No comments on Madison Square Garden?

[starwater]

Four days later and there is still much clutching of pearls over a silly joke!

Insulting an island is not a "silly joke" no matter how you try and rationalize it.

Relax, it was a silly joke. And if you listened to the crowd reaction, it fell flat. Something the pro Kamala press haven't reported.

Again your trying to tell me what to do.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Four days later and there is still much clutching of pearls over a silly joke!

Insulting an island is not a "silly joke" no matter how you try and rationalize it.

Relax, it was a silly joke. And if you listened to the crowd reaction, it fell flat. Something the pro Kamala press haven't reported.

It doesn’t matter if you or I thought it was a “silly joke”. What matters is if all the Puerto Ricans who might have otherwise voted for Trump thought it was a “silly joke”. They may be overly sensitive like Vance says but in the end they’ll make their decision and it could cost Trump. His campaign managers should have been smart enough to not take the chance; he does hire only the best people after all.

 

[ideologyhunter]

You might also explain the difference between an internet discussion board and a major pre-election rally held by a Presidential candidate, while you’re at it, if you think it’d do any good.

A warm-up act at the rally,

This wasn't just a rally. It was MSG, it was a main event. He was chosen because of his act. Calling Puerto Rico an island of floating garbage is a bigoted joke. It has no other intention. Typically the point of roasting is to target an individual, not broad brush an entire region of people. Take that in line with the mongrelization of immigrants by Trump and Vance, this is what you get when people say things like this.

vs. the couch joke, which was repeated by the vice presidential candidate.

The couch thing, it was odd. It existed, it is gone. It wasn't meant to be taken literally. Trump is calling liberals the "enemy from within". I think the couch thing can be placed a bit further back in the incendiary cabinet.

Exactly. Couldn't have put it better.
When you take over MSG ten days before the election and put on your biggest show, you are saying, "This is who we are." You bring out your biggest stars (including the old Hulk himself and poor, doddering Rudy -- what a putz). And they let this comedian (who threw in a watermelon joke along with his Puerto Rico material) tell us that they are fine with mainstreaming ethnic jokes as their identity. This is a crowd that is sick of civil rights issues, sick of being told that marginalized groups would like some respect, and worried as hell that the Caucasian majority will melt away in a generation.
I'm glad you brought up the mongrelization of immigrants, too. We have a real pathology in the country when a Presidential front runner and his cohort can tell blatant racist lies about a group of defenseless people (in Vance's state, no less) and not lose any standing in the polls. There is a strong whiff of sadism in T & V -- which is obviously delectable to their supporters.

 

[Elixir]

Four days later and there is still much clutching of pearls over a silly joke!

Insulting an island is not a "silly joke" no matter how you try and rationalize it.

Relax, it was a silly joke. And if you listened to the crowd reaction, it fell flat. Something the pro Kamala press haven't reported.

Again your trying to tell me what to do.

“You’re”.
Silly girl.

 

[starwater]

Four days later and there is still much clutching of pearls over a silly joke!

Insulting an island is not a "silly joke" no matter how you try and rationalize it.

Relax, it was a silly joke. And if you listened to the crowd reaction, it fell flat. Something the pro Kamala press haven't reported.

Again your trying to tell me what to do.

“You’re”.
Silly girl.

Grammar police.

 

[TSwizzle]

Four days later and there is still much clutching of pearls over a silly joke!

Insulting an island is not a "silly joke" no matter how you try and rationalize it.

Relax, it was a silly joke. And if you listened to the crowd reaction, it fell flat. Something the pro Kamala press haven't reported.

It doesn’t matter if you or I thought it was a “silly joke”.

If that were true then the pro Kamala media and Brandon wouldn't be banging on about it for the past four days. Apparently they think it does matter.

What matters is if all the Puerto Ricans who might have otherwise voted for Trump thought it was a “silly joke”. They may be overly sensitive like Vance says but in the end they’ll make their decision and it could cost Trump.

It does make me wonder why so many Porto Ricans choose to live in the USA.

His campaign managers should have been smart enough to not take the chance; he does hire only the best people after all.

I don't know anything about Hinchcliffe, first I have ever heard of him. Had you heard of him before Sunday/Monday before the pro Kamala MSM lost their minds?

 

[Elixir]

Four days later and there is still much clutching of pearls over a silly joke!

Insulting an island is not a "silly joke" no matter how you try and rationalize it.

Relax, it was a silly joke. And if you listened to the crowd reaction, it fell flat. Something the pro Kamala press haven't reported.

Again your trying to tell me what to do.

“You’re”.
Silly girl.

Grammar police.

So disappointed.
I expected a defense, such as
“The possessive “Your” is perfectly correct, as it was referring to HIS telling me what to do”.

 

[Elixir]

If that were true then the pro Kamala media and Brandon wouldn't be banging on about it for the past four days.

Such butthurt! Four days? lol!
If there was anything to your “Brandon” idiocy you wouldn’t be banging it on after FOUR YEARS!

 

[ZiprHead]

I don't know anything about Hinchcliffe, first I have ever heard of him. Had you heard of him before Sunday/Monday before the pro Kamala MSM lost their minds?

Lost their minds? Hinchcliffe provided the Harris campaign a fantastic opportunity and they're using it. Admit it, the Trump campaign is full of morons, including the one at the very top.

 

[TomC]

If that were true then the pro Kamala media and Brandon wouldn't be banging on about it for the past four days. Apparently they think it does matter.

What matters is that a Trump/Teaparty team picked him to open the rally.

I really don't care about a comedian who sells tickets by appealing to vicious bigotry. I do care that a insurrectionist traitor thinks that comedian will appeal to the crowd he's gathering at MSG.
Tom

 

[Shadowy Man]

It does make me wonder why so many Porto Ricans choose to live in the USA.

is this a joke? Don’t you know that Puerto Rico is part of the USA?

 

[Elixir]

Lost their minds?

Lost Swiz’s mind. Small syntactic error.

 

[Shadowy Man]

I don't know anything about Hinchcliffe, first I have ever heard of him. Had you heard of him before Sunday/Monday before the pro Kamala MSM lost their minds?

no, but they had listened to his stand-up previously and also vetted his script. Whether I had heard of him or not has no bearing on the offensiveness of the joke.

 

[Elixir]

I don't know anything about Hinchcliffe, first I have ever heard of him. Had you heard of him before Sunday/Monday before the pro Kamala MSM lost their minds?

no, but they had listened to his stand-up previously and also vetted his script. Whether I had heard of him or not has no bearing on the offensiveness of the joke.

B-b-but it’s not like he’s Taylor Swift or something.

 

[Patooka]

How could anyone vote for someone who considers Puerto Ricans 'piles of garbage'?

Tony Hinchcliffe is running for office?

Knowing the scum you worship, probably in a few years.

 

[jonatha]

It does make me wonder why so many Porto Ricans choose to live in the USA.

Almost all of them do. That is, the ones in Puerto Rico and the ones in the other parts of the USA....

 

[Patooka]

Four days later and there is still much clutching of pearls over a silly joke!

Insulting an island is not a "silly joke" no matter how you try and rationalize it.

Relax, it was a silly joke. And if you listened to the crowd reaction, it fell flat. Something the pro Kamala press haven't reported.

Kathy Griffin wants me to tell you to go fuck yourself.

 

[laughing dog]

This is the same guy who got sand in his arse crack over being called a couch fucker.

“Sectional Predator”, please.

I guess meanspirited jokes are only ok from the left.

You need me to explain the difference between ridiculing a terrible person and spreading bigoted slander towards an entire ethnicity?

I really fucking have to, don't I?

Yes you do. And don't forget it is worse to have a mean-spirited joke about a WHITE MAN than an entire ethnicity.

 

[Politesse]

Four days later and there is still much clutching of pearls over a silly joke!

Insulting an island is not a "silly joke" no matter how you try and rationalize it.

Relax, it was a silly joke. And if you listened to the crowd reaction, it fell flat. Something the pro Kamala press haven't reported.

It doesn’t matter if you or I thought it was a “silly joke”.

If that were true then the pro Kamala media and Brandon wouldn't be banging on about it for the past four days. Apparently they think it does matter.

What matters is if all the Puerto Ricans who might have otherwise voted for Trump thought it was a “silly joke”. They may be overly sensitive like Vance says but in the end they’ll make their decision and it could cost Trump.

It does make me wonder why so many Porto Ricans choose to live in the USA.

They have no choice. We sent 16,000 troops to conquer their island and bring it into our imperial holdings in 1898, and have wasted no dollar or muscle in trying to squelch any and all national independence movements ever since then. Roughly that same number of troops maintains that occupation to this day, "overseeing" the island and controlling our interests in the Caribbean from Fort Buchanan in the territorial capital of San Juan. It's honestly not all that clear why the US is so obsessed with keeping the territory, but your tax dollars pay for it and your soldiers are ready to lay down their lives to keep it. Blaming a conquered people for "choosing to live" under imperial domination is fucking absurd. I assume what you really mean is that you want PR citizens to stay on the island and never emigrate to the mainland, but that is no more reasonable. We claim their bodies and homes as our plenary property, and even so you want to deny them the most basic rights of the citizen, free transit within their own country? Fuck that.

 

[TSwizzle]

They have no choice. We sent 16,000 troops to conquer their island and bring it into our imperial holdings in 1898, and have wasted no dollar or muscle in trying to squelch any and all national independence movements ever since then. Roughly that same number of troops maintains that occupation to this day, "overseeing" the island and controlling our interests in the Caribbean from Fort Buchanan in the territorial capital of San Juan. It's honestly not all that clear why the US is so obsessed with keeping the territory, but your tax dollars pay for it and your soldiers are ready to lay down their lives to keep it. Blaming a conquered people for "choosing to live" under imperial domination is fucking absurd. I assume what you really mean is that you want PR citizens to stay on the island and never emigrate to the mainland, but that is no more reasonable. We claim their bodies and homes as our plenary property, and even so you want to deny them the most basic rights of the citizen, free transit within their own country? Fuck that.

I confess, I do not know anything about the Island of Puerto Rico's history and place in the USA. But to say I "want to deny them the most basic rights of the citizen, free transit within their own country" is just bonkers. I have said nothing of the sort.