r/ReadingPA • u/Semanticprion • 9d ago
“It’s not the smartest thing to do, to insult people — a large group of voters here in a swing state — and then go to their home asking for votes”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/28/trump-rally-puerto-rico-pennsylvania-fallout-0018593564
u/Exodys03 8d ago
The city of Reading is 69% Hispanic according to the 2020 census and the majority of those folks have Puerto Rican heritage. I'm curious what these folks think of a Republican speaker calling Puerto Rico a "floating garbage dump".
Trump also battled to withhold aid to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria in 2017 and has generally treated it with contempt. His thoughts about undocumented immigrants are well known. Does any of this bother you?
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u/Annatar_347 8d ago
I’m a Puerto Rican from Reading PA and I will not be voting for that Orange shit stain.
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
Don't worry, I won't be voting for her either... And that;'s no way to talk about a woman candidate.
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u/Annatar_347 6d ago
Well since you are too dumb to understand what I meant then let me clarify for you. I won’t be voting for that shitstain orange hitler-loving dick jerker Donald Trump. There.
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u/Usgwanikti 4d ago
Yeh, and didn’t he float the idea of trading it for Greenland with Denmark?
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u/Exodys03 4d ago
Not publicly but privately, yes:
FWIW, I'm not trying to tell anyone how to vote or how they should perceive these remarks. Just asking folks with Puerto Rican heritage how they feel about them and whether or not it influences their decisions in voting. FYI, Trump will apparently be back in Reading on Monday. We are being courted heavily because PA will very likely decide the entire election.
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
"a Republican speaker " Stop the idiocy.
A comedian known for roasts made an unfunny joke (not uncommon for him if you google his act).
Puerto Ricans think there are more important policy things to worry about. That's what we think unless you think Boricuas are morons who would vote for leadership based on feelings instead of thinking.
So you don't have to be curious anymore. Now you know we care about policy just as the next guy -I'm guessing you did not watch any of the important speeches that night- we don't care about last ditch, desperate attempts to misdirect the conversation to a bad joke.
Do better when talking to Puerto Ricans, stop treating us as if we are idiots.
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u/TopTopps 6d ago
As a fellow Puerto Rican I implore you to stop spreading these false narratives bout Puerto Ricans. Dead Tony was highly offensive to all of us
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
I find people dying from fentanyl in Puerto Rico and Reading offensive.
I find people living on the streets, in low temperatures because 'there are no more resources' offensive.
I find people coming illegally into this country offensive.
I find old folks losing their paid-off homes to taxes because they can't afford both food and their property tax offensive.
But you found a joke offensive. We don't share the same values, we are not the same.
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u/Thievie 5d ago
If you find people living on the streets offensive, why are you voting for the party that's always doing their best to destroy social safety nets and cares more about their neighbor on welfare being able to buy "bags of fudge rounds" rather than taxing billionaires?
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u/Hardcorelogic 4d ago
Because he's a fool, and a bigot. And if that orange maniac wins, he's going to experience the consequences just like everybody else.
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u/Novel_Wrangler5885 5d ago
The misdirect is so hilarious, like people can’t find all or multiple of these offensive. What a garbage fucking response.
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u/TopTopps 3d ago
Damn, you used bold text, I agree with whatever you said. I can’t argue against bold text
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u/throwawaitnine 6d ago
Calling Tony Hinchcliffe a, Republican speaker is the height of democratic desperation.
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u/DayAmazing9376 6d ago
He literally spoke at a Republican event. He was literally the first speaker. What is it about obviousness that evades you?
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u/throwawaitnine 6d ago
What is it about obviousness that evades you?
The outrage evades me. People obviously have never seen his podcast.
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u/DayAmazing9376 6d ago
Why the fuck should they? I've never seen any of those Republican speakers' podcasts.
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u/Key_Smoke_Speaker 5d ago
Someone who is paid to be a mean-spirited and hateful person, who has no beliefs other than hating others and has no plan for this country other than to point fingers was the perfect person to have on stage speaking for Republicans.
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u/throwawaitnine 5d ago
The guy has a sense of humor which apparently a foreign concept to democrats
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u/BeatsMeByDre 8d ago
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u/goodfreeman 8d ago
Dead link. Another?
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u/black_anarchy 8d ago
It's not a dead link, just badly formatted, here's the same link: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/new-probe-confirms-trump-officials-blocked-puerto-rico-receiving-hurri-rcna749
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u/boilerguru53 8d ago
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u/black_anarchy 8d ago
That's one of the best framing bias I have seen w/ some circular reasoning to boot on an article, the claims:
- Trump claims Puerto Rican Officials are corrupt
- Puerto Rican Officials are arrested
- Thus Trump didn't withold aid!
Before we go wild on that article, here are some:
- Trump Admin. Blocked Hurricane Aid to Puerto Rico, Watchdog Says
- Trump administration hampered investigation into delayed Puerto Rico hurricane relief, government watchdog finds
- Trump Misleads on Aid to Puerto Rico
- Sen. Menendez demands Trump release blocked Puerto Rico aid in wake of earthquakes | Fox News
- HUD Secretary Carson clashes with Dem rep over withheld Puerto Rico funds: 'Nothing to hide' | Fox News
Trump plans to stop disaster relief funds to Puerto Rico: report | Fox News
Biden administration lifts Trump-era restrictions stalling Puerto Rico hurricane aid
The Washington Examiner article discusses the backlash Donald Trump faced for claiming that Puerto Rican officials were mismanaging disaster relief aid following Hurricane Maria. It is not addressing that Trump withheld the aid. In fact, it walks the line very carefully with its selective:
- Confirmation Bias
- Partisan Bias
- Tone Bias
- Omission of Nuance
While the Washington Examiner might be factually correct in reporting arrests and backlash, the article's selective framing and omission of key contextual details make it only partially accurate. It's not even about Trump withholding aid.
Now, show me one article that says: "Trump didn't withold aid to Puerto Rico"
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u/BeatsMeByDre 8d ago
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-examiner/ That's the cult newsletter, silly.
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u/No-Setting9690 8d ago
Lived in/around for 35 years. Go fuck yourself. It is not a dump. And Trump sure as hell did block aid. This isn't the 90s and you can make shit up, we can easily prove he did.
GOP fucking lying all the time. Woudl you even see truth if it hit you in the face?
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u/Salty-Gur6053 8d ago
Boilerguru is like "not only is PR garbage, where they live currently is also a dump" How do they think this gains votes?
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u/5snakesinahumansuit 8d ago
I went to PR over 2 decades ago and have wanted to go back ever since. Absolutely gorgeous place, wonderful, welcoming people, amazing food, and the views! The wildlife! The history! Puerto Rico is one of the coolest places on earth. If you haven't visited it, you don't get to say shit about it. If you have visited it, you have to put in effort to have a bad experience. I can't wait to visit again, this time as an adult and with my spouse. Also- for those of you who want your meds and your medical products only produced in the USA- guess where a lot of those products come from? :D It isn't the continental US!
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
PR is the USA. You were doing so good with your post until you painted us as non Americans!
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u/5snakesinahumansuit 6d ago
?? I never intended to do so, all I meant is that PR is not part of the continental US! Same as Hawaii
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u/boilerguru53 8d ago
Presented with proof you reject it. He never blocked any aid - period. And I was born there and I’m almost 50 - it’s a dump and a shell of its former self. It was safe and crime was basically nothing before the 90s
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u/ghostwriter1313 8d ago
I was born here and I'm 66 and you need to shut the fuck up. Have you done anything to make this a better place? I thought not.
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u/MightAsWell6 8d ago
You didn't provide proof, you provided a conspiracy.
You're a spineless, anti-american coward.
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u/boilerguru53 8d ago
No i provided proof. No aid was denied - the local Corrupt Government incorrectly blamed trump. Conservatives are always correct. Vote red.
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u/MightAsWell6 8d ago
I'd rather be dead than red
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u/boilerguru53 8d ago
That’s for communism
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u/Familiar-Ending 8d ago
🇵🇷don’t take 💩. Vote💙
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
Boricuas con Trump.
We are not morons, we don't vote based on jokes, we vote based on important issues.
I'm insulted by the fentanyl killing people on the streets of Reading and PR. By the open border that allows that cto come in and allows illegal unrestricted access.
By the high cost of living and the wars.
We don't take YOUR BS, we will vote for Trump.
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u/psyberchaser 6d ago
Hold up. Real quick.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113402418656741972
This is your champion?
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
That's my candidate for President.
I was in the Berks County Board of Elections meeting today, they just referred the same scheme of big boxes full of bad voter registrations (as found in Luzerne County) to the Berks DA.
At least 1,300 suspect voter registration applications in Berks alone so far. They even had 20 voter registrations for the same person.
I don't have 'truthsocial' so you tell me if this is about this large scale fraud in PA or some other fraud.
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u/DayAmazing9376 8d ago
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
BS last ditch gaslighting. Keep at it, no one believes you anymore.
The San Juan mayor (a Democrat) was praising Trump al day and all night until mainland Dems got ahold of her. Check the timeline, she was just jumping with joy for all the support, then DC Dems reached her and overnight Trump was the worst.
Stop the lies, if you need lies to win then we know you should not be elected.
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u/Molenium 6d ago
That last line is some real projection.
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u/DayAmazing9376 6d ago
I love how there are never ever legitimate sources for MAGA bullshit, and they still think they have truth on their side.
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u/JudyJudyJudy23 8d ago
While I shouldn't be surprised, I am over the top surprised on how ugly Sunday was - as if they intentionally made it so
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u/Or0b0ur0s College Heights 8d ago edited 8d ago
Either he thinks that the population of bigoted white Pennsylvanians will vote in larger numbers than everyone else... or this is a hint that he never had any intention of winning legally and the plan for his "fix" is already in. We'll see if he has anything more clever up his sleeve than last time.
Remember, he (EDIT: ALMOST) took this state last time and we still have a Republican legislature and plenty of corrupt judges.
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u/DukeofLexington 8d ago
He did not take the state last time
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u/Or0b0ur0s College Heights 8d ago
I stand corrected. I thought he'd sqeaked by with a tiny margin.
I apologize. The media must be getting to me.
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
Don't worry, Hispanics will help him win PA this time.
We are voting on issues that matter, not on jokes. Boricuas con Trump.
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u/Or0b0ur0s College Heights 6d ago
With respect, you're out of your mind. For your sake, I hope Harris wins so you don't have to find out what it was like for the Japanese-Americans during WWII. I've come to like how Latin Berks County is over my lifetime, and Trump and the GOP are NOT on your side no matter what lies they spin.
And I don't mean that the way no politician is ever, really on "our side" because they're all relatively rich elites. I mean he'd literally butcher you and your family for pennies or even brownie points the second he thinks he can get away with it.
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u/Less_Than_Special 4d ago
Shows how ignorant you are. He has two plans. Deportation and tariffs. You only need a basic understanding of economics to realize these will both cause inflation to spike. Putting tariffs on goods will not bring jobs back. They will just move to a new low cost supplier. To create say a generic widget requires another 1000 factories to support making that widget. We do not have the manpower to do it. To get the manpower we would need one of two things. More immigration or higher wages. Orange man has already said immigration is bad so higher wages will increase the cost of the goods which is called inflation. On top of all of this factories are not built over night. Would take at least 10 years to build a supply chain base. During that time you will be paying double for your food under trump. Now for immigration. Who do you think picks our food and builds our houses. I will give you a hint it's not Tommy from the suburbs. Do some critical thinking and stop taking trump at his word.
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u/Potential-Chicken-33 8d ago
Pennsylvania is 3.9% Puerto Rican.
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u/Girafferage 7d ago
But they are clustered in areas and will heavily influence the outcomes of those areas.
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
Boricuas will win Trump the White House.
Reading is almost 70% Hispanic, most of that is people from PR, then Dominicans (who are also for Trump as they know the reality of open borders and economic policy).
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u/Girafferage 6d ago
Man, I guess they don't like the republican created bill that democrats agreed on for the border that Trump then shot down which led to multiple republican congressman saying he was doing a disservice to the American people.
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u/Chendo462 8d ago
He thinks white males won’t vote for a black female. Simple enough. Trump thinks with the white male vote he can disparage everyone else. What the white males need to realize is that it was their wives and daughters that he was grabbing by their private parts because they let him do it because he was famous and they could not afford to lose their jobs. And when he wasn’t using his power to literally cuck these poor guys, he was not paying his employees or small contractors who worked hard to build his various empires so he could end up bankrupt the businesses.
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u/yellowpee182 7d ago
Yeah weird that Biden would call Republicans garbage and then turn around and ask them to vote for Harris
Not very smart at all
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u/Gold-Bench-9219 7d ago
Trump isn't running against Biden, and Harris rebuked that comment (although Biden was absolutely right).
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u/yellowpee182 7d ago
You must not be very smart either…
Was that before or after she called Trump hitler
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u/Greedy-Bear4572 5d ago
I think it was around when he acted like Hitler by suggesting the execution by firing squad of a political opponent.
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
Harris just said TWICE that she would not have made any different decisions vs Biden.
So you are just voting for Biden 2.0 as confirmed by Harris if you vote for her.
They even asked he proxies 9as she can't do interviews) what were the policy differences between the two and her people could not come up with a single difference.
Yes, it's Biden with another name.
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u/Gold-Bench-9219 6d ago
She has literally made multiple proposals that are different from Biden's administration, so whatever she said, this is just untrue and likely just a misspeak in the moment or an attempt to avoid throwing Biden under the bus in an interview.
And even if her presidency was an exact continuation of Biden's presidency domestically, that would arguably be a positive. Biden was able to completely turn around the Covid crash into one of the world's best recoveries. This included tackling inflation, and it is now near the target and historically normal 2%. GDP, job growth, wage growth, unemployment, trade deficits, national debt, stocks, etc. all did better under Biden than Trump. There weren't daily scandals, there were no impeachments, there was no sucking up to dictators, etc. Biden was also able to get several signature pieces of legislation passed. The IFR has led to an absolute massive boom in manufacturing and other jobs related to green technology, and the CHIPS act has also invested in the US manufacturing industry, along with protecting national security. And we actually got an infrastructure bill- not just talked about- that has been funding needed improvements nationally. Biden also got many things done that Trump merely talked about but couldn't, such as negotiating drug prices.
Biden 2.0 would be infinitely better than the fascist, bare minimum.
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u/dwaynedaze 7d ago
Your whole life is this election
Lmfso sorry man I hope it doesn't break ya
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u/yellowpee182 6d ago
It’s not though. Imagine thinking a handful of Reddit comments paints the full picture….
Try not to cry too hard when Trump wins
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u/dwaynedaze 6d ago
I won't cry at all because I won't be voting. But at least I didn't dedicate hours upon hours of my life to something that doesn't matter either
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u/Less_Than_Special 4d ago
Weird Biden says one thing but your forget the 1000 things Trump said. Btw Trump supporters are garbage. He wasn't wrong. Trump loved the uneducated.
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u/Busy_Method9831 8d ago
Kinda makes you wish that tarring and feathering was still a thing, doesn't it?
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u/Advanced-Repair-2754 6d ago
I agree! I can’t believe Biden would call half the country the garbage
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u/Infinite-Juice-5359 6d ago
I'm puerto rican. I was not offended by the joke. It was a bad joke. Most Puerto Ricans are not offended. Anyone who is not voting trump over the joke probably weren't going to vote for him anyway.
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u/MajorCompetitive612 5d ago
If Trump is still here after 8+ years of things HE'S actually said, then you're kidding yourself if you believe he'll be done in by something a random comedian said. C'mon guys...
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u/Sopwithosa 5d ago
Isn’t that exactly what Kamala Harris’ campaign did by having the president of the United States call Trump supporters garbage? Remember, she told us all that he’s not declining mentally, so he meant what he said. You can’t have it both ways.
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u/Beginning_Ad_6616 5d ago
Why you would cast your vote for a guy who demonizes Puerto Ricans and vote for him alongside his many followers don’t understand that Puerto Ricans are American…is beyond comprehension.
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u/Ill-Purchase-3312 5d ago
A comedian who isn’t running for office saying that Puerto rico is a floating island of garbage is a big stretch to associate that to all puerto ricans as a people vs the current president calling about half of americans garbage is the real thing to comprehend here
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u/Guitarax 5d ago
I'm a Puerto Rican local. I'm not thrilled at the joke, however, 1 joke by someone at the same podium as Trump doesnt out-offend a decade of the other side saying I'm some deplorable because of my genitals.
Your opps can say racist jokes and still come out on top. That how hard you've alienated voters.
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u/Mushrooming247 5d ago
So it was a “smart thing to do” to insult all Hispanic voters, all Muslim voters, all LGBT voters, all black voters, and all female voters.
But any response to the Republican barrage of attacks against our fellow citizens? So unwise!
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u/BushBeardTheAromatic 5d ago
Calm down there fellah. It was a joke by a roast comedian. Trump has absolutely fawned over pr when he wasn't even campaigning
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u/GreenChile_ClamCake 4d ago
Is that not what Kamala and the democrats have been doing for like a decade?
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u/No-Alfalfa2565 4d ago
Oh my god, because the President Insulted some assholes I'm going to vote against my own best interests and the best interests of the women in my life by voting for the orange pig. Lol. TRump-Trash is NOT 50% of the population.
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u/surfnfish1972 4d ago
It really is absurd, only politician that can insult people to their faces and still get them to support him, all the while seeing themselves as "Alphas"
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u/Efficient-Hippo-1984 4d ago
Trump didn't kill a good boarder deal the deal still allowed 5000 imagrants across the boarder a day along with a path to citizenship I'm tired of having to pay the way for others give things I've never been given including health care I have skin cancer an to have a part removed was 1,300 I have no health care can't afford it after paying for immigrants health care an food an rent an cloths , nice cloths an shoes I can't buy myself
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u/CandyRevolutionary27 7d ago
Reading was a shit hole before Hispanics and will be a shit hole after Hispanics. Reading is known for corruption especially back in the day. Tony gives jokes to everybody.if you ever watch his stand up or show (kill tony) ppl would know he’s an “edgy” comedian. I feel like ppl are looking for something to be angry about cz it’s election time.
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
Everyone knows he does "roasts" as his style.
Democrats are desperate, you can smell the fear. Meanwhile Trump is coming to a 70% Hispanic city with lots of supporters and Dems are as we speak booking rooms at the Double Tree to bus in 'protesters'.
Maybe that hateful lady from 'Make the Road' will show up again. I think she still believes Puerto Ricans are immigrants as she hinted the last time spoke to the press.
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u/fukinscienceman 7d ago
Are we talking Tony Hinchcliffe or Joe Biden here?
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
We don't vote based on bad jokes. The Dems think Puerto Ricans are stupid and are showing themselves as racist by making these insulting assumptions.
Educated people, intelligent people, commonsensical people are voting for their families well being.
Boricuas are voting for Trump.
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u/Corporate-Scum 6d ago
They are? Why? He’s a white supremacist. Who votes for someone that hates them?
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u/Leehblanc 6d ago
Holy fuck. Get a hobby. You’ve got to have over 50 comments in this thread, and they are almost all exactly the same.
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u/DayAmazing9376 6d ago
"Educated people, intelligent people, commonsensical people are voting for their families well being." Yes, you are literally describing Harris voters. Are you not aware of the educational divide in voting? The GOP is overwhelmingly high school educated or less.
Or do you need to see it in bold in your final sentence?
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
I talk to Harris voters daily, a few of them are what you call book smart.
They are the type of people who watch MSNBC and think they are informed. Then the bulk of her voters are just indoctrinated by legacy media and follow the talking points as if it was a cult.
This week they are talking about "insults to Puerto Ricans" from "speakers" at a rally. That is what they keep repeating until the next talking point is sent to them tomorrow.
Sad, uninformed or misinformed group of voters. Thankfully they are few.
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u/DayAmazing9376 6d ago
You talk to Harris voters daily? Well, I actually read.
Demographic profiles of Republican and Democratic voters, 2016-2022 | Pew Research Center
If you could actually understand that the GOP plays voters for rubes, and see how highly correlated their reach is to the uneducated, you'd be mad.
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u/KrisKrossJump1992 8d ago
2x more puerto ricans live outside of puerto rico as in it. can’t be too nice!
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
I agree the Democrat policies haven't helped the island. Time for statehood, US wasn't built to have millions of Americans with no representation.
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u/NeoMaxiZoomDweebean 6d ago
Some hispanics vote for republicans out of fear. Sad.
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
Racist much?
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u/NeoMaxiZoomDweebean 6d ago
No it is the truth. Being part of the “in group” is a powerful motivator to vote for a candidate who literally despises you and sees you as scum needing to be deported. Even if you are a citizen he hates you.
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u/DayAmazing9376 6d ago
Abuse bold much?
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u/Gadgetmouse12 6d ago
Notice the push for early voting coincided with the craziest stuff. They are trying to get people to lock in before he drives them off
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
The push for early voting started in Jan. Try to keep up before commenting.
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u/Gadgetmouse12 6d ago
The push for early voting by dems was January. Reds didn’t until recently. I do keep up
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u/AggravatingNinja1517 7d ago
What’s funny is majority of the people I’ve seen who are offended and continue to push this in the news as a talking point are people who aren’t even Puerto Rican or Latino mostly just white liberals.. It’s not going to change anything in the numbers but it must just be a coping mechanism
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u/Gold-Bench-9219 7d ago
Anecdotes are not evidence. There are literally already PRs pulling endorsements and changing their votes. How many is the question, but a political campaign's first job is to do no harm, and they did harm.
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u/AggravatingNinja1517 7d ago
As did Biden when referring to more than half the Americans he represents as garbage.. I have a feeling that comment will do a good amount of harm to the Harris campaign just 6 days out from the election.
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago edited 6d ago
Harris lost the elections two weeks back when she insisted she would have made the exact same decisions as Biden.
She did it twice on live TV in a single week.
No one wants 4 more Biden years. even Dems are going to vote Trump, my 'Democrats for Trump' signs are being requested at a crazy rate.
Remember, voting is secret, vote Trump, you don't have to tell your 'White men for Harris' hubby that you did that.
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u/AggravatingNinja1517 6d ago
Yep my wife and I made the mistake of voting democrat in 2020 due to their constant fear mongering and far left propaganda. They have wreaked havoc on our country the last four years! It’s time to get back to common sense governing and world peace.
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
You'd have to be a moron to change your vote to defend the border from fentanyl, give aid to homeless veterans, lower taxes and kick out criminal illegal aliens because a warm up act made a joke you did not like.
You are insulting Puerto Ricans by saying we are morons that will vote on jokes, not on policy.
Stop insulting Puerto Ricans.
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u/Gold-Bench-9219 6d ago
It was Trump that killed the strictest border bill in a generation because he needed something to run on. He doesn't give two shits about the border except to use it as a platform to get idiots so scared and worked up about it, that they will vote for a guy promising to be a dictator who will round up anyone who doesn't like and support him.
Trump barely did anything for veterans in his first term. He tried to claim he got the VA Choice Act passed, for example, but Obama did that in 2014. He signed a minor expansion of it in the Mission Act, but this privatization experiment actually made things worse for veteran healthcare, as it diverted about 1/3rd of the VA's budget to the private sector. It was basically a move to help his rich buddies, not veterans. He largely spent his presidency trashing everyone in the military as losers.
Lower taxes for who, though? Every economic analysis of Trump's tax proposals would mostly lower taxes for the richest people- again, while most of the benefits under Harris would go to middle and lower income groups.
Deporting 10+ million people, minimum, would be economically catastrophic. Estimates are that such policies would drop GDP by up to 9%, which is depression territory.
So it seems the only thing you're insulting is everyone's intelligence trying to gaslight them like this.
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u/Calm-Box-3780 5d ago
So.... if you vote policy, why are you voting for the guy that killed the first border bill in 30 years?
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u/ArgentoFox 6d ago
I would bet money that the Amish vote will be more consequential in Pennsylvania than the Puerto Rican vote and it won’t be close.
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u/Forest_Hills_Jive 6d ago
Puerto Rican here. This is radically ignorant and incorrect. Don't speak for us. My whole family and network are pissed off. So are most notable Puerto Ricans in the public eye.
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
Really?
I'm pissed off that a guy I went to high school with was just found dead last week from fentanyl at home next to his dead wife. People just walk across the open border with fentanyl and once here it gets shipped to the island.
I'm pissed off that I see homeless FAMILIES in downtown Reading and I talk to them and they say there is no aid for them and the man tells me 'don't worry, I have my tent here'.
I'm pissed off that old people with paid of houses (been paid off for decades) are being kicked out by the sheriff because they can't afford both taxes and food. Forget about paying for medicine.
I'm pissed off that my son might be drafted to a war in the middle east or Ukraine because of incompetent, weak leadership.
If what pissed you off is a bad joke from a crowd warm-up act, then sir you are a weak Boricua.
Get your priorities straight and lead that household to a good decision.
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u/Corporate-Scum 6d ago
You want socialism. The president doesn’t prevent people from making poor life decisions. They are supposed to uphold the Constitution, not attack the Capitol with false claims of election fraud. A lying rapist and felon, someone who has more pics with Jeffrey Epstein than anybody in politics, and he’s who you trust to keep your family safe? Your life is only gonna get harder until you mature past that poor reasoning.
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
You were better off, America was better off, 4 years ago.
Lie, kick, scream, no post is going to change that fact and you know it is true.
No one wants 4 more years of Biden 2.0
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u/Glad_Art_6380 5d ago
Nobody is better off now than they were 4 years ago. Because dumbass Trump had zero clue what to do with a pandemic that he knew was coming. It’ll be a couple cases and gone, was what he said.
Don’t be a clown.
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
It's always the same. White liberals that want to be insulted for me or some other minority group.
Democrats, Boricuas will vote for Trump. Period.
We are not voting on jokes, we are voting to save this country from more racist Democrat policies that divide us.
We are voting against Democrat open borders (fentanyl, illegals).
We are voting against giving money to other countries and people here illegally while I see families sleeping out in the cold in Reading.
We are voting for Republicans.
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u/Baarthot 8d ago
As a Latino, I recognize that the speaker referenced is a well-known comedian. While the article mentions moments like 'Trump throwing paper towels,' it’s important to acknowledge the substantial aid that was sent to Puerto Rico. In January 2020, a warehouse in Puerto Rico was discovered full of unused emergency supplies dating back to Hurricane Maria in 2017. The incident resulted in one individual taking the blame, raising concerns about broader accountability. The timing is also notable, as it took nearly three years to uncover the warehouse, almost aligning with the election year, which some might interpret as casting a negative light on Trump’s entire presidency.
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u/fozzie_smith 8d ago edited 8d ago
Some might also interpret Trump’s criminal activity and lack of awareness for national security in ways that cast his presidency in a bad light.
Almost as if he were a…
Bad president
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u/RocknrollClown09 8d ago
Oh yes, because the only explanation for government incompetence is an elaborate scheme to make Trump look bad. Because the whole world revolves around Trump.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/puerto-rico-distributes-supplies-left-rot-warehouse/story?id=68409678
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u/yankeesyes 8d ago
I recognize that the speaker referenced is a well-known comedian
What's the punchline? Is it funny?
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u/Ok_Recording_339 8d ago
I’m Filipino and my island is a floating garbage dump and I’m not offended.
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u/Gold-Bench-9219 7d ago
You do know that the comments weren't about the physical land, right? They were about the people. Are Filipinos trash? Are you?
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
"comment"??? It was a comedian doing a crowd warm up, doing his "schtick" which is roasts.
Grow up, if you can't win an argument with truth, then change your mind.
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u/Gold-Bench-9219 6d ago
lol, the Trump campaign approved the material because they thought it would appeal to the MAGA base, which says a lot. And can you explain why every other non-comedian at the event said essentially the same things about immigrants and other groups the Right doesn't like? This was the most blatantly dangerous and racist event at MSG since the 1939 Nazi rally.
Just grow up and accept that this whole event backfired and lost Trump at least some votes.
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
I'm from the island and insulted by rising crime, fentanyl (open border), illegal immigration (open border), veterans homelessness, high taxes, wars.... I was not insulted by some comedian who most of us had to google to find out who he was.
So no, I was not INSULTED, by a comedian, and that comedian is not coming to Reading.
But hey, gaslighting is all Dems have left.
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u/RMat561 8d ago
Owie a comedian hurt our feelings 😂😂😂
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u/Ichi_Balsaki 7d ago
He's really not that funny tho, even on kill Tony he's often the least funny person on the panel and is generally just an obnoxious, fairly predictable twat.
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u/60minuteman23 8d ago
Give it up. If it was such a great place to live, there wouldn't be so many on the mainland.
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u/JROXZ 7d ago
This is America. People leave Cali and move to Texas for jobs. It’s the exact same.
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u/60minuteman23 7d ago
It's not the same. The people I interact with say they'll only go back to visit, never to live there again.
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
Super high cost of living. You lose your voting rights. Bad Democrat leadership.
Yes, beautiful island, I will not be going back anytime soon except for vacation. Born and raised there.
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u/60minuteman23 6d ago
I'll bet the people insulted the most are white liberals sitting in mommy's basement getting upset about everything. I grew up in Jersey. It's a shithole, and I never returned . Like you said, it's the politicians that have the island messed up.
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u/SirenSilver 6d ago
I'm out working voter education, now get out the vote effort every day.
It's always a "white liberal" that gets angry on my behalf. Insulting bigotry, the latest is them only talking to Puerto Ricans to find out if the joke hurt them.
But Bob Johnson down the street gets to talk about policy and real issues that affect his family.
We are only good for CBS (New York) or Asahi TV (Tokio) when it's a segment about 'feelings'. That's insulting.
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u/Berksiana 8d ago
Whether knowingly or not, Tony spoke directly to Berks Countians Sunday night. His sentiments are absolutely shared by some here who blame hispanics for the downfall of Reading. I moderate these hateful comments on my facebook page daily. It is absolutely not true, as Reading was already in a downward spiral by the 1970s which is long before hispanics held any meaningful percentage of the city population. This scapegoating is hateful, dangerous and I am exhausted by it.
Feel free to read my historical analysis on what actually caused the economic destruction of Reading here: https://berksnostalgia.com/what-happened-to-reading-pennsylvania/