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[Cirsium]

Let's not buy into the false premise of the ongoing media frenzy over Biden's remarks about that racist opening act at the MSG rally.

Here is what the President said:

And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” Well, let me tell you something. I don’t — I — I don’t know the Puerto Rican that — that I know — or a Puerto Rico, where I’m fr- — in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.

It is clear to me that President Biden was referring to that Hinchcliffe character. But even if Biden had been referring to all of Trump's supporters, so what?

The right wing propaganda machine will turn anything any Democrat says or does into a scandal and too many MSM reporters will repeat whatever nonsense the right wing comes up with. There is no way to anticipate or avoid that.

Trump and his supporters and sycophants and collaborators are constantly saying much, much worse things about all of us.

Let's stop saying that Biden made a terrible mistake, or should shut up, as one person actually said here. Just because the right wing wants to portray everything that Biden or Harris - or any other Democrat - as a blunder that doesn't mean we need to start worrying or apologize, ad we should never accept the premises of the right wing talking points without investigation. I saw one post that started with "I haven't read Biden's remarks, but" and then went on to say that Biden had made a terrible blunder that would hurt the Harris campaign.

The Republicans are constantly yelling "boo!" to get us to jump. Don't jump.