LumpOfCole
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Trump talks about Puerto Rico the same way the Dursleys might talk about Harry Potter. Were not going to help you forever, you know!
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Trump threatens to abandon Puerto Rico relief efforts
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Technosteve
Banned
i wonder if this event will push Puerto Rico to become a state
entremet
Member
They voted yes. You need Congressional approval, which won't happen.
Technosteve
Banned
well that sucks
NullPointer
Member
Whats the hang-up? Classic zero sum thinking in terms of either Democrats or Republicans netting those votes? Or an obligation to deal with their debt and piss off Wall Street? Both?
theignoramus
Member
Everyday this pig of a president offends anyone with a shred of decency. Literally. every. single. day.
Isaac Otherworld
Member
Republicans think the PR becoming a state means a permanent +2 dem senators and however many representatives the state will have. That's it really.
Democrats don't talk about it, push for it, or fight for it.
Same with D.C.
There's no logical argument for Washington D.C. being not represented in congress, but since it doesn't help republicans they just don't do it. It's bogus
A permanent +2 democratic Hispanic senators. That's the real reason.
Same reason they opposed DC Statehood for years. They didn't want +2 democratic Black senators.
They'd be a little more amenable to DC Statehood now that DC is not as Black.
GitarooMan
Member
Gross. Just brazenly insulting them.
Disgusting.
Disgusting.
Wow, what a comforting, backhanded slap to the people of PR.
....Seriously does this fucking moron understand that these people DID have power and drinking water BEFORE the storm, or??
Disgusting.
Maybe I'm stupid, but... what he means with H's?
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https://twitter.com/chefjoseandres/status/918800088058748928
HurricanesMaybe I'm stupid, but... what he means with H's?
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https://twitter.com/chefjoseandres/status/918800088058748928
Ravensmash
Member
Disgusting.
Erm, this is a new low.
If it's what he means with H's then that tweet is... oh wow
Disgusting.
This dude is something else holy shit. Begs for praise and blames you for everything else.
RPGCrazied
Member
Bad before the hurricanes? I think he means after, but still that tweet is disgusting and totally tone deaf.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I think it is now safe to say Donald Trump hates brown people
Yep. To him, every Puerto Rican person lived in a wooden hut with spotty electricity (I'm talking a single light bulb dangling from a string in each hut), and got their water from the village water pump before the hurricane.
He most definitely meant before. He just tweeted this yesterday:
He's gaslighting, this wasn't the first time nor will it be the last.
He's trying to say he/government are doing the best they can and the reason people are being critical is because of how much of a piece of shit Puerto Rico already was.
Anyone who isn't himself, but especially people who aren't white.
You might be onto something 🤔
catapult37
Member
No, he means before. His main concern is that PR pays back large debts they already owe to private industry. PR was in a massive, crushing economic crisis already. This is all Trump cares about and why he doesn't want to help them now. Literally his first tweet after Maria was about the money they owed.
It's almost certainly a tweet. People like being cute with the format.
It would be nice if everyone posting his tweets would also link to them.
Ravensmash
Member
Yep.
He's basically using the PR people as a way to 'reinforce' his earlier argument about the poor infrastructure.
"They know it was bad before - trust me! "
Very very odd behaviour.
Brock Reiher
Banned
It's @realpresssecbot. I ain't going to his Twitter.
Why does this matters to him and his base?
PR people is lumped into the same category with blacks and other PoC for them.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I hate this man so much
This was just posted in another thread, but I think it fits here, too. It's a Rachel Maddow report about some of the medical personnel apparently treating themselves to "spa days" (using Puerto Rican people to do so, no less), as well as a bit about how things are going on the hospital ship that's docked there.
Spoiler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCiyjlq3ncE
Spoiler:
It's fucking disgraceful if accurate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCiyjlq3ncE
Elginer
Member
Disgusting.
What the fuck?! Man this motherfucker can go fuck himself. What a piece of vile shit. Excuse me but as a PR and with family currently just trying to survive there that's some bullshit.
NullPointer
Member
Nobody wants *you* Donald, they want FEMA and the Military and a unequivocating reliable fucking message of continuing support, not Trump's schizophrenic, sociopathic false bravado twitterverse debt-reminding empty platitude nonsense.
AdventureMike
Member
"I will always be with them!"?
Dude thinks he's Jesus Christ or something.
Dude thinks he's Jesus Christ or something.
Shadow Puppetry
Member
He doesn't know how to spell hurricanes, huh? What does the letter H posse for that apostrophe?
Funyarinpa
Member
Son of a bitch.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Disgusting.
I refuse to believe this is real.
Well, he does have his religious advisors feeding him that he is God's mouth on Earth.
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