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I admit I'm not great with comedy. I don't laugh easily at just anything and everything, and my own humor leans much more toward the dry or deadpan type. So, I, too, struggled, in as much as I would ever struggle with something like this that's so obviously not funny, with exactly this, as well. I saw an X post earlier upthread, by the supposed actual comedian, I think, complaining about how people didn't get the joke because they were taking it out of context. What was the context, exactly?

How else would anybody take such a "joke," except as mean-spirited, racist and colossally stupid, considering that Puerto Rico is actually U.S. property and Puerto Rico residents are U.S. citizens? Although they cannot vote in the general election, you can bet they have been reaching out to U.S.-resident family members who can in the wake of the insulting comment.

I'd bet that Hinchcliffe, and probably a lot of Trump campaign reps, too, didn't actually know that Puerto Rico was U.S. territory.

 

I don't think the U.S. territory thingy matters anyway. They say many harsh things about liberal U.S. cities. Hell, Trump bashed Detroit a couple of weeks ago . . . while speaking to a Detroit audience.

 

Well, remember, he also called Jan. 6 "a day of love."

If these are his ideas of shows of love, you practically can't help but feel sorry for him.

 

Nothing in any remote part of me feels anything sorry for Trump. Nothing.

 

I get that. I guess I mean in a really pathetic, sort-of-surprised kind of way, just because he could've had a really good, great life, but he clearly has not.

 

Completely fair. And you're a better person for recognizing it than me. And it's all his own fault, but I bet there's an equal chance in his mind he's actually had a great life, and he probably has. I have no sympathy for what he has wrought.

 

And no one there said anything about it. His cult agreed. A few pushed back, but it didn't matter. His point had been made because many in America outside of that city-region think of Detroit as a crime-ridden, unsafe, broken-down old town of yesteryear. And he moved on to the next grievance event to do it again.

 

The poster corrected this to million, not billion. It's still a haymaker across snarky Dave McCormick's nose.

 

Welcome back, Steve Bannon.

 

The man has had access to unlimited money and opportunity and has been miserable from the moment he fell out from between his mother's piss flaps.