OldBrownsFan Posted July 14, 2019 Report Share Posted July 14, 2019 The media savaged Trump when he claimed Puerto Rico officials were mismanaging disaster aid. But he was right Remember when President Trump claimed in April that "corrupt or incompetent" Puerto Rico officials had badly bungled relief efforts following 2017's Hurricane Maria? Remember how poorly politicos and journalists reacted to the president’s allegation, claiming that he was lying or being plain racist? Well, it looks like the president was right. Puerto Rican officials were arrested this week on charges that they stole aid money, the Washington Examiner’s Tim Pearce reported.... Trump was savaged at the time by politicos, journalists, and commentators for suggesting Puerto Rico suffered in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria from the same sort of government corruption that exacerbated New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. “Donald Trump’s lie-filled rage tweets … continue a Trump pattern that mirrors a method that white supremacists have used throughout American history,” the level-headed Charles Blow theorized in his usually clunky and near-incomprehensible prose in the New York Times. “Particularly present since Reconstruction, this method involves proclaiming that minorities lack the character and capacity to create effective government, and therefore minority-led jurisdictions are a hopeless drain on resources.” Sarah Jones said elsewhere for New York Magazine’s Intelligencer, “Trump’s long-standing antipathy for people of color is germane to his rhetoric on Puerto Rico. When he speaks, you don’t have to strain to hear the undertones for what they are. Stereotypes that depict poor people of color as moochers, takers, and welfare queens have been around a long time, and they’ve informed immigration and welfare reform stances in both major parties at various points in their histories." “The argument that immigrants are violent job thieves stems from this source and so, too, do Trump’s falsehoods about Puerto Rico,” she added. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump wrote, "[Trump has] repeatedly complained that the funding going to the island was being wasted or spent to pay down that debt, without evidence." "Trump always saw Puerto Rico’s government as questionable and wasteful and then apparently seized on that idea to rationalize his arguments that the island was receiving too much money," Bump added. Surely they will all print follow-ups, acknowledging the oversight, admitting that the president and his allies were correct about Puerto Rican relief efforts being stymied by corrupt local officials. Any minute now... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-media-savaged-trump-when-he-claimed-puerto-rico-officials-were-mismanaging-disaster-aid-but-he-was-right 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicIsForSquares Posted July 14, 2019 Report Share Posted July 14, 2019 Normally, I loath Trump’s twitter tantrums but on the ones they posted regarding Puerto Rico he is correct. It only fucks over the citizenry having to live without basic necessities due to government corruption. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBrownsFan Posted July 14, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2019 8 hours ago, LogicIsForSquares said: Normally, I loath Trump’s twitter tantrums but on the ones they posted regarding Puerto Rico he is correct. It only fucks over the citizenry having to live without basic necessities due to government corruption. I have become immune to his tweets. Some of his tweets are good and some not so good. Trump is not going to change. You have to admit though twitter has been a good platform for Trump to get around a biased corrupt MSM and take his message directly to the American people. Reagan would do that as well (bypass the media and take his message directly to the people) but he didn't have anything like Twitter when he was president. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LogicIsForSquares Posted July 14, 2019 Report Share Posted July 14, 2019 2 hours ago, OldBrownsFan said: I have become immune to his tweets. Some of his tweets are good and some not so good. Trump is not going to change. You have to admit though twitter has been a good platform for Trump to get around a biased corrupt MSM and take his message directly to the American people. Reagan would do that as well (bypass the media and take his message directly to the people) but he didn't have anything like Twitter when he was president. I don’t think it has helped him on the grand scheme of things. For every informative one, you get many more that are just tantrums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted July 14, 2019 Report Share Posted July 14, 2019 well, I'm also immune to his tweets because we don't Twit, we don't Face... we're good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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