Well…the WH continues to lie about how many people have died from the hurricane in Puerto Rico….64, that’s how many the WH is still clinging to as the number of deaths…but, a new study by researchers at Harvard put the number at almost 5,000. Five thousand American citizens died from a botched response the the hurricane and it’s aftermath and I wonder if that’s by design…after all, look at the terror that trump and his cronies are visiting daily on other “brown” people that are coming here seeking asylum….and these bigots infest the government at all levels so more and more it looks like this terrorism is a feature, not a bug. And the media stays silent, letting these thugs get away with allowing Americans to die just because they were born with the “wrong” color skin…5,000 people didn’t die in Texas, or Florida last year due to their hurricanes…and that should be the subject of every damn cable news broadcast today…more people died in PR than in the WTC and no one in this administration gives a damn….impeach….
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The PR electrical contract gets even worse…
Well…if you remember, I did one of these earlier in the week about the 300 million dollar, no-bid electrical contract that Whitefish Energy got to restore the electrical grid in Puerto Rico…you know, the company with two employees and no office anywhere that is owned by trump cronies….that’s bad enough, but it gets even worse…in the contract, there is a clause that forbids anyone from auditing anything about the costs in the contract…yep, no one can know how much profit these guys are stealing or anything else…other than what they are charging…and they ARE charging…I mean $300 dollars an hour for a lineman? And $332 dollars for accommodations and $80 bucks a day for food? So, they are billing at least $812 dollars a day for EACH of the contract people they are renting since they only have 2 full time employees….I’ve done a lot of contracts and there is no damn way I would approve one that I couldn’t know what the costs are and how much profit is in it….but this is trumpworld so I guess that’s how things are done now….they should all be locked up…..impeach…
Elon Musk to the rescue….
Well…amid the total failure of the idiot trump and his fake companies to restore electrical service to Puerto Rico…5 weeks in and over 70% of the island is still without power…there has been one bright spot that was just reported on today. The San Juan children’s hospital has been hard hit by the hurricane and it’s aftermath, trying to keep the children alive using unreliable generators and the hurculean efforts of it’s staff….enter Elon Musk of Tesla who, a couple of days after the hurricane hit, offered to start the transition of the island to renewable power using his solar panels and batteries…but trump and his minions had no interest since coal and oil are the only things they think about….oh, and trying to make profit off of this disaster….in three weeks, Musk and his team have installed and started an installation that is supplying all of the reliable power that the hospital needs…and saving the lives of the most vulnerable….Now, this is how things should operate in a caring world..but, we live in trumpworld so good luck with that…..impeach…
Stealing more money…
Well…not sure if you’ve heard about the newest scheme from friends of the idiot trump to steal more money from you and I….this is a good one….with over 70% of Puerto Rico still without power, and without any oversight…a company from interior sec Ryan Zinke’s home town has just been given a 300 million dollar no-bid contract to repair over 2400 miles of electrical wires across the island…only one little problem with that…this “company” has only 2 employees, no office, and it’s biggest job to date was to string 5 miles of wires…yep, a company working out of a post office box or somebodies basement has just had 300 million of yours and my money shoveled to them and their only presence is a FB page where one of the “owners” is proudly a trump donor and has pictures of her with many trump cronies….now we know why the governor of PR ignored the current contracts and agreements for other electric companies to help in an emergency…he left his people in the dark so he could reward trump cronies with free cash….the swamp just gets deeper and deeper…repubs, these criminals need to go…impeach…
Thank you, Chef Andres….
Well…with the trump administration’s racist abandonment of the people of Puerto Rico…leaving over 80% of them without electricity and almost 50% of them without food or water….there have been private citizens who have stepped in to try to keep people alive that I want to recognize since they have been doing this with little fanfare…just hard work and caring. One of these private citizens is Chef Jose Andres who took it upon himself to do something, to provide food for the people who have none….and his organization has opened over a dozen kitchens in Puerto Rico and have provided over a million meals in the past three weeks…more than twice what the federal government or the Red Cross has done….and this is not the first time he has thrown his entire being and all of his connections into relief efforts…he did the same thing for Houston after hurricane Harvey and stayed there until people could survive on their own…and he did it again for the people of Mexico after the huge earthquake there. One of the things I found inspiring was when Chef Andres said that he will stay until he is no longer needed….until things are recovered enough so people don’t need him anymore…contrast that to the idiot trumps response that relief efforts can’t be open ended and they cost too much….so, thank you Chef Andres…you are a true human being….
This is a president?
Well…if you didn’t already know the the idiot trump is a racist asshole, you just need to look at his behavior toward the US citizens in Puerto Rico and his tweet from yesterday threatening to pull FEMA and all of the military personnel out with more than 50% of the island still without water and over 90% still without power. This is not how presidents act…to abandon US citizens after the greatest natural disaster ever to hit the island…and to compound that racism, he proposed that no more money will be spent to rebuild the island unless it is in the form of loans…not grants, not federal money, but loans that his cronies will profit from…but that is all the the idiot is about…sucking this country dry and enriching himself and his buddies while wildfires burn hundreds of thousands of acres across the west, and hurricanes destoy PR and the USVI….is this enough yet, repubs? Is this finally the last straw? Nope, not for these amoral assholes….impeach….
You go, Elon….
Well…with over 95% of Puerto Rico still without power after hurricane Maria, and the idiot trump not giving a damn about when or if the power will be restored…I guess trump thinks it was enough to throw paper towels at the people there…here comes Elon Musk proposing he can scale up his solar panel/battery storage systems to power the entire island….as he has done for some other smaller islands across the world. With PR having the oldest, most expensive electrical generating equipment of any US state or territory, why should we just rebuild the old stuff and keep PR paying 3 times as much for electricity? To reward trump’s buddies who are already circling the island like a bunch of vultures? The long term cost would be much lower to modernize the grid there, and it could be decentralized so that even with another hit by a hurricane, the entire island would never be without power again. the only problem here is with the idiot trump, who would never approve anything like that…after all, he can’t profit from it…impeach…
Trump is still an idiot…
Well….still not feeling right after the events of the past couple of days but I felt I had to talk about the village idiot trump and his trip to Puerto Rico. What a godawful mess this guy is…not a damn thing about the suffering of the people, just more and more of how great of a job he is doing…people are still dying and this asshole can only think about one thing, himself, and to make it even worse, he goes on to crack a joke about the effect of the hurricane on the federal budget…this guy is just not right in the head…veering off into his F-35 story again, which is a huge lie by the way. I am tired of this crap…when can we make this prick go away? Repubs? Impeach…
Trump is even worse than you thought…
Well…I was trying to not write about the idiot trump to keep my karma clean today, but what he did this morning requires a response since it shows that trump is even worse than you thought. With his thoroughly inept response to the devastation in Puerto Rico and his flippant self congratulation that he was doing “a great job…everyone’s saying it” the mayor of San Juan, PR had had enough and called him out that no where near enough was being done and people are dying because trump is off golfing instead of doing his job…as you could expect, the thin skinned narcissist again made everything about him and attacked Mayor Cruz saying that she must have been told by the Dems to be nasty to him and that she was showing poor leadership and that Puerto Ricans just “want everything done for them” using the old racist trope of the lazy Puerto Rican….and you know the topper of this is this tough, brave and competent woman called him out and trump can’t stand that…he just can’t stand when people point out and shout that he is a stupid, racist, incompetent, fraud….so he has to project onto everyone his flaws…and it takes everyone to get to all of trumps flaws….now repubs, is this enough? Is leaving 3.5 million American citizens to fend for themselves just because he’s a lazy, racist asshole enough? Nope, not for the modern repubs it’s not….impeach…
This is sickening…part two….
Well…if the overt racism from the idiot trump wasn’t clear enough for you before, here’s just one more bit of proof….not sure if you’ve heard of the Jones Act…a law passed in the 20′s that prevents foreign ships moving cargo between US ports….and a law that was waved for Texas and Florida when Harvey and Irma hit them…but now, when there are brown skinned people hurting, the idiot comes up with an excuse for not waiving the law….that shipping jobs will be lost if he waives the law….so, white people involved…waive away, brown people involved, can’t waive…it will cost jobs…is THIS enough, repubs? Is this sickening bullshit of not taking care of ALL American citizens enough? Nope, probably not…still…