Jay Weber Show transcript 10-31-24
Holy cow! This ‘Trump supporters are garbage’ thing is about to extend into ‘day three’ of coverage.
Wow.
Even I wouldn’t have predicted that this utterance from Joe Biden would take on such energy after he said it.
Let’s face it: Trump himself, and a lot of lawmakers and pundits have said a lot of stupid shizzle over the course of this campaign, and almost none of it has stuck. None of it has, ultimately, made any difference in the campaigns or in the trajectory of this race.
And so, to have a mentally enfeebled old man call trump supporters ‘floating trash’.... wouldn’t have been the ‘one thing’ that i would have predicted would stick.
But- it matters that that enfeebled old man is the president of the United States...and he uttered it.... six days away from a very important election day – and-
At roughly the same time his pathetic Veep was giving a speech pretending she and her party want ‘unity’.
Yes-
The timing and optics of this- were not good.
Here’s another thing that turned out to be an important factor: Joe Biden was on tape saying it and-at first blush- everyone ‘knew what they heard’.
Know what i mean?
In this era of divided politics, we have had any number of things that one side or the other ‘claims’ their opponents said. One of the most enduring lies is that trump said there were decent people on both sides of the Charlottesville riots... When he didn’t. His actual comments were caught on audio and video. Anyone can go back and watch it if they’d like. Eventually, even the left-wing outlets, after stoking up the initial outrage, of course- eventually admitted trump never said it.
Still- the ‘fact’ that he did is now an article of faith on the left-for any ‘real lefty’. You can’t sit on an CNN or MSNBC panel without believing in that lie.... even if it was corrected later.
Well- even most of those left-wing talking heads-in the waning days of a campaign- rushed to see whether Joe Biden had actually said it and whether this was being reported-and recorded- accurately. And oop- it was.
Why did this comment take on such importance? Because regardless of political affiliation, we all ‘heard what we heard’, right?
Even CNN hosts and panelists were saying afterward, well- he said it. And then started to make a big deal out of it.
It was only hours later that the Biden white house team-totally invented- the ‘hidden apostrophe’ that no one heard. The notation that made this about Biden only talking about one ‘garbage person’, a comedian, and not labeling all of us ‘garbage people’.
Except he did. And the spin is ridiculous.
If you don’t believe me- believe DC insider Mark Halperin and two of his ‘insider guests’. They talked about this on Halperin’s podcast yesterday-and one thing that wasn’t in question is: Biden mistakenly said what he believes.
This is a man named Dan Turr-en-tine
Another one of Halperin’s guests was Sean Spicer-former white house press secretary- who agreed that this is what most dc democrats believe:
So- what was the basic take in DC when this occurred?
Oop...Joe Biden has committed what is the actual definition of a gaffe. We use the term loosely for any mistake now-
But the original definition of a political gaffe was mistakenly saying what you really think...instead of towing the party line or spouting out the normal spin.
What did Joe Biden do-according to nearly all the east coast insiders who heard this?
Oop. He said it to a camera.
They weren’t shocked that Joe Biden would call Trump supporter ‘garbage’...because they all know that’s what joe believes.
I said this yesterday: the shock and surprise that we have been seeing from the left on this gaffe isn’t that ‘Biden said it’.
They know Biden believes that. Virtually all of them do.
The surprise was- Biden said it out loud.
This would be like Obama coming out and saying that he used the powers of his administration to help Hillary smear trump and try to rig the 2016 election. We all know he did, but it’s something he’d never admit publicly. Everyone would be shocked if he did. Right?
And you could come up with dozens or hundreds of instances of ‘lies and spin’ that politicos and their insider acolytes know are BS but would never admit to in public.
Like: we all knew Bill Clinton was a pig who screwed anything that moved when he was the governor of Arkansas. Before he ever ran, we knew it. But- we’d never admit it- even 30 years later.
Or like...none of us -really-thought that Bruce Jenner was a beautiful woman when he transitioned, and we were bullying everyone in America to say it. But we can’t admit it.
Of course, Biden thinks Trump and his followers are garbage people. But the old idiot never should have said it out loud in front of a camera.
That’s what shocked the heck out of the CNN and MSNBC crowd and the east coast insiders, initially. It’s why they admitted ‘well, he said it’, initially. And then, only hours later pivoted to, ‘he was misunderstood’.
They know he wasn’t.
What no one seems to be pointing out is: their initial misstep -of being honest- is what has turned this ‘garbage’ comment into a much bigger, three- or four-day story.
They were so shocked by it, they temporarily forgot to hop on the grenade and immediately spin it to limit the damage.
That’s what gave JD Vance and Marco Rubio and the rest of the people on the right to make a big deal out of it, and have plenty of room to say: Americans, Biden is talking about you! He is calling-you- garbage. You union members who are voting Trump, you doctors and nurses and construction workers and fast food workers and strippers....
Biden is calling -you- garbage because you don’t like the way he has bleeped up this country and you want a change.
That’s a powerful argument in the waning days of a campaign.
It’d be one thing if Joe Biden and America’s top democrats-didn’t really believe that the republican half of Americans are garbage- but they do....and they have shown it for years. And it makes Rubio’s words more powerful.
This isn’t just.... we’re going to pretend Biden just said he hates you. -no-
Biden hates you! And Kamala and Timmy have spent the last two weeks suggesting your Nazis and facists.
There’s no other way to take their comments. These slurs- are self-evident, my friends.
We conservatives used to say that barrack and Michelle Obama seemed to hate America- or at least anyone in it who didn’t agree with them.
Michelle famously said- until Barrack was elected president, i had no reason to be proud of my country.
Remember?
Today’s democrat elites-hating- most Americans is, sadly, not a new thing. And their disdain for America has been displayed more and more openly all thru the Trump and Biden years...
And it has certainly taken a prominent role in this campaign.
Folks-if Joe and Kamala hate this country-they should not be allowed to run it for another four years. Donald Trump- despite all his faults- loves this country, and he proved it during his first four years in office.
Trump made a stop in Green Bay and had some fun with the whole "garbage thing"
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audio version of the segment here > The Trump team turned the garbage narrative back on the Democrats