Trump Just Reinstated Restrictions On Hurricane Aid To Puerto Rico

[OxQQme]

Source: http://verifiedpolitics.com

>"Trump justified his delayed response to Puerto Rico by explaining that U.S. shipping magnates wanted to make money off the tragedy. “We’re thinking about [waiving the Jones Act],” Trump said, “but we have a lot of shippers and a lot of people that work in the shipping industry that don’t want the Jones Act lifted.”

After days of suffering and angry calls pouring in to Congressional offices, Trump finally issued a ten-day waiver that allowed aid to pour in.

Now, however those ten days have passed and Trump, who is spending his 70th day as president golfing, has allowed the Jones Act to go back into effect. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that the waiver will not be reinstated.

A bipartisan push is underway in the Congress to have Puerto Rico permanently exempted from the Jones Act, but the snail’s pace of Capitol Hill will do little to help Puerto Ricans who are suffering today."<

Read more: http://verifiedpolitics.com/trump-just-reinstated-restrictions-hurricane-aid-puerto-rico/

[Bradical79]

1. Absolutely disgusting

Rec'ed for visibility

[Angry Dragon]

3. actually a post or kick gives more visibility ....... keeps it at the top

[Bradical79]

4. Yeah, I'm sleepy lol -nt

[Angry Dragon]

7. but recs do also say something

[tblue37]

53. He finally responded to PR's suffering only because his detachment was being

criticized on TV. Similarly, he waived the Jones Act only when his refusal to waive it got "had ratings." If people keep criticizing him on TV and in the polls over this, he might extend the waiver.

Therefore, we should keep pushing this issue into the limelight.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Trump is playing Russian Roulette with peoples' lives

Trump is a Russian agent

[Oldtimeralso]

46. Trump needs to play RUSSIAN ROULETTE

with an automatic pistol.

[Oldtimeralso]

47. T Rump needs to play Russian Roulette

with an automatic pistol.

[Larrybanal]

65. he is...but with america

[appleannie1943]

5. Pure evil

[Eyeball_Kid]

30. Trumpy believes that POWER is best exercised by life and death decisions. Which one doesn't matter.

Bush 43 was the same way. His disinterest in the lives of innocent people being executed was noteworthy, as well as his cavalier use of the military in Afghanistan and Iraq.

But Trumpy has a different twist to playing God. He seems to believe that REAL POWER is the POWER OF DEATH. He can actually make whimsical decisions that can end people's lives, and he loves that part of his job.

It would take an enormously inflated ego, as well as severely diminished value for human life, for Trumpy to order actions that would increase the risks of death and disease in PR. But Trumpy is up to the task.

Aneurism, anyone?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. tRump is a dirty fucking poor excuse for a human. n/t

[lark]

10. Not human!

Not one tiny bit of humanity exists in those grotesque rolls of fat, only hate, vengefulness, greed and lust.

[underpants]

8. They don't vote. He did the waiver to cool things down before his terrible bisit

He got, what he's been told was a successful, photo-op. They are of no use to him anymore.

[lark]

9. Why doesn't he just do the universe a favor and die!

God, I just can't stand it, not one little bit.

He'll laugh while PR folks die just so the rich can continue to be blood suckers. He's actually causing people to die by his personal allegiance to the 1%ers and racists. That he's doing this out of racism and petty spite against 1 woman is what makes it so extremely vile. I hope hundreds of thousands of them move to FL, register and turn my state blue. Suck on that, tiny hands!

[BigmanPigman]

15. He needs to be restricted in a straitjacket permanently.

[Eyeball_Kid]

32. He really is that destructive and evil.

Watch out when the indictments come. Trumpy will go ballistic and will obsess with vengeance upon his perceived enemies. He'll ignore his aides' pleas to not fire Mueller, but he'll bore ahead with any simple plan to fire Mueller. He'll victimize himself and try to whip up his nazis and gun humpers to clamor for his innocence. Then we'll discover that Trumpy's activist base is much smaller than it was made out to be, because his gun humping backers will show up by the hundreds, not the tens of thousands. The GOPers in politics will see that Trumpy's a paper tiger, a complete media creation, and they'll drag him out of the WH in his pajamas.

Well, I thought it was a good fantasy.

[xxqqqzme]

63. I like it.

It has a satisfying ending.

[icymist]

11. K&R

[Achilleaze]

12. Small, mean, and biased

Republican family values suck out loud. Republicans really need to take up American values like honesty, respect, compassion, and loyalty to the US a and American citizens, instead of their freaking Russian money mob cronies and comrades.

[sweetroxie]

13. He's a killer. nt

[Botany]

14. Total gas lighting operation ..... no doubt under orders from Russia

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The face of evil, Trump is just fucking w/people for his own pleasure and
to make the rest of us question if we are really sane.

[Kittycow]

17. Sounds like a Stephen King plot

when you put it like that. Sadly.

[Zoonart]

29. YES and it's a movie we've seen.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

16. Exile him to PR...

Don't ya wish we could?
Then let's hear the "It's going well, just great" speech or tweet.

[3catwoman3]

18. "we have a lot of shippers and a lot of people that work in the shipping industry that dont want...

...the Jones Act lifted."

Well, screw them.

[NickB79]

49. Because profit trumps humanity and morality EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.

With this excuse for a human being.

[rickford66]

52. Why not name them then. I don't believe him.

[rlegro]

19. If we had wise people in Congress...

They would now immediately pass a law saying that the Jones Act will be rescinded by the same number of days that the president has been golfing during his term of office. It'll go on forever!

[Jopin Klobe]

20. "snails pace of Capitol Hill"? ... no ...

... it's actually "slug’s pace of Capitol Hill" ...

[KPN]

21. The national nightmare continues.

When are we going to wake up from this god-awful dream? Better question, when is the GOP going to start actually being patriotic and running this disgrace of a person -- he's no frigging president! -- out of the White House? Do they have any loyalty to the nation whatsoever?

[LiberalLovinLug]

24. The disturbing answer

is that most GOP are closet Trumps themselves. He says what they wish they could say, but are slightly more politically aware than he is and understand how they would come off. He is a great scape goat as well in that while he is in office he can be used as a shield to pass whatever draconian laws they want to. Trump takes most of the heat for them.

[Doreen]

62. For being "closet trumps" they sure as hell have the doors wide open for all to see.

[keithbvadu2]

22. Is that socialism or communism?... Certainly not free market capitalism.

Is that socialism or communism?... Certainly not free market capitalism.

[iluvtennis]

23. Deplorable, evil, bastard. GAH

[LW1977]

25. K&R

Disgusting POS!

[RKP5637]

26. The guy is really a full fledged psycho. Dangerous as hell. n/t

[catbyte]

27. Utterly disgusting. Words fail me.

[smirkymonkey]

28. Sadistic Bastard!

He really is one evil, vindictive motherfucker. The day he departs this earth will be one of the happiest days of my life.

[Historic NY]

31. Nothing in MSM only this and an Indie news service??

[procon]

33. Congress can end the Jones act or modify it.

The Dems would support it, what excuse do Republicans have for making it even harder for Puerto Rico to recover? It can't be the cost, because now with the Jones act back in place, everything costs twice as much and they are going to have to vote to fund the higher costs that needlessly stupid law adds.

[awesomerwb1]

34. Unreal.

He's a very sick man. The low bar for this a-hole appears to be hell.

[Stuart G]

35. k and r..nt

[SwissTony]

36. I don't know what to say.

I thought for sure I'd see the word "borowitz" or "theonion".

This guy is disgusting.

[greatauntoftriplets]

37. Bastard.

[Crash2Parties]

38. Trump is evil, but the GOP is equally evil

They *could* do many things about this but choose to do nothing.

He is their court jester, a convenient clown to distract the rubes.

[pansypoo53219]

39. WELFARE KINGS. see john oliver this sunday.

[spiderpig]

40. He must be so proud of himself.

He'll show those pretend-Americans!

(Do I even need a sarcasm tag?)

[NastyRiffraff]

41. Bob Corker was too kind n/t

[Shrike47]

42. He isn't doing it for the shippers, he's doing it because they aren't praising him.

After all his 'hard work', the damned Puerto Rican's want more! He'll show them. Who cares if they are people, who cares if they are Americans. Screw 'em.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

61. Imagine if President Obama had only done things for people who praised him

and punished those who criticized him, all the while trash tweeting and golfing during every crisis. But don't call Obama's detractors racist or bigoted. though they have absolutely no other reason to prefer Trump to him.

[calimary]

43. ASSHOLE!!!!!

YES, I’m SHOUTING!!!!!!

[George II]

44. Governing by spite and racism.

[SCVDem]

45. Dumps inactions

Are a crime against humanity.

Remove, replace, lock him up!

[Bettie]

48. I do not get how anyone can still

support this giant garbage fire of a supposed human being.

K&R

[sakabatou]

50. He's gonna have blood on his hand

[ms liberty]

51. K&R. n/t

[badhair77]

54. Unforgivable.

People will die on his watch and he doesn’t care.

[christx30]

55. As long as they can pay Wall Street..

[Fullduplexxx]

56. Oh but hillary and her emails besides theyre both the same anyway

So ive heard. angry It makes me wanna pull my hair out when i think how could have been

[Cadfael]

57. K&R

[mercuryblues]

58. Well let me know

when you figure out how the jones act affects how this will hamper aid to PR.

[yuiyoshida]

59. More blood on Trumps little hands....

KARMA'S A bitch, bucko!!!

[SummerSnow]

60. No, this has nothing to do with the shipping magnates

it's your bias against Latino people. Stop with your fake news. Spin it all you want to.

[dchill]

64. K&R.