3 weeks ago
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At Trump’s Nazi MAGA rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s set was a cornucopia of racist tropes. While he talked about Black people and watermelons, Jews being cheap, Palestinians throwing rocks, and Latinos having babies (which conservatives supposedly want), one insult stook out from the rest:
“There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” Hinchcliffe joked.
It didn’t stand out because it was dumber or better or more offensive than the others, but even I, watching the event live, knew something had shifted. I knew that joke would punch through in a way that nothing else, in nine years of Trump, would. So what was it?
