Biden Hands Harris Her “Deplorables” Moment
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.



Some peoples trash are other peoples treasure.
Let’s bury Harris on Tuesday.
Landfill landslide.
I believed that the day Biden rushed in to endorse Harris, after the plan to have an open mini-primary. This is all Biden’s parting shot and gift to his party and the people – he’s remembered nothing but the grudges.
So, was this “comedian” that Trump invited likewise trying to blow Trump’s election?
Nah, he is an insult comedian like the late, great Don Rickles. That is his whole act, and he has been doing it for years.
So, was this “comedian” that Trump invited likewise trying to blow Trump’s election?
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One of Gilda Radner’s routines was a character inspired by a local newscaster in New York City. Every routine started out with a cutting remark about New Jersey. Spending time with residents of the five boroughs, I discovered that cutting remarks about New Jersey are a staple of mundane conversation there.
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Gary Hart campaigning for president in tandem with his wife once told a crowd about some upcoming appearances: “The deal is we campaign separately. That’s the bad news. The good news for her is that she campaigns in California, while I campaign in New Jersey.” Lee Hart tells the crowd that on a previous trip to California, she’d held a Koala bear. Gary Hart tells the crowd that on a previous trip to New Jersey, he’d held “samples from a toxic waste dump”.
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We used to have a sense of humor in this country.
“deplorable”, “garbage”, “carbon”… you forget who you work for.. we’ve had enough.. You’re Fired!
We used to have a sense that what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. But, as Chesterton wrote in The Barbarism of Berlin, one of the defining characteristics of the true barbarian is the Refusal of Reciprocity. In the same work, he wrote
If you excuse the joke about Puerto Rico and howl at Biden’s comments, don’t talk about a sense of humor. You are just another barbarian.
If you excuse the joke about Puerto Rico and howl at Biden’s comments, don’t talk about a sense of humor. You are just another barbarian.
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Thanks for sharing. When you’ve acquired a sense of humor, let us know.
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Just remember, Folks, that half the country is Democrat, including your neighbors, co-workers, school mates, etc., and that half believes what Joe Biden said.
Back in 2014 when I was working for a different nuclear energy company, a young co-worker (late 20s), knowing I am Catholic by the iconography on my desk, asked me if I realy believed we eat Jesus’ Body and drink His Blood at Holy Communion. I responded with a simple YES. He said that people like me who believe in such things should not be allowed to work in nuclear power. I ignored his reply. But my point is this: half the country is like that and considers us conservative Christians as deplorable, garbage, Nazi, Fascist, etc., and nothing will ever persuade them otherwise. That Joe Biden professes Catholicism is a hypocrisy which they willingly accept.
BTW, Outis has a valid point. Garbage remarks whether left or right are wrong. But truth-telling is right: Democrats are baby-murderers, sodomy-sanctifiers, and transgender child abusers. That said, too many Republicans are country-club hypocrites.
A sense of humor? Yeah, I’m laughing at you, Art Deco. I’m laughing at anyone who has the arrogance to think he is a fitting representative of the Catholic Church or even America — as this blog, by its very title, pretends to be — and who, AT THE SAME TIME, is offended at Trump supporters being called garbage, but who laughs at Puerto Rico being called garbage. You are a joke, so I will play along and laugh.
Outis, this is a better blog than most others on the internet, and definitely pro-American and pro-Catholic. Yes, the Puerto Rican joke is probably inappropriate, but even more so is a sitting US President calling half the country garbage. I work with a Puerto Rican man in my job at “Neutrons ‘R Us,” so I would never use such a joke. However, as I understand it, a comedian did. Still, that’s less offensive than what Joe Biden has been consistently doing during his entire time in politics. Perhaps a re-review of his behavior when Clarence Thomas was going through US Senate hearings for his nomination to SCOTUS would be appropriate. The comedian was wrong, but not evil. Biden is both wrong and evil. Therein lies the difference.
Outis said: “If you excuse the joke about Puerto Rico and howl at Biden’s comments, don’t talk about a sense of humor. You are just another barbarian.”
… Except that the comedian was joking, and the President was serious. You can’t equate these two comments for that reason.
You can opine about the wisdom of hiring a roast comedian to perform at a political rally, but the fact of the matter is the comedian (who is funny!) was making a joke, and the leader of the Democrat party was telling us what he really thinks … and a large percentage of the members of his party agree with him.
I’m trying to maintain perspective even though I haven’t voted Democrat since I was 22. And that was more than five decades ago. As my pastor said in his homily this morning, we need to maintain the perspective that this world is not all that is. We’re headed for a different Kingdom. And part of what he said was no matter who wins next week, our job is to make the Church Great again. It’s not that he dismisses the importance of voting since we’ve had four straight weeks of Sunday homilies on discerning how to vote, but just like some cultures are better than others, some things are more important than others. AMDG!
The problem is that the left will pretend it didn’t happen. So unless Trumps team play it on loop, Biden and his team will gaslight half the population he called garbage and pretend it never happened…But honestly, why do they even let Biden out of his living room…
The “garbage” is all in Biden’s head – literally.
Ezabelle-
Spot on.
The left *and their media* will pretend it didn’t happen – while continuing to repeat as nauseum the comedian’s joke.
Don, I was wondering the same thing. First, though, I wondered if Biden has enough wits left to do it. Then I recalled how my Dad, in the throes of dementia, developed a capacity for sly craftiness and manipulation that he had never shown in his rational days. So, could be.
A sense of humor? Yeah, I’m laughing at you, Art Deco. I’m laughing at anyone who has the arrogance to think he is a fitting representative of the Catholic Church or even America — as this blog, by its very title, pretends to be — and who, AT THE SAME TIME, is offended at Trump supporters being called garbage, but who laughs at Puerto Rico being called garbage. You are a joke, so I will play along and laugh.
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Waal, let me explain it to you. Nobody’s ‘howling’, except in your imagination. That aside, insult comedians sometimes succeed and sometimes fail in their humor. Success is in part a function of which the point of departure is a common understanding or perception, and these you find in Gilda Radner’s New Jersey jokes or Jeff Foxworthy’s redneck jokes. Not enough basis in common perception for the Puerto Rico joke to work well. The real garbage barge in the Caribbean is Haiti, but the place is so pathetic is seems cruel to point that out.
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Biden’s addle-pated comments are just another manifestation, in case we needed one, of how much of the haut bourgeois actually thinks about people who live here. Peter Sztrok’s texts would be a more elaborate version of that. The nonsensical Southern Strategy blather partisan Democrats have favored for 50-odd years is another example. It’s modal in the educational apparat, which is why scandals are nearly constant from that quarter. It’s doing real damage to the common life, which jokes about Puerto Rico are not.
From justthenews – “Insensitive joke aside”: “For decades, Puerto Rico has been saddled with microplastic pollution on its beaches, contamination of drinking water from industry, and air pollution and coal ash contamination from the plants that powered the island’s electricity.
The legacy has been so enduring that last year the Biden Justice Department announced the creation of a special task force to investigate and “prosecute violations of federal law harming the environment, wildlife and human health, and associated fraud, waste and abuse” in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Island region. These facts were ignored in the faux-outrage over a comedian’s jokes about Puerto Rico during former President Trump’s rally last night.”
Fun fact: the real life newscaster that Gilda Radner’s “Roseanne Roseannadanna” was parodying was Rose Ann Scarmardella, employed by WABC-TV in NYC from 1975 to 1983. She later (sometime after 2000) hosted a show produced by the Diocese of Hartford, Conn. called “Crossroads”.
Meanwhile, Trump, with his inimitable flair for showmanship, campaigned in Wisconsin today from a garbage truck…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/this-truck-is-honor-kamala-joe-biden-epic/
*as this blog, by its very title, pretends to be*
Why the insults? Argue the point.
I’ll second the other voices here: read Biden’s comment in context – Biden’s comment was a direct insult (an ill-considered one for the Democrats); the Comedian was a joke delivered part of a routine…Maybe the joke fell short of being funny to you, but it was a joke. If I was Puerto Rican I would have been offended, but so be it. Move on.
What sort of President of the United States of America calls the people who are not voting for his party “garbage”? Citizens are not “garbage”, especially those who pay their taxes to fund his existence in the White House. He is the sitting President.
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Biden also handed Trump a gift. Trump got a garbage truck with a big Trump Vance sign on it. Trump put a reflector vest on dressed like a garbage man and rode around in the truck for a photo op.
I’ve been thinking … Biden didn’t get on that evening (late-night for him) zoom call all by himself … Jill must really hate Kamala!