The comparison between this number and the 9/11 death toll and the contrast in the federal governmentās response will not be lost on manyā¦
This outstrips Hurricane Katrina by a lot. Itās sickening that we are so far down the rabbit hole with this president that it will barely register with the voting public.
āLies, damned lies, and statisticsā
Sorry my fellow Americans who live in Puerto Rico. You just didnāt look like the guy who lives in the White House.
Maybe next time . . .
VOTE!
Terrible timing.
The Scoop Nazi has already declared victory and moved on, and besides, heās out of paper towels.
Oh good - we all feel so much better with paper towels.
We couldnāt afford them now with the new tariffs.
Too bad Puerto Rico was depending on its shithole national government for help.
The agency I blame is FEMA, why because it appears to me that they too didnāt know that P.R. is an island surrounded by big ocean.
Honestly I would hope that a federal agency had done a āworst case scenarioā and planned accordingly. Several commentors on posts about this story blame the ācorrupt P.R. govātā,well when the storm all but wipes out all communications, roads, and power a non corrupt govāt would have problems too.
Thatās almost 3000 American citizens dead, most of them in the aftermath of the hurricane when they could have been helped. Puerto Rico is still trying to rebuild, with hardly any support from DC. I would hope that every Puerto Rican sees this as the affront it is and votes against every Republican they can, if only to get Democrats into power so they can investigate and make sure this stuff doesnāt happen again.
Heck of a job Orangey!
Puerto Rico has very high voter participation in their local elections. They also participate in the US Presidential Primaries even though they have no vote in Presidential elections.
I read an article in the Washington Post about mid afternoon that said that PR Governor Rosello had accepted the 2,900 total from this study. So TPM might update to include that along side the statement that the Governor had not responded to a request for comment.
Itās appalling. There is a real human tragedy just off our shore, involving our own countrymen.
And itās not a major headline because itās not the only real, ongoing human tragedy involving our own countrymen. Itās not even the most recent.
Donald Trump and the GOP takeover is a nexus of tragedy. Actual, literal villains are taking over the world. In all fairness, we should absolutely expect to be inundated by genuine tragedies.
And just in case itās lost on anyone *cough * (Trump) *cough * thatās three thousand AMERICANS that lost their lives, while Trump fiddled, tweeting vitriol at the Mayor of the largest city there, as Rome drownedā¦ and then later went to toss paper towels at the victims as if it was something giddily specialā¦
Thereās a very special place in hellās kitchen of karma awaiting this manā¦ and it involves wearing an orange jumpsuitā¦ or maybe a firing squad.
Trump had plenty of local PR co-conspirators in the concerted campaign to denigrate San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Ortiz. The Mayor of Guaynabo, a municipality which has become the home to the largest number of affluent suburban developments in the San Juan Metro Area, invited Donald Trump to visit a Church inside an enclosed, gated affluent community (Mark Kurtz City of Quartz chronicles the development in California of gated suburban developments, they exploded in Puerto Rico during the late 80s and 90s). This is where Trump showed lack of familiarity with the need for water purification and then toted rolls of paper towels.
The Guaynabo mayor is of the PNP (New Progressive Party) which is pro-statehood and has become, since its mid 60s spin off from the Statehood Party, the default home of most of Puerto Ricoās right wingers and pro-Trumpers.
In the weeks and months following the Hurricane, anyone reading the Puerto Rico press (El Nuevo Dia and El Vocero on line editions) would have been witness to a concerted barrage of Op Ed pieces by the newspapersā regular PNP columnists and by PNP guest columnists making very personal and over the top ad hominem (is there a Latin word for attacks on a female?) attacks against Mayor Ortiz and accusing her of everything from using the hurricane for her political advantage (an advantage provided by PNP Governor Roselloās low energy response to the magnitude of the hurricane damage and the snail paced FEMA response) to mismanagement of San Juanās recovery efforts. It was small minded of Trump to attack Mayor Ortiz, but he had plenty of local Quisling helpers and advisors to inform his Tweeting. Including the PNP Resident Commissioner (non voting member of Congress) who praised Trump during his feckless paper towel visit to her constituents.
Strong evidence that being a state matters. If PR was a state, their senators could have held up all sorts of legislation and confirmations until they got all the funds they needed to recover and prevent this tragedy happening again.
Something not quite right about that, since they enjoy full American citizenship, no? When I lived abroad I could still vote, becauseā¦ citizen.
Itās clearly time for some changes re: P.R. Being āsecond-class citizensā isnāt working. Iād say itās time to bring them fully into the fold, assuming they even want to after how theyāve been treated.
Another good illustration of climate change FACT.
Thatās the situation for any American living in a U.S. territory. The cruel irony is that if your an American living in a foreign country, you can vote for President, but if your an American living in a U.S. territory, you canāt.