispanics” will be offended by the joke and for that reason vote for Harris instead of Trump.
I’ll let you in on a little secret: people from different countries in Latin America have differing views on one another. Central Americans in general don’t like Mexicans, Chileans and Argentineans don’t get along, and almost nobody likes Venezuelans. The idea that a joke about Puerto Rico would offend Hondurans is silly.
Likewise, the idea that making Puerto Rico a state would cause Mexican Americans in L.A. to vote Republican is stupid.
the short answer is ‘no we can’t’ whether they know it or not, they are for the end of the Republic, this is not hyperbole,
they want the abolition of every safeguard there is to tyranny, the supreme court, the filibuster, the valid franchise, they have already tried to purge any officers who would object to targeting Americans, then they have that curious DOD directive about targeting Americans on our soil, add to that the permits they have allowed the worst sort of
folk to gather in dc in the run up to the inaugural, antifa,
hamas partisans et al
Sgt.+Joe+Friday
Yes, indeed. I once attended a showing of a film about Che Guevara and his failed revo in Bolivia. The cinematography was excellent. The film’s creator, an Argentine, led a question and answer session after the film.
At one point in the discussion, I said that given the attitude that many Bolivians have about Argentina, it was rather problematic to have an Argentine lead a revo in Bolivia. I told a Bolivian joke to illustrate the point. The punchline of the joke was that in a Sunday mass before Easter, the priest of a small Bolivian town retold the story of the Last Supper. Judas spoke with unmistakable Argentine slang and accent.
Which got a laugh from the audience. The response of the film’s creator: “Let’s change the subject.”
also he was a high born argentinian his uncle an admiral, trying to wrangle a bunch of bolivian peasants, personally I think howard hunt should have had him dispatched back in 54, when he was hanging around guatemala, but thats just me,
the hagiography about che was fulsome and rarely challenged, the golden city, andy garcia’s passion project, shows his true nature, in the
Cabana as supervisor of executioners,
so two generations later, after some self inflicted injuries the ones suggested in Quantum of Solace about water rights, they had a proper figurehead in Evo Morales, the head of the Coca federations, yes you heard that right,
btw there was a brief rebellion that
included military elements, that put a sensible candidate in power, but that was reversed and she is now in prison (she had worked with evangelicals and other bitter clingers,
this is probably why the urban paramilitaries, dubbed death squads by some, because guerillas were just full of hugs and kisses, did not take any chances in Guatemala or say Brazil, two examples that exorcised Chomsky’s imagination,
the black legends inputed to Batista, who was too self absorbed to be a proper tyrant, there were some men in his entourage like Col Piedra, who were less tackful than most,* but he was too soft,
he hunted down the Humbolt 7 of quixotic dreamers that sought they could take down Batista, this just cleared the decks for the more ruthless set,
David
Fabulous piece on chance-met acquaintances.
If I were to met such a self-advertiser, I’d keep my remarks pretty short. As in “brief”, not the other “short”.
This guy needs to be who he thinks he is, as the writer sees, and there’s no percentage in discussing it as if it were a matter of facts.
He is one of those who is insulated from the results of his decisions either by circumstance, layers of circumstance, or deflection and blame-shifting to other, less worthy people.
Trying to introduce him to reality is a losing proposition. His self-image would be threatened.
As with my acquaintance, there’s never been a road in her life, speaking metaphorically, which had to be repaired on the double-quick by the less worthy.
I’ll let you in on a little secret: people from different countries in Latin America have differing views on one another.
Sgt.+Joe+Friday:
Chiming in with Gringo in support of your comment.
@AesopFan: “A gentleman is someone who never unwittingly offends someone.”
We can add: “George Washington wrote out a copy of the 110 Rules of Civility in his school book when he was about 14-years old.” https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/rules-of-civility
@ R2L > I have (or once had) a copy of Washington’s list, and it’s too bad some of them haven’t been brought back into social use. I do think 110 is too many to remember, but if you have the basic principles down, you can extrapolate most of them.
As a mother, I enforced the 3 that cover most of those needed by 5 active boys: Keep your hands to yourself; if it’s not yours leave it alone; if you mess it up you clean it up.
That said, please parse my maxim again, carefully, to get the joke.
I didn’t read all 110 of them, but I don’t think it’s in Washington’s list.