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Andrew Crespo
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Lindsey Graham yesterday: "If [Democrats] get the House, the Senate and the White House, then God help us all. Puerto Rico will be a state."
"God help us" that something that's happened 37 times before might happen to...PR.🤔
Pray tell, what exactly is different here, Senator?
Takket
(21,702 posts)mysteryowl
(7,435 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)czarjak
(11,326 posts)But, thanks for the unsolicited confirmation.
Grokenstein
(5,730 posts)Wull duh they all MEKSEEKANZ!! ...I think? ...Ain't they? /sarcasm
LizBeth
(9,953 posts)NNadir
(33,583 posts)You're a bigot; you're a kook.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Puerto Ricans will well remember all the help that Trump and Republicans gave them after a massive hurricane -- NOT!!!
MoonchildCA
(1,301 posts)DBoon
(22,424 posts)My god, how terrible that the Puerto Ricans be full fledged citizens and equals to the rest of us
jcgoldie
(11,657 posts)How could they not vote for the GOP?!?
JI7
(89,287 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)DanieRains
(4,619 posts)KKK BABY.
Journeyman
(15,044 posts)so you won't need to bother yourself about any Senatorial duties or go looking for a TV camera to get the vapors before.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Make it so!
dchill
(38,609 posts)God help us. Make it so!
onetexan
(13,079 posts)TigressDem
(5,125 posts)NOT that 200,000 plus people would die of some nasty disease because there was a need to sweep that political garbage under a rug?
crickets
(25,990 posts)Lindsey Graham is worried that if we have a Democratic president, we may gain Puerto Rico as a new state - if Puerto Rico wants to join us. It's partly up to them after all.
Nice to know your priorities, Senator. By the way, your lack of humanity is showing. Also, I don't think we'll be calling you Senator much longer. Good riddance.
Massacure
(7,528 posts)Democrats should pass a bill that allows Puerto Rico to grant itself statehood via referendum at any time upon exceeding the GDP per Capita of any of the existing states.
If growth trends continue, Puerto Rico will probably surpass Mississippi within a decade or so. If Puerto Rico successfully passed the referendum it would be a giant F-You to anyone who opposed the bill.
radius777
(3,635 posts)It's time to play hardball with these fuckers, as they are controlling the agenda with a white rural minority, holding back the majority of the country that wants to move forward.
It would give us 4 additional Dem Senators most likely. PR could possibly vote for a Repub but it's not likely.
roamer65
(36,748 posts)BGBD
(3,282 posts)and running Florida tonight.
ARPad95
(1,671 posts)from the Red Cross stating:
After first ensuring that local needs were met, your blood donation was sent to Hospital Universitario Dr. Ramon Ruiz Arnau in Bayamon, PR to help a patient in need.
It must have been somebody very important to go all the way from Central New York to Puerto Rico. I feel special!
Edited to add: Oh, yeah! STFU, Graham! You racist asshole!
DFW
(54,502 posts)There was once a TV series about a guy with O negative that some rich guy was hunting to confine him to a life of captive luxury as long as he would donate his blood to the rich guy on a regular basis. It starred Christopher George, but I forget the name of the show.
ARPad95
(1,671 posts)my blood at potentially only 1% of the population because most people are CMV pos by the time they're in their 40s.
Interesting you mention that TV series because I sometimes think what if the MAGAts & Qanons take over the country? I figure they'd want to keep me alive and healthy just for my blood. The irony is that they accuse dems of taking the blood of children (i.e., pure blood) when it's my blood that is given to babies to keep them alive. F'ing wack jobs!
TheBlackAdder
(28,252 posts)DFW
(54,502 posts)It will mean that no newspaper, radio station or TV talk show will ever again be in the slightest interested in anything Lindsey Graham has to say or do.
I think that worries him far more than whether or not kids in second grade will have one more state capital to memorize.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,500 posts)during a global pandemic and period of very high economic stress......
America will soon need to build a lot more rubber-lined rooms in our hospitals.
KY.......
EndlessWire
(6,574 posts)A racist comment designed to rile up racist phobias. It is mindboggling what they are willing to say in the name of getting reelected.
We don't need people like this lording it over us. We need people who are inclusive of all citizens. The GOP has got to go. Kick them all to the curb in November.
(I can't believe he said this! It makes me cringe. Puerto Rico has suffered so much.)