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Many Trump voters who got hurricane relief in TX think that Puerto Ricans shouldn't

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NoName999

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“He really made me mad,” said Maddox, 70, who accused Trump of trying to pit those on the mainland against Puerto Ricans, even though they’re all Americans.

“I don’t know,” said her husband, Fred Maddox, 75. “I think he’s trying.”

He continued: “It’s a problem, but they need to handle it. It shouldn’t be up to us, really. I don’t think so. They’re sitting back, they’re taking the money, they’re taking a little under the table. He’s trying to wake them up: Do your job. Be responsible.”

The divide in the Maddox household is one playing out across the country, as those who voted for the president debate how much support the federal government should give Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory without a voting member of Congress that is not allowed to vote in presidential elections.

Some supporters of the president, like Fred Maddox, agree with Trump that Puerto Rico’s infrastructure was frail before the storm; that the crisis was worsened by a lack of leadership there; and that the federal government should limit its involvement in the rebuilding effort, which will likely cost billions of dollars. But others, like Mary Maddox, are appalled by how the president talks about Puerto Rico and say the United States has a moral obligation to take care of its citizens.
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“Guess what? There’s a big chunk of the population that lives without electricity all the time,” Ramirez said, saying she was sharing the experiences of a friend who has family on the island.

Hogg, 76, nodded his head in agreement: “They never had it. Never had it.”

“They don’t live deprived, because it’s a beautiful environment,” she continued. “The weather is nice, the climate is good most of the time, so it’s different from here . . . It works there because of the climate. It wouldn’t work here.”

About 96 percent of Puerto Rico’s electricity customers had service before Maria made landfall, according to federal data; many of the rest had no power because of Hurricane Irma two weeks earlier.

Ramirez said the government should encourage those living in the hardest-hit areas to move to the mainland, out of the direct path of hurricanes and into communities with more-reliable infrastructure.

“I object. I object. They should stay where they are and fix their own country up,” Hogg responded softly, shaking his head, wrongly referring to the U.S. territory as a separate nation.
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But David Hogg, a retired electrical engineer who once worked at NASA, also said that Puerto Ricans’ “lack of responsibility is not an emergency on my part.” The same goes for Texans without flood insurance, he said.

His wife frowned, stared at him and asked: “So you have no mercy?”

“Uh-uh. No mercy,” he said. “They should do what I do: Spend the money, get insurance.”
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Fred Maddox, who is retired from inspecting commercial airline planes, says he doesn’t agree with many of the things Trump flippantly says, but he still believes in the president and would vote for him again. He likes having a businessman in office, especially one who’s not afraid to speak the painful truth — even if that means publicly calling out Puerto Rican officials during a crisis.

“It’s time,” he said, “we had someone in there to fight for us.”
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Deny me aid if old.

So.... Tell me how on Earth we can win these people with socialist policies when they only want "whites only socialism"? A racial caste system where everyone else is shit out of luck.
 
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Fantastapotamus

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“They don’t live deprived, because it’s a beautiful environment,” she continued. “The weather is nice, the climate is good most of the time, so it’s different from here . . . It works there because of the climate. It wouldn’t work here.”
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Rayis

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Does that bitch even know that Puerto Ricans are American citizens? God, this is infuriating, send them to Puerto Rico and leave them there to help the people.
 
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Linkstrikesback

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"“They don’t live deprived, because it’s a beautiful environment,” she continued. “The weather is nice, the climate is good most of the time, so it’s different from here . . . It works there because of the climate. It wouldn’t work here.”"

This is what I would call, to use the British Parlance, a "Dumb Motherfucker".
 
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Beartruck

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I love how his supporters even talk like him, with the constant repeating themselves ("Never had it, never had it")and the easily proven wrong statements, mixed with flat out cruelty.
 
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TeamLeftMatch

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What a bunch of pricks

"I need support, but don't help those guys. They're brown and not American."

This pretty much confirms that these idiot don't even know that Porto Rico is American land.

“I object. I object. They should stay where they are and fix their own country up,” Hogg responded softly, shaking his head, wrongly referring to the U.S. territory as a separate nation.
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old manatee

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“They don’t live deprived, because it’s a beautiful environment,” she continued. “The weather is nice, the climate is good most of the time, so it’s different from here . . . It works there because of the climate. It wouldn’t work here.”


Fuck these assholes. This is just like George Bush's idiot mom telling people huddled on the floor of the Superdome that they were actually better off than they used to be living on the streets. Fucking human animal hybrids.
 
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Relix

he's Virgin Tight™
Just to add.... 99.999% of the population has power. I don't know of anyone, even in more remote areas right in the middle of the mountains, who has no electricity under normal circumstances.
 
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SJRB

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It’s a problem, but they need to handle it. It shouldn’t be up to us, really. I don’t think so. They’re sitting back, they’re taking the money, they’re taking a little under the table. He’s trying to wake them up: Do your job. Be responsible.
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Holy shit, what is wrong with these people?
 
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Trickster

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At this point everyone needs to just accept that most of the people who voted for Trump are terrible people who will support Trump pretty much no matter what, so long as it doesn't directly impact them in a major negative way.
 
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Kinyou

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“They don’t live deprived, because it’s a beautiful environment,” she continued. “The weather is nice, the climate is good most of the time, so it’s different from here . . . It works there because of the climate. It wouldn’t work here.”
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Foffy

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Fred Maddox just has to love Ronald Reagan, for he was the start of the whole "business cares for the public best" bullshit.

Why weren't people like him hit harder with hurricanes..?
 
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Africanus

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Wait, so because the climate is more tropical, that’s the reason why?

No the climate can be just as inhospitable. Not to mention the humidity, rogue waves, tropical storms, higher HURRICANE risk. Electricity is very much needed, and it’s a shame that some people didn’t have it to begin with on the part of our government.
 
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spelen

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Based on the qouted section I don't think it's racism that leads that man to draw such Stange conclusion but lack of empathy. The man just doesn't care which means the less money spent on things he doesn't care about the better it would be for him
 
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theignoramus said:
The people interviewed in the article were educated in STEM fields. They're just sociopathic. And racist.
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Folks need to stop assuming all these folks are uneducated and poor. These are intelligent people who have decided to cast their lot in with a party that believes you get what you deserve and that extending your concern beyond yourself is to be “cucked.” These people have coldly decided to discard empathy as a guiding principle. They are crystallized cynicism.
 
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ultracal31

You don't get to bring friends.
They say don't judge all of them due to the words of a few but man these...people are making it very hard for me to not judge all of Texas.

Am I evil for thinking this?
 
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