Originally published at: You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Here We Go Again Like sharks with blood in the water, leading national political reporters went into a feeding frenzy last night after Republicans faked outrage at remarks from President Biden that they construed as…
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It is such a pleasure to listen to Kamala speak.
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Can’t possibly be frist without the required cat photo, cats everywhere demand it ! And let’s face it, we’re all cats in this bag !
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I guarantee no one gives two good goddamns about Biden’s “gaffe.”
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Where’s the cat pic? I need my early morning fix.
JK–I’ve got 5 cats and got some wonderful cuddles already.
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Trump supporters are garbage.
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About the garbage thing, it was about time that some one broke it to the Trump supporters what they are.
I can’t think of anyone who might have thought of voting for Kamala to change his/her mind because of Biden Gaffe. If any “undecided” voter thinks that Biden’s comment is worse than the Nazi Woodstock at the MSG, he was never an undecided voter, and he is garbage as well.
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Exactly. What is “the big fucking deal”?
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I gotta say, in MY opinion, the people that were at MSG were APPLAUDING for ‘garbage’ for 3hrs.
So put me in the BIDEN ‘gaffe’ group.
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Quite amazing how when Joe states a simple, irrefutable truth it’s a BFD.
And the Ellipse speech and crowd was the day’s actual BFD.
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They are, but Kamala can’t say that.
I haven’t heard her response yet, but I hope she doesn’t spend too much time on defense. Just say that people are misinterpreting what he meant, and move on to say that she respects every voter, and no American is garbage. Repeat, no American is garbage.
That’s a direct repudiation of the MSG rally joke and puts some distance from Biden’s gaffe. This will be old news by the weekend.
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Mike Johnson believes that healthcare is like any other commodity.
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Vice President Kamala Harris’ address at the Ellipse Tuesday night in Washington, D.C.—the site of Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” speech on Jan. 6, 2021—had tens of thousands more attendees. While the Metropolitan Police Department originally expected 20,000 to be present, that number quickly ballooned to more than 52,000, causing overflow on the Washington Mall. Ultimately, more than 75,000 attended, a Harris campaign official told the Daily Beast. The VP’s team has long ribbed Trump over his fixation on the size of the crowds he attracts. The former president, who has falsely accused some of Harris’ supporters of being generated by artificial intelligence, drew around 53,000 supporters on Jan. 6, when he refused to concede the election he lost. And while Harris was delivering her address in the capital, Trump was in Pennsylvania insisting that she “can’t get anybody” to show up to her campaign events.
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Point of fact: if you define garbage has something worthless, that you need to get rid of, then every single Donald Trump supporter is garbage.
Tired of the outrage, I’m tired of deplorables getting away with being deplorable. Every Trump supporter is a piece of shit.
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It’s more than just hating Democrats. MAGA are mean people who just want to hurt others and generally fuck them over by proxy. They may not be garbage, but their ideas definitely are.
That idea was, is, and will continue to be hurting people; the change, maybe, is that Trump is now the hammer doing the smashing, and no longer the strong hand swinging it. It is the dream of this movement, of all the people on stage and the people looking up at them, of the rich grotesques funding it and the servile cadres of eggheads, meatheads, and buttheads eager to do their dirty work, to drop the annihilating weight of Trump on their neighbors and coworkers and families, to push a button with Trump’s face on it and turn their own long rosters of enemies into mist. What binds all these people to Trump has always been the desire to hurt people and get away with it in the way that he always has; they believe that they’ll be able to do that so long as they stay behind him. A whole vile worldview and way of life depends upon that being true.
This is not designed to persuade as a political appeal any more than a slur shouted from a passing limousine is an invitation to conversation. It is just the bloody subtext of the old conservative dream of stopping history and replacing the future with the past raging into the fore, a threat repeated over and over, by people you maybe sort of recognize or remember but who all seem very different now, lit up as they are by this new appetite. One after another, they vow revenge against everyone that is not them and everything that is not already theirs. It is not an argument, or an offer, or a joke. It’s just what it sounds like.
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18 year old Trump supporter arrested for threatening Dem voters at a polling place with a machete.
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So let’s see: we’re enemies of the state, evil, welcoming terrorists, clapping when our kids “become” other genders, enabling women to murder their unborn children. All meh in the media. Garbage supporters sounds absolutely right.
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He seems nice.
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