Texas & Florida are doing great but Puerto Rico, which was already suffering from broken infrastructure & massive debt, is in deep trouble..— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 26, 2017
...It's old electrical grid, which was in terrible shape, was devastated. Much of the Island was destroyed, with billions of dollars....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 26, 2017
Holy shitballs!...owed to Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with. Food, water and medical are top priorities - and doing well. #FEMA— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 26, 2017
Those are American citizens fighting for their very survival and the giant orange taint is literally chewing them out for not being more like Florida and Texas. Which by the way were also badly damaged by a NATURAL DISASTER, not mistakes made by its citizens.
Hillary Clinton described last night why Trump simply does not give a shit.
Courtesy of HuffPo:
During appearances on Sirius XM and MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes,” Clinton described the president’s approach as a political calculus and being disinterest in the fate of the 3.5 million American residents living on the island.
“He doesn’t think that has any political relevance and it’s certainly not personally important,” Clinton told Chris Hayes on Monday evening. “He clearly doesn’t want to talk about Puerto Rico, more than 3.5 million American citizens, along with the U.S. Virgin Islands. Not interested, doesn’t say a word about it.”
Hayes, who was hosting his show while the president tweeted, expressed his own disbelief at Trump’s short tweets just moments after Puerto Rico’s governor told him that 60 percent of the island’s population had no access to clean water.
Yeah, Puerto Rico can't vote in a presidential election, and besides its populated with all of those brown people, so how could Donald Trump possibly give a good goddamn?
Every time I read about something Trump has said or tweeted, I automatically think “how would Republicans have reacted if President Obama had said/done that? We all know....
ReplyDeleteI would've been swift and brutal.
DeleteO/T, just noticed that an Ambassador for Canada was just sworn in and it wasn't Sarah Palin. IIRC at one point she thought she might get the job. The Trump administration is pathetically incompetent but so far they've been smart enough not to hire the former governor of Alaska for anything.
ReplyDeleteAt this point he did her a yugggeee favor not hiring her.
DeleteShe's not going to do anything that requires work, let alone a functioning brain.
Delete2:22: as if that has stopped any of the othe brainless idjits to accept their jobs! They get a super-armada of security details, get to fly first class or in private jets, and get to not work when they don't feel like it.
Delete"rump did a press conference with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain, whom he kept referring to as the “president” of Spain, because fucking come on, he is learning about oceans and hurricanes and Puerto Rico today, we can’t burden him with learning the proper title of the world leader he’s meeting with right now, OK?"
ReplyDeleteRead more at https://wonkette.com/623459/trump-on-puerto-rico-a-lot-of-people-dont-know-about-ocean#8Pmcm5pY1EbMw9QQ.99
Does Drumpt have a tower in PR?
ReplyDeleteTrump’s failed Puerto Rico golf course has cost the territory’s taxpayers more than $32 million
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HITIN HOME HERALDO? "Rivera identified power and cellular communication as the two immediate priorities.
ReplyDelete“You need ships full of generators, that’s what you need,” Rivera explained. “People want to send ice, the ice will melt. They want to send food, the food will spoil. The old-timers with their medicine, they need it three times a day, they need it refrigerated.”
“They don’t need good wishes, even money doesn’t buy it,” Rivera argued. “What we need here is to get the island back on the grid, it’s in the dark ages now"“My point here, Shep, is that this is an extremely dire situation that unless it’s going to become the kind of screwed up response that Katrina was, we have to see practical results and the practical results are: put some people back online, get some temporary cell towers up.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/slowly-unfolding-human-catastrophe-foxs-geraldo-rivera-blasts-mind-boggling-puerto-rico-response/
Maybe tRump will finally act, since Geraldo is on Fox Noise.
DeleteI can dream, can't I?
Comfort on the way.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2017/09/26/hospital-ship-comfort-heading-to-puerto-rico/
Bet this has DJT 's panties in a wad.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/09/26/politics/special-counsel-irs-russia-probe-information-sharing/index.html
Tick tock.
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http://www.politicususa.com/2017/09/26/robert-mueller-money-finds-russian-dollars-trumps-pocket.html
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Trump’s NFL boycott fails miserably as “Monday Night Football” ratings skyrocket 63 percent
ReplyDeleteIt’s official: Donald Trump has helped turn around what had been the NFL’s sagging television ratings, and made the league’s Week 3 a resounding TV success. The exclamation point came with “Monday Night Football,” the league’s final game of the tumultuous week.
The Cowboys versus Cardinal match-up posted a gigantic ratings boost, drawing 63 percent more viewers.
“This is a huge victory for MNF after a day and full weekend of coverage of the U.S. President openly criticizing protesting athletes, calling some ‘sons of bitches,'” noted the Hollywood Reporter. That big increase Monday night meant that ratings for the league’s entire slate of games during the Trump controversy were up compared to last year’s Week 3.
https://shareblue.com/trumps-nfl-boycott-fails-miserably-as-monday-night-football-ratings-skyrocket-63-percent/
NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s tweet defying Trump is his most popular ever
Earnhardt’s tweet went viral and attracted 370,753 favorites and 140,903 retweets — the most ever on his account.
By comparison, Trump’s NASCAR tweet came up limp, performing much worse than Earnhardt’s message. Trump got half the favorites of Earnhardt and less than a quarter of the retweets of the NASCAR driver.
Despite Trump’s attempt to attach himself to the sport, it is Earnhardt who was named the most popular driver in NASCAR by the fans last year — and has held the title for 13 years in a row.
https://shareblue.com/nascar-star-dale-earnhardt-jr-s-tweet-defying-trump-is-his-most-popular-ever/
Texas sportscaster: My buddy didn’t die in Vietnam so Trump “could decide who is a patriot”
"If you don't think white privilege is a fact, you don't understand America."
https://shareblue.com/texas-sportscaster-my-buddy-didnt-die-in-vietnam-so-trump-could-decide-who-is-a-patriot/
Pence absurdly says players should give up free speech because “National” is in name of NFL
Pence made his bizarre comment at a campaign rally for Sen. Luther Strange, who faces off against disgraced former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore in Tuesday’s primary.
“We’ve all got a right to our opinions,” Pence told the crowd, “but I don’t think it’s too much to ask that players in the National Football League to stand for our national anthem.”
https://shareblue.com/pence-absurdly-says-players-should-give-up-free-speech-because-national-is-in-name-of-nfl/
In defense of the NFL going on offense against Trump
DeleteTrump insists that he’s not “preoccupied” by the NFL-protest controversy — that he created — to the detriment of the Puerto Rico disaster. Unfortunately, he has devoted many more tweets and media opportunities to the NFL-protest controversy than to the victims of Hurricane Maria; his insistence that he is doing “a really good job” in aiding Puerto Rico (does he know the U.S. Virgin Islands are ours, too?) may come back to haunt him. Nevertheless, on a day that Republicans’ health-care plan met its end (again), Trump delights in talking about divisive culture issues that stir racist sentiments in his base. If only he had spent half the time and energy condemning neo-Nazis, one of whom allegedly killed a woman, as he did blasting a silent exercise of First Amendment rights, his poll ratings might not be in the cellar.
Now, since he brought it up, many conservatives, genuinely offended by the silent flag pursuit, and other pundits who worry we are “giving Trump attention” deplore the people (NFL commissioner, players, owners, sympathetic voices in the media) fighting on his turf. David Brooks writes:
He is so destructive because his enemies help him. He ramps up the aggression. His enemies ramp it up more, to preserve their own dignity. But the ensuing cultural violence only serves Trump’s long-term destructive purpose. America is seeing nearly as much cultural conflict as it did in the late 1960s. It’s quite possible that after four years of this Trump will have effectively destroyed the prevailing culture. The reign of the meritocratic establishment will be just as over as the reign of the Protestant establishment now is.
I think that — and other critics of the NFL demonstrations — miss the point...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/09/26/in-defense-of-the-nfl-going-on-offense-against-trump
Trump blames his poor response to Puerto Rico on the Atlantic being a “very big ocean”
ReplyDeleteTRUMP: We’ve worked very, very hard in Puerto Rico, it’s very tough because it’s an island. In Texas, we can ship the trucks right out there and you know we can do — we’ve gotten a-pluses on Texas and on Florida, and we will also on Puerto Rico, but the difference is this is an island, sitting in the middle of an ocean. And it’s a big ocean. It’s a very big ocean.
https://shareblue.com/trump-blames-his-poor-response-to-puerto-rico-on-the-atlantic-being-a-very-big-ocean/
Clinton pressed Trump to deploy hospital ship Comfort to Puerto Rico. Now it's on the way.
DeleteAs the devastation from Hurricane Maria became more apparent Sunday, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton implored President Trump and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to help the people of Puerto Rico. Send the Navy, she tweeted, especially the hospital ship USNS Comfort.
Two days later, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Brock Long announced that the Navy will soon do exactly that. The decision, disclosed in front of the White House on Tuesday afternoon, was later confirmed by the Navy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/09/26/clinton-pressured-trump-to-deploy-hospital-ship-comfort-to-puerto-rico-now-its-on-the-way/
so do some thing about that deep trouble asshole. IT'S YOUR EFFFING JOB. jeesh. you can almost hear the little gremlins in his head "black people, don't give a shit!".
ReplyDeleteChuck Heath, gave a different account to Conroy and Walshe of Palin leaving Hawaii in college after first semester.
DeleteAccording to him, the presence of so many Asians and Pacific Islanders made her uncomfortable: “They were a minority type thing and it wasn’t glamorous, so she came home.”
Any "prayers up/thinking of you" messages from her for Puerto Rico, if there even are any, are pure bullshit!
Such a good little x-tian, that one.
ReplyDeleteMayor Describes ‘Near-Death Conditions’ In Puerto Rico’s San Juan
“Maria has left behind her a trail of devastation and a humanitarian crisis,” Carmen YulÃn Cruz said.
“Just yesterday, we have been canvassing one by one all of our elderly homes, finding our elderly ― and I’m not kidding ― we [had] to transfer 11 of them in near-death conditions, no food, no water, no electricity and really the sanitary conditions were deplorable,” the mayor told CNN’s “New Day” on Tuesday.
Hospitals and care centers for the disabled are running out of diesel, Cruz added. Certain hospital patients, Reuters reported, have been evacuated to the U.S., but others await an uncertain fate as generators fail.
“Another hospital wants to transfer two critical patients here because they don’t have electricity,” cardiovascular surgeon Gonzalez Cancel said. “We can’t take them. We have the same problem.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/san-juan-near-death-conditions_us_59ca4e67e4b06ddf45fb293a?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
San Juan mayor on Trump tweets: 'You don't put debt above people'
ReplyDeletehttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/09/26/san-juan-mayor-trump-tweets-you-dont-put-debt-above-people/703096001/
Trump's lack of empathy about Puerto Rico is staggering
Delete...These comments are unconscionable given that Puerto Rico -- right now -- has limited communication and is on the verge of a massive humanitarian crisis. The island may be without power for months. The devastation there has been described as "apocalyptic" -- and Trump is concerned about what the territory owes to Wall Street and the banks? The lack of empathy is staggering.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/26/opinions/trumps-lack-of-empathy-about-puerto-rico-reyes/index.html
Puerto Rico is being treated like a colony after Hurricane Maria
Delete...No power? No food? No way to communicate with others?
Just pay up, Puerto Rico, because according to Trump, your U.S. citizenry might not get you the billions and billions of dollars you will need to rebuild an island that, officials say, was demolished so badly, it set Puerto Rico back nearly 20 to 30 years. And despite reports that short-term federal aid is now being rushed to the island — nearly a week after Maria — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday afternoon that plans to pursue a more comprehensive long-term relief package are premature.
The United States may not like to see itself as the type of nation that has colonies, but if you’re not treating Puerto Rico and its American citizens the same way as you treat states and theirs, that’s the only explanation. The island always struggles to get federal aid for natural disasters that flows virtually automatically to people on the mainland. Maria is the worst example, but it’s hardly the first.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/26/puerto-rico-may-not-be-a-colony-but-its-getting-treated-that-way/
China will be ready to help.
DeleteChina has helped Jamaica after one of the hurricanes, helped with infrastructure.
Puerto Ricans should just let them. The US gov doesn't care. Do whatever you need to do to survive people.
In recent years, Jamaica has deepened its relationship with China. In August 2012, during Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller’s visit to Beijing, Chinese Head of State Xi Jinping announced that Jamaica had become his country’s top trading partner in the Caribbean. State-run Chinese enterprises have also undertaken major infrastructure development projects on the island. A convention center, bridges, roads, and, most notably, the Highway 2000 North-South Link, which connects the north coast city of Ocho Rios to the capital, Kingston, are among some of these projects. China’s state-run China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), which is constructing the link, is scheduled to pay the entire $610 million USD project cost.[1] CHEC, which has been sanctioned by the World Bank, the United States, and the Asian Development Bank for corruption and fraud, has also been contracted by the Jamaican government for a number of public works projects across the country.[2] The Chinese government has also provided millions in loans to Jamaica, which, as of June 2015, is $24.7 billion USD in debt to China.[3]
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ReplyDeleteThere Should Be 'Great Anger' Over Trump's Puerto Rico Response
Hitting Puerto Rico while they're down doesn't help.
...Instead of rallying the United States behind the 3.4 million American citizens in Puerto Rico—and doing what most presidents might do and, you know, unite us through our common humanity—Trump chose to highlight the territory's debt to Wall Street. Meanwhile, 60 percent of Puerto Rico is still without clean water, power has not been restored, hospitals are running out of fuel for generators, and ATM lines are out of control.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12474898/trump-puerto-rico-response/
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Trump Botches His Response to the Crisis in Puerto Rico
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Meanwhile, the five former, still living, Presidents gather to get help for the hurricane victims.
DeleteThey have to show this a$$hat what a decent human being should do.
BTW: does anyone here know if tRump actually DID donate to hurricane Harvey aid? Remember, he pledged some small amount of his 'own' money...
http://wsvn.com/news/us-world/former-presidents-raise-funds-for-hurricane-disaster-relief/
Celtics legend Bill Russell takes a knee while wearing Presidential Medal of Freedom
ReplyDeleteA photo of basketball legend Bill Russell that has surfaced on Twitter shows the 83-year-old kneeling in solidarity with protesting athletes.
“Proud to take a knee, and to stand tall against social injustice,” the caption reads.
In the photo, the former Boston Celtic is wearing his Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Former President Barack Obama awarded it to him in 2011.
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/352441-celtics-legend-bill-russell-takes-a-knee
Love this!
Debt Due>"Trump International Golf Club Puerto Rico in 2008) borrowed more than $26 million in “government-backed bonds” to pay for renovations and old debts — but then defaulted nearly $120,000, declaring bankruptcy and leaving Puerto Rican Americans to pay the $32.7 million bill."The resort hosted the PGA’s Puerto Rican Open that year, but by 2011, the “resort sought more bonds to repay the earlier bonds.” The following year, Trump pocketed more than $600,000 in profits.
ReplyDeleteBy the time the resort filed for bankruptcy in 2015, it had done so under it’s original name."Eric Trump claimed his family’s business had “zero financial investment in this course” and merely lent it their name and managed their golf course, but the report stated he “filed a bankruptcy claim for about $927,000 for unpaid fees on behalf of Trump Golf Coco Beach LLC.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/trumps-failed-puerto-rico-golf-course-has-cost-the-territorys-taxpayers-more-than-32-million/
https://twitter.com/TheRynheart/status/912509620609884160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rawstory.com%2F2017%2F09%2Ftrumps-failed-puerto-rico-golf-course-has-cost-the-territorys-taxpayers-more-than-32-million%2F
crooked Hillary. yea, right. drumpt has been lying, cheating, stealing ect from the moment he was born. he got rich by screwing all of us. i don't think he is as rich as he claims, which is why we we wont see his tax returns.
DeleteThe ‘very big ocean’ between here and Puerto Rico is not a perfect excuse for a lack of aid
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/09/26/the-very-big-ocean-between-here-and-puerto-rico-is-not-a-perfect-excuse-for-a-lack-of-aid/
There was once a bridge here: A devastated Puerto Rico community deals with isolation after Maria
There was once a bridge here, connecting the neighborhood of San Lorenzo with the city center, connecting a community with the necessities of American life: supermarkets, gas stations, emergency services.
But Hurricane Maria was unkind to this place and that bridge. In the searing heat, families now trudge through murky, waist-deep water with grocery bags on their heads, large chunks of cement along the riverbed the only evidence that a crossing ever existed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/there-was-once-a-bridge-here-a-devastated-puerto-rico-community-deals-with-isolation-after-maria/2017/09/26/772c3a62-a2ca-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html
How Puerto Rico Is Becoming Trump's Katrina
Delete...Amid outcry about the botched federal relief response on Tuesday, Trump blamed the Caribbean island being too far away: "This is an island sitting in the middle of an ocean. It's a big ocean," Trump said. "It's a very big ocean." Unaccountably, the Navy hospital and disaster-relief ship Comfort remains docked in Virginia. Nonetheless Trump insisted, "We're doing a really good job!"
The crisis in Puerto Rico is grave: The island is without grid power, a major dam is in danger of bursting, 80 percent of the nation's crops have been destroyed, more than half of Puerto Ricans lack clean drinking water and thousands have been camped out waiting for flights from San Juan's sweltering airport, hobbled by a broken radar system. Medicine, food, cash, cell phone signal, gasoline and diesel are in short supply. Diabetes patients can't refrigerate their insulin; kidney dialysis patients are foregoing treatment. Hospitals running on backup generators are rationing fuel and suffering intermittent blackouts. The Category 4 hurricane inflicted a minimum of $30 billion in insured damage on an island with an annual GDP of just $100 billion. Puerto Rico's governor has declared a "critical disaster," and San Juan's mayor insists "there is horror in the streets" – many still flooded with toxic water.
Instead of attending to this natural disaster, Trump spent the weekend on vacation at his golf club in New Jersey, alternately stirring a culture war on Twitter (disinviting Steph Curry from the White House, telling NFL owners to fire anthem kneelers and praising NASCAR for being a safe space for white supremacy) and threatening real war (blasting Kim Jong-un, leader of North Korea – or, as Trump has rebranded it, #NoKo – and denouncing a missile launch by Iran that never happened).
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/how-puerto-rico-is-becoming-trumps-katrina-w505523
Don't worry Trump is going there for a photo op this week and i am sure Melania will provide inspiration as she hands out a sandwhich in her designer clothes while wearing her FLOTUS hat which always instills confidence in people who are living now with bascically nothing.
DeleteI am confident Trump will wear his windbreaker jacket with the Presidential seal on it to cover his fat ass, make a quick speech and get the hell out so he can scrub himself off and go back to the White House that he called a "dump" as fast as he can and than go back to bashing football because ya know priorities! He has rednecks burning their football jerseys and hats and he gets off on it. Nothing, and i mean nothing good has come out of his big mouth.Americans are embarrassed when we go overseas because we have to explain this idiot and we have no good answers.I for one am sick of it.
i was planning a trip to Europe and illness made me cancel, twice. i may be well in spring to go, if we are still here. i was going to make a sign that said-"it's not my fault-i didn't vote for the bastard."
DeletePerfectly said...I applaud you!
DeleteAnon 11:24, hope your health improves and that you speak out loud and clear when you DO go!
DeleteTrump’s failed Puerto Rico golf course has cost the territory’s taxpayers more than $32 million
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/trumps-failed-puerto-rico-golf-course-has-cost-the-territorys-taxpayers-more-than-32-million/
OMGosh. I knew it. He has even trashed PR. Good Grief that azz has taken from everyone. Wow is he a evil REALITY villain. A real live very bad joker that hates the world. History will not be kind to this family of bumbling soulless tards.
DeleteTrump writes about money "owed to Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with ..." Can't they just declare bankruptcy and avoid their debts? That's what Trump has always done.
ReplyDeleteThat was going to be my response.
Delete"Like YOU, donald dotard?"
Why doesn't he just condense all those characters into "Fuck Puerto Rico for embarrassing me"?
ReplyDeleteDamn, I really hate Trump.
ReplyDeleteAlso this: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-maria-puertorico-shipping/u-s-denies-request-for-puerto-rico-shipping-waiver-idUSKCN1C12UI
ReplyDeleteThat's what happens when Dictators rule. Donald is an elite Dictator. He has the same attitude Barbara Bush had when hurricane Katrina happened. Hard to see isn't it. And yet he rules.
ReplyDeleteOh, do I remember HER and her pearls.
DeleteShe couldn't have cared less.
Bar said something along the lines of "well, these people were poor to begin with so this is working out very nicely for them," and then snickered heartlessly.
DeleteGlad GHWB is standing alongside the other former POTUSes in doing the right thing--of course, if he didn't, he'd stand out rather glaringly. So we can't give him TOO much credit...
As it has been said Don John Drumpt is broke. And now in deep lawsuits and indictments.
ReplyDeleteAll I can say is: what a stupid, cruel response. Is it possible to live without a heart and a soul? Apparently so. I am so ashamed that this man is in the.White House, as are many other Americans.
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