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Wednesday, October 4, 2017
October 1st, 2017 - October 3rd, 2017. 322-324 days since the Nov 8, 2016, election of some rich asshole, no.45, and 254-256 days since the Jan 20th inauguration.
Just when you thought he couldn’t possibly get worse, some rich asshole lowers the bar. While in Puerto Rico, some rich asshole just told American citizens “you’re throwing our budget out of whack.”
Read below:
Mick [Mulvaney] is in charge of a thing called “budget.” Now, I hate to tell you Puerto Rico, but you’re throwing our budget a little out of whack, because we’ve spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico.
If you look at real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous — hundreds and hundreds of people that died. And you look at what happened here with really a storm that was totally overpowering — nobody’s ever seen anything like this. What is our death count this morning? 16, certified.
The certified death count in Puerto Rico may be misleading — nobody actually knows how many uncertified deaths there are in Puerto Rico. There could be hundreds. The death count hasn’t been updated in days, and many people are missing. Yet, once again, the rich asshole’s chief concern is his public image.
some rich asshole insulted the people of Puerto Rico just as he was getting ready to travel there to inspect the devastation caused by two Category 5 hurricanes.
As a helicopter was standing by, the rich asshole took questions from reporters as he walked to the landing pad.
One question was about the hurricane relief effort that is currently underway in Puerto Rico.
the rich asshole responded by whining about the criticism of his response, which was slower than George W. Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina. Then he gave himself an A+ grade on the response and proceeded to blame the victims of the hurricane for all the problems.
I think it’s now no longer acknowledged what a great job we’ve done. Texas and Florida we get an A plus. I think we’ve done just as good in Puerto Rico and it’s a much tougher situation. Now the roads are cleared. Communications starting to come back. We need their truck drivers. Their drivers have to start driving trucks. We have to do that. At a local level they have to give us more help. I will tell you the first responders, the military, FEMA, they have done an incredible job in Puerto Rico. And whether it’s her or anybody else, they’re all starting to say it. I appreciate very much the governor and his comments. He has said we have done an incredible job and that’s the truth.
Here’s the video via YouTube.
Keep in mind that Puerto Rico just suffered near total devastation. There is a lack of food and water and not nearly enough manpower and equipment. Much of the island still has no electrical power.
Blaming the locals is what a poor leader does when he or she wants to shift the blame for their own mishandling of the situation. the rich asshole responded badly to the dire situation in Puerto Rico and he refuses to take responsibility. Apparently, the buck always stops with someone else. Puerto Ricans should boo the rich asshole’s sorry ass back to the mainland, because he basically just doubled down on suggesting that they are lazy.
Before departing for Puerto Rico, some rich asshole hurled an insult at the island, then after landing in the U.S. territory, he continued to embarrass the rest of us. After telling Puerto Ricans whose lives have been devasted by two hurricanes that they are throwing the budget “out of whack,” the rich asshole praised officials on the island with the exception of the Mayor of San Juan, in order to continue his war on Carmen Yulín Cruz.
As the rich asshole entered Calvary Chapel, cheers rang out from the crowd, according to The Hill. There were signs in the room which read “Let’s Make Puerto Rico Great Again” and “God bless You, Mr. President,” according to a pool report. There are no signs like that visible from the video which captured the former reality show star throwing rolls of paper towels out to the desperate hurricane victims. It’s possible, but I just haven’t run across any yet online.
It’s as if the rich asshole thought he was in a Mardi Gras parade, tossing out beads and doubloons to the crowd.
While standing behind a table of supplies, the rich asshole said, “There’s a lot of love in this room, a lot of love.”
At that point, the rich asshole handed out a few packages of rice to the crowd, then picked up packaged rolls of paper towels and threw them into the crowd as if he was practicing shooting basketball hoops.
A few of the rolls were caught by people in the crowd while another fell to the ground.
I suppose we should be thankful that the rich asshole didn’t hand out bags of rice to the victims, then jerked one back if the person didn’t quickly grab it. “Too slow! You can’t have it now!” But we don’t want to give him any ideas. He would probably consider it to be a challenge.
President some rich asshole on Tuesday said Puerto Rico should be “very proud” that only 16 people died after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.
“I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you are throwing our budget out of whack. We spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico and that’s fine. We saved a lot of lives,” the rich asshole said during a briefing on Hurricane Maria relief efforts.
“Every death is a horror,” he added, “but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds of people that died and what happened here with a storm that was just totally overbearing. What is your death count?… 16 people certified. Sixteen people versus in the thousands. You can be very proud of all of your people.”
Commenting on the recent massacre in Las Vegas, President some rich asshole on Tuesday vowed that he would reexamine gun safety laws “as time goes by.”
“Look, we had a tragedy,” the rich asshole opined from the White House lawn. “What happened is in many ways a miracle. The police department has done an incredible job.”
“And we’ll be talking about gun laws as time goes by,” the president said with a dismissive wave of his hand.
the rich asshole went on to say that his administration’s hurricane recovery efforts had been “just as good” in Puerto Rico as they had been after an earlier hurricane in Florida.
And then the subject turned back to the Las Vegas shooting.
“He was a sick man, a demented man,” the rich asshole said of the suspected shooter. “A lot of problems, I guess. We’re looking into him very seriously.”
Muslim immigrants and an advocacy group filed a fresh lawsuit against President some rich asshole’s latest version of a travel ban that placed indefinite restrictions on the entry of citizens from eight countries to the United States.
The suit filed late Monday in federal court in Maryland challenges a Sep. 24 Presidential proclamation limiting travel from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea. Certain government officials from Venezuela were also barred.
Six individual plaintiffs who are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents with Iranian relatives who could be blocked from coming to the United States, along with the group Iranian Alliances Across Borders, claim the ban violates an immigration law that prevents discrimination based on nationality.
The complaint says that the majority of the people affected by the ban are Muslim and point to the rich asshole’s campaign promises for “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” The suit says North Korea and Venezuela were added so the rich asshole could “cloak this latest iteration of his Muslim ban in religiously neutral garb by invoking a national security review.”
The latest ban goes fully into effect on Oct. 18 and could affect tens of thousands of potential immigrants and visitors. the rich asshole has argued that the restrictions are necessary to tighten security and prevent terrorist attacks.
Department of Justice spokesman Ian Prior said the agency “will continue to vigorously defend the President’s inherent authority to keep this country safe.”
the rich asshole’s proclamation followed on two earlier temporary travel bans against some of the same countries, after the government did a global review of information sharing and security screening protocols.
The first ban issued soon after the rich asshole took office in January targeted seven countries but was blocked by courts following a hasty implementation and chaotic scenes at airports.
The second ban signed in March targeted six countries and was also blocked by lower courts. It was then partially revived by the Supreme Court in June. The third ban, with no clear end date, came out when the temporary measures expired.
On Friday the American Civil Liberties Union said it was seeking to amend an existing lawsuit in Maryland federal court filed against the previous March 6 ban to include the latest proclamation.
Legal experts say the new restrictions are likely on more solid footing, in part because they followed a detailed review by federal agencies.
President the rich asshole on Tuesday launched into an extended appraisal of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter during a visit to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, even though the fighter jet isn’t involved in the rescue and recovery efforts there.
The president had just received an update on runways open on the island -- slammed by two back-to-back hurricanes earlier this month -- when he started discussing the F-35.
“So amazing that we're ordering hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of new airplanes for the Air Force, especially the F-35. Do you like the F-35?” the rich asshole asked the military officials in attendance.
“I said, how does it do it in fights? And how do they do in fights with the F-35? They said we do very well. You can't see it. Literally you can't see it. So it’s hard to fight a plane that you can't see, right?”
The Pentagon has not sent any F-35s -- fighter jets made for combat situations and not rescue missions -- to help in the hurricane relief efforts.
the rich asshole further praised his administration’s efforts to lower the purchase price of the Lockheed Martin-made fighter jet.
“That's an expensive plane you can't see. And as you probably heard we cut the price very substantially, something other administrations would never have done, that I can tell you.”
the rich asshole has repeatedly brought up the cost of the F-35, first in December when he criticized the jet’s price as “out of control.”
Lockheed announced in February that it would sell the new batch of F-35s for a total of $8.5 billion, a nearly 8 percent decrease over the last batch of aircraft that was delivered.
Shortly thereafter and several times since, the rich asshole took credit for the driving down the price per aircraft.
Analysts and Pentagon insiders, however, have said the price would have come down already, regardless of the rich asshole’s involvement.
President some rich asshole appeared to take a sly shot at the mayor of San Juan on Tuesday when he praised Puerto Rican officials—with the exception of Carmen Yulín Cruz.
During a visit to the island, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria several weeks ago, the president made it clear he had not forgotten his ongoing Twitter spat with Cruz, leaving her name out as he thanked leaders in Puerto Rico for their efforts.
Speaking at a press briefing at a National Guard base on the island, the rich asshole thanked Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló for working with the government and not “playing politics,” in what was seen as a dig at Cruz.
“He’s not even from my party, but he started right from the beginning appreciating what we did,” the rich asshole said of Rosselló. “This governor did not play politics. He didn’t play it all. He was saying it like it was, and he was giving us the highest grades,” he added.
the rich asshole also thanked other officials in Puerto Rico for their help, including Jenniffer González-Colón, the island’s congressional representative. But the president did not include Cruz’s name in his list of thanks, despite assuring reporters on Tuesday that he was keen on bringing the pair’s dispute to an end.
“I think she’s come back a long way. I think it’s now acknowledged what a great job we’ve done, and people are looking at that,” the rich asshole, speaking from the White House, told The Hill.
The pair first entered into a Twitter quarrel after the mayor criticized the federal government’s response to the crisis on the island, which was left largely without power or water after Hurricane Maria hit.
In response, the rich asshole wrote on the social media site over the weekend, “The mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to the rich asshole.”
“Such poor leadership ability by the mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort,” he added.
the rich asshole: Puerto Rico has 'thrown our budget a little out of whack'
President the rich asshole on Tuesday noted the enormous cost associated with the hurricane relief and rescue mission in Puerto Rico, saying at a meeting with officials in San Juan on Tuesday that the efforts had “thrown our budget a little out of whack.” The president appeared in good spirits as he went around the room praising officials in his administration and local leaders in Puerto Rico. When he arrived at Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the rich asshole said in a jocular way that, “Mick is in charge of a thing called the budget.” “I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack because we spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico, and that's fine,” the rich asshole said. “We saved a lot of lives.” the rich asshole singled out the governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló, for praising his administration’s response and allowed Puerto Rico’s Republican resident commissioner, Jenniffer González-Colón, to speak. The Hill’s Jonathan Easley has more: http://bit.ly/2klOlz6.
Schumer to the rich asshole: Stop blaming Puerto Rico for the storm: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) ripped President the rich asshole on Tuesday after he appeared to joke that Puerto Rico recovery efforts had “thrown our budget a little out of whack." "Mr. President, enough. Stop blaming Puerto Rico for the storm that devastated their shores, and roll up your sleeves and get the recovery on track. That’s your job as president," Schumer told reporters during a weekly leadership press conference. Schumer added he didn't remember the rich asshole complaining that Texas "threw our budget out of whack after Harvey. Or Florida after Irma." the rich asshole noted the enormous cost associated with the hurricane relief and rescue mission in Puerto Rico during a meeting with officials in San Juan earlier Tuesday. “I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack because we spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico, and that's fine,” the rich asshole said. “We saved a lot of lives.” Schumer said the rich asshole's remark, which come as Republicans are pushing tax reform, "boggles the mind." http://bit.ly/2khIcDO.
Wells Fargo chief defends bank's progress in tense Senate hearing: Wells Fargo CEO Timothy Sloan testified Tuesday that the embattled bank is on a positive track forward as lawmakers excoriated the bank for fraudulent sales practices involving up to 3.5 million unauthorized accounts. Sloan told the Senate Banking Committee that after “great disappointment and transition” at Wells Fargo the bank has made significant progress toward cleaning up its consumer banking division. “Wells Fargo is a better bank today than it was a year ago. And next year, Wells Fargo will be a better bank than it is today,” Sloan said. The hearing Tuesday was Sloan’s first appearance on Capitol Hill as Wells Fargo’s chief, and comes after a year of deepening scandal for the San Francisco-based bank. Lawmakers from both parties criticized Sloan on Tuesday for the various scandals that had gone on allegedly without his knowledge, but the 30-year Wells Fargo veteran faced the harshest criticism from Democrats.
“You enabled this fake account scam, you got rich off of it, and then you tried to cover it up,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who is considered a potential 2020 presidential candidate. “At best you were incompetent, at worst you were complicit. Either way, you should be fired.” I take you inside the testy hearing: http://bit.ly/2klLaan.
Outraged lawmakers demand answers at Equifax hearing: Lawmakers got their first crack at former Equifax CEO Richard Smith on Tuesday, bombarding him with criticism for the massive data breach that occurred on his watch. The lawmakers could barely mask their anger as they pressed Smith on why the company’s data security practices were inadequate, given the mass amounts of personal data the company handles. Smith opened his testimony with a public apology. “The criminal hack happened on my watch and as CEO I’m ultimately responsible," said Smith, who retired from the company last week. In one exchange with Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Smith repeatedly dodged questions about whether Equifax’s response will make consumers whole. “Do you think consumers should have to pay a penalty for your mistake, including potential identify theft, false credit accounts, fraudulent tax returns or medical identity theft?” Luján asked. The Hill’s Harper Neidig and Mallory Shelbourne report: http://bit.ly/2kjLW7X.
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House Financial Services Committee: Hearing entitled "Examining the SEC's Agenda, Operations, and Budget" with SEC Chairman Jay Clayton, 10 a.m. http://bit.ly/2yxxgEl.
House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight: Hearing on the Internal Revenue Service's information technology modernization efforts, 10 a.m. http://bit.ly/2yxwHKN.
Senate Banking Committee: Hearing entitled "An Examination of the Equifax Cybersecurity Breach" with former Equifax CEO Richard Smith, 10 a.m. http://bit.ly/2yxBhsJ.
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law: Hearing entitled "Equifax: Continuing to Monitor Data-Broker Cybersecurity," http://bit.ly/2yMcK42. 10 a.m.
SEC didn’t seek DHS cyber help after breach: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) did not request help from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after its EDGAR financial database was breached last year, an official said Tuesday. The SEC has come under scrutiny in Washington after disclosing the 2016 breach just last month, which it says may have allowed hackers to generate profits from stolen insider information. A top Homeland Security official testified before lawmakers on the House Homeland Security Committee Tuesday that SEC notified the department of the breach on Nov. 4 of last year but that “at the time, the extent of the issue was not well understood.” “We have very limited involvement in SEC,” Jeanette Manfra, the assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications at the National Protection and Programs Directorate, said when pressed about DHS’s involvement in the breach. “They did not request our follow-on assistance for response.” Homeland Security is designated as the lead civilian agency protecting federal systems from cyber threats. The Hill’s Morgan Chalfant reports: http://bit.ly/2kjdzhC.
Trudeau, the rich asshole will talk trade next week: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet with President the rich asshole at the White House next week to discuss a wide range of issues, including ways to strengthen their long-standing trading relationship. Trudeau will arrive in Washington, D.C., as the fourth round of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) talks continue here, to discuss with the rich asshole the importance of the economic relationship as well as international security issues. "The United States is Canada’s top economic partner, and it's important that we continue to work together to strengthen trade, investment and economic opportunity for people on both sides of our border," Trudeau said in a statement. "I look forward to discussing with President the rich asshole how to enhance our mutual prosperity and security," he said. The Hill’s Vicki Needham has more: http://bit.ly/2kjJNZX.
Top Treasury aide flew to Palm Beach on private jet with hedge fund billionaire: A top aide to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin flew on a hedge fund billionaire's private jet earlier this year, The Washington Post reported Tuesday, the latest instance of a the rich asshole administration official using private travel with potential work implications. Eli Miller, Mnuchin’s chief of staff, flew to Palm Beach, Fla., several months ago with Nelson Peltz, a founding partner of investment group Trian Fund Management, on Peltz’s private jet, according to the Post. The exact date of the trip is unclear. Palm Beach is home to President the rich asshole’s Mar-a-Lago golf club, where the rich asshole often spends weekends and huddles with top advisers. The Post noted that Peltz also has an estate in Palm Beach reportedly worth at least $100 million. The Treasury Department confirmed Miller’s flight with Peltz to the newspaper, saying the senior aide and the New York hedge fund manager are longtime friends. “The Treasury ethics office advised Mr. Miller that he was permitted to accept a seat on a plane from a friend with whom he has a preexisting relationship under federal ethics law,” a Treasury spokesman told the Post. http://bit.ly/2khISZS.
Google critic takes on tech giants: Barry Lynn has been pushing the government to crack down on corporate power for 16 years, but his ideas never received as much attention as when they cost him his job at a Google-sponsored think tank. After parting ways with New America over the summer, Lynn has launched a new independent group to raise awareness about the threats posed by corporate giants. Lawmakers are increasingly willing to confront tech leaders on a growing list of issues, and Lynn’s transition comes as authorities are investigating whether Russians used Google, Facebook and Twitter to sow division during last year’s election. “I think people are understanding just how poorly structured these institutions are, how sloppily they were built,” Lynn tells The Hill. “It’s not just a matter of the fact that these people have too much power, it’s also that they are sloppy in the use of their power.” Harper Neidig has more from his conversation with Lynn: http://bit.ly/2kkRHCm.
IRS awards Equifax $7.25 million contract to prevent fraud: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has agreed to give Equifax $7.25 million to verify taxpayers' identities and help combat fraud, according to a recently issued contract. The IRS is hiring the embattled credit reporting agency to “verify taxpayer identity and to assist in ongoing identity verification and validations needs of the Service,” according to its filing on the Federal Business Opportunities, a website that lists federal contracts. The IRS labels Equifax as a “sole source order,” which means that the agency believes the credit reporting company is the only business capable of providing the service. The contract comes as lawmakers and the public continue to hammer the company over its cybersecurity breach that compromised the information of 145.5 million Americans. “This is considered a critical service that cannot lapse,” the filing Friday reads, saying that the Equifax contract will prevent a lapse in identity check as the IRS resolves another contract: http://bit.ly/2kkaUnM.
White House official calls for ending Social Security numbers as means of identification: The White House's cybersecurity coordinator, Rob Joyce, is calling for the end of Social Security numbers as a national identification code. "I believe the Social Security number has outlived its usefulness," he said Tuesday The Washington Post's Cybersecurity Summit. Joyce on Tuesday listed a number of problems with the reliance on Social Security numbers to verify Americans' identities, including the inability to change the numbers after they've been stolen. "It's a flawed system that we can't roll back after a breach," he said, pointing to a lack of secrecy in the way the numbers are stored as well: http://bit.ly/2kkM9rH.
Mortgage tax fight tests clout of home industry: The power of the real estate and home building industries is being put to the test in a fight with Republicans over a key tax break for homebuyers — the mortgage interest deduction. The National Association of Realtors and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) worry the new tax-reform plan from President the rich asshole and congressional GOP leaders will undercut the deduction, and the groups are vowing to use their considerable political muscle to save the benefit. “Since 1913, [Congress has] provided an incentive in the tax code to buy a house. We as a society and as a country decided long ago that homeownership stabilized communities and increased involvement,” said Jamie Gregory, the deputy chief lobbyist at the National Association of Realtors. The mortgage deduction allows homeowners who itemize their returns to deduct interest paid on their mortgage from their taxable income, and is one of the most popular benefits in the tax code. The Hill’s Megan R. Wilson reports: http://bit.ly/2kkp7B9.
Lawmakers try again on miners’ pension bill: Coal-country lawmakers launched a new effort Tuesday to pass legislation to shore up pensions for thousands of coal miners and their families. The bipartisan group led by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) introduced a new bill that would use excess funds meant for mine cleanups and borrow some general Treasury money to pay for pension checks. The effort revives the heated debate over whether and how to bail out the United Mine Workers of America’s (UMWA) pension fund, which is in danger of going insolvent due to a rash of coal mining company bankruptcies that have reduced the money going into it, putting more than 100,000 beneficiaries at risk. Since the pension program originated from a federal government effort, coal-state lawmakers see it as a federal responsibility to keep it solvent. “It’s time that we keep our promise, that’s all we’re asking for,” Manchin, who is running next year in one of the Senate’s toughest reelection battles, said at a Capitol Hill news conference with retired miners and allied lawmakers. The Hill’s Timothy Cama takes us there: http://bit.ly/2kk1rwK
Report: EU to order Amazon to pay millions in back taxes: The European Union will order Amazon to pay several hundred million euros in back taxes on Wednesday, The Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The EU’s enforcement arm, the European Commission, opened up an investigation three years ago into a partnership between Amazon and Luxembourg that allowed the e-commerce giant to shield some of its assets from taxation. The Financial Times report did not say how much Amazon will be ordered to pay. The fine would be the latest action Europe has taken to try to rein in American tech giants: http://bit.ly/2kk3alI.
Clearly, some rich asshole intends to do absolutely nothing to prevent future mass shootings.
The Las Vegas mass shooting is the deadliest in American history. Fifty people are dead and over 400 are wounded after a gunman used a machine gun to mow people down from his hotel room at Mandalay Bay as 22,000 concertgoers fled for their lives.
Predictably, the National Rifle Association has remained silent and Republicans like the rich asshole are only offering “thoughts and prayers” instead of taking meaningful action.
the rich asshole fumbled his first response to the shooting by offering his “warmest condolences” on Twitter. Of course, we all know that if the shooter were brown with a Muslim sounding name the rich asshole would be calling this an act of terror and would be once again calling for a Muslim ban.
But this shooter was an old white guy who used an assault rifle so the terrorism label won’t be used and there will be no call for a gun ban by the rich asshole.
And that was made further clear by the rich asshole’s remarks to the nation this morning as he suggested that the only real way to stop these violent acts is to unite in prayer for peace.
“In moments of tragedy and horror, America comes together as one. And it always has. We call upon the bonds that unite us, our faith, our family, and our shared values. We call upon the bonds of citizenship, the ties of community, and the comfort of our common humanity. Our unity cannot be shattered by evil, our bonds cannot be broken by violence, and though we feel such great anger, at the senseless murder of our fellow citizens, it is our love that defines us today. And always will. Forever…We pray for the entire nation to find unity and peace. And we pray for the day when evil is banished and the innocent are safe from hatred and from fear.”
Here’s the video of the rich asshole’s full remarks via YouTube.
Not once did the rich asshole call this an act of terrorism. Not once did the rich asshole mention the need for gun control. He said the word “pray” an insufferable amount of times as if prayer is the solution to gun violence. The only thing he offered these victims was prayers and a reference to the Bible and God.
That’s unacceptable. It’s time for Republicans to acknowledge that white men commit acts of terror and it’s time for them to ignore the NRA and do something to prevent future tragedies like this from occurring.
This was an opportunity for the rich asshole to actually do something courageous in response to tragedy. He failed spectacularly as usual. Thoughts, prayers, and God will not prevent mass shootings. We need gun control measures now more than ever and a renewed focus on stopping home-grown domestic terrorists. The American people need real action, not false platitudes.
some rich asshole’s Sunday plans just hit the media waves, and Americans have officially had it with the president’s lackluster attempts at being an actual leader. After multiple attacks against Puerto Rican officials, as well as the American citizens living there, the rich asshole has the nerve to spend his Sunday at a golf tournament.
As shouts of failure and ineptitude are heard all across the interwebs, the rich asshole is taking another day off to get lazier and even more useless.
The childish dictator tweeted the following message to Puerto Rico’s Mayor this weekend:
“The mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to the rich asshole. Such poor leadership ability by the mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help.”
He continued:
“They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 Federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job.”
The rich asshole has spent his entire weekend at the rich asshole National Golf Club in New Jersey, but on Sunday, he will be heading over to the President’s Cup Golf Tournament at Liberty National Golf Club.
Politicians like Chris Murphy (D-CONN) are fed up with the rich asshole’s ridiculousness, tweeting the following message to the rich asshole on Saturday:
some rich asshole continued his blathering early Sunday morning on just how great he and his administration is, and his tweet shows just how despicable he really is.
the rich asshole tweeted about the U.S. government’s response and how great it was and LITERALLY called those who may report otherwise “ingrates.”
‘We have done a great job with the almost impossible situation in Puerto Rico. Outside of the Fake News or politically motivated ingrates,…’
‘…people are now starting to recognize the amazing work that has been done by FEMA and our great Military. All buildings now inspected…..’
‘…for safety. Thank you to the Governor of P.R. and to all of those who are working so closely with our First Responders. Fantastic job!’
Seriously? Ingrates? He’s obviously referring to San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz who has been extremely vocal about the fact that U.S. aid has been slow. She was showing her concern and devotion for the people in her area. Yet, she’s an ingrate. The hateful blathering from the rich asshole so early in the morning really proves just where his real concerns lie – his own ego.
You can check out the responses to the tweets below.
(CNN)Nothing in the tweets President some rich asshole sent out Saturday morning criticizing the people of Puerto Rico and the commonwealth's female mayor revealed anything new about his character. But his supporters' continued defense of him in the face of such behavior revealed theirs. That's a bigger threat to our democracy than anything the rich asshole could do, except start WWIII.
the rich asshole is a small man who has been given a big job for which he has no real qualifications because he is a rich white man in a country that has long believed rich white men are, by default, always the most qualified candidates.
He was born wealthy and was bailed out time and again after misusing or squandering that wealth.
As the horrific humanitarian crisis arising from hurricanes developed on his watch, he took the time to fly back to one of his golf courses, which has become his most consistent act during his presidency. No one in Hollywood could sell such a fantastical-sounding tale, and yet it is real life America, 2017.
But as much as we want to focus on the rich asshole -- whose tweet about Puerto Ricans supposedly wanting everything "done for them" harks back to the claims that the rich asshole said black people had a lazy trait (the rich asshole later denied saying this) -- this is no longer about him. We know who he is; we always have. This is about the roughly 63 million Americans who put him in office.
Many said they put him there because he stood against political correctness and was a successful businessman and because they liked what he said about our trade policies. They were fed up with the establishment in both major political parties and wanted something different. They said they wanted him to make America great again.
And yet, no matter how low the rich asshole drags America, no matter in how many ways he uses bigotry for transactional purposes, these core voters stand behind him, seemingly incapable of doing anything other than worship the man they gave an office in which he is clearly unfit to serve.
the rich asshole, who is away at his posh golf club, attacked a woman, a mayor in Puerto Rico, who has literally been wading through chest-deep waters with a bullhorn trying to save lives and speed recovery efforts. Yes, it matters that she is a woman and person of color, because though the rich asshole is famous for verbally attacking all manner of people, he seems to reserve his harshest, unhinged critiques for people with those characteristics.
Kanye West was wrong when he said President Bush didn't care about black people because of the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina. the rich asshole may not hate people of color, but it sure seems he is shocked every time a person of color has the temerity to do anything other than praise him.
We've long known that about him. But every time he further reveals his character this way, it gets harder to believe Americans who still support him don't want him to keep doing what he's doing.
Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long said Sunday that hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico are the "most logistically challenging event that the United States has ever seen" and defended the federal response.
"We're not going to be satisfied until the situation is stabilized and the bottom line is that this is the most logistically challenging event that the United States has ever seen," Long said on "Fox News Sunday. "And we have been moving and pushing as fast as the situation allows."
"Every day we make progress. Every day we have setbacks," he added. "For example, you don't just bring the commodities in — you have to be able to pump them down the roadway systems that we have been working desperately to get open."
"You know, we can choose to look at what the mayor spouts off or what other people spout off, but we can also choose to see what's actually being done, and that's what I would ask," he said.
Cruz issued an emotional plea for more federal assistance on Friday, saying, "We are dying."
"We are dying, and you are killing us with the inefficiency and the bureaucracy," Cruz said.
Criticism has been mounting over the the rich asshole administration's response to what is being called an unfolding humanitarian crisis.
President some rich asshole struck back at the mayor on Saturday, tweeting that she showed "poor leadership ability" and criticized other local politicians.
"They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort," he said.
the rich asshole's comments drew rebukes from many, including "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, whose family is from Puerto Rico.
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"Did you tweet this one from the first hole, 18th hole, or the club? Anyway, it's a lie. You're a congenital liar," Miranda tweeted about the president.
Overall, FEMA said on its website Sunday that "millions of meals and millions of liters of water" had been provided to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The agency and its partners have distributed close to 2 million liters of water and 1 million meals throughout Puerto Rico, Alejandro De La Campa, FEMA's federal coordinating officer, said during a teleconference Saturday.
On Sunday, De La Campa said that while supplies had been distributed to all of Puerto Rico's 78 municipalities, a series of issues from downed trees on roads to no communication made reached "isolated areas" very difficult.
"We have reached the 78 municipalities, at the same time we recognize that we have not been able or the mayors themselves have not been able to reach some of the isolated areas," he said.
Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, a three-star general serving as the Department of Defense's primary liaison to FEMA, said they were dependent on aircraft relief efforts to deliver supplies to some of the hardest to reach areas.
Officials also said they hoped to expand the number of regional distribution centers from 11 to 25 or 30 throughout the island.
Long defended FEMA's efforts in the wake of the damage caused by both Hurricane Maria a week ago and Irma before that. The agency has helped reopen 11 major highways and 700 out of about 1,100 gas stations in Puerto Rico, he said.
He added that compounding the woes of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands was that "in some cases the infrastructure was incredibly fragile."
"Both of these territories were hit by two major hurricanes, two, not just one so a lot of the infrastructure was damaged by Irma and then Maria comes in and finishes it off completely," he said.
"I think we have to filter out the noise and we have to continue to push forward," he said.
But Long acknowledged there was long-term work ahead, with power only restored to five percent of the island and communication restored to only a third of the island's population.
"It's going to be multiple, multiple months before power is restored to many of these areas and that's just the reality," he said.
A memo leaked on Sunday and published by Axios.com reveals that President some rich asshole’s administration is aggressively trying to shift the blame for its dismal response to Hurricane Maria and to carry out “planned hits” against the president’s critics.
the rich asshole’s top Homeland Security advisor Tom Bossert authored the memo, which detailed the administration’s plans to “start a theme of recovery planning for the bright future that lies ahead for Puerto Rico. Planned hits, tweets, tv bookings and other work will limit the need for reactionary efforts.”
He continued by insisting that the the rich asshole administration is not to blame for the fact that relief efforts did not begin in earnest until nearly a week after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.
“The storm caused these problems, not our response to it. We have pushed about as much stuff and people through a tiny hole in as short a timeframe as possible,” he wrote.
The administration’s enablers at Fox News set out early Sunday to carry out its “hit” on San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, calling her a “far left” radical and complaining that commentator Geraldo Rivera and his camera crew did not actually witness people dying in the streets.
Other administration officials have sought to smear Cruz by saying she has been uncooperative with FEMA and not attended its strategy sessions, but Cruz’s office said that it has sent representatives to all meetings and has been more than cooperative with the bumbling, bureaucratically hamstrung federal relief effort.
The the rich asshole administration went into a full court press on Sunday to congratulate itself on what an excellent job it has done in Puerto Rico, but on Sunday night, the Pentagon pricked the White House’s bubble with an urgent bulletin that half the people in the U.S. territory are still without access to clean water and the situation is steadily worsening.
On Sunday, Brock Long — chief administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — excused the the rich asshole administration’s lead-footed response to Hurricane Maria by calling it “the most logistically challenging event in U.S. history.”
However, reports from Puerto Rican officials and even from Army Lt. Gen. Jeff Buchanan — the administration’s highest appointed official on the ground — have called the federal response haphazard and bureaucratically snarled.
Sick of excuses and blame-shifting from President some rich asshole and his administration, Twitter uses vented on Long and his statement.
During Weekend Update, Che, 34, slammed some rich asshole for the perceived slow federal response and alleged mishandling hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico, calling the presidenta “bitch” and a “cheap cracker.”
After reading the rich asshole’s tweet accusing Puerto Rico mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz of being “nasty” to him because Democrats told her to, Che said “Oh really, Donald? You bitch. Was she nasty to you? How nasty? Are you shaking?”
“This isn’t that complicated, man. It’s is hurricane relief. These people need help. You just did this for white people twice,” Che said, referencing the rich asshole’s relief efforts for Florida and Houston residents. “Do the same thing. Go tell Melania to put on her flood heels, get some bottled water, some food, pack up some extra Atlanta Falcons Super Bowl t-shirts and write them a check with our money, you cheap cracker.”
“In one month you’ve mishandled Puerto Rico, DACA, the NFL — it’s like whenever anybody darker than your golf pants has a problem, you’re thinking, ‘How can I make this worse?’ ” he continued.
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The reaction to Che’s speech against the rich asshole — and his use of the word “cracker” — drew mixed social media reactions.
Wrote one fan on Twitter, “Michael Che is a savage. I love it.”
But not everybody was happy with what they heard. As one critic put it, “Hey @NBC, last night’s racist rant by Michael Che was way over the line, repulsive, unfunny. #SNL totally tiresome. After 40 yrs. I’m done.”
(CNN)Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton raised his fist in a black-power salute after scoring a touchdown. Pittsburgh Steeler Alejandro Villanueva was joined on the field by his teammates this time.
And many San Francisco 49ers knelt during the National Anthem, although some put their hands over their hearts.
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick pioneered the protests last year when he took a knee during the anthem over what he said was social and racial injustice.
As they were last week, some players' protests were met with boos from fans.
Here's a roundup of highlights from stadiums around the league.
Boos in Baltimore
Before the Baltimore Ravens took the field against Pittsburgh Steelers, the public-address announcer asked the crowd to join the Ravens organization "to pray that we as a nation embrace kindness, unity, equality, and justice for all Americans," CNN affiliate WJZ reported.
The Ravens took a knee, then stood for the playing of the National Anthem, the station reported. The crowd appeared to boo as players knelt.
The Ravens took a knee, then stood for the playing of the National Anthem, the station reported. The crowd appeared to boo as players knelt.
Last week, fans also booed when the Dallas Cowboys, including owner Jerry Jones, took a knee before locking arms during the anthem.
The Steelers all took the field before the anthem and stood during the song. Many Steelers, including head coach Mike Tomlin and quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, were shown with their hand over their hearts.
So was Steeler tackle Alejandro Villanueva, a former captain in the Army and an ex-Ranger. Last week, while the rest of his teammates remained in the locker room during the anthem, Villanueva stood in the tunnel alone with his hand over his heart.
Fists raised in Cleveland
Some players took stronger stances.
Several Cleveland Browns players held their fists high during the anthem before their game against the Cincinnati Bengals. At least one Browns fan also raised his fist in the air while those next to him saluted or held their hands over their hearts.
Bengals players were shown standing. The broadcast didn't show any players from either team kneeling.
Lynch vs. the rich asshole
Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch was spotted walking into Sports Authority Field in Denver Sunday wearing a T-shirt that read, "EVERYBODY VS. RICH ASSHOLE," according to KGO, a CNN affiliate.
Lynch later sat on the bench, as he usually does, during the playing of the National Anthem before the game with the Denver Broncos -- the only Raider to do so, according to multiple reports.
Taking a knee in London
A trio of Miami Dolphins players -- Kenny Stills, Michael Thomas and Julius Thomas -- also took a knee as the anthem played before their game against the New Orleans Saints at Wembley Stadium in London, England, according to CNN affiliate WFOR. The three players stood for the British national anthem, the station reported.
The Saints, including quarterback Drew Brees, were seen kneeling as a team before the anthem.Most Saints players stood while the anthem played, and some locked arms.
The New Orleans Saints team kneels before standing for the National Anthem in a game against the Miami Dolphins in London's Wembley Stadium.
Other players kneel, sit, wear T-shirts
Several Buffalo Bills players took a knee during the anthem before the game against the Atlanta Falcons; most Bills players stood with their arms linked. The Falcons, including head coach Dan Quinn, stood with their arms linked, too.
Detroit Loins players Jalen Reeves-Maybin and Steve Longa took a knee during the anthem before playing the Minnesota Vikings. Some Lions players locked arms, as well as the entire Vikings team, according to announcer.
Steve Longa, a linebacker with the Detroit Lions, takes a knee with teammate Jalen Reeves-Maybin during the National Anthem before playing the Minnesota Vikings in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Before the game between the Indianapolis Colts and Seattle Seahawks, the Colts players released a statement saying the players who had previously knelt during the anthem "did not intend to disrespect our flag, our National Anthem or those who serve our country."
Rather, the players wanted to use their platform to raise awareness and talk about "about real equality, the injustices against black and brown people, police brutality, respect, unity and equal opportunity," the statement said.
"Our players are hurting, our people are hurting, our neighborhoods are hurting, and kneeling was a direct response to that hurt," the statement said.
During warmups, some Colts players, including quarterback Andrew Luck, wore black T-shirts with "WE WILL" on the front and "STAND FOR...EQUALITY, JUSTICE, UNITY, RESPECT, DIALOGUE, OPPORTUNITY" on the back.
The Colts were shown standing during the anthem with their arms linked on the TV broadcast. The broadcast showed Seattle Seahawks defensive linemen Michael Bennett, Cliff Avril, and Frank Clark seated during anthem; other Seahawks were standing. Other Seahawks also sat during the anthem, a photo from CNN affiliate KIRO-TV showed.
'Stay united, not divided'
Carolina Panthers teammates Thomas Davis and Jonathan Stewart joined in prayer on the sidelines before the team's game against the New England Patriots in Foxborough, Massachusetts, CNN affiliate WBTV reported.
Panthers linebacker Shaq Thompson sported blue shoes with the words, "Stay United, Not Divided." The shoes also featured black and white hands shaking hands, WBTV reported.
Carolina Panther Julius Peppers, who remained in the locker room during the anthem before the team's game last week, was on the field for the song Sunday.
Patriots players, including quarterback Tom Brady, stood during the anthem and rested their hands on the player next to them.
Newton stood for the anthem. He later raised his fist after scoring a rushing touchdown in the fourth quarter in the 33-30 win.
"It was to signify Black Power, but more importantly, I pray every night for God to give me a pinnacle to give people hope," Newton said after the game, according to a video of his post-game press conference posted on the official Panthers site.
"I did it to ... show black pride because I am an African-American," Newton said.
Newton said he also wanted people to see "the joy... that I go out there and play with."
'Embrace your differences'
About half the members of the San Francisco 49ers knelt during the National Anthem before their game against the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale, Arizona, while some of those kneeling also placed their hands over their hearts. Their teammates stood behind them, with one hand over their hearts and the other on the shoulders of the kneeling players.
The 49ers issued a statement saying the demonstration was meant to show unity, love and brotherhood.
"For more than a year, members of our team have protested the oppression and social injustices still present in our society. While some may not have taken a knee or raised a fist, we have all shared the desire to influence positive change," the team said.
"Our demonstration is simply a representation of how we hope our country can also come together by putting differences aside and solving its problems," said the team, which encouraged fans to "embrace your differences, find strength in them, and come together for the good of all."
Here’s a list of players and teams who demonstrated during Sunday’s games.
NFL players across the country on Sunday continued peaceful demonstrations, kneeling or locking arms in defiance of President some rich asshole’s repeated calls on team owners and fans to crack down on athletes protesting during the national anthem.
But following a week of heated public debate about the protests fueled by none other than the president himself, the movement seems to be losing momentum among some teams.
Demonstrations on Sunday appeared to be primarily aimed at displaying solidarity between football players, owners and fans, and defending athletes’ right to free speech, rather than explicitlydrawing attention to racial injustice and police brutality in the United States ― the initial goal of the protest movement.
Here is a list of players and teams who demonstrated during Sunday’s games to kick off the fourth week of the regular season:
SAINTS vs. DOLPHINS
Three Miami Dolphins players knelt during the national anthem, in contrast to last weekend’s game against the New York Jets, when the entire Dolphins team stood with arms locked together.
Last weekend, 17 Patriots players opted to take a knee. All but one of the Panthers’ players stood during the anthem. Defensive end Julius Peppers opted to stay off the field.
JAGUARS vs. JETS:
The New York Jets stood with arms locked during the anthem. Joining them was team owner Christopher Johnson.
The Jacksonville Jaguars took a knee as a team before the anthem played. In a statement released before the game, the team said they would kneel in prayer “for change, progress and equality for everyone who calls the United States their homes.”
Once the anthem played, they stood with their arms locked together.
Last week, about a dozen Jaguar players knelt during the anthem in London. Others stood arm-in-arm, two of the players with team owner Shahid Khan.
TITANS vs. TEXANS:
All but one of the Tennessee Titans stood for the anthem. Missing wide receiver Richard Matthews had said that he would kneel during the anthem until President the rich asshole apologized for remarks he made last week against NFL players.
Last week, the Titans decided to remain in their locker room during the anthem. Their opponent, the Seattle Seahawks, did the same.
The Houston Texans all stood during the anthem on Sunday, but with arms linked together. They took the same stance during last weekend’s game against the New England Patriots.
STEELERS vs. RAVENS
The Baltimore Ravens stood during the anthem on Sunday but took a knee in prayer just before, which prompted boos from the stadium.
The team prayed “that we as a nation embrace kindness, unity, equality and justice for all Americans,” according to The Associated Press.
Last weekend, several Ravens players took a knee during the anthem, joining at least a dozen Jacksonville Jaguars players.
The Pittsburgh Steelers also chose to stand for the anthem on Sunday, in contrast to last week’s game when all but one of the players decided to stay in their locker room during the anthem. The lone player who ventured out onto the field, Alejandro Villanueva, later said he did so by mistake.
BENGALS vs. BROWNS
At least nine Cleveland Browns players raised their right fists during the anthem before facing off against the Cincinnati Bengals, but both teams remained standing. Last week, 22 Browns players knelt before their game against the Indianapolis Colts, and a majority of the Bengals players stood with linked arms before their game against the Green Bay Packers.
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Jalen Reeves-Maybinof the Detroit Lions and teammate Steve Longa take a knee during the national anthem before the game against the Minnesota Vikings on Oct. 1 at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
LIONS vs. VIKINGS
Two Detroit Lions linebackers, Jalen Reeves-Maybin and Steve Longa, took a knee on Sunday for the second week in a row while their teammates stood with locked arms. Last week, six additional Lions players knelt during the anthem.
Many Minnesota Vikings linked arms during the anthem before playing against the Lions, but several players did not participate. The team held a similar demonstration last week.
RAMS vs. COWBOYS
All Los Angeles Rams and Dallas Cowboys players stood during the anthem before their game Sunday. Rams outside linebacker Robert Quinn raised his fist for a second week in a row, and Cowboys defensive end Damontre Moore also did so as the song ended. Last week, the Cowboys briefly took a knee before the anthem began.
BILLS vs. FALCONS
Six Buffalo Bills players took a knee during the anthem on Sunday, while their teammates and the majority of their opponents, Atlanta Falcons players, stood with their arms locked. Several Bills knelt last week, as did two Falcons.
EAGLES vs. CHARGERS:
Both the Philadelphia Eagles and the Los Angeles Chargers stood during the anthem on Sunday.
The Eagles stood with locked arms during last weekend’s game against the New York Giants. The Chargers for the majority also stood with locked arms last weekend, with the exception of one player who took a knee and five others who remained seated.
THE 49ERS vs. CARDINALS
More than a dozen San Francisco 49ers took a knee during the national anthem.
The team later tweeted out a video of the players standing and kneeling, all with their hands over their hearts. The caption read: “Together.”
“For more than a year, members of our team have protested the oppression and social injustices still present in our society,” the team said in a statement. “While some may not have taken a knee or raised a fist, we have all shared the desire to influence positive change. Today, our team chose to publicly display our unity in a new way and, in turn, urge others to do the same.”
Democratic lawmakers are blasting President the rich asshole for dedicating a golf trophy to hurricane victims while Puerto Rico continues to recover from Hurricane Maria.
Lawmakers took to Twitter to criticize the rich asshole, who dedicated the trophy at the Presidents Cup golf tournament Sunday to the victims of the recent hurricanes that have struck the U.S.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said citizens in Puerto Rico were in need of basic supplies, not a golf trophy.
“Dear @realDonaldTrump: US citizens in Puerto Rico need water, food, oxygen tanks, medicine BUT NOT A GOLF TROPHY. You still don't get it,” Lieu tweeted Sunday.
Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) similarly panned the move, asking if Puerto Ricans “feel better now” after the trophy dedication.
“Hey Puerto Rico - you still don't have electricity or drinkable water. But good news: the rich asshole dedicated a golf trophy to you. Feel better now?,” Boyle tweeted.
“I’m sure hurricane victims would rather have electricity, food, and water,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) also tweeted Sunday.
the rich asshole said at the golf tournament Sunday that he wanted to “just remember” the victims of the hurricanes.
"And we're going to dedicate this trophy to all of those people that went through so much that we love — a part of our great state, really part of our great nation," the rich asshole said.
the rich asshole’s administration is facing criticism for not doing enough to respond to the hurricane, as Puerto Rico’s 3.4 million residents lack access to drinking water, food shortages and a collapsed infrastructure more than a week after Hurricane Maria hit.
The administration has defended its response, noting the supplies it has sent to Puerto Rico and the presence of federal officials on the ground there.
the rich asshole and first lady Melania the rich asshole will visit Puerto Rico Tuesday.
As millions of Puerto Ricans plea for aid from the U.S. government, President some rich asshole provided them a trophy at a golf tournament on Sunday.
Speaking at the Presidents Cup golf tournament at Liberty National Golf Course in Jersey Center, New Jersey, the rich asshole dedicated the trophy to the storm victims.
"On behalf of all the people of Texas, and, if you look today and you see what's happening, how horrible it is but we have it under really great control, Puerto Rico. And the people of Florida who have really suffered over this last period of time with the hurricanes," the rich asshole said.
"I want to just remember them, and we're going to dedicate this trophy to all those people who went through so much, that we love, that are part of our great state, really a part of our great nation," the president added.
A person at the trophy ceremony shouted, “You don’t give a shit about Puerto Rico!” according to reporters at the event.
The rich asshole administration has been under fire for inadequately responding to the disaster in Puerto Rico, where of American citizens are without power. the rich asshole has tried to silence the criticism by constantly extolling the recovery process.
the rich asshole has not yet visited Puerto Rico but he has targeted Twitter attacks at Puerto Rican officials who have criticized his administration.
The president is scheduled to travel to Puerto Rico on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the rich asshole is blaming “politically motivated ingrates” for criticism. 10-01-17
When White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert returned from a trip to Puerto Rico last week, he got to work telling his colleagues exactly how the the rich asshole administration could put a positive spin on the government’s troubled hurricane relief efforts, according to a leaked memo obtained by Axios.
“I hope to turn the corner on our public communications,” he wrote to White House staff, before detailing new, more-upbeat “themes” he’d like to see the administration highlight over the next couple of days. “Planned hits, tweets, tv bookings and other work will limit the need for reactionary efforts,” he wrote.
One of Bossert’s talking points for responding to criticism of the relief efforts: “The storm caused these problems, not our response to it.” Here’s a longer excerpt from the memo (and go over to Axios for the full report):
I recommend that today and tomorrow we use the general theme of supporting the governor and standing with the people of Puerto Rico to get them food, water, shelter and emergency medical care. Monday and Tuesday we can pivot hopefully to a theme of stabilizing as we address temporary housing and sustaining the flow of commodities and basic government services, including temporary power. After that we focus on restoration of basic services throughout next week and next weekend. Then we start a theme of recovery planning for the bright future that lies ahead for Puerto Rico. Planned hits, tweets, tv bookings and other work will limit the need for reactionary efforts.
The storm caused these problems, not our response to it. We have pushed about as much stuff and people through a tiny hole in as short a timeframe as possible.
“You are the first person to come here,” a woman told him. According to residents Vicens interviewed, none of the 10,000 federal workers on the island had made it to Ciales, just 45 minutes from San Juan, by the time he got there yesterday. People in the town described a scene of utter desperation. (Follow Vicens on Twitter for regular updates from the island.)
The story does no justice to what these people are dealing with. All we had to do was walk down the street, and people sought us out: pic.twitter.com/Qzqef14yt5
But President some rich asshole appears to be ignoring whatever positive PR strategy his adviser Bossert is going with, instead tweeting on Sunday morning that only “Fake News” and “politically motivated ingrates” were criticizing his administration’s response.
President some rich asshole presents Captain Steve Stricker and the U.S. Team with the trophy after they defeated the International Team 19 to 11 in the Presidents Cup at Liberty National Golf Club on October 1, 2017 in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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After a weekend of picking Twitter fights with the mayor of Puerto Rico’s capital of San Juan from the comfort of his own golf resort in Bedmnister, N.J., President some rich asshole seemed to know exactly what those suffering from the devastation left behind by Hurricane Maria needed: the dedication of a golf trophy. the rich asshole’s offer of goodwill wasn’t just for Puerto Rico though, as the commander in chief also dedicated the Presidents Cup Golf Tournament trophy to the victims of the recent hurricanes that struck Texas and Florida as well.
Of course, this being the rich asshole he also seemingly couldn’t help himself and took the opportunity to (yet again!) praise the government’s response to the natural disasters.
“On behalf of all of the people of Texas, and all of the people—if you look today and see what is happening, how horrible it is but we have it under really great control—Puerto Rico and the people of Florida who have really suffered over this last short period of time with the hurricanes, I want to just remember them,” the rich asshole said at the Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City. “And we're going to dedicate this trophy to all of those people that went through so much that we love—a part of our great state, really part of our great nation.”
The commander in chief then went straight to talking about golf again and he praised the victorious U.S. team for their “unbelievable playing.” It marked the first time a sitting president attended the Presidents Cup since Bill Clinton in 2000.
At least one person who attended the trophy ceremony, which included chants of “USA” and the singing of “God Bless America,” wasn’t impressed by the dedication. “You don’t give a shit about Puerto Rico!” someone yelled from the crowd.
September 29, 2017 - September 29, 2017. 320-320 days since the Nov 8, 2016, election of some rich asshole, no.45, and 252-252 days since the Jan 20th inauguration.
The Pentagon said on Sunday that the situation in Puerto Rico is getting worse as water supplies dwindle, even as the rich asshole administration has gone into overdrive on its public relations effort to convince the world that it is not neglecting the beleaguered U.S. territory.
The Hill said that the Department of Defense released an urgent press bulletin stating that 45 percent of the island’s population are still without water.
“Forty-five percent of customers have access to drinking water. Ninety-five percent of customers remain without power; power has been restored to San Juan airport and marine terminals,” the statement said.
the rich asshole and his cabinet members have insisted repeatedly that the federal effort to bring relief to the island is going well and “getting great reviews.” They have called people who disagree with them “politically motivated ingrates” and said that Puerto Ricans are too lazy to help themselves.
The facts on the ground beg to differ, however, and many are seeing more than a little racism in the administration’s response to the devastation from Hurricane Maria.
Weekend Update's Michael Che on the rich asshole and Puerto Rico (Screen capture)
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Things got salty during Saturday’s edition of “Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live” when co-host Michael Che went all the way in on President some rich asshole and called the chief executive a b*tch for his disrespect toward San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz.
Che read the president’s tweet aloud about how Mayor Cruz has “been told by Democrats” that she must be “mean to the rich asshole.”
“Really, Donald?” asked Che drolly. “You bitch.”
He went on to call the rich asshole a “cheap cracker” and to voice some opinions about First Lady Melania the rich asshole’s footwear.
For the last two weeks, some rich asshole has been stoking the fires of racial division in America by viciously attacking NFL stars who have decided to take a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality against black and brown people. Of course, all of that escalated when Golden State Warriors Guard Stephen Curry — possibly the most popular player in the NBA right now — said he didn’t want to go to the White House to see the rich asshole. Of course, the rich asshole took personal offense at that, and one of the other big stars in the NBA, LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, called the rich asshole a “bum” on Twitter.
Now, it seems that the NBA has decided to, instead of giving their players the freedom to express their First Amendment rights, give in to the racists of the nation, and to the rich asshole’s petty, petulant, racist bullying by requiring that all players stand for the anthem. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver sent around a memo that said that all players are expected to stand. Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum says that the pre-game moments should be utilized “to demonstrate your commitment to the NBA’s core values of equality, diversity, inclusion and serve as a unifying force in the community.”
This is disgraceful. The NBA is 82% black men. It is their lives on the line, and the lives of others like them, in this racist society. They have every right to protest peacefully. Sure, stand. Don’t f*ck up your basketball career over the rich asshole’s controversies. But do it with a Black Power fist in the air.
Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been essentially blacklisted in the NFL for daring to kneel during the national anthem in order to protest police brutality against people of color. He was the original player to #takeaknee, and has paid dearly for it. However, since some rich asshole has seen fit to attack anyone daring to protest in this way, the tide on the anthem protests has taken on new life. After the rich asshole’s original attacks, players throughout the league were taking knees last Sunday. The attacks continued from the rich asshole this week, and players continued to defy the rich asshole. Perhaps most notably, those on Kaepernick’s old team.
The 49ers had an entire row of players kneeling during the anthem, right in front of those who chose to stand. However, despite choosing to stand, those players had their hands on the shoulders of those kneeling in solidarity. the rich asshole might continue to petulantly tweet at these people who are using their public platform to shine a light on the very serious and deadly issue of police brutality, but clearly things are not going in the way he had hoped.
Then again, the rich asshole seems to think that everyone is as tone deaf and racist as he and his mouthbreathing, flag-soaked base are. That is clearly not the case, though. Newsflash, you orange fascist – the world is much less tolerant of bigotry than you might like to think. People are sick and tired of your screaming racism through your bullhorn and using the bully pulpit of the White House to attack anyone who would dare to do the right thing here.
Good on these brave players. They’ll surely be attacked for what they are doing once again, from some rich asshole’s overly active Twitter account. But, at the end of the day, they are the ones who are on the right side of history.
Watch the video below, courtesy of the 49ers’ official Twitter:
Some are saying that the rich asshole has not botched the relief effort in Puerto Rico (Newsflash: He’s botched it horribly), but even if that were true, he’s doing worse than botching the PR for it. Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on Sept. 20. On the 22nd, he decided to go golfing for four days, and rage-tweeted at the NFL the whole time. Then he rage-tweeted at the “ingrates” in Puerto Rico who aren’t showing him the proper appreciation for what he’s not doing. Today, he was at the Presidents Cup golf tournament, avoiding real work and participating in the trophy presentation instead.
And while he was there, he decided to dedicate the trophy to the victims of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. According to Steve Kopack of CNBC, the rich asshole said that conditions in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico are “really under control,” and that he was dedicating the trophy to victims of storms:
Because a trophy is seriously what they need right now. Forget disaster relief funds, forget personnel and equipment. Forget food, water and medicine. Forget restoring electricity and communications. What they really need a participation trophy, which is what this amounts to for all the good it’ll do.
The relief effort is disastrously inadequate in Puerto Rico, where people are starting to suffer from Dengue fever, viral conjunctivitis and Zika. They’re at increasing risk for cholera due to the lack of clean drinking water. In fact, the number of people without access to clean drinking water has shot from 44 percent to 55 percent between Wednesday and yesterday, and will continue to rise until we actually get our butts moving with the relief effort there.
Furthermore, the contaminated floodwaters are putting Puerto Ricans at risk for hepatitis A, meningitis and salmonella, even if they don’t drink it.
This isn’t just a meaningless gesture, it’s damned insulting. You don’t dedicate a goddamn trophy, presented at a tournament full of wealthy people who are safe in their well-moneyed cocoons, to hurricane victims. You just don’t. It wouldn’t be surprising to start hearing more outcry from homeless, sick, and suffering Puerto Ricans – people who are already angry at the lack of response from the rich asshole’s administration and his characterization of them as lazy all over Twitter.
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