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boutons_deux

06-23-2018, 05:45 AM

FEMA Has Rejected 60 Percent of Assistance Requests in Puerto Rico. Why?

Reports from lawyers on the ground suggest the organization was ill-equipped to actually handle the devastation it found.

Many Puerto Ricans have a jaundiced view of the federal response to Hurricane Maria:

Federal aid was slow to materialize (https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/27/donald-trump-fema-hurricane-maria-response-480557) compared with aid to Texas,

and President Trump appeared at times glib and dismissive (https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/03/politics/donald-trump-paper-towels-puerto-rico/index.html) of the island’s plight.

High on the ledger of residents’ catalog of grievances is the hefty number of people who have been rebuffed for repair grants from FEMA:

In March, lawyers and community groups said that

the agency had denied about 60 percent (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/business/puerto-rico-business-maria.html) of household applications in Puerto Rico,

often because families could not prove (https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/595240841/unable-to-prove-they-own-their-homes-puerto-ricans-denied-fema-help) ownership of their homes.

FEMA’s denial rate for individual assistance is always high (http://www.houstonpress.com/news/nearly-a-quarter-of-fema-applications-in-texas-are-being-denied-after-harvey-flooding-9922379)— about 30 percent (https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Fewer-than-half-of-FEMA-Harvey-requests-approved-12515142.php) of Texans were rejected for Harvey-related requests by January. But as of March,

FEMA grant denials in Puerto Rico after Maria nearly double (https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/595240841/unable-to-prove-they-own-their-homes-puerto-ricans-denied-fema-help) that number.

In a series of interviews, lawyers and residents told me that

FEMA presided over a poorly managed process that failed to account for the island’s unique customs.

https://slate.com/technology/2018/06/hurricane-maria-aftermath-fema-rejects-60-percent-of-assistance-requests.html

Trash gives HIMSELF 9 out of 10 for his fucked up FEMA's non-aid to PR.

boutons_deux

06-26-2018, 08:09 PM

Trump's using racist Supreme Court precedent to justify neglecting Puerto Rico (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/26/1775598/-Trump-s-using-racist-Supreme-Court-precedent-to-justify-neglecting-Puerto-Rico)

In 1978, the “rational basis” arguments for discriminating against Puerto Rico were that its residents didn’t contribute enough to the Treasury, that it

was too expensive to include Puerto Rico in federal programs, and that

“inclusion … might seriously disrupt the Puerto Rican economy.”

Re-read that last reason. Then consider the 1980 clarification:

“[G]reater benefits could disrupt the Puerto Rican economy.”

The Supreme Court of the United States accepted a racist generalization about the propensity of Puerto Ricans to work and provide for their families as a rational basis for denying them the same federal benefits as stateside Americans.

The Trump administration—specifically,

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar—is now attempting to use that same reasoning

to defend against a new version of this challenge to a status quo that never should have been established.

Filed April 13, the complaint (https://new.reorg-research.com/data/documents/20180416/5ad4d2a203b49.pdf)—brought by Sixta Glays Peña Martínez—

challenges Puerto Rico’s exclusion from SSI and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits

as well as Medicare Part D Low-Income Subsidies under the Equal Protection Clause.

The Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4559865/15916795684.pdf), filed June 25,

leans explicitly, and heavily, on the explicitly racist precedent set by the court 40 years ago.

They’re not as explicit in adopting racist reasoning, but they’ve incorporated it by citing these cases—and

quoting the portions that specifically uphold that rationale for discrimination against Puerto Rico.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1775598

The Repug kakistrocracy: a corrupt, venal BigPharma asshole Azar running HHS and a famous RACIST JeBo running DoJ

boutons_deux

07-01-2018, 06:52 PM

Hundreds of Puerto Ricans who fled Hurricane Maria to lose U.S. housing assistance

They may soon lose access to the motels they've called home since fleeing the deadly storm.

Nearly 1,800 Puerto Ricans displaced after Hurricane Maria will be forced this week to move from the motels they have called home for 10 months, either taking a one-way ticket back to the island or finding housing of their own on the US mainland.

“If this eviction goes forth, it will do irreparable harm to people who have already suffered so much,”

“Thousands of people lost homes, jobs, cars, places to go to school, and are suffering unnecessarily. FEMA can end this by activating the Disaster Housing Assistance Program (DHAP) now. Instead,

FEMA is offering one-way plane tickets to send people back to a place that is in no way ready to receive them.”

https://thinkprogress.org/hundreds-of-puerto-ricans-who-fled-hurricane-maria-to-lose-u-s-housing-assistance-4a050298fc32/

boutons_deux

07-17-2018, 02:57 PM

Trash immediately gave himself 9 / 10 for PR response, which humbly way below his usual 10 / 10

FEMA Report Acknowledges Failures in Puerto Rico Disaster Response

it failed to properly prepare for last year’s hurricane season and

was unable to provide the support victims needed in the wake of an unprecedented season of catastrophic storms,

Most of the shortcomings focused on the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and many of those outlined in the report —

a lack of key supplies on the island before the storm,

unqualified staff, and

challenges with delivering emergency supplies —

were detailed in a recent FRONTLINE and NPR documentary Blackout in Puerto Rico (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/blackout-in-puerto-rico/), slated to re-air July 17.

The FEMA report found that its

warehouse in Puerto Rico was nearly empty when Hurricane Maria hit last September,

without cots or tarps, and

very low levels of food and water,

as most of the supplies had been rerouted to the U.S. Virgin Islands following Hurricane Irma.

It also found the

agency as a whole had been

understaffed going into the hurricane season,

leading to personnel shortages

as well as problems with “workforce certification.”

FRONTLINE and NPR examined internal documents that found

nearly half the staff on the island after the storm was “untrained” or unqualified.”

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/fema-report-acknowledges-failures-in-puerto-rico-disaster-response/ (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/fema-report-acknowledges-failures-in-puerto-rico-disaster-response/)

iow, FEMA, going back to "heckuva job, Brownie", is how Repugs FUCK UP govt, with fatal consequences.

5000+ dead in PR from FEMA's disastrous response to the disaster

rmt

07-17-2018, 08:51 PM

Ducks is just breathlessly stupid. I've never seen anything like it. He almost makes spurtacular seem lucid.

Almost.

Hey, now. ducks was the only one on this board who really believed that Trump would win - held out till the end - kudos. While the ENTIRE board was "breathlessly stupid"/wrong :-)

Th'Pusher

07-17-2018, 09:24 PM

Hey, now. ducks was the only one on this board who really believed that Trump would win - held out till the end - kudos. While the ENTIRE board was "breathlessly stupid"/wrong :-)

Do you think that Ducks believing DJT would win the election shows his intellect? Honest question.

rmt

07-17-2018, 09:49 PM

Do you think that Ducks believing DJT would win the election shows his intellect? Honest question.

I'm just saying that (whether it shows his intellect or guessing ability or instinct or luck) he was RIGHT, and the ENTIRE board was WRONG.

pgardn

07-17-2018, 09:53 PM

I'm just saying that (whether it shows his intellect or guessing ability or instinct or luck) he was RIGHT, and the ENTIRE board was WRONG.

Hater called it and then backed out last minute.
Beautiful stuff...

boutons_deux

08-09-2018, 05:10 PM

Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico acknowledges hundreds died

Puerto Rico has acknowledged that Hurricane Maria killed 1,427 people in the US territory, not 64 as it has previously reported.

The latest figure was in a draft report for US Congress,

requesting $139bn (£108bn) in recovery funds. :lol

The official figure of 64 has remained unchanged since last year despite some experts estimating 4,600 deaths. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44294366)

The New York Times was first to report that the island's authorities had quietly accepted the revised estimate. (http://www.p3.pr.gov/assets/pr-draft-recovery-plan-for-comment-july-9-2018.pdf)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45127972

djohn2oo8

08-28-2018, 11:19 AM

3000 deaths

boutons_deux

08-28-2018, 11:49 AM

Disaster/vulture capitalism is gonna fuck up US-toy PR even more, sucking $100Ms out of a poor, powerless populace.

Turmoil slows rebuilding of Puerto Rico’s power grid

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/turmoil-slows-rebuilding-of-puerto-ricos-power-grid/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/turmoil-slows-rebuilding-of-puerto-ricos-power-grid/)

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Houston mayor makes desperate plea for Hurricane Harvey recovery aid

“Literally, there are thousands of people living in homes that need to be remediated,” said Turner.

“And there are thousands of people who are still living in hotels.

And the question is, where do they go when FEMA says, ‘No more’?”

The push is part of Houston and Texas’s request for Congress to approve a bill for $61 billion in federal assistance.

Thus far the state has received $11 billion in federal disaster aid —

far less than the nearly $115 billion of federal assistance provided after Hurricane Katrina or

the $56 billion after Hurricane Sandy.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hurricane-harvey/houston-mayor-makes-desperate-plea-hurricane-harvey-recovery-aid-n832011

Repug MISgoverance: $Ts in tax cuts for the oligarchy, while screwing the non-oligarchy.

boutons_deux

08-30-2018, 07:57 AM

Trump Revives Criticism Of Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria Death Toll Jumps

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz slammed the president for being “incapable of feeling solidarity and empathy.”

President Donald Trump (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/donald-trump) tried once again to shift blame onto Puerto Rico (https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1034878774305800194) for the response to Hurricane Maria, even after the U.S. territory’s government officially raised the death toll by thousands.

The president said he thought the federal government did a “fantastic job in Puerto Rico” after a reporter asked about its response in light of the new numbers.

“We have put billions and billions of dollars into Puerto Rico, and it was a tough one,” Trump said Wednesday. “Don’t forget their electric plant was totally dead before the hurricanes.”

the electricity grid had been in desperate need of an overhaul for years, but it was not “dead” before Maria hit

praised the work of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

“They were very brave and they have done some job, but Puerto Rico had a lot of difficulties before it got hit,” Trump said.

“And we’re straightening out those difficulties even now.” :lol 3000 dead TOO LATE!

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-hurricane-maria-criticism-puerto-rico_us_5b86efdbe4b0511db3d4415f?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__083018&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__083018+CID_1a456d6d a510098b0bb0b1119477c1f6&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__083018

Winehole23

08-31-2018, 11:58 AM

https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/projects/PRstudy/Acertainment%20of%20the%20Estimated%20Excess%20Mor tality%20from%20Hurricane%20Maria%20in%20Puerto%20 Rico.pdf

boutons_deux

09-13-2018, 07:52 AM

Epitiomizes Repug FEMA misgovernance, fucking incompetence, inhumanity

20,000 Pallets Of Water Bottles Were Left In Puerto Rico, And No One Seems To Know Why

The bottled water for Hurricane Maria aid has been sitting on a tarmac for an unknown amount of time and is no longer drinkable.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hurricane-maria-water-bottles-puerto-rico_us_5b9980eee4b0511db3e8ec3f?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__091318&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__091318+CID_14cc190c b8ca93057035c2f0c05ea68e&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__091318

ducks

09-13-2018, 09:09 AM

Damm the leaders there are stupid
They could have called and asked if they could use them or just drink it
Can not fix stupid corrupt leaders I guess over there

leemajors

09-13-2018, 09:14 AM

Damm the leaders there are stupid
They could have called and asked if they could use them or just drink it
Can not fix stupid corrupt leaders I guess over there

No you are just stupid.

boutons_deux

09-13-2018, 11:29 AM

Trump questions number of deaths attributed to Hurricane Maria, falsely says Democrats created a higher count to make him look bad

President Trump took issue Thursday with the number of deaths attributable to Hurricane Maria,

falsely saying a much higher count had been

generated by Democrats to “make me look as bad as possible.”

A sweeping report from George Washington University released last month estimated there were 2,975 “excess deaths” in the six months after the storm made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017.

Trump said on Twitter that “they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths”

when he visited the island about two weeks after the storm.

“As time went by it did not go up by much,” Trump wrote.

“Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000. ...

This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible

when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico.

If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list.

Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!” :lol

Trump’s tweets — which came as a highly dangerous Hurricane Florence churned toward the Carolinas —

brought an immediate rebuke from Democrats in Congress, as well as some Republicans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-questions-number-of-deaths-attributed-to-hurricane-maria-falsely-says-democrats-created-a-higher-count-to-make-him-look-bad/2018/09/13/9519308a-b73b-11e8-a7b5-adaaa5b2a57f_story.html?utm_term=.d613ac1e2690&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

Breaking: Don the Con Trash is fraudulent lying piece of shit loser in every aspect of his being.

Brazil

09-13-2018, 12:21 PM

:lmao so in fact they did not die

benefactor

09-13-2018, 12:29 PM

Damm the leaders there are stupid
They could have called and asked if they could use them or just drink it
Can not fix stupid corrupt leaders I guess over there
Kind of like a leader that claims only 18 people died in a hurricane that killed thousands amirite?

boutons_deux

09-14-2018, 01:17 PM

Puerto Rican evacuees search for housing before hotel vouchers expire

Vouchers allowing Puerto Ricans displaced by hurricane Maria to live in hotels on the mainland will

expire on Sept. 14.

With limited resources, many evacuees are faced with tough decisions to keep roofs over their heads.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2018/0913/Puerto-Rican-evacuees-search-for-housing-before-hotel-vouchers-expire

Winehole23

09-14-2018, 11:53 PM

https://pics.me.me/donald-j-trump-realdonald-trump-half-the-universe-did-not-36246376.png

boutons_deux

09-16-2018, 11:55 AM

FEMA head blames “spousal abuse” for more deaths in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria

The Trump administration undercounted the number of deaths due to Hurricane Maria but they have an excuse as to why

https://www.salon.com/2018/09/16/fema-head-blames-spousal-abuse-for-more-deaths-in-puerto-rico-post-hurricane-maria/

The Repugs's REPUGNANT FEMA, misgoverned

boutons_deux

09-19-2018, 10:25 AM

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/42143661_2137986169863113_2490750701450297344_n.jp g?_nc_cat=0&oh=8776538b03560e532d3624d5101ad87f&oe=5C23B9BB

boutons_deux

09-19-2018, 07:21 PM

‘Grossly inaccurate’: 130 members of the House and Senate demand Trump apologize for refusing to accept Puerto Rico’s death count

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/grossly-inaccurate-130-members-of-the-house-and-senate-demand-trump-apologize-for-refusing-to-accept-puerto-ricos-death-count/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

09-24-2018, 12:50 PM

Trash hates women, esp brown women

Trump: ‘Incompetent’ San Juan Mayor Means ‘Absolute No’ On Puerto Rico Statehood

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-absolute-no-puerto-rico-statehood?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

... and ALL his "business" is personal, not professional, not governmental, not For The People, always For Trash Himself.

Spurminator

09-24-2018, 01:58 PM

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A very principled position for a very principled man.

boutons_deux

10-04-2018, 11:57 AM

Rich, white towns are getting more hurricane recovery help than others

One town got $60,000 per person. A neighboring area got just $84.

Small, rich, white towns in southeast Texas are getting a disproportionate amount in federal disaster recovery funds following Hurricane Harvey compared to neighboring communities that are poorer and have a larger minority population,

The report pointed out the very affluent and very white community of Taylor Landing, a small town of just 228 residents, which received $1.3 million in funds to help its 22 hurricane affected residents. That comes to about $60,000 per affected resident.

Meanwhile, just 15 miles east, Port Arthur received just $84 in federal funding per person.

Out of 54,000 residents — more than a third of whom are black — almost everyone was impacted by Harvey, and the city had a high poverty rate.

It received $4.1 million in the same set of federal funds, to be distributed among 50,000 affected people.

The report placed the blame on the way the state and local commissions distribute federal housing funds.
https://thinkprogress.org/rich-white-towns-in-texas-get-more-hurricane-harvey-recovery-funds-than-poor-minority-areas-d52a4843dfed/

boutons_deux

11-11-2018, 11:14 PM

Trash is done fucking over Puerto Rico, brownies, don't speak English

Donald Trump wants to cut off disaster relief for Puerto Rico after concocting his own conspiracy theory

White House officials told congressional appropriations leadership that the officials are using aid dollars to pay off their debt.

The claims come, as many of the president’s declarations do, without evidence or information. :lol

he’s refusing to sign any future spending bills that make funds available for Puerto Rico.

Other states wrecked by natural disasters, however, are still able to have FEMA dollars sent.

“Puerto Rico bond prices soared … after the federal oversight board that runs the U.S. territory’s finances released a revised fiscal plan that raises expectations for disaster funding and economic growth,” an October Wall Street Journal report said.

After reading the report, Trump flew into a rage, five sources familiar with the incident recalled.

It was then that the president developed the conspiracy theory.

“He’s always been pissed off by Puerto Rico,” another source added.

Democrats are likely to make funding available

to any state or territory in the United States when passing a budget, which could create a showdown between Democrats and Republicans.

If the showdown turns into a government shutdown, Trump could look even worse heading into his re-election season.
Meanwhile, the president is also battling with California,

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/donald-trump-wants-cut-off-disaster-relief-puerto-rico-concocting-conspiracy-theory/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux

03-26-2019, 12:00 PM

Trash can't help himself, just keeps proving what self-centered, sadistic, racist asshole he is.

Puerto Rico faces food-stamp crisis as Trump privately vents about federal aid to Hurricane Maria-battered island

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/puerto-rico-faces-food-stamps-crisis-as-trump-privately-vents-about-federal-aid-to-hurricane-maria-battered-island/2019/03/25/ade500fe-4cb3-11e9-b79a-961983b7e0cd_story.html?utm_term=.ac1acf761f73&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/puerto-rico-faces-food-stamps-crisis-as-trump-privately-vents-about-federal-aid-to-hurricane-maria-battered-island/2019/03/25/ade500fe-4cb3-11e9-b79a-961983b7e0cd_story.html?utm_term=.ac1acf761f73&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1)

Winehole23

03-26-2019, 11:55 PM

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boutons_deux

03-27-2019, 08:17 AM

1110765381415825408

my guess is that racist Trash, for decades, has despised all the PRs living in NYC, as brown, Catholic, not Real Americans.

Now he has a chance fuck them over hard and long and murderously.

And the racist Repugs support him 100%.

boutons_deux

04-01-2019, 11:02 AM

Senate Barreling Towards Showdown On Disaster Relief For Puerto Rico

A fight between President Donald Trump and Democrats over hurricane relief for Puerto Rico is imperiling a widely backed disaster aid bill that is a top priority for some of Trump’s Southern GOP allies.

The amount of money in dispute is relatively small, but

Trump feels antipathy toward the U.S. territory’s government :lol

and Senate Republicans are taking a hard line — for now — in denying Democratic demands for more aid for Puerto Rico

The $13.5 billion Senate measure mostly mirrors a $14.2 billion measure passed by the House in January,

combining aid to Southern farmers,

California communities devastated by last summer’s wildfire, and

rebuilding help for hurricane-hit states such as Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.

Democrats want to add almost $700 million more to unlock further disaster aid for Puerto Rico and several states

McConnell, R-Ky., however, has maneuvered to shut off any opportunity for Democrats to amend the bill.

(Trash) he poor-mouthed the island’s government at a meeting with Senate Republicans last week and suggested Puerto Rico has gotten too much disaster help compared with states such as Texas.

“I have taken better care of Puerto Rico than any man ever.

We have $91 billion going to Puerto Rico.

We have $29 billion to Texas and $12 billion to Florida for the hurricane,” Trump said Thursday.

“They have to spend the money wisely. They don’t know how to spend the money and they’re not spending it wisely.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senate-barreling-towards-showdown-disaster-relief-puerto-rico?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29 (https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senate-barreling-towards-showdown-disaster-relief-puerto-rico?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29)

Trash is lying

boutons_deux

04-02-2019, 12:20 PM

Nearly everything Trump just said about Puerto Rico is wrong

President Trump’s antipathy toward the ongoing relief effort in Puerto Rico burst into full view on Tuesday morning.

“Puerto Rico got 91 Billion Dollars for the hurricane”:

Puerto Rico has not received $91 billion (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/28/heres-why-trump-says-puerto-rico-is-getting-billion-disaster-relief/?utm_term=.4b7957d76b4e) for hurricane recovery.

So far, about $11 billion has been sent to the island.

The $91 billion figure that Trump likes to use is a combination of $41 billion that’s been set aside for recovery combined with $50 billion expected to be spent over the life of the recovery effort in accordance with legislation passed in 1988. The full scope of the recovery could take several decades.

“more money than has ever been gotten for a hurricane before”:

2005′s Hurricane Katrina, for which recovery efforts continue, cost more than $120 billion (https://www.nola.com/katrina/2015/08/federal_governments_120_billio.html).

Trump compared (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1112915488424816640) the spending in Puerto Rico unfavorably to Texas and Florida, which were also hit by hurricanes in 2017. But, of course, the type and extent of the damage in each place was very different. Hurricane Harvey did enormous damage in Texas and on the Gulf Coast, but the damage was less extensive and severe than in Puerto Rico.

The higher cost in Puerto Rico is mostly a function of the damage that was done.

“& all their local politicians do is complain & ask for more money.”:

an existing crisis on the island as a result of food-stamp payments being curtailed. In this moment, there’s an outcry for a specific form of relief that seems warranted.

“The pols are grossly incompetent, spend the money foolishly or corruptly”:

Trump always saw Puerto Rico’s government as questionable and wasteful and then apparently seized on that idea to rationalize his arguments that the island was receiving too much money.

“& only take from USA....”

Trump tips his hand here that he sees this island in the Atlantic Ocean as something separate and less American than the continental United States.

“The best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico is President Donald J. Trump.”:

more than half of Puerto Ricans said Trump had done a poor job in responding to the hurricane. Four in five said his job performance was at best “fair.”

“Cannot continue to hurt our Farmers and States with these massive payments”

Trump draws a contrast between the states and Puerto Rico.

“and so little appreciation! :lol

What Trump hears from Puerto Rican leaders is not praise for the job he’s doing, but increasingly insistent requests for needed aid.

He tunes into cable news and sees criticism, not kudos.

He sees coverage of Puerto Rico and hears about nearly 3,000 deaths, a figure he refuses to accept

because it serves as a grim measurement of his handling of the crisis.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/02/nearly-everything-trump-just-said-about-puerto-rico-is-wrong/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.036d97136806&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/02/nearly-everything-trump-just-said-about-puerto-rico-is-wrong/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.036d97136806&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1)

Winehole23

04-02-2019, 12:24 PM

Puerto Rico is a US Territory; Puerto Ricans are US citizens. They have been since 1917.

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boutons_deux

04-04-2019, 05:41 PM

Trump and Senate Republicans Are Determined to Starve Puerto Rico (https://splinternews.com/trump-and-senate-republicans-are-determined-to-starve-p-1833162240)

Puerto Rico’s government cut the island’s food stamps benefit program by 25 percent on Monday,

bringing it back to the level it was at before Hurricane Maria ripped through the island in 2017.

The problem is that many, many more people use the program now than before the storm,

President Trump and the Republican leadership in the Senate have utterly ignored the need for additional funding in Puerto Rico.

The newly-elected Democratic majority in the House of Representatives passed a bill in January, shortly after beginning its first session, to allocate more than $600 million to the territory in emergency funding.

Donald Trump called it “excessive and unnecessary (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/trump-food-stamps-puerto-rico-shutdown).”

While all of this bullshit is playing out in Washington (where Puerto Ricans don’t even have elected officials to vote for their interests), Americans are skipping meals.

https://splinternews.com/trump-and-senate-republicans-are-determined-to-starve-p-1833162240 (https://splinternews.com/trump-and-senate-republicans-are-determined-to-starve-p-1833162240)

ducks

04-04-2019, 05:47 PM

Puerto Rico is bankrupt has to do with the corrupt officials not what happens in dc
just like mexico and other poor countries

ducks

04-04-2019, 05:48 PM

US Territory is not the same as a US STATE
BIG difference

ducks

04-04-2019, 05:49 PM

1110765381415825408

so the gov needs to bail out everyone now?

stop sending money to other countries and usa might have money to help the usa citizens

ducks

04-04-2019, 05:50 PM

boutons_deux

05-08-2019, 07:50 PM

racist Trash still shitting on brown PR, and of course he knows all about PRs in NYC

Trump Tells Puerto Rico To Be Grateful To Him For Aid

Trump’s Florida rally featured an attack on the people of Puerto Rico who the president claimed was grateful to him for the aid.

Trump told his supporters in Florida,

“But you’re (racist white FL) getting your money one way or another,

and we’re not going to let anybody hold it up, and

I think the people of Puerto Rico are very grateful to Donald Trump for what we’ve done for them.”

Earlier in the rally,

Trump repeatedly complained that the people of Puerto Rico don’t like him, and the leaders on the island have criticized him.

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/05/08/trump-tells-puerto-rico-to-be-grateful-to-him-for-aid.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29 (https://www.politicususa.com/2019/05/08/trump-tells-puerto-rico-to-be-grateful-to-him-for-aid.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29)

boutons_deux

05-08-2019, 08:07 PM

Trump Falsely Claims Puerto Rico Got $91 Billion in Aid: They ‘Are Very Grateful to Donald Trump’ (https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-falsely-claims-puerto-rico-got-91-billion-in-aid-they-are-very-grateful-to-donald-trump/)
“It has been allocated less than half of that, and

the president is treating a guesstimate as an established fact.

There may be valid reasons for the estimate,

though OMB has not explained them.

But there’s still no excuse for the president to cite the number as a solid figure.”

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-falsely-claims-puerto-rico-got-91-billion-in-aid-they-are-very-grateful-to-donald-trump/ (https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-falsely-claims-puerto-rico-got-91-billion-in-aid-they-are-very-grateful-to-donald-trump/)

whatever the number, it wasn't enough and Dems are blocking aid to FL until there is more $Bs for PR.

Winehole23

05-09-2019, 12:19 AM

US Territory is not the same as a US STATE
BIG differenceYes, its true, Puerto Rico has US Reps but they're non-voting.

Puerto Ricans are permitted to move freely throughout the USA, to stay and live and work wherever they please.

Native Puerto Ricans are US citizens.

boutons_deux

06-27-2019, 04:28 PM

Racist Repugs, under Trash, screwing PRs

Senate Democrats Demand Trump Administration Answer for 'Unconscionable' Delay of Puerto Rico Food Aid

"There are no excuses for this, and the Trump administration must act now to correct this tragic situation that they have caused."

a group of senators demanded to know why Puerto Rico still hasn't received the $600 million in emergency food stamp aid that Congress approved (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/24/despite-new-law-trump-administration-has-not-given-puerto-rico-emergency-food-stamp-aid/) three weeks ago.

"In the wealthiest country in the history of the world,

it is unconscionable that the Trump administration is allowing the most vulnerable Puerto Ricans to struggle to make ends meet and put food on the table,"

The senators' letter (https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/puerto-rico-letter?id=AB60009F-0C65-45D9-839E-D02C42C3E100&download=1&inline=file) (pdf) called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Office of Management and Budget to answer three questions:

Has the USDA submitted a request to OMB to release the emergency funds? If not, why not?
Has OMB released the funds to USDA to distribute to Puerto Rico? If not, why not?
Does the government in Puerto Rico need to submit to USDA a new disaster plan or an amendment to the existing disaster plan?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/27/senate-democrats-demand-trump-administration-answer-unconscionable-delay-puerto-rico (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/27/senate-democrats-demand-trump-administration-answer-unconscionable-delay-puerto-rico)

boutons_deux

07-24-2019, 01:24 PM

How Puerto Rico Just Became a Model for US. Puerto Rican News Reports that Rosello Will Resign. (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/23/1873962/-How-Puerto-Rico-Just-Became-a-Model-for-US-Puerto-Rican-News-Reports-that-Rosello-Will-Resign)

https://images.dailykos.com/images/698726/story_image/GettyImages-1156172963.jpg?1563731973

Governor Rosello has been facing calls to resign from other politicians, celebrities, and Puerto Ricans themselves who have organized massive protests in the streets for days.

In addition to criticism for his handling of Puerto Rico and Trump after Hurricane Maria, protests and calls for resignation were spurred by

900 pages of leaked texts

published by (http://periodismoinvestigativo.com/2019/07/las-889-paginas-de-telegram-entre-rossello-nevares-y-sus-allegados/)The Center for Investigative Journalism. (http://periodismoinvestigativo.com/2019/07/las-889-paginas-de-telegram-entre-rossello-nevares-y-sus-allegados/)

The texts contained sexist and homophobic slurs.

Insults and threats toward other politicians including San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, and

rude comments about the victims of Hurricane Maria.

There was also evidence of possible corruption and self-dealing.

The response from the people of Puerto Rico was strong, loud, and unrelenting. They stayed peaceful and faced threats and tear gas to protest Rosello.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/23/1873962/-How-Puerto-Rico-Just-Became-a-Model-for-US-Puerto-Rican-News-Reports-that-Rosello-Will-Resign?detail=emaildkre (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/23/1873962/-How-Puerto-Rico-Just-Became-a-Model-for-US-Puerto-Rican-News-Reports-that-Rosello-Will-Resign?detail=emaildkre)

Rosello resigning today.

Another reason, and wonderful istance why Trash HATES the truth-telling media and journalists.

Chris

07-26-2019, 09:41 PM

We just need to send AOC there :tu

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1154899433026285569?s=20

boutons_deux

08-27-2019, 06:28 PM

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT05/refresh/AL052019_wind_probs_34_F120+png/203926.png

Trash going to continue screwing PRs because, as white male nationalist, he hates them and wants to punish them

Trump admin pulling millions from FEMA disaster relief to send to southern border

Combined with existing space, the funding would allow ICE to detain nearly 50,000 immigrants at one time.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-pulling-millions-fema-disaster-relief-send-southern-border-n1046691 (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-pulling-millions-fema-disaster-relief-send-southern-border-n1046691)adf

Congress just voted him $4.6B for the border, why is he pilfering FEMA's funds in hurricane season?

Thread

08-27-2019, 06:52 PM

^^^Looks like a snatch, with the clitoris above nestled in the wetness, unhooded.

boutons_deux

08-28-2019, 11:10 AM

Trump attacks Puerto Rico in another unhinged Twitter outburst as island braces for first major storm

President Donald Trump branded Puerto Rico “one of the most corrupt places on earth” Wednesday as the US island braced for its first major storm since being ravaged by Hurricane Maria two years ago.

Trump has feuded continuously with the US territory in the wake of Maria, where he was widely accused of failing to bring sufficient help.

He says he did respond correctly and was never thanked properly. :lol LIE

Trump decided to restoke the intensely personal row.

“Puerto Rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth.

Their political system is broken and

their politicians are either Incompetent or Corrupt,” he tweeted.

Trump complained that billions of dollars in previous aid had gone to

“Crooked Pols. No good!”

He ended the outburst by tweeting:

“And by the way, I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to Puerto Rico!”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/trump-attacks-puerto-rico-in-another-unhinged-twitter-outburst-as-island-braces-for-first-major-storm/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/trump-attacks-puerto-rico-in-another-unhinged-twitter-outburst-as-island-braces-for-first-major-storm/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

So good ol' Trash letting rip is PR racism. non-white, non-protestant, non-English speaking PRs? Fuck 'em

Thread

08-28-2019, 11:22 AM

boutons_deux

12-09-2019, 10:14 AM

HUD Secretary Ben Carson has been illegally withholding aid to Puerto Rico for months (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/7/1904072/-Ben-Carson-has-been-illegally-withholding-aid-to-Puerto-Rico-for-months)

The Department of Housing and Urban Development, under Ben Carson, had a legally required deadline back in September to make desperately needed hurricane relief funding available to the suffering American island.

The housing agency was supposed to issue funding notices to 18 states and territories affected by hurricanes on Sept. 4.

They did so with one exception: Puerto Rico.

Donald Trump and Ben Carson are refusing to release the aid in direct opposition to the congressional mandate.

HUD officials even told the House Appropriations subcomittee that they just won’t do it.

Not only did HUD officials admit that they are willfully defying the law, but

they also admitted that they have (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/house-democrats-slam-trump-admin-illegally-withholding-puerto-rico-hurricane-n1096421) “no statutory authority” to miss such a deadline (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/house-democrats-slam-trump-admin-illegally-withholding-puerto-rico-hurricane-n1096421).
So why are they doing it?

Because laws don’t matter in Trumpland, and

Trump hates Puerto Rico.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/7/1904072/-Ben-Carson-has-been-illegally-withholding-aid-to-Puerto-Rico-for-months?detail=emaildkre (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/7/1904072/-Ben-Carson-has-been-illegally-withholding-aid-to-Puerto-Rico-for-months?detail=emaildkre)

impeach Trash and Carson for violating the law

boutons_deux

01-10-2020, 11:58 PM

Trash to hated Puerto Ricans: Fuck You

'Traumatized' Puerto Ricans rocked by more strong quakes

Two strong aftershocks collapsed homes and cracked walls in Puerto Rico on Friday as the Caribbean island tried to recover from its worst earthquake in more than a century.

The first quake of magnitude 5.2 struck at 6:26 p.m. (5:26 p.m. EST),

followed by another of magnitude 4.8 about four hours later, both centered on the island’s southwest coast

Shaken residents in the south said the aftershocks were the strongest since Tuesday’s 6.4 magnitude earthquake,

which killed at least one person,

destroyed or damaged about 300 homes and

knocked out power across the island.

spent the night in a stadium, fearful their homes would collapse after hundreds of quakes and tremors in the last 13 days.

Trump pledged his support for Puerto Rico :lol

after having approved an emergency declaration earlier in the week to mobilize resources.

Scott said more than 6,000 people were in emergency shelters.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-puertorico-quake/traumatized-puerto-ricans-rocked-by-more-strong-quakes-idUSKBN1Z92HU?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F +US+%2F+Top+News%29 (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-puertorico-quake/traumatized-puerto-ricans-rocked-by-more-strong-quakes-idUSKBN1Z92HU?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F +US+%2F+Top+News%29)

Trash has said NOTHING publicly about his hated PR.

boutons_deux

01-16-2020, 08:32 PM

Trump declares Puerto Rico quake disaster, ties strings to relief

boosting aid to the island a day after placing tougher restrictions on billions of dollars in delayed hurricane relief.

Republican Trump has repeatedly clashed with Puerto Rico,

calling the island “one of the most corrupt places on earth.”

the Trump administration imposed dozens of new conditions on the island’s government to access $8.3 billion in delayed recovery funds for Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017.

Trump has described Puerto Rico’s leaders as either “incompetent or corrupt” and officials said the conditions were necessary to get the funds to Puerto Ricans.

Trump was holding Puerto Rico to a higher standard than U.S. states and called on Trump to release tens of billions more in delayed hurricane aid.

“The president considers disaster recovery money nothing more than

a bargaining chip in his petty political vendetta against people of color,”

The U.S. government has distributed around $15 billion of the $44 billion in aid the U.S. Congress approved for Puerto Rico after the hurricanes that killed about 3,000 people.

Among new restrictions on the relief is a

requirement Puerto Rico’s government get approval for aid spending from the island’s Fiscal Control Board, a federally-appointed agency for restructuring the territory’s debt.

The requirements also

block spending on Puerto Rico’s ageing electricity grid and

suspend its $15-per-hour minimum wage for federal relief work.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-puertorico-quake/trump-declares-puerto-rico-quake-disaster-ties-strings-to-relief-idUSKBN1ZF2N5?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews

goddamn racist Trash and goddamn his racist Exec branch.

boutons_deux

02-06-2020, 08:26 AM

Team Trash threatens to veto disaster relief for Puerto Rico after January's destructive earthquakes

The steaming pile of white nationalist garbage known as Team Trump ...

is warning Congress that it intends to veto disaster relief for those earthquakes.

the administration "strongly opposes" a new bill allocating $4.7 billion in relief (https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/481697-white-house-threatens-to-veto-house-bill-to-aid-puerto-rico).

OMB claims the House is

"rushing" through the process,

lauds Dear Leader's "unprecedented" assistance to Puerto Rico, and

raises the talking-point specter of "waste, fraud, and abuse."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1916920 (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1916920)

white nationalist racist Trash's HATE of PRs is now American policy

boutons_deux

09-18-2020, 05:17 PM

Trump shifts on Puerto Rico,
releases aid as election nears

Trump announced the release Friday of $13 billion in assistance

to repair years-old hurricane damage in Puerto Rico

and pledged to restore its economy,

setting aside his past bitter treatment of the island and its leaders as

he courts Puerto Rican voters in the U.S., particularly in the crucial swing state of Florida.

Trump has spent much of his administration blasting Puerto Rican officials as corrupt and inept, and

he has opposed spending to rebuild a power grid and other infrastructure that was wiped out by the Hurricane Maria in September 2017.

“I’m the best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico,"

he said at a White House press conference, "no one even close.”

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Puerto-Rico-getting-funds-for-power-grid-3-years-15578005.php