#Tony Hinchcliffe is one of said comedians

[possiblyunhinged]

Can we please stop attempting to intellectualise racists like Tony Hinchcliffe? His racism isn't new. His whole career relies on unheard children who grow up to be dysfunctional adult men feeling like edge lords or like they're part of a group of equally minging people.

A crossover with Trump's audience, then.

My most dominant thought about Tony Hinchcliffe is that he looks like his breath stinks.... So... Yeah

[cleolinda]

A narrative in links

I want you to hear "In the Hall of the Mountain King" in your head while you read this:

Backlash after comedian at Trump rally calls Puerto Rico 'island of garbage'

Racist jokes about Puerto Rico at rally bring anger and disgust: ‘Truly how the Trump party sees us’

Why Trump can’t pretend his rally’s anti-Puerto Rican racism was just a joke

If That Puerto Rico Joke Doesn’t Cost Trump, [running mate] JD Vance’s Reaction Will ("I think that we have to stop getting offended at every little thing in the United States of America, I’m just so over it")

Tony Hinchcliffe doubles down on racist Trump rally jokes despite backlash: ‘Change your tampon’

Trump’s Shock Comic Was Set to Call Harris a ‘C*nt’

‘F*** These Racists’: Geraldo Rivera Tears Into MAGA After Trump’s MSG Rally

Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Ricky Martin & More Amplify Kamala Harris After Trump Rally Comedian Trashes Puerto Rico

[GOP Speaker of the House Mike Johnson] fields questions from Latino voters about ‘stupid’ Puerto Rico joke

Trump’s Puerto Rico fallout is ‘spreading like wildfire’ in [swing state] Pennsylvania

Fallout from Florida Latinos fierce following racist jokes during former president’s NYC rally

Florida's Rick Scott [who is running for re-election] touts support for Puerto Rico after racist joke at Trump rally

Trump Rages at Fox News as His Allies Panic Over NYC Rally

Trump campaign struggles to contain Puerto Rico October surprise

It is absolutely sending me that this is what finally did it. To get everyone on the same page here, an "October surprise" in American politics is something unexpected that derails a political campaign at the last minute, right before Election Day in the U.S. (first Tuesday in November). Back in 2016, we thought it was the Access Hollywood "grab them by the pussy" tape, and then way too many people just shrugged and Trump won anyway, because the actual October surprise turned out to be FBI Director James Comey rocking up and announcing an investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server. But Her Emails, etc.

So this year, of course, I and the rest of r/politics have been sitting here waiting for shit to go down, most likely re: Trump rather than Harris (I say as I knock on my wooden kitchen table), but what could he do that's any worse than what he's already done this year? Than what we already know of his past?

Apparently, everyone has decided it's this. It's a dude who is not even Trump getting up at the Madison Square Garden Nazis-In-America nostalgia rally Sunday night and telling shitty racist jokes. Not the one about "Latinos coming," not the one about Black people and watermelons, not even other things Hinchcliffe said in the same speech. It's not any number of heinous things various other speakers said (scroll down). No, it's

"There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you 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."

It's not thumbs up at Arlington Cemetery, it's not THEY'RE EATING THE DOGS, it's not "I wish I had generals like Hitler's" and all the other times Trump admired Nazis. It's this.

I mean, everyone is correct to be outraged about this, I'm glad that it's gained traction and more people than usual are actually shocked and politicians are panicking, and Puerto Ricans both on the island and the mainland have my deep I'm-sorry-sympathy that they have been insulted this way. But--maybe it's just the last-minute timing, but it is blowing my mind that THIS, finally, from a guy who isn't even Trump, is the October Surprise.

[mariacallous]

After months of spewing racist remarks about Kamala Harris and ginning up his base about invasions at the border and the promise to harm millions of immigrants, Donald Trump will once again be the president of the United States. Despite his naked racism and misogyny and attacks on his political opponents, the American people have chosen to send him back to the White House. Candidates use the last days of their campaign to make their final case before the American people. They say the thing you want voters to remember as they’re casting their votes on Election Day. The last thing Trump wanted millions of Americans to hear from him and his campaign? A cacophony of bigotry. Trump chose to host a rally in New York City that was reminiscent of a Nazi rally held there 85 years ago. He was set to speak in front of thousands of his fans in his hometown — but first, more than two dozen surrogates would get on stage to make the case for him. Comedian and podcaster Tony Hinchcliffe compared Puerto Rico to a pile of garbage, said Black people carve watermelons on Halloween and made crude comments about the sexual habits of Latinos. David Rem, who the campaign said is a childhood friend of Trump, called Democrats “degenerates.” Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Harris was a “Samoan, Malaysian low-IQ” person. (Harris’ father is Jamaican, and her mother is Indian.) The only comment the GOP attempted to do damage control on was the “joke” about Puerto Rico. Having such explicit racism on stage during a rally for a presidential campaign speaks volumes about the Republican Party and America at large. White conservative ideology, and by extension, Trump, has long been threatened by the sense that full racial equality was just on the horizon. It is not an accident that Trump began his political career after America elected its first Black president. During their own presidential campaigns, famous Alabama segregationist George Wallace promoted keeping the races separate and George H.W. Bush deployed an ad implying his opponent Michael Dukakis would let violent Black criminals out of prison. Ronald Reagan touted his love of “states rights” at a speech in Mississippi near the site of where civil rights workers had been brutally murdered 16 years earlier. Critics viewed it as a wink to racist white Southern voters. Still, no other major-party presidential candidate has embraced explicit racism the way Trump has. Trump entered the political foray during the Obama administration by leading the charge in the false claims that the president was secretly born in Kenya and thus ineligible to be president. A few years later, in a now infamous scene, he would come down the escalator at Trump Tower to announce that he was running for president himself and referred to Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists. His major policy promise was to build a wall along the southern border. As president, Trump instituted a ban on people from several majority-Muslim countries entering the country, told three members of Congress who are women of color to “go back to where they came from,” and tried to send in the military to squash racial justice protesters. His reelection campaign in 2020 was marked by more of the same. During his speech accepting the GOP’s nomination, Trump said Democrats wanted to release “criminals” into suburban neighborhoods and declared on X that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” referring to Black Lives Matter protesters. Much of that seems tame compared to the 2024 campaign.

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Madison Square Garden Trump Rally

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe

Hillary Clinton warned Trump’s event tonight would be a reenactment of a 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden. What actually unfolded was one of the most patriotic events America has ever witnessed.

The evening started off with a bang when comedian Tony Hinchcliffe explicitly stated the Democratic Party is looking “more and more like a P. Diddy party” after Kamala Harris received a wave of “crazy endorsements” from the likes of Enimen, Beyonce, and Leonardo DiCaprio, and Taylor Swift.

In an act of pure bravery, Hinchcliffe took on Hillary Clinton, warning the audience that if he somehow ends up committing “suicide” in the next couple of weeks, “[he] didn’t.”

"Hillary Clinton said that this is a Nazi rally here today. Can you believe that?” he asked. The star of “Kill Tony” lamented that Clinton calls Trump “Hitler” when he’s “the most anti-war president of [his] lifetime.”

"Let me remind you, Hillary, it was your husband who shot innocent people, or as he called them, interns," Hinchcliffe rebuked.

“Yeah, Hillary, I bet you did not see that one coming.”

Tucker

The crowd went wild when Tucker Carlson issued a stunning rebuke to the ruling class, saying, “You are not better than us. No, you are not smarter than us. No, you do not deserve what you have. You probably stole it.”

He explained, “The big lie is that they're impressive. That's what the big lie is that the people in charge have somehow earned the right to rule over you, and they haven't.”

“No fair system would make Liz Cheney powerful. No fair system would make Larry Fink rich. No fair system would elevate someone like Kamala Harris to a presidential nomination,” Carlson declared.

Elon Musk

Musk was asked, “How much do you think we can rip out of this wasted $6.5 trillion Harris-Biden budget?”

His response was stunning: “Well, I think we can do at least $2 trillion.”

Musk epically told the packed audience at Madison Square Garden, “We're going to get the government OFF your back and OUT of your pocketbook!”

“All government spending is taxation. So whether it's direct taxation or government spending, it either becomes inflation or it's direct taxation,” Musk explained.

“Your money is being wasted, and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is going to fix that.”

America's not just going to be great. America is going to reach heights that it has NEVER seen before,” Musk continued. “The future is going to be AMAZING!”

The crowd responded with thunderous chants of “ELON! ELON! ELON! ELON!”

Musk then urgently called on every freedom-loving American to vote and encourage their friends and family to do the same, aiming for a margin of victory “so big that you know what can’t happen.”

He called on voters to deliver a “massive overwhelming sweep of every swing state. And even some of the states that aren't people don't think are swing states.

“Massive, crushing victory,” Musk reiterated. “Get everyone, friends, family, people on the street [to vote]. Put the signs up; put the hat on. Let's go!”

[tomorrowusa]

MAGA is really just a variant of fascism. The racist anti-Latino orgy of ethno-nationalism at MSG on Sunday has removed all doubt.

Dean Obeidallah at SubStack walks us through it.

Here is a sample of the hate buffet served up to the cheering MAGA crowd. 1.        Anti-women: Donald Trump again called VP Harris a "very low IQ individual." Tucker Carlson said to cheers if Harris wins she will be “the first Samoan, Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.”  Grant Cardone, a businessman said VP Harris and “her pimp handlers will destroy our country,” obviously suggesting Harris is a  prostitute. -David Rem a person the campaign identified as a childhood friend of Trump, brandished a crucifix and called Vice President Kamala Harris “the antichrist” and “the devil” to huge applause. 2.        Anti-Black: -The rally played Confederate favorite “Dixie” before Black GOP Rep. Byron Donalds came out at Madison Square Garden. -“This cool Black guy with the thing on his head, what is that a lampshade? Believe this guy? Just kidding, that’s one of my buddies. He had a Halloween party last night. We had fun, we carved watermelons together,” said podcaster and alleged comedian Tony Hinchcliffe. 3.        Anti-Latino and anti-Migrant hate: -Referring to Latino migrants, radio host Sid Rosenberg declared to cheers that they are causing crime and that: “The fucking illegals, they get whatever they want, don’t they?!” -“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,” said Tony Hinchcliffe. -“These Latinos, they love making babies. Let’s know that they do. They do. There’s no pulling out. They cum inside. Just like they did to our country!’ again Hinchcliffe. 4.        Anti-Arab/Palestinian hate: -Rudy Giuliani declared: "The Palestinians are taught to kill us at two-years old. There may have good people. I'm sorry I don't take a risk with people who are taught to kill Americans at two." He then declared to big cheers, “I’m on the side of Israel…Donald Trump is on the side of Israel.” 5. Anti-Semitism: -“You also know the Jews having a hard time throwing out that paper, you know what I’m saying?’ Hinchcliffe stated while mimicking holding money, playing on anti-Semitic trope that Jews are cheap. Before this MAGA event, some invoked the hate-filled February 20, 1939 Nazi rally at MSG billed as a "Pro American Rally" which featured a huge image of George Washington in between swastikas. After Sunday’s Trump rally, that comparison was no longer speculative, it was 100% accurate.

Yes, they even played "Dixie" – the Confederate anthem.

This event was held at a large venue in America's media capital with the intent of exposing as many Americans as possible to their message. They are not trying to hide anything. They want to make sure every last nutcake hears their words.

As David Frum via Charlie Sykes on SubStack observed:

This rally seems aimed at the crucial bloc of swing voters who like Donald Trump but worry that maybe he's not quite stupid and obnoxious enough. They need him and his team to squeeze out of the tube that one last plop of stupidity and obnoxiousness.

The stupidest thing for us to do is to freak out. Michael Tomasky wrote an excellent piece in The New Republic.

If You’re Being Fatalistic or Panicking, You Are Helping Donald Trump

It's way easier to prevent dictators than it is to get rid of them once they're here. So quit doomscrolling and do stuff in real life to save a whole lot of work in the future.

Volunteer | Kamala Harris for President

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Donald Trump’s Racist NYC Rally Was Vile. It Was Also Political Suicide

FINAL ACT

The Madison Square Garden rally, operatic in its repulsive bigotry, will almost certainly alienate more voters who might have voted for Trump.

David Rothkopf

Updated Oct. 27 2024 10:57PM EDT / Published Oct. 27 2024 10:49PM EDT 

Opinion

To all those Republicans who shed crocodile tears because their feelings were so hurt that people were calling Donald Trump a fascist: stop.

To all the MAGA defenders who said it was over-the-top to compare Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally to that held by the German-American Bund in an earlier incarnation of Madison Square Garden: shush.

To all those who were falling once again for the bought and paid for narrative that Trump somehow had the momentum going into the final week of campaign 2024: nope.

Even Republicans Angry at Trump Rally Joke About Puerto Rico

‘MAGA ON STEROIDS’

Amethyst Martinez, Matt Young

On Sunday at MSG, Donald Trump engineered what will be seen by political analysts and later by historians as the coup de grâce that killed forever his prospects of being president and may well have set him on a post-election course on which he finally may be held accountable for his actions.

The interminable rally concluded by an interminable, disjointed, incoherent and yet clearly vile speech by the former president, might have been touted by Trump’s son Don Jr., one of the former president’s warm-up acts, as the “king of New York returning to reclaim his crown.” But Trump was never the king of New York. (Sorry, Lara, your father-in-law did not “build” New York. Immigrants did. But we’ll get to that in a minute.)

Trump has always been loathed in New York City, especially in his former home borough of Manhattan where the vote against him was and will be dependably over 80 percent. But if he was hated before, rest assured, he will be more despised after tonight.

That was clear early on when Tony Hinchcliffe, a man invited by Trump to give one of the introductory speeches—who in true MAGA fashion alleged without providing a shred of evidence that he was a comedian—offered a KKK buffet of nauseating slurs. He called Puerto Rico “an island of floating garbage.”

“There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you 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” pic.twitter.com/IXbXqDijyU— Acyn (@Acyn) October 27, 2024

The “joke” was as stupid as it was repulsive because there are almost 600,000 Puerto Ricans in New York City and many more spread across regions of vtial importance in the upcoming election. It also happened to come on a day when Vice President Kamala Harris announced her detailed and thoughtful plan for Puerto Rico, an island Trump wanted to trade to Denmark in exchange for Greenland.

But this loser did not stop there. He offered unfunny commentary about his view that Latinos “love making babies” and a reference to how his Black friends liked carving watermelons.

You might think that a few super-racist comments from one speaker might not warrant comments that compared the Trump rally to the Nazi meeting 85 years ago. But his comments were hardly the worst. And the racism and the hate and incitement to violence and the promise of an increasingly authoritarian state continued from the very beginning of the event to the very end.

One speaker said that Harris was managed by “pimp handlers” and said of Democrats that “we need to slaughter these other people.” Disgraced and destitute former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, as did several others, that Democrats were behind attempts to kill Donald Trump. Another speaker called Harris “the devil” and “the antichrist.”

Former Trump aide Stephen Miller as is his habit went directly for the Nazi playbook saying, “America is for Americans and Americans only.” Tucker Carlson came out to offer more racist slurs about Harris. Hulk Hogan ripped his shirt off while declaring he saw no Nazis in the audience (thus proving that steroids abuse can not only shrivel up your junk but that it’s not really good for your eyesight either).

Elon Musk was there acting strangely and promising to slash the size of the government (except presumably the parts that are subsidizing his businesses).

Trump attacked the media, and egged the crowd on to boo journalists in the crowd. He said migrants had taken over Times Square (which Is 9 blocks uptown from where the rally was held). He called the US an occupied country which, while bad, may be better than his reference to it as a garbage can the other day. He called Harris a “low IQ individual.” He offered so many lies that cable networks tuned him out because it was impossible to keep up with fact-checking him. He returned to old themes like the bizarre notion that Harris would reinstate the draft and start World War III.

Most importantly from the perspective of confirming his fascism he reiterated at length his assertion that his opponents were “enemies of the people.” (You know the ones against whom he promised to unleash the US military.) He called them “the most sinister and corrupt forces on earth.”

In other words the entire event despite its marathon length and hodgepodge of z-list speakers, delivered over and over again a very focused message. The Trump campaign is about retribution and revenge. It is about the white supremacist desire to purge America of all their neighbors of different colors and beliefs. It is about Trump’s desire to seek out his enemies and punish them. And over the course of its Wagnerian length (and resonances) it single out group after group that would be deported or punished.

But worse still, unlike the Bund rally, Trump’s was not a fringe affair. It was led by a former president of the United States on behalf of very nearly half of the American people.

Its threats of authoritarianism were supported by efforts during the first Trump presidency to sidestep the rule of law and by crimes including a coup attempt we all saw with our own eyes. Its future plans for concentration camps in the US and for mass deportations and the use of the military against the American people have been carefully developed, and there is a plan to put them in place.

That is why Trump’s Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden was, as it turned out, far more ominous than its predecessor. It should chill Americans to the bone. But, I expect it will do more than that. I believe it will mobilize more voters to take action on Nov. 5 to stop the 21st-century fascism of Trump and MAGA.

Trump may be thinking the rally will help him mobilize thugs to violence when he contests his loss and we should be wary of that. But he has provided on the eve of the election the best case why he must be defeated that has ever been presented. In the end, because what unfolded was so foul and so offensive and threatening to so many of us, I believe that is why we will someday conclude that for all intents and purposes Trump’s final political act occurred on the biggest stage in America’s biggest city, a couple of blocks from Broadway.

David Rothkopf

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Will Bunch at The Philadelphia Inquirer:

The most wildly misunderstood yet commonly used word in American politics is “gaffe.” The dictionary defines it as “an unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder” — and that’s not wrong. But on the campaign trail, 95% of the time a much-talked-about “gaffe” is the blunder of a politician accidentally blurting out the truth. You’ve been hearing a lot about Donald Trump’s disastrous, Nazi-echoing rally at Madison Square Garden, and “comedian” Tony Hinchcliffe’s vote-killing “jokes” about Puerto Ricans and African Americans, and that’s been a game-changing development. But over the last week, it’s also been open-mic night for the Republicans who want to run Congress, and the embarrassing blunder of accidental truth-telling has been coming faster than Henny Youngman one-liners. Election Day will tell whether the joke is on the GOP, or on the American people for electing them.

[...] In fact, the current GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson, with a 50-50 chance of clinging to that job next January, has been barnstorming America in a festival of truth-telling “gaffes,” including the revelation that his party dreams of not just gutting Obamacare — as McCormick suggested on that hot mic — but repealing the ACA altogether. This despite Trump’s September debate admission that after a decade of talking about this, he only has “concepts of a plan” (and in reality he doesn’t even have that) on how to replace a program that has saved thousands of American lives.

“No Obamacare,” Johnson responded to a voter’s comment during a news conference in Pennsylvania, before suggesting that Republicans, if it’s in their control, will make major but totally unspecified changes to a program that is broadly popular with the American public while currently insuring more than 21 million. He added: “The ACA is so deeply ingrained, we need massive reform to make this work, and we got a lot of ideas on how to do that.” Yeah, sure, Mike. But like Bluto in Animal House, the House speaker was now rolling. Only a day or so later, campaigning for an embattled House ally in upstate New York, Johnson replied to a student journalist from Syracuse University asking if Congress would also repeal 2022′s bipartisan CHIP and Science Act, which is aiding an $100 billion new plant in that New York candidate’s district creating thousands of new jobs. “I expect that we probably will but we haven’t developed that part of the agenda yet — we gotta get over the election first,” Johnson said.

This time, Johnson soon realized that he’d gone too far even for today’s Republicans, and he rolled back the comment with the hard-to-believe claim that he’d misheard the clearly audible student journalist just a few feet away. But while the semiconductor-aid program, and its large-scale job creation, appear to be safe for now, we should take Johnson, McCormick and their colleagues seriously, if not always literally. To reach their true spiritual goal of taking America back to a time when white men like them ruled without challenge — not only on Capitol Hill but in every household — they are willing to willy-nilly repeal anything passed not just by President Joe Biden but LBJ and maybe even FDR. They want to bring back an uneven playing field for women, Black and brown folks, or the LGBTQ community, even if it also hurts the white middle class they claim to be representing.

Is it a gaffe that we’re learning in the campaign’s final hours that Team Trump plans to give enormous power over public health policy to former-candidate-turned-Trump-ally and anti-vaccine nutjob Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who tweeted Saturday night that he literally wants to take America back to the 1950s by removing fluoride — which has improved the dental health of U.S. children for decades — from public drinking water. Make all the jokes you want about the John Birch Society or Gen. Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove, but — just like Hinchcliffe’s MSG put-downs of Latinos and Black people — their push to unravel modern American progress is no laughing matter. Voters understand RFK Jr.’s words are serious because we’ve already seen in one hugely important area — reproductive rights — what happens when the barking dog of GOP policy nonsense actually catches the car. The Trump-fried U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 reversal of Roe vs. Wade has taken women’s health care back more than 60 years, and now we are learning the stories of the women who are dying as a result. How many more Americans will die needlessly if Johnson, McCormick, Trump and their ilk keep driving their 1950s Rambler policies off the cliff?

[...] The GOP’s 11th-hour policy truth bombs aren’t getting the media attention they deserve. They are competing with the increasingly racist, violent and unhinged rhetoric from Trump’s allies but especially from the 78-year-old candidate himself, who seems to be descending into madness in what, either way, are (probably) his last days ever on the trail. We should be paying great attention to events like his nearly six-hour Manhattan hatefest. But understand that the cruelty is the point of the modern MAGA movement, and Trump’s despicable language and attitudes toward women and nonwhite men will be translated on Capitol Hill into cruel policies — political neutron bombs that will devastate everyone, even the folks lining up in Appalachia or the prairies of the Great Plains to vote for Trump.

Will Bunch delivers a truthbomb in his latest Philly Inquirer column that the GOP’s deranged quest to repeal CHIPS Act and Obamacare, along with pandering to anti-fluoride cranks, will doom them.

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[meret118]

Trump's six-hour Madison Square Garden rally Sunday night, filled with "anger, vitriol and racist threats," began almost immediately with the "joke heard around the world"—an attack calling Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean"—and ended with 80 minutes of Donald Trump telling “scores of lies.”

The racist broadside was from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who also told the MAGA crowd: "And these Latinos, they love making babies, too, just know that. They do, they do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside, just like they did to our country."

As Mediaite reported, Hinchcliffe, pointing to a Black man in the audience, "went with what seemed like an off-the-cuff 'joke.'"

“That’s cool," he said, "a Black guy with a thing on his head. What the hell is that, a lamp shade? Look at this guy! Oh, my goodness. Wow! I’m just kidding, that’s one of my buddies. We had a Halloween party last night. We had fun — we carved watermelons together. It was awesome!”

. . .

But during those 80 minutes Donald Trump made one statement that has constitutional law and other experts concerned.Referencing Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Trump said: "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 secret, we will tell you wh

But during those 80 minutes Donald Trump made one statement that has constitutional law and other experts concerned.

Referencing Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Trump said: "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 secret, we will tell you what it is when the race is over."Suggesting the comment was "potentially...sinister," Politico Playbook reported it "could be a reference to the House settling a contested election."

Historian Heather Cox Richardson in her popular Substack newsletter wrote: "It seems possible—probable, even—that Trump was alluding to putting in play the plan his people tried in 2020. That plan was to create enough chaos over the certification of electoral votes in the states to throw the election into the House of Representatives. There, each state delegation gets a single vote, so if the Republicans have control of more states than the Democrats, Trump could pull out a victory even if he had dramatically lost the popular vote."

That's the act used to put Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WWII. They are going after legal immigrants too, and will eventually try to decitizen anyone who isn't white.

[appro880]

Some of the Comments:

“There’s a lot going on, like, I don’t know if you know this but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now,” he said. “I think it’s called Puerto Rico.” --Tony Hinchcliffe

He also said that Latinos “love making babies.”

“There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come / cum inside, just like they did to our country,”

When a Black Man-- And I Use That Term Losely-- He Implied That He Knew the Guy and They Spent Some Time "Carving Watermelons Together"...

Harris “and her pimp handlers will destroy our country.” We Need to Slaughter This Other People --Grant Cardone

Harris, who is the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, a “Samoan, Malaysian, low-IQ former California prosecutor.” -- Tucker Carlson

Referring to Hillary Clinton: She's “a sick bastard” and “a sick son of a bitch” and the Democratic Party “a bunch of degenerates.” --Sid Rosenberg

“You got homeless and veterans – Americans, Americans – sleeping on their own feces on a bench in Central Park,” Rosenberg said. “But the f**king illegals, they get whatever they want, don’t they?”

To You Black and Brown Trump Supporters:

These People Show You on a Daily Basis That They Have No Respect for You. They Only Want Your Vote and Then They Will Drop You Like a Hot Potato... However, Some of You Will Still Hitch Your Horse to Their Wagon! Well, That's on You!

"It's Nice to Laugh, But Don't Be the Joke" -- Janet Jackson

I Just Implore You to Reach for Your Balls at Least Once a Day to Make Sure They Are Still There... MAGA Might Have Stolen Them, Along with Your Last Shred of Dignity...

[planetofsnarfs]

Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday turned ugly right from the start when one speaker after another unleashed a barrage of racist, sexist, xenophobic, and generally hate-filled rhetoric that was primarily directed at Vice President Kamala Harris but also targeted many others who are not welcome in the America Republicans pretend to want to make great again.

It is stunning that this happened in a week in which Trump’s fascism became an issue, and it seems as though there is no conceivable way in which this could possibly help the former president sway undecided voters.

At times, the rhetoric was so vile that one had to wonder whether the speakers realized that they were on camera and being recorded.

However, it is much more likely that they simply did not care because being hateful is what the Trump campaign has always been about.

Things got off to a rousing start when “comedian” Tony Hinchcliffe called the US territory of Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage.”

He also stated that Latinos “love making babies.”

“They do. There is no pulling out,” he said. “They come inside. Just like they did to our country.”

Remarkably, things got worse from there.

For example, radio host Sid Rosenberg had some thoughts on Hillary Clinton, who is not a candidate for anything, and the Democratic Party.

“She is some sick bastard, that Hillary Clinton. What a sick son of a bitch,” he said. “The whole fucking party. A bunch of degenerates. Low-lives, Jew haters, and low-lives. Every one of them.”

Obviously, much of the vitriol was directed at Harris.

David Rem, a friend of Trump’s, called her “the devil” and the “antichrist.”

It is important to remember that all of this happened in the first hour of the same event. There really isn’t an explanation for it… unless Elon Musk offered a $1 million prize to the person who was most disgusting and offensive.

Of course, no hate-filled, anti-immigrant rally would be complete without MAGA ghoul Stephen Miller.

“America is for Americans and Americans only,” Miller told a cheering crowd.

Like many other speakers, including the GOP’s vice presidential candidate JD Vance, he also claimed that “they” tried to kill Trump… a reference to the registered Republican who shot the former president.

Next up was House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who earlier this week issued a sanctimonious statement asking Harris to tone down her rhetoric.

He spent his time at the podium calling her a “Marxist.”

Then, right-wing agitator Tucker Carlson, who referred to Harris as a “Samoan Malaysian,” laid the groundwork for a second coup attempt by suggesting there was no way the Democrats could win more votes than Trump.

It bears repeating that all of this (and much more) happened during a single rally that was supposed to be the crowning event of Trump’s campaign… and before the former president even began his own speech.

It is possible that these speakers were supposed to make him look like less of a racist when he finally takes the podium. Then again, based on his recent appearances, that seems highly unlikely.

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I need everyone to understand that Trump just held a Nazi rally in New York City. It was so bad the New York Times actually pulled its act together, at least temporarily (embedded links mostly weren't working correctly).

Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism

Michelle Obama: ‘I Am Asking You, From the Core of My Being, to Take Our Lives Seriously’

Election Live Updates: After Trump’s Racist Rally, Campaigns Plan Furious Week of Events

The Misogynistic, Bigoted and Crude Rally Remarks Trump Hasn’t Addressed

By the time former President Donald J. Trump took the stage at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, a parade of speakers had already spent hours disparaging Latinos, Black people, Palestinians and Jews; directing misogynistic comments at Vice President Kamala Harris; and echoing language used by the Ku Klux Klan.

In the backlash that followed, Mr. Trump’s campaign publicly disavowed only one of the remarks, a line from the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe: “There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.” A senior campaign adviser, Danielle Alvarez, said in a statement, “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”

Here is a look at other things speakers said at the rally, which the campaign has not commented on.

Tony Hinchcliffe

In addition to disparaging Puerto Ricans, Mr. Hinchcliffe made a crudely sexual anti-immigrant remark about Latinos in general. “It’s wild,” he said of people crossing the border. “And these Latinos, they love making babies too, just know that. They do. They do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside, just like they did to our country.”

Two minutes later, pointing to someone in the audience, Mr. Hinchcliffe said: “Cool, Black guy with a thing on his head? What is that, a lampshade? Look at this guy, oh my goodness. Wow. I’m just kidding, that’s one of my buddies. He had a Halloween party last night. We had fun. We carved watermelons together.” (Watermelons have a long history as an anti-Black stereotype.)

He described Palestinians as violent and Jews as cheap: “When it comes to Israel and Palestine, we’re all thinking the same thing. Settle your stuff already,” he said. “Best out of three. Rock, paper, scissors. You know the Palestinians, they’re going to throw a rock every time. But you also know the Jews have a hard time throwing that paper, if you know what I’m saying.” He made a motion with his hands to indicate dollar bills.

Then, brushing off an analogy Hillary Clinton had made between Sunday’s event and a 1939 pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, Mr. Hinchcliffe made a crude comment about former President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky and about the false conspiracy theory that the Clintons were involved in the suicide of a White House lawyer.

“She calls him Hitler,” he said, referring to Mr. Trump. “Let me remind you, Hillary, it was your husband who shot innocent people — or, as he called them, interns. Yeah, Hillary, I bet you did not see that one coming. By the way, if I commit suicide in three weeks, I didn’t.”

And he implied that the N.F.L. star Travis Kelce might kill his girlfriend, pop star Taylor Swift, whom Mr. Trump is angry at for endorsing Ms. Harris.

“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.”

Sid Rosenberg

Sid Rosenberg, a conservative radio host who once called Ms. Harris’s Jewish husband, Doug Emhoff, “a crappy Jew,” also lashed out at Mrs. Clinton for comparing the event to a Nazi rally. In doing so, he declared that Democrats were bad people and made a point to emphasize that he was talking about every Democrat in the country.

“She is some sick bastard, that Hillary Clinton, huh?” he said. “What a sick son of a bitch. The whole fucking party, a bunch of degenerates, lowlives, Jew-haters and lowlives. Every one of them. Every one of them.”

Then he suggested that undocumented immigrants were taking resources from more deserving people. “You got homeless and veterans, Americans, Americans, sleeping in their own feces on a bench in Central Park,” he said. “But the fucking illegals, they get whatever they want, don’t they?”

Grant Cardone

Grant Cardone, a businessman, disparaged Ms. Harris with a term used to describe a prostitute: “Her and her pimp handlers will destroy our country.”

Moments later, urging Mr. Trump’s supporters to give him not just a narrow victory but a resounding one, he used violent language: “We need to slaughter this other people.”

Rudolph Giuliani

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor turned Trump lawyer, argued that because some Palestinians had committed violence, people shouldn’t trust any of them or allow any of them into the United States.

“They won’t let a Palestinian in Jordan. They won’t let a Palestinian in Egypt,” he said, referring to two countries that have sizable Palestinian populations. “And Harris wants to bring them to you. They may have good people. I’m sorry, I don’t take a risk with people that are taught to kill Americans at 2.”

Stephen Miller

Stephen Miller, a Trump adviser and an architect of the former president’s immigration policy, told the crowd that Mr. Trump would “stand up and say the cartels are gone, the criminal migrants are gone, the gangs are gone, America is for Americans and Americans only.”

“America for Americans” was a slogan used by the Ku Klux Klan.

Tucker Carlson

The former Fox News host Tucker Carlson gave a speech that resembled his remarks at a rally last week — filled with grievance and exhortations to Trump supporters to view themselves as a maligned and downtrodden majority.

In pushing that message, Mr. Carlson nodded to the so-called great replacement theory, a racist claim that Democrats are trying to “replace” white Americans with foreigners.

“People know, in a country that has been taken over by a leadership class that actually despises them and their values and their history and their culture and their customs, really hates them, to the point that it’s trying to replace them — they know someone who actually has affection for them, and that’s Donald Trump,” he said.

And in a long, sarcastic spiel that framed a hypothetical victory for Ms. Harris as illegitimate and not to be believed, Mr. Carlson cast the vice president as an intellectual lightweight and mocked her ethnicity with an obviously false descriptor.

“It’s going to be pretty hard to look at us and say: ‘You know what, Kamala Harris, she’s just, she got 85 million votes because she’s just so impressive as the first Samoan-Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president,’” he said. “‘It was just a groundswell of popular support, and anyone who thinks otherwise is just a freak or a criminal.’”

Hey all my fellow Americans.

Vote.

Like, seriously, if you can, vote.

Preferably for Kamala.

“But Kamala is really bad”. Yes she is, and I can guarantee you that the alternative is going to be worse. Trump is literally running “Mass Deportation Now” as a slogan and saying that immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country with him and his VP knowingly spreading false rumors that Haitian are eating people's dogs and cats. And he’ll probably appoint even more religious zealots onto our Supreme Court who will last quite a long time.

“I’m sick of picking the lesser of two evils. She should EARN my vote” I agree. And in a just world she would have to do that. But of the two parties, one is FAR more likely to implement policies that will make it so she has to like Ranked Choice Voting.

“So you’re saying to support genocide?” Voting is not advocating for a candidate’s policies. ESPECIALLY in the dogshit political hellscape we live in.

"Voting for a Democrat isn't going to make the changes that need to be made." You're right again! Voting alone isn't going to make those changes. But between the two parties, I think one of them is going to be easier to organize under, and it isn't the one who said that cops should shoot protestors during the BLM protests.

"After all Biden's done with no promise of Israeli divestment from Harris, I simply can't bring myself to make that vote" And I understand that. The issue is that there just isn't a good choice available for that front, especially if you believe that Kamala and Walz can't be bullied. So you have to make the decision based on every other front. And whether it be the economy, rights for immigrants, rights for LGBTQ people, rights for women, foreign policy, or plenty of other issues, the orange man's platform is LEAGUES worse.

So I ask you, if you are able to, vote. It might suck, but at this point in time, it's something we can do.

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If the only things Trump did of consequence for the entirety of his presidency was a.) scatter the intelligence agencies to the wind as JFK promised before a magic bullet coincidentally shredded his brains, b.) prosecute the Public Health™ and pharmaceutical industry criminals who perpetrated the COVID-19 scam, and c.) free the J6 political prisoners and scrub their records, I would gladly consider Trump worthy of Mt. Rushmore.

Two out of three of those are not likely to happen — especially if he packs his cabinet with people like Marco Rubio, rumored to be in line for Secretary of State (wtf, Trump?).

The latter might — including for my good personal friend currently locked down on house arrest, Karen Jones.

Related: EXCLUSIVE: Nonviolent ‘J6 Granny’ Slapped With Bitter Sentence

Via Daily Mail (emphasis added):

“When Trump is sworn in as the 47th U.S. President, he will have the authority to wipe away [Jan 6] cases. If he were to issue broad pardons, it would repudiate the largest criminal investigation ever conducted by the Justice Department.

While Trump has not clarified the scope or implementation of these potential pardons, lawyers are already moving forward by filing the necessary paperwork…

One such rioter was Karen Jones, who first spoke about her and her husband's participation during the comedy podcast Kill Tony - a show hosted by controversial comedian Tony Hinchcliffe - in June 2023.

Jones claimed that she and her husband, Robert Walter Jones, 72, had RSVP'd for a 'permitted event' called 'Stop the Steal,' which she believed would be just a regular Trump rally.

'Violence has never been a part of anything I've been involved in, and I don't even own a gun,' Jones said.

But investigators said the couple crossed restricted boundaries, entered the Capitol, and remained inside for about 30 minutes, even after being directed to leave*.”

*That’s right: Karen Jones’ great act of subversion of this, Our Sacred Democracy™, included the heinous act of remaining in a public building for 30 minutes without a permission slip from Her Grace Nancy.

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, SENATOR BOB CASEY & JOHN LEGEND CAMPAIGN IN PHILADELPHIA, PA.

Photos by Christopher Hall.

President Obama returned to Philadelphia on Monday night, bringing Bruce Springsteen and John Legend to kick off the final week of the 2024 Presidential campaign.

President Obama wasted no time in criticizing Donald Trump and the constant whining about his problems over those of the American people.

“Most of all, Donald Trump wants us to think this country is hopelessly divided between us and them,” Obama said. “Between the quote real Americans who support him, of course, and the outsiders who don’t. The enemies within.”

President Obama blasted Trump for his Sunday night rally at Madison Square Garden, where comedian Tony Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico as an “island of garbage,” and other speakers mocked Harris’ race.

“These are your fellow citizens he’s talking about here,” Obama said. “Here’s a good rule: If somebody does not respect you, if somebody does not see you as a fellow citizen with equal claims to opportunity, to the pursuit of happiness, to the American dream, you should not vote for them.”

“You should not expect them to make your life better. They will not help you pay the bills. They’re not gonna work hard to make sure your kid gets a good education. They’re not gonna help you with a down payment on a house. We have to reject the kind of politics of division and hatred that we saw represented,” he added.

Previously on Mixtape:

Photos of Vice President Kamala Harris, President Obama & Bruce Springsteen campaign in Atlanta.

Photos from the 2023 Obama Foundation Democracy Forum.

Photos from the 2022 Obama Foundation Democracy Forum.

Photos of President Obama Campaigning for Gov. Phil Murphy.

Photos of President Obama Campaigning for Wisconsin Democrats.

Photos of the Inaugural Obama Summit.

Photos of President Obama's Farewell Address to the Nation.

Photos of President Obama and Prime Minster Renzi's Joint Press Conference in The Rose Garden of The White House.

Photos of President Obama Departing Chicago, IL on Air Force One.

Christopher Hall posts over here. Barry O.

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Why the Biden White House Might Become Engulfed in Scandal After Joe Said Trump Voters Were Garbage

If I were the Kamala Harris campaign and the liberal media, I’d be drinking heavily. The vice president’s DC rally, which should have been a media bonanza, for better or worse, got torpedoed when Joe Biden decided to attack Trump supporters, describing them as garbage. The media kicked it into high gear to clean up the mess for two reasons: one, it’s an objectively bad statement and pure accelerant to the GOP base, and two, it smothers their ‘Trump’s MSG rally was a Nazi event’ narrative. Yet, it all fell apart because a comedian’s word isn’t as relevant or powerful as Joe Biden’s. 

Tony Hinchcliffe made the ‘Puerto Rico is an island of garbage’ joke at Trump’s rally at the Garden, which has been misattributed to the former president. Now, with Biden’s remarks, they argue that Hinchcliffe’s words have a more significant impact than those of the president of the United States. The latest pivot is some phantom apostrophe to muffle what Biden really said. The game is over, and this could become a major scandal that rocks the final days of the Biden White House. The stenographers knew what Biden said, but there were unadvised tweaks to the transcript, which has set off another wave of controversy—all of this done to help prevent any blowback to Kamala Harris’ operation (via The Associated Press): 

White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, drawing objections from the federal workers who document such remarks for posterity, according to two U.S. government officials and an internal email obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.  Biden created an uproar earlier this week with his remarks to Latino activists responding to racist comments at a Trump rally made by the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who referred to the U.S. island territory of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”  Biden, according to a transcript prepared by the official White House stenographers, told the Latino group on a Tuesday evening video call, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”  The transcript released by the White House press office, however, rendered the quote with an apostrophe, reading “supporter’s” rather than “supporters,” which aides said pointed to Biden criticizing Hinchcliffe, not the millions of Americans who are supporting Trump for president.  The change was made after the press office “conferred with the president,” according to an internal email from the head of the stenographers’ office that was obtained by The AP. The authenticity of the email was confirmed by two government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.  The supervisor, in the email, called the press office’s handling of the matter “a breach of protocol and spoilation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices.”  “If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently,” the supervisor wrote, adding, “Our Stenography Office transcript — released to our distro, which includes the National Archives — is now different than the version edited and released to the public by Press Office staff.” The edit of the transcript came as the White House scrambled to respond to a wave of queries from reporters about Biden’s comments. The president’s remarks clashed with Vice President Kamala Harris’ near-simultaneous speech outside the White House in which she called for treating Americans of differing ideologies with respect.  The Trump campaign quickly moved to fundraise off the quote, and the next day, Trump himself held a photo op inside a garbage truck to try to capitalize on Biden’s criticism. 

What a mess. Biden has been poking the Kamala campaign for days, wanting to do campaign events together, but that was a long shot then and a definite ‘no’ now. All the questions will be about this colossal screw-up, partially one of the reasons why Kamala’s people wanted to keep Biden away, not that their gal is any better on the stump—she’s a total nightmare. There’s also reported bad blood between the two camps, as Kamala’s staffers believe the president is actively trying to sabotage their campaign. 

Now, a public records scandal is brewing. Whereas Trump took cocktail napkins, menus from state dinners, and supposedly super-secret classified files, most of which were empty folders, Biden and his goons unilaterally and quite possibly illegally doctored a transcript for political purposes. 

The stream of failure, lies, and self-inflicted mayhem continues with this guy.

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Arlington comedian recalls encounter with Trump rally speaker

ENTERTAINMENT Racist jokes no surprise to comic

Austin comedian Tony Hinchcliffe has faced fierce backlash over remarks he made Sunday at former President Donald Trump’s New York City rally, calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” and using an offensive stereotype about Black people.

For Peng Dang, an Arlington comic, the racist jokes came as no surprise.

Three years ago, at a comedy club in Austin, Hinchcliffe referred to Dang, an Asian American, using a racial slur after Dang had introduced him.

“I gave him a warm welcome,” said Dang, now 39.

“I called him ‘the one and only.’ I was being very professional.”

Hinchcliffe also called the audience “race traitors” for laughing at Dang’s set and did an impression of an Asian accent.

A video of the 2021 interaction, which Dang later posted on Twitter, went viral, leading to Hinchcliffe being dropped by his agency and having several performances canceled.

The video resurfaced online after Hinchcliffe’s appearance at the Trump rally.

Dang recalls being so upset he had to step outside.

When he returned to watch the rest of the show, he said, it included more jokes mocking Asian people.

The performance did not seem improvised, he said.

He had heard Hinchcliffe say similar jokes about Asians as an opening act for Joe Rogan.

In a January appearance on Howie Mandel’s podcast, Hinchcliffe addressed the incident, saying he tried to reach out to Dang.

The comedian accused Dang of being a spy “in cahoots with the Chinese media” on the podcast Triggernometry last year.

Dang called the accusation “ridiculous” and said he has never heard directly from Hinchcliffe.

Hinchcliffe’s managers could not immediately be reached for comment by email or phone.

He has not publicly apologized for the 2021 incident.

Dang said he’s not interested in an apology.

“I’ve moved on.”

This November, Dang will perform at the New York Comedy Festival along with two other comics.

Their show, called Homeland Insecurity, will lean into their stories of being American immigrants.

“It’s important to tell our immigrant stories, especially when people like Tony try to dehumanize or belittle us,” he said.

Hinchcliffe is among a wave of comedians who have railed against what they consider an oppressive “woke culture.”

“Comedians should never apologize for a joke,” he told Variety in April.

“In fact, they should utilize anything that happens to them for more material.”

Ultimately, everyone has free speech, Dang said.

“You’re allowed to say what you want to say, but there’s consequences,” he added, referring to Hinchcliffe’s Trump rally appearance.

“Be ready for the reaction.”

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US election: Trump trolls Democrats by riding garbage truck, Schwarzenegger says he’s voting for Harris

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump travelled in a garbage truck through the state of Wisconsin on Thursday after incumbent US leader Joe Biden called his supporters “garbage”, as action movie star and former Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger threw his support behind Democratic candidate Kamala Harris for US President.

Trump rides a garbage truck

Democratic candidate Kamala Harris had hoped to spend the day building on last week’s “closing argument” that she made at a huge rally in Washington the night before, but instead she recoiled from Biden’s remark, which appeared to call Trump supporters “garbage.”

Harris later commented on Biden’s comparison of Trump supporters to garbage. She said she strongly disagreed with the criticism of groups of people based on which candidate they support. The White House, for its part, sent out a transcript pointing out that Biden did not say that Trump supporters were trash, but merely confused his words and condemns specifically the remarks made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at a Trump rally. The comedian compared Puerto Rico, which is a territory of the States, to a “floating island of garbage.”

Trump took advantage of the gaffe by staging a photo op, climbing into a garbage truck at a Wisconsin airport and taking questions from reporters.

Trump said from the cab of the vehicle:

“How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honour of Kamala and Joe Biden.” 

Trump added later at his rally in Green Bay, still wearing his high-visibility jacket:

“You can’t be president if you hate the American people, which I believe they do.” 

Meanwhile, Harris travelled to North Carolina and on to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, focusing again on three of the seven battleground states that could see battles and determine who wins the closest election in modern USA history.

In Madison, Wisconsin, she told supporters:

“Folks are exhausted and want it to stop, the pointing fingers. It is time that we start locking arms together as a people who rise and fall together.”

More than 57 million voters have already cast their ballots early or by mail, more than a third of the 2020 electorate.

Arnold Schwarzenegger makes rare presidential endorsement

Actor, former California governor and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Thursday that he will vote for Democrat Kamala Harris in the upcoming presidential election.

In a shocking statement, the actor wrote on X:

“I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.”

Despite this, the 77-year-old “Terminator” star said it was time for the country to “move forward” and that “the only way to do that is Harris and Waltz.”

Along with his endorsement, the actor gave a harsh assessment of Trump and predicted the chaos he would sow if he became president again. Schwarzenegger also wrote:

“We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that.”

At the same time, he acknowledged that Democrat policies are “hurting our cities by raising crime rates,” but even that doesn’t allow him to “abstract” and urge him to vote Republican. Schwarzenegger stressed that in order to win elections, one must “co-operate with the other side, not insult them.”

In his statement, the former California governor, without mentioning Donald Trump by name, said that “rejecting the results of the election is as un-American as it could ever be.”

In his lengthy statement, Schwarzenegger added:

“Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits and rejected election results.”

California’s 38th governor, who held office from 2003 to 2011, rarely endorses political candidates.

The election for the 47th president of the US will be held in November 2024, with Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican representative Donald Trump vying for the post.

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