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FightFight

(202 posts)
Mon Oct 28, 2024, 07:23 PM Oct 28

GOP says Puerto Rico 'island of garbage' quip doesn't reflect the party. It does.

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Source: washingtonpost.

A comedian’s quip Sunday at Madison Square Garden that Puerto Rico is an “island of garbage” has led to something rarely seen in the Trump era: the Republican Party — and even the Donald Trump campaign itself — backing away from the divisive content of a Trump rally.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/28/republicans-say-puerto-rico-island-garbage-quip-doesnt-reflect-them-it-does/

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GOP says Puerto Rico 'island of garbage' quip doesn't reflect the party. It does. (Original Post) FightFight Oct 28 OP
If they cant manage a rally ? IbogaProject Oct 28 #1
Then why did those goddamned motherfuckers say it? Blue Owl Oct 28 #2
hilarious seeing repukes pretend THEY are not racist garbage Skittles Oct 28 #3
Those "jokes" were met with laffs and applause. Klarkashton Oct 28 #4
If he had said PR Is a seeping septic tank BOSSHOG Oct 28 #5
GOP ** reviewed ** Hinchcliffe's jokes and rejected the c-word joke but let the racism pass. . . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 28 #6
AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING Omaha Steve Oct 28 #7

IbogaProject

(3,777 posts)
1. If they cant manage a rally ?
Mon Oct 28, 2024, 07:29 PM
Oct 28

How can they expect us to believe they can run our country? I'm enbarassed anyone fell for his schick the first round when he was clearly a fool, but now after those pathetic four years.

Blue Owl

(54,915 posts)
2. Then why did those goddamned motherfuckers say it?
Mon Oct 28, 2024, 07:30 PM
Oct 28

Skittles

(160,304 posts)
3. hilarious seeing repukes pretend THEY are not racist garbage
Mon Oct 28, 2024, 07:30 PM
Oct 28

because SOMEONE SAID WHAT THEY ALL THINK OUT LOUD

FUCK THEM

Klarkashton

(2,285 posts)
4. Those "jokes" were met with laffs and applause.
Mon Oct 28, 2024, 07:31 PM
Oct 28

Apparently it was scripted on a teleprompter.

BOSSHOG

(40,274 posts)
5. If he had said PR Is a seeping septic tank
Mon Oct 28, 2024, 07:33 PM
Oct 28

That would have properly reflected the grand old party. What they meant to say was the island of garbage statement wasn’t horrible enough to be Republican. So in other words “they” were telling the truth.

Bernardo de La Paz

(51,252 posts)
6. GOP ** reviewed ** Hinchcliffe's jokes and rejected the c-word joke but let the racism pass. . . . .nt
Mon Oct 28, 2024, 07:51 PM
Oct 28

Omaha Steve

(103,780 posts)
7. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING
Mon Oct 28, 2024, 08:09 PM
Oct 28

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