A Trump Rally Speaker Trashed Puerto Ricans. Harris reached out to them.

[JosephZ]

Puerto Ricans in New York City furious over comedian's remarks at Trump rally at MSG

Outrage is building on Monday after Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday featured a comic and several other speakers making racist comments.

Approach a Puerto Rican in New York and play the video of Sunday night's incendiary comments about their homeland, then watch the fire ignite.

The joke bombed but the explosive fallout reverberated across the country to the 5-million-plus stateside Puerto Ricans - many of them registered voters - and more than 3-million American citizens on the island.

"He made a calculated error yesterday. Basically he said goodbye to PA. to Pennsylvania..."

"This is about human rights, civil rights, and this is about my people, mother, my grandmother who died after Hurricane Maria. This is about our people who have suffered for way too long," Frankie Miranda, of the Hispanic Federation, said.

José Acevedo, a 48-year-old health worker from San Juan, [said] "What humiliation, what discrimination!" he said early Monday as he waited to catch a public bus to work.

Acevedo said he immediately texted relatives in New York, including an uncle who is a Republican and had planned to vote for Trump.

"He told me that he was going to have to analyze his decision," Acevedo said, adding that his relatives were in shock. "They couldn't believe it."

 

[JosephZ]

 

[ozso]

No. He was insulting the entire island. Most people try to take pride and ownership in where they are from.
Like if I insult Mississippi you don't think the people there will take offense?

This sort of obtuse insensitivity does not make America great.

Most likely many of the citizens of Puerto Rico are offended by the landfill crisis, rather than someone calling attention to their problem. Whereas it seems to be mostly non Puerto Rican US Democrats/liberals who are acting offended for the sake of propaganda. I'd have to be obtuse not to see that.

 

[QvQ]

I would like to see Kamala apologize for the pot holes in the roads and 25% inflation.
Nevermind the laundry list of utopian dreams paid by some nebulous scheme to tax the rich promised to whatever group needs pandering today.

 

[ozso]

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What does the archbishop have to say about that?

 

[rambot]

This is the new....

I don't think I feel good about having to make people defend this kind of behaviour.

 

[ozso]

No, that is not how it came off.

Especially when remembering Trump describing American as a garbage can because of the immigrants.

Unless you are Native American, you are a descendant of immigrants.

It's obvious the reference was to Puerto Rico's landfill crisis.

That's not something I'd remember, it's something that would have to be pointed out as a supposed tie-in, and the reafference was obviously to unvetted illegal aliens, not legal immigrants.

What do Native Americans have to say about the immigrants who took over their land?

 

[QvQ]

I don't think I feel good about having to make people defend this kind of behaviour.

That image is either AI generated or photoshopped.
Most likely AI
You have to be careful nowdays

 

[rambot]

I would like to see Kamala apologize for the pot holes in the roads and 25% inflation.
Nevermind the laundry list of utopian dreams paid by some nebulous scheme to tax the rich promised to whatever group needs pandering today.

2 billion in infrastructure spending Biden gave you guys.

Looks like their priorities may be different from yours.


Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act/Bipartisan Infrastructure Law | Department of Transportation

For highways in Arizona, Arizona expects to receive an increase of more than $200 million per year over the next five fiscal years (2022-2026). That is part of the overall $5.3 billion in funding for the state of Arizona based on federal funding formulas. “Formula funding” is money that is allocated from the federal government to the state

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Most likely many of the citizens of Puerto Rico are offended by the landfill crisis, rather than someone calling attention to their problem. Whereas it seems to be mostly non Puerto Rican US Democrats/liberals who are acting offended for the sake of propaganda. I'd have to be obtuse not to see that.

You only see what you want to see.

 

[ThisIsMe123]

...some Republicans claim the comedian's remarks don't reflect today's Republican party -- well, I disagree. As columnist Aaron Blake reminds us:


"This is, after all, a party led by a president who once labeled another Caribbean island, Haiti, a “____hole.” Trump has recently falsely accused Haitian migrants of stealing and eating pets, and he once accused them of bringing AIDS into the United States.

He has repeatedly derided urban and heavily diverse areas such as Detroit, Atlanta, New York City and the like — so much so that he has insulted cities and states that account for 38 percent of the U.S. population.

He has called on four diverse congresswomen to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
Never mind for now that only one of them was actually foreign-born, and one of the others traces her family’s roots to none other than Puerto Rico. Trump was, by implication, calling Puerto Rico “totally broken.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/28/republicans-say-puerto-rico-island-garbage-quip-doesnt-reflect-them-it-does/

Trumps comes from an elitist background. It's no wonder he thinks certain people of these countries are beneath him.

 

[JosephZ]

That image is either AI generated or photoshopped.
Most likely AI
You have to be careful nowdays

 

[QvQ]

2 billion in infrastructure spending Biden gave you guys.

Looks like their priorities may be different from yours.

So far there is a new runway at the airport and a walking bridge across a gully.
The roads are not being fixed.
That other government money is the usual highway tax distributed to the States. If that $200 million is 25% more than what the State received in 2020, it would barely keep up with inflation.

 

[QvQ]

@JosephZ

Thank you. I have heard that "Trump mocked disabled" for years and never saw where it came from.
You are mischaracterizing what Trump said and did.
I am glad you posted it so I can know the truth
Trump did not mock the disabled. He mocked a reporter or person who spazzed out and couldn't "remember" what he said.
And the reporting source, news should have printed a retraction
That is what I heard, listening to the brief clip you posted.

 

[iluvatar5150]

This is the new....

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I don't think I feel good about having to make people defend this kind of behaviour.

I knew we’d really jumped the shark when folks here explained to me that it was okay to describe immigrants as “locusts” because the term was used in the Bible.

It's obvious the reference was to Puerto Rico's landfill crisis.

That's not something I'd remember, it's something that would have to be pointed out as a supposed tie-in,

This is such a terrible explanation. The joke was about garbage floating in the ocean, not landfills. That you don’t get it just shows how poorly conceived it was as a joke.

 

[JosephZ]

Trump did not mock the disabled. He mocked a reporter or person who spazzed out and couldn't "remember" what he said.

The reporter he was mocking is Serge Kovaleski. he has arthrogryposis, which visibly limits flexibility in his arms.

[Trump] goes on to mock him, jerking his arms in front of his body: “Now, the poor guy, you ought to see this guy, ‘Ah, I don’t know what I said, I don’t remember, I don’t remember, maybe that’s what I said.’”

Trump’s explanation in Colorado is simply not credible. First of all, we already confirmed that Kovaleski did not grovel or say he made a mistake. Moreover, Trump actually appears to paraphrase Kovaleski’s brief statement about not remembering that thousands of people celebrated. Trump now suggests he was just imitating a grovel, but that’s not what he was actually doing.

Instead, Trump is clearly imitating Kovaleski’s disability — the reporter has arthrogryposis, which visibly limits the functioning of his joints. Trump claims he did not know Kovaleski, but the reporter closely covered Trump’s troubled business dealings while he was a reporter for the N.Y. Daily News between 1987 and 1993.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/08/02/donald-trumps-revisionist-history-of-mocking-a-disabled-reporter/

 

[Hans Blaster]

I would like to see Kamala apologize for the pot holes in the roads and 25% inflation.
Nevermind the laundry list of utopian dreams paid by some nebulous scheme to tax the rich promised to whatever group needs pandering today.

Your potholes are your problem and ours are our problem.

 

[QvQ]

Your potholes are your problem and ours are our problem.

Maybe on the rural route but not on the boulevard.

 

[Hans Blaster]

Maybe on the rural route but not on the boulevard.

Why should your boulevards be our problem? How do you even get potholes w/o freezing?

 

[ozso]

This is such a terrible explanation. The joke was about garbage floating in the ocean, not landfills. That you don’t get it just shows how poorly conceived it was as a joke.

I get what the comment was really about and the ridiculous spin on it perfectly clearly. The spin being that it wasn't a reference to all the articles about Puerto Rico's landfill problem, but was really Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico in general a floating island of garbage to dehumanize its citizens as being garbage themselves.