2024’s deplorables moment?
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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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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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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.
@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.
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Kinda makes sense. The Mexicans I knew in CA had little time for Puerto Ricans.
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Well, here's the "deplorables" moment actually and it comes from Biden.
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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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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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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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At least she's willing to speak out against what Biden said.
How much more powerful it would have been for Trump and Vance to denounce Hinchcliffe's remarks. Instead they went with "I don't know who the guy is", "people need to stop getting offended at every little thing", and being "so over" what was said. They refused to take ownership of what was said by someone their campaign brought in to speak at a major event. Instead they blame people for not getting the joke.
It's a small thing here, but it's this part of Trump's personality, the refusal to admit that he's wrong in some way, that I believe makes him such a bad choice to be in a leadership position.
Race to the bottom.
Yea, definitely.
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There are hard workers in every administration who get things done, and I have no doubt that was true for the Trump administration.
But I'm a cynic, and I doubt that Trump provided any real direction when it came to initiatives geared to Puerto Rico. Sorry.
