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(246 posts) Mon Oct 28, 2024, 08:23 PM Oct 2024

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 2024 OP

If they cant manage a rally ? IbogaProject Oct 2024 #1

Then why did those goddamned motherfuckers say it? Blue Owl Oct 2024 #2

hilarious seeing repukes pretend THEY are not racist garbage Skittles Oct 2024 #3

Those "jokes" were met with laffs and applause. Klarkashton Oct 2024 #4

If he had said PR Is a seeping septic tank BOSSHOG Oct 2024 #5

GOP ** reviewed ** Hinchcliffe's jokes and rejected the c-word joke but let the racism pass. . . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2024 #6

AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING Omaha Steve Oct 2024 #7

IbogaProject

(4,309 posts)

1. If they cant manage a rally ?

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Mon Oct 28, 2024, 08:29 PM

Oct 2024

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.

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Blue Owl

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2. Then why did those goddamned motherfuckers say it?

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Mon Oct 28, 2024, 08:30 PM

Oct 2024

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Skittles

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3. hilarious seeing repukes pretend THEY are not racist garbage

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Mon Oct 28, 2024, 08:30 PM

Oct 2024

because SOMEONE SAID WHAT THEY ALL THINK OUT LOUD

FUCK THEM

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Klarkashton

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4. Those "jokes" were met with laffs and applause.

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Mon Oct 28, 2024, 08:31 PM

Oct 2024

Apparently it was scripted on a teleprompter.

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BOSSHOG

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5. If he had said PR Is a seeping septic tank

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Mon Oct 28, 2024, 08:33 PM

Oct 2024

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.

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Bernardo de La Paz

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6. GOP ** reviewed ** Hinchcliffe's jokes and rejected the c-word joke but let the racism pass. . . . .nt

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Mon Oct 28, 2024, 08:51 PM

Oct 2024

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Omaha Steve

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7. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

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Mon Oct 28, 2024, 09:09 PM

Oct 2024

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