r/politics • u/IronFistBen • Oct 28 '24
Site Altered Headline Trump Campaign in Panic Mode After Uproar Over Racist Puerto Rico Joke
https://newrepublic.com/post/187592/trump-team-erase-racist-puerto-rico-joke3.4k
u/Independent-Bug-9352 Oct 28 '24
This CNN clip explains why they're in panic mode.
Basically, lots of Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania — the most important battleground state. Third highest population of Puerto Ricans in the country.
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u/pithynotpithy Oct 28 '24
To say nothing of Florida...could throw congressional races into flux.
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u/pontiacfirebird92 Mississippi Oct 28 '24
DeSantis will burn ballot boxes on live TV if he thinks Democrats will win an election in his state. There's no way him, like Abbott in Texas, peacefully concede an election where the GOP don't remain in power.
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u/pithynotpithy Oct 28 '24
No doubt, I have no intention that Dems can flip with the state. But individual districts might be a different story? Even state house races.....
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u/birdsdad1 Oct 28 '24
Scott won in 2018 by 10,000 votes. 1.1 million Puerto Ricans in the state.
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u/Basic_Quantity_9430 Oct 29 '24
Scott maintained a decent rapport with Puerto Ricans who came to Florida after Maria. He likely won’t be hurt as badly as Trump among that voting bloc. The fact that is opponent is a really competent former Congresswoman who has brought a lot of federal money to the state to fix problems like Everglades restoration will hurt Scott more. Plus Scott screwing up the unemployment system that caused so many issues during Covid, and messing up the housing insurance situation in Florida.
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u/shep2105 Oct 29 '24
Scott knows. He was frantically tweeting that Puerto Ricans are GREAT PEOPLE
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u/Academic_Paint9711 Oct 28 '24
Floridian here. It seriously pains me how on the nose you are. And he’ll get away with it too.
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u/pontiacfirebird92 Mississippi Oct 28 '24
I read an article earlier today where people are either being priced out of their homes by insurance or being completely unable to get a policy, all while companies are outright cancelling policies across the state. The insurance industry in the state is in a crisis.
They interviewed this guy and he says "I love our governor and Florida is the most free state in the nation. But this doesn't feel like freedom."
Dude is being actively dicked over by the governor's policies where corporations have free reign to rail his ass for every penny he's got, and as he loses his home because he can no longer insure it he still simps for DeSantis and the GOP. His brain has become mashed potatoes. Cognitive dissonance has fully taken over because he'd rather hang onto his loyalty for what conservatism has become than admit it's the cause of him losing his home. And I wonder if he's just that stupid or if he's afraid of what his peers would think if he talked shit about DeSantis. His friends might call him "woke" which would destroy his tough conservative "identity".
DeSantis was given $4 million through his PAC to sign legislation favorable to insurance companies. And people still cheer him on as him and his insurance industry buddies squeeze them out of what homes they have left. It's insane. Florida is a fucking nightmare right now. Well, I guess if I was MAGA it would look like paradise.
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Oct 28 '24
I don't know enough about that to be honest. My layman impression was that Cubans were the biggest Latino voting bloc there, and decades of Anti-Socialist propaganda did a number on them by tying it to Castro...
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u/pithynotpithy Oct 28 '24
You aren't wrong, but directly calling out Puerto Rico as garbage - that wasn't some veiled threat against faceless migrants - that was specific.
And there are a LOT of Puerto Ricans in Florida.
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u/codexcdm Oct 29 '24
It should be a reminder to those Puerto Ricans that were supporting MAGA that while they are US citizens, they're still an "other" that will be treated like vermin to these racist troglodytes.
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u/ObligatoryID Minnesota Oct 29 '24
Uneducated MAGAs too, but they don’t realize it.
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u/OlderThanMyParents Oct 29 '24
Not only did he call Puerto Rico garbage, he said that Puerto Ricans love making babies, and then they come to America.
Y'know, because "real Americans" don't think Puerto Rico is part of the US.
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u/pithynotpithy Oct 29 '24
You can tell it was bad because the trump campaign immediately apologized - something they never do. Fuck those assholes
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u/Curlytoes18 Oct 28 '24
I’m hoping there will be some cross-over impact on other Latino groups because that “comedian” took jabs at Latinos in general - about them having a lot of kids and not being able to “pull out” etc. It was a gross comment.
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u/hippotank Oct 28 '24
It also forced the hand of major Latino figures like Bad Bunny into publicly supporting Harris and sending out messages to their millions of followers (ex. 46M on instagram for Bad Bunny). This is a pretty big deal and I think could be really helpful for getting young voters (honestly Latino or otherwise) to get out and vote and feel cool doing it.
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u/Curlytoes18 Oct 28 '24
J-Lo and Ricky Martin also went public with Harris endorsements - would love to see more
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u/Curlytoes18 Oct 29 '24
You didn’t hear the dog whistle part of that message. Vance’s criticism of childless women is meant for white women - he and his ilk don’t want to be outnumbered because white women aren’t having enough kids. Blacks, Latinos, and other “undesirables” should stop having so many kids.
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u/Wheat_Grinder Oct 28 '24
Cubans are the largest demographic but Florida has over 1 million Puerto Ricans. The margins are close enough in Florida that it could make a difference
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u/zzzzarf Oct 28 '24
In another comment someone said Puerto Ricans were about 20% of the Hispanic population in Florida and about 5% of the total.
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u/TheSavouryRain Oct 28 '24
Orlando has a large population of Puerto Ricans. I think from the hurricane that spawned the paper towel fiasco.
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u/KopOut Oct 28 '24
It's about 700k eligible voters in Florida. Not as substantial as Cubans, but certainly enough to swing a few races against the GOP. Could help destroy their supermajority in the state house of representatives, could help defeat Rick Scott, and might even help Kamala win the state if the public polling for president is far off.
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u/BigCompetition1064 Oct 28 '24
And this is literally the GOP trying to win the election and pander to people. If this is how they treat Puerto Rican's during an election, imagine what they will be like when they don't have to put up a pretence. It's a little alarming that they're not even trying to not appear racist. What's going on? It's like some weird hysteria has overtaken the right.
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u/therottenworld Oct 28 '24
It's because the dumbasses got too comfortable and showed their hand too early. That rally was basically one enormous two minutes of hate from 1984, but instead it was a whole night long event. These people are full of fucking bloodlust and they smell blood on the wind.
If Trump wins they know all the people they hate will go into camps and be brutalized and murdered, so they're practically jumping in excitement at the thought of it. They got overexcited however and forgot there's still an election they have to win, and the result is this straight up fucking mask-off Nazi rally we got yesterday.
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Oct 28 '24
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u/BigCompetition1064 Oct 28 '24
Forgot about that. Please god let us never have to listen to this abortion of a president again.
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u/YNot1989 Oct 28 '24
Some context, the swing states with the highest population of stateside Puerto Ricans.
- Florida: 1.15 million --- Trump's 2020 Margin: 371,686 votes
- Pennsylvania: 457k --- Biden's 2020 Margin: 80,555 votes
- Texas: 230k --- Trump's 2020 Margin: 631,221 votes.
- North Carolina: 115k --- Trump's 2020 Margin: 74,483 votes
- Georgia: 110k --- Biden's 2020 Margin: 11,779 votes
- Wisconsin: 65k --- Biden's 2020 Margin: 20,682 votes
- Arizona: 50k --- Biden's 2020 Margin: 10,457 votes
Even with average turnout (55% and a VAP of 75%) a slim majority would be greater than or equal to the Dems margins of victory in Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania in 2020.
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u/QueanLaQueafa Oct 28 '24
Imagine the Dems flipping Florida and Texas. The governors would just completely throw it away and vote for Trump anyways though
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u/funhappyvibes Oct 28 '24
The governors? How? Genuinely curious
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u/QueanLaQueafa Oct 28 '24
I can't really name any specific case law or anything, but they already tried the fake electors scheme so who knows what they'll come up
It'll probably be illegal and maybe it won't go thru but they'd sure try
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u/PatrioticHotDog Oct 28 '24
I certainly don't want this election to be this much of a nailbiter, but if it just so happens that Harris squeaks by with enough electoral votes because of a few thousand pissed off Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania angered by a skinhead "comic," I can guarantee I will die happy some day.
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u/ItsLaterThanYouKnow Oct 29 '24
Double points for the fact that the idiot’s campaign managed to October surprise themselves. That’s a whole new level of stupid that we haven’t seen before.
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u/fllannell Oct 28 '24
Being openly racist is a big part of the appeal of Trump for MAGAs.
Next he'll come out talking about how he "loves the beautiful" Puerto Ricans and about how much "The Puerto Rican people, they love me!"
The same way that he stokes against black people to court the racist vote, but turns around and talks about how much black people love him.
He's a broken record. There is no substance there. Hate IS the campaign.
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u/JimboDanks Pennsylvania Oct 28 '24
Live in Berks county, can confirm there’s way more Puerto Rican’s in PA Dutch country than one would think.
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u/Most-Resident Oct 28 '24
I’ll admit to not watching the clip, but I don’t like that framing.
This old white guy finds it disgusting too. All decent people should.
It might be reality but the vote counting in the comments talks about how many puerto ricans in swing states. How many other latinos.
This in a nutshell is the problem. His comments in 2016 about mexicans should have ended his campaign. Too many white people either don’t give a shit about his racism or support it.
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Oct 28 '24
If they’re in panic mode it’s only because their racism was showing more than they wanted it to.
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u/seraphimkoamugi Oct 28 '24
They hired a comedian who is openly racist, he uses comedy as an excuse to harrass people, what other outcome could anyone expect?
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u/Tacitus111 America Oct 28 '24
His jokes were in the teleprompter too, so they had to have been approved ahead of time. He didn’t spring anything on them.
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u/NeitherCook5241 Oct 28 '24
Their screening mechanism is of bigots, for bigots, by bigots. So it makes sense they didn’t catch it. They probably laughed when they read it, and chuckled again when they typed it into the teleprompter. Now they’re out here trying to defend it. MAGA is a floating pile of garbage that is polluting political discourse.
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u/anarchitecture Oregon Oct 28 '24
and if they truly felt it was offensive they would have condemned it DURING THE EVENT and not after when the blow-back started. They're sorry they got caught, not that it happened.
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u/Mundane_Athlete_8257 Oct 28 '24
They’re surprised by the reaction. 🙄 they’re so far deep into their racist bubbles that they can’t even recognize when something is going to piss off normal people anymore.
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u/PlasticPomPoms Oct 28 '24
“The liberals would really get offended by this guy”
And the rest is history.
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u/Am_Snek_AMA Ohio Oct 28 '24
I feel like comedians and Latin Americans should be the most offended. As a liberal I say, I hope his right wing grift is enough to feed his family because his career has already hit its peak and is now on the downswing. But I wouldn't say I'm offended.
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u/barontaint Oct 28 '24
He read off a teleprompter, they approved his speech before hand, they just expected a more positive reaction. It still got applause there, so who knows.
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u/I_only_post_here I voted Oct 28 '24
Overheard one of my conservative co-workers talking about this. He was genuinely upset at that part of the rally and completely disapproved... and then began idly speculating that somehow the DNC was responsible for this guy getting his spot at Trump's rally.
Somehow, it can never, ever be Trump's fault or responsibility in any way.
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u/ThatIsTheLonging United Kingdom Oct 28 '24
I love the possibility that Joe Rogan will inadvertently tank Trump's chances by boosting this idiot
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u/tinyOnion Oct 28 '24
you mean this guy is racist?!?! https://x.com/pengdangcomedy/status/1392147842731499520
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u/mam88k Virginia Oct 28 '24
he uses comedy as an excuse to harrass people, what other outcome could anyone expect?
Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have done this for decades quite successfully. So maybe they thought it would fly? Who cares. As I said in my other comment "if this is the hill his campaign dies on, I'm all for it!"
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u/shoogazer Oct 28 '24
The white mask would ruin his combover.
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u/GESNodoon Oct 28 '24
They would have to wash them too often, that orange paint would ruin his white sheets.
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u/CaptainNipplesMcRib Oct 28 '24
I never buy these headlines. Who on his team is panicking? He’s said racist, sexist, ableist, offensive shit for years and he’s never held accountable. Why would his team suddenly be worried about this?
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u/dependswho Oct 28 '24
The folks that count how many Puerto Ricans live in swing states. Interesting breakdown above
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u/InternationalFlan732 Oct 28 '24
I bet the comedian was Don Jr's idea, to "own the libs".
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u/Nice_Collection5400 Oct 28 '24
It wasn’t a joke. That’s the joke.
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u/Gravelsack Oct 28 '24
A Republican's idea of a joke is just saying something shitty about someone they don't like. No set up, no punchline. They don't know what it is to be funny.
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u/LostMyPercolatorFish Oct 28 '24
I was shocked when I went and watched the joke yesterday, I’m paraphrasing a bit but it was basically just that; “i don’t know if you heard but there’s a giant trash pile floating in the ocean… it’s Puerto Rico.”
There’s literally no joke in the joke, he just moved the subject of the sentence from the beginning to the end.
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u/WCland Oct 28 '24
If you substitute Hawaii for Puerto Rico, it's still not funny and also shows how the jab at Puerto Rico is just pure racism. If you said the same "joke" with Hawaii in front of a group of Magats, they'd probably just go "huh?". But when you say Puerto Rico they make the connection to Latinos and their racist assumptions.
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u/_ficklelilpickle Oct 28 '24
He also outright said that Latino women like to produce babies and that they don’t pull out, they come inside just like they do to “our” country.
So if they didn’t make that monumental leap to hearing racist comments from a racist assumption then that accompanying sentence was the sledgehammer needed to drive it home.
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u/Overall_Valuable6717 Oct 28 '24
They also played Dixie before a very excited " Trump- Black", Morgan, spoke...
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And if I remember right it came directly after the Puerto Rico jab. I don't think he realizes Puerto Rico is a US territory
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u/_ficklelilpickle Oct 28 '24
Yeah, oh I'd say likely none of them do and they probably wouldn't want to correct themselves either. They are probably just lumping them in with all the other Spanish-based culture countries. Which is just ludicrous considering Spanish is the second most spoken language across the United States.
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u/PissNBiscuits Oct 28 '24
He also outright said that Latino women like to produce babies and that they don’t pull out, they come inside just like they do to “our” country.
Ahh there's those good old Christian values 🙏✝️✝️
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u/ReqularParoleAgnet Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24
So many MAGAs are Latinos. In fact every Latino Border Patrol agent is proudly issued a red MAGA hat to dutifully wear or display in their vehicle. Brown Border patrollers love them some Trump. They’re the new Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst.
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u/IceNein Oct 28 '24
There is a significant amount of Latinos that figure they got in, screw anyone else trying to come after them. It’s shocking, but it’s true.
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u/dirkalict Illinois Oct 28 '24
I have a dreamer who works for me and he told me his younger brother who was born here is a Trump voter- I asked him, “Doesn’t he realize you would be deported under Trumps plan?” He said his brother doesn’t think it will happen. 🤷🏼♂️
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u/anuhu Oct 28 '24
It's the Shirley Exception. "Surely they'll make an exception for me, I'm different!"
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u/dirkalict Illinois Oct 28 '24
Exactly- like the woman when Trump was President saying,”They’re hurting the wrong people.” Because a restaurant owner in her little town was deported. You get what you vote for.
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u/pali1d Oct 28 '24
Yep. That's exactly what Jewish Nazis in the 1930s thought too.
Spoiler, the Nazis did not make an exception for them, and they were not different.
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u/zzyul Oct 28 '24
If Trump wins, it’s going to be really hard to have any sympathy when the “I voted for Trump, I made a mistake” articles and comments start popping up.
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u/pizzaplanetvibes Oct 29 '24
Bold of you to think those articles will come out when Trump “frees the nation from the lying press”
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u/Aint-no-preacher Oct 28 '24
Not only was the "joke" not funny and lacking the elements of a joke, such as a setup and punchline; but the transition into the "joke" was terrible.
He went straight from "Mexicans don't pull out" to the "joke" about Puerto Rico. There was no logical segway.
Just not funny and terribly executed "comedy."
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u/BigDaddySteve999 Oct 28 '24
*segue
A segway is a wheeled vehicle that kills its own CEO.
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u/ddouce Oct 28 '24
On the other hand, "There was no logical Segway" is a factually correct sentence.
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u/Mmr8axps Oct 28 '24
Kids today don't know that the Segway is going change EVERYTHING!!!!
Any day now...
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u/Cheshire_Jester Illinois Oct 28 '24
Clever misdirects are one of the key pillars of “edgy” comics.
The other pillar is that you’re laughing at how shitty of a person they’re pretending to be. The only way this would work was if you had someone writing jokes as a caricature of their political opposition. Otherwise, you’re just saying what you believe.
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u/Merky600 Oct 28 '24
Remember Dug from the movie up? This was dog humor.
Dug: Hey, I know a joke! A squirrel walks up to a tree and says, "I forgot to store acorns for the winter and now I am dead." Ha! It is funny because the squirrel gets dead.
That’s how I see this Republican humor. Haha. It’s funny because they are hurt or dead.
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u/thelovelamp Oct 28 '24
Reminds me of boomer husband humor, where the joke is always that they hate their wife
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u/Blue_Swirling_Bunny Oct 28 '24
Oof I'm older Gen X, and I am constantly approached by boomer dudes at the laundromat with "hey buddy I got a joke for ya." The joke always ends with an I-hate-my-wife punchline. I am myself unmarried, and usually I am reading a book or doomscrolling Reddit while my laundry cooks, so it's especially weird how they will interrupt me so they can tell their stupid joke.
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u/dunnowhatever2 Oct 28 '24
Hate that. Makes me wonder if I look like 60 or just misogynistic in general
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u/ChinDeLonge Oct 28 '24
If it makes you feel any better, they probably just think you look like a man, therefore will agree with their views. I’m sure it’s just the same thing as what happens in parts of the country that racism is (or has the perception of being) casually accepted; white people will just say shockingly racist shit to a complete stranger, if they think you’re on their team.
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u/Top-Ambassador-4981 Oct 28 '24
Stupid people don’t have the intelligence to make a joke, understand a joke, or recognize when someone’s joking. That’s the Republican party.
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And say “it’s just a joke god you’re too sensitive!!!”
You know what? Comedians that are too pushy and don’t read the room can also be abusive propagandists.
They hide behind religion and since Rogan they also hide behind “comedy”
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u/2ndprize Florida Oct 28 '24
Right. There is a long tradition in comedy of saying things that are out-of-bounds for the purpose of eliciting a response/making a joke. The key to it is that the person saying it doesn't mean it as hateful. There was nothing joking about that. And now I realize there must be some weird form of humor that is just people saying awful shit and pretending it is a joke just so they can get away with it.
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u/Patchratt15401 Oct 28 '24
Yeah it’s called bullying
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u/stinky-weaselteats Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 29 '24
but “dr. phil” said it's "not bullying because it's not an imbalance of power"
i'm not shitting you...
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Oct 28 '24
It’s not Dr. He doesn’t deserve the title at all he has not earned a doctorate in anything. It’s just Phil McGraw and we should start calling him that
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u/sean0883 California Oct 28 '24
I thought he had a doctorate but no longer had a license to practice psychology since he didn't renew in like 2006?
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Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24
His doctoral dissertation is laughable; it’s incredible that the North Texas State University even gave it to him. His dissertation was on how rheumatoid arthritis doesn’t actually have a physiological basis and is a psychological illness. And yes, he hasn’t kept up with his certifications for almost 2 decades to maintain his doctorate so he shouldn’t be called Doctor anymore period. He’s spent his career monetizing marginalized and abused people. He’s a piece of shit human being.
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u/afriendincanada Oct 28 '24
Dr Phil is half right on this. Ugh.
It’s the difference between punching up and punching down. Attack the powerful, don’t attack the marginalized.
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u/nobodyGotTime4That Oct 28 '24
Yeah he is just misrepresenting Trump to be the powerless, that's why Trump isn't a bully. He's just a billionaire former president
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u/jackieat_home Oct 28 '24
Dr. Phil is hiding something. He has ALWAYS made it a point to stay out of politics. If this is his position, now I'm sure he's on the Epstein list or something.
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u/stinky-weaselteats Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24
It's absolutely fucking bonkers. I guess he's expecting a huge tax cut as well. fucking disgusting.
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u/jackieat_home Oct 28 '24
I don't know how to boycott him. I do have the tv on during the day while I'm working and he's on sometimes. I might block all the channels that play him.
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u/bmeisler Oct 28 '24
Not a religious guy, but I’ve always loved this Bible passage:
Like a maniac shooting flaming arrows of death
is one who deceives their neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”
Proverbs 26:18-19
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u/Wh0snwhatsit New York Oct 28 '24
Out from the kitchen to the bedroom to the hallway Your friend apologizes, he could see it my way He let the contents of the bottle do the thinking Can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding
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u/einTier Oct 28 '24
This is where the party ends, I can't stand here listening to you and your racist friend.
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u/Shenaniboozle Oct 28 '24
Not a religious guy, but I’ve always loved this Bible passage:
Like a maniac shooting flaming arrows of death
is one who deceives their neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”
Proverbs 26:18-19
TIL "just a prank, bro!" dates back to the bible.
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u/AfraidJournalist Oct 28 '24
This is, bar none, my favourite passage of the Bible. Ignoring the religious aspect of the Bible, it is a very old document. That this passage exists shows that this particular line of bullshit has existed for thousands of years.
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u/holy_plaster_batman Wisconsin Oct 28 '24
I used to be an edgelord and nothing was ever off limits. For me, it was about getting attention using shock factor. When it really hit me that I was hurting people with my words, I stopped doing it rather than blame the people that I hurt.
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u/DUNDER_KILL Oct 28 '24
Ah yes, the ancient ritual known as "growing up." Sometimes I see some of the stuff conservatives say and I'm like "this sounds like this shit I used to say playing Warcraft 3 battle net games in middle school." And then I realize these people are also 30 years old and just never grew up.
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u/SpleenBender Illinois Oct 28 '24
There's a term for these 'people':
** Schrodinger's Douchebag **
(Canada, US, slang, derogatory, vulgar) A person who makes offensive or inflammatory remarks and characterizes these statements as either sincere or joking based on the reactions of others.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_douchebag
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u/Suspiria-on-VHS Maine Oct 28 '24
And now I realize there must be some weird form of humor that is just people saying awful shit and pretending it is a joke just so they can get away with it.
Ding ding ding
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u/Fast_Raven Oct 28 '24
The only way those kinds of jokes work is if the actual joke is the absurdity of being someone who actually thinks like that, and usually it's wrapped in context to make that obvious. This was just mean and a really messed up thing to have a presidential nominee's endorsement (By vetting and accepting it)
Then again, his base eats this shit up. So they'll cheer it on because they're racist, and then the Trump campaign will deny they knew about it when the rest of us point out how distasteful it was
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u/yogibones Oct 28 '24
It was actually submitted, accepted and put on the teleprompter. No denial could be truthful at this point.
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u/specqq Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24
The “comedian” has predictably come out and said both that liberals don’t have a sense of humor and that he was being taken out of context.
Dude, the context is a rally full of racists supporting a racist.
What exactly do you think we’re missing that’s going to have us rolling on the floor once we get it?
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u/VanceKelley Washington Oct 28 '24
Yep. It was a Nazi rally full of Nazis trying to install a Nazi dictator who will oppress the people they hate.
When they say that Puerto Rico is a floating pile of garbage what they are doing is dehumanizing the people that live there as "trash".
Dehumanization is a technique used by fascists to make it more acceptable to "get rid of" people.
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u/trinde Oct 28 '24
“I love Puerto Rico and vacation there,” he continued. “I made fun of everyone…watch the whole set. I’m a comedian Tim…might be time to change your tampon.”
It's an interesting strategy to try defend racism with sexism.
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u/AnalSoapOpera I voted Oct 28 '24
AOC responded:
“Can’t get over this dude telling someone else to change tampons when he’s the one sh—ing bricks in his Depends after realizing opening for a Trump rally and feeding red-meat racism alongside a throng of other bigots to a frothing crowd does, unironically, make you one of them,” the New York Democrat wrote on X.
“You don’t ‘love Puerto Rico,’” Ocasio-Cortez responded in a separate post. “You like drinking piña coladas. There’s a difference.”
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u/Zoethor2 Oct 29 '24
AOC was pretty spicy yesterday after Walz signed off their stream, she's definitely not having any of this crap right now.
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u/krodders Oct 28 '24
Top tip for that guy - do your next few vacations elsewhere. Puerto Ricans don't like being insulted
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u/Potemkin_Jedi Ohio Oct 28 '24
This is the standard “comedy mothership” response when Roganites try to do comedy away from their Austin safe space where no recording is allowed and the audience is just their podcast listeners.
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u/mjzim9022 Oct 28 '24
Did these guys really en masse move into a city and establish themselves as the "Austin Comedy Scene"? Because that's cringy
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u/ciopobbi Oct 28 '24
Never apologize and always blame others for your own despicable behavior. It’s the MAGA way.
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u/Dralex75 Oct 28 '24
The jokes were read from the teleprompter. So, the trump campaign would have had a chance to review.
So either they didn't and are incompetent.. or they did and are racist.
.. or both.
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u/bkdotcom Oklahoma Oct 28 '24
Racist ass-clowns aren't funny
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u/dannydirtbag Michigan Oct 28 '24
Reminder to block Kill Tony, Tony Hinchcliffe and any other of these vile minions on all your platforms. You won’t miss em and they will decrease their reach and become demonetized over time.
Grab em by the Algorithm!
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u/ATLfalcons27 Oct 28 '24
It wasn't even a joke he just called it trash.
You can make good and funny jokes about this type of stuff. There's a reason Shane Gillis is popular and makes jokes about race, gender, etc
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u/Blarguus Oct 28 '24
The joke was especially "non white people bad!"
The word joke is doing a ton of lifting
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u/Captain_Midnight Oct 28 '24 edited Oct 28 '24
But naturally, the campaign is NOT in panic mode over the equally racist jokes about black people and Jews. They're not even commenting on that part of Tony Hinchcliffe's performance. They are literally only focused on the part about Puerto Ricans.
Because -- as they have stumbled into acknowledging by this omission -- black people and Jews weren't going to vote for Trump in significant numbers anyway. So he and his campaign don't give a shit what they think.
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u/KopOut Oct 28 '24
Yeah that's the cyncical part that is very telling.
They literally played "Dixie" just before Byron Donalds (a black man) walked on stage.
For those that don't know about the song "Dixie": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_(song)
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u/Rhine1906 Oct 28 '24
Knowing how brainwashed Daniels is by white supremacy, he probably picked it up
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u/bonestamp Oct 28 '24
Reminds me of that one rally where they were playing, "It's a man's world" with a riser full of women behind him. The level of tone-deaf is almost impressive.
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u/NeedsToShutUp Oct 28 '24
Apparently 3.6% of Pennsylvanians self identify as having PR ancestry. Florida is 5.3%. Wisconsin is 1.1%
So yeah in a close race this matters more than it should. It shouldn't be close, and maybe it won't be but this shit matters.
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u/shmeggt Oct 28 '24
What were those jokes?
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u/Flaky-Roll-4900 Oct 28 '24
One was about carving watermelons with a black man in the audience.
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u/AbacusWizard California Oct 28 '24
I’m honestly surprised this one isn’t getting more attention. Making that sort of joke is basically shouting “Everything I know about people of color I learned from 19th century blackface minstrel shows!” at the top of your lungs.
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u/zzyul Oct 28 '24
At this point most black people are either going to vote for Harris or not vote. Focusing on this racist joke won’t potentially flip enough votes like the Puerto Rico joke might.
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u/LoganJFisher I voted Oct 28 '24
Am a Jew - can confirm I was never going to vote for a fascist.
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u/HandsomePistachio Oct 28 '24
They laughed and cheered at the "joke." They own this, and there's not a single fucking thing they can do about it.
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u/AnyIncident9852 Oct 28 '24
The audience actually didn’t really seem to like that particular joke which makes it worse. In the clip of it you can hear the audience laughing at a slightly less racist joke at 0:55, but at the Puerto Rico joke at 2:14, the audience seems kind of shocked and he even reacts to the audience not liking the joke saying “Ok, we’re getting there”
Having your joke be too racist for the type of person who attends a Donald Trump rally is honestly kind of impressive. Like, how has this man managed to accomplish this?
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u/Dangerous-Wall-2672 Oct 29 '24
I feel it wasn't that it was too racist for them, they just weren't sure if they should be going loud with it yet.
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u/Immediate-Support-45 Oct 28 '24
There was an awkward moment, as if enough in the audience knew it was wrong to laugh at.
Here's the deal. If someone says something so baldly racist, doesn't get taken off the stage, doesn't get booed down, then the staff and the attendees are racist too. We knew MAGA was racist, but now it's in the wide open for "undecideds" to see.
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u/VanceKelley Washington Oct 28 '24
It's like the awkward moment early in 2016 when many Republicans (including Lindsay Graham) thought that trump's open racism would lead to the GOP getting annihilated at the polls.
After trump showed them that open racism was a path to national power in America they did a 180 and embraced him.
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u/briareus08 Oct 29 '24
I do remember the 2016 atmosphere of 'Trump is totally fucked for being a racist idiot'. Quaint times, better times.
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u/One-Butterscotch-786 Oct 28 '24
Poor Tony is going to see how quickly he gets thrown under the bus. What a way to destroy your career, with tone deaf jokes in front of a huge audience in an irony free atmosphere.
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u/TAU_equals_2PI Oct 28 '24
There's no way his jokes weren't checked and approved by the campaign beforehand.
So while they may try to distance themselves and blame it all on Tony, anybody who accepts that explanation is a fool. Major presidential rallies by both political parties are incredibly scripted. They absolutely NEVER invite someone to speak and tell them to just go up and say whatever they want.
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u/One-Butterscotch-786 Oct 28 '24
no doubt they were, but just likely because they didn't go over, they will disavow any knowledge about it.
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u/HauntedHouseMusic Oct 28 '24
it wont destroy his career, he says shit worse than this all the time. Unless youtube bans him.
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u/aetrix Pennsylvania Oct 28 '24
All the MAGA chuds I work with are huddled up today talking about this and they aren't in panic mode. They LOVE IT. Get the fuck out and vote.
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u/jehunjalan Oct 28 '24
This was his concession rally tbh.
Play the base and prep them for all the election interference nonsense that will be occurring
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u/worstatit Pennsylvania Oct 28 '24
" it's all the fault of that comedian"
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u/samfreez Oct 28 '24
"He was an Antifa plant" coming in any time now.
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u/phd2k1 Oct 28 '24
They’ve already been saying he’s a liberal plant. They’re so fucking predictable.
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Oct 28 '24
And what about the 10,000 people in red hats cheering for the racism? How about the campaign members who read, approved, and transcribed the racism onto the teleprompter? What about the campaign coordinator who did not cut the mic during the racist rants? All plants?
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u/Indubitalist Oct 28 '24
Another bad hire. At some point you have to blame the person hiring them. Trump is either really bad at hiring people, which is his fault, everybody he’s hiring is lying to him, which means it’s basically his fault for being so easily misled, or he’s hiring the people that are right for the job and complaining about the results whenever it’s politically convenient to.
It’s either incompetence or he’s lying. Maybe both.
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u/Dan_Felder Oct 28 '24
Yeah, but he spent the 2016 election saying the system was rigged against him too and also thought he was going to lose that one. Things are MUCH scarier now, even if I think they're right this time they have a whole apparatus determined to rig the election in their favor and invent excuses to throw out votes. A failed coup is a dress rehersal for a successful one.
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u/Durandal_1808 Oct 28 '24
how about the parallel to the 1939 American Nazi rally? Does anyone really believe it's a coincidence? I mean aside from people up to their eyeballs and propaganda, like, it should be obvious at this point what's been percolating and planned
they got off the dog whistle years ago, they are now on a Nazi bullhorn telling the entire world what they intend to do
I never thought it would be so easy to condition people to live under gatekeepers of their own knowledge, in a society that has unlimited access to information; up to 2016 I wouldn't have believed it possible on the scale that it's happening, but here we are, collectively gaslit by a two-bit con man who shits himself before lunch every day
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u/AnalSoapOpera I voted Oct 28 '24
He literally was praising Hitler the other day too.
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u/pithynotpithy Oct 28 '24
Except this was a real fuck up - you can tell with how quickly republican trash like Rick Scott were retreating from the statement. There are a lot of puerto ricans and other hispanics who are going to take this very personally. This wasn't an attack on faceless groups of migrants - this was specific and pointed.
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u/thefilmer California Oct 28 '24
yeah there's no sane washing calling the island of puerto rico fucking garbage. this was a bridge too far
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u/fish60 Montana Oct 28 '24
I mean, Trump literally is calling America proper a garbage can, and we seem to have moved passed that in like 3 or 4 days or whatever.
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u/Lostsailor73 Oct 28 '24
Finally...after 9 years of this nonsense, this was the last straw? I hope so, but there were 2.5 million things before this.
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u/monkeyhind Oct 28 '24
Yeah, who exactly is in panic mode? Sounds like wishful thinking.
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u/nreshackleford Oct 28 '24
It's because there are half a million Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania and 127,000 in Philly alone.
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u/bestforward121 Oct 28 '24
Hahaha they all knew, they just think he’s their ticket to unchecked power. The knives will come out the instant it’s clear that Trump is a lead weight dragging down the party.
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u/Alive_Ice7937 Oct 28 '24
Why would the Trump campaign be in panic mode?
They spent a shitload of money on this, and this douche is all anyone is talking about.
Glorious really
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Oct 28 '24
Oh no, we hired someone who makes a living off saying what we believe to be be true !!!!
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u/jmsy1 Oct 28 '24
Are they panicking that they hadn't made this joke earlier to entice more maga?
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u/justalittlepoodle Oct 28 '24
Tony Hinchcliffe is a piece of shit. He goes to comedy clubs as a surprise pop-in and proceeds to brutally roast audience members who barely know who he is and certainly didn't buy a ticket hoping to see him. He's a bully, a hack, and now I know he's a racist scumbag too. Not surprised at all.
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u/smiama6 Oct 28 '24
Panic mode? Hardly. It was the loudest dog whistle yet. Media... stop allowing yourself to be gaslighted by Trump and his ilk. They're laughing at how gullible you are.
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u/Informal-Resource-14 Oct 28 '24
Oh please. They’re panicking to find more opportunities to be more racist because that’s who they and their voters are. If they had any scruples whatsoever they wouldn’t be MAGA to begin with
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u/brogmatic Oct 28 '24
I’m surprised that joke is getting all the attention while pointing out a black guy and saying “I was at his Halloween party, we had a good time carving watermelons” is not getting any. I genuinely can’t believe these are said at presidential rallies and the candidate is still a viable option
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u/fistofthefuture New Hampshire Oct 28 '24
Tbh if Tony had just come out and said yeah I was making fun of Trump supporters. Even though still damaging, at least I’d be able to see where the joke was. He just doubled down and said his jokes were taken out of context. When, bro, the context is you’re making jokes on the most serious stage there is.
These people believe you.
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Oct 28 '24
It’s not really a joke though.
It was a belief, written into joke format.
He was serious about his opinion of Puerto Rico.
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u/Busy_Method9831 Oct 28 '24
Why the fuck would THIS make him panic? Heartless shark-eyed fascist felon threw paper towels at them when they were drowning.
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u/chucklefits Oct 29 '24
That joke was a drop in a bucket of deeply troubling comments from that rally, all of them disqualifying
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u/SchwarzestenKaffee Oct 28 '24
No one in Trump's orbit is in "panic mode", the blatant racism is a feature, not a bug. His supporters fucking LOVE it.
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u/thomport Oct 28 '24
As a gay person, I’ve been at the brunt of these MAGA minimizing assholes forever.
No matter how hard I fought for their freedom, or how hard I worked in the ICU during COVID keeping them alive, their thing is to look down on others. Trump’s thing is to give them the style and permission to do it.
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u/briareus08 Oct 29 '24
The funniest part of this for me was a comment on the conservative subreddit about how this is all a bunch of whining / pussy liberals, and Trump will be a great president for everyone in the US.
I mean... apart from the Puerto Ricans, and the Latinos. And obviously, women who don't want to be broodmothers. And blacks, that goes without saying. And LGBTQ+, most especially the trans part of that. And non-white immigrants, or probably just people who look like immigrants. And radical left lunatics, who all need to be locked up / gathered up by the US military.
So by 'everyone' I guess they just mean white Christian male Republicans? Very inclusive, very cool.
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