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Why is there no Puerto Rico thread
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RE: Why is there no Puerto Rico thread
(September 26, 2017 at 5:15 pm)Alex K Wrote: I feel like I am living in some bizarre alternate timeline universe where everyone in the US has gone mad. You have a humanitarian crisis of historic proportions in your own country and we get a "meh, they have debt with wall street" from the president with 5 days delay and minimal media coverage, FEMA doesn't get command to act and there's a general level of indifference in the air. What is this shit even.

I honestly don't think that Trump even knew that Puerto Rico was an American territory, whose people are American citizens, until maybe 24-36 hours ago. The guy is an idiot.

EDIT: Oh, and, the media is in it for viewers/clicks. The spat with the NFL is more popular because it ties into people's political outrage on both sides, and thus drives up ratings.
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#12
RE: Why is there no Puerto Rico thread
(September 26, 2017 at 5:24 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: I honestly don't think that Trump even knew that Puerto Rico was an American territory, whose people are American citizens, until maybe 24-36 hours ago.  The guy is an idiot.

Probably true. The dotard still being in office as president seriously makes me question the sanity of the American people.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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RE: Why is there no Puerto Rico thread
(September 26, 2017 at 5:22 pm)Tiberius Wrote:
(September 26, 2017 at 5:21 pm)Alex K Wrote: WHY ARE ALL NETWORKS NOT ON THIS 24/7

Ahem, because a load of football players knelt during the national anthem. Clearly the more important news here.

I heard they were BWK (black while kneeling), what an outrage.

History will not look back on this with kindly eyes...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: Why is there no Puerto Rico thread
Also: they're poor and brown... not exactly the demographic Trump and Republicans are used to helping.
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RE: Why is there no Puerto Rico thread
(September 26, 2017 at 5:30 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Also: they're poor and brown... not exactly the demographic Trump and Republicans are used to helping.

But but... they gave us Ricky Martin and half of West Side Story.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: Why is there no Puerto Rico thread
(September 26, 2017 at 5:34 pm)Alex K Wrote: But but... they gave us Ricky Martin and half of West Side Story.

I'm sure Trump doesn't know anything about either of those.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
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RE: Why is there no Puerto Rico thread
[deleted because awkward levity looked uncomfortably close to callous flippancy -- not what I was going for]
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#18
RE: Why is there no Puerto Rico thread
Here's the image I was talking about:

[Image: 22050263_1709832789068111_32976213551389...e=5A3C4879]
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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RE: Why is there no Puerto Rico thread
And Puerto Ricans speak Spanish....just like Mexicans and you know what the WLB thinks of them!

Turns out there might be another reason.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/trumps-...2-million/


Quote:Trump’s failed Puerto Rico golf course has cost the territory’s taxpayers more than $32 million

You know how the WLB hates bad memories.
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RE: Why is there no Puerto Rico thread
(September 26, 2017 at 5:34 pm)Alex K Wrote:
(September 26, 2017 at 5:30 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Also: they're poor and brown... not exactly the demographic Trump and Republicans are used to helping.

But but... they gave us Ricky Martin and half of West Side Story.

RepubliVision: You mean a gay guy and musical theater, which is also gay?
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