The news cycle this week is so damn petty. It’s about garbage. Literal garbage.
Democrats and Republicans are trading outrage over who called who garbage.
At a Trump rally in New York City, a comedian made a joke about Puerto Rico as a floating island of garbage, which Democrats used to bait Latinos for votes. It was absolute catnip for AOC.
On Tuesday night, President Biden said that the only garbage he sees are Trump supporters. Or supporter’s. The White House transcript is using punctuation to explain this away. They say that the referred-to garbage was the one Trump supporter, the comedian who made the trash joke. The President’s X account clarified it thus immediately after. You listen in and decide for yourself.
Gosh this is stupid. Neither of the actual candidates said garbage therefore neither of them should be blamed for it.
Republicans are taking to this trash talk like they took to the “basket of deplorable” badge from Hillary Clinton. They are using it to bait voters and say that Democrats malign Republicans.
Sadly, the remark took the air out of a major rally for Kamala Harris in Washington D.C., the same way the Puerto Rico joke took the air out of the Trump rally in New York City. In the days running up to the election, trading outrage is very distracting from actual issues but alas, that’s where we are.
