As he headed out to visit the island earlier, Trump praised the federal response, telling reporters at the White House that “it’s now acknowledged what a great job we’ve done.” He added that at “a local level, they have to give us more help.”
I’m absolutely disgusted. I’m horrified daily. Mostly, worst of all: I’m astounded that so many of my fellow citizens aren’t feeling the same way 😢 (Admittedly less & less “surprised”; I definitely expect it now, but that doesn’t lessen my incredulousness.)
I feel like I can usually see the other side of arguments pretty well. I may vehemently disagree, but can come to an understanding of WHY someone feels a certain way. This one has me completely stumped. I cannot wrap my head around how anyone who is actually paying attention to what is going on and how he treats people and can still think he's doing a great job. He has absolutely zero respect in international arena right now...and they're not getting their information from "FAKE NEWS."
Post by sparrowsong on Oct 3, 2017 13:41:44 GMT -5
Trump's Puerto Rico Visit Is a Political Disaster
The president told residents to be “very proud” they hadn’t endured a “real catastrophe” like Katrina, doing little to erase the impression that he sees hurricane relief more as a political story than a human one.
I know we're busy with Las Vegas but is no MSM showing this? Talking about it?
I think that they will be. I am guessing the morning shows will pick up on it as the day goes on. Joe S, Chris Hayes, Joy Ann Reid and others are tweeting about it.
Throwing the paper towels into the crowd reminds me of an experience Elie Wiesel wrote about in Night; People passing train cars full of starving children being shipped to concentration camps would throw bits of bread at them to watch them fight over it. This man is just so, so vile.
Throwing the paper towels into the crowd reminds me of an experience Elie Wiesel wrote about in Night; People passing train cars full of starving children being shipped to concentration camps would throw bits of bread at them to watch them fight over it. This man is just so, so vile.
I remember that in the book.
I was thinking it was a cleanup of this not-quite-as-big-as-Katrina (aka real US has the biggliest disasters) brought to you by, not Congress, but Bounty!
I'm still so confused as to how, say, Howard Dean's career was basically over the day he made some weird yell, yet Trump makes these embarrassing faux pas at least once or twice a day and he's still going strong.
I know that Trump gets away with it because he's giving the people what they want (white supremacy), and because he just refuses to apologize or acknowledge that he's wrong, but I'm still so confused by it. There are SO many people who hate this motherfucker, and even people in his own party know that he's bringing them down (surely the "mainstream" Republicans know that he's setting up a hostile takeover of the GOP from the extremist lunatics???).
It really makes me wonder if he's setting a precedent for future politicians where they'll just refuse to apologize and they'll KOKO, and everyone will just shrug and let it blow over. I can see all these other dicks saying to themselves, "Now, why didn't I think of that???"
My mouth is hanging open. There is no word for the emotions I am feeling, watching that asshole toss paper towels like he's atop a parade float....some horrible stew of hatred, disgust, rage, and embarrassment. Like, I thought I was already as angry as I could be at him both in general and in response to this specific disaster, but that video opened up some new pit of emotion.