Seething Rage.
(image courtesy Scissorhead MonkeyFister)
Yesterday, we might have mentioned Comrade Trumps twin tweets denying that Hurricane Maria killed nearly 3,000 Puerto Ricans last year…
3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 13, 2018
…..This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 13, 2018
…and it seems that others noticed it, too/also:
.@andersoncooper: Pres. Trump “has disrespected the dead of Puerto Rico today, and he disrespected the living who will live the rest of their lives with the pain of loss and the pain of knowing their President, in his heart, does not see their loss for what it truly, truly is.” pic.twitter.com/vcOL43QV1l
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) September 14, 2018
…and compare and contrast that with Fox News’ Lou Dobbs, Hair Füror’s fellow birther enthusiast (who “left” CNN when he wouldn’t quit promoting his theory):
#FakeNews– The Hurricane Maria death tolls have been inflated & President @realDonaldTrump was right to call out organizations who threw out science and statistics to try to discredit his administration. #MAGA #TrumpTrain #Dobbs pic.twitter.com/xXjF3dfgcH
— Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) September 14, 2018
Anyway, you’ll never guess what happened next! Some Republicans are pushing back against Comrade Stupid!:
Florida lawmakers are publicly disagreeing with President Trump’s claim that the death toll in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria is not accurate.
Why it matters: With just 2 months before the election — and with an estimated 50,000–75,000 Puerto Ricans who may have permanently settled in Florida since the hurricane — they know they can’t stay silent on an issue that affects a significant portion of Florida’s electorate.
The big picture: Republicans Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis have never openly disagreed with Trump before. In fact, they’ve benefitted from his endorsements, and DeSantis even released an entire ad mirroring himself after Trump.
OK, so it’s self-serving, but it’s a start. Maybe Republiclans (see what I did there?) don’t believe in reality anymore, except when they have to? We note that Republicans have a number of seats in North Carolina that are up for grabs.
Big Brother has given doubleplus goodful duckspeak. Opposition is thoughtcrime by unpersons.
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Yeah, the NC electoral map is still the hopelessly gerrymandered one drawn up by the Republiklansmen so don’t expect much change unless Trump and FEMA really screw up the post-Florence relief and recovery.
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Jim – and you can bank on it. They will screw up the recovery where’ere it is needed.
Rgds,
TG
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But it is continental US so there will be support from the redneck navy (that right?) and people trucking in their own distillers and generators and Budweiser bringing water and Dominos coming in to fill in the potholes, so it will have support outside of FEMA that was not available in PR. I am not hoping for destruction, but I do hope that our benighted media steps up and points out if, indeed, major assistance comes from civilians rather than FEMA.
(ps – didn’t NO go through a similar counting process, where they claimed 100 dead or something and then updated the count when e waters went down? Sorry, I’m going to run in computer mode for a while, it’s too big of a mess to wrap my heart around.)
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Chuck Todd was absolutely ecstatic yesterday, claiming “…Trump’s comment may have been bad for Trump, but it was good for Rick Scott…” Chuckles is REALLY in the bag for batboy!
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Chuckles is all about the horse race, like any other degenerate gambler hanging around the track.
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Lou Dobbs hates Hates HATES science and statistics. Please make a note of it.
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republican’ts (not deserving of respectful cap)
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when ‘he’ left that ‘isolated island’ thurston and lovey were still alive (though gilligan was unaccounted for, but probably just visiting dobie on the other side of the island) and, since they were the ones with the money they mattered most, so how could the death toll possibly go up? after all, as he left he gave instructions for no one else to die because it might make him look bad….and he was out of paper towels.
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