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2024’s deplorables moment?

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  • RontunerR Offline
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    Rontuner
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    #5

    The comedian was vetted and everything said was on the teleprompter - don't think for a minute that Trump's team didn't want him to say all of that! It is only after the push-back from America that they are scrambling to say this was a stupid, offensive joke, it represents the central concept of Trumpness...

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      Mik
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      #6

      Evidently it's only bad when it's a GOP rally.

      Link to video

      “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
      ― Douglas Adams

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        The only reactions that matter come from the group(s) that are the subject of the jokes.

        Guess we'll see how the Mexican community reacts to Lopez.

        Many in the Puerto Rican community don’t seem to have appreciated Hinchcliffe's sense of humor very much.

        When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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          wtg
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          #8

          A thoughtful piece.

          https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2024/10/29/racist-joke-puerto-rico-tony-hinchcliffe/75907421007/

          When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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            #9

            In the case of George Lopez (comedian featured in the video @Mik links to), as Lopez is himself of Mexico descent, this qualifies as self-deprecating humor.

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            • MikM Offline
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              #10

              That’s so weak.

              “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
              ― Douglas Adams

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                Link to video

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                • AxtremusA Axtremus

                  In the case of George Lopez (comedian featured in the video @Mik links to), as Lopez is himself of Mexico descent, this qualifies as self-deprecating humor.

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                  Steve Miller
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                  #12

                  @Axtremus

                  Wait …

                  Is that George “ask a Mexican” Lopez?

                  Or am I confusing him with someone else?

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                  • wtgW Offline
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                    Same one. Used to have a TV sitcom

                    When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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                      Steve Miller
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                      #14

                      Not generally someone I’d want on my campaign, but he wrote a really funny column in the LA alternative newspaper for years.

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                      • wtgW wtg

                        The only reactions that matter come from the group(s) that are the subject of the jokes.

                        Guess we'll see how the Mexican community reacts to Lopez.

                        Many in the Puerto Rican community don’t seem to have appreciated Hinchcliffe's sense of humor very much.

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                        wtg
                        wrote on last edited by wtg
                        #15

                        @wtg said in 2024’s deplorables moment?:

                        Many in the Puerto Rican community don’t seem to have appreciated Hinchcliffe's sense of humor very much.

                        https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/29/trump-allentown-rally-puerto-rico-voters/75915372007/

                        When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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                          Steve Miller
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                          Kinda makes sense. The Mexicans I knew in CA had little time for Puerto Ricans.

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                            Daniel
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                            #17

                            Well, here's the "deplorables" moment actually and it comes from Biden.

                            https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-calls-trump-supporters-garbage-during-harris-campaign-call-vp-calls-unity-ellipse-rally

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                              wtg
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                              #18

                              Saw that. It’s so very very sad that this is what it has come to. The election has devolved into a schoolyard brawl.

                              🙁

                              When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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                                There are 500,000 Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania, and they vote in pretty good percentages. Over 100,000 in other swing states. They’re not happy with the joke, and a raft of celebs, including Bad Bunny, piling on Harris endorsements is driving the point home.

                                As Ron said, it was on the teleprompter. And they nixed one of the guy’s jokes and left this one alone, so that says something.

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                                  Daniel
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                                  #20

                                  I agree. People should wrap their minds around the true meaning of the fact this is one nation.

                                  I'm afraid we're seeing a divide and conquer strategy or a multitude of them and they're working as intended.

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                                    The Harris campaign wrote off Arab Americans in Michigan and everywhere else. They're a significant constituency in Michigan and two other states (which two I can't recall). She loses if she loses Michigan. She talked a little word salad, false equivalency kind of carp, but no finesse in her approach, only political incompetence.

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                                      wtg
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                                      #22

                                      OTOH, Trump isn't much of an alternative for Arab Americans.

                                      When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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                                        Daniel
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                                        #23

                                        Link to video

                                        Worse, they are trying to cover it up.

                                        And people wonder why I won't vote for the Democrat this year.

                                        A bunch of duplicitous war criminals whose domestic policy or lack thereof led to a ruinous litinany of worsening problems and suffering?

                                        Yeah, no.

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                                          #24

                                          Race to the bottom.

                                          “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
                                          ― Douglas Adams

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