Im Puerto Rican. That “joke” was gross and noy because Im Puerto Rican. But having family there, I absolutely know that my family there and my family here in the states are going to be fucking pissed.
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Yeah its not insignificant, there are a ton of us who are descendants and still consider the island to be important to us.
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yeah Trump is a racist is not really a winning message for us, it actually feels kinda like we’re posting free advertisements for his campaign. He got through Charlottesville, Muslim ban and Mexican rapists just fine and was about to be re-elected in a landslide until the pandemic came. Trump being a weird senile, weak old man is a more winning message for us than him being a racist. weakness is the only thing that his followers can’t accept, that’s why the line of attack about trump cancelling all his campaign events because he was too exhausted was effective.
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Technically, it’s a self-governing, unincorporated territory. Let’s not forget that Puerto Ricans are Americans.
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That’s 'cause they all moved away from that “floating pile of garbage…”
I hope not because that’s the only dance move I know.
Guys like Hinchcliffe are so dumb. He could tell almost that exact same Puerto Rico joke but have the punchline be that Trump or Tucker Carlson or half the guys in row 19 believe it’s floating garbage and it’d be a great joke. Even at a Trump rally that would get a lot of uncomfortable laughter (not to mention “it’s true, though” laughs).
Hard for me to understand why a comic would have himself play the bigot when you can pretty easily have it both ways while still just spewing edgelord crap.
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It’s because he’s not playing a bigot.
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This. He brags, nonstop, about getting to call Tom Brady the F word. Because he hates gay people. To his core.
These people are scum.
As you know, all jokes made while acting as a president I mean comedian cannot be judged as offensive.
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The fun part is that Pennsylvania has like 500,000 Puerto Ricans that are eligible to vote (at least in 2024). And apparently turnout is quite high, like 75%. Turns out when you have citizens with no real representation, they take it very seriously when they get an actual voice.
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3% swing of PR votes in PA is 10,000 votes or a 20,000 vote swing.
I’ll take it.
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My wife’s friend at their law firm was once asked about what PRers do
On the Fourth of July once.
She was very put out. She told the questioner that they have a cookout, watch baseball and set-off/watch fireworks. Just like any other American citizen. She said she let citizen drip. (She was 100
That the question wasn’t just ignorance).
Honestly, I wouldn’t necessarily expect Puerto Ricans to give a fuck about the 4th of July, just because they don’t fully share in the same independence. That doesn’t mean I think the question was asked with reasonable framing, of course.
Statehood or independence for PR. No more of this in between bullshit. Along with DC and the US Virgin Islands, as 53 states, being prime, would truly be one nation, indivisible.
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Maths humor. Nice!
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Not my own, sadly, but I don’t have the source handy. I’m sure too many people on twitter have said the same thing for me to decipher the earliest author. All three should be states if they’d like to be, though.
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It was just a guess by me. I’ve read that people who’ve successfully migrated can sometimes be the hardest on immigrants
I’m also pretty sure that if I move to another country because I can’t Trump or what or what he stands for, I’m gonna agree with people who trash us. I’m already pissed off and embarrassed about this place
Rick Scott is scared enough to disavow.
https://x.com/ScottforFlorida/status/1850671024204882016
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If Puerto Ricans are anything like Mexicans in LA, they go bananas on the 4th of July.