Our President guys!

holy **** that is so vain

rofl look at this ****ing deplorable

+1

Did he accidentally wonder if the shipping industry's concern over a temporary waiver of the Jones Act was more important that delivering food and water?

You probably think this Senate race is about you, don't you?

Pathetic ass leakage.

No fair, guys -- media never gave me my participation ribbon!

You know what else, will avwal be deeply concerned when 300,000 do actually die and the ********** tweet storm directly blames dems, Hillary, and fake news for not reporting about the heroic effort to limit the loss to less than half a million?

That's what will undoubtedly happen: tweets praising the massive effort, despite dem interference and greedy Puerto Rican's, efforts that saw only 300,000 dead.

My sleep was badly disturbed last night and I'm pretty sure that post is why.

Think the idea that deaths will be actively covered up, Stalinist style, misunderstands the deplorable media landscape. They will want to know about all those dead brown people. Don't fool yourselves otherwise on this. It's titillating and exciting watching their enemies, people who are different from them, suffer. It will be acknowledged.

They just need political cover. We already saw the playbook in Katrina: they're going to find some picture of buses not operating, a pallet of Disani untouched on a dock, an empty cruise ship, whatever, and say it's the locals fault. It was Puerto Ricans lack of preparedness and incompetent local government that caused the crisis. They'll note Puerto Rico's debt crisis to ham handedly assert it was already a failed state. The utter deplorables will find a picture of George Soros and a Puerto Rican and propose some dark conspiracy or another.

It's not going to be actively hidden. That's no fun. The right gets off to the suffering AND the victim blaming.

LOL.

And, he's already slightly walked back #1 and added a caveat (it has to be because of government ineptitude, which he's already started excusing "What could Trump have done?")

The US has oriented its political and material infrastructure such that its President could bomb PR back to the stone age within hours, but has no idea how to give them water.

The hospital ship USNS Comfort should of been there right away too.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, and this is far from my area of expertise... But if you have the water, food and medicine there but there aren't enough drivers, can't you airlift supplies in? Focusing on water, specifically, it seems like there are two viable ways to help people:

1. Get them bottled water.

2. Get them purification tablets or bottles with purification filters.

It seems like we could deliver either supply via helicopter and even just drop the packages of tablets/purification bottles with parachutes if there's nowhere to land.

It also seems to me like FEMA should have purification supplies in storage constantly in various regions.

We're flailing around trying to get food and water from A to B. When you're the United States of America, "We don't have enough drivers," should not be the end of the conversation.

I mean, in times of war we surely have plans for getting supplies to the front lines if roads are cut off, right?

Fate has a way of making a bunch of salient stories come together at once. The last few weeks is sort of the apotheosis of right wing American takeover: cower in fear that we might irradiate the southeast Pacific, but look, if you need water, go figure it out yourself, and make damn sure you salute the flag and stand for the anthem at the greatness of all of this.

This is horrifying.



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I agree. If they were an independent country, things could get really bad, they might put an incompetent racist demagogue in charge for example.

Fake News. According to Avwal people are just overreacting about PR.

Im not so sure being a full part of the US is that attractive right now...

that video is chilling, gobbo.

Wow that audio clip. McMaster or somebody should just send everything. Trump can fire them or just take credit. It doesn't matter. Just get boots on the ground. USVI too.

pretty sure it would actually be the 88th

First terrorist attack in my home province last night. Thank God our provincial and federal government are leftist. We won’t get some massive over reaction in terms of civil rights.

In before the orange nazi says something really stupid about a wall on the Canadian border.

The point of my rants last night was that "words have meaning".

Matty doesn't need to sensationalize PR discussion with "hundreds of thousands" dead.

As always the response is, "awval is terrible." and "He'd let 300,000 Americans die for $82 in tax cuts". It's not even funny.

Trump will have to answer for the PR/FEMA response. But it's more than just a disaster response. Large amount of Puerto Rican's will permanently leave the island. Furthering their "brain drain". The island will need large Congressional disaster aid to fix their infrastructure. Hopefully the Congress rises to the occasion.

bro, it doesn't even matter. trump could get impeached and you'd vote for whatever terrible republican who ran in 2020 so you could save a few bucks. that's why you are a terrible person.