How to Lose Votes

I'm familiar with his name—Bad Bunny. WHAT a great handle! Evidently, he's a big deal rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, three time Grammy winner AND pro wrestler.

Bad Bunny signalled his support for Harris moments after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made the remarks about Puerto Rico at the Trump rally in New York. Hinchcliffe also made crude remarks about Latinos.

The comment was immediately criticised by the Harris-Walz campaign. Ricky Martin, another Puerto Rican pop star, wrote in a post to his 18m followers on Instagram: “This is what they think of us. Vote for @kamalaharris.”

Later, Trump campaign spokesperson Danielle Alvarez in a statement said: “this joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.” (Sure Jan)

Other Latino singers who had already expressed support for Harris – including Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony – also shared the video from Democratic candidate.

Bad Bunny has won three Grammy awards and was the most streamed artist on Spotify in 2020, 2021 and 2022, only surpassed by Taylor Swift in 2023. He was named artist of the year by Apple Music in 2022. (source)

I’m deaf (as you may already know) and old so I’ve unfortunately not heard Bad Bunny's tunes. But...gosh, looks like he's got a lot of fans, huh?

In the video shared by Bad Bunny (on his Instagram page), Harris said, “I will never forget what Donald Trump did, and what he did not do, when Puerto Rico needed a caring and a competent leader. He abandoned the island, tried to block aid after back-to-back devastating hurricanes and offered nothing more than paper towels and insults.” 

 The recording artist has 45.6 million Instagram followers. (source)

45.6 million followers—imagine that. I hope his and Ricky Martin’s 18.6 million fans vote.

Unsurprisingly, a couple of Florida Republicans, who just happen to be up for reelection in a slim eight days, came out against the insanely bigoted bullshit—only the Puerto Rico "jokes" though. Apparently, Maria Salazar and Rick Scott aren’t at all concerned about racist slams made about Black people.

Writing on X, US congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar said she was "disgusted" by the "racist comment". She said it did not "reflect the GOP values", referring to the Republican Party, and noted the thousands of Puerto Ricans who served in the military. (source)

Bitch, those are spot on GOP values. That, more money for rich people and women are nothing but livestock.

I'm thinking that:

• No one bothered to review and edit out the damaging slurs before this braindead “comic” hit the stage.

• Hinchcliffe’s speech was reviewed BUT the campaign let it fly because Florida’s so gerrymandered that losing Black and Puerto Rican votes won’t make a difference.

• Trump, Miller, Vance and the rest of those vile Nazi loons were too busy laughing their stunted, dimwitted asses off to understand that the “jokes” will cost them votes.

Hey, why not all three reasons?!

Putting paid to the lie that Republicans give a shit about anyone but wealthy, white, “christian,” penis Americans, Trump reiterated plans for a mass deportation for illegal migrants, speaking of his wish to "rescue" places that had been "invaded and conquered" by "vicious and bloodthirsty criminals.”

 Yeah sure, you miserable fuck. You and your little furniture assaulting VP choice really care whether an immigrant is legal or not.