Dmitri Drobnitsky
Stand-up comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at Madison Square Garden.
In fact, harsh jokes in stand-up performances are commonplace, and Hinchcliffe’s words were taken out of context, but during the election season, it is precisely taking individual words out of context and twisting what was said that becomes almost the main campaign technique.
The Democrats immediately hyped up a nationwide advertising campaign, in which they showed videos with a montage of footage from Trump’s New York rally at MSG and the stand-up comedian’s words, additionally placed in the credits.
They said, here is the “racist gut” of MAGA Republicans! They did not forget to remind Trump of the horrific the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, when aid to the island territory arrived significantly late. The campaign was supported by almost all the mainstream media, publishing articles with headlines mentioning “racist jokes by a Trump supporter” and “a wave of discontent in the Latino community” in the United States. Particular emphasis is placed on Puerto Rican communities in Pennsylvania and the United States, where, according to the manual, “discontent with a racist joke is spreading like wildfire.”
It is also noted that trust in Trump among Hispanic voters will now inevitably be shaken. In fact, there is no “wildfire.” And Puerto Rican communities in key states are not large enough (especially if you take into account registered voters) to influence the outcome of the vote. Moreover, the wave of condemnation was driven on social networks by those whose job it is to campaign for Harris and denounce Donald Trump. The territory of Puerto Rico itself, although part of the United States and home to US citizens, does not participate in the voting.
As for the coordinated campaign in the press, it is no different from other campaigns to denigrate Trump, based on real or fictitious deeds or words of Trump and his supporters. Since 2016, this has not helped the Democrats at all. And the main thing to understand about this wave of “Puerto Rican anger” is how desperate the Harris campaign is if in the last week before the election, their main hope is a (possibly distasteful) joke by a stand-up comedian.
However, we should not forget that the use of administrative resources in Pennsylvania and Michigan and the “unexpected” results of the vote count in these states, so important for both candidates, will have to be explained somehow on November 6-8. Why did Pennsylvania suddenly vote for Kamala? Because the Puerto Rican community was offended by Trump! You have to understand…
Alexander Palladin
