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. That’s the essence of Christian charity. And finally his obvious ease navigating college and Yale Law. Courageous, strong ethical character, and intelligence. What’s not to like?