Trump pretends to help Puerto Rico; screws them instead

By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 09/28/2017 - 1:12pm |

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https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/09/28/trumps-belated-jones-act-waiver-for-pr-is-a-sham-heres-why/

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The mayor of San Juan is begging for help. Trump's racism delayed his response to Puerto Rico. He is willing to let people of color. Trump thinks that a photo op will cover up his ineptitude. Trump is a cancer.

by rmrd0000 on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 9:30pm

More a plague or scourge - cancers are subtle and creep up on you. Okay, he's got the creep part down.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 09/30/2017 - 12:40am

I was thinking pancreatic cancer which is aggressive.

by rmrd0000 on Sat, 09/30/2017 - 3:04pm

Trump insults Puerto Rican leader while off golfing, thinks being an incompetent unhelpful dick is how to handle a crisis. #ImpeachTrump. He's simply too dangerous.

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 09/30/2017 - 1:40pm

TRUMP DIDN'T PUT THE ISLAND IN FRONT OF THE HURRICANE OR THE OCEAN!! OK!

The buck doesn't even slow down on Trumps desk!

by NCD on Sat, 09/30/2017 - 2:57pm

you are so good at this, no kidding, you should be a right wing talking points writer

by artappraiser on Sat, 09/30/2017 - 6:21pm

Clinton to San Juan mayor: ‘We are with you’

By Josh Delk @ TheHill.com 09/30/17 05:56 PM EDT

Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton responded to President Trump's criticism of San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz on Saturday, tweeting "we are with you," to Cruz.

"Don’t let anyone make you feel alone. We are with you and Puerto Rico," Clinton tweeted [....]

by artappraiser on Sat, 09/30/2017 - 7:11pm

"All died in ICU. Every one." Heckuva job, asshole.

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 10/01/2017 - 5:15am

All yur high tech medicine that his type of rightie likes to laud as supposedly making "USA health care system #1" all for naught without that electrical juice.

Surely there's going to be a ton of deaths from stuff like lack of dialysis in outpatient treatment, too. It's already been way too long for many of them to survive the damage of not having it. (Once you have someone close to you needing dialysis, you realize how very common that need is-not to mention what a big business it is-people are way too private about this one particular handicap, the clinics are often very discretely marked.)

by artappraiser on Sun, 10/01/2017 - 5:37am

Without your high tech medicine, we wouldn't be discussing saving lives of people needing dialysis because renal failure patients would have died from their disease. Disaster create strains on the system. In Hoston, centers that remained opened took up some of the slack. Nurses and doctors worked hours to treat patients from other centers. People had to travel long distances to get to centers that remained in service.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/houston-dialysis-patients-getting-treatme...

In most settings, one of the first things rescue services do is track down dialysis centers and patients. Dialysis centers are instructed to have disaster plans.

http://cjasn.asnjournals.org/content/6/10/2337.long

The CDC also has detailed instructions

https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/dialysis.html

Obviously, if the electrical grid goes down and generators run out of fuel, there is no solution. The idea was for Trump to stop tweeting and pay attention to detail. It would also be helpful for his stooge to say that we had a good news story in Puerto Rico. Dialysis centers should have been targeted early on for service.

by rmrd0000 on Sun, 10/01/2017 - 9:32am

Donating $50,000 tomorrow from new Art of Deal royalties to Puerto Rico hurricane relief #hispanicfederation. How about you Mr. President?
— Tony Schwartz (@tonyschwartz) October 1, 2017

by artappraiser on Sun, 10/01/2017 - 6:33pm

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