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(50,269 posts)demmiblue
(36,846 posts)Ugh, what a way to wake up in the morning. The Mayor of San Juan does not deserve this... she is speaking truth to power.
Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)and PROUD of it!
Laf.La.Dem.
(2,943 posts)Way too early for him to be playing golf!
demmiblue
(36,846 posts)Vinca
(50,269 posts)demmiblue
(36,846 posts)Response to demmiblue (Reply #3)
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madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)Dale Neiburg
(698 posts)Red Mountain
(1,733 posts)The people Trump is most likely to hide behind when he screws up.
spanone
(135,831 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,704 posts)There was a time when there was enough intelligence in their ranks to keep such individuals to backroom power maneuvering because they knew it would fall flat if their beliefs became public. But, the MAGA group is all about letting it all hang out these days. They love how he talks.
History will remember this era in the same way that it talks about the McCarthy era.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)Let's hope civil humanity survives long enough to properly embed it the history books. I do hope we learn from it.
lark
(23,099 posts)If the truth coms out this will be known as the time when a traitorous criminal was hired by a hostile foreign country to disrupt the world, destroy America and promote the interest of Russia, not us. If the truth doesn't come out, it will be because we are no longer America in any real sense because our constitution and way of life will have been destroyed.
drumpf is happy to kill them for the sin of being brown and not voting for him.
nolabear
(41,960 posts)This man is dangerously unhinged. And he's literally destroying America. And they're letting him.
demmiblue
(36,846 posts)The pleas, desperation and fear she displayed for her people is still in my mind.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)Sensitive little douchebag isn't he?
demmiblue
(36,846 posts)flygal
(3,231 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,175 posts)Fatass clogging up an airstrip, the SS bumping into everybody, shuttling him around as if he has the faintest idea of what he's looking at, generally getting in the way, and selling $40 MPRGA (Make Puerto Rico Great Again) hats.
This is one time I think everybody would be better off if he just took a long weekend and played golf.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)And they won't be Home Depot tiki torches!
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,082 posts)Sure, they visited shelters later, when the clean=up was well underway. But, never right after the event. I guess Melanoma is The Dotard's binky.
Baitball Blogger
(46,704 posts)mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)it's like breathing or blinking
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)demmiblue
(36,846 posts)Fuck him. Lawd, this pisses me off!
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)Nothing hidden there.
I cannot get my head around what a disgusting blob of ignorance he is.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)JDC
(10,127 posts)ashredux
(2,605 posts)dalton99a
(81,485 posts)"You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
Squinch
(50,949 posts)demanding that they say this to him.
As we saw the last time someone said it publicly, it matters.
This man is a sadist. Unbelievable.
flygal
(3,231 posts)that's why the feds are having a hard time doing their job.
fucking asshole.
fucking republicans supporting this asshole.
Squinch
(50,949 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)Not.
Afromania
(2,768 posts)Last edited Sat Sep 30, 2017, 09:54 AM - Edit history (3)
JESUS H FUCKING CHRIST
The people in PR are now getting sick, soon they will be dying! They are thirsty, hungry, sick, tired and reeling from the lost of of just about everything they own. How in the name of anything holy does he expect anything to get done with everything pretty much trashed. There is no there, there. How the fuck do you get anything done with zero, that is ZERO(0%), remaining infrastructure??? How? HOW??
He talks about how it's an island surrounded by water, and it' s so, so very hard to get supplies there??? Well you festering fucking sack of pus that's exactly why it's so difficult for them to get things going. If it wasn't on the island when the hurricane hit they don't have it. Just like everybody else in the modern world, they use just in time logistics. That shit doesn't work so damn well when a few supply routes are cut. How the fuck do you think it's going to work when everything is completely demolished??? The answer is it doesn't work, it doesn't work one fucking bit. You can have all the supplies in the world but if the normal delivery methods are gone and you don't have the available resources to go around(or over in this case) the problem. That stuff isn't going to get to where it needs to be. He claims he's a business man so he should know this shit works in triplicate, backwards and on skates. He's not shit, knows nothing and needs to go somewhere quiet and leave the the job in the hands of an actual caring, intelligent competent human.
Then, THEN, THEN with the people of PR doing the best they can to survive on nothing, with nothing, in the type of conditions that would be difficult for even the most staunch of individuals. This stupid facsimile of functional a human being has the unmitigated fucking gall to then question these peoples resolve but to then rub salt in the wound by acting like they were sitting around doing nothing until mainland forces arrived. They are part of this goddamncountry you bloated piece of evil orange shit. They shouldn't have to ask for a thing, you should be on your job and have shit in place and ready to go from the start. You didn't talk any of this garbage about SE Texas or Florida.
I hate this guy with every fiber in my body, if you support him I now hate you too. This fucking pieces of retrograde trash don't even have any kind of decency, no compassion, no heart, no soul. You, and your "leader" fucker are all nothing but rudderless husks. Any humanity they claimed only feigned and imitated. Him, and them, are irredeemable uncaring, soulless republican drone automatons.
If you are not as pissed as I am, no not pissed, I'm seething. If you are seething at how uncaring his piece of garbage is and how he's treating his own citizens then you simply aren't a good human. There is no excuse, there is no reason or rational to explain this away. There is no leeway anymore, for any of them and anybody propping up that shit up can go straight to hell.
nocalflea
(1,387 posts)I'm so angry I can hardly get these few words out. Thank you.
Afromania
(2,768 posts)He doesn't want to help Puerto Rico and her people. The mayor of Puerto Rico is right, he's treating them like animals. Maybe even worse than animals because I don't think he'd even treat a dog like this.
nocalflea
(1,387 posts)And that scares the hell out of me. Every voice that isn't lifted in outrage is complicit.
Now I'm going to have a good cry.
demmiblue
(36,846 posts)Afromania
(2,768 posts)nolabear
(41,960 posts)"I'll just say I hope he has a nice day playing golf. Now, here's what needs to be done."
I hope everyone else just does the same and works it out without him. He's worse than useless.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)General Honore was a true professional and practiced restraint in his reply. He stayed on issue as usual.
I did sense the disgust in his comment about "hope he has a nice day golfing". I could never be so restrained as he was. He's a better person than I am.
madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)This stands out for me: "...want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort."
Just take that in. The racism drips from every word.
The real story this morning is that Trump is a sick and unbalanced man who is being protected and enabled by republicans in Washington. Republicans are sacrificing the good of the nation for a tax cut. They have demonstrated that they are not patriots.
Mayor Cruz has shown to the world that she is the definition of a true leader. She should wear this attack as a badge of honor.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)there he goes, opening his arogant, white supremacist mouth again. Message to congress: haven't we suffered enough?!?! Impeach his ass now!!
maryellen99
(3,788 posts)maxrandb
(15,326 posts)I remember the pictures of the School Busses in the flooded parking lot. Media never did mention that there were not enough drivers, or that the roads out of New Orleans would have resulted in a couple hundred busses loaded with evacuees would have been riding out a Category 4 storm stuck in traffic.
It makes me wonder why some in the media haven't gone to Naval Station Norfolk (where I am today), and snapped a bunch of pictures of all our "big, beautiful, powerful, gleaming" ships tied up to the piers.
Check out Mayport, FL base as well, and you might want to check San Diego and Everett, WA too. It would take some time, but once you get there, it's only about a 12-14 hour Sea and Anchor Detail to get through the Panama Canal.
This should have been "all hands on fucking deck". As many people as our ships and planes could have carried should have been boat and airlifted off PR before the storm even hit.
We can ground 10's of thousands of flights in the United States in a matter of hours on 9/11, but we can't get ships and planes to PR?
Croney
(4,659 posts)How will they decorate the huge parade route to welcome Dunghole as he waves to the adoring crowd? Will there be enough water jugs to string together into a MAGA festoon?
DLevine
(1,788 posts)People's lives mean nothing to him. He's not just a malignant narcicist, he's fucking evil.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)If they have run out of bread, just let them eat cake!
Loryn
(944 posts)Unbelievable.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)How can anyone in public office say things that breaks the hearts and the will of people who are suffering?
SHRED
(28,136 posts)What a complete asshole.
This cannot be defended.
DoubleAgentOrange
(81 posts)It looks as though Hashtag Hitler's presidency has rapidly turned into The Nightmare Before #Twitmas, wherein every day is 9/11 and Katrina rolled into one.
MontanaMama
(23,314 posts)the R's is deafening. It is tacit approval of what Dotard is saying and not doing. Disgusting. Seriously, where the hell is Gen Kelly? Why isn't he taking this asshole's phone away and telling him what needs to happen? What needed to happen 9 fucking days ago????? I can't even...
ffr
(22,669 posts)How would he be privy to what their strategy would be unless he was part of that strategy.
Oh, that's right. HE'S A LIAR. I forgot.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)Of the infrastructure were still somewhat working. I had food and water. But still it all gets to you after a while. The destruction everywhere, the inconvenience, the heat, the long nights waiting for sunrise so you can start all over again and hope that you start to see something normal again. I cannot fathom how demoralizing and heartbreaking it is to lose EVERYTHING you own and compound that with the death and destruction everywhere you look like the people of Puerto Rico are facing. But the comments by tRump were just unnecessay and cruel. He has no capacity for just plain human decency. How can you kick people when they are down like that?
He has cooked his own goose. Yes, some will defend what he has said about the Puerto Ricans but the vast majority of us are feeling empathy for them and are heartbroken at their loss. He may not regret what he has said but we won't forget it. He will forever be tainted by his cruel and vicious comments about the people of Puerto Rico who also happen to be American citizens.
I know he is a sick man, incapable of normal human emotions. But damn. Even if he had to fake it, just keep his sickening thoughts to himself, can he not do that? Since he is so interested in what is good for HIM, can he not see how destructive those comments are to him?? Just count me in the baffled. I just can't even begin to understand how you get to be 71 years old and not figure out that saying these awful things about people who have been devastated will not work in his favor. Just shaking my head.....
sinkingfeeling
(51,454 posts)racist to the core.
58Sunliner
(4,386 posts)He will never have a shred of human decency. He is incompetent, unfit, unfit, unfit to serve in any capacity requiring accountability. It is a sign of denial to act as if he will do anything that does not benefit him. Remember all the football posts? A distraction. Another attempt at destruction. Who gives a shit what a mentally ill person thinks about football or taking a knee. Every public figure should respond to his criticism with the appropriate reference to his mental state. I think the energy would be better spent writing/calling repub reps/media in an all out campaign to remove him, frame him from his illness. Rule no. 1-perps all blame the victim. We are looking at his ugly sick sadism. You can make yourself crazy trying to deal with these types so it's important to keep a perspective.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)...this. As horrifying as his response to Charlottesville was, this seems somehow much worse. Pandering to neo-nazis and white supremacists of all types has the potential to be The Worst Thing Ever, but that is or was a concept. These are REAL Americans, dying...for real.
tiptonic
(765 posts)Just when I thought this 'A hole', couldn't go any lower, he proves me wrong. Putin must be laughing his behind off, at what he has done to our county.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Sadly they lean more Trump than they should, even now.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/11/09/hispanic-vote-election-2016-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/93540772/
Another election surprise: Many Hispanics backed Trump
malaise
(268,980 posts)WTF is that? He's a moron