Discussion: Brock Long Won't Correct Trump Conspiracy On Hurricane-Related Deaths In Puerto Rico

Sycophants.

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And what is a planet?
It could be a tennis ball with some termites on it, it could be a magical place where we can have billions of humans, dump out waste everywhere, and live to be 1,000, it could be many things - who can say?

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If it seems that Brock Long is not suitably loyal to Our President, perhaps Ronnie Jackson is available.

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Started back with W and his decision to put toadies in positions of authority (high $$$$$$) as rewards for their “loyalty” to the Rethuglican aims of proving that government doesn’t work for you (unless of course you are a Rethuglican).

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Standard modern Republican stance, out of the totalitarian playbook: there are no facts, there is no truth apart from the pronouncements of The Leader.

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Where were the obvious follow up questions? The studies by GWU and Harvard and the estimate from PR Governor Rosello are literally two orders of magnitude higher than Trump’s self congratulatory illusion, so let me ask you again Mr. Long. And how do these estimates compare to the statistical analysis done by FEMA or, if "we don’t count deaths,” then by the federal agency who is charged with that responsibility?

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“Tide goes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.”
Internationally renowned geophysicist Bill O’Reilly

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This is like asking one of these clowns if they agree with Trump that global warming is a hoax created by the Chinese. Of course they won’t correct it, but at the same time they can’t really defend the claim, so instead they go with some version of “the numbers are all over the place, there’s just no way to know what’s actually happening.”

Of course Brock knows that the reality in this case is that most of the difference between the initial death toll and the eventual death toll is the difference between direct / day-of-the-event deaths, and later / indirect deaths.

Trump only wants to talk about the immediate direct deaths – drowning, fatally injured wen house collapsed, etc – and doesn’t want to acknowledge the subsequent, indirect deaths.

Why? Partly because the indirect deaths make up most of the total death toll, and partly because many of the indirect deaths may have been caused by the administration’s weak and incomplete response to the disaster.

So Brock covers for Trump’s dissembling, by mentioning the difference between direct and indirect casualties, while not admitting that Trump is vastly understating the actual death toll by only acknowledging the initial, direct casualties. And then throwing a big blanket of obfuscation over the whole thing by claiming that “the numbers are all over the place.”

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Another Trump lackey unwilling to say the truth and is openly corrupt. Such people deserve scorn and contempt for the rest of their lives.

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Brock Long is a disgrace. He’s fucking terrible at his job and even worse as a Trump shill.

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He apparently did something that really POed his boss Kristen Nielson who is now gunning for him to be replaced by one of her partners from the Dim Son reign of error. Dotard gonna have a hard time deciding who to fire when Nielsen is doing such a fine job of locking up kids in concentration camps while Brock is doing double time supporting the idiots lies. Good god almighty can you imagine having a job that depended on sucking up to a useless piece of crap like dotard? What would it be like waking up every morning knowing your job depended on being a sycophant rather than focusing on getting aid to disaster victims?

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Put another way … just another Trump sycophant giving the boss a hand job.

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You may be right. But what struck me about Kavanaugh was how inappropriate and phony his interaction was with his daughter’s basketball team. The girls were 12 or 13 years of age, and he was sort of hugging them, they were gazing into his eyes, etc. Have you of you hung around with preteens? They don’t behave like that with adults, even with adults they respect. It was as though Kavanaugh was trying way too hard to prove that he has a positive relationship with women.

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Piles of Shit, it just keeps growing. I can’t keep up. Whatever happened to just say no? Did they change their minds? Is there no common sense? Are they all intitiled? Is anyone in charge? Are they all grifters? Did they forget to use ridix?

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What a surprise, a Trump lackey lacking balls.

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I’d be surprised if there isn’t some at least mostly accepted methodology for calculating deaths from disasters, including both direct and indirect. They happen all the time, and we always get numbers. I’ve never heard anyone say “well, you just never know”.

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With the damage he is doing to the Republican Party, you could almost suspect TRUMP is a secret Democrat (the main reason you can’t is because he’s not capable of keeping a secret.)

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Jealous over here, over that experience.

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You mean this mug? If that doesn’t have the whiff of sexual predator or at the very least ‘condescending prick’ written all over it, I don’t know what does. Obviously the man can’t stand his own stink. Reminds me of that SNL character that keeps smelling her own armpits from the hands she has tucked under her arms there from insecurity.

Something is seriously off with this guy.

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Shouldn’t that be “predator” relationship with women?

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