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I honestly cannot believe this is America. I'm sure all of you have seen it but if you have not Tony Hinchcliffe calls Puerto Rico an 'island of garbage'. Then immediately right wing media speakers were quick to say: "It was in bad taste". I don't know what taste this would be good in but the rally made it clear. The GOP is for fascism and deporting people on the whims of real Americans are conservative white people in their eyes, NO ONE ELSE IS.
Gen Z you are gear in everything at this moment in time. You can click in and change things over previous generations that sat home. Only at the very end has the GOP been trying to court you but remember all their policies are going to help people that are wealthy to try to 'fix' inflation. Even if you are white and fairly well off these policies are going to have wave effects on deportations and going after agencies. And if it happens to destroy things it won't be easy to get them back ever.
Vote Blue down the ticket and make this MAGA nightmare over.
ramblercomet5772
Tony Hinchcliffe is an island of garbage.
Starbolt81
Here's hoping this is the nail in Trumps coffin. Puerto Rican blue wave incoming?
freshthrowaway1138
Early voting is happening now! Go vote.
yokuski
Comedian saying wild shit to get a laugh—truly unbelievable! Hope the Dems can get it together, so we in Europe don't have to watch that orange go at it again. Trying to present this as some major thing though, oh boy, can I see this going the other way...
pleaseacknowledgethecat
These people are the filth of our nation. We shouldn’t give them the time of day!!!
syntheticgod8
Conservatives don't know how to write jokes. They just insult someone or a marginalized group point-blank and expect a laugh. It's bullying 101. Good comedy punches up; conservative comedy ALWAYS punches down.
TheCrusher78
It's not all of America only the USA
Fuzzynubz
I'm sure he'll be held accountable. Right, guys?
BDBottom
"Trump Will Fix It"? The will-fix-it phrase was previously used by Jimmy Savile: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/27/jimll-fix-it-staff-were-told-not-to-leave-savile-alone-with-children
tarataqa
Monosodium Glutamate?
Brownie19
I have no evidence at all - but I do think there's a possibility that Tony was actually mocking MEGA by making those jokes. The jokes all seemed to be direct things that MEGA supports - which most of the world believes to be utterly ridiculous. MEGA folks hate immigration - let's make a blatantly obvious racist joke to mock them and to mock just how stupid that sounds. There's a good chance I'm 100% wrong about this - but I do wonder...
TI99Kitty
I seriously doubt it. He has a history of being racist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hinchcliffe
ButteryBiscuitBass
This is what MAGA means in their eyes.
tupactopus
there's actually no way people took this seriously, right?
cabalin
For any of you who thought Trump and MAGA’s hatred of Latinos is limited to undocumented ones, I think you’ll find Trump’s latest rally sets the record straight
WolfgangVonTittySprinkles
FPAlpha
Is this the traditional October surprise before elections? A bit late but i'll take it.
ilovebigmutts
You honestly can't believe this? Where have you been lately?
djangojazz
Well I can believe it in quiet they think this. It's just hearing it now loudly spoken and it just scares the ever living crap out of me. Thinking people like this will be given power to just be heard on the street next to minority children and spout hate at them and feel it's justified.
Gwimyeon
"previous generations that sat home." Eehh
marsilies
It's insane that The Mooch, who lasted 10 days as White House Director of Communications, is considered a voice of reason nowadays.
annoyedOnion
He recently signed a deal with netflix to put kill tony on there. I suspect that joke might have cost him this multi million dollar deal
TheAccursedHamster
Im frustrated Netflix were fucking dumb enough to sign him in the first place. This isn't his first incident.
TI99Kitty
If all the other racist shit he's said before now hasn't killed that deal, I doubt this will.
eromitlab
The former comedian with a history of racist "jokes" did a racist set at the sequel to the MSG nazi rally? And they didn't expect that? Is that their argument in favor of their capacity for leadership?
BennyGaga
You can't call him a former comedian. he has one of the largest podcast / comedy shows ever. We can say a lot about that little twink Tony but he is a very successful comedian.
LychFinderGeneral
Yeah, he's huge. It is what it is.
ontarioOT
There's a reason they hired him and not, say, Bill Burr or Gianmarco Soresi.
BrockEffingSamson
Somehow they continued to not expect it after vetting his material and uploading it onto the teleprompters.
SomeDetroitGuy
The only surprise to me is that his racist joke about Puerto Ricans fell flat.
fartharder
"joke"
KawhiLeonardIsSenpai
It wasn't a witty joke at all. There's nothing clever or satirical about it.
I'm just surprised it didn't get more laughs among the MAGA morons.
IlluminaBlade
They're a demographic that votes red wildly against their own interests and they're insulting them.
WolfgangVonTittySprinkles
OhIfIMust
And it’s on Guy Fawkes Day this year!
Sebastopol140
WOW!
VibratingNipples
NotACanadian
Are Guy Fawkes masks going to be cool again?
djangojazz
I never imagined fascism would be coming to America. Or that we would be endorsing Vladimir Putin in the GOP.
SerialChickenLover
That’s because the GOP is the enemy of the Constitution.
Eleshar24
Ever seen the Simpsons? Ever heard those "Simpsons did it first" memes? That's not because they have a magic crystal ball but rather because the USA has chronic systemic issues with very predictable outcomes. It has been out there in plain sight for 40 years, just nobody in the USA (and many outside) wants to see it, let alone act upon it.
OnePostCloserToAHappierLIfe
When all is said and done, years from now, it will be realized that facism was slowly growing in places all over the US, like black mold in the crevices of a house not properly cared for.
ExplodingPortaPotty
Unless something fundamentally changes in the US just "voting blue" isn't a winning strategy, it's a stop gap. You can't run a country on a "if this side loses even one election everything is fucked" perspective. Either something needs to radically change or the US is simply finished.
denimdenis
US has been finished for decades and decades, this is just the rot stage.
Made getting my citizenship in 2022 bittersweet. Wish I could’ve grown up here in 70s-80s. Then again, even back then the racist cretins were causing havoc, but at least the crowds were less and it didn’t cost $$$ to step outisde and experience literally anything fun
natabus
That fundamental change is to get the politically disengaged to re-engage, and the root of that disengagement is a sense of powerlessness because their real choices do not seem reflected in the political system. I think this is a symptom of the average person not understanding how coalition politics works, because the moving parts of coalitions are hidden within our main two parties. (cont)
natabus
[...] We need to un-hide the coalition process by breaking the Duopoly and making third parties relevant and their coalitions between each other overt. That means changing how voting works so as to remove the incentives that maintain the two party system. That change takes political power, and political power only exists in the parties . We need to act within the party structure, to change one of them, to make it more accepting of variant voting systems, like Alternate Transferable vote.
SomeDetroitGuy
I know folks pretend that this isn't the case, but it's all about Trump. Without him, the cult dies. There just isn't someone else who can rally the idiots like Trump can. Without him, the Republican party is going to collapse unless Trump can implement his Project 2025 bullshit.
ExplodingPortaPotty
He's fundamentally changed the Republican party though. Even if he died tomorrow the nature of the party is going to be tainted by his influence for decades to come.
Eleshar24
Nope. Trump is just the symptom. It is his enablers that need to be dealt with. Trump is just the inevitable logical outcome of all the Limbaughs, Hannitys, Murdochs, Carlsons and many, many, many others, who have worked hard the past 50 or so years to convert the USA into a christofascist ethnostate.
ToSisPoS
But until that happens you have one choice. Well two if you count fascism.
Salticido
Well, as far as voting goes, but you also have the choice to reach out to your elected officials to tell them what changes you want to see, such as telling them you support ranked choice voting, making Election Day a federal holiday, eliminating voter suppression tactics, an upcoming bill that they're sponsoring, or whatever you like (including beyond the issue of voting of course). You can find your elected officials' contact info here: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials/
ToSisPoS
I myself am an outside observer but encourage everyone living in Canada’s Pants to do so.
MoonAmericanFloydHeywoodR
The ONLY way to make that fundamental change happen is to reverse Money is Speech. And that can happen if Kamala Harris makes the next few appointments to the Supreme Court, as well as federal courts. It will not happen if Trump makes those appointments. Putting Kamala Harris in the White House WILL make change, more than you may realize. I said this to disaffected Democrat voters in 2016. Trump appointed 1/3 of the Supreme Court, because not enough voters considered this.
ExplodingPortaPotty
How exactly do you envision Harris pulling that off? Lets be generous and say she wins back to back terms. That's 8 years, look at the current USSC and tell me any of those people are likely to die/retire in 8 years. The SC is likely going to remain the way it is for at least another 30-40 years.
MoonAmericanFloydHeywoodR
Your question is puzzling. John Roberts -- who has twice been hospitalized for seizures in the last 14 years -- is 69.... Clarence Thomas is 76.... Samuel Alito is 74... Sonja Sotormayor is 70.... Meanwhile the last 3 retirements by justices happened while they were in their late 60s or 70s. How could anyone look at those numbers and say, gee, how could the next president reshape the court? Maybe you can't sport an opportunity (ar a crisis if Trump wins). but I certainly can.
ExplodingPortaPotty
Because no justice that was placed by a Republican is going to retire unless their is another Republican in the White House, they are going to cling to that seat until their heart stops and these people have the best healthcare money can buy.
Most of the current sitting Justices could last well into their late 80s early 90s. It would take a tragic health condition or accident for Harris to appoint someone to replace an R leaning Justice even if she serves two full terms. I'd bet my house on it
MaximilianShade
Expand the number of justices to match the numbers of courts of appeals, have the judges for any particular case selected at psuedo-random from the available pool.
ExplodingPortaPotty
That isn't a viable strategy, if they expand the number of judges what stops the next R-President from expanding them again so they can appoint a majority?
MoonAmericanFloydHeywoodR
No way that could pass Congress unless the Democrats were to win something like a 60-40 Senate majority. That's out of the question. We have this simpler way available to us, and its right in front of us.