Garbage?
There’s a floating island of garbage in the Atlantic Ocean and it’s known as Puerto Rico?
And this is supposed to be funny?
True, it wasn’t Donald Trump who made the remark. It was comedian Tony Hinchcliffe who made such a blatantly racist remark, although he was part of Trump’s six-hour rally this weekend at Madison Square Garden. I had never heard of him before this, but I prefer comedians who can be funny without being racist.
A Trump campaign spokeswoman disavowed the joke, although if the comic didn’t clear the joke ahead of time, that says a lot about the incompetence of the camapign. And it isn’t even as if Trump hasn’t been making racist remarks for nine years.
Just this month he attacked immigrants of color by saying the U.S. had become the wor;ld’s garbage can.
I’m writing this eight days before Election Day and I am absolutely flabbergasted that Trump still seems to have a 50-50 chance of being elected. I would have thought that “they’re eating the pets” would have done him in, and his constant negativity about his opponents and the people who don’t support him is as hateful as a major candidate has been in my lifetime.
I would never say every Trump voter is bigoted, angry or stupid, but I have a hard time believing America has become so bigoted, angry and stupid that Trump can win a fair election in 2024. He got 74 million votes in 2020, and it’s difficult to imagine that people who didn’t vote for him then would switch to the dark side now.
Folks who were 14 or older at the time of the last election will be eligible to vote next week, but Trump is less popular with the youngest part of the electorate than any other.
Deep down, I really can’t imagine the American people electing someone as blatantly racist as Trump, especially in the first presidential election after the end of Roe v Wade.
We shall see, and I certainly could be wrong.
For our country’s sake, I hope not.