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A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
10-21-2017, 07:56 PM
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Wonder how those asshats would feel If we said he same about them ?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...591714b316
These are the same guys that ran the casino that derailed the economy in 2008.: http://www.nypost.com/2017/10/20/hedge-f...sive-debt/
Bad news Public Health: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lep...d35bc969ac
Here are some photos from my hometown during and after the hurricane. These were sent by a cousin.
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AkUujI0tgV-CgspBxfPBKMlZyWsFXw
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
10-22-2017, 06:45 AM
Well of course those hedge funders would say that.
That's how they make money.
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
10-24-2017, 06:41 PM
Damnit governor Roselló, I had hopes that you would be better than your dad,  .
It seems the apple did not fall far from the tree.
Small Montana firm lands Puerto Rico’s biggest contract to get the power back on
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In better news: Tesla makes quick work of Puerto Rico hospital solar power relief project
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
11-18-2017, 11:18 AM
This just in, nearly another month later:
Arecibo spared the axe: Iconic observatory vital to science lives on
Yes, it took this long for the NSF to decide to keep Puerto Rico's most famous scientific installation running after the hurricanes.
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
12-22-2017, 07:16 AM
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
12-22-2017, 03:46 PM
A provision of the GOP tax bill heading to the President include a 12.5% tax increase on patents and licenses in Puerto Rico. Because Puerto Ricans don't pay income tax, they won't receive any benefit from the tax bill. It's all tax increases.
Guess we should have believed Trump when he said "America First!"
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
12-22-2017, 05:13 PM
I just got off the phone with my mom, and she said that the Resident Commissioner (an elected delegate to the House without voting rights) is selling it as a very net positive and that it will benefit the island in yuuuge positive ways. She caucuses with the republicans and is eyeing the governorship herself.
I told her that yes, it will be as beneficial as the Titanic hitting that iceberg. Neither of my parents were very amused by my comment.
In other news, there is an epidemic of 'blue flu' among the police force due to the government being unable to pay all the extra hours they have worked, and pissed off because there aren't going to be any christmas bonuses this year. Criminals are making a killing, sometimes literally.
Things may look okay from the outside but I liken it to Mt. St. Helens before it blew its top.
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
12-22-2017, 06:37 PM
If you want Puerto Rico to get anything from the US government, you need to depend on the Democrats.
I hear it used to be you could depend on Republicans as well to do things like shoving public money at disaster relief, but I haven't seen it.
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
08-31-2018, 11:01 AM
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(blows dust off thread)
AP: Official death toll from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico raised from 64 to 2975
Quote:"We never anticipated a scenario of zero communication, zero energy, zero highway access," Gov. Ricardo Rossello told reporters. "I think the lesson is to anticipate the worst."
Isn't it supposed to be FEMA's mandate to anticipate the worst?
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
08-31-2018, 11:51 AM
Yes, but the response to the hurricane in PR was "fantastic." Apparently that means, "a big helping of fantasy applied as spin on minimal effective action."
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
09-13-2018, 11:23 AM
AP: Trump disputes Puerto Rico death toll, blames Democrats for making him 'look bad'
Quote:U.S. President Donald Trump is rejecting the widely accepted death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria, claiming without evidence that "3,000 people did not die." He also called the count a move by Democrats to make him look bad.
As long as he keeps refusing to look at facts, he doesn't need the Democrats (or the Republicans) to make him look bad... he's perfectly able to do that all on his own.
Trump's "incredible, unsung success":
![[Image: usa-puertorico.jpg]](https://i.cbc.ca/1.4382597.1509564370!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/original_780/usa-puertorico.jpg)
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
09-13-2018, 12:00 PM
I wish he would snort a line and overdose. >_<
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
09-13-2018, 09:43 PM
Donald Trump doesn't care about Puerto Ricans.
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
09-13-2018, 11:44 PM
(09-13-2018, 09:43 PM)Labster Wrote: Donald Trump doesn't care about Puerto Ricans.
I'm fairly sure he doesn't care about Americans either. Or really anyone not named Trump. 
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
09-13-2018, 11:52 PM
I know that much, it just doesn't fit the Kanye formula. Kanye's comment let to outrage, because they felt they were wrongly accused of racism, and in fact they weren't racist*. The Bush administration just had a hard time having empathy for the poor. But Trump you know? Trump doesn't have empathy for anyone. He cares about people to the extent that they're saying good things about him.
* not racist in the sense of overt bias, but in the sense of maintaining institutional racism, kinda yes.
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
09-14-2018, 02:39 AM
It's certainly an incredible success. I can't believe it at all!
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RE: A month after the hurricane, PR is still a shambles
09-14-2018, 07:29 AM
(09-13-2018, 11:52 PM)Labster Wrote: But Trump you know? Trump doesn't have empathy for anyone. He cares about people to the extent that they're saying good things about him.
And dead people can't say good things about him, so they can't be real people.
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