Harris Vs Trump 2024 US Presidential election - read the warning in the OP posted 18/09/24

Would you vote in someone running to govern you who said your home was a shithole and you and your neighbors were undesirables?

Deny/Deflect/Dodge/Minimize.

It suits the Trump supporters that the media are focusing on this comedian - they can pretend to disavow him and all will be fine. From the clips I saw the whole **** thing was a hate-filled, bigoted freak show. The centerists need to decide if these are the people who reflect their world views. Own it or abandon it.

Not at political rallies a week before an election.

And that's the thing; context. Tony Hinchcliffe is popular with his audience for those types of jokes. You go to see a Tony Hinchcliffe show, you get Tony Hinchcliffe jokes.

At a political rally a week before an election, you're there as a representative of the campaign. You're not in front of your audience speaking to people who want to hear your jokes. The words or jokes you use are part of the campaign event to all voters. So Hinchcliffe's jokes became part of the Trump campaign.

As a warm-up act, it doesn't compute with the campaign disavowing all knowledge of Hinchcliffe's routine, which is weird in itself. I hadn't looked at the video of Hinchcliffe at the MSG event as I don't agree with Trump. I had read of the comments but ascribed them to being the usual drivel from Trump himself to enrage the opposition.

Probably not the cleverest to insult your voters.

Puerto Rico enjoying their limelight I suspect.

Wouldn't that be racist? Puerto Rico has been an unincorporated part of the US since 1898. If Hinchcliffe's comedy routine were to backfire outside the MSG audience and stir up Puerto Ricans living in the US states where they can vote in the election for president, what would Trump do; just shrug it off or go bananas on Truth Social about some ungrateful citizens siding with Harris?

Oh don't forget the quip against Latinos and the watermelon jibe at Blacks

Imagine the disaster if an approved white comedian, with a history of making racist jokes, at a vitriolic MAGA convention were to have a not-so-subtle go at those large voting blocks a week before the election.

I'm really hoping they bring him back.

If Hinchcliffe manages to lose Trump the election, or at least be a factor, the phrase 'Kill Tony' will be thrown around as more than a snappy podcast title within MAGA circles.

My tuppence worth, the Press have been taking the p155 for months now. The race is in no way close, Harris to win in a landslide would be my prediction.

The whole "Close Race" thing suits everybody, Republicans because they know the candidate is a disaster and they have to believe they have a chance of winning and keep the faithful donating, The Democrats because they know that it was complacency that killed Hillary's bid so they want to keep everyone engaged and the press because if they don't have a close race they have no story to sell.

The absolute racist tone of the MSG event will allow the press (except Fox) to turn on Trump now and pretend they weren't peddling the close race narrative for any other reason than their own self serving interests.

The comedian was only part of last night's story.

And the tone and language was too similar across multiple speakers for it to be passed off as being one individual failing to read the room.

I doubt Hinchcliffe's words would really be a factor. He can defend it as edgy, roast-type jokes. If the Democrats go too hard on clutching pearls over it, they'll just end up coming across all humourless and Mary Whitehouse to younger voters, nagging people on what they should be angry about. Seems like a better strategy would just be to give the Trump campaign enough rope to hang themselves with independent voters and let them come to a dim-view conclusion of Trump and co. on their own.

Sit back and let the Trump campaign get confident enough to completely throw the mask aside…

Brought to you buy the movement that got rabidly upset about politicizing sports when a black man kneeled for the anthem to address racial injustices:

https://www.mediaite.com/sports/watch-san-francisco-49ers-star-nick-bosa-crashes-post-game-interview-to-show-off-his-maga-hat/

Clearly what they meant was sports can be politicized when ‘we’ do it.

Now, if an athlete shows up in a few days with a Harris hat or something to a Post game interview will they lose their minds or will they even see the irony?

Just as fun yesterday was this image doing the rounds again, comparing the Super Bowl helmet each POTUS got from a corresponding New England Patriots win:

I think one is more revered than the other.