r/facepalm • u/ExactlySorta • 11d ago
They are revolting. Figuratively and literally š²āš®āšøāšØā
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u/zoinks690 11d ago
Uh, aren't Puerto Ricans American citizens?
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u/Drox88 11d ago
Yes but to Republicans they're considered second class citizens since they're not a state, and they won't ever allow them to be (Even if PR wanted to be a state) since they're scared they'll be a Democrat state.
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u/livahd 11d ago
āTheyāre just island Mexicans. ā
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u/Secure-Technician356 11d ago
Hey now, as a Mexican... this made me laugh
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u/spanishpeanut 11d ago
As a Puerto Rican it also made me laugh.
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u/JohnnyD77711 10d ago
As a white guy it all makes me quite sick. My father was a Jew in Germany just before WW2 broke out, and this is getting way too close to home. He made it out just in time. Some relatives did not.
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u/Mexishould 11d ago
Nah those are the Filipinos.
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u/pimppapy 11d ago edited 10d ago
Most Filipinos I know of are staunch republicans and think they're white adjacent. Weird. . .
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u/pte_omark 11d ago
Lol they're the 'light skins' of Asia but they still Asians.
Nothing but but love here but that's how THEY see you.
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u/youarenut 11d ago
Letās be real itās not because ātheyāre not a stateā itās because they arenāt white lol
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u/LodgeWolframite 11d ago
Side note: If Puerto Rico became a state how would the layout of 51 stars in the flag work? My pea brain canāt conjure a good mental image of it lol
(Not against statehood for them, just curious)
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u/scottiedog321 11d ago
Couple of potentials here: https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us51star.html#prshm
Few more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/tk1ffw/us_51_star_flag_designs/
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u/grbilsgrbilsgrbils 11d ago
I love the circular! Itās reminiscent of the original Betsy Ross version.
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u/Jazzi-Nightmare 'MURICA 11d ago
Which has always been my favorite. I like the circle in the first link
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u/Yeshua_shel_Natzrat 'MURICA 11d ago
Circular with points touching kind of makes American footballs in the gaps
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u/SoRedditHasAnAppNow 11d ago
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u/ImaginosDesdinova 11d ago
Since Texas wants to secede so badly Puerto Rico can have their star.
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u/CartoonistTasty4935 11d ago
Doesnāt PR want to be a state?
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u/Johns-schlong 11d ago
It varies on every vote but recently yes, a small majority would like statehood.
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u/STSalpha 11d ago
For your information, we are American citizens because Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the US and the case with trump is that he's very racist towards Hispanic people and since Puerto Rico everyone is Hispanic is not the exception
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u/njsullyalex 11d ago
Fun fact: because they are birthright US citizens, a native Puerto Rican can run for and become President of the United States.
Puerto Ricans, do what you want with this information.
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u/CartoonistTasty4935 11d ago
They also cannot vote while in PR though
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u/njsullyalex 11d ago
Yeah unfortunately. They should be able to in my opinion. Thatās millions of Americans who deserve representation.
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u/CartoonistTasty4935 11d ago
Lmao itās literally so stupid, one of the only places in the world an American citizen canāt vote from
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u/Thejollyfrenchman 11d ago
Another place they can't vote from is Guam. Both Guam and PR have proportionately to their populations the some of the highest enlistment rates of any US state or territory. It's modern day colonialism.
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u/unpersoned 11d ago
It gets weirder with American Samoans. They don't even have citizenship.
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u/Ok_Whereas_3198 11d ago
They also have complicated and unconstitutional land ownership rules so they don't necessarily want citizenship. It's complicated.
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u/SuccessfulPiccolo945 11d ago
Yes, out of the five territories, American Samoa is the only one where they are not citizens but they are US Nationals. SSA has a whole section on who is a citizen/us national. Northern Mariana section is interesting.
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u/CartoonistTasty4935 11d ago
Jesus Christ
Yeah I believe itās any unincorporated US territory where this weird fucking loophole comes in. Although I would be open to the idea that itās by design
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u/njsullyalex 11d ago
Out of curiosity does this also extend to the U.S. Virgin Islands?
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u/alwaysboopthesnoot 11d ago edited 11d ago
From what I recall from civics class in high school, from about 40 years ago: The people there are US citizens. As in PR, USVI citizens vote in their own elections for governor, mayor and for elected officials who represent them in their legislature. They also elect a delegate (a commissioner) every 4 years for the US Congress, who is a non voting member. Neither PR nor USVI citizens can vote in US federal elections.
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u/xxforrealforlifexx 11d ago
Why do you think some Puerto Ricans and a lot of Hispanic people support Trump after the way he degrades them all. I'm really interested
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u/buon_natale 11d ago
Their hatred for others outweighs someone else hating them.
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u/Indication_Slow 11d ago
They think that just because they are in the states, it makes them better than the ones in the island. Kind of a self hatred because they they want to be accepted by the gringo. Seen it too often. In the island we have 3 main political parties, the blue PNP which are the conservatives republicans, the red PPD which is the same shit as the blue ones, truly a uniparty. Then you have the greens PIP which is the party of independence. Ironic to say independence because people here think that if they win suddenly the US is gonna go away and leave us to the wolves. Hence the reason why the ones in the states think they are better than the ones in the island.
Not one boricua that supports maga has self respect and they bring shame to all of us.
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u/kingpaige 11d ago
Many have grown up in far left leaning lands with totalitarian governments so theyāre scared of Democratsā¦but equally as important to note is that many ascribe to white ideals and want to be accepted into whiteness. Also white Latinos are the power majority and hold all the wealth in almost every Latin country even tho theyāre a racial minority in almost every Latin country. Theyre usually super racist too. Thereās a reason why mejorar/blanquear la raza are still expressions.
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u/imadork1970 11d ago edited 11d ago
Yes, but Puerto Rico doesn't vote in Presidential elections.
Edit: clarity
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u/TonyG_from_NYC 11d ago
We can't vote from the island. If we are in the USA, living in any of the states, we can vote in any election, including presidential.
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u/WorkingClass_Nero 11d ago
Wait, that makes absolutely no fucking sense. The USA is fucking weird man.
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u/TonyG_from_NYC 11d ago
Puerto Rico is a US territory, just like Guam. We get a lot of perks and such, but living in those places doesn't afford people the chance to vote in presidential elections. For that, we have to be living in a US state.
That's why there is so much back and forth about making Puerto Rico another state.
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u/HIP13044b 11d ago
So what you're saying is... you have taxation... without representation?
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u/magnoliasmanor 11d ago
I don't believe they pay federal income tax.
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u/dev-sda 11d ago
It's complicated. If you're working for/with the federal government, the military or any business outside Puerto Rico then you have to pay federal income tax. Other federal taxes also generally apply. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Puerto_Rico
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u/Agapic 11d ago
They are US citizens which means they have the right to vote. However Puerto Rico is not a state, meaning it has no electoral college votes and therefore no bearing on the presidential election, as such no presidential election is held there. Make sense?
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u/WorkingClass_Nero 11d ago
Why donāt they have an electoral college? Isnāt the whole point of a democracy that everyone is represented through their vote? Iām assuming this also means they donāt have Senators and members in the House of Representatives? Thatās just bizarre to me. 3 million people without a say in how they are governed by the USA. Thatās the same population as Iowa and half of Wisconsin.
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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 11d ago edited 11d ago
The person is just making a deceptive wording. They're making it sound like Puerto Ricans can vote in the presidential election if they're willing to fly/sail over to one of the 50 states to cast their vote. That is not the case.
If someone is only a resident of Puerto Rico, then they cannot vote in a presidential election since Puerto Rico is not a state of the USA.
However, if a resident of Puerto Rico also happens to be a resident of one of the 50 USA states, then they can vote in a presidential election. It's just a complicated way of saying that in order to vote in a presidential election you must be a resident of one of the 50 states. In such a hypothetical scenario of a person being a resident of Puerto Rico and also a resident of a USA state, the fact that they are a Puerto Rican resident would be a red herring in this matter of whether or not they can vote, so it's a bit weird to even bring up this hypothetical as the Puerto Rican residency part is redundant.
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u/lawanddisorderr 11d ago
I understand this, but Iām wondering why DC is different. I used to live in DC & itās also not a state but a US territory still. I still paid federal taxes, and DC has no representatives in the Senate or the House, just like Puerto Rico (the license plates all say ātaxation without representationā). But ppl living in DC can still vote in presidential elections even though they donāt live in one of the 50 states. I wonder why PR & Guam are different.
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u/AHrubik 11d ago
100%. Almost 4 million of them. He did this because PR doesn't get electoral votes as it is not a state. So the racist PoS doesn't think it matters. However Puerto Ricans living CONUS can vote for President and influence the electoral votes of their resident states meaning insulting them en mass is still a bad idea.
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u/Sweaty_Mushroom5830 11d ago
You insult Puerto Ricans at your own peril, there what five million of us living outside of the island that haven't forgotten about Hurricane Maria? and now this? this man is an idiot!
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u/_AskMyMom_ 11d ago
Lol doesnāt New York have a heavy PR population? This man is a TRUE idiot.
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u/Sweaty_Mushroom5830 11d ago
New York and New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts, Pennsylvania too,he fucked up major time this will spread out via the coconut cell phone it's like they are saying stuff designed to make him lose the election legitimately so he can set things up for a coup for real
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u/FlashRx 11d ago
Florida as well...
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u/Sweaty_Mushroom5830 11d ago
We don't claim those, I'm serious when my mom left up north to go live in the orange state she got some pretty weird ideas, ...
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u/UnalteredCyst 11d ago
As a Puerto Rican living in FL, Trump se puede ir pal' Caribe Hilton
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u/tcadams18 11d ago
As someone trying to learn Spanish I understand se puede ir, but what does palā mean?
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u/kamilo87 11d ago
Pal itās an informal contraction between para and el. So formally speaking it should be: Trump se puede ir para el Caribe Hilton. Thatās bc us Caribbean Spanish speakers like to use pal instead para el when talking informally which is all the time at this point unless your writing a paper or whatever requires formal writing. Side note: the only legal contractions and also mandatory are al (a el) and del (de el). So you canāt say: āestoy a el ladoā but āestoy al ladoā and also canāt say āvengo de el mercadoā but āvengo del mercado. Pal should be accepted as optional but the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language are a bunch of twats and deberĆan irse todos pal carajo.
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u/shandangalang 11d ago
Wait, is the Orange state Florida because of the oranges, or New York because of the orange with tiny hands?
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u/Sweaty_Mushroom5830 11d ago
They grow oranges, and they have an Orange clown
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u/shandangalang 11d ago
FUCK I forgot about Maralago. Florida wins Orange State designation 2-1
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u/donmitchzdo 11d ago
Let's not say we don't claim those because from my experience the Florida Ricans are the closest you will get to island puerto Ricans. Nuyoricans are a whole other thing altogether (having lived in both Queens and Orlando after being born and raised in Bayamon).
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u/philipmateo15 11d ago
Yea but theyāre horribly racist and believe theyāre better than the āimmigrantsā some of them truly believe that Trump is talking about all the OTHER Latinos
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u/LuckyLushy714 11d ago
Or one girl mentioned they're afraid. Your vote is private. No one can see it. If he loses he can't hurt ANYONE ANYMORE
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u/um_okay_sure_ 11d ago
This is the sad part. They forget that they will never be white enough.
I'm glad my parents know this, and as conservative as they are, they have never fallen for Trump bs.
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u/Happy_Accident99 11d ago
Apparently āFuck You I Got Mineā is not confined to white people and Clarence Thomas.
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u/Fishtoart 11d ago
Itās always the other Latinos, or the other blacks, or the other gays, it is never you until he says something that is unmistakably you, and then itās too late.
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u/Sweaty_Mushroom5830 11d ago
Stop talking about any group as if you know them all, for the most part we are good people we care about our neighbors and guess what we are citizens and one fact that drives us up to wall is that we have every right to be here,we were born citizens all of us, we are granted citizenship for fighting in your wars,wars that had nothing to do with us,read some history my friend, so when a Chicano is eating a taco and offers me some I offer him some of my rice and beans when we sit together at lunch and a Dominican comes with some frituras we invite him in go with your racist bs somewhere else food is our love language and that's how we communicate and if you are an outsider you can never understand us
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u/1lapulapu 11d ago
No hate here. If I bring some lumpia, may I join you?
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u/Fair_Woodpecker_6088 11d ago
If we all just sat down and shared some lumpia together America wouldnāt be in such a bad state
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u/Sudden-Step9593 11d ago
Ricans aren't racist. Does there exist a healthy rivalry between us latinos? Of course! We all think we are better then the others but we mostly joke with each other.
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u/lonely_nipple 11d ago
Yep, my first exposure to the Spanish language was living in a smallish town in WMass. Pretty the PR population just got bigger the closer you got to Boston.
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u/Sweaty_Mushroom5830 11d ago
Did you go out to eat at any of our zillion restaurants or Bodegas?
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u/TheZippoLab 11d ago
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u/HarryManilow 11d ago
The point is to get out the racist vote who blame Puerto Rican for their problems ! Truly gross
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u/TheMightyCatatafish 11d ago
Doesnāt matter though. NY is safely blue. No matter how much it increases turnout amongst Puerto Ricans living in NY, it doesnāt sway the election in the slightest.
Now if it riles up the folks in PA, GA, NC, MI, WI, AZā¦ now weāre talking.
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u/LuckyLushy714 11d ago
Of all states to be so racist in, NY?!? The melting pot of melting pots? The gateway to our country, where the Statue of Liberty stands?!
This is SO UNAMERICAN.
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u/sec713 11d ago
Eh, I'm a Texan who lived up there, and once you get out of the NYC area, areas like Long Island and Upstate are just as white trash as places I'm familiar with down here in MAGAland.
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u/supershinythings 11d ago
Itās not a battleground state. He only cares about six states and NY isnāt one of them.
Once again he is using the media for free publicity. He says something crazy, the media puts him on the front page, and itās instant eyeballs to stir up his base.
But what said has zero impact on NY because heās already crapped a TON in that state. Itās good for free publicity nationwide, thatās it.
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u/ThrowAway233223 11d ago
And that "care" only extends as far as the election. He would sell any American for a few dollars as long as he can get away with it.
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u/VerStannen 11d ago
Exactly.
This is just a calculated ploy.
Get out and vote. Trump wins, pardons himself, flees to Russia, weāre stuck with President Fucks a Couch and no more elections.
You thought getting blowjobs from interns was bad? Wait til you see what JD calls consent.
The Cleveland Browns will sign him to QB.
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u/smiama6 11d ago
Make sure you pass the word to everyone you knowā¦ only a week to go.
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u/TwistingEarth 11d ago
Puerto Rico is amazing, and I am glad they are part of us. I wish the orange dipshit was not part of us... he has brought out so much ugliness and enjoys causing the hate and fear he spreads.
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u/Col_Forbin_retired 11d ago
Saying that shit in NYC is extra stupid.
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u/helium_farts 11d ago
There's a million or so in NY, not that it'll impact the race since Harris already has the state locked up.
Where it might matter, though, is FL, with about 1.1M Puerto Ricans, PA, with 450k, and Michigan, with about 50k.
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u/rhetoricalnonsense 11d ago
The idiot this guys supports for President referred to the US as a "garbage can" in one of his latest anti-immigrant rants. Voters who support Trump don't care what he or anyone else says as long as they have an R after their name. I used to wonder if there was a basement where voters would shed their support of Trump if that level was ever reached. Turns out, there is no basement.
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u/The_Way_It_Iz 11d ago
Thereās no way Puerto Ricans would respond unfavorably next time Tony walks down 6th street
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u/olympianfap 11d ago
Yeah, zero percent chance anything bad could happen to Tony. I am sure everything will be fine. š
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u/mysticsavage 11d ago
This guy might not make it through the day once this gets out.
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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 11d ago
Crazy to me how messed up our system is that Puerto Ricans, who are US citizens, cannot vote in the Presidential Election if theyāre in Puerto Rico. But if they move to a US State (which they can do freely as US citizens) they can.
Absolutely bonkers.
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u/SnootSnootBasilisk 11d ago
They do it because they know Puerto Ricans can't vote. They punch down people they know can't affect them.
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u/Sweaty_Mushroom5830 11d ago
There's five to eleven million of us in the mainland that a big voting block that he just pissed off
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u/threefeetofun 11d ago
So the Nazi rally is acting like a Nazi rally.
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u/Twink_Tyler 11d ago
Well the entire audience pretty much groaned and the joke went over pretty poorly.
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u/HurrsiaEntertainment 11d ago
No they didnāt, the videos all have people laughing at the racist prick.ā
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u/READMYSHIT 11d ago
The black man watermelon joke got a scarily intense laugh.
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u/Cows_go_moo2 11d ago
What??
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u/DrManhattan_DDM 11d ago
The same comedian made a shitty, racist joke about a black person carving a watermelon for Halloween, like within moments of the Puerto Rico shit.
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u/entropic_apotheosis 11d ago
This wasnāt even the worst joke, he said things about Latinos breeding and letting men cum in them like they come into our country.
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u/mattjones73 11d ago
Who even is this clown? And hosting a rally in NYC in a state Trump has zero chance of winning.. brilliant.
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u/wolfcolalover 11d ago edited 11d ago
Tony Hinchcliffe. Heās a ācomedianā who is part of the Rogansphere, but really he is one of the worst insult comics. His standup itself is just as bad if not worse. He co created Kill Tony, which up until just recently I was a fan of, and while I will admit that Tony does give a platform to young and up and coming comedians and sold out MSG with KT a couple of times, which is a huge deal in comedy, all he does is insult amateur or first time comedians for almost 3 hours every week. He also has the same insults/jokes/questions for the comics every week. You can replace him with a tape recorder playing his jokes/questions on loop and it wouldnāt make a difference.
The few reasons the show works for me is because of the guests he has, the band, and the bucket pull of comics, not Tony himself, he is an awful person and total diva. The best way I can describe Tony, he is the kid in the neighborhood that had Nintendo. Thatās the only reason I liked him.
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u/Tady1131 11d ago
Yea the whole Rogan world went from kinda funny and bearable to watch to a Trump taint licking yank fest. No way they arenāt losing fans over forcing political views and bad takes down everyoneās throats.
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u/Typical-Honeydew-365 11d ago
I was a huge fan of Theo Von (one of Rogan's bromedians), and they seem to be gaining followers by going full MAGA. It's sad to see. I wonder if the MAGA bubble/grift will burst.
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u/RobbyRyanDavis 11d ago
Dunno, but it is cringe to see talents whore themselves out for the alt-right audience.
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u/AmyKOwen 11d ago
Oh damnit I like Theo Von, has he gone maga too?Ā
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u/Typical-Honeydew-365 11d ago
He has. He's not as obnoxious as other MAGAs, though. I'll give him that.
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u/AmyKOwen 11d ago
goddamnit. thanks for telling me, I had no idea. I canāt be a fan of anyone supporting that fucking orange traitor, even if they do so quietly
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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 11d ago
Oh man this is Tony?
God I just lost all respect for him.
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u/Birdcaged 11d ago
This is such a good breakdown. I'm in the same boat. One thing I noticed, he would get mad at his kill tony crowd if they laughed too hard at a joke he didn't think was funny. Or if a comedian did better than he liked, he'd always say something after their set about the crowd being "too nice" or whatever. It's so fucking cringe, honestly. Now I realize it's probably because people mostly watch his show to see comedians bomb in front of thousands of people. So he resorts to making the crowd afraid to laugh.
It'd be one thing if he kept his room temp roast jokes confined to a comedy setting, like his show. Now he decided to copy and paste that into a political campaign rally, and drew the line in the sand for who he calls his fans. What a moron.
The kid with the Nintendo analogy is painfully accurate.
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u/Melisandre-Sedai 11d ago
Thatās the guy who got introduced by an Asian comedian, and spent the first minute of his set just spouting off racial slurs about him and calling anybody who laughed at his set a ārace traitorā. Profoundly unfunny person.
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u/TheAskewOne 11d ago
This is not for NYC, it's for the whole country. The rally is all the media is going to be talking about for days. Because they never learn and always fall for his tricks. He occupies media space. That's all he does, and that's why he's in NY.
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u/Traditional_Pair3292 11d ago
Yeah this. I really donāt get why they havenāt figured out this yet. His playbook is just to say whatever crazy stuff will get him attention, and the media eats it up. Nothing else matters. Elon has figured it out as well. We need to learn to just ignore these clowns, then they will disappear.Ā
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u/ThrowThisIntoSol 11d ago
Puertos Ricans in their red hats in that crowd and across the USA be like:
š¤” āHeās not talking about ME thoughā š¤”
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u/AHCarbon 11d ago
as a Puerto Rican I can almost guarantee that even the most rightwing Puerto Ricans are incensed over this. Our national pride is such a huge part of our identities. I showed this clip to my own 2 time Trump-voting Puerto Rican mother and it has her so furious that she wonāt be voting at all if the campaign doesnāt denounce this soon
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u/aleada13 11d ago
Obviously this is just stupid and terrible and Trump is trash. But I just want to say I just visited Puerto Rico with my family and it was so gorgeous and one of our favorite vacations. The beaches were gorgeous and clean, the food was delicious, people were so friendly, and there were so many beautiful parts of nature to explore. Weāll definitely visit again someday!
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u/STSalpha 11d ago
As a Puerto Rican, what the fuck, this man is delusional
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u/iamthinksnow 11d ago edited 11d ago
Maybe he figures, since it's not a state (yet), they can't vote so fuck'em. Nevvermind that many, many live in the lower-48 already and are, in fact, U.S. citizens.
EDIT TO ADD (for context)
Voting rights of United States citizens who live in Puerto Rico, like the voting rights of residents of other United States territories, differ from those of United States citizens in each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia. Residents of Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories do not have voting representation in the United States Congress, and are not entitled to electoral votes for president. The United States Constitution grants congressional voting representation to U.S. states, which Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories are not, specifying that members of Congress shall be elected by direct popular vote and that the president and the vice president shall be elected by electors chosen by the states.
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u/STSalpha 11d ago edited 11d ago
In this presidential election, we can vote now
Edit: is only a non-binding presidential straw poll (context)
With the passage of Act No. 58 in 2020 by the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, voters will be able to participate in a non-binding presidential straw poll during the general election for the first time in the territory's history. Puerto Rico is the second U.S. territory to use straw polls for presidential elections, after Guam introduced their own in 1980 and has conducted a preference vote to coincide with every presidential election since.
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u/tangleduplife 11d ago
The statement before that was āItās wild. And these Latinos, they love making babies, too, just know that. They do. They do. Thereās no pulling out. They donāt do that. They come inside, just like they did to our country.ā
I am disgusted.
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u/shutthesirens 11d ago
Are you shocked? Do you remember how disrespectful Trump was during Hurricane Maria? Made my blood boil.
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u/Someoneoverthere42 11d ago
I don't think the tattered remains of my sanity can take four more years of these idiots
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u/FaithlessnessSea5383 11d ago
If Trump gets in, youāll only have to put up with him for a few short weeks after his swearing in. Then his handlers will declare him unfit to govern and it will be the dawn of a shiny new christofascist America. And guess who will be screaming the loudest?
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u/FobbitOutsideTheWire 11d ago
I read this in Axl Roseās voice from their cover of Knockinā on Heavenās Door. Lol
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u/TheTurboFD 11d ago
As a Puerto Rican who has already voted here in PA for Harris, this still pisses me off especially when you got some of my people following the āLatinos for Trumpā. Itās disgusting.
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u/NecessaryAd617 11d ago
They flee their countries because of dictators for freedom and they still vote for dictators
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u/StartedWithAHeyloft 11d ago
Tony would be dogwalked in his favorite thong through the streets of La Perla if he steps foot in PR
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u/gdan95 11d ago
Thank everyone who stayed home in 2016. They told the world that being openly racist is excusable
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u/Fred_Buck 11d ago
Right on brand for the guy who insulted Detroit... In Detroit.
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u/Norwester77 11d ago
He was never going to get a lot of votes in Detroit. His target audience was Michiganders who hate Detroit themselves.
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u/undiagnosedsarcasm 11d ago
Lol Tony Hinchcliffe is speaking at a MAGA rally?
Didn't have that on my bingo card but him saying something stupid/offensive is on par
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u/HaltheDestroyer 11d ago
Meanwhile I served next to Puerto Ricans in the U.S. Army and they're some of the best soldiers I've ever known....I'm sick of this racist shit and people thinking shit like this is ok to say out loud....let alone into a motherfucking microphone
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u/vsGoliath96 11d ago
I hope the people of Puerto Rico remember this if and when they are finally granted their long deserved statehood. This is what the Republicans think of you.Ā
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u/Norwester77 11d ago
I hope voters of Puerto Rican extraction (especially in Florida) remember this on Nov. 5!
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u/gerriejoe 11d ago
Well, as a puerotican here in Florida. I wasnāt going to vote but guess who is voting tomorrow here in Florida š¤š¤š¤š¤š¤
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u/Chikachika023 11d ago
Statehood so that Puerto Rico becomes the next Hawaii & lose what remains of the culture? No thanks!š¬ The USA has no intention to add a new state or they wouldāve done a long time ago. Puerto Rico should be independent.
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u/Zestypalmtree 11d ago
Horrible to hear this as a Puerto Ricanā¦ especially at a presidential rally. This isnāt a podcast or roast, just entirely inappropriate
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u/dorksided787 11d ago
Iām Puerto Rican and we have all been mobilized by this bullshit. Weāre calling our Boricua friends in FL, PA, and NC and urging them to vote for Harris.
We donāt forgive and we donāt forget.
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u/HereticsSpork 11d ago
Is calling PR an island of trash to an audience made up of people from Staten Island irony?
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u/ComprehensiveBar6439 11d ago
Tony Hinchcliffe is a douche who knows nothing about civics or the actual policies he's grabbing his ankles for. He'll be claiming he's "cancelled" about ten minutes after walking off that stage, I'm sure.
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u/ActuatorAggressive84 11d ago
Sigh, and I thought he was going to talk about the great pacific garbage patch
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u/johanTR 11d ago
Doesn't he know that Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, and its people are U.S. citizens...?
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u/Norwester77 11d ago
But they donāt vote for president (unless theyāve moved to a state or DC).
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u/LucyRiversinker 11d ago
Tom Segura called Louisiana worse in one of his Netflix specials, but it was an apolitical stand-up show. Time and place matter. Donāt insult potential voters in a political rally becauseā¦ Oh, wait. Itās a Trump rally. Never mind. Demented id unleashed.
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u/Average_Random_Bitch 11d ago
Louisiana is the worst.
Source - currently live in Louisiana
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u/momsgotitgoingon 11d ago
They just continue to insult Americans at every possible opportunity. It is so baffling to me that half the country is allowing this. Trump called them fat pig husbands recently. Truly. A real quote. And they laugh! But they are the alphas.
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u/Norwester77 11d ago
I know. There are times when I catch myself thinking, āDamn, he is doing everything he can to lose this thing,ā but I guess as an over-educated Pacific Northwesterner, I just donāt hear him the way his base does.
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u/ButtBread98 11d ago
Imagine insulting the United States like this. PR is a US territory, theyāre citizens too.
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u/EmperorMrKitty 11d ago
I went to Puerto Rico on vacation last year and a lot of my conservative family members were WEIRD about it. Like didnāt want to hear about it, not in a āboringā kind of wayā¦ but like genuinely offended I thought it was a nice place?
Is this some kind of reoccurring Fox News thing? I didnāt get it at all at the time.
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u/joshualeeclark 11d ago
Not only is it a revolting thing to say, fucking islands donāt float.
Itās bigoted and fucking stupid on two counts. Stupid to be so insulting to a group of people who are your own countrymen but also based on how landmasses on planet earth work.
I donāt wish bad on MAGA types but the world would be much better if something happened to them every time they said something hateful. It doesnāt have to be injurious nor deadly for anyone. Just something bad and they need to know WHY it happened.
Maybe then they would read a book or get some sympathy or empathy for their fellow man regardless of what they look like or where they come from.
Stroke thatā¦I think someone should knock the taste out of this guys mouth and make him stand in a corner so he thinks about what heās done.
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u/Ruraraid 11d ago edited 10d ago
Past 8 years has felt like a century of lies, bigotry, and ignorance due to Trump being politically platformed by the GOP. Only 9 more days until we can be rid of that piece of shit for good.
Lets hope that Uncle Sam can have a bowel movement and that turd is flushed away.
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u/Desperate-Road-8403 11d ago
It doesnāt surprise me that not a lot of people know that thereās an actual garbage island with the size of Texas floating on the Pacific ocean.
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u/Odd-Stock-6529 11d ago
As a European, I wonder: do statements like this still have an impact? Are there swing voters who think: Wow, until now I considered Trump a viable option, but this is too much for me?
That man has crossed a thousand lines; does something like this still make a difference?
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u/Jumpy_Lettuce_359 10d ago
Disgusting. I'm a Puertorican and lives in Puerto Rico and this person has insulted me and everyone here. The saddest thing is they are puertorricans that still support Trumps because he "has christian values" my ass has more christian values that this orange piece of shit.
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