Tony Hinchcliffe knocking it out of the fucking park at MSG today. https://x.com/acyn/status/1850613597304455412?s=46
"Should our closing political argument be insulting Puerto Ricans in New York City?" "Add the Jews as well" https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1850617506064658602
This should be considered an in-kind donation to Harris. I know he's a comedian and comedians are typically given more leeway and artistic license when it comes to jokes. But outside of people who know his podcast, comedy central roasts, and Joe Rogan, I don't think Tony is very well-known. He just looks like a dipshit shitting all over Puerto Ricans, Palestinians, and Jews. These clips will be widely circulated in the closing days.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1850613109402013792 This one isn't even really a racist joke, it's just a racist statement.
My tinfoil hat makes me think he's a democrat plant. I mean, the hispanic community is the one place where Trump is making inroads and he is just openly disparaging them at Trump's largest rally. Did they even ask Tony what he was planning on saying? Theres half a million puerto ricans in Pennsylvania.
He's apparently making a lot of gains with black and Latino men, and there's plenty of them in New York. I can tell you that a lot of guys I work with are voting for him (I'm one of the only White guys at my workplace). Has anyone listened to the Rogan interview yet? I'm going to do that tomorrow, when I'm on the road at work.
I've heard that, but he still has no chance to win New York's electoral votes. It's not even close. Kamala is campaigning in Texas, but it's only because they have a shot of beating Cruz.
He’s not playing for New York voters he’s playing for the young men across the country that responded to the spectacle. My guess is he has the tech bros advising him to drive more engagement with these events than the glad handing in podunk Pennsylvania 1800s style will. You’ve got to imagine some data analytics is telling them to hit young men (white, black, and Latino) hard. Now you have HuffPost catching the vapors because Tony Hinchcliffe did a set with him and he’ll be top of the headlines and digital engagement with those demographics for the next week.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1850619832300982579 https://x.com/atrupar/status/1850656256790344031 We're never beating the idiocracy allegations.
I love roast-style comedy and in that world Tony Hinchcliffe is a genius, especially as a writer. His bit at the Tom Brady roast was art. He's also always been a complete jackass, and it was kinda nice because he made no apologies for it. You get what you get deal. You could tell he was super insecure about some shit though (like the gay jokes) and sometimes he would come back with these passive aggressive remarks, especially on his Kill Tony stuff. Gotta kiss the ring. That really was one massive leap too far though. I'm all for comedy in the political space. Correspondents' Dinner is fantastic and Michelle Wolf is a legend. Gotta be careful who you align with though, and more to the point, when you use your comedy to promote hate and a violent agenda, that is the point where it no longer becomes comedy to me. San Antonio has a MASSIVE Puerto Rican community (and massive Puerto Ricans), and some of my best friends and co-workers have family on the island. Nicest people I've ever met, and that island is still in recovery mode from Maria. They haven't forgotten the paper towel incident, I promise you. So now take that "joke" and put it in any other context, and it's just a joke in questionable taste. But make that joke at a trump rally? Oh FUCK. YOU!
I mean it’s an unforced error having a shitlord comedian do his material. I don’t think this is going to be an October surprise level of impact the Harris campaign and media are pushing for. Guess we’ll see.
Considering the Atlantic article-to-Harris press conference pipeline didn't work, I don't blame them. They could have at least had a funny comedian make jokes. Hinchcliffe is incredibly unfunny.
lol, in that clip Xray posted, he says to the unresponsive crowd something like oh, okay. Look, I don't usually follow the National Anthem. And, then later the packed house was very loud for Melania's introduction, and seemed to thoroughly enjoy Trump's chat in the clips I saw. I think Tony Hinchcliffe was irrelevant.
It's definitely not an October Surprise that will move the national polls 2-3 points, but given how close this race is, especially in Pennsylvania, and the fact that there are almost half a million Puerto Ricans in the Philadelphia area, if it pisses off even a small fraction of them enough to get off their ass and spite vote when they otherwise wouldn't have, that could be enough to swing the election, which is crazy to think about. In terms of Hinchcliffe himself, he's clearly just one-note. We saw a preview of this a week or two ago when he was on College Gameday and called a random college kid a pre-pubescent lesbian. It's a broier crowd, so it wasn't as big of a misstep, but Pat McAfee's reaction was akin to when your friend makes an out-of-pocket joke, and you just pretend he didn't say anything and move on, so as not to ruin the fun party vibe. Roast jokes are even less welcome at a politically rally a week before an election, but Hinchcliffe only has one trick, so that's what he did.