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

[FreeinChrist]

Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden will be remembered, though not in a good way. One of the many lines that stood,out in a night with vulgar filth being spewed, was this "joke" by Tony Hinchcliffe. He said:

There is a lot going on. I don't know if you know this, but there's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. It is called Puerto Rico

wow.

This is from James Kou's blog on Substack.

Punching Your Own MAGA Face

Maybe it’s not such a good idea to bash on Puerto Rico right now.

statuskuo.substack.com

I admit it. I did not have “deeply insult millions of swing state voters by calling their home ‘garbage’” on my 2024 bingo card. But that’s exactly what happened yesterday at Trump’s Madison Square Garden MAGA hate rally, an event that chillingly echoed a pro-Nazi rally at that same venue in 1939.​

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The selection of MSG was no coincidence, of course. The speeches were filled with racist, misogynistic invective that have become the Trump and MAGA brand. But it was a one-liner from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe (I know, who?) that broke through and stunned the political world, shaking up the race at a critical moment:....​

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With early voting underway and undecideds making up their minds whether and how to vote, common sense dictates to both campaigns, “Just don’t step in it.” But step in it the GOP did, and they could pay a costly political price. TikTok and Twitter swelled with condemnations, many people reminding the GOP that Puerto Ricans are fiercely proud of their home, are U.S. citizens, and vote in huge numbers in key states.......​

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The internet exploded in response to Hinchcliffe’s “joke.” Officials of Puerto Rican descent could barely contain their anger.​

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“As a Puerto Rican, I’m tempted to call Tony Hinchcliffe racist garbage, but doing so would be an insult to garbage,” tweeted Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY). “When casting their ballots at the voting booth, Latinos should never forget the racism that Donald Trump seems all too willing to platform.”​

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“This is my abuelita,” posted New Hampshire state senate candidate Carlos Cardona, attaching a picture of his grandmother. “She lives in Reading, PA and she is Puerto Rican. Guess who she will be voting for? Yep, Kamala Harris. Puerto Rico is not garbage and we wont be insulted. Not today, not ever. ”​

Some interesting facts from the article :

Harris had put that out the day of that"joke".

From the article:

After releasing the plan, and around the time news was breaking of about the “floating island of garbage” remark out of the Trump rally, three highly influential Puerto Rican celebrities publicly endorsed Harris and posted to their collective 315 million followers on social media.​

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[FreeinChrist]

Quite a few Republicans are distancing themselves from that comment about Puerto Ricans.

 

[FreeinChrist]

Don Trump Jr is defending the "joke" and reposting it on Twitter.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Don Trump Jr is defending the "joke" and reposting it on Twitter.

lol, of course he is. You can always count on Don Jr to amplify the worst of things.

I guess the question is going to be whether the Puerto Ricans in the country see this as a joke or if they take it personally. Tony's whole show is just comedians roasting each other, where this sort of humor is normal.

 

[Hammster]

Trash Crisis Leaves Puerto Rico Near ‘the Brink’

Most of Puerto Rico’s landfills fail to meet federal standards and are almost full. Residents and experts worry that trash will soon overwhelm the region.

globalpressjournal.com

Just in case anyone was actually curious.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Trash Crisis Leaves Puerto Rico Near ‘the Brink’

Most of Puerto Rico’s landfills fail to meet federal standards and are almost full. Residents and experts worry that trash will soon overwhelm the region.

globalpressjournal.com

Just in case anyone was actually curious.

That justifies the dehumanizing insult?

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Quite a few Republicans are distancing themselves from that comment about Puerto Ricans.

One very, very prominent one has not.

 

[Always in His Presence]

Yes the insult comic. Insulted PR

Shame on him.

Campaign already admitted they did not properly vet him. Shame on them.

 

[Hammster]

That justifies the dehumanizing insult?

What was the insult?

 

[FreeinChrist]

Considering that Trump referred to America as a

lol, of course he is. You can always count on Don Jr to amplify the worst of things.

I guess the question is going to be whether the Puerto Ricans in the country see this as a joke or if they take it personally. Tony's whole show is just comedians roasting each other, where this sort of humor is normal.

Yeah but Trump is also referring to America as a "garbage" can because of immigrants from other countries.
At the rally, Stephen Miller yelled, "America is for Americans and Americans only."
Musk was born in South Africa and Melania was born elsewhere. hmmmm

Puerto Rico is an American territory. They are US citizens. They can vote when living on the mainland.
Remember Trump throwing paper towels to people when on the island after a destructive hurricane?
Hurricane relief was delayed by the Trump administration.

Trump delayed $20bn in aid to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, report finds

Funding was ‘unnecessarily delayed’ by bureaucratic obstacles, after hurricane killed thousands of people in 2017

www.theguardian.com

 

[iluvatar5150]

Campaign already admitted they did not properly vet him. Shame on them.

lol, his show is full of racial jokes.

 

[FreeinChrist]

From LeMonde:

Trump's New York rally draws criticism as he ramps up Harris attacks

Several speakers at the 20,000-seat Madison Square Garden venue drew cheers with their barbs against Harris, Puerto Rico and Latinos in the final stretch of one of America's closest-ever White House races.

www.lemonde.fr

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat, noted the state is home to almost half a million Puerto Ricans and nearly three-quarters are able to vote. He said in a post on X that they are "crucial" and are "not a punchline for a desperate joke."​

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Ricky Martin, the Puerto Rican superstar with 18.6 million followers on Instagram, quickly shared a video of Harris's appeal to Puerto Rican voters, along with a clip of Hinchcliffe's disparaging remarks. "This is what they think of us," Martin wrote in Spanish. "Vote for @kamalaharris."​

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

What was the insult?

You don't think calling Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage is an insult?

 

[prodromos]

Quite a few Republicans are distancing themselves from that comment about Puerto Ricans.

It wasn't about Puerto Ricans, it was about Puerto Rico. I think the joke was in bad taste but if Puerto Rico is such a lovely place, why are so many Puerto Ricans living in the USA?

 

[GoldenBoy89]

I think she should have gone further and offered them a vote on statehood during her presidency. It would obviously need to happen through an act of Congress but she’d at least call the GOP’s bluff that they have any care or concern for our fellow Americans in PR.

 

[Always in His Presence]

lol, his show is full of racial jokes.

All the more reason not to have him again.

 

[wing2000]

...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/

 

[FreeinChrist]

It was a foul comment that was one of many during the rally by speakers.

Sid Rosenberg referred to the Democratic party as "a bunch of degenerates, lowlives, Jew-haters and lowlives. Every one of them."
I'd link to the article quoting that but there is so much filth quoted in the article, I won't.

Grant Cardone referred to Harris as a prostitute, and she had "pimp" handlers, and destroyed the country. He thn, after getting applause, said, "We need to slaughter this other people."
Again, I'd link but the stuff said at that rally had a lot of profanity and was foul.

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[Hammster]

You don't think calling Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage is an insult?

Only if there’s no truth.

 

[Hazelelponi]

who once labeled another Caribbean island, Haiti, a “____hole

If all these people who came here had lovely countries anyone would just love to live in they wouldn't be desperate to come here.

If they have such wonderful countries then they have no reason to come here.

Instead, we are daily told how these people take billions of our dollars, destroy their own country and then demand we support them here because they can't govern themselves or take care of themselves in any way, even when we pay them, so they have to live here and be our new dependants....

But their countries are great, so long as we govern and support them and ignore the truth.