He fails. He strikes out. He defends himself. He blames others. See a pattern here.
Canât wait for cogressional repulbicans to squirm and fret about this, and then do less than nothing about it.
Just when the hell is enough enough? I can imagine a few months ago people saying âWell, at least he hasnât attacked disaster victims.â
âItâs never innapropriate for the President to support our troops and the flag.â
âBut sarah, heâs attacking victims of a hurricane.â
âItâs a black and white issue, April.â
Until the media develops a set of balls, they will continue to be belittled by trump and company. The media is cowered by this bunch and shows that corporate America controls the levers of news we receive, not much different than any third world dictatorship.
Living on the west coast, in the area that could be devastated by a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake, this response is something I have been terrified of since he became president - if the earthquake hits help would be slow in coming and things would get much worse because we didnât vote for him. Those of us in Oregon and Washington may just be SOL. What a small and inhumane person. Amazing how someone can thrive in life without a shred of human decency.
The âfake newsâ is going to crucify him this weekend.
He just committed a really, really bad error. By tweeting this crap out, he has guaranteed wall to wall coverage all weekend on Puerto Rico. Worst possible time. The WH communications staff isnât prepared to get surrogates out to defend this bullshit, and the talking heads will be discussing nothing else. Its an easy position for them to takeâŚSave Lives.
So he is looking at 48 hours of non stop criticism, with very little, or at best, very limited, ability to respond. And the thing about disasters like Maria? They donât get better when you ignore them and change the subject on MondayâŚthey get worse. Ask W. regarding Katrina, which broke his presidency. The Bush WH never recovered from that. This is going to a disaster of even larger magnitude.
The GOP have confirmed a level of idiocy I didnât think possible, Because again, there is no realistic path forward where this WH âpivotsâ or âcorrects its trajectoryâ. It only gets steadily worse.
Reminded elsewhere of Joshâs post yesterday per leveraging the rebuilding as a massive privatization scheme. Recalled some awful things reported on in the implosion of Enron regarding privatization in third world countries. Look particularly at what happened in The Dominican Republic when Enron got control of Utilities. From 2002:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2002/09/25/the-enron-of-the-developing-world/21f4c823-5d09-4b32-bc15-25eaed50b985/?utm_term=.aaa9c16b4f36
You donât even have to look at the Dominican Republic. Just look at what Enron did to California. A particularly sore spot for me, personally, as I was consulting for a green field company subsidiary of PG&Eâs holding company, literally my dream job in Portland, OR, when they forced PG&E into bankruptcy because of the manipulations of the energy out there. They were screwing the power grid every which way to Sunday, to make a buck and because they could.
if the earthquake hits help would be slow in coming and things would get much worse because we didnât vote for him.
Good point. If the San Andreas fault in CA goes any time soon, weâre toast.
He realized that he had stepped in it with the critical tweet, but is unable to admit that he had made an error. Instead, he has to blame the media, not only because he canât ever take responsibility, but because he knows his supporters will love it.
Hope he enjoys his golf game.
Heâs supposedly going on Tuesday, but I wonder if heâll cancel due to non-positive reactions from the populace (sort of like he canât go to England because there are threatened riots).
He is a germophobe, âWhat was the middle part, did you say: Cholera ?â
Maybe someone will finally ask the question about the impact of the proposed massive tax cuts. With huge amounts needed for hurricane relief in TX, FL, PR, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, where is that money coming from? It was going to be a burden with current taxes in place, how will it even work when corporations and the ultra wealthy contribute even less?
If he does show up, the mayor should fill a glass with tap water and invite him to drink it down in front of the cameras.
Major kudos to TPMâs headline writer for the most accurate use of the word âpivotsâ I have ever seen in a Trump story.
An infantile blame-shifting auto-toggle between the people he is failing to help and the people who are illuminating his failures is the only âpivotâ he has ever been capable of.
The taps arenât working. Make that water poured out of a much used plastic bottle filled down at the creek. Or a plastic bucket, previous use undetermined.
And donât forgetâŚthose golf weekends and private planes for his Cabinet donât pay for themselves
good point. Somehow, I donât think weâll see a Papillon-at-the-leper-colony moment.
Edit: short quote from above that is not showing (unless clicked upon) that goes with tweet-
âUltimately the government of Puerto Rico will have to work with us to determine how this massive rebuilding effort ⌠will be funded and organized, and what we will do with the tremendous amount of existing debt already on the island,â Trump said.