There is a big difference between what the mainstream media are reporting and what is actually happening in that beautiful island.
First - from Roger L. Simon:
Puerto Rico Enters the 'Great American Victim Derby'
Seems like everyone's a victim in the USA these days, from college "snowflakes" who can't abide someone with views unlike theirs within miles of their campuses to allegedly assaulted women wearing sexually explicit hats to multi-millionaire football players who are sure there's something wrong but can't always remember what it is (other than Donald Trump). The latest of the many entries in this "Great American Victim Derby" is Puerto Rico -- or at least a significant part of the island's leadership.
And the money shot:
If you visit a tropical island, the last thing on your mind is work. You want to kick back and enjoy neverneverland as long as you can. To some extent, it's the same for locals. Dolce far niente is a great lifestyle, if you can hack it -- seemingly stress free. I'm envious. But everything has a price. You look around and things are dissolving . No infrastructure. No nada. Calamity strikes. And there you are asking for a handout again.
I'm not saying we shouldn't help Puerto Rico. We must and should. The situation is dreadful. But this is a learning opportunity for the islanders. They should take it. Blaming Donald Trump is the most reactionary and self-destructive thing they can do. It's victimhood redux. Leave that to the rapacious ideologues at CNN, the New York Times, etc. They'd blame the eruption of the Indonesian volcanoes on Trump, if that were possible -- and even it it weren't.
Despite what global warming fanatics might say, hurricanes are nothing new in Puerto Rico. There were obviously plenty of them from time immemorial, long before the island was even inhabited. If you're living on the island you know that from childhood. Every year brings a hurricane season. For the last decade it was pretty inconsequential, then it went crazy. It's God's lottery.
Read the whole thing.
Second, this brief excerpt from Ace of Spades:
In other news, the major story is the hideous behavior of the hack mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulin Cruz. First she praises FEMA for their response then, I guess after receiving her talking points from the Media Complex, blasts away at President Trump for letting people die in the streets; kind of an ironic statement from Cruz considering when she gave it, she was standing in front of a warehouse full of foodstuffs and supplies just brought in from the mainland. In fact, she was so utterly full of shit that even the grand wizard of being full of shit, Geraldo Rivera, called her on it. But unlike Dubya, who just silently sat by and allowed assholes like Spike Lee and Kanye West to accuse him of committing genocide against Chocolate City, the President and his team are having none of it. And the collective head of the Left is exploding because neither is a large majority of Americans having any of it either.
Good. You want to squander your budget on programs which "sound good" but don't "do good" - fine. And enjoy those extra votes from all of the low-information voters out there. Do not come crying to me when you run out of money. The major part of leadership is making hard decisions. President Trump did not win a popularity contest. He was not running as a popular candidate. He ran as someone who could fix things. He may be an a**hole but he is OUR a**hole and he is making America a better place for you and me. I am comfortable with that.
Four years under Hillary would have been a disaster - she was never fit for office - her tenure as Sec. State shows this loud and clear.
T and I were talking about Puerto Rico earlier today - just for reference, it is about the size of Connecticut which is about 1/20th the size of WA State. Population of P.R. is about 3.4 million people. WA State is 7.2M and Connecticut is 3.5M - we are a large state but we have a lot of wilderness and farm land.
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