Make America Fun Again – with garbage
If you follow the news you can’t help but have heard about Biden’s remarks in which he called Trump supporters “garbage,” and then about the MSM’s concerted attempts to explain his remarks away. You can read about it here
as well as here, if you were fortunate enough to have missed it previously.
I also want to briefly point out is something else: the terrible and yet typical quality of the rest of Biden’s statement. Here it is, with my comments:
Trump was a successful businessman and TV personality, and he’s not been unfriendly to latinos or Puerto Ricans specifically, although he certainly isn’t keen on illegal aliens of any ethnic origin. He cares about the middle class and not just billionaires, as the middle class is well aware. His comments about poisoning the “blood of the country” referred to criminal illegal immigrants who, among other things, have been helping fentanyl to addict many Americans. An end to birthright citizenship – or at least limitations on it – has been proposed by people on the right prior to Trump; I wrote about some earlier efforts here.
Now, back to garbage.
Trump responded with an epic troll. He is much much better than most standup comics:
Trump is an echo of political pranksters such as Andrew Breitbart, as well as the Yippies of an earlier generation. But I don’t recall any prankster political candidates before, at least not in my lifetime. Kamala and Walz have tried to do lighthearted stuff but it simply doesn’t work. They’re not funny and they’re not lighthearted. Kamala laughs at her own very unfunny jokes that wouldn’t even register as jokes if she didn’t laugh uproariously and embarrassingly at them.
Trump is genuinely funny. It occurs to me that, if the left hadn’t been out to destroy him from day one, America might have had a lot of fun in a Trump presidency. He and Vance – who also has a good sense of humor – would like to Make America Fun Again. Will they get a chance?
By the way, here’s Vance’s interview with Joe Rogan. I haven’t watched it yet, but I hear it’s funny:
“if the left hadn’t been out to destroy him from day one”. Trump’s policies are all over the political map. If the left had tried to woo him and work with him, they might have gotten much they would like. But their hysterical reaction to him (much like their reaction to Sarah Palin) made that impossible. Think it came down to class; Trump was Rodney Dangerfield-Caddy Shack (not my idea;another writter came up with this) in their eyes and his mere existence was an affront.
jvermeer:
Yes, but his existence was never an affront while he stayed in his lane as wheeler-dealer and TV personality. It’s when he successfully poached on their territory that he became Darth Vader.
Trump thinks the government is there to do what it says on the label–secure the blessings of liberty, national defense, etc–and not what it primarily does: enable the connected to put their hands in the taxpayers’ pockets.
He directly threatened the livelihoods of many thousands of powerful people and their employees. He didn’t know he was doing it, but he was doing it.
Yes!
An end to birthright citizenship – or at least limitations on it – has been proposed by people on the right prior to Trump
This issue is like abortion in that people on the Left try to pretend that the US is a 180 degree outlier from what it actually is. Very few countries have birthright citizenship, almost all in the Western Hemisphere, and the exceptions are places few people would choose their citizenship to be if they could. And they act like there’s some kind of human rights violation in even suggesting that we do as the other First World nations do.
JD Vance’s autobiography, “Hillbilly Elegy”, is a MUST READ, even if you are not a Yalie.
Bill Whittle did a video about ten days ago, and he nailed it — Donald Trump is authentic. He’s one of us; he’s on our side.
Here’s the video
The other night I was listening to Ben Shapiro, who said that Trump is at his best in a small room of people. Shapiro said that Trump is genuinely funny.
Jordan Peterson says this too.
Trump talks a lot of trash. It can’t be denied. So did Larry Bird. But IMO they both did so strategically to take their opponents out of their game into that of Trump/Bird.
If Pennsylvania takes two weeks to count the votes and Trump loses, I’m calling Stolen Election.
I’m sure there are others here who remember Jackie Gleason. As I watched DJT riff on the garbage truck and recreate the conversations with his staff… I flashed on Gleason. To me, its the same off-hand delivery, the mannerisms and expressions that I remember.
For you kids out there, youtube has many Gleason clips… …and away we go!
Cicero: Yes indeed, J.D.’s “Hillbilly Elegy” is a MUST READ. He had one rough upbringing, way beyond what most of us could tolerate without coming out bitter and dysfunctional. Several things strike me about the man. First that he enlisted in the Marine Corps after 9/11 and without hesitation. That’s courage and patriotism. The next is that his extreme strength of character allows him unbridled forgiveness. And finally his obvious ease navigating college and Yale Law. Courageous, strong ethical character, and intelligence. What’s not to like?
I have concerns about Vance . It’s almost like he came from central casting just for this moment . I like the guy , but it almost like he is the white ,reasonable Obama. I hope I’m wrong .
I’ll do one better… Make USA Fun And Sexy Again (MUFASA) is Trump? Leader of the American pride. Roar!
I never saw Joe Rogan until Trump. He is excellent. I feel like I’m back in the days of Dick Cavett
but it almost like he is the white ,reasonable Obama. I hope I’m wrong .
He talks extremely articulately without an um err uh teleprompter like umm umm Obama
Another+Mike on October 31, 2024 at 6:56 pm: Ditto on the Gleason impressions.
Avi on October 31, 2024 at 10:50 pm: and also without the interjections of “like …”; “you know …”; and “right? …” of a younger cohort.
Pre-written speeches and telepromter assisted presentations can certainly suggest a speaker is really smarter and more in command of his topic than he is, but real sincerity and sound knowledge is best conveyed with at most a glance at some notes and an otherwise coherent discussion. Just have to watch not to get off on too many side tangents, etc.
Re: Jackie Gleason
Another+Mike:
Even though I was an elementary school kid, when “The Honeymooners” was in syndication, I can see that comparison.
Trump also reminds me of Don Rickles, who was a Greatest Generation guy and served in World War II. Rickles’s humor was famously abrasive, though I understand in person he was warm, kind and generous.
Trump harkens back to that earlier America, when one had to be tough — dish it out and take it.
“almost like he [Vance] is the white ,reasonable Obama”
Obama wouldn’t have been nearly as bad if he weren’t a communist straight up.
Keith: “I like [Vance], but it almost like he is the white, reasonable Obama.”
That’s grossly unfair to Vance. If Obama hadn’t had one black parent, it would have been obvious what an unaccomplished cipher he was. Except that nobody would have been aware enough of him in the first place to draw the conclusion.
In February 2015, writing at National Review Online, Kevin Williamson said, “Barack Obama doesn’t speak a foreign language or play a musical instrument, exhibits no sign that any great book has left a mark upon his mind, has never, so far as the printed word can document, uttered an original thought or put forth an interesting idea.”
And later that year at PowerLine blog, Scott Johnson wrote, “The rise of Barack Obama is a sign of the indifference of history to the well-being of the United States and, his Nobel Peace Prize to the contrary notwithstanding, the world. If history gave a damn, Barack Obama would still be voting ‘present’ in the Illinois legislature, just to prove his existence to an indifferent universe.”
@ Paul > “If Obama hadn’t had one black parent, it would have been obvious what an unaccomplished cipher he was. Except that nobody would have been aware enough of him in the first place to draw the conclusion.”
That was clear to most rational people about two months into his campaign.
But “First Black President!” was too strong a siren call for too many people.
Now we have Kamala Harris, who also would be a total nonentity except for being a woman-of-color, who also got chosen by some powerful people as a front for their own policy preferences.
@ AesopFan: “But “First Black President!” was too strong a siren call for too many people.”
So if the goal is capturing “firsts”, that means Trump should add that he will be “the first billionaire president!”
I suspect the truly smartest billionaires never let it be known (outside of the IRS) that they are in fact billionaires.
@ R2L > well, many of the presidents got a LOT richer in and after office, but I don’t know if any made it to billionaire — and the Democrats are trying to throw Trump out of that club with lawfare and fines.
Now, he could legitimately claim to be the first ORANGE president.