…US congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar said she was “disgusted” by the “racist comment”. She said it did not "reflect the GOP values""…

You sure about that Maria?

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It sure did, Maria. That’s why he was invited by the RNC

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Yeah, when your party’s candidate for president, a former president, has this group of fascists on stage with him, and doesn’t make a peep about it, it most definitely reflects GOP values.

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In this case, it’s more appropriately “If hundreds of Nazis organize a Nazi rally to support a Nazi candidate, everyone who chooses to attend is a Nazi. Those who choose to pee in a bottle while waiting in line are double-Nazi.”

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The GOP continues to feel shocked by the views of their peers and then do nothing about it.

Weak.

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Gay men vouching for the GOP always amazes me.

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It has a Jews for Hitler vibe.

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1-800-KARS-4-NAZIS

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Someone finally said it! I don’t think most people know who this guy is. Was shocked to see him supporting Trump, even if he is an ass.

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I’m sure the attention will boost his career, even if it’s negative. I’ve never heard of him before this.

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It’d might be acceptable if it causes Trump to lose (again).

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I wasn’t super shocked to see him perform at a Trump rally. We watch KT every now and then, my husbo more. He ruins his own show and I’ve stopped paying attention except to see if someone really funny comes up in the bucket pulls. It seemed pretty on-brand for him.

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Trump did Joe Rogan podcast a few days ago, Tony opening could have been pitched then.

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Useful idiot. They don’t know they are not actually part of the cool kids club. When the old white men sit in the parlor discussing things…the door is closed and they laugh at these goobers. They may not come for them first…but they are on the list regardless of how much groveling they did.

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Follow the money.

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A wizard should know better.

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Had he made these jokes anywhere else - like on stage at a dive bar, like normal - I wouldn’t care. But he did this set at a MAGA rally. Whether or not he was “just joking” is completely irrelevant. If I teleport back to 1933, speak at a Hitler rally and make jokes about Jews liking money, it doesn’t matter what my heart contains or if I have Jewish friends or enjoy Jewish cuisine or if I don’t have an anti-Semitic bone in my body. This is a package deal, not an individual comic’s shitty set.

Either Tony is a genuine scumbag racist MAGA cunt, or he’s just a stupid, thoughtless, imbecilic cretin who hasn’t got the willpower to turn down a stage of this magnitude regardless of the ramifications. Maybe a little of both. In either case, he’s a tedious tone-deaf dickhead.

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Same feeling I’ve been having.

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He’s always been a cretin so whatever else is on top of that. Cretin is his foundation.

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I would still care if he said this in a club. It’s not even funny, it’s just racist. If it was funny we’d laugh but it’s just lazy and offensive

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You know… Part of me would totally believe that nobody even vetted him before booking or even asked to review the show he was going to do the night of the rally. Especially with the knowledge that some moron on his team booked the Four Seasons years ago without realizing that it was a landscaping company.

The rest of me knows these people are all pieces of shit and don’t care.

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Nah. Some nazi fuck heard his act and told Gröpenführer he’s perfect for an opening act.

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Gröpenführer

I’m dead. R.I.P. me.

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His routine was loaded into the teleprompter. It was explicitly approved.

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They did realize they weren’t actually booking the Four Seasons.
But they had publicly announced a rally at the Four Seasons before actually bothering to book.

And when they were turned down by the hotel, they scrambled to find a location with the same name to hide that fact.

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It reflected how drumps government operated. Announced it then tried to work out how to do it.

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I always assumed they planned to be at the hotel but didn’t book in advance of announcing and got denied permission. But maybe what you’re suggesting is what happened?

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I’ve followed politics for twenty years, this absoltuly reflects GOP values.

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