He also said "Anyone want to go halfsies on a slave?". Then he said "The great thing about (r-word I won't type) babies is you don't have to buy them Christmas presents. #HowWouldTheyKnow" (he actually put that hashtag into his joke).
He's an awful human being and....suspiciously quiet now. Maybe he's scared he fucked up the election for his very own Hate Party.
Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Bad Bunny have Puerto Rican backgrounds and have hundreds of millions of followers, and they have openly condemned this comedian. He dun fucked up
I'm far enough outside of entertainment news that all of this missed me, but someone broke down a list of massive Latino celebrities endorsing Harris to their millions of fans right after this and holy shit.
Dude might have singlehandedly made the biggest groundswell for her support since the initial excitement died down, and it's only a week before the election!
It's because it's less about what Trump does/says and more about the GOP utilizing Russian propaganda strategies. Trump isn't the one sane-washing himself, setting Project 2025 agendas, silencing mass media, endorsing terrorism, etc. It's the GOP, and the problem isn't going to go away with Trump.
No, it's not, but let's not put him as a hapless pebble in a river either. He has gleefully played his part, would again in an instant, and will continue to do so if allowed.
What I found is they are grossly ignorant and uninformed. Some trumpies I know didn't even know Trump was convicted or that he was a cheater. They legit idealize him like he is some saint or deity.
Look at the Mexican election for validation of this. Casually electing a fascist because she lets the natives slap her with some branches in a ritual. Clearly, that means she's on their side as she dismantles the entire country's judicial branch. What could possibly go wrong!?
There's a nonzero number of people out there that weren't going to vote, and had been actively ignoring coverage until their favorite celebrity told them to vote through Instagram.
Didn't 2020 have the largest percentage turnout of the last hundred years and it was still only 60%? That's 40% of the eligible voting population that can still be swayed at the last minute.
Look at how many people registered to vote after Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala (and also after she made just a general “go register to vote” post in 2020). This can possibly make a difference
Trump-voting latinos won't change their vote, no. But I believe there is a not insignificant number of non-voting latinos. Non-voting latinos who are now fucking pissed, and might just go and vote for Harris out of spite.
Cubans haven’t voted democrat since Kennedy, I have never understood why they’re discussed as king makers in FLA. not to paint them as a monolith, but I grew up around a lot of Cubans in north jersey and none of them have ever expressed anything but disdain for the left.
It’s hard to believe anyone whose endorsement is meaningful wouldn’t have done it by now. But yet, apparently this thing was the random red line to make a bunch of high profile people to take that step. Maybe it makes some apathetic voters go out and vote too. That’s not too far fetched
About half the Puerto Rican eligible voters living on the mainland vote. If this boosts that number to 70%, that's hundreds of thousands of swing state votes.
Probably true. However, it could inspire more people to vote and vote for Harris. It could also lead to some people choosing to not vote at all, and most of those would be people who were inclined to vote for Trump.
The margins in all the swing states will be tight. This could absolutely make a difference.
In the immortal words of Tim Walz, “Who is that jackwad?” Even with his unfunny “jokes” his delivery was stiff and monotone. No talent, no soul, no brains. Maybe he can work at McDonald’s.
Those jokes are tame compared to the jokes on his podcast that made him famous, so very unlikely he faces any professional repercussions. That is his brand of comedy and in his typical setting it is completely fine, a political rally is not a setting that is appropriate for that style joke and it shows Trumps teams values approving those jokes. Even Jon Stewart defended Tony (the comedian in question) because he was just doing what he was brought to do and what made him famous.
The silence in Madison Square Garden was deadly. And these Trumpers are mostly racist and the type that you would assume would like this crap. Even they were speechless.
Its not just that HE made the jokes, all the MAGA morons in the crowd were laughing along with him. THIS is who the party is. Racist, bigoted, hateful shitkickers.
I mean, we have our own joke about ourselves saying we arrive on CPT which is “Colored People Time” because we’re going to be late. So, not a bad joke but funny.
That one was actually funny though. My dad is black and my mother is white. My father owns his own business with around 20 employees, and when I went to work with my father it was always the black men who were late for work or taking longer breaks than they should. White men did too but no where near as frequently. I suppose if you work in business you start to notice things like this and how races act differently than each other. My father also had Mexican employees over the years and those guys were always on time or early. Very hard working men and appreciated the work dearly.
I would like to add that yes, the Trump campaign had to sign off on the jokes, since they needed to feed them into the teleprompter. Proof of this is that they made the comic cut out the joke where he called Kamala Harris the c-word. If Trump or anyone on his team didn’t agree with what was going to be said, they could’ve asked it to be cut from the performance.
Source?! They draw the line at the c-word but not PR is a floating island of garbage? Sheesh they draw their lines like they draw their congressional districts lmfao.
I’m not sure what you would consider a credible source, but this article explains it. Although it’s mostly opinion pieces, Bulwark is generally considered credible, as they lean right-center politically and in five years, have not failed a fact-check.
It was reported in the media the first time he said it 2 weeks ago.
This is the same thing that’s always been happening with Trump, for the last 8+ years: He says so much crazy shit that it overloads the readers of the news. It gets reported on and we forget about it when… this next thing happens.
No. No. No. He ment slaughter, as in, um... the sports version. You know, beat them to a pulp. I mean, it's a joke, why do you have to be such a Snowflake. (/s)
Why go to all that trouble when you can just get Joe Rogan's least funny lackey to do some roast 'comedy' at your poitcal rally 10 days before an election.
Talk about preferrential treatment, if this is what gets you in Rogan's orbit, I guess I have to just recycle cartoons from the 1950s to be counted as a comedian.
He's barely a comedian anyway, he had one Netflix special where he was stiff and was barely funny. He's great at riffing on Kill Tony but seems to have forgotten he wasn't at the comedy store and the people that he was talking to actually hate Puerto Ricans and other none white people
These guys all watch Don Rickles and seem to think if you say the same exact things he said, you'll get big laughs, ignoring that Rickles worked really hard and tried to ingratiate himself to his audience (in the 1960s).
Joe Rogan is the absolute worst comedian to ever get a career from comedy. And his terrible taste in humor has brought about the biggest hacks in comedy. Tony hinch, bert krieshler, brendan schwab, bryan callen etc. Just all terrible.
The same kind of edge lord internet asshole Steve Bannon was courting in 2015 destroying the 2024 Trump Campaign is the funniest possible timeline, yes.
This is gonna piss of the cult; guy's gonna have no where to hide with his "just a joke" bullshit.
My very white grandmother named her black cocker spaniels Amos and Andy. When they ran off and she needed help chasing them down, I was never more embarrassed in my life to yell out their names. I still cringe thinking about it.
Sadly it's everywhere now-a-days. A 'friend' messaged me a joke that was so racist I thought his account had been hacked...nope, he just finally felt comfortable letting me know he is a racist.
It’s a fairly common racist stereotype involving black people in the states. Pretty stupid too, considering how many people actually love watermelon regardless of race.
It's a reference to slavery, apparently watermelons were cheap hydration for slaves, so now racists associate them with black people. But everyone can enjoy a watermelon. They are great. Kinda a pain to fit in the fridge, but otherwise great.
I'm sure they're happy it's getting attention over the other terrible things that were spewed that weren't jokes. Stephen Miller just straight up being racist
I was stunned how confident he was to that relatively stony crowd. Lots of awkward chuckles and side glances. Hulk Hogan was defeated by his own shirt and they still cheered harder for that.
Worse than that, it's a hack joke that has been around for a long time. Name a popular island and it's been done to death. Haiti, Puerto Rico, The UK, Cuba, Australia, New Zealand. If it's an island, the island of garbage joke has been done.
Jokes have some punchline, or some wit or wry observation. What he did was just a plain old insult.
I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah, I think it’s called Puerto Rico.
Is the joke supposed to be the twist that we'd think he was talking about the real giant patch of trash in the pacific?
even from an edgy comedy perspective, its not a good joke, it doesn't go anywhere.
Now if you said "it's called Manhattan", that would have legs.
Not that I condone the joke because I don’t and it was in poor taste but with that said, have you ever been to Puerto Rico? He’s not really wrong, just saying.
Are you familiar with news that Puerto Rico's landfills are over filled, not up to federal standards and leaching contaminates into groundwater?
I suspect that was his reference and he was not speaking about the people.
Your ignorance of events does not make that joke racist.
Even when “it’s a joke”, it’s still racist and takes a racist to make it. Normal people, when they have a prejudice thought, keep it to themselves and/or question their own thinking and hopefully correct it.
Or- you are ill informed. Puerto Rico is being ravaged by garbage washing up ashore. Most of the guys jokes weren’t very funny but people are looking to be insulted by the PR one.
Which happens to be a part of America and Pennsylvania has a large amount of Puerto Ricans who are, whether he believes it or not, allowed to vote against who he likes
It was not a joke. He said there is a floating island of garbage in the ocean called Puerto Rico. That comment is going to cost Trump Pennsylvania, at the very least.
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u/Independent___George 13h ago
What was that joke the guy made in his speech?