10 Comments

It would be the tiniest bit funny if we hadn’t managed to allow them to put the whole damn world at risk.

Actually, no. It would still be purely infuriating. Fuck these vicious assholes and their syphilis-incarnate ringleader.

Expand full comment

OK, so, I've lived in PR about half my adult life now, and here's the thing. Puerto Ricans largely don't care about politics. I mean, they *care* (a lot) but there's a blanket assumption that voting is just kind of beside the point and what's even the point?

But the key thing here is that insulting Puerto RIcans just doesn't mostly make them mad. There's basically nothing you can say about Puerto Ricans as an ethnic group that lots of Puerto Ricans won't vocally agree with, it's kind of a colonialism inferiority complex thing

But *the island* is basically Shangri-La. The *island* is the absolute soul of Puerto Ricanness. This "joke" hits Puerto Ricans like an electric shock to a part of the body they forgot they had. And it makes a lot of them living in places where they get to vote that maybe it wouldn't be a terrible thing to just get in the fucking car next Tuesday and make that fucker pay, and then they start remembering the paper towels and all that shit.

Latinos know Trump hates them. That's just plain not news. But for Puerto Ricans, this incident was a wakeup call hammered right into their neocortex.

Expand full comment

Make Orwell fiction again, not reality.

Expand full comment

Righteous, necessary anger, Cat.

Expand full comment

I’ve been hearing a theory from the media that Americans don’t pay any attention to the election until the last week or two. That probably means the media don’t pay any attention to Americans until then, they just watch the cardboard horse cutouts race along the track pulled along by polls that don’t measure anything real. And then at the last minute the media get all incensed and start screaming that Americans are incensed. Maybe they were before and the media just couldn’t be arsed to report it. I know I was, and most of the people I know were.

Expand full comment

That cheeple joke was better than anything they've shat out and claimed was humor.

Expand full comment

I was here for María. Had to grit my teeth & come back to face the Terminator in the shape of endless family/estate wrangling...but you know how absurd the 'situation(s)' actually are? The candidate for governor on the pro-Statehood party slate is a loudly 'out' Trumpista, if nothing else. Look her up: Jennifer González-Colón, affectionately, 'JGo'...

Expand full comment

Factual, concrete threats fizz out and blow away, but gratuitous, asinine, hyperbolic insults explode and scorch the ground; this suggests something about the general psyche of humanity that I try not to think about for very long.

Expand full comment

Tony is not Don Rickles. Rickles may have been booed on occasion, but more often he made people laugh, rather than boo. TONY.

Expand full comment

Wow. First time reader. Gloves off. Love!

Expand full comment