Jennifer Rubin at WaPo wrote about the WH ignoring the problems in Puerto Rico.
Her article was titled:Did Trump just figure out that Puerto Ricans are Americans?
My guess is “maybe” – but they’re brown people and they have funny accents, so in Donnie’s mind, there must be something fishy there,
Residents Outside San Juan Say They’ve Seen Nothing From Government
Well, " you can’t just drive a truck there". Sheesh, don’t people realize this?
" Nobody knew" PR was even part of the US.
The longer the almost-50 pharmaceutical factories remain offline, the more severe the prescription drug price increases, stockouts and shortages. Watch for Rumpublicans to blame it on Obamacare.
Puerto Rico, Houston, Southern Florida and beyond - good luck you’re on your own with Trump and the Republicans.
The hurricane is over and Trump has the attention span of a 5 year old…he is now creating another mess and is focussed on shutting down free speech rights of NFL African-American football players and their standing up for those brutalized by police and who don’t have a voice. Trump is focussed on the NFL…while the country is dealing with numerous natural disasters.
Wherever Trump goes he leaves a wake of hatred and lies. We know the next one is coming just not when or where…once the 5 year old is bored of the NFL mess he’s created, he’ll find someone else to attach. Maybe he’ll attach war hero John McCain again…before McCain succumbs to cancer.
I have often noted that when you have seen one disaster - you have seen one disaster. Every disaster is terrible to the people who experience it. That said, the response to Maria’s effect on PR reminds me more of New Orleans and Katrina than anything in recent memory, made worse by the remote location of many of PR’s (our) citizens. In New Orleans, we were also cut off, surrounded by water, and facing an indifferent (at best) and incompetent administration. It took FEMA five days to get water to the Superdome and we had dead bodies lying on the street outside the convention center for days. When our African American (underscore American) citizens tried to escape the city across the Crescent City Connection (the bridge spanning the Mississippi River), they were turned back by armed police, not allowed to flee for their lives. New Orleans had a poor infrastructure, a depressed economy, high unemployment, high illiteracy, and a large non-white population. We have a President who has shown disdain for all non-whites, so I am not surprised that the ongoing tragedy in PR has not received his full attention or that he focuses on their debts to banks before the human suffering. We are 12 years post-Katrina in New Orleans, and parts of the city still look like a waste-land. This is going to be a long and complicated process for the citizens of PR and will require a long-term commitment from the rest of us.
Who is not talking to who in the US Government? Rachel reported last night that Hillary had sent them the suggestion that the Navy deploy the USS Comfort and Navy hospital ship, yea!, except it will take them a few days to ready and 5 days to sail from VA.
With total wipe out of the power grid as anyone from FEMA gone to Home Depot and looked at stocking up on solar powered generators, they run from $1500.00 to over $2500.00. How many of these could be bought for the cost of Tom Price’s private jet use?
When all this is done, and it won’t be for a long time, will there be a review of how FEMA handled this particular crisis? Within the US Government’s sovereign territory there are more islands, like HI is nothing but islands.
Also on Rachel’s show last nigh there are commercial flights arriving and leaving PR airport, but mostly empty since their computers are still out. Why not do what you can to verify and send them on to TX , GA, or FL where screening can be done properly?
I know that it is easy to complain but when people are suddenly thrust back into the early 20th century our coping skills are not there to deal with this for an extended period of time.
Last night the Mayor of San Juan reported the help they were receiving was not being directed well. She pointed to 180 Healthcare workers ready and willing to get to work, bottled up in a stadium for two days awaiting orders. This is worse than Brownie.
“Jared! What the hell? I thought the ratings were good for this Puerto Rico thing! And I have to go there? Is the KFC open?”
Not under Prez Shitgibbon’s administration.
They’re too busy at the fed agencies figuring out how to spend tons of extra money on the Cabinet Secretaries on things like chartered jets to see family or go on vacays, building soundproof booths inside the office, and who knows what else. Who has time to deal with something like a humanitarian disaster for our own citizens. Plus the Pres tweeted that it’s the islands own damn fault - debt! decaying infrastructure! and Poor Wall Street banks need to be paid!
Good job, Brownie.
I wonder if this crisis, natural by origin and made critical by human indifference, will prompt enough decent people in Congress to make Puerto Rico our 51st State. It is already US territory, and therefore a US responsibility. People who live there have far less representation in our Congress, yet the same rights as any of the rest of us. Maria might just make the decision to grant Puerto Rico statehood too apparent to ignore any longer.