Will racist jokes get the voters out for Trump?

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🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Trump has achieved a lifetime ambition and played Madison Square Gardens, NYC. Throughout the night the stage was filled by supporters, surrogates and comedians making a variety of racially offensive gags - including calling Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage. Trump's fans are split into those who think they warmed up the stage nicely, and those who think they've lost him a crucial minority vote.

Later, the billionaires buying into Trump. First he won over Elon Musk. Now it looks like Jeff Bezos has been bought. The Amazon owner is also the proprietor of the Washington Post - that stalwart of a free thinking press. This weekend he overturned the editorial line the paper wanted to take and refused to endorse Kamala Harris. What does that tell us about the future of the free media if Trump wins?

And Tommy Robinson has been jailed for contempt of court after he spread misinformation about Syrian refugees. Because that's how the rule of law works.

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:09.4	This is a global player original podcast.
0:12.8	She is some sick bachelor that Hillary Clinton, huh? What a sick son of a bitch. The whole
0:18.8	fucking party, a bunch of degenerates, low lives, Jewel haters, and low lives.
0:24.7	It's going to be pretty hard to look at us and say, you know what? Kamala Harris, she's just,
0:30.5	she got 85 million votes because she's just so impressive. As the first Samoan Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president,
0:43.8	it was just a groundswell of popular support.
0:46.5	And anyone who thinks otherwise is just a freak or a criminal.
0:49.2	A lot going on.
0:50.0	Like, I don't know if you guys know this, but there's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now.
0:56.3	Yeah.
0:56.9	I think it's called Puerto Rico.
1:00.2	Okay.
1:01.2	All right.
1:01.5	Come for the misogyny.
1:02.7	Stay for the racism.
1:03.7	It was a great gig at Madison Square Gardens last night where Trump was not even the headline act.
1:09.6	Yeah.
1:10.2	There were a whole pile of speakers all trying trying to out-offend the previous speaker with their language.
1:17.5	The question is, is this doing Donald Trump harm in the final lap of this presidential race?
1:24.2	Or does the outrage just work for him?
1:29.6	Welcome to the newsagents.
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