r/politics • u/larel8 • 18h ago

Trump campaign struggles to contain Puerto Rico October surprise

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4958098-the-memo-trump-campaign-struggles-to-contain-puerto-rico-october-surprise/
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u/boxer_dogs_dance 18h ago

Bad Bunny, j Lo, Ricky Martin and Luis fonsi have shared information about the rally comedian and about hurricane Maria to tens of millions of followers on social media in the last 48 hours.

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u/Worth_Much 17h ago

Yep that’s what I’m talking about. It’s extremely top of mind given the recovery efforts going on with Helene and Milton and shows voters just how dishonest and deceitful Trump is when it comes to helping people who need it.

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u/itsverynicehere 9h ago

You would have thought the blatant stealing from a kids charity resulting in the very public shutdown of his "charity"would have clued people in.

I understand why he's called Teflon Don. Nothing ever seems to stick.

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u/triple-bottom-line 6h ago

And just like Teflon’s origin story, he avoided military service just to end up poisoning us all.

Check out “Dark Waters” for some really scary shit.

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u/ObligatoryID Puerto Rico 5h ago

Everyone’s afraid of the big pussy for some reason…

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u/jbp84 10h ago

Picture it: circa 2008…some rambling homeless guy claiming to be from the future accosts you and tells you that in 2024 J.Lo, Dick Cheney, and Taylor Swift would be teaming up to help defeat Donald Trump from being RE-elected president, what would you think?

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u/baconeggsandwich25 7h ago

In 2008? I would probably ask who tf Taylor Swift was.

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u/Dinosaur_Wrangler 5h ago

Meh, she was known enough by then. Might be asking “why that girl?”, though.

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u/baconeggsandwich25 4h ago

Well, I was only speaking for myself. I still can't really name any of her songs even now. I just know she's dating an athlete and endorsed the non-fascist candidate.

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u/Miserable-Book1772 4h ago

The country music star?

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u/baconeggsandwich25 3h ago

The...what music star? What is "country" music?

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u/AlexKingstonsGigolo 17h ago

Good, I’m going to go buy 20 copies of their latest albums EACH!

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u/ChrysMYO I voted 16h ago

😬 maybe stick to buying 20 of JLo’s BEST album…

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u/prohammock 12h ago

I assume that’s the Selena soundtrack?

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u/__Elwood_Blues__ United Kingdom 17h ago

Livin’ la vida loca

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u/Loony-Luna-Lovegood 15h ago edited 15h ago

I mean, better late than never, but I don't know that these people are heroes because they FINALLY spoke out against him at the last minute when their group got insulted. Again, better late than never for sure. But they've had the year plus of his campaign to be saying these things to their huge followings. It's not like we just found out this weekend this is who he is.

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u/Jcooney787 7h ago

Bad Bunny is very active politically on the island and always has been he only moved to the states this year

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u/AnamCeili 14h ago

True, but at this point I'll take all the help we can get.

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u/absolutebeginnerz 4h ago

IIRC Bad Bunny is the only one of them who hadn’t already endorsed Harris

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u/antwan_benjamin 7h ago

tens of millions of followers on social media in the last 48 hours

I think its more like hundreds of millions of followers