TRUMP. NOTHING BUT TRUMP

[Maggot]

Puerto Rico is one corrupt country (or state) The elite squander what they are given and the street urchins steal anything they can. Their electrical systems rely on extension cords to supply the masses. they need psychiatric help maybe aussiebitch could give them a friendly hand.

[BigMark]

[Rootilda]

She's got a point.

[Fry Guy]

She's got a point.

Nothing like a bit of self-loathing for your country and fellow citizens

[BigMark]

blah blah blah.

[Maggot]

It looks like Trump was right about Puerto Rico.

[BigMark]

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Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans demand governor resign
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Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin, front atop truck, participates with other local celebrities in a protest demanding the resignation of governor Ricardo Rossello in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, July 22, 2019. Protesters are demanding Rossello step down for his involvement in a private chat in which he used profanities to describe an ex-New York City councilwoman and a federal control board overseeing the island's finance. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Waving flags, chanting and banging pots and pans, tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans jammed a highway Monday to demand the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló in a crisis triggered by a leak of offensive, obscenity-laden chat messages between him and his advisers.
The demonstration appeared to be the biggest protest on the island in nearly two decades.
“Finally, the government’s mask has fallen,” said Jannice Rivera, a 43-year-old mechanical engineer who lives in Houston but was born and raised in Puerto Rico and flew in to join the crowds.
The protest came 10 days after the leak of 889 pages of online chats in which Rosselló and some of his close aides insulted women and mocked constituents, including victims of Hurricane Maria.


Ricky Martin, flying a gay pride flag, joins a protest to demand the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rossello from office, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, July 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo)
[url=https://www.apnews.com/9628a151610840dd93c3b0e3e65ecf9b/gallery/f90438600e7e4f2b8c173688420d3486]The leak has intensified long-smoldering anger in the U.S. territory over persistent corruption and mismanagement by the island’s two main political parties, a severe debt crisis, a sickly economy and a slow recovery from Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017.
“The people have awakened after so much outrage,” said 69-year-old retired nurse Benedicta Villegas. “There are still people without roofs and highways without lights. The chat was the tip of the iceberg.”
The crowd surged along the Americas Expressway despite the punishing heat — toddlers, teenagers, professionals and the elderly, all dripping in sweat and smiling as they waved Puerto Rico flags large and small and hoisted signs.
“This is to show that the people respect themselves,” said Ana Carrasquillo, 26. “We’ve put up with corruption for so many years.”
In an interview Monday with Fox News, Rosselló said that he will not resign and that he is focused on tackling corruption and helping the island recover from Maria.
“I’m making amends,” he said. “I’ve apologized for all the comments that I made on the chat.”
On Sunday evening, Rosselló, a Democrat, sought to calm the unrest by promising not to seek re-election in 2020 or continue as head of his pro-statehood New Progressive Party. That only further angered his critics, who have mounted street demonstrations for more than a week.
“The people are not going to go away,” said Johanna Soto, of the city of Carolina. “That’s what he’s hoping for, but we outnumber him.”

Thousands of Puerto Rican demonstrators arrived from across the island Monday for what many expected to be one of the biggest protests ever seen in the U.S. territory, with irate islanders pledging to drive Gov. Ricardo Rosselló from office. (July 22)
Asked who was advising Rosselló on staying in office, Rosselló‘s secretary of public affairs, Anthony Maceira, said the governor was speaking with his family, and “that carries a great weight.” Rosselló’s father, Pedro, was governor from 1993 to 2001.
The biggest newspaper in this territory of more than 3 million American citizens, El Nuevo Dia, added to the pressure with the front-page headline: “Governor, it’s time to listen to the people: You have to resign.”
Asked whether the governor should step down, President Donald Trump said that Rosselló is a “terrible” governor and that hurricane relief money sent to Puerto Rico has been “squandered, wasted and stolen” and the island’s top leadership is “totally, grossly incompetent.”
The demonstrations represent the biggest protest movement on the island since Puerto Ricans rallied to put an end to U.S. Navy training on the island of Vieques more than 15 years ago.
Monday was the 10^th consecutive day of protests, and more are being called for later in the week. The island’s largest mall, Plaza de las Américas, closed ahead of the protest, as did dozens of other businesses. The upheaval also prompted at least four cruise ships to cancel visits to Puerto Rico.

[Rootilda]

It looks like Trump was right about Puerto Rico.

Was he? I don't recall him saying much about the governor before this scandal, most of his hate went to Carmen Yulín Cruz because she dared to criticize his "relief efforts" and she hasn't been implicated in any of this. So what exactly was he right about?

[Maggot]

It looks like Trump was right about Puerto Rico.

Was he?  I don't recall him saying much about the governor before this scandal, most of his hate went to Carmen Yulín Cruz because she dared to criticize his "relief efforts" and she hasn't been implicated in any of this.  So what exactly was he right about?

Trump tried to highlight that the local Puerto Rican government, loaded as it was with Trump-hating leftists, was the reason the aid wasn't getting through.  Trump sent aid swiftly and was angry that it sat on the docks as Puerto Rican leftist pols postured for the press.  Remember how San Juan's leftist mayor cried all those crocodile tears against Trump as the press fawned and Democrats claimed her as their own?  Yet Trump said the aid was there, and it generally just went to waste, all because Puerto Rican officials — with weird ties to the Clinton machine, by the way — couldn't lay off the corruption for just a few weeks.

Trump tried to remind them just the other day, tweeting this, as the New York Post reported:

"A lot of bad things are happening in Puerto Rico. The Governor is under siege, the Mayor of San Juan is a despicable and incompetent person who I wouldn't trust under any circumstance, and the United States Congress foolishly gave 92 Billion Dollars for hurricane relief, much of which was squandered away or wasted, never to be seen again," the president wrote on Twitter.
"This is more than twice the amount given to Texas & Florida combined. I know the people of Puerto Rico well, and they are great. But much of their leadership is corrupt, & robbing the U.S. Government blind!"

Now the matter has exploded, with hundreds of thousands of Puerto Rico's beleaguered people protesting in the streets to demand that their corrupt leaders just get the heck out.

The commonwealth's governor, Ricardo Rosselló, who recently got caught for his remarks on a local bulletin board disparaging Puerto Rico's hurricane victims, is being called on to resign.

link

[Maggot]

It looks like Trump was right about Puerto Rico.

Was he?  I don't recall him saying much about the governor before this scandal, most of his hate went to Carmen Yulín Cruz because she dared to criticize his "relief efforts" and she hasn't been implicated in any of this.  So what exactly was he right about?

Trump tried to highlight that the local Puerto Rican government, loaded as it was with Trump-hating leftists, was the reason the aid wasn't getting through.  Trump sent aid swiftly and was angry that it sat on the docks as Puerto Rican leftist pols postured for the press.  Remember how San Juan's leftist mayor cried all those crocodile tears against Trump as the press fawned and Democrats claimed her as their own?  Yet Trump said the aid was there, and it generally just went to waste, all because Puerto Rican officials — with weird ties to the Clinton machine, by the way — couldn't lay off the corruption for just a few weeks.

Trump tried to remind them just the other day, tweeting this, as the New York Post reported:

"A lot of bad things are happening in Puerto Rico. The Governor is under siege, the Mayor of San Juan is a despicable and incompetent person who I wouldn't trust under any circumstance, and the United States Congress foolishly gave 92 Billion Dollars for hurricane relief, much of which was squandered away or wasted, never to be seen again," the president wrote on Twitter.
"This is more than twice the amount given to Texas & Florida combined. I know the people of Puerto Rico well, and they are great. But much of their leadership is corrupt, & robbing the U.S. Government blind!"

Now the matter has exploded, with hundreds of thousands of Puerto Rico's beleaguered people protesting in the streets to demand that their corrupt leaders just get the heck out.

The commonwealth's governor, Ricardo Rosselló, who recently got caught for his remarks on a local bulletin board disparaging Puerto Rico's hurricane victims, is being called on to resign.

link

so the entire thing can be seen

[Rootilda]

He's lying.

President Donald Trump falsely claimed in a pair of tweets Thursday that Congress had "foolishly" sent $92 billion of aid money to Puerto Rico, which “squandered away or wasted” much of it.

Congress has allocated $42.5 billion to disaster relief for Puerto Rico, according to federal data, but the island had received less than $14 billion through May. Trump signed another aid bill in June that will send an additional $1 billion to the island. The bulk of aid dollars is still in Washington, much of it waiting on processes that require officials to submit a series of plans outlining how they expect to use the money and await federal approval.

What's more, the aid Puerto Rico received is a fraction of what it needs — Hurricane Maria inflicted an estimated $90 billion in damage on the island.

[Duchess]

He's always lying. Every. fucking. day. He's a sociopath. Did y'all see the video of him with the Nobel Prize winner? She's lived through hell. Literally! She talked to him of the horrors, she's been raped repeatedly, she told him about her family being murdered and that muthafucker went on to ask her where her family is. He could not even be bothered to get the fuck up out of the chair!

[BigMark]

Blah Blah Blah.

[Duchess]

Thank you for your intelligent, thoughtful response.

[Rootilda]

Speaking of corruption in Puerto Rico:

WASHINGTON – A year after losing a $300 million no-bid contract to restore Puerto Rico’s hurricane-shattered electric grid, Whitefish Energy Holdings has quietly been seeking and winning U.S. government contracts.

Founded in 2015 in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s tiny Montana hometown, Whitefish had just two employees when Hurricane Maria hit in September 2017. The company was ousted weeks later by Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority amid concerns about the slow pace of recovery and eyebrow-raising charges that included electrical linemen hired at a rate of more than $300 per hour.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/oc...puerto-ri/

[Rootilda]

He's always lying. Every. fucking. day. He's a sociopath. Did y'all see the video of him with the Nobel Prize winner? She's lived through hell. Literally! She talked to him of the horrors, she's been raped repeatedly, she told him about her family being murdered and that muthafucker went on to ask her where her family is. He could not even be bothered to get the fuck up out of the chair!

Yeah, that was weird. He obviously wasn't listening to her when he asked where her family was right after she said they were all dead. I can *almost* understand why he sat like that though. It wasn't set up for a discussion and he was basically stuck where he was with all those people behind him. However, he is the president and certainly isn't afraid to offend people. He could have said something asking them to move so he could at least swivel his chair a little.

[Duchess]

I was so annoyed when he didn't get up. All he had to do was push the chair back, get up and turn to her. God knows there's a ton of his bullshit to comment on but holy shit balls that annoyed the crap out of me. Meh. Same shit, different day.

[BigMark]

Maybe he had to shit. DONALD TRUMP FECES!

[Duchess]

[Duchess]

Damn it. Shoulda saved that exclusively for Fry Guy.