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[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 62 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

The real joke is that the Trump campaign is tripping over itself now to disavow this message. Meanwhile it's come to light that this "comedian" was going to drop a c-bomb in his material in reference to Kamala, but the Trump campaign told him to remove it, and he complied.

Meaning they vetted the material and were a-fuckin'-ok with garbage island, only to later lie more and try to backpedal.

They're not even good at lying, kids.

Edit: spelling

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm still baffled by the logic of having a roaster/crowd work guy doing a set at a convention. Like... he was gonna insult people and start shit. It's literally his job.

He's not my cup of tea, but he's been around and successful for a while now. He's not an unknown entity who they could claim acted unpredictable.

[–] SupahRevs@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Eminem spoke at a Harris rally. But he's an adult who cares about people and expects as much from his government.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Did he throw shade at European-Americans?

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I didn't watch because it's a republican political rally but he usually talks shit about other white people in the form of self deprecating humor in the shorts that get passed through my algorithm, so ... maybe? It doesn't help matters much though if he did, and it wouldn't be on the same level as calling the whole island trash.

Usually racial comedy can be fun when it takes advantage of knowledge of the in crowd. Like you couldn't really know to make fun of something unless you yourself were a fan of it. Like there are fun ways to joke around about cultures you love. He wasn't doing that.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Some people find that word to be too misogynistic to use as an epithet. I'm not quite sure where I stand on that myself, but I tend to avoid it overall.

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[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Let me guess... the setup was going to be about the pronunciation of her name, and then he would pronounce it "Cuntmala."

These guys are Hi-Larious...

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[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I used to know someone who is half Puerto Rican, her dad is a marine, her mom is full PR. And they are ALL hardcore right wingers.

Even they wouldn't switch votes after this.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"Surely he didn't mean me, he meant those other sons of bitches who happen to look like me." - Idiots practicing idiot logic.

[–] Rawdogthatexe@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago

"Must have confused us with Mexicans again. Damn Mexicans!"

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] atempuser23@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No it is not. Guaranteed Trump Puerto Rican voters agree. They just think it's the other Puerto Ricians that are making it that way.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Puerto Rican voters

Does someone else want to tell atempuser23?

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Good thing there's only 5 million people who once lived in Puerto Rico in the 50 states and hundreds of thousands in Pennsylvania particularly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateside_Puerto_Ricans

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

1.7% nationally isn't much when spread out. I'm sure there are districts out there which are predominantly Puerto Rican, I just don't think they're a significantly large group.

Which is why I fully support making them a state and giving them due representation.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

In a close election, any decent percentage matters and they are not spread out evenly at all. For instance, there are 500,000 in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was won by only 42k in 2016

Plus a million in Florida - that can make the florida senate race a little more competitive. New York downballot races are a big part of why dems lost the house in 2022, and there's also around a million in New York

They should certainly have representation, yes, but that's not to say the Puerto Ricans in swing states / competitive downballot won't matter either

[–] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

You know there's a significant Puerto Rican population in New York and Florida, right?

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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How many jokes about Christians or conservatives did he do? Zero?! Why's that? Answer those questions.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This isn't even good racism. This is like, 2000s-era ironic racism. Which was about as funny as Holocaust jokes, and aged about as well as Anne Frank.

Where's the hateful, KKK, lynchmob racism? Don't just casually half ass it. Show your real murican colors. Y'all are living like American History X and you give us Wayne Brady on Chapelles Show.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Racists can not help themselves. If there's a MAGAt in your life, I can pretty much guarantee they'll say some hateful shit at some point...

[–] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

MAGA maggot lmao

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why even say this? What a useless shitbag.

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

To them, cruelty is comedy.

I am not fan of Tony but I really love Shane Gillis. I loved the Trump and Biden(Shane and Adam) episode. It was the best comedy I've seen in quite a while.

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is that Tony of the show Kill Tony?

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

502 Bad Gateway...

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