Tony Hinchcliffe doubles down on racist Trump rally jokes and hits out at critics: 'Change your tampon'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

3 hours ago


Tony Hinchcliffe, a comedian facing backlash after his remarks at Donald Trump’s recent Madison Square Garden rally, is not backing away from his racist jokes. At Trump’s campaign event in Manhattan on Sunday, he called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean” amongst other offensive comments about Jewish and Black Americans.

Tim Walz was among those criticising the comments, branding the comedian a “jackwad” and recalled Trump’s response to Hurricane Maria when it hit Puerto Rico in 2017. “Does anybody remember how [Trump] responded to [Hurricane] Maria in Puerto Rico? It was absolutely horrific,” Walz said during a Twitch livestream on Sunday. “Down there, insulting people. People in Puerto Rico are citizens, they pay taxes, they’re in the military.”

But Hinchcliffe has now defended himself on X and hit back at Walz. “These people have no sense of humor. Wild that a vice presidential candidate would take time out of his ‘busy schedule’ to analyze a joke taken out of context to make it seem racist,” the co-host of Kill Tony podcast said in a Sunday X post. “I love Puerto Rico and vacation there. I made fun of everyone…watch the whole set. I’m a comedian Tim…might be time to change your tampon.”

The tampon comment refers to a name Republicans have given Walz — “Tampon Tim” — because as Minnesota governor, he signed legislation mandating public schools in the state provide menstrual products in all bathrooms.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tony-hinchcliffe-trump-rally-racist-joke-b2637052.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Hinchcliffe surpasses Imus in his immaturity and lack of class.

[TexasTowelie]

13. Speak of the devil.

My brother was the respiratory therapist and durable medical equipment provider for Don Imus before he died. He said that Don and his wife were always arguing with each other.

[spooky3]

44. That makes sense, since on the air, he always made it a point to act as though he

worshipped her and their kid, and his co-hosts all sucked up by doing the same. Protesting too much...

[liberalmuse]

2. Awesome! Doubling down on a vile racist "joke"

And adding a vile misogynist “joke”. This should reel in Latino and women voters!

[Probatim]

3. What do I win? Is there a Captain Obvious Medal for me?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19617036

[ShazzieB]

21. Will this do?

You definitely called it!

[Probatim]

27. In my excitement of being "right" and "predicting their response", I didn't realize it was for the previous worst thing

they did. A mere 24 hours earlier.

If nothing else, these jackwads are predictable.

And thanks!

[bullimiami]

4. Prediction. Asshole ruined whatever career he had going.

[Gore1FL]

50. He and Kyle Rittenhouse will open up a whites-only bar somewhere. nt

[FreepFryer]

5. Go ahead, Tony. Explain to us how we have no sense of humor, you racist shartgoblin.

Enjoy it under the bus, Laughy Mcfuckface.

[Tweedy]

6. The difficulty many of us have

is Mr. Hinchcliffe, you aren’t funny. Throwing insults is something, but it isn’t funny.

If somehow we could get more wing nuts to actually have a functioning sense of humor, this world would be a much happier place.

What about the modern gop kills its members funny bones, I seriously do wonder.

[Hieronymus Phact]

33. Probably the anger

They're Constantly, Constantly, Constantly told to be angry.

[Tweedy]

52. Idk. Sometimes when I am red-hot furious

something just strikes me as hysterically funny and I burst out laughing.

It seems like wing nuts are like self blinkered horses. They are so frightened they have stopped looking around to try and calm themselves. I really don’t know, though.

[PortTack]

66. Your response is well known and studied. The rational mind trying to make sense out of something that awful

Can’t, so it flips. You’re very normal…they aren’t

[Ray Bruns]

67. I watched the clip. The crowd didn't think it was that funny either.

[Klarkashton]

7. This reminds me of the guy that played on Seinfeld

And was doing stand up using N this and N that.

That was the goddamn end of that guy. I wish the same for this bastard.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Michael Richards in 2006 (who played Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld)

[Skittles]

58. character-defining moments

yup

[Mz Pip]

8. Out of context?

What context would be okay?

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Thank you, Tony.

You just pushed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz a little closer to the finish line.

You're still an arrogant, stinking racist *uckwad, though.

[mzmolly]

10. They're such a charming bunch.

So full of class and dignity.

[Mike Nelson]

11. I don't...

... "get" the joke. I saw his performance. I "got" the watermelon joke, although it is dated, racist, and not funny. I "get" most ethnic humor... Don Rickles, Richard Pryor... but I don't "get" the Puerto Rico joke.

[William Seger]

19. That's because there wasn't any "joke" to it -- just a crude insult

... that only a racist would find funny, BECAUSE it was just a crude insult.

[Probatim]

28. Punching down isn't comedy.

Plus his delivery and timing is for shit - he's a smug little prick who's thrilled to finally be the bully.

[DinahMoeHum]

12. You're a fuckin' baby, Hinchcliffe. . .

Even professional comics screw up once in a while and shart a bomb that reverberates beyond their regular audience.

Not on this one, though. You knew fuckin' well what you were saying and doing.

STFU and deal with it.

[CTyankee]

25. Maybe someone should ask him if he's trying to make up for having such a teeny weenie penis...

[70sEraVet]

14. "These people have no sense of humor."

It's the Republicans who have no sense of humor. Republicans CHOSE him for their rally, because they mistook the guy's racist tirades for HUMOR!

[Moebym]

15. What a charming guy.

[msongs]

16. good career move on his part due to publicity. nt

[Etherealoc1]

18. Ads!!

We need to see them asap!

[louslobbs]

20. So I guess "might be time to change your tampon Tim" is funny to this guy as well? I mean that

just sounds like an angry, defensive, name calling, insult to me. Another thing these maga cult followers never do, is take ownership if they mess up, and they don’t ever apologize. They just keep on digging and digging that hole. They’re never wrong and it’s always someone else’s fault.

[Prairie Gates]

22. If Trump loses, MAGA's gonna turn this fool into the political Steve Bartman

He probably should increase his security budget instead of writing new material.

[rubbersole]

23. Please keep talking...

...you have a GREAT sense of humor. Everyone laughs. At your repulsive magat ignorance. Oh, and more tampon references. Women really appreciate the misogyny. What a pos.

[OrlandoDem2]

24. Did he make fun of white people? Asking for my white self.

[Klarkashton]

29. Or Trump? Since he thinks he is so fucking edgy.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. He supposedly went after Jews too

The NYT excerpted some of that - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/us/politics/trump-msg-rally-speaker-remarks.html

He described Palestinians as violent and Jews as cheap: “When it comes to Israel and Palestine, we’re all thinking the same thing. Settle your stuff already,” he said. “Best out of three. Rock, paper, scissors. You know the Palestinians, they’re going to throw a rock every time. But you also know the Jews have a hard time throwing that paper, if you know what I’m saying.” He made a motion with his hands to indicate dollar bills.

[efhmc]

41. What a double down of nasty and stupid.

[Aviation Pro]

26. How about a one-on-one session, mouth?

Yeah, I'm not holding my breath, you fucking coward.

[IbogaProject]

31. He should try that joke to Tim Walz's face

But I'd guess mr insults hides and sneaks around.

[GoYouPackersGo]

38. He'd get laid out.

I'm 100% sure of that.

[Joe Cool]

32. How is this guy a comedian?

He is a -1 on a scale of 1-10 of being funny.

[Omnipresent]

34. Tony won't be vacationing ever again in Puerto Rico.

Unless he should be dared to travel to Puerto Rico. He definitely won’t go there for getting his ass kicked!

[mwb970]

35. What a disgusting little ahole.

This punk has no idea what humor even is.

[keithbvadu2]

36. There is always the Musk greeting::: Your mother/sister/daughter is a 'C' word.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

37. Kill Tony?

Be careful what you wish for.

[Grokenstein]

39. Wow, he just gets "funnier" and "funnier," doesn't he. /sarcasm

Nobody had to "take time" to "analyze" your "joke," tony trashbag.

Nobody had to "take it out of context" to "make it seem" racist. It was garbage and so are you.

Time to take out the trash!

[Across-the-Desk]

40. "Conservative Values"

This is great.. I think there is no better display of today's Conservative Values that the fact they say racist one liners are just 'funny jokes'...

[forgotmylogin]

42. I'll accept "change your tampon" in the spirit he meant it.

I am a man and I do have a sense of humor. The problem isn't a lack of humor, the problem is that he's an alleged comedian who doesn't know how to read a room. A good comedian would have clocked the tepid response to the Puerto Rico jab and pivoted to talking about how old Joe Biden is. You had a room that wanted to hear the oldies and then maybe dip a bit blue with Hunter's cock. You save your best incel and racial material for podcasting with Elon Musk or Joe Rogan who are the correct audience for that.

Hinchcliffe asking the world to change their metaphorical tampon (surely he doesn't mean just women) means "something's wrong with you; it's not my fault you don't find me funny." If I change my metaphorical tampon I'll feel better and giggle and think that joke was funny Nope. Madison Square Garden, allegedly near-capacity with Republicans and rightwing MAGA in your favor didn't laugh.

He worked on that island of garbage joke opener. It's a level one "bait and switch" joke format that would be funny if you filled in the mad-lib cleverly. The joke was just wrong, and he said it: Puerto Rico is awesome, but racism is not. He was very proud of that. Good comedians know you don't punch down - not as the first joke. And you don't laugh in frustration at your own joke if you truly believe you were funny. What a chance of a lifetime he had at Madison Square Garden at an official event and walks out making jokes like he's on a podcast with Joe Rogan and Elon Musk. A good comedian would have been better at reading the room and could have recovered.

Unless Hinchcliffe thought he was the warmup comedian and he wouldn't be broadcast. Still no excuse for sucking at your art.

[Godot51]

43. Diaper...

Perhaps "comedian" tony should change his diaper. The smell is getting stronger.

[sakabatou]

45. Go take a long walk off a short cliff, Tony

[yourout]

53. And the higher the better.

[Jack Valentino]

46. That guy should have a tampon shoved up his ass

by a magat....

[PurgedVoter]

47. The big reveal on Tony Hinchcliffe was his own analysis of what jokes to use

Here he was representing and warming up the crowd for a person he wanted to be the President of the United States. That I think would have most people, most comedians, anyone who had gotten anywhere, thinking carefully about putting their best foot forward.

He was using his best material and this was what he came up with. Wow. The crew that filtered this and put it on the teleprompter thought this was great material and worthy of a presidents intro. They all figured that kicking down with racist tones was a great warm up and a great idea. They all chuckled over this.

Even after the response, after he kicked down and basically said that large groups were trash, he is now upset that we did not get the joke. We got the joke. We entirely got the joke. The problem here is that not only did he think this was "A" material, but he still thinks it is "A" material. His target audience agreed with him and this makes all of them look really bad.

It is sad when a good artist shows problems. It puts us all in a position where we debate between the worth of the art and the monstrosity of the artists crime. A lot of us have issues with Cosby, Jackson and the guy who played Kramer. There are others on the list. In this case though, Tony never produced anything that any of us will regret the damage done to art. It is pathetic that he managed to get his five minutes and toss it away in this manner.

He did not make fun of everyone, like he said he did, he left white racist angry idiots off the list of people he wanted to insult. He did not make fun of White Supremacists, Nazis or Fascists.

[spooky3]

49. Like most Rs, he's empathy challenged. So he doesn't "get" what would be funny

or insulting to people who aren't like himself.

[spooky3]

48. I thought a famous comic once said that it's not funny when you

"punch down." You have a chance at being funny when you target the powerful.

[Turbineguy]

51. A brand new piece

for my shit list.

[dflprincess]

54. These "tampon Tim" jokes are soooo 8th grade boys

but I'm probably insulting 8th grade boys comparing MAGAts to them.

[progressoid]

57. I recently heard a78 year old woman say it.

It was beyond cringe. It was pathetic.

[dflprincess]

60. Great a 78 year old woman with the menatlity of an 8th grader

Maybe it's dementia.

[progressoid]

62. I wish it was dementia.

That would be a much easier explanation. She's been a right wing nutter for a couple decades. She's a retired professor - albeit at a religious college but still she managed to get a PhD.

The things she says just boggles the mind.

I feel for her family who are largely liberal and sensible. They have to put up with her.

[pat_k]

55. "taken out of context"?

The short clips and characterization don't capture how truly awful it was. Full context is the following thread (transcript of bits with timecodes provided as a public service to those who can't stomach watching this disgusting man).
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219616217

He's like a playground bully calling names and laughing his ass off at himself.

Straight up racist name calling and tropes aren't funny. And like other right-wingnuts, he completely clueless about satire. Remember FOX's failed attempt at a far right Daily Show? An article discussing that failure pointed out that satire

...should offer a critique of persons, places, institutions, and/or ideas that pose some threat to society. In a sense, it weaponizes humor in an effort to draw attention to a problem.

This is why historically, satire has been a tool of the powerless and the marginalized. We mock world leaders, governments, and oppressive traditions not only because it’s amusing, but because it’s a way of calling out corruption and incompetence among those who have the most control over our lives.

...satire entails a considerable power imbalance between speaker and target and usually comes from the bottom up. This is why, as Jezebel writer Lindy West points out, at company parties it’s the boss who’s roasted, not the custodian. For people in positions of power to mock their subordinates isn’t funny, it’s tasteless.

[SunSeeker]

56. Keep talking, jackwad.

[Skittles]

59. I think it is really an insult to call him a comedian

he is a fucking nazi

[Blue_Roses]

61. Ewwwww...

What a sleeze...

[Clouds Passing]

63. Double down on dumb, tony baloney.

[4lbs]

64. The guy looks like a stereotypical "white incel" dude. This should

really help things in that department.

He was married, but divorced a long time ago, and is currently single. Seems his "wife" at the time, couldn't take his BS much either.


https://thenetline.com/is-tony-hinchcliffe-married/
by Kate Marin – on Aug 22, 2023 in The R&L


Tony Hinchcliffe was married to Charlotte Jane; he is currently single

Tony kept referring to Jane as his wife throughout 2018. The pair rarely posted about each other on social media. The world learned about the pair’s separation after Jane deleted all evidence of her relationship with Tony from her Instagram page, replacing it with images of her new lover.



Ouch, that's gotta hurt.

[ailsagirl]

65. What a CREEP!!!

[travelingthrulife]

68. The old 'taken out of context" routine.

What a garbage human being.

[Icanthinkformyself]

69. Stop giving them oxygen.

Let's bury them with blue votes, then ignore them.

[BumRushDaShow]

70. "Stop giving them oxygen."

Understand that there are demographics who are part of or could be part of, the Democratic Party coalition, who have completely tuned out from politics. One of those groups who have been courted by both parties, have generally been part of those who tuned it out...

But NOT anymore.

And if this can bring us their votes, just like the racism and bigotry that 45's campaign has engaged in and spewed in order to bring out HIS racists and bigots to vote, then we need to do this and keep harping on it.

The BLUE VOTES need to come from EVERYWHERE and it sometimes take some drastic stuff to get through to those who tune out.

[skypilot]

71. If you have to TELL people that you're a comedian...

...maybe it's because you're not fucking funny.

[onetexan]

72. I hope noone else books this racist for another show

Though i think he's got a RW fanbase who w support him.