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?