You can’t just drive your trucks there
Don explains why he’s been talking so much more about football players not standing up because Flag than about the disaster in Puerto Rico: it’s because of the little-known fact that Puerto Rico is an island. An island, people! Water all around. If you try to drive to it your truck gets too wet.
“It’s the most difficult job because it’s on the island, it’s on an island in the middle of the ocean,” Trump said at a joint press conference with Spain’s prime minister, Mariano Rajoy. “It’s out in the ocean — you can’t just drive your trucks there from other states.”
Seriously. It’s thousands of miles from anywhere, out there in the middle of the ocean, like the Azores but even farther.
Puerto Rico was ravaged this month by a recent pair of massive hurricanes, which knocked out power on the island and caused widespread destruction. Trump has received substantial criticism for appearing to focus more on issues such as NFL players protesting during the national anthem at games than on the response to the Puerto Rican crisis.
Trump touted the US’s response, repeatedly saying Puerto Rico’s governor had assured him the government was doing well in its efforts.
“This isn’t like Florida where we can go up the spine. This isn’t like Texas where we go right down the middle and we distribute,” Trump said. “This is a thing called the Atlantic Ocean. This is tough stuff.”
Nobody knows that. Trump knows that, but everybody else just thinks Puerto Rico is down the road from Miami a coupla miles.
Sure it’s an island, but that’s what SHIPS are for.
Has anyone told Trump that North Korea is on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, on a completely different continent?
Smart man, that Trump. He’s discovered that you can ship by truck, but you can’t truck by ship. Maybe he can let FEMA know.
Not just ship; I’m told there are these flying things nowadays, things that you can load cargo on and just lift right up and over that ocean. I think they may be called…airplanes?
“This is a thing called the Atlantic Ocean.”
“It’s this thing called nuclear weapons.”
God, this guy is such a dope.
So the US can ship armies all over the world and supply them for years on end, but getting disaster relief to a US territory is just to hard. Fuck me.
Rob, it appears we would rather kill other people than help our own live.
iknklast, that’s always been the Republican way. Lots of “help” for the “preborn,” but once you’re an American whether you live or die is mainly down to the birth lottery, i.e. the color of your skin and the wealth of your parents.
That sort of depends on how you define always. After all, it was the Republicans who tended to be abolitionists during the Civil War, and Democrats who clung to the segregation for so long. They’ve always been “pro-business” but not always heartless.
You’re right, of course, but when I said always I meant within my lifetime. Today’s Republicans bear no resemblance to the Party of Lincoln, and Lincoln would be utterly appalled at what has become of his party. Here’s Lincoln:
“I hold that while man exists it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.”
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
Here’s another great Republican president, Teddy Roosevelt:
“One of the chief factors in progress is the destruction of special privilege. The essence of any struggle for healthy liberty has always been, and must always be, to take from some one man or class of men the right to enjoy power, or wealth, or position, or immunity, which has not been earned by service to his or their fellows.”
“There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.”
“I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.”
The current GOP agrees with none of those ideas. Sadly, I don’t see the Democrats agreeing with them either.