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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Puerto Rico mayor: Trump 'killing us with inefficiency'

[Al Jazeera] San Juan's mayor has accused US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
and his administration of failing in its relief efforts in the aftermath of hurricanes Maria and Jose, saying the White House is "killing us with inefficiency".

Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz implored Trump on Friday to "make sure somebody is in charge that is up to the task of saving lives", while the president asserted US officials and emergency personnel are working all-out against daunting odds, with "incredible" results.

"We are dying, and you are killing us with the inefficiency," Cruz said during a news conference. "I am begging, begging anyone that can hear us, to save us from dying. This is a people-are-dying story."

Trump has pledged to spare no effort to help Puerto Ricans to recover from the two hurricanes, but has come under great criticism as thousands remain without electricity, water and gas.

The US president lashed out at Cruz in a series of tweets on Saturday, saying the mayor showed "poor leadership".

"They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort," Trump said.

Acting homeland security secretary, Elaine Duke, visited the US territory on Friday, surveying the ravaged landscape by helicopter in an hour-long tour, driving past still-flooded streets, twisted billboards, and roofs with gaping holes, offering encouragement to some of the 10,000 emergency personnel she said the US government has on the ground.

Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  *ucking mayor thinking she's talking to The President of the United States?
How do you count votes when you're dead?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2017 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Complaining about the Free stuff? Her chair is too soft or too hard. Where are the cherries on top? She was expecting flowers and a new car? Complaining that her new skateboard is the wrong color?

Is the water lemon flavored? She only likes Lemon flavored water.

How much of what we send is she gonna sell? WHY were we expected to send her anything? Tell her to ask the EU where is their "fair share"? Or perhaps China owes her more or somebody else. Where are the swizel sticks?
Tell her to take the bus next time.
Posted by: Glalet Scourge of the Boskonians5304 || 10/01/2017 2:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Does she always try to scratch somebody's eyes out as a way of asking them for help?
Posted by: gorb || 10/01/2017 3:00 Comments || Top||

#4  As we have come to expect, welfare state dog bites feeding hand. She's standing in front of palletized 'free stuff' quite probably shipped in from the mainland. Oh the irony.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2017 3:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/01/2017 6:41 Comments || Top||

#6  smells like projection
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/01/2017 8:05 Comments || Top||

#7  A Puerto Rican politician blames... 'inefficiency.' Difficult to make this stuff up.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2017 8:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Let me translate this for you: "I'm incompetent and I don't appreciate being shown up! Where's my graft?"
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/01/2017 8:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Considering you haven't done shit to help yourself either, I hope you starve to death.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/01/2017 9:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Apparently the Feds didn't send a box cutter so she could open all those supplies behind her. Ungrateful Democrat

BIRM
Posted by: Frank G || 10/01/2017 9:48 Comments || Top||

#11  How many truck drivers are back to work delivering all those goodies? How many of the people are out fixing the roads?



Lady ******** and the horse you rode in on.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/01/2017 10:39 Comments || Top||

#12  Well, look. She's got her Michael Kinsley clear frame fag glasses. What more does she have to do?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/01/2017 11:55 Comments || Top||

#13  Puerto Rico should announce a few special elections for early next year.
(1) Want to be independent still? Want to be a state? Fish or cut bait.
(2) Every Mayor should be up for election again.

We'd all like to see what the people of Puerto Rico think about the Mayors efforts. And let them all think about how much aid they would have gotten and how fast if they weren't so closely connected to the USA.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/01/2017 12:21 Comments || Top||

#14  There are those people that bitch-bitch-bitch------

and there are those that are not attention 'hos and quietly get things done.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/01/2017 12:29 Comments || Top||

#15  If you are feeling generous and give her the benefit of the doubt, you still can't help but notice that Puerto Rico is a big place and all she knows about is a small part of it.
Posted by: James || 10/01/2017 13:12 Comments || Top||

#16  FEMA says she refused to attend their meetings. So when the 10,000 containers were delivered to the port there was no plan in place for distribution for her city. This was deliberate a leftist political ploy while people suffer. If the people deal with her appropriately that is a good sign. If not the military can ship the supplies else where in Puerto Rico.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 10/01/2017 16:29 Comments || Top||

#17  The Media will regret shoving Mayor Cruz into the spotlight
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/01/2017 16:52 Comments || Top||

#18  ...It is my understanding from a former resident of San Juan that the city's politics can be described as just like Detroit's, only without the morals.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 10/01/2017 17:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The DNC Had Another Awful Fundraising Month
[FREEBEACON] The Democratic National Committee's already dire financial standing worsened during the month of August, according to its Wednesday night filing to the FEC.
Maybe they should consider blegging?
The DNC raised just $4.4 million last month, the second lowest August fundraising figure for the party in the past decade. The party had less cash on hand at the end of the month than it did at the beginning, as its spending outpaced its fundraising by $44,575.
Or maybe they should consider not spewing nonsense punctuated with bad words?
And it gets worse. The DNC's debt substantially increased from $3.4 million to $4.1 million, a figure equal to about 60 percent of the committee's total cash on hand.

Party officials predicted in August that DNC fundraising figures would start to turn around, explaining that its fundraising staff was ten times bigger than it had been at the beginning of the year.

DNC deputy chairman Keith Ellison defended the previous month's bad fundraising figures by predicting that there would be "some really good reports to share in the weeks to come."

It is unclear what reports Ellison was referring to.

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time....

the Republican National Committee raised $7.3 million in August. It has $45.9 million in cash on hand and no debts owed.

Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  if the donks dont have other peoples money to spend they just dont know what to do
Posted by: 746 || 10/01/2017 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  They should try co-branding with the NFL.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Ebbaise1246 || 10/01/2017 6:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Hard to fundraise when lacking in taxpayer's to sell down the river.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/01/2017 8:22 Comments || Top||

#4  >Party officials predicted in August that DNC fundraising figures would start to turn around, explaining that its fundraising staff was ten times bigger than it had been at the beginning of the year.

Why do i doubt this is a good idea?

Even bad at capitalism.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/01/2017 8:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe Hill and Bill will cough up $ from their Foundation and speeches or Barry from his?

Ahahahahahahhahahahhahah

Posted by: Frank G || 10/01/2017 9:59 Comments || Top||

#6  I wish I could laugh at this but the STUPID party is so infuriating that I just want to shoot them all.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/01/2017 10:45 Comments || Top||

#7  They have a Dominican and a black Muslim in charge. 'Nuff said. What next? A Syrian cross-dresser?
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 10/01/2017 16:02 Comments || Top||


BUSTED: Anti-Trump Puerto Rican Mayor Supported Terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera
[GotNews] Carmen Yulin Cruz, the anti-Trump Mayor of San Juan who has used the national spotlight of Hurricane Maria to attack Trump, has a long history of supporting convicted terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera, a Puerto Rican radical who ran a paramilitary group that waged war against the United States.

Since May 29th, 2012, Cruz has used her official Twitter account 49 times to lend support to Lopez, a man arrested by the United States government in May of 1981 for seditious conspiracy against the United States and conspiracy to transport explosives to destroy government property, among other charges. Later that year, Lopez was sentenced to 55 years in jail for his various crimes.

Moreover, it appears Cruz is more than just a supporter of Rivera’s; she appears to be a personal friend of his. On May 29th, 2016, Cruz posted a tribute to Rivera, and wrote "for a great friend, a great patriot: for you Oscar Lopez Rivera.":

Indeed, Cruz and Lopez appear to be not just friends, but close friends. Several months after President Obama commuted Rivera’s sentence just before he left office, a decision so bizarre even CNN’s Jake Tapper didn’t understand it, Cruz tweeted a selfie of herself with a man who closely resembles Rivera, with the caption reading "Welcome #OscarLopez":



The fellow-traveller at the rear of this group looks kinda' familiar...

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  San Juan, where a Blanco gets redder
At Don and the Feds that've fed her.
As bad as it gets,
Don't be hedging those bets
On Mayor Carmen -- your worse is her better!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 10/01/2017 0:54 Comments || Top||


Democrats Struggle To Survive In Iowa
[POWERLINEBLOG] Harping on white privilege ain't the way to endear yerself to hard-working, mostly white voters. Accusing them of being racists two or three times a week doesn't help. Applauding gestures of contempt toward the nation and cheer-leading for Antifa and Only Black Lives Matter doesn't establish a real close bond with residents of Flyover Country.
Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is this Hemingway back?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2017 5:06 Comments || Top||

#2  It was. It's gone, apparently.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/01/2017 8:33 Comments || Top||

#3  :-)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2017 8:36 Comments || Top||

#4  People are getting tired of the Tantrum Party. Also, they are getting tired of the Greedy and Stupid Party.

Welcome to the Fourth Turning.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/01/2017 12:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Got to get up early to Ketchum.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/01/2017 14:04 Comments || Top||


Government
GOP Sens. Blunt and Moran Offer Green Cards to Outsource More White-Collar Jobs
[BREITBART]
Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chamber of Commerce Party.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/01/2017 6:42 Comments || Top||



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