No - Trump hasn't done a good job on Puerto Rico

Thing1 said:
Volunteer for what?

OMG - you really don't know shite. Do you think they're getting anything done w/out volunteers right now?
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kid, go read the FACTS.
You are just digging yourself in deeper and deeper. It is quite obvious you have relied on the CNN talking heads for your info and stopped at that.

FIRST..Puerto Rico is an island 1000 miles from our mainland
SECOND.. there were no functioning airports on the island until two days ago
THIRD.. Ships were en-route immediately with all the supplies you could possibly put on them
FOURTH.. Enough supplies to sustain life for the entire island is sitting in the port right now with not enough drivers or cleared roads to get them out to the far reaches of the island.
FIFTH.. Power was out in parts of Florida for 2 weeks and they have a robust power company with supplies onhand, AND neighboring states that sent help in via highway immediately.
SIXTH.. Resources are being gathered all hands on deck despite the fact that we just had two major humanitarian crisis in two different instances Texas and Florida only weeks before

relax, I don't see Celine Dion and Stevie Wonder and all the other loons prancing around on the airwaves or flying down there in person passing out water bottles. They made their scene a few weeks ago then back to business as usual huh?

You're a goof looking for anything and everything to jump on Trump, grow up

floridafan said:
Why not take a moment and read the comments from the Mayor of San Juan.
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fu@k the mayor of San Juan, hows that?
 
Thing1 said:
We've got a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions...and you think it's ludicrous to criticize where the President is focused and how much attention he's bringing to it?

You know what? You don't know shite. I think a few million in PR agree w/ me on that, and I value their opinion much more than your apologism.
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Lets put this in proportions. Yes, this could have been handled better.

2017/09/20 Maria makes landfall

2017/09/21 Trump too busy commenting on NFL

2017/09/22 Trump too busy commenting on NFL

2017/09/24 Trump too busy commenting on NFL

2017/09/26 Trump too busy commenting on NFL

2017/09/26 Trump too busy
 
I am watching PMSNBC and as they were panning the long lines for ice I saw two street vendors selling their food. Awesome.

I wonder when they will be accused of price gouging.

We know, Thingy thinks the President can perform miracles
 
You have to realize that, as in most disasters, infrastructure is gone to varying degrees. Not all the hype are facts, and when confronted with the situation, one has to adjust accordingly.
 
Toxic Titties said:
I am watching PMSNBC and as they were panning the long lines for ice I saw two street vendors selling their food. Awesome.

I wonder when they will be accused of price gouging.

We know, Thingy thinks the President can perform miracles
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Yeah - because the only real options for Trump are giving Puerto Rico the bare minimum of focus, and "performing miracles."

You're really losing badly.
 
Lovebug said:
Lets put this in proportions. Yes, this could have been handled better.

2017/09/20 Maria makes landfall

2017/09/21 Trump too busy commenting on NFL

2017/09/22 Trump too busy commenting on NFL

2017/09/24 Trump too busy commenting on NFL

2017/09/26 Trump too busy commenting on NFL

2017/09/26 Trump too busy
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but....
It don't matter to me
If you really feel that you need sometime to be free
Time to go out searching for yourself
Hoping to find, time to go to find
And it don't matter to me
If you take up with someone who's better than me
'Cause your happiness is all I want
For you to find peace your piece of mind
Lotta people have an ego hang-up
'Cause they want to be the only one
How many came before it really doesn't matter
Just as long as you're the last
Everybody's moving on and try to find out
What's been missing in the past
 
Apparently, part of the problem is that even though they are American citizens, Puerto Ricans have no representation or advocates in the US Congress. They are marginalized. And a lot of Americans don't even realize that Puerto Ricans are Americans...perhaps including our dim-witted, corpulent, popular-vote losing President!

Trump administration's sluggish response intensified suffering and sense of 2nd-class citizenship: Our view

More than a week after Hurricane Maria blasted through Puerto Rico,*the misery factor is broad*and deepening.

The death toll has been reported at 16, but the true number is, for now,*unknowable.*Power and communication remain*down across most of the island, and that's in sweltering tropical heat. More than a million*people are without drinking water. Many villages and towns remain inaccessible.*

Twenty-five hospitals aren't fully operational.*People wait hours for groceries, gas and cash. Thousands of shipping containers are stacking up at the San Juan port. Shortages of truck drivers, fuel or communication are delaying deliveries*of medical supplies, food and construction materials.

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The*first weekend after Maria struck, President Trump said almost nothing about the island's carnage and instead ignited a culture war over NFL protests. When he finally tweeted about Puerto Rico, he included irrelevant*asides about the island's history of government debt. And, citing opposition from shipping interests,*he hesitated in suspending an archaic law that prevents foreign-flagged vessels from delivering supplies to U.S. ports.*

The sluggish response fed into wrong-headed assumptions about Puerto Rico and intensified the islanders'*bitter sense of marginalization. Surveys show the less than half*of Americans fully understand that the island is part of the USA, and that its 3.4 million*residents are U.S. citizens by birth.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...f-lacks-urgency-editorials-debates/711583001/
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