#Trump MSG Rally

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kos at Daily Kos:

In the days after Donald Trump’s infamous Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden where a comedian called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” Republicans demanded people “get over” their feelings, claiming that it was just a “joke.” Trump walked around claiming he knew nothing about the comedian, as if the controversy was about his personal Rolodex and not what people were saying in his name, at his rallies, with his implied consent.  Here’s what’s particularly funny: The racism on display at that rally didn’t just break through the cacophony of Trump scandals, but it is Republicans who helped amplify it—and made the consequences worse for Trump and the GOP. 

As a reminder, here’s what MAGA comedian Tony Hinchcliffe said to warm up the crowd of Trump faithful: “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.”  Then he kept going. “And these Latinos, they love making babies too,” Hinchcliffe said. “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.” 

The “roast” comedian went on to make racist jokes about Black people, Jews, and Palestinians. Weirdly, he made zero jokes about white evangelical conservative men.  Trump and his surrogates could’ve done something crazy: apologize. The Republican presidential nominee could’ve taken the stage that same night and said, “Woah, that’s not what I stand for.” While it’s totally what he stands for, the media would’ve fallen for it because they love nothing more than giving Trump the benefit of the doubt. But he couldn’t apologize, because he believes it. He literally wanted to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland.  A couple of days later, President Joe Biden delivered a Rorschach test of a sentence in which he was saying that Hinchcliffe was garbage, but MAGA pretended he said all Trump supporters were garbage. Because they are the weirdest people in the world, they decided to walk around wearing trash bags and calling each other trash. They were still on that this weekend.

[...] By wearing trash bags and talking about garbage and riding around in garbage trucks, these Pennsylvania Latinos think Republicans are doubling down on the insult. And even if Latino voters don’t make that connection, Republicans who continue to talk about garbage are keeping the original story alive. 

The Republicans handling of the Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist set may be coming to rear its ugly head and cost them the Presidency.

[deadpresidents]

"No, I'm not going in. I wanted to speak, but they said we don't need dogs and we have way too many puppets already."

-- Triumph the Insult Comic Dog outside of Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally.

[sewersoul]

[skykind]

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.

[gurutrends]

Election 2024 updates: Trump MSG rally marked by racist tropes and vitriol

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump headlined a hometown rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday night. But what Queens-born Trump expected to be a star-studded headliner event −like that of world-class performers − with the likes of SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Hulk Hogan and UFC CEO Dana White soon unfurled. Warm up acts, including comedian Tony Hinchliffe, who goes by…

[tomorrowusa]

Trump's disrespect for Puerto Ricans is intentional. Don't believe excuses from his campaign.

Republicans and MAGA handlers are busy trying to come up with ways to disassociate Trump from the orgy of racism he conducted at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. If you believe those excuses then you probably also believe that Trump was faithful to all three of his wives. 😂

For starters, Trump micromanages his rallies. He even personally curates the shitty playlists people hear at them. Remember how he abruptly ended a question and answer session in Pennsylvania so he could mindlessly sway to music of his choosing for almost 40 minutes?

Some Republicans are trying to claim that Tony Hinchcliffe was acting on his own with his anti-Latino disrespect on Sunday. That is total bullshit.

His references to Puerto Rico were on a teleprompter, the same one used by Trump, they were not something off the top of his head.

Like the rest of the speakers who took the stage before Trump, Hinchcliffe’s remarks were pre-loaded into a teleprompter, indicating that they would likely have been vetted by the campaign in advance.

In fact, Hinchcliffe's comments were screened ahead of time by the campaign. The Trump managers decided to leave in Hinchcliffe’s racist comments but grudgingly made him remove an obecenity regarding Vice President Harris.

“He had a joke calling Harris a ‘c---,’” one campaign insider involved Sunday’s Madison Square Garden rally told The Bulwark. “Let’s say it was a red flag.” Four sources in the Trump campaign told the publication that staffers asked speakers to submit draft speeches prior to the event. It was while reviewing Hinchcliffe’s draft that the problematic remark was spotted, and the comedian was asked to remove it from his script.

Of course Hinchcliffe was not the only person spreading hatred at the Trump rally. But he was the first, and set the tone for the rest of the disastrous Trump event.

[charliezeltzer]

My son, is half Puerto Rican. He's young now but I want him to grow up proud of his heritage and proud of his traditions, and proud of who he is and who he will become.

Puerto Rico is not a "floating island of garbage". I am not speaking on behalf of Latinos, but I will not let my sons culture be reduced to mere garbage floating in the middle of the ocean.

If you haven't voted, I urge you to do so. Not for me, not for you, but for my son.

[mudwerks]

(via Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Roasts Trump Supporters At His MSG Rally | The Daily Show)

[dosesofcommonsense]

Tucker’s 9-min speech at the MSG Trump Rally!

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Jon Stewart on Trump's Xenophobic MSG Rally & Mass Deportation Plan

Yes We know it’s halloween, so we’re bringing the spooks out first

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ron Dicker at HuffPost:

Donald Trump faced an uproar over racist jokes told at his Madison Square Garden rally before the election ― but President Joe Biden stopped the damage and “saved” the news cycle for Trump, the president-elect’s campaign team claimed in a new interview. Speakers at the event — which included Tony Hinchcliffe, the comedian who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” — left Trump “aggravated,” co-campaign manager Chris LaCivita told Politico in an article posted Thursday.

“Unforced error,” chief pollster Tony Fabrizio added. “I mean, obviously we weren’t happy that it happened.” LaCivita said they planned to put out a one-line statement and “move on” but Fabrizio hinted that the media fury wasn’t letting up. Then three days after the event, Biden appeared to call Trump supporters “garbage” in response to the joke. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said.

The Trump campaign team told Politico that Joe Biden’s “the only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters” line salvaged their campaign from the MSG Rally fallout (and more specifically from Tony Hinchcliffe’s anti-Puerto Rico bigoted set).

[bisexual-kane]

Wow, sometimes you forget that you really cannot say "Fuck Hulk Hogan" nearly enough.

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[lechusza]

A full episode of what?

A program normally avoided. Tonight, it gets their points across without me needing to censor anything. What a rant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvSazlmQIU0 #trump #msg #news #2024elections #social