Discussion: Trump Tells Alaska 'Federal Government Will Spare No Expensive' After Quake

lochsabill · November 30, 2018, 10:05pm

Or any other book (other than the pop up variety) it seems

beattycat · November 30, 2018, 10:11pm

Okay, it’s Friday night – let’s start dumping some news, folks.

occamscoin · November 30, 2018, 10:15pm

Those lazy alaskans should have raked the faults.

rascal_crone · November 30, 2018, 10:17pm

To the non-great people of California. You have been hit hard by a big wildfire. Please (this is a new word Ivanka is teaching me) follow all the directions of the highly trained professionals who are the only people who matter during crisis until one of them makes me mad. Also, you will have a tremendous earthquake, but it won’t be as good as Alaska’s.I bless you in god’s name.

lastroth · November 30, 2018, 10:33pm

Well you opened up this can of worms.

hugopreuss · November 30, 2018, 10:36pm

Well, Alaska looks like it is 110 % white (I know it is not, but that’s what it looks like from Republicanistan), votes solidly Republican, and gave us Sarah Palin. Yuuuuuuge difference compared to Puerto Rico!

lastroth · November 30, 2018, 10:38pm

Just you wait, Vlad will send some help PDQ.

losamigos · November 30, 2018, 10:39pm

Red state vs. Blue state.
Largely White vs. largely multicultural.

Then we can talk about those brown people in PR.

Edit: Zinke on Paradise fire: "There’s a lot of things I’d rather spend this federal money on rather than repairing damage of things that have been destroyed,”

thebigragu · November 30, 2018, 10:39pm

Or shoveled the snow.

lastroth · November 30, 2018, 10:39pm

St. Brawny the Bountiful?
Trip to Bountiful?

godwit · November 30, 2018, 10:44pm

Well, when they assessed the property the only structure was the slab, and it was in perfect shape <\s>

More seriously, the bureaucracy often causes a second disaster after the first and it takes an eternity to sort out. Nearly eight years after the Christchurch Earthquake they are still working on insurance claims (not to mention a plan for the damaged cathedral that sits in the center of downtown)

arawak · November 30, 2018, 10:45pm

Does Trump realize that a large number of Alaskans are brown-skinned, Native Americans who speak a second language? In other words, subarctic Puerto Ricans. Gasp!!!

When Drumpf discovers ths fact the money will stop.

coimmigrant · November 30, 2018, 10:52pm

Please follow the directions of the highly trained professionals who are there to help you.

I thought the GOP gospel according to Reagan commands that “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” When did that change?

darrtown · November 30, 2018, 10:59pm

I am fed up with Trump’s bullshit. Did he point out raking snow lowers the intensity of earthquakes? After all he’s the world’s leading expert on everything. A true renaissance man with the world’s best memory except when it comes to truthful answers to Mueller.

thebigragu · November 30, 2018, 10:59pm

The day Bill Clinton was elected POTUS?

thebigragu · November 30, 2018, 11:01pm

Aren’t earthquakes God’s punishment against the degenerate?
Pat Robertson on the Haitian earthquake.

darrtown · November 30, 2018, 11:02pm

Trump will fly direct to Anchorage from Buenos Aires and throw out some paper towels and call it good. Then again since the infrastructure in Anchorage is badly damaged praps he could actually hold an infrastructure week.

tiowally · November 30, 2018, 11:10pm

“The government will spare no expense for a state I won.”

riverstreet · November 30, 2018, 11:19pm

The President is not concerned about the cost to replace housing; his gut has told him that Alaskans live in igloos.

msm · November 30, 2018, 11:19pm

Don’t you remember when he was campaigning and said he was raised in a “Christianized home”? I’m not sure what that would be, but maybe some candles, a medium, and a lot of kinky stuff.