Would it surprise you to learn that Donald Trump’s Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden last night quickly devolved into racism, misogyny and violent extremism? Who would have thought. I’m not sure what MAGAland was thinking honestly – did they believe that no one would pay attention, or that people would be receptive to their message? As it turns out, the real October Surprise was everyone getting on the same page that Donald Trump and his minions are white nationalist neo-Nazis. I’m actually going to spare everyone – myself included – most of the videos from the MSG rally. The whole thing went sideways minutes into the rally when the first speaker insulted Puerto Ricans and all Hispanics and Latin American people.
As former President Donald Trump courts the community’s vote, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe crudely mocked Latinos — a key constituency for any winning campaign in 2024 — during preprogramming for the former president’s Madison Square Garden rally.
With nine days remaining until the election, Trump gathered scores of his most popular surrogates and allies to rally thousands in midtown Manhattan, a reliably deep-blue area. Hinchcliffe, taking the first slot among nearly 30 warmup speakers, launched into a crude and disparaging set of jokes about the conflict in the Middle East, Black voters and Latinos.
“These Latinos, they love making babies, too. Just know that they do,” Hinchcliffe said, setting up his joke: “There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They c– inside, just like they did to our country.”
A few moments later, the comedian took a second swing at a key voting bloc within the community: Puerto Ricans.
“There’s a lot going on. 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. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” he said to a scattering of claps and jeers.
He also told a joke about one of his Black “buddies” and how they “carved watermelons” together. A number of the opening speakers at the Madison Square Garden rally threw around vulgarities and demeaning comments about Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democratic politicians. Radio host Sid Rosenberg called Hillary Clinton “a sick son of a b—-” and David Rem, a Trump backer in New York City, said Harris was the “Antichrist.”
Despicable. True story: there are significant Puerto Rican voting blocs in several battleground states, notably Pennsylvania and Florida. It’s so funny (in a horrible way) that just minutes into this Nazi rally, people got what they came for and Republicans are now clutching their pearls and trying to say “this is not what we really believe, we don’t know what they were talking about!” Three of of the most famous Puerto Rican artists – Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin – immediately responded by posting pro-Kamala Harris or anti-Trump messages on their social media. Even Kamala Harris posted something. The backlash was so loud and strong that even the Trump campaign blinked, claiming that the “floating island of garbage” joke “does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.” Did… did the campaign think that one thing was the only offensive part?
This is what @realDonaldTrump and his people believe about Latinos and Puertoricans…and Haitians and Mexicans and actually about anyone that is not like them…..@KamalaHarris @TeamKamala will support Latinos and will work hard to be a President for all
Americans! @Vegalteno… https://t.co/kEWRAqJO05— Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 (@chefjoseandres) October 27, 2024
Today I released my plan to help build a brighter future for Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican people as president.
Meanwhile, at Donald Trump’s rally, they’re calling Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage.” https://t.co/KthAJ8JmU9
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 28, 2024
Can’t get over this dude telling someone else to change tampons when he’s the one shitting bricks in his Depends after realizing opening for a Trump rally and feeding red-meat racism alongside a throng of other bigots to a frothing crowd does, unironically, make you one of them. https://t.co/kr82avveYs
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 28, 2024
Bad Bunny, J. Lo and Ricky Martin have over 315 million followers on Instagram alone. This is the Puerto Rican version of the Avengers joining forces to support Kamala Harris. pic.twitter.com/MjRoMkD6YI
— Brian McBride 🥥 🌴 (@BrianDMcBride) October 27, 2024
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What is it about these Nazi Wanna-bes and garbage? First Trump says America is a garbage can, then one of his warm up speakers says Puerto Rico is “a floating island of garbage”. And this on the very same day MVP spent time with Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania talking about her plan to actually help them after two devastating hurricanes during Trump’s term when all he did was throw paper towels at them. This obsession with garbage by MAGA is yet one more case of every accusation being a confession. I don’t think there’s a clean up crew big enough to remove the stink from MSG after last night. Not enough bleach on the planet either.
Shame on the Dolans for letting this happen at MSG. Dolan family assets include MSG and its TV network, the Sphere in Las Vegas, the NY Rangers, the NY Knicks, the Cleveland Guardians, Radio City Music Hall, BBC America and AMC Network, We should all let these companies know we see them associating with Nazis.
In 1939, the German American Bund held a Nazi rally at the former location of MSG, when it was on Eighth Ave between West 49th and 50th Streets. They were calling for support of Hitler, and called their ideology “pro-Americanism” i.e. America First. They were white Christian Nationalists. Just like these morons who went to Trump’s rally last night. There have long been rumors that Fred Trump was in the German American Bund. He was once arrested at a KKK rally. Like father, like son.
James Dolan, the CEO of the company that owns MSG, the Knicks etc, is absolute garbage though. He’s just as thin-skinned, petty and vengeful as Trump except – and this is the awesome part! – as well as putting the Knicks in the toilet and banning fans like Spike Lee from the Garden in revenge for all the ways the world has done him wrong (poor wee born-rich white guy that he is) he’s also a songwriter and he writes, and performs!!! songs about the travails of his hard life. I cannot recommend strongly enough the podcast “Reign of Error” if you want to know more (and hear his songs – they’re as awesome as you’d expect!).
Dolan is a long-time tr*mp supporter. The use of MSG was a campaign donation. He is a walking, talking POS. He has been since his days of owning Cablevision on Long Island in the 1980s.
I read that it was on the teleprompter so the campaign vetted and approved the comment
What a surprise that Nazi-praising, misogynist, racist Trump would be joined by other speakers parroting his despicable views. Birds of a feather and all that. I had heard recently about Trump’s inroads with Hispanic voters and I hope last night put a stop to that. If anyone missed last nights verbal hatred, it’s everywhere today, especially on Hispanic talk radio. Trump has shown us very clearly who he is; believe him.
It’s been so obvious for so long. But still, his base will agree and defend.
I know people who will vote for this…thing. I lost respect for them a long time ago. Fortunately, I don’t have to have too much contact with them, which is a shame, because I used to think better of them.
But yes Giddy–they have shown me who they really are.
VOTE BLUE!
Glad more and more non-voters are now registering to vote.
Democrats are organizing marches too with whole parades going to vote together.
These comments were despicable, but I think the scariest part of yesterday’s rally is something that’s barely being covered in the media:
Trump, referring to House Speaker Johnson, said: “We can take the Senate pretty easily, and I think with our little secret we are gonna do really well with the House. Our little secret is having a big impact. He and I have a little secret – we will tell you what it is when the race is over.”
What the heck? What secret?
This for sure sounds like election stealing: like Johnson is going to have the House of Representatives refuse to approve electors if Harris wins – or straight up replace them with Trump electors, regardless of vote outcome.
(Incidentally, can the FBI not step in in *advance* of a crime and investigate/make Johnson answer questions under oath? This sure seems like enough suggestion of criminal activity to prevent it)
It won’t stop too many Latine/Hispanic voters. You keep forgetting he’s been calling them racists and spreading all sorts of misinformation. He also literally had concentration camps full of Latines. We also can’t forget the recent example of Mayra Guillen. But because he says what they want to hear, they somehow think they’re different. I don’t think even a miracle can happen to bring back the ones who’ve swallowed the Kool Aid.
Unfortunately, Democrats/liberals keep dropping the ball with Latino voters too. For example, whyte anglo terminally online types repeatedly trying to make “latinx” happen for YEARS despite us saying it made us cringe, that we did not identify with that term, and that it was not a word or a thing, and made no sense in Spanish. You will not make Latine happen either.
It’s condescending, irritating, and shows such a lack of understanding and regard for what matters to us. And in that way, it exemplifies how anglo liberals and liberal politicians deal with us in general.
LatinOs do not need your “education” on how to refer to ourselves.
Make no mistake, as vulgar and repulsive as the display at MSG was it was strategy. I listened to the insights of @DavidFeldman on youtube about politics and polling. He surmised that a reason the maga politicians are saying these things is that apparently these things poll well.
I remember Chris Matthews stating that Trump ‘smells with his tongue’ – or you can say more widely his whole apparatus is like that. He is trying to ‘mine’ votes where he can get them. I’ve seen pundits state his ceiling is at 47% – so what he is doing is giving up trying to lure anymore black, Hispanic vote and doubling down on the much, much larger white majority. That’s what he did in 2016 – really turn out the white working class maga voter who may have been unreliable in the past or didn’t vote, plus he had the usual Republicans. This, along with silly people doing things like voting 3rd party or sitting out gave Trump a win in 2016.
If anybody who voted early, chose Trump – they can’t take it back if they are having second thoughts after the disgusting display at MSG. He banked that vote. So now he is appealing to the remainder of what he can mine – mostly disaffected young white men who have been a target of the Trump campaign. He hit up Joe Rogan – favored by the ‘bro culture’ and ‘incels’. The white population is huge and are going for Trump at 60% (40% for Harris). So it is strategy and simple math. I truly hope it doesn’t work but just be aware. The early voter exit polls look good for Harris/Walz but this is a gambit by the maga campaign. Stay motivated and show up, do what you can to help. I hope there are less ‘silly’ voters who really don’t want what maga has to offer but as in 2016 somehow contributed to his win.
Oh and in case you missed it – Trump spoke of some ‘secret’ between him and Mike Johnson about how the house will help him win. But I’m sure people are aware and prepared for any shenanigans maga may try.
It’s really a culmination of the GOP strategy, for the last umpteen years: double down on the disaffected White vote.
Ever since Trump took on Vance, it was pretty darn clear the GOP internals were nightmare alley. Ginning up the base was the only play left.
There are 1.1 million Puerto Ricans in Florida alone. Insulting their island is insulting them by extension. Trump’s acolytes are just as disgusting and racists as they come. How is Trump supposed to get the Latino vote and the Puerto Rican vote when his people are calling them garbage and prolific baby makers? Trump is not going to win. I hope Nicky Jam is reconsidering his liking of Trump.
I know someone here who’s highly pissed off and FL was this Puerto Rican’s last US address and where they vote from. They already did for Harris, but they are trying to reach as many people as they can from here. A lot of PR get discouraged due to corruption in PR and the feeling that neither party really cares, but Trump just pissed off a lot of people.
Good that your friend is doing this!
The baby making stuff is gross and part of that great replacement theory. It’s worse than the garbage stuff.
Yes, Rapunzel, can’t get more Nazi than that.
And yet….so many of my friends from Miami in conservative christian churches who are from PR and Cuba and anywhere else will enthusiastically continue to support this idiot because they think they’ll be the exception when the round-up happens. They won’t. No one will ask to see their voting record when they come for them. I’m Brasilian, but I don’t necessarily look it, and my married last name is super white. I realize the privilege that affords my child and feel terror for the people who haven’t thought that through for their own children (though I suspect no one will be safe if Trump gets his way unless they’re rich and worship him). I will NEVER understand Latinx support for Trump. Never. (Also, I’ve spent the last 10 years with strangers downloading their racist s*it to me thinking I’m “One of them” because of how I look – it’s horrifying. Seriously. We should all be very, very scared.)
I agree wholeheartedly. Though I do think that some of it is to do with self hatred and the desperation to get away from their culture. I can’t understand how anyone who cares at all for themselves would still stan for someone who sees them that way.
I understand that there is disgust and fear with what we saw yesterday and what we have been seeing. But take care of yourself. Make sure that to check that your vote was counted if you mailed in your ballot. Make sure that if you are voting on the day of that you are STILL registered. You don’t want to be surprised at your polling place.
If you can try and volunteer for the Harris-Walz campaign.
https://go.kamalaharris.com/resources/volunteer/
Take care of yourself.
Walk your dog.
Go for a walk.
Bake some cookies, muffins.
Make a lasagna.
Go to a yoga session.
When WE FIGHT; WE WIN!
Girl Ninja, Thank you so much for all the work you’ve done IRL, and for providing great advice here. I want you to know how much you’re appreciated💙💙
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Thank you for this!
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Thank you, girl_ninja, your comments have genuinely helped calm me down several times when too much doomscrolling (and what I now recognize as dodgy polls; I’ve tried to avoid them myself, but my family keeps mentioning them!) has me teetering on the edge of an anxiety spiral.
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Being able to talk to all of you here about the election has been a tremendous help. We are in this together.
Miranda, I listened to a polling analyst yesterday and she said that her analysis shows Harris +4. Keep that in mind when someone tells you what the poll are reporting. It’s not anywhere near what the polls represent. We just need to vote.
It is anxiety producing but don’t ‘help the anxiety’ along. Fact is life is by default hard. There are circumstances and mechanisms that conceal this for the fortunate. Some of us in the U.S. have had it ‘soft’ compared to the vast majority of history and indeed life in some countries now. But there are very few instant fixes about anything.
Being super emotional rarely helps in situations. If some weren’t so knee-jerk and thought about the consequences in 2016 we may not have been in this position – I mean all those 3rd party protest voters and the like.
I’ve found in my life that somethings are just not gonna be easy no matter how you turn it. You have to stay steady, go steadily onward and yes, practice good self-care.
Thank you for that. I have read and heard so much doom and gloom over the past week or so and it’s not helpful. I voted in Texas on the first day of early voting. I am as sure as I can be that my vote was counted. The poll workers were great and I fed my sheet into the scan machine under their supervision as usual. Everyone waiting on line was civil. Harris County is generally a good place to vote. Lina Hidalgo has been a rock star, especially during the 2020 pandemic vote.
I made banana bread this morning! My anxiety…is a monster right now.
I’ve told you before…..I love your comments.
In the last two weeks I’ve come down with a sinus infection and now the flu. I haven’t been sick like this in years so I know it’s due to stressing out about this election. Thanks for the reminder to take a step back and…..breathe.
AOC and Tim Walz jumped on this immediately as well: excellent political skills there! I’ve been upset that Trump has been normalized, and if he and his creepy MAGAts went so far as to “own goal” an October Surprise on themselves, I’ll take it. You would think it wouldn’t need to vome to this after his last almost decade campaigning and destroying the States, but if the last 72 hours are a wake up call for the press and voters, GOOD!
Right. The press and some republicans have been burying their heads in the sand when it comes to who DT really is. He’s going full throttle now because he wants to keep making money off of his cult when he loses. If he goes to prison, he can still, make money off of them and if he doesn’t, he can go on these kinds of maga/nazi tours to make money that way. But as we see that folks leave those rally’s early, so hopefully he’s screwed.
Well after his little nazi rally. Some important Puerto Rican stars like Bad bunny and Ricky Martin and J lo and her ex Marc went to their twitter accounts and got their millions of fans to know just what they thought and that they are backing Kamala!!! It as a nice gift to her this nazi rally. The disgust with it was huuggee!!!!
Ha ha. I hope the rally backfires and inspires people in droves to vote for Kamala. MSG should give a statement saying they don’t support the views expressed last night.
Marc Anthony is already pro Harris he recorded a video in English and one in Spanish, I think it was last week? But good about the others.
I believe Jennifer Lopez was also already on the record as supporting Harris.
Wow, Bad Bunny is huge at the moment. One of the few who can compete with Taylor Swift for streams globally.
To say that shit here in NYC, where Puerto Ricans (half of me included!) make up around 10% of the population, and almost 1/3 of the Hispanic population, of ALL FUCKING PLACES.
Also, “I vacation in Puerto Rico”? Not anymore, asshole.
I think every minority — Hispanic, Black, LGBTQ+, Jews, Muslims…EVERY minority — has people who support Republicans because “they’re not talking about me”. They ARE talking about you. You’re not at the top of their list, but you 100% ARE ON THE FUCKING LIST. They hate you, too. Like, Cubans and Puerto Ricans are just Mexicans by a different name to them. Vote accordingly.
That pinche culero better never bring his stank tangerine ass to Puerto Rico again.
It’s also ridiculous to say “it’s just comedy,” like he’s doing an opening set at Comedy Cellar or something. Dude, you’re at a political rally. You absolutely DO represent the politician you are shilling for. You’re wearing a TIE and standing behind a podium with his name on it. WTF?
Yes, I would LOVE to see this nimrod try to set foot in Puerto Rico. Seriously. Or, hell, anywhere in the Bronx ever again.
“‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.”
I vacation in Puerto Rico=I have black friends.
That clown show at MSG was a new low.
What else can I say?
MSG should be ashamed to have opened the doors for that gathering.
I saw this on Twitter several times and I believe it: He’s going to lose. His people know he’s going to lose. They have seen the internal polling. This is for his ego. This is them trying to rile up his base for violence when it happens.
I wish I had your confidence.
I hope that’s true😂.
The media is starting to point out that republican operatives have been sending out these so-called “red wave” polls to skew the numbers and make it look like the race is so close. They are setting the stage for Trump to claim the election was “stolen” or Kamala “cheated” somehow.
I believe that he will lose too, and I believe this because of the work that so many have done with the Harris-Walz campaign. I will always be grateful for President Biden for being the true leader he needed to be and endorse Madam Harris. Then THAT Night, 40,000 Black women met on Zoom (me included) and raised $1.5 million for VP Harris. The next night Black men met via Zoom and raised even more. Democrats quickly fell in line, and we had Zoom after Zoom of groups who were determined to save our country from a disgusting, racist scumbag.
Unity got us here and it will propel us to a win.
You’re my hero, Ninja lady!
Preach! 🫶🏽
girl_ninja, I completely agree with you. Harris/Walz will win. If everyone gets out and vote, we could be a force to be reckoned with and make the Nazi’s not certifying plans much harder. I think they’re going to be surprised.
The Nostradamus pollster who has called every election since 1984—even Trump in 2016 is saying Harris has a 63% chance of winning.
Agreed.
Yep–Trump has been cooked since he took Vance on and figured going full Nazi was the only chance he had. And I would bet good hard cash money Biden is prepped for anything these scumbags pull. (In fact, I would not be at all surprised if Obama–a brilliant constitutional scholar–hasn’t been advising him and his team all along.)
I have friends and in-laws in Puerto Rico and they are majorly pissed at this guy. Tony Hinchcliffe is a venomous little twat who is not one bit funny, although he fancies himself a comedian. He dropped this gem on Twitter a while back:
Tony Hinchcliffe & @TonyHinchcliffe
“I bet the best part of having a retarded child is not having to buy it Christmas gifts.
#DoTheyKnowltsChristmas? Nope.”
He also posted another tweet where he asked “Would anyone like to go halfsies on a slave?”
The Trump campaign is in a panic behind this. They are falling over backwards trying to say it was an innocent joke that Trump didn’t know about, but that is pure bullshit since Hinchcliffe read the words off a teleprompter. At least three members of Congress have posted tweets saying Hinchcliffe’s remarks don’t represent the GOP, which nobody believes. Rick Scott who is running for reelection in Florida almost shat a brick; Florida has a very large Puerto Rican population. My Puerto Rican friends and in-laws have deep ties to the island and they are absolutely furious. I think Trump is going to lose a sizable chunk of support over this but we will see in the next couple of days how it shakes out.
I knew I remmebered this guy from something- he was the ‘comedian’ who got dropped by companies/sponsors in 2021 when he went onstage after an Asian American comedican ad openly called him a racist slur, and refused to apologize!
Trump’s “it’s just a joke” crowd needs to remember how they responded to Kathy Griffin’s joke
Good grief!! It’s political malpractice that they allowed this man to speak. Not because these aren’t their beliefs, but because anyone with some competency should have known putting someone like that on stage when you already struggle with minority support would be a stupid idea. I’m not counting my chickens before they hatch but I have been increasingly confident. I know we are all dealing with 2016 PTSD, but the way that these polling companies are over correcting the rural vote and minority share, reports from the ground on GOTV, the Marist exit polls of early voters showing at 10% gap between men and women voters, I’m not going to jinx it but I feel better about next Wednesday morning today than I felt all year. Foot on the gas though!! You can still volunteer and help. I want to CRUSH him not eek out a win in two swing states.
@Dee(2) I honestly think they knew damn well what he was going to say and put him on first to set the tone. At this point they’re not even trying to strategically win. They are just looking to rile up the most hateful of their base
Here’s another “joke” that Hinchcliffe made at MSG:
“I don’t know about you guys, but I think Travis Kelce might be the next OJ Simpson.”
They just LOVE to hate (kill) women.
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Is there a full transcript of this guy?! How many groups and people did he insult during this set?!
@FYI, that’s horrible. Like a whole new low.
Good gad! If he was the opening speaker, what must the rest of the night been? I don’t think I have the strength to read or hear what everyone had to say. It’s too sickening.
@FYI: So basically a not at all veiled death threat to Taylor Swift for endorsing Harris.
The campaign can’t distance itself or Trump from this creep since they knew that this is what he does. And they probably saw his routine and approved it. They are trying to motivate every last racist under every last rock in the country to come out and vote for Trump.
Yep – that’s exactly what they are doing.
I am sort of glad this happen to wake people up and show the Hispanic world what Trump really thinks of them. As an American of Puerto Rican heritage I constantly have to tell people 1. We have been a part of the United States since 1917, that’s when my great grandfather came as a merchant marine and set up a home in the Lower East Side of Manhattan (I’m still here over 107 years later). 2. Don’t mix up Puerto Ricans with Cuban or Mexican Americans, we are mostly a Democratic group so don’t make assumptions about us following a Republican candidate. I was just nicely surprised when I saw on Instagram two days ago the very few Republicans in my family say they voted early and they voted for Kamala (Yeah!!!!). My dad is a retired banker and has voted mostly as a fiscal Republican his entire life. He won’t talk about politics at all because we fact check him like hell. I hope he read what happened yesterday and walks away for good from the Republican Party.
My sister-in-law went to the immigration office to finalize her naturalization (she’s from a country in South America) and the immigration official asked her when her husband (who is Puerto Rican) became a citizen!
Trump is on record calling places that are predominately people of color “shitholes” so no, Orange Blimp you own this too.
Yes, Trump can’t brush off his problem with Puerto Rico. More than 2900 people died of hurricane related deaths in Puerto Rico from Maria in Trump’s presidency. No power for hospitals or doctors, no refrigeration for insulin, no wifi for emergencies. It should be greaved to a similar scale as 9/11 in my opinion.
Showing up to throw paper towels to the crowd shows how sick his mind operates.
I wonder how many Republicans who had decided not to vote for anyone for President will now vote for Harris after seeing this? Something to think about.
The fascist wingnuts have railed against the Biden administration and Fema, particularly in catastrophically damaged NC and TN, because evangelicals are f#cking hypocrites who think catastrophes are brought by god as punishment and gritched when catastrophe hit them. Lort. Trump treated Puerto Rico savagely during their hurricane crisises causing widespread suffering and death. The people railing against Biden should be reminded of his response when Puerto Rico was in crisis. And. Jose Andreas and AOC are stunning examples of real leadership. I refuse to explore the muskrat hell that is Twitter, but kidos to anyone on that app continuing to fight the fascists and bots.
When the Orange Menace’s campaign and his GOP ride or dies throw this racist comic under the bus you know it’s bad. This can not only hurt Trump but also down ballot because all the House and some of the Senate are up for reelection this year. But he hired this goon so he owns his mess.
The thing that makes me sick is that people don’t care. Nothing that this disgusting orange idiot or his people say will persuade his followers to not support him. The religious right who DEMONIZED Clinton because of his affair support this man on his third wife (whom he cheated on with a porn star!) and rapist. Tell me how that makes sense.
I think it goes beyond not caring. It’s time to acknowledge that the people who still support Trump are doing so BECAUSE of crap like this, not in spite of it. He is saying things they approve of deep in their twisted little hearts and by doing so gives them permission to do the same.
This. It’s a dopamine release. Dopamine is a neurochemical produced by the substantia nigra. It is the primary pathology of Parkinson’s (deprivation) and a pleasureable sensation when stimulated. It’s what makes roller coasters fun, or any kind of adrenaline junkie is looking for. The addiction is real. 😭
They first tested their hate on Mexicans I’m old enough to remember the “Mexicans are rapists” comment which catapulted this nazi in blackface into political stardom and gave his hateful, rabid base carte blanche to hate out in the open. They then tried their camps on Hispanic and Latino immigrants crossing the border using the term “illegals” to refer to them. They separated children and babies from their parents. That was the first test.
They moved on to the LGTBQ with their faux outrage and culture wars. Followed by Black people “get that son of a bitch off the field” (but attacking cops on Jan. 6th cause you don’t like the results of an election is ok), and let’s not forget “cops should rough up suspects on arrest” (we all know what suspects he was talking about – not Kyle Rittenhouse, not Dylan Roof not Brock Turner, not himself). They went after women – this Jabba the Hut looking turd who is a negative 400 on a scale of 10 was ranking women bragging about SA and saying who is and isn’t hot enough to rape.
Recently they tested our tolerance for violence and terrorism on an immigrant community who is here legally – Haitians in Springfield. Their neighbors stood up for them in real time – I was so proud of those people for calling this shit out. MAGA is checking who cares who is looking the other way. It’s what all the perpetrators of genocide do before they start wiping out communities. Genocide begins with words – actions follow but the words are the beginning of it – and we’ve heard a whole lotta words from MAGA like “vermin” “illegals” “infesting” “diseased” “criminals”. Sound familiar? Remind you of any events in history?
Then they blamed Jews if we lose it’s the fault of the Jewish community. And now Puerto Ricans. Are you paying attention? Vote. Vote like your life depends on it. It literally does.
Separating children from their parents at the border and putting them in cages is still one of the most profoundly cruel things Trump and his ilk have done. Some of them have still not been reunited and may never be. It breaks my heart and makes me livid with anger. There were so many outrages in that administration but this was one of the sickest IMO.
My husband is Jewish and my son’s fiancé comes from a big Jewish family where some members (not her!) are voting for Trump because of taxes and to some degree Israel. How could they watch that rally and not be reminded of something? Her paternal grandfather escaped Germany as a kid and was one of only a few in his family to survive. He later went back as a translator for the army during the post-war occupation. “Never Forget” is a mantra for this whole election IMO, for so many reasons.
He also instituted the muslim ban as one of his first acts as president, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_travel_ban#:~:text=Executive%20actions,-Executive%20Order%2013769&text=Travel%20ban%20for%20people%20from,and%20banned%20Syrian%20refugees%20indefinitely. and has said he wants to do it again with Gaza. He has no use for non white, non male, non Christian, educated people, antifascists, or people who aren’t rich.
Omg ML you are correct! Please charge this omission to my head and not my heart. You are absolutely right he targeted Muslims as soon as he took office. There have been SO MANY human and civil rights violations – I was reminded the other day that he suggested people inject themselves with bleach to beat Covid as Dr. Fauci’s head exploded on live TV – omg I was so focused on him both siding Charlottesville and being the worst person imaginable that I had completely forgotten this. I have so much PTSD from his first administration -it’s like I have blocked out half of what happened.
My state does not have early voting. There is nothing that will stop me from voting November 5th. Please remember everyone if you are turned away for any reason you may ask for a provisional ballot as provided by law. I don’t live in Texas but I am watching it closely – let’s get vote Cancun Cruz out of a job and send the rest of these MAGA wing nuts packing.
@MaisiesMom- I can’t believe, as a Latine, how soon people have forgotten the border concentration camps. Trump aped Hitler in the most obvious way and it was mysteriously erased from people’s minds. Humans disgust me more and more with every passing nanosecond. *shakes head*
They really do seem determined to prove that Hillary was right: MAGAts are a big ol’ steaming, squealing Basket Of Deplorables.
Or, y’know, Christo-Fascist Nazi wanna-bes.
May they reap every bit of the whirlwind they are sowing.
#VoteBlue #HarrisWalz24 💙💙💙
MSG is owned/run by its very own piece of trash James Dolan. He was probably sitting in the front row!!
So I assume he can afford to rent the place to trump for free? He’s got to know he’s not going to be paid. Maybe he thinks he’ll get a cabinet post in return.
Miss me with the GOP faux shocked rebukes. This is what their base loves. This is the America their trash base wants. They know it. We’re onto you “Jackwads” as Tim Walz referred to you.
The Trump campaign didn’t vet its own speakers? What other proof of incompetence do you need at this point?
Didn’t vet its own speakers yet they were reading from teleprompters. Yeah, right.
I hope this is enough to sway some voters, but I worry that a lot may have already voted early – hopefully that ship hasn’t sailed.
I’m trying to not let my anxiety get the best of me. It was going that way and I thought that will not do. I am praying, I am voting, I am manifesting positive vibes. If I don’t do that, I will lose it.
Nah, they knew who he was. I realise you might be employing sarcasm. But this ish needs calling out, in no ambiguity. That’s how they’ve gotten away with it for this long.
I wonder, do they forget that PR is a part of the US?? These individuals can vote!
Puerto Ricans who live on the island of Puerto Rico do not have voting rights in the U.S.
Puerto Ricans in NY, Florida, Pennsylvania, and every other U.S. state CAN vote, and I hope they are rushing to early voting as we speak.
We are! I was pleasantly surprised that the few Republican in my family put on Instagram that they voted for Harris on Saturday as I did too. People CAN change their mind and abandon Trump. I don’t have the mental bandwidth to think about Duck a l’Orange being president again. Btw, my family and I lived in Trump properties for two years when I was a little girl but had to leave because it was infested with rodents.
So Junior retweeted Hinchcliffe’s defensive “it was a joke” tweet. That tells you all you need to know.
Yeah, ’cause a comedian always wears a tie and stands at a podium with a politician’s name on it. Yep, just doin’ comedy over here, nothin’ to see. I do hope this guy loses his career, but I know there will always be some meathead who pays to hear this shit.
‘Joke’ implies that it’s funny.
Racist jokes are racist, even if they are jokes. Even if they are funny, which these were not.
315 million followers is like the entire population of the USA. So I hope every single one of them votes for Kamala.
TikTok has been on fire over this. Here’s Marc Anthony https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP88t5Tmm/
Thank you for the link.
An important reminder and a powerful message.
Great statement. Succinctly on point and firm. He has a huge older following.
IMO this hate rally was his final middle finger to the country, especially New Yorkers, who loathe him, and a direct message to his most racist supporters. ‘I’m one of you.’ We must be prepared for violence from November through the inauguration.
Yup, they are just letting all the racism and misogyny hang out. Ironic they’d do it in a city defined by its diversity, where we actually appreciate our diversity. I was born and raised on Long Island and I’ve lived in Manhattan for 25 years. No one here cares about Trump or was impressed by his Nazi rally. Just more of the same BS from him.
“Ironic they’d do it in a city defined by its diversity, where we actually appreciate our diversity.”
Ah, but you have to remember Trump _hates_ New York City and its people for seeing him as the cheap, tacky, ignorant con-artist he always was. This was a major f-you from him to them.
This is why I won’t put political signs on my lawn though I wish I could. This is why I can’t put the Cat Ladies for Kamala sticker on my car. I live in an always Blue state but the area I live in is very Trump. I had to drive behind a truck the other day that had two huge stickers on its back windows “Pro America = Anti Kamala” and “We Owe the Illegals Nothing” along with some Trump stickers. I see comments on the Next Door app about wiping Palestine off the face of the earth. I have a 3 year old to protect in my home and in my car. I will speak through my vote. I keep envisioning inauguration day when I can sit watching the television with my little daughter as Ms. Harris is sworn in as our president and she will be my daughter’s first awareness of an American President and not a criminal/rapist/misogynist/racist.
I woke up as usual in the middle of the night — chemo has messed up my sleep cycles big time — so I turned on my phone and started scrolling MeidasTouch and saw this. I was shocked to the core and felt sick, like I needed to take a shower to get the stank of what I just saw off me. Fifty years ago I had a Mexican boyfriend and I got a lot of grief for it, even from my parents who lived in Mexico for 15 years (my mother was born in Tampico of Canadian parents), and the memory of how insulting some people were about the relationship still rankles. I’m Canadian as most of you know, but most Canadians (except for those few who have allowed themselves to be seduced into the Trump cult) are just as horrified as our American Democrat neighbours are at the utter depravity and insanity of what that monster has created. We too are biting our nails in fear that by some horrible joke the universe is playing on the world, Trump gets elected. I hope our PM and other public figures rise up in disgust over this and join all the good Americans who are reviling this contemptible man and his equally contemptible supporters and enablers.
There was this and:
1) Saying America is only for Americans.
2) Talking about how Palestine needs wiped off the face of the Earth.
3) Playing Dixie when a Black congressman got done talking.
4) Saying Democrats and anyone that opposes him needs to be addressed.
5) Discussing openly how they plan on rigging the election.
I agree with some others, Trump’s people know they are going to lose, but they are going to shift to it was rigged and they are going to try another January 6th. Again.
I pray she wins. I hope she wins. I hope this and other things are enough for us to win the swing states and the true blues.
And Tucker Carlson insulted Harris and Malaysians and Samoans by saying they are low IQ.
Yep. It was a whole ass hate fest.
It’s being reported over here in the UK that postal ballot boxes are being targeted – set on fire with bombs planted in them. They’ve been planning for this – they are deadly serious about stealing this election – I fear for my US celebitchy friends. I pray this madness ends on 5th November but I fear regardless of who wins the fight for Democracy will be far from over.
Because the MAGAs know they’re losing big time. They’re now Desperate. I’m still worried about the outside US influences scheming.
I am confused. Isn’t Puerto Rico an American territory and therefore part of the US? This happened back in the 40’s or 50’s didn’t it? I thought that made them American citizens? So, they are saying that an island that votes in US elections and that the citizens are Americans is garbage? OK, well, that would mean that the US gov has left it that way and should take care of their own messes. PR got smacked hard with a hurricane during that despicable man’s presidency did it not? He threw some paper towels and left, leaving the people in dire straights. I mean, I am not American, so what do I know. 🤷♀️
It is a US Territory and its citizens are US Citizens; officially, since 1917, but actually since 1898. No American in any US Territory can vote for President, nor do they have Senators or Members of Congress.
Thank you for the info!
The Republicans have/are terrified of Puerto Rico and Washington DC attaining state-hood, for those voters would sink their party deeper than the Titanic for a good three generations. That’s why all the PR/DC hate…
So much Christian.
I anticipate that both Puero Rico and Washington D.C. will be states by the end of four years. Let’s send positive energy to the universe about that.
Just remember, President Biden is in office. Trump and his quite large group of people behind January 6th and planning for non-certification in some swing states DO NOT have the power that they had before. I have no doubt that there is intelligence about what they plan to do and Biden will respond appropriately. We vote and then wait calmly until Harris is inaugurated.
I can’t see Biden not having several plans in place to deal with Trump. Shoot, Obama was probably on this problem the day after Biden won. 🤣
This, and the Tom Homan interview on 60 minutes, made me physically ill. They are showing us who they are and promising despicable acts. Vote like your life depends on it.
I think he’s sowing the seeds of hate so he can negate certain communities votes/voices as unamerican that shouldn’t count (to his most rabid and radical supporters).
There was a lot more awful stuff in his routine. Asshole also made a watermelon joke, as well as trashing Pakistanis and Israelis
But he did include the females. There was a “joke” about Travis Kelce murdering Taylor Swift:
“I think football should be all year round,” Mr. Hinchcliffe said. “So many great athletes. I don’t know about you guys, but I think that Travis Kelce might be the next O.J. Simpson.”
The audacity of this b*tch to say that he had been taken out of context I swear. Also Donny is really leaning into the nazi imagery by having his little rally at the MSG like the nazis did back in 1939.
“It’s a joke I vacation in PR!” Is probably the worst retort ever
So I saw this list on Forbes about celebrities who have “endorsed” Harris and others who are “lending support”. What is this bullshit and is there a difference? They said Tay endorsed but Bey was in the support category. Huh??? Also the “lending support” team includes people like Mark Hamill who we all know where he is and JLaw who PRODUCED a film with the Clinton women
What’s this stuff with ” lending support”? Give me a break, either you’re with it or not. Or isn’t this vile disgusting stuff enough? Waffling is a bad look. Get balls and fully endorse Harris. You can’t have it both ways. Can’t stand people on the fence.
CNN has spent the entire day promoting this thing at MSG. It’s infuriating to see them repeating the video clips, over and over and over again. Then they say, “oh that’s bad, let’s watch more.”
Trump is a terrible person, we know this.
His MAGA members are hard core in thinking he is correct in everything.
I could not watch most of the coverage of the MSG rally.
The bizarre people and statements were just shocking to me.
Having a POTUS candidate fake arm wrestling with Hulk Hogan as a photo opp.
WTH was that?
Then the comments and remarks made by several of the speakers really took it into bizarre land.
Openly using cuss words at a rally for the next POTUS??
I can cuss like a sailor. I do not use that language in a public professional setting.
A new low. What other world leader would do this? No one.
And Puerto Rico is actually a part of the USA. Instead of crap talking about it, the Candidates should be outlining plans to improve PR and services for the American citizens who live there.
I certainly hope that the PR Voters turn up in huge numbers to vote against Trump!
Dems, Vote Blue!
I live in Poulsbo, WA. All over Bainbridge Island, in Poulsbo, in Silverdale, the Harris-Walz signs FAR outnumber (I can’t bring myself to say his name)’s. I’m talking 50-100 Harris signs to 1 ICBMTSHN sign. Record early voting. Republicans trying to pass last minute election changes and rules. Harris has this election unless there is tampering (highly possible) or the electoral college over rules the voters. They are preparing for violence and I, for one, hope that WE are ready to fight Musk, the Russians, and ICBMTSHN and his zealots on election day when they try to steal the election. 🤮🥲🤬🤬🤬
Those F-KN idiots know they’re Losing big time. So Their tempers are out and we’ll get to see more of their racist true colors.