Bring out the fainting couches! Biden made a comment that offended the Republican Party! Biden says he was calling the comedian who insulted Puerto Ricans “garbage,” they say he meant that every Trump supporter was “garbage.” Republicans did not accept his prompt clarification. It all depended on an apostrophe (supporters vs. supporter’s).
But the Lincoln Project helpfully assembled the many times that Trump has called other people “garbage.” He calls Kamala “low IQ,” “garbage,” and “scum.” He has also called her and other Democrats “radical left, Socialists, Marxists, fascists, and Communists.
Watch this Lincoln Project video!
We expect him to scrape the gutter for his insults.
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Well, I agree with President Biden either way. The comic was garbage, and so are all of the convicted rapist, fraud and felon’s supporters.
Still, I’m thinking that comic, Trump and the traitor’s fascist loving MAGA cult are all garbage is too nice.
I mean, what kind of person supports someone like Donald Trump, a malignant narcissist, a convicted rapist, fraud and felon, a serial liar, a lifelong cheater?
Well, people just like him, and I think people like that are all worse than garbage. Calling them garbage was being polite.
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I don’t like Trump, but I have several friends who will vote for him even though they don’t care for his personality. There are tens of millions of people like my friends that aren’t “garbage.” You have mental health problems, endless rage that you express here all the time. Get help before you hurt someone.
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You might ask them what they will think when the entire cabinet is replaced with MAGATs.
The plan, overtly stated, is to abolish just about every government department (DOD, DOE, Treasury, Commerce, etc.). Also, to abolish FEMA, Medicare, Medicaid, the Centers for Disease Control (RFK, Jr. will be telling us what herbs cure autism and cancer, no M.D.s allowed), as well as just about everything else that does us any good.
See, e.g., https://dianeravitch.net/2024/10/31/trump-calls-kamala-and-her-team-scum-and-garbage/
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This is a scripted comment. They are identical.
“I don’t like Trump but my friends do and they say he is wonderful. You extremists who don’t love Trump are vicious. The person who hosts this pit of a blog used to be a respected scholar, but no more.”
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Nailed it. They also almost invariably have full names as user names. Bots, or paid trolls, or extremely sad unpaid trolls.
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FLERP, I would say sad unpaid trolls, doing their part for Trump.
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Googling that name gives you a pretty consistent profile of a woman I imagine is her: https://epsy.ku.edu/people/cindy-swatek . This looks like someone who would likely be reading this blog and is very much a real person.
I could be wrong, of course, but my money is on her being an actual human being whose opinion just happens to diverge with yours (I happen to agree with her about Lloyd and Diane knows I’m not a bot). The idea that full names indicate bots is ludicrous – by that logic, Lloyd himself is a bot. As is Diane herself, for that matter.
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I think she is a real person. I googled her. I also find it interesting that the pro-Trump commenters seem to have the same script.
“I don’t like Trump but…my friends do and they say….and he is better than Harris because she is a radical leftist or a puppet…and I’m so sorry that you have lost all credulity because you don’t support Trump. You are no scholar because real scholars have no political opinions.” Or hide them.
Would someone tell Laurence Tribe and Heather Cox Richardson that their reputations are in tatters because they support Harris?
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She specifically said she’s not pro-Trump. Just because she said things you disagree with does not prove that wrong.
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Dienne,
I understand now. You believe whatever people tell you. I don’t.
I have gotten about 20 comments that sound exactly the same, from different people. They all start by saying, “I don’t like Trump, I’m not going to vote for him, but Kamala’s a nightmare.” You believe that?
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Cindy Swatek,
What word do YOU use to describe people (your “friends”?) who laugh and cheer and applaud a Trump rally speaker who calls Puerto Rico a floating pile of garbage?
Do you call them “very good people” because they share your values?
Or are you willing to criticize them and acknowledge what an ugly thing that grown adults enjoy attending Trump rallies where Puerto Rico is called an island of garbage?
Do your friends who support Trump have “mental health issues” because they DON’T criticize people at Trump rallies who enjoy hearing Puerto Rico being called an island of floating garbage?
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Cindy, can you confirm that this is you?
https://epsy.ku.edu/people/cindy-swatek
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It is very interesting that Democrats criticize people who call Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage, and Trump voters attack Democrats BECAUSE they are criticizing Trump voters who enjoy hearing Puerto Rico described as an island of garbage.
That pretty much is all you have to know about the character of Trump voters and Kamala voters.
Trump voters insult all the people of Puerto Rico. Kamala voters insult the Trump voters who enjoy insulting the people of Puerto Rico.
And apparently there are “people who don’t like Trump” who think that Trump voters who trash Puerto Rico are better people than the people who criticize them for trashing Puerto Rico.
What kind of person thinks racists are better people than the people who criticize racists?
Maybe Cindy Swatek believes it’s better to trash Puerto Rico than to trash her “friends” who condone Puerto Rico being trashed.
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The rule is, only democrats are allowed to spit out or post insults.
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Harry,
Trump spews insults and lies whenever he speaks.
Not Kamala.
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Hey Harry: Can I get you a box of Kleenex? You could drown in all those Crocodile tears. . If the shoe fits wear it. If you support a Vulgar Nazi admiring Fascist who swaps love letters with Kim and Putin. A criminal who engaged in a conspiracy against the United States exchanging Election help for a deal on Ukraine . Till the deal was exposed and blew up . . A vile human being who promises to seek retribution against those who sought to hold him accountable for his many crimes . A rapist who has assaulted 27 woman and a 13 year old child . You are a piece of S… Garbage is way too P.C. Do you have any questions.
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Hey, Joel,
You will appreciate this.
The Hungarian strong man Viktor Orban spoke to Trump this morning, then tweeted to Trump wishing him luck in the election. Fingers crossed, he said.
— Orbán speaks with Trump ahead of Election Day: Donald Trump spoke this morning with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ahead of the election, even as prominent senior Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have criticized those who fawn over the autocratic Hungarian leader. “Just got off the phone with President @realDonaldTrump . I wished him the best of luck for next Tuesday. Only five days to go. Fingers crossed,” Orbán wrote from his official account on the social media site X.
–Politico
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But your Putin puppet is the insult king Harry the troll!!
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Hard to believe you had the nerve to say this.
In addition to a nonstop liar, Trump levels insults daily, hell, hourly, that, in better days, would have prompted many to beat the ever-loving crap out of him.
Which he would richly deserve.
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Jsrtheta,
In previous years, Trump would have been ejected from politics because of his lies and bigotry. He has no shame and his party is cowed by him.
Senator Gary Hart dropped out of a presidential race after the press printed photos of him with a woman who was not his wife.
Tom Eagleon dropped out as VEEP candidate when his history of mental problems was revealed.
Nixon resigned rather than be impeached.
Trump has no shame. He has been photographed with multiple women who are not his wife. Also with Jeffrey Epstein. He has been impeached twice. He insults people constantly as “stupid” and “low IQ.”
Locker room talk is what he says in public.
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I lived through all of those events.
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Trump has NEVER grown up. He’s a spoiled child who is bully and spouts obscene and crazy stuff.
Trump has NEVER been held accountable for the INSANE things he spouts. Some would say this is normal for Trump. I say that Trump is NOT NORMAL and is unfit to lead a nation.
He’s just another “laughing stock” and an evil one at that.
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These concern trolls are like people who pass gas in a crowded elevator. As Diane says, they all appear to be reading from the same script over and over. What’s their purpose? Disruption, being obnoxious for the sake of being obnoxious or do they think they will make converts to their phony baloney belief system? I’m going with disruption and obnoxiousness.
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The trolls are like the MAGATS in Charlottsville when tRump described “very fine people|” as being “on both sides,,” even though they included neo-Nazis and KKK marching with tiki torches chanting “Jews will not replace us,” and they were protesting the removal of Confederate statues because, he and his followers have no appreciation for the fact that both the South & the Nazis lost those wars to US for very good reasons –& it’s treasonous to think otherwise.
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Sorry, I was about to change “think” to “act otherwise, especially if you’re president,” but I dropped my cup of coke which spilled all over & I hit enter by mistake. (People can think whatever they want).
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And by “US” I meant democracy loving Americans who believe in rights and freedoms for all human beings, not those who crave slavery nearly 160 years after the Civil War ended, nor those who support Nazis almost 80 years after the end of World War II.
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Coke? Really? What do you say we make a deal. The list of Coke ingredients is printed on the Coke can or bottle. If your Coke isn’t kosher, and if the list of ingredients begins with anything like “Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, …,” then you’ll make a donation to NPE and stop drinking the flavored poison that is diluted High Fructose Corn Syrup branded “Coca-Cola.” If not, I’ll make a donation to NPE. I consumed my last such Coke back in the 80s. Do we have a deal?
Anyone else here drinking Coke and want to make a deal to benefit NPE?
Also, consider this an indicator of Coca-Cola Company’s betting Trump will win…
https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/coca-cola-co/C00012468/candidate-recipients/2024
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For the past few years, I have been drinking only caffeine free diet coke.
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ECE– eww, Diet Coke. Aspartame stimulates the pancreas just like sugar does– & doesn’t taste as good! (p.s., I don’t particularly like soda. Between the 2 of us, we consume 1 20-oz (small bottle) of Coke per week… and isn’t this more fun than talking about Trump 😀 ?
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Ginny,
I drink real sugar with my coffee, but drink diet soda–Coke or Dr. Pepper.
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I drank regular coke virtually all of my life, since that was the pop that my family always had in the house –though they limited my intake when was young. I love coffee, too, but I got sick of my hands shaking so much from caffeine that I couldn’t cut a straight line with scissors, so I decided to switch to decaf. When I was looking for caffeine-free choices, I noticed the caffeine free sugarless coke, so I switched to that then as well since I liked the taste. I adore Starbucks caramel macchiatos but I can’t get there (or afford them) anymore, so I make my own and caramel is the sweetener that I use.
Yes, it IS refreshing to not talk about tRump! I’m guessing that most of us are praying real hard that we won’t have to talk about him for very long after Tuesday…
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I think that probably the simplest way to describe what’s been happening is that when very high profile people repeatedly show off the worst in themselves to the world, similar thinking people feel they have been given permission to do the same. Hence the alarming rise of hateful behaviors, including antisemitic attacks –like a shooting last weekend in my own neighborhood (where many people from diverse backgrounds had gotten along very well for decades).
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Agree.
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https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/trump-liz-cheney-war-hawk-guns-pointed-115383935
This is precisely how a fascistic traitor to the U.S. Constitution speaks.
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Right, as if people who really want to live in a peaceful world are going believe that virtually THE most hate-mongering leader in American history would ever in a million years be the person to get us there. He can’t comprehend that effective leaders start by setting a good example in their own countries.
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Maybe it’s said in jest but it actually sounds promising:
“Trump in Race Against Time to Alienate Remaining Minority Groups”
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-in-race-against-time-to-alienate?r=5hxpk
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–that is, IF it costs him votes. (You never know, but it’s a challenge to imagine the undecideds thinking, “Ooops, I forgot to hate the Inuit and the Amish. OK, now he’s got my vote.”
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Mantra Repetitive “Scum” & “Garbage” is right off the Mean Kids Cult Playground. But putting a live TARGET on Liz Cheney’s face & future is another thing entirely.
“Liz is a very dumb individual. Very dumb. She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle. Standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. As a target.”
Washington Post/ Elections/11-1-2024
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He said that to a man who was attacked by a demon in his bed.
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https://x.com/liquidlozenge/status/1852209127361040776?s=46&t=vV_4bJ7GuABaalzetJofQA
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Scary, isn’t it?
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When Trump pointed a finger, called Harris “garbage”, three of his fingers are, pointing BACK at him, which meant, he is garbage, CUBED! And, he’d, ended up, insulting, not his opponent but himself, and, all Trump’s good at, is, engaging in that, SPITTING contest, he’s good for, NOTHING else.
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Trump can, only, resort to, these, personal attacks on Harris, to make him appear better than his, opponent, now, the question lies, in, are the, voters, too, stupid that they believe, these, libel and slanders about his, adversary, or, are they, smart enough to, judge for themselves???
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