Not unlike addressing a conjoined Alaska and Hawai’i statehood, airports and car dealerships should be the least of criteria for statehood, and the 2.8 million Puerto Ricans should be part of the deal. “D.C. would be the only state — the only state — without an airport, without a car dealership,...
Latin singer Mark Anthony and the Lincoln Project released a new video of a devasted Puerto Rico. Anthony, who is Puerto Rican, narrates the ad and blasts Trump for his lack of response to the island's natural disasters, the Covid crisis, the ruined electrical grid, his racism, and a devastated economy....
int.nyt.com/… According to a New York Times/Siena College poll, 59% of likely American voters support granting statehood to the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, while 20% were opposed and 15% were undecided or gave no answer. The survey taken September 22 to 24 comes from the pollster rated A+...
Trump never met Miles Taylor, of course. Or maybe he met him once when he was delivering coffee. Or maybe he doesn’t exist. He’s an actor hired by the Fake News Media! Regardless, Taylor has been tearing Trump a variety of new assholes — of all shapes and sizes —...
In English and in Spanish: En español.https://t.co/OyQ9NG5Wv5 https://t.co/z8VdR2hLeG — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 18, 2020 And if you want to watch at Youtube and recommend it there, I have courtesy of Kokomo for Obama in the comment thread, embedded that here:
“Quit being so emotional, Elaine, it’s not about the people, it’s about the money.” Mick Mulvaney to Elaine Duke, acting director of Homeland security in 2017. Of course, he did. Some news outlets stated that he was joking, where have we heard that canard before? If we have learned anything...
“Quit being so emotional, Elaine, it’s not about the people, it’s about the money.” Mick Mulvaney to Elaine Duke, acting director of Homeland security in 2017. Of course, he did. Some news outlets stated that he was joking, where have we heard that canard before? If we have learned anything...
Few of you will recall my stories mocking the possibility of a Trump win in 2016, ostensibly because it was plausible to assume that HRC would win. This time more caution is necessary, since the same Trump deceit is happening like promising to support something DACA-like in a future executive...
The United States territory of Puerto Rico will hold a nonbinding referendum on statehood in November. Governor Wanda Vazquez said the vote will ask a simple question: “Should Puerto Rico be immediately admitted as a US state?” http://www.yahoo.com/… In 2017, the last time the island voted on the question 97% approved...
Remember when Donald Trump, instead of taking the bull by the horns and helping our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria, decided to throw paper towels at them, blame them for their troubles, whine about the expense their predicament was incurring, lie about the expense itself, and excoriate their...
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, under Ben Carson, had a legally required deadline back in September to make desperately needed hurricane relief funding available to the suffering American island. The housing agency was supposed to issue funding notices to 18 states and territories affected by hurricanes on Sept. 4. They...
In Puerto Rico, the economy depends on tourist dollars. Tourists and locals alike are drawn to the island’s sun-kissed beaches for fun in the sun. But sea-level rise from thermal expansion and the melting of polar ice caps has begun to erode the beaches. The width of beaches is decreasing,...
Apparently, White House spokesperson Hogan Gidley is taking his cue from Donald Trump, who sure seems to think Puerto Ricans are a bunch of ungrateful foreigners with their hands out (i.e., not U.S. citizens). Discussing Trump lashing out at Puerto Ricans and complaining they’ve received too much money, White House...
Some of the gutless GOP Senators decided to blab to the Washington Post and Politico about the latest meeting they had with the Mad King Trump. The Mad King is feeling GREAT! and wants to fuck over Puerto Rico and take away healthcare from millions. We have the usual frauds...
Trump to Alabamans affected by the recent devastating tornadoes: “To the families and friends of the victims, and to the injured, God bless you all!” Trump to Puerto Ricans still reeling from Hurricane Maria: Hold your horses. The Washington Post: Puerto Rico has started cutting benefits paid out by a food...
Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-CA) A Republican Congressman shouted at Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-CA) to “Go back to Puerto Rico!” Thursday while Cárdenas was on the House floor. Initially, and in typical GOP fashion, when Rep. Cárdenas demanded to know who shouted it, the classless GOP reps wouldn’t fess up. ”There was about 50 mostly male Republicans...
Deep within a Thursday Washington Post story about Donald Trump’s hog feces lagoon of a tweet on Hurricane Maria we find this revealing gem: Trump’s aides said they have tried to focus the president’s attention on Florence, noting that he has been engaged in daily disaster briefings and called governors, senators...
To be fair, maybe Donald Trump simply thinks Puerto Ricans should count as .6 percent of a person. That would put his figure of 18 casualties right in line with George Washington University’s finding that nearly 3,000 U.S. citizens died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. That would be the charitable interpretation,...
You really can’t make this shit up. x “I actually think it was one of the best jobs,” President Trump says of his administration's hurricane response in Puerto Rico, calling it an “incredible unsung success.” Last month, Puerto Rico increased its Hurricane Maria death toll estimate to 2,975. https://t.co/iWbOl0dIUt pic.twitter.com/LFFGdFyxMl...
