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He looked really tired and very fat.
The diaper was very full.
Slurring his words. Worse than Biden just before he stepped down. SAD!
A comic kicked off the rally by dismissing Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage,” then mocked Hispanics as failing to use birth control, Jews as cheap and Palestinians as rock-throwers, and called out a Black man in the audience with a reference to watermelon.
...and all those people are still going to vote for him. Make it make sense
No... Puerto Ricans cannot vote for president. Democrats want to change that, but guess who keeps blocking it
Just to clarify, Puerto Ricans are US Citizens and can vote for President if they are residents of any of the 50 States. It's only Puerto Ricans living in Puerto Rico (or other citizens living there) who cannot vote for President because the Constitution only grants this right to US States not federal territories.
2021 Census data captured 5.8 million Puerto Ricans living in a Presidential voting area but only time will tell if this made an impact.
Puerto Rico has no electors. But there are a lot of Puerto Ricans living in the states, and as US citizens they can vote in the election.
So this is to energize his base, for this doesn't seem to be targeting those low-info swingvoters in battleground states.
It feels like he's given up on winning the election and is hoping to win the civil war he wants to start.
Yeah, from what I watched of the rally, it felt more like an attempt to gaslight supporters into thinking they have it in the bag and that the only way they can possibly lose is if they are cheated. So I expect the blitz of "the election is being stolen" propaganda will start any day now, probably before we even get to election day.
Bingo. If they can't win, they hope to balkanize the county.
I'm trying to come up with a name that combines maga and the bund, bit I'm coming up dry this morning. I would just start calling maga the bund, but I'll have to keep a wiki link handy to educate the uninformed/conservatives...
So sad