10-30-2024, 11:13 PM
This is an instance I have to put aside my "team guy" hat.
What Biden said was wrong. Words matter. A world of difference between "some of" his supporters, "are his supporters" and missing apostrophes, and the straight up "his supporters".
Sure, maybe he meant "some", given the reference to that dumbass joke, but it's not what he said, and, even if that's the way I lean personally, I can't ask people to assume that's what he meant. I'm not going to lean on hypothetical grammatical gaffes. I don't give them that grace, and that shoe is on the other foot this time.
Maybe he innocently misspoke. Maybe he finaly just got a little hot under the collar and said what so many of us say so often.
Context
The joke that got everyone’s back up was when Hinchcliffe compared Puerto Rico to a floating island of garbage.
President Joe Biden said Puerto Ricans are “good, decent honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
Republicans seized on the president’s line, comparing it to Hilary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables,” comment during the 2016 election campaign.
Senator JD Vance of Ohio, Trump’s running mate, said: “This is disgusting. Kamala Harris and her boss Joe Biden are attacking half of the country.” Just one day earlier, Vance brushed off the Puerto Rico island-of-garbage comment, saying, “We have to stop getting so offended at every little thing in the United States of America.”
Biden backpedalled somewhat on social media: “Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage – which is the only word I can think of to describe it,” he wrote. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”
What Biden said was wrong. Words matter. A world of difference between "some of" his supporters, "are his supporters" and missing apostrophes, and the straight up "his supporters".
Sure, maybe he meant "some", given the reference to that dumbass joke, but it's not what he said, and, even if that's the way I lean personally, I can't ask people to assume that's what he meant. I'm not going to lean on hypothetical grammatical gaffes. I don't give them that grace, and that shoe is on the other foot this time.
Maybe he innocently misspoke. Maybe he finaly just got a little hot under the collar and said what so many of us say so often.
Context
The joke that got everyone’s back up was when Hinchcliffe compared Puerto Rico to a floating island of garbage.
President Joe Biden said Puerto Ricans are “good, decent honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
Republicans seized on the president’s line, comparing it to Hilary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables,” comment during the 2016 election campaign.
Senator JD Vance of Ohio, Trump’s running mate, said: “This is disgusting. Kamala Harris and her boss Joe Biden are attacking half of the country.” Just one day earlier, Vance brushed off the Puerto Rico island-of-garbage comment, saying, “We have to stop getting so offended at every little thing in the United States of America.”
Biden backpedalled somewhat on social media: “Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage – which is the only word I can think of to describe it,” he wrote. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”