This guy is disgusting.
So ducks is trying to bury this thread?
San Juan Mayor is brainwashed sheep!
Puerto Rico Issues Travel Ban on Malignant Narcissists
SAN JUAN —Calling the move an “urgent response to recent unfortunate events,” Puerto Rico has issued a sweeping travel ban on malignant narcissists, effective immediately.
Starting on Wednesday,
Customs and Border Protection officials at Puerto Rico’s ports of entry will be equipped with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–V)
issued by the American Psychiatric Association, and will be
instructed to look for symptoms of malignant narcissism in those attempting to enter.
“If port officials encounter a visitor who has a pompous and arrogant demeanor,
needs the constant admiration of others, and
is unwilling to empathize with others’ feelings, wishes, or needs,
that visitor will be denied entry,” a Puerto Rican government statement read.
Puerto Rico took the forceful action after an incident on Tuesday, in which a man with narcissistic-personality disorder gained entry to the island and inexplicably hurled projectiles at unwitting Puerto Ricans.
“We had to do something,” one government official said. “Enough is enough.”
Puerto Rico’s ban on malignant narcissists drew widespread praise from people around the world,
with many Americans calling for a similar ban in the mainland United States.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/puerto-rico-issues-travel-ban-on-malignant-narcissists
That bit about the PR bonds was pretty funny. Dont think a Prez can just arbitrarily order a cram down. Scared the out of some people though. The GO bonds went from .50 to .29 before the bottom fishers jumped in.
ducks...what do you have to say to tim duncan. he is still asking for help for the virgin islands
Death toll could be as high as 450 and Trump is threatening to pull first responders from the island...
Congress will never forgive the debt that U.S. foreign policy is largely responsible for. Once again, we see foreign policy that is based on the interest of the U.S. banks (along with Wall Street) because Puerto Rico's debt is a result of predatory bond deals brokered by Wall Street. The Congress-created PROMESA just exacerbated the problem and so half of the country's American citizens live under the poverty level with inflated sales taxes and inflated electricity and water rates (Governor Rossello wants to privatize everything). Social programs have been cut massively, public schools have been shut down and funding to the public university cut by almost half a billion. The U.S. no longer values PR because sugar cane and military bases are no longer needed, rendering the island an archaic colony. Thanks to the Reagan administration Puerto Rico lost its ability to seek debt relief because it was not allowed to declare Chapter 9. PROMESA offers a version of it but it involves 'settlements' that would likely be tested in the US courts. Now that Maria has devasted the island one can look for the usual US post-disaster corporate deployment to take place. Privatization. Bondholders coming in to soak up all available revenue (including pensions). And meanwhile, people will literally starve to death or die from conditions that are easily treated or prevented.
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Trump said it was only 16, so that has to be the truth. Dude has never lied about anything in his life.
FEMA dodges questions about Puerto Rico’s reported food shortages
"There is no urgency in the government response to this humanitarian crisis," contractors claim.
U.S. officials have privately acknowledged that Puerto Rico is facing a massive food shortage amid an escalating humanitarian crisis, a new report claims. The news comes as the island continues to face staggering water and power shortages and growing anger among its citizens that the U.S. government has not done enough.
Officials working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) say that only 200,000 meals per day are being provided by the government, according to the Guardian.
That small allotment is meant to feed more than 2 million people, with many of the meals made in a “military ready-to-eat” style that can be challenging to digest over an extended period of time, the publication reported.
According to the disaster-relief nonprofit World Central Kitchen, the organization’s agreement with FEMA expired on Tuesday, ending the mere 20,000 meals per day it had been supplying, which was outlined in its contract.
It could be weeks before a new contract materializes, part of the federal rules FEMA insists it must follow.
Some say that slowness is being exacerbated by a lack of preparedness, as much as by apathy.
https://thinkprogress.org/puerto-rico-food-shortage-a941bf56ab18/
FEMA: "Not our job to deliver water and food" to Puerto Ricans.
FEMA claims the roads aren’t passable, For the record, when I say “about an hour south” I mean Google Maps puts the drive — right now — at 1 hour and 5 minutes if I take the autopista (highway).
BUT it also says there are portions of the road that are closed.
Soooo you have to take route 173 and that takes 1 hour and 24 minutes. Maybe Google is wrong, right?
It would be nice if someone on the ground could actually make the trip…. oh wait… what’s that?
The MSNBC film crew already made the trip and it took them “about an hour and a half.”
As the MSNBC video shows, they got there no problem because the road was clear. No bridges out, no trees in the way, no mudslides, no raging rivers.
Presented with the fact of Maddow’s team having video evidence directly contradicting their claims, FEMA then dropped this bombs :
Apparently, FEMA says it is the mayor’s job to distribute food and water. They are just there to help people fill out paperwork.
FOX News reported THIS about FEMA in Lakeland, FL responding to the crisis following a recent hurricane that hit there
LAKELAND (FOX 13) - People who are worn out from Hurricane Irma are getting help in Polk County.
On Friday, FEMA starting handing out free food and water at 11 different sites around the county, including Victory Church.
A long line of cars formed at 8 a.m., and continued throughout the day.
Many of the people who came still don’t have electricity.
The difference? Unlike Aibonito, Lakeland is over 70% white, and that is the darkest part of Polk County.
The game plan in Puerto Rico is clear.
The sons of es are going to grind those poor bas s into dust, trigger a mass exodus of those who can afford to leave, and then swoop in and buy up the land at fire sale prices so they can build high priced condos to use as real estate for their next international money laundering scheme.
What surprises me?
There are still Puerto Ricans who think the most racist government in 70 years is going to help them.
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/...tail=emaildkre
next up? "disaster capitalism"
brown, Spanish-speaking PR people, who are "real American citizens" for all y'all racisit white male supremacists, are and will be more ed and un able
"Remember the Maine!" to start the Spanish-American war (boat was blown up from the inside, not by an external attack by Spaniards)
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Trump threatens to abandon Puerto Rico recovery effort
President Trump served notice Thursday that he may pull back federal relief workers from Puerto Rico, effectively threatening to abandon the U.S. territory amid a staggering humanitarian crisis in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
Declaring the U.S. territory's electrical grid and infrastructure to have been a “disaster before hurricanes,”
Trump wrote Thursday that it will be up to Congress how much federal money to appropriate to the island for its recovery efforts and that
relief workers will not stay “forever.”
Three weeks after Maria made landfall, much of Puerto Rico, an island of 3.4 million people, remains without power.
Residents struggle to find clean water, hospitals are running short on medicine, and commerce is slow, with many businesses closed.
Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump
"Puerto Rico survived the Hurricanes, now a financial crisis looms largely of their own making." says Sharyl Attkisson. A total lack of.....
5:49 AM - Oct 12, 2017
Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump
...accountability say the Governor. Electric and all infrastructure was disaster before hurricanes. Congress to decide how much to spend....
5:58 AM - Oct 12, 2017
Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump
...We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult cir stances) in P.R. forever!
6:07 AM - Oct 12, 2017
Ricardo Rossello
✔@ricardorossello
The U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico are requesting the support that any of our fellow citizens would receive across our Nation.
9:27 AM - Oct 12, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/10/12/trump-warns-puerto-rico-we-cannot-keep-fema-the-military-the-first-responders-forever/?undefined=&utm_term=.f32a68366eb6&wpisrc=nl_most& wpmm=1
wow what the
I think he's worried about being associated with Ducks. Who has been asking to pee in front of 13 year old girls.
nobody respects the cuck
Two-man company that got $300 million Puerto Rico contract tied to Trump officials, GOP donors
This is how the local news media describes Whitefish Energy.
The company was established in 2015. It doesn’t have an office and only lists two employees.
Whitefish Energy is little more than a post office box. They grab temporary employees and toss them at small construction jobs—with an emphasis on small. The largest electrical line constructed by Whitefish coming into 2017 was less than five miles long.
And yet, Whitefish has acquired the contract to repair the 2,400 miles of electrical lines in Puerto Rico over not just other private companies, but instead of calling in other power companies under an existing series of mutual aid agreements.
Why not exercise those agreements—which brought more than 30,000 utility workers to Florida to repair utilities after Hurricane Irma—rather than count on a tiny company which has brought in 280 temporary workers and is slowly hiring more? No one seems to know.
It’s unclear why PREPA didn’t call for mutual aid when it contracted Whitefish Energy.
But there do seem to be a few clues.
Among them are the fact that Whitefish is funded by a private equity firm that includes at least two big Republican donors, and one big friendship.https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1709476
Luis Vega-Ramos, member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, told The Daily Beast, “Whitefish’s most important expertise or assets seems to have been… having the U.S. secretary of the interior, Ryan Zinke, as their former congressman and current ally and having the wisdom to retain the services of key people close to the governor [of Puerto Rico].”
The corruption, graft, grifting will be UnPresidented.
"Heckuva job, Trashie"
Give yourself a Perfect 10 and move on to enriching yourself with tax cuts
The U.S. Could Have Avoided Puerto Rico’s Water Crisis
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017...+capitalism%29
FEMA Had a Plan for Responding to a Hurricane in Puerto Rico — But It Doesn’t Want You to See It
The disaster-relief agency, under fire after Hurricane Maria, won’t release the plan, even as a comparable do ent for Hawaii remains public.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, citing unspecified “potentially sensitive information,” is declining to release a do ent it drafted several years ago that details how it would respond to a major hurricane in Puerto Rico.
The plan, known as a hurricane annex, runs more than 100 pages and explains exactly what FEMA and other agencies would do in the event that a large storm struck the island. The do ent could help experts assess both how well the federal government had prepared for a storm the size of Hurricane Maria and whether FEMA’s response matches what was planned.
As ProPublica has previously reported, FEMA’s Freedom of Information process is plagued by dysfunction and yearslong backlogs. For example, FEMA hasn’t responded to a request for do ents related to Superstorm Sandy that we filed more than three and a half years ago.
https://www.propublica.org/article/f...in-puerto-rico
911 people dead
... I read they are burning some bodies rather than bury them.
But still not Katrina levels, right?
nope, Trash said many 1000s dead by Katrina
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