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Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe Performs Wildly Racist Set At Trump Rally In New York City

www.huffpost.com Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe Performs Wildly Racist Set At Trump Rally In New York City

Hinchcliffe made a series of vile comments about Latinos, Jews and Black people during Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden.

Two hours before Donald Trump was set to take the stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City, right-wing comedian Tony Hinchcliffe warmed up the crowd with a shockingly racist performance.

“Where are my proud Latinos at tonight?” Hinchcliffe asked the packed arena, eliciting scattered loud cheers. “You guys see what I mean? The border’s] wide open. There’s so many of them.”

“These Latinos, they love making babies, too,” he added. “There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside just like they did to our country.”

The crowd groaned and cheered as Hinchcliffe continued, saying, “Republicans are the party with a good sense of humor.”

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Aren’t comedians supposed to be funny?
- For that audience they don't need to be funny, they have to be racist.
  
  Funny but not so funny story. I was at the Playhouse in Cleveland, Ohio about 15 years back and my stepdad really wanted to take us to Finnegan’s Wake. It was an improv show where the actors would take suggestions from the audience in what would happen next. A few of us were trying to to be playful with the context, but the vast majority of the meatheads in the audience just kept shouting out lewd suggestions like the reverend fucking the widow. Over and over and over again. The lead guy (reverend) got so tired of it that he said “is this all you want to see!” and humped the actress a few times then ended the show. Simultaneously the best and saddest anti joke I’ve ever experienced.
  Take it as you will, but these are the kind of people we are now hinging our democracy on.
- Have you ever watched Fox's "late night" show? The guy just sits there, spews the dumbest most hateful things about anyone not in the Trump bubble, and never once smiles or even laughs. He looks like he hates everything about life the entire time.
  They don't understand what being funny is. They think it's all just insults.
  
  What is the Fox Late Night Show?
- It's the kind of laughing that doesn't reach the eyes... Like mean girls in middle school cackling after torturing some poor kid.
- Tell that to Chappelle.
- Comedy is woke, their comedians are just racist /s

jfc... racist humour is always so stupid and lazy.
Hinchcliffe also referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean” and made a remark about Black people who “carved watermelons” instead of pumpkins for Halloween.
A politician having trash like this warm the crowd for them should be shocking.
- It should be. I'm just surprised he didn't drop the n-word
- A politician having trash like this warm the crowd for them should be shocking.
  It isn't. This is because bigotry is an acceptable political position.
- Energize the base.... has a poetic ring to it.
  
  Free the base

This is the other thing that’s fueling MAGA conservatives. Birth rates. It’s a topic that keeps coming up in organic conversation.
The talk there isn’t so much about lower birth rates and such. It’s emphasizing how much brown and black people are still having “tons of babies” which everyone else (read: white people) are not.
This should scare you and not so much for the embedded racist sludge that goes with it, but how it speaks to driving motivation. And what MAGA may choose to do about white people not having babies, and how supportive their supporters will be of that choice.
This comedian speaking about that topic under the guise of comedy is simply there to stir that pot. It’s still a political speech of sorts.
- It's white replacement theory promoted via "comedy"
- I read that the drop in birth rates is almost 100% attributable to solving teen pregnancy.
  
  There's also the well documented effect that more educated people just have less kids in general, and it seems to hold for every country.
  
  The more women have equal rights the lower the birthrate
  The more accessible contraception is the lower the birthrate
  The more educated people are the lower the birthrate
  The more accessible abortion is the lower the birthrate
  See a pattern here between that and conservative policies? People, no matter where they are on the political spectrum, who talk about the need to increase birthrate need to realize that these things are what they're wishing to see being gone. No matter how easy you make it to have babies, people don't want enough of them if they have access to education and preventive measures, social democracies with very wide safety nets and social programs and long parental leaves don't have a birthrate any higher than the one in the USA (in fact, in some cases it's some of the lowest in the whole world!).
  
  And that’s the problem right there. The fewer kids with mommy and daddy issues, the fewer kids these “elders” can “take under their wing.”
  
  Pretty sure the drop in pregnancies under 19 was 50% of the overall drop, not 100%. That's still huge, but it's not the whole story.
  
  There’s a worldwide phenomenon of falling birth rates. I doubt it’s even mostly attributable to teen birth rates.
  
  That’s a problem because not only does it lower the “domestic supply of infants”, it also lowers the number of desperately poor kids who enlist in the military right out of high school to escape poverty and get that “free” education.
  The cycle of poor is also one of not golden handcuffs, but nickel ones that turn your skin green. It’s a complacent work force. People who don’t engage political activism, join unions (thinking they can’t afford the monthly fees), and keep their heads down for the sake of feeding their kids.
  And most working class people doing better than poverty, with kids, turn their main focus on them, on their households. Again with the complacency and keeping your head down, because you have more to lose.
  
  this video covers falling birthrates globally. the specific timestamp has a handy graph of birthrates per age group. linking the video because the original article has a paywall.
  so basically teen pregnancies are a major factor, but the 20-29 age groups are falling a ton as well.
- In my country, some segments have up to 9kids abd can't afford them a proper upbringing nor education. Motivated by race and religion. Unsurprising.

Next they'll start lining them up to shame them...
🎶Are there any queers in the theatre tonight?
Get 'em up against the wall
Now there's one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me
Get him up against the wall
And that one looks Jewish and that one's a coon
Who let all this riff-raff into the room?
There's one smoking a joint and another with spots
If I had my way I'd have all of ya shot!🎶
- The whole movie and album is becoming increasingly relevant
  
  I made an off-hand comment to someone recently about how they needed to remember that these fascists would make him the first against the wall, and he asked me what that meant... and I became so uncomfortable, realizing how sheltered he was.
  I don't understand how we got here. I don't understand how people are so... unaware of how easy it is, and how close they are to danger.
  
  I saw the Roger waters version of the concert in 2010, it somehow hits harder than the movie in my eyes.
  Shame roger waters kinda went off the deep end.
- Would you like to see Britannia rule again?
  Would you like to send our colored cousins home again?

Oh hey, a consistently relevant topic:
Why is conservative comedy so weird? (The Schneidecker Paradox) - Maggie Mae Fish
- gabi belle also has a video on conservative "comedy". Love her stuff. Speaks from a pov beyond her years.
- Maggie Mae Fish is a treasure. I wish she would make more videos more often.
  (If you like her, I also recommend My Friends Call Me Pat.)

This guy: "[You] Latinos are invading our country and breeding us white people out of the majority... hahaha, no, no. I kid, I kid! But no really, in all seriousness, you do do that, and it's a big fucking problem. We need a president who will put a stop to it and kick you all out like the vermin you are. Now laugh you fucking cockroaches. It's funny because it's true. We Republicans are truly the masters of comedy. Hurdurdurr."
Jesus Christ these mother fuckers are twisted. To his credit, I guess, he told this joke to a crowd full of Latinos rather than when only the white folks are around like they usually do. But, less to his credit, he also thought it was ok to say at all, ESPECIALLY TO A CROWD FULL OF LATINOS. The joke depended on their being a lot of Latinos in the crowd and he actually thought, "oh they'll love this one". What a completely deluded moron.
Dude turn off the blaze radio, turn off the fox news, go outside, leave the gated neighborhood, and meet some new people. People as different from you as you can manage in your area. Try your hardest to realize that they are also people with their own thoughts, values, and dreams as deep and rich and varied as anyone you have ever met. Truly appreciate that and then come back and fucking apologize to these people for othering them, stereotyping them, and expecting them to laugh at their own mockery. This shit is exhausting.

they don't understand, dark humor it's funny when the audience knows you don't believe that way. and they also dont believe that way. but if you all agree in these bigoted shut, yeah, thats racist and repulsive, and not funny
- Believe a Republican when he sais he is racist.
  "It's a Joke" is the standard answer when assholes get caught.
  In this case, ... Latino votes lost...
- Exactly! I saw kill tony content through the lense of short form content (which I will be getting away from after this) and thought there was implied sarcasm, but nope just regular chud shit slathered on so thick I didn't think it could be serious. 😬
- I wouldn’t say it’s good dark humour anyway
  Starting a set with “america is garbage” isn’t a good opening. It just insults the audience. There is no story to follow and you can’t follow it up with anything
  Jimmy Carr’s holocaust joke worked because it blended with the set. In addition to not believing it

Dude knows his audience. Of horrible bigots.

who? (idc)

Alleged "comedian"...
- Hatred is funny to people who enjoy hate.

How did he get a job opening for Trump? I thought they hated the gays.
- They do it so that they can prove that they “welcome everyone”
- I thought he wasn’t actually gay?
  
  He isn't? Could have fooled me.
- They’ll take self hating members of any group except trans people
- He's one of the guys who regularly blows Rogan, so of course he's a piece of shit, racist trumper. By the way dude, you don't get say people have no humor. It's the people you were making jokes about that get to say if those jokes were racist or not, and we say they were.

Hinchcliffe is a complete POS. I Voted Blue, fuck MAGA.

Know your audience?
- You can’t even say he knows his audience because not that many people were actually laughing. Dude is so unfunny he couldn’t even get a Trump crowd up laugh at racist jokes.

The 1% don’t want to pay taxes or fair wages, somebody else’s race isn’t what’s causing that.
The culture war is all bullshit and distraction, the only thing that matters is taxing the richest and putting that money towards creating less fragile and sustainable communities and economies.

Omg, the belt buckle alone makes me dislike him.

I watched the set. Honestly... it was so bad and blatant and distasteful it's almost like a sabotage job. I'm not saying it's true, as Hinchcliffe seems like a shitty person in general. BUT. If he was a different comedian, I could almost see this as a really devious way of undermining and exposing the racism of Trump Republicans. Targeting Hispanics multiple times right before an election that's on a razor's edge? Specifically targeting Puerto Ricans, who have large representation in Pennsylvania?
It seemed weird that he was specifically unwilling to say he'll vote for Trump. He implied it and talked around it, but he didn't say he would. He hid behind the idea that as an entertainer, it would be bad for him. And yet, there's no way it would be bad for him while literally opening a Trump rally, so it seemed like a weird choice that really stuck out to me.
For anyone else watching it, didn't it almost seem like satire? Like he was trying to get them to laugh about awful shit in a way that would make them all look bad? I find it highly unlikely that's what he intended (though it is what he did), but that refusal to actually say he's voting for Trump really stuck out to me.
- I think you're giving Tony way too much credit. This is exactly the type of shit he says on his show, it just has a much different impact at a political rally

I wonder what his jokes would look like mixed in with news footage from the last ICE crackdowns, and the news stories of women undergoing hysterectomies whilst in custody.

Play to your crowd. It's not shocking or unexpected for anyone unfortunate enough to know who this goon is. Part of that super unfunny punch down set that followed rogain from liberal California to...checks notes...the most liberal city in Texas, Austin.
- I Imagine austinites hate these people lol. I know the conservatives that move to liberal cities in Ohio are very hated.
  
  Yes, but they are rich, they won't sully themselves living amongst country folk. Everywhere you see rural wealth are just isolated enclaves of rich people from liberal cities.

Isn't this the same guy that said some off color stuff while roasting Tom Brady? That guy's name was Tony, and it was pretty heinous at times.
- Yeah, he got famous after that roast I think. Now he has a show called Kill Tony that is based at Rogan's Austin club. People who like that group of comics think he's good. I haven't listened to his show myself.
  
  Not that it matters much, but Kill Tony has been around since 2013 according to the asshole's Wikipedia page.
  
  Some decent comics pop up on Kill Tony on occasion, but, every time I've watched it, Tony himself has been deeply unfunny.
  I didn't know much about him beyond that other than the association with Rogan, but this.... does not surprise me in the least.
  
  The show came around way before that. Rogan has been dropping him up for years but it's taken off the last year or 2 thanks to a couple of comedians he was able to give exposure to.
  I started out seeing clips on YouTube shorts and guys like kam Patterson are genuinely funny, but more and more it got weirder and weirder and I don't want that shit clogging up my algo so I skip it now.

He’s giving strong weird relative at a family dinner table vibes by saying offensive things and then trying to ease the situation by saying “it’s just a joke, relax, you can’t take a joke!?” There’s a big difference between being funny and being an attention seeker.

Who?
- Tommy Heathcliff

Trump is at 46.7% baseline on 538. His TOTAL in 2020 was 46.8 and 46.1 in 2016. At the current rate it'll be 46.8-47 by election day. The polls have been extremely good at predicting this baseline, it's the undecided remainder they suck at guessing(Harris is at 48.1 right now) so Trump is pretty much guaranteed to get more of the Popular Vote then in 2016 or 2020.
- I assume you more than his previous totals when you say "more"
  
  Yes

Serious question, is it likely that comedians who he brings on Kill Tony are also conservative racist POS assholes? I hope not because I actually kind of enjoyed Casey Rocket for a bit when he came up through that show. Definitely got a weird vibe from the host that made me wonder who they were and what the show really was (now I know).
- A lot are, some are just a bit right while others are conservative and others just straight up Nazis. Oh and the pedophiles and sexual assaulters, been a lot of those.

Here’s the set if anyone’s curious: https://youtu.be/4sjLNxnKKxY

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The coolest guy ever.
You can't just stand with your arms like that, you need credentials.

This guy is funny and what he said was also funny. I dont understand the hate and why are they saying that trump said all those things? I feel like I'm in the twilight zone!
- Hinchcliffe also referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean” and made a remark about Black people who “carved watermelons” instead of pumpkins for Halloween.
  You're right, now that I've read that part, I can see why he's so funny. I mean I haven't seen a good black people/watermelon joke since at least 1953, am I right?
  
  The jokes he makes on his show Kill Tony to other black and hispanic comedians are 10x worst. He is also so racist that he is constantly bringing new black/hispanic comedians to his platform to support them. You must be a very boring person to not see the comedy in it and only focus on racism!
- So, how's your standup career starting off. You must be trying to get a career if you think tony hinchcliff is funny. Dudes about as funny as Carlos Mencia. And like Carlos Mencia, only exists due to the talent of other comedians.
  
  Kill tony is hilarious wtf are u on about? He is funnier than 99% of comedians out there. You just didn’t like his one joke about PR!

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