Daily News hits the rich asshole with Miranda quote: 'You're going straight to hell'
BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN - 09/30/17 10:34 PM EDT
President the rich asshole’s hometown newspaper is siding with other New York celebrity, Lin Manuel Miranda, over the rich asshole’s response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
The front page of Sunday's New York Daily News features Miranda’s quote telling the rich asshole he’s “going straight to hell” against the backdrop of Miranda’s award-winning Broadway show “Hamilton.”
Miranda, whose hit show celebrates immigrants, and the rich asshole are facing off on the front page.
"As American citizens drink from streams and stand in lines for ice, gas and food, President the rich asshole says they ‘want everything to be done for them.' Lin-Manuel Miranda’s response?" the front page reads. "'You're going straight to hell.'"
Miranda, who is of Puerto Rican descent, tweeted his harsh criticism of the rich asshole earlier in the day.
“You're going straight to hell, @realDonaldTrump. No long lines for you. Someone will say, ‘Right this way, sir.’ They'll clear a path,” Miranda tweeted.
Miranda was hitting the rich asshole for his attacks on San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz for her handling of the hurricane recovery efforts.
“She has been working 24/7. You have been GOLFING. You're going straight to hell. Fastest golf cart you ever took," Miranda tweeted.
the rich asshole is facing backlash for his criticism of Cruz’s efforts in the wake of the storm. He slammed her as having “poor leadership ability.”
Cruz responded by saying she would do whatever she had to do to save lives on the island.
some rich asshole Congratulates Himself On Winning Election And Asks For Donations While Puerto Ricans BEG For Help
During a time of national crisis, most presidents focus on helping people in need. But not some rich asshole. Instead, he is sending out mass text messages to stroke his own ego and try to raise money. He keeps telling his fans that if they don’t keep donating, their big election upset will all be for naught. Here are the texts he sent to his most ardent fans (and a few people who just subscribe for the lulz):
Now, to put this into context, the people of Puerto Rico are literally dying. the rich asshole has, instead of trying to help them, attacked the mayor of San Juan on Twitter for begging for help to save the lives of the Americans who live there, and his disaster response has been abysmal, because, you know, brown people. And now, he sends out lying mass communications pretending that he has helped people and delivered on promises when he has done no such thing. Hell, there is plenty of evidence that there was even a point in time when the rich asshole didn’t even realize that the people of Puerto Rico are American citizens.
In short, this is a man who is raising money off the backs of suffering and dying people, and using the protests of NFL players who want to use their platforms to shine a light on the injustices suffered at the hands of law enforcement by people of color to stoke racial divisions in the nation. In fact, there is even evidence that this part of it was planned. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow explains that bit perfectly:
some rich asshole’s racist, divisive actions are absolutely disgraceful, and people are literally dying on his watch. This man is not a president. He’s a racist and a murderer.
While Americans In Puerto Rico Are Dying, the rich asshole Is Golfing And Tweeting
Hurricane Maria is the worst natural disaster to befall the island of Puerto Rico in nearly a hundred years. Homes are destroyed, families displaced, and an already-suffering infrastructure has been wiped out. Nearly the entire island is without power and more than 1.5 million citizens have no access to clean water, even to drink. And while the people of Puerto Rico are desperate for help and they are dying, some rich asshole has been golfing.
That sounds horrible, and it is. It is fucking horrible.
It’s not new, it’s not surprising, and it seems at this point to almost be intentional. There are some who believe his inattention is intentional, and it’s pretty hard to disagree.
Besides the fact that the rich asshole was nearly a week late in even addressing the horror in Puerto Rico, he couldn’t seem to stay focused while there were any football games on television — he can’t stop tweeting about players sitting or kneeling during the national anthem. And now that he has turned his attention in at least a nominal way to the people of Puerto Rico, he is furious that anyone would be criticizing his response to the disaster.
How can people help but criticize? When the hurricane made landfall, the rich asshole promised all the federal resources the island could want, and understandably, that made people expect him to do that. But then he and his inner circle were invisible for four straight days, including — you guessed it — going on a golf weekend in New Jersey. He didn’t take a single meeting about Puerto Rico while he was in Bedminster that weekend, instead dedicating 100 percent of his non-golf time to NFL tweets.
Now the rich asshole has a club in his hand again. It’s not like he doesn’t know how insensitive and irresponsible it looks to go golfing while there’s an emergency happening. It’s been scarcely more than a year since he criticized Barack Obama for doing just that:
The Mayor of Puerto Rico’s capital city, San Juan, has been on television literally begging for help. The average human can survive for three days without drinking water. It took four days for him to even stop tweeting about football players.
They are dying, and it could have been stopped.
the rich asshole Throws A Hissy Fit At His Golf Course As Criticism Over Puerto Rico Response Grows
The people of Puerto Rico, who are American citizens, are dying. Yet some rich asshole is whining from his golf course like he’s the victim.
It has been ten days since Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria, but the rich asshole is only just responding to the tragedy. In fact, the rich asshole spent more time bashing the NFL than he has talked about Puerto Rico. And then he excused his slow response by blaming it on the ocean and “big water.”
the rich asshole and his team have insisted that all is well in Puerto Rico and that it’s really a “good news story.”
That infuriated San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, who slammed the rich asshole Administration by pointing out that this is a “people are dying story.”
On Saturday morning from his luxury golf course, which is the second time he has gone golfing since Puerto Rico was hit, the rich asshole attacked Cruz and suggested the people of Puerto Rico should help themselves.
That’s right. the rich asshole literally said this about AMERICAN CITIZENS.
the rich asshole then praised the military and attacked the media for reporting accurately on the response and suggested that he is the real victim.
But even Lt. Gen. Jeff Buchanan, whom the Pentagon put in charge of the military response, says that the rich asshole has not sent enough troops or equipment to Puerto Rico.
And the fact is that the rich asshole was slow to respond to Puerto Rico’s needs, and even had the gall to complain about the island’s debt while are suffering due to lack of drinking water, homelessness, and no electrical power.
It should be pointed out that Florida and Texas have higher debt than Puerto Rico does, but you never heard the rich asshole complain about those two states. Could it be because he does consider Puerto Ricans American citizens?
the rich asshole really should stop throwing temper tantrums. It only gives people more reason to post gifs like this one:
Leader of the Free World #Merkel will head back to Germany&confer w/#NATO allies. #ComradeTrump heads to #MaraLago
the rich asshole Is Too Incompetent To Handle Disaster On An Island, But Obama Handled One Just Fine
the rich asshole has spent an awful lot of time whining about Puerto Rico being an island with a devastated infrastructure, claiming that’s the reason our relief effort has been so slow and disorganized:
“The response and recovery effort probably has never been seen for something like this. This is an island surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water.”
He also said:
“This is a thing called the Atlantic Ocean. This is tough stuff.”
Gee, these complaints are reminiscent of when he said nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated. With this administration, “It’s really difficult, we’re doing all we can,” is code for, “I don’t really care about this at all unless I can find a way to make myself look good here.”
But are we really having problems because Puerto Rico is an island, making it different than Florida and Texas, which were also devastated by hurricanes? Current evidence suggests otherwise: Supplies are just sitting in shipping containers there because there are too few truck drives, and too many blocked roads. One has to wonder why we don’t have more personnel there helping the Puerto Rican government to clear the roads so that supply lines can reopen and we can help get those supplies to where they’re most needed. One person even said that the personnel who are there just seem to be modeling their uniforms. That suggests we have a lot of people who don’t know what they’re supposed to be doing on the ground there. That would be a failure on our part, not Puerto Rico’s.
But then there’s how Obama handled natural disasters on islands. In 2010, Haiti, which is practically next door to Puerto Rico in the Caribbean (not the Atlantic Ocean), suffered an absolutely devastating earthquake. Despite the fact that we had no warning for that quake (we had plenty of warning for Maria), President Obama mobilized our military “as if it were going to war,” according to the Washington Post. Within two days, we had 8,000 troops on their way to the disaster-stricken country.
In less than two weeks, we had 22,000 troops on the ground; 300 military helicopters dropping supplies, and 33 Navy ships aiding the relief effort. Eight days after Maria swept over Puerto Rico, we only had 4,400 troops working relief there, along with 1,000 members of the Coast Guard. Only 50 choppers were working to deliver supplies.
The morning after Haiti’s quake, Obama told the military that they were “going to respond in Port-au-Prince…robustly and immediately, and that gave the whole government clarity of purpose.” Rajiv Shah, who led USAID when the earthquake struck, said:
“We were able to move more quickly in a foreign country, and with no warning because it was an earthquake, than a better-equipped agency was able to do in a domestic territory.”
The Posse Comitatus Act places limits on what the military can do in a state or territory, and by contrast, Haiti is a foreign country. Our military response would be considerably different just because of that. But there were over 17,000 troops from 23 states on the ground in Florida after Irma. And the administration keeps saying that Puerto Rico isn’t asking for very much, despite residents running out of food, drinkable water and other supplies, and San Juan’s mayor breaking down over the rich asshole administration saying the response has been good.
There are complicating factors, it’s true. But this is a level of apathy and ineptitude we can’t have from the White House when responding to disasters, particularly those where people are dying. Obama showed that being an island is a lot less of a factor in relief efforts than this administration is claiming.
Puerto Rico disaster response a disaster
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President some rich asshole and acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke seem to be incredibly tone deaf as they keep congratulating themselves for a job well done on the Puerto Rico disaster response, which has been, well, disastrous.
Duke’s comment that Puerto Rico is a “good news story” has gotten a lot of play, but it has caused a lot of pain.
Puerto Rico is an island of 3.5 million American citizens. It has been in recession for the past 10 years. The poverty rate is at a dire 45 percent, and that was before Hurricane Maria. That number will skyrocket.
The electric grid in Puerto Rico was old and fragile. In a good week, Puerto Rican residents would have power five out of seven days a week, on and off throughout the year.
Puerto Rico has always been in the dangerous path of many of the tropical storms-turned-hurricanes that make their way to our continent from the coast of Africa several times a year during Hurricane season.
Hurricanes are predictable, and Hurricane Maria showed up on the radar even as Hurricane Irma was hurling her devastation toward the Florida peninsula.
As such, the misery of our brothers and sisters in Puerto Rico (literally for me, my brother and his family live in San Juan) could have been much more preventable than the the rich asshole administration will admit.
Immediately after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the rich asshole declared those states national disaster zones and waived the Jones Act, an archaic, 100-year-old law that states that any goods ferried port-to-port in the U.S. must be carried by American vessels and crew. The Jones Act makes goods in Puerto Rico almost twice as expensive as goods on the mainland.
It took seven days, several official letters from the governor of Puerto Rico and several members of Congress for the rich asshole to finally do it. Why didn’t this happen immediately?
Disturbingly, the rich asshole has yet to name the whole island a national disaster zone. He has named only a number of municipalities, as opposed to the whole island.
This makes no sense.
It also took eight days for the rich asshole to name a 3-star general to Puerto Rico’s recovery efforts to ensure the kind of coordination that is vastly lacking in the process thus far. There are tons of containers at Puerto Rico’s ports holding precious cargo of food, medical supplies and life-saving water, all just waiting and rotting in the hot sun. Why wasn’t a military general named to coordinate efforts on day one?
The administration says it has 10,000 FEMA personnel on the ground surveying and planning the recovery. First, no resident that I have heard from or that has talked to the media has seen any FEMA representative that is giving out desperately needed food or water.
Millions of residents lost their homes, but many have the shells of their houses standing as their roofs were blown off by Maria’s fury. Where are the tarps that residents can use as makeshift roofs while they can rebuild properly? Even tarps were made readily available during the disastrous recovery efforts of Hurricane Katrina.
The administration says military personnel are now arriving on the island to provide much-needed help. Where were they immediately after the Hurricane?
The earthquake in Haiti garnered a much quicker, heftier and more effective response to that tragedy, which was unforeseen and could not have been predicted or planned for. After two days, Haiti had a U.S. general coordinating efforts with more than 20,000 military personnel on the ground.
the rich asshole’s team says Puerto Rico presents particular obstacles and challenges because of the lack of communications capabilities and inland roads that are clear enough for travel. As a result, their FEMA reps have not been able to get to the most remote and vulnerable residents in rural mountain areas in the center of the island.
If this is true, then why is it that reporters from almost every major news outlet have been able to get to these residents, interview them and share their devastating images while help is choked off by incompetent bureaucracy?
These are reporters, camera crews and producers. They are not people who are trained in cataclysmic disaster relief operations, yet they are getting to those who need the help when the supposed pros cannot?
There is no excuse for this shameful behavior, though excuses are coming quickly — as are the self-congratulatory kudos.
The rich asshole administration says they are doing everything they possible can at the moment. But if that is true, then there is no other excuse for the inadequacy of the effort other than sheer incompetence, ignorance and willful neglect.
Incompetence because all of this could have been planned for. We all knew Maria was coming. The storm was not a surprise. But the dire warnings from officials on the island were either ignored or not taken seriously. Everyone knew that power would be gone for four to six months. Under these circumstances, the most vulnerable are always the victims.
Undoubtedly, they have been in Puerto Rico where the death toll is being grossly underreported. Reports of hospital morgues at capacity and deceased residents still in their loved one’s homes because no one is available to come pick up the bodies are horrifying to say the least.
Perhaps if this president was as preoccupied with saving the lives of 3.5 million American citizens as he is with insulting African-American athletes who are simply exercising their First Amendment rights, maybe our brothers and sisters in Puerto Rico would not be in such dire straits.
There is no excuse for the treatment and disrespect these Americans have had to endure. The president needs to disable his Twitter account, stop patting himself on the back and start showing leadership, solutions and results. If he doesn’t, the fact that Maria is becoming the rich asshole’s Katrina will be the least of his worries.
Maria Cardona is a principal at the Dewey Square Group, a Democratic strategist and a CNN/CNN Español political commentator. Follow her on Twitter @MariaTCardona.
the rich asshole scrambles to contain Puerto Rico crisis
The rich asshole administration scrambled Friday to show it is on top of the crisis in Puerto Rico as it faced criticism from lawmakers in both parties that its response so far has been lacking.
Puerto Rican officials are amplifying their warnings of an imminent humanitarian crisis, with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz making an emotional plea for someone — anyone — to take charge of emergency relief operations, heightening the sense of urgency on the hurricane-ravaged island.
“I will do what I never thought I was going to do: I am begging, begging anyone that can hear us, to save us from dying,” Cruz said Friday afternoon. “If anybody out there is listening to us, we are dying and you are killing us with the inefficiency.”
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke traveled to the U.S. territory on Friday to help coordinate the government’s response effort to Hurricane Maria’s widespread devastation, while President the rich asshole is scheduled to make a trip on Tuesday. Vice President Pence will follow late next week.
“We have a lot of big decisions. … I’ll be talking with the Democrats, and we’ll be talking to Congress, about what we’re going to do a little bit longer term,” the rich asshole told reporters Friday afternoon. “In the meantime, we’ve saved a lot of lives, we’ve done a really good job, and now we’re bringing the people for distribution.”
The three-star general recently put in charge of U.S. military relief operations in Puerto Rico said Friday that there are as many as 4,600 troops on the ground in Puerto Rico — including members of the National Guard and Reserves — and the Pentagon would be sending more troops and vehicles to the island, where residents could be without power for six months.
“Our capability is building every single day, and we’re going to keep building until we’ve fully met the needs of the people of Puerto Rico,” Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan said during a phone briefing with reporters. “It’s a total force commitment.”
He did not say how many more troops might be deployed but vowed “to continue to bring people in as long as there’s a need.”
Officials are facing a host of infrastructure and bureaucratic challenges that are continuing to paralyze relief efforts on the ground.
Damaged ports, blocked roads and washed out bridges are preventing critical supplies from getting distributed throughout the island. There is also a shortage of fuel and difficulties reaching truck drivers while telecommunications remain down.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said Friday that while conditions are slowly improving, relief efforts remain saddled by “severe logistical limitations.”
the rich asshole acknowledged the difficulties facing emergency responders, saying the effort has been hampered by the simple fact that Puerto Rico is not connected to the mainland.
“This is an island, surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water,” the president said Friday.
the rich asshole also suggested the government of Puerto Rico “will have to work with us” to determine how the rebuilding process will be funded, potentially fueling criticism that the White House is treating the island territory differently than states hit by hurricanes.
Frustration on the ground appeared to be mounting.
“Damnit, this is not a good news story,” Mayor Cruz told CNN on Friday morning, after she was told that Duke had called the government’s response to Puerto Rico a “good news story.”
“This is a people-are-dying story,” Cruz said.
After taking heat for the comments, Duke sought to clarify what she meant by her statement.
“We will never be satisfied,” Duke told reporters at the San Juan International Airport, before boarding a helicopter to view the devastation caused by Maria, according to CNN.
“The end of my statement about good news was it was good news that the people of Puerto Rico, the many public servants of the U.S. and the government of Puerto Rico are working together. ... It's nice to see the communities together trying to recover and support each other.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) urged the rich asshole to put the military in charge of the relief effort outright — a notion sure to rankle defenders of Puerto Rico’s autonomy, some of whom are already pushing to transfer more control to local officials.
Rubio said aid is stuck in Puerto Rico’s ports, arguing the local government was ill equipped to handle the crisis.
Capitol Hill Democrats — joined by a handful of Republicans — are accusing the administration of moving too slowly to mobilize a relief blitz. They’re calling for the rich asshole to expand and accelerate its military response with the deployment of more troops and ships.
“Where the hell is the cavalry?” Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) asked Thursday.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said the Pentagon response, so far, is “one-tenth of the numbers” mobilized following Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005. As a first step, he’s urging that the Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier, currently in Florida, be sent to the islands.
“We have the requisite number of troops, they ought to be deployed,” he told Bloomberg News.
The administration has stepped up its response in recent days.
On Thursday, the administration put Buchanan in charge of all military response operations, with a focus on ensuring that emergency aid and other critical supplies reach remote parts of the island. Buchanan said Friday that conditions have improved enough that the operation has evolved from a “maritime-based command to land-based command.”
The Department of Homeland Security also agreed on Thursday to waive the Jones Act for 10 days in order to allow foreign ships to deliver cargo to Puerto Rico and pitch in with relief efforts.
The decision followed days of public outcry that the century-old shipping law was not immediately waived for Puerto Rico — something that was done for Texas and Florida soon after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
The administration has also waived a requirement that Puerto Rico, which is grappling with a debt crisis, match a percentage of federal funds for the next six months.
the rich asshole and Rosselló have been in close contact throughout the recovery missions, according to officials.
“I can say that the president has been very diligent,” Rosselló said. “He has been essentially talking to us every day.”
Congress earlier on Thursday released nearly $7 billion in funds to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). An emergency supplement request is expected to follow in the coming weeks, the White House said, and congressional leaders are vowing to act on it quickly.
FEMA has set up 11 distribution centers for food, water and medicine, apart from a central hub where the operation is coordinated. The agency is also working with the Puerto Rican government and the military to make all hospitals on the island operational.
John Rabin, who heads the FEMA branch governing Puerto Rico, said Friday that only one of the island’s 69 hospitals is fully functional, while 59 are “functional though degraded,” meaning they’re running on generator power and many are not accepting new patients. Four hospitals are closed, he said, and the remaining five are still being assessed.
Democratic lawmakers are pushing for the White House to do more.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee requested an emergency hearing to get updates from officials about the government’s response to the recent hurricanes in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Some lawmakers are pressing for a one-year waiver from the Jones Act, arguing that the 10-day exemption will do little to help goods get more quickly and cheaply delivered to Puerto Rico. They point out that the island could be rebuilding for months.
“Ten days is nothing,” Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) told reporters in the Capitol Thursday.
Meanwhile, Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), a Puerto Rican native who visited the island last week, is leading a push to have the co-payment waiver extended beyond the 180 days, “including for non-emergency resources.”
Lawmakers have also slammed the administration for not sending the three-star general to Puerto Rico sooner.
“They knew this storm was coming. They shouldn’t be launching any of these efforts, from here, more than a week later,” said Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.).
“It’s outrageous.”
The mounting scrutiny has put the White House on the defensive.
During a press briefing on Thursday, the rich asshole homeland security adviser said many news reports contain outdated or misleading information, which he said has created the false impression that the White House has neglected the people of Puerto Rico.
“The people of Puerto Rico have every bit of support from President the rich asshole that he gave to the citizens of every other state in this country,” Tom Bossert told reporters at the White House.
Bossert also said that the three-star general was not needed on the ground before Thursday, while the Jones Act waiver came “immediately” after a formal request was made by the governor — though lawmakers had been pushing for it all week.
‘Dammit — people are dying here’: Furious San Juan mayor shreds White House response to Puerto Rico crisis
Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz on CNN -- screenshot
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Appearing on CNN’s New Day Friday morning, a furious and emotional mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, lashed out at the White House for congratulating itself on the job it is doing with the post-hurricane humanitarian crisis, saying people are dying while White House officials are already patting themselves on the back.
Speaking with host Alisyn Camerota, Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz blistered the White House over what it called a “good news story.”
After viewing a clip of acting secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke telling reporters this was “a good news story,” Cruz became increasingly furious as she explained the situation on the ground on Puerto Rico.
“Well, maybe from where she’s standing it’s a good news story,” Cruz began. “When you are drinking from a creek, it’s not a good news story. When you don’t have food for a baby, it’s not a good news story. When you have to pull people — I’m sorry, but that really upsets me and frustrates me.”
“I would ask her to come down here and visit the towns, and frankly it’s an irresponsible statement and contrasts with the statements of support that I have been getting since yesterday when I got that call from the White House. This is — dammit, this is not a good news story. This is a people are dying story. This is a life or death story. This is — there’s a truck load of stuff that cannot be taken to people story. This is a story of a devastation that continues to worsen because people are not getting food and water,” she explained.
“If I could scream it a lot more louder,” she continued as she began to tear up. ” It’s not a good news story when people are dying when they don’t have dialysis, and when the generators aren’t working and the oxygen is not providing for them. Where is there good news here?”
“The good news is we are getting heard. The good news is there’s boots on the ground. The good news is people from FEMA have their heart in the right place and the HHS people know what to do,” Cruz conceded. “For Heavens sakes, somebody let them do their job. Let them get the food in hands of the people and then talk about good news. When you have people out there dying literally scraping for food, where is the good news?”
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A list of officials who have left the rich asshole administration
some rich asshole's campaign had its fair share of staff shakeups before the election. And a little over eight months into the rich asshole's presidency, his White House staff and administration have also seen a lot of turnover.
Here are the departures of White House staffers and other administration officials, starting with the most recent:
Tom Price
Role: Secretary of Health and Human Services
Officially started: Feb. 10, 2017
Resigned: Sept. 29, 2017
232 days in his tenure
Price resigned in the midst of a controversy over his use of private jets for government travel. The former congressman and orthopedic surgeon took as many as 26 chartered planes during his short tenure a spent an estimated $1 million of taxpayer money on both the domestic trips and military flights to Africa, Asia and Europe.
"I have spent forty years both as a doctor and public servant putting people first," wrote Price to the rich asshole in his resignation letter. "I regret that the recent events have created a distraction from these important objectives."
The HHS Office of Inspector General launched an investigation into the matter a week prior to the resignation.
Sebastian Gorka
Role: Deputy assistant to the president
Hired: Jan. 30, 2017
Resigned: Aug. 25, 2017
208 days in his tenure
Gorka was a deputy adviser focused on national security and counterterrorism who had worked as a paid policy consultant for the rich asshole's campaign.
Web magazine The Federalist obtained and posted what it says is Gorka's resignation letter. "[G]iven recent events, it is clear to me that forces that do not support the MAGA promise are -- for now -- ascendant within the White House," the Federalist quotes Gorka as saying. "As a result, the best and most effective way I can support you, Mr. President, is from outside the People’s House."
The White House, however, disputed the claim that Gorka had tendered his resignation. A White House official told ABC News, "I can confirm he no longer works at the White House."
What he's doing now: Gorka will return to Breitbart News.
Steve Bannon
Role: Chief strategist and senior counselor
Hired: Nov. 13, 2016
Officially started: Jan. 20, 2017
Fired: Aug. 18, 2017
211 days in his tenure
After working as the CEO of the the rich asshole campaign since August 2016, Bannon was appointed to a role in the White House. the rich asshole's announcement that Bannon would be his chief strategist was met with backlash. Critics opposed Bannon's purported nationalist views and former position as executive chairman of the website Breitbart News, which published articles that promoted the so-called white supremacy movement. Bannon's firing came as a result of the rich asshole's increasing frustration with Bannon, according to one senior White House official. A source close to Bannon told ABC News that he resigned with an effective date of Aug. 14.
What he's doing now: Bannon has returned to Breitbart News.
Anthony Scaramucci
Role: White House communications director
Hired: July 21, 2017
Officially started: July 26, 2017
Fired: July 31, 2017
6 days in his tenure
Scaramucci didn't officially start in his position until July 26, so he was on the job for only six days. When his role was announced, however, he took questions from White House reporters during a press briefing.
Almost a week after he was hired, The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza published a detailed account of an expletive-ridden phone conversation he had with Scaramucci. Scaramucci was pushed to resign the Monday after the article's publication.
"Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give chief of staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement.
"The president certainly felt that Anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position, and he didn't want to burden Gen. Kelly," Sanders told said at a press briefing the day Scaramucci resigned.
What he's doing now: Having sold his stake in the hedge fund SkyBridge Capital to join the White House, Scaramucci has turned to doing media appearances. His first televised interview since leaving the White House was with ABC News.
Reince Priebus
Role: White House chief of staff
Hired: Nov. 13, 2016
Officially started: Jan. 20, 2017
Fired: July 28, 2017
190 days in his tenure
the rich asshole announced on Twitter that he was replacing Priebus as his right-hand man with Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. According to senior White House officials, the rich asshole told Priebus he wanted to make a change two weeks before he was fired.
What he's doing now: Despite being out of the White House, Priebus told Fox News he's going to be "Team the rich asshole all the time."
"I'll always be out there trying to help the president, advance his goals, support him as a friend too," Priebus said.
Sean Spicer
Role: White House press secretary
Hired: Dec. 22, 2016
Officially started: Jan. 20, 2017
Resigned: July 21, 2017
183 days in his tenure
Spicer officially took on the role the day the rich asshole was sworn in as president. But Spicer was named incoming press secretary on Dec. 22, 2016, during the presidential transition. A few hours after Anthony Scaramucci was brought on the team as communications director, Spicer resigned. Spicer told ABC News that he felt "relieved" and that "organizationally" the White House communications team needed a "fresh start." Though he's no longer the press secretary, Spicer is still assisting the communications office.
What he's doing now: After he resigned, Spicer declined to comment on his next steps or formal plans to ABC News, saying only that he would be spending a lot of time with his family. There were rumors that Spicer would join "Dancing With the Stars" or "Saturday Night Live," on which he was famously parodied by Melissa McCarthy.
Mike Dubke
Role: White House communications director
Hired: March 6, 2017
Resigned: May 18, 2017
74 days in his tenure
According to Axios, Dubke left on good terms, but during his time in the White House he didn't gel with those who had been with the rich asshole since the campaign. After he resigned, Dubke offered to stay on until the end of the rich asshole's first foreign trip and "until a transition is concluded," then–chief of staff Priebus said. Dubke's last day was June 2, 2017.
What he's doing now: Dubke has returned to his work at the strategic communications and public affairs firm he co-founded, Black Rock Group.
James Comey
Role: FBI director
Hired: June 21, 2013
Officially started: Sept. 4, 2013
Fired: May 9, 2017
1,344 days in his tenure
Comey was dismissed by the rich asshole, who the White House originally said was acting on the counsel of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, after they criticized Comey's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails. the rich asshole later portrayed the decision as his alone and said that he was thinking about the FBI's Russian election interference probe when he resolved to fire Comey.
What he's doing now: Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8, when he detailed his interactions with the rich asshole before his firing. In early August, Flatiron Books announced a deal to publish a book by Comey in the spring of 2018.
Mike Flynn
Role in the the rich asshole administration: National security adviser
Hired: Nov. 18, 2016
Officially started: Jan. 20, 2017
Fired: Feb. 13, 2017
25 days in his tenure
Flynn, who spent much of 2016 on the campaign trail supporting the rich asshole at rallies and events, was rewarded with the national security adviser position shortly after the election. He lasted just over three weeks before being forced to resign after it was revealed that he misled Vice President Mike Pence about the nature of multiple meetings with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak before the rich asshole's inauguration.
What he's doing now: Flynn and his business ties to Turkey have been part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and possible connections to the rich asshole campaign.
Sally Yates
Role: Acting attorney general
Promoted: Jan. 20, 2017
Fired: Jan. 30, 2017
11 days in her tenure
After nearly three decades in a career with the Department of Justice, Yates took the reins of the department with the resignation of Barack Obama's Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Yates was fired for instructing DOJ lawyers not to defend the rich asshole's Jan. 27 executive order barring immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
"For as long as I am the acting attorney general, the Department of Justice will not present arguments in defense of the executive order, unless and until I become convinced that it is appropriate to do so," Yates wrote in a letter to DOJ lawyers. She was fired hours after sending the letter. In a statement, the White House said Yates "betrayed the Department of Justice."
What she's doing now: Since she left the Department of Justice, Yates has penned two op-eds in The Washington Post and The New York Times that are critical of the rich asshole and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Other notable departures:
- George Sifakis: director, Office of Public Liaison
- Ezra Cohen-Watnick: senior director for intelligence programs, National Security Council
- Michael Short: senior press assistant
- Walter Shaub: director, Office of Government Ethics
- Vivek Murthy: surgeon general
- Angella Reid: chief usher, White House
- Katie Walsh: deputy chief of staff
- Preet Bharara: U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York
ABC News' John Parkinson, Justin Fishel, Katherine Faulders, John Santucci and Alexander Mallin contributed to this report.
‘Price gouged’: Internet offers a lot of ‘really bad puns’ to celebrate ouster of the rich asshole’s HHS secretary
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price (Screen Capture)
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Tom Price on Friday resigned as Health and Human Services secretary after facing backlash for expensive travel arrangements totaling more than $1 million.
A statement from the White House claimed Price “offered his resignation earlier today and the President accepted.” The news came shortly after some rich asshole teased his intention to “make a decision tonight.” In a gaggle with reporters, the president called the former HHS secretary “a fine man.”
the rich asshole made is clear earlier this week he was “not happy” with Price’s decision to charter private planes and hitch rides on taxpayer-funded military planes. By Friday, the president said he considered the growing outcry over Price’s planes a “distraction.”
News that yet another top the rich asshole official is out, on a Friday, this time for flying (ahem) in the face of the president’s signature “drain the swamp” mantra, set the Internet ablaze. Read some A-plus reactions below, via Twitter.
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San Juan Mayor’s searing message to the rich asshole: We are not ‘animals that can be disposed of’
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (Screen capture)
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Even as President some rich asshole and acting FEMA Director Elaine Duke congratulated themselves on their handling of the response to Hurricane Maria, the mayor of Puerto Rico’s capital city San Juan, Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz issued an incendiary statement on live TV.
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi cut away from a press gaggle around the rich asshole and caught the last part of Cruz’s statement, in which she said, “The world will see how we are treated — not as second-class citizens, but as animals that can be disposed of.”
“Enough is enough,” said Cruz.
Further remarks from the mayor appeared on Twitter.
“I am going to do what I never thought I would do. I am begging, begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying,” she said, according to Huffington Post’s Jennifer Bendery. “We are dying and you are killing us with the inefficiency.”
"We are dying and you are killing us with the inefficiency." -- San Juan mayor, exasperating with govt response to Puerto Rico twitter.com/jbendery/statu…
BREAKING: Member Of the rich asshole’s Administration Hands Over Resignation After Scandal
the rich asshole’s secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price resigned from his post today. It was alleged that he chartered private planes for government travel. This was criticized by opposition parties and an investigation was launched against him.
Price took 26 flights on military planes and which cost taxpayers $1 million. The former health secretary apologized for the loss and promised to reimburse it.
This is how twitter reacted to the announcement:
MORE: HHS Sec. Tom Price has offered his resignation and Pres. Trump has accepted, Press Sec. says. abcn.ws/2x2w6EIpic.twitter.com/GRyCem9rm3
#TomPrice owes taxpayers the cost of those flights and personal security cost. He either pays and resigns or go to jail for misappropriation
We hope the rich asshole is next in queue.
'Not enough' troops, equipment in Puerto Rico, says general in charge of relief
BY ELLEN MITCHELL - 09/29/17 02:27 PM EDT
The Defense Department has not sent enough troops and vehicles to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico but will soon send more, according to the three-star general newly in charge of coordinating the military response.
Army Lt. Gen. Jeff Buchanan said Friday morning that the Pentagon has 10,000 people helping with the response after Hurricanes Irma and Maria ripped through Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands earlier this month.
“We're certainly bringing in more [troops]," Buchanan said on CNN’s “New Day.”
"For example, on the military side, we're bringing in both Air Force, Navy, and Army medical capabilities in addition to aircraft, more helicopters. ... [But] it's not enough, and we're bringing more in.”
The Pentagon has already allocated more than 4,000 troops to help in rescue and restoration efforts to the U.S. territories, but it wasn’t until Thursday, eight days after Maria slammed the Caribbean, that U.S. Northern Command (Northcom) sent Buchanan.
The head of Northcom's Joint Force Land Component Command is now serving as the Defense Department’s primary liaison to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Tom Bossert, the President the rich asshole’s homeland security adviser, has defended the wait time in between the end of the storm and appointing Buchanan.
“It didn’t require a three-star general eight days ago,” Bossert said of the government response.
When asked whether it was a mistake to not have Buchanan on the ground in Puerto Rico earlier, Bossert replied, “No, not at all.”
“In fact, that doesn’t effect the way that we stage equipment and the way we area command and field operational command. This is textbook and it’s been done well,” Bossert told reporters Thursday at the daily White House press briefing.
The Pentagon has been steadily increasing its help to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands after both were slammed by the two Category 5 storms. The hurricanes knocked out power across Puerto Rico, leaving nearly half of its population of more than 3.4 million without drinking water.
Puerto Ricans and lawmakers, however, are frustrated with the federal government's response.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Friday on CNN that the rich asshole should put the U.S. military in charge of handling and delivering aid to Puerto Rico. He asserted that only the Pentagon could repair the logistical issues preventing aid from reaching island residents.
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz on Friday urged the rich asshole to ramp up the federal assistance, ripping acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke for referring to the government’s response as a “good news story.”
“Damnit, this is not a good news story,” Cruz said. “This is a people-are-dying story.”
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Feds Demand Facebook Share Information on Anti-the rich asshole Protesters
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The Justice Department is demanding that Facebook turn over information from three accounts that could provide access to the personal details of thousands of activists who expressed interest in anti-the rich asshole rallies.
The department obtained search warrants targeting three Facebook accounts that were used to organize Inauguration Day protests against some rich asshole, the ACLU said late Thursday. But accessing those accounts would provide information on thousands of other users who "liked" an anti-the rich asshole Facebook page, the group explained.
The ACLU’s Washington, D.C., office said in a statement it would fight the enforcement of the search warrants.
"Opening up the entire contents of a personal Facebook page for review by the government is a gross invasion of privacy," said Scott Michelman, a senior staff attorney at ACLU. "When law enforcement officers can comb through records concerning political organizing in opposition to the very administration for which those officers work, the result is the chilling of First Amendment-protected political activity."
The warrants were issued as part of an ongoing case by the Justice Department against people who allegedly broke laws while protesting the rich asshole's Jan. 20 inauguration in Washington. Prosecutors have said the website, DisruptJ20.org, was used to organize "a violent riot."
One search warrant was issued for the DisruptJ20 Facebook page, which has since been renamed Resist This, requiring the group’s moderator, Emmelia Talarico, to hand over "nonpublic lists of people who planned to attend political organizing events and even the names of people who simply liked, followed, reacted to, commented o or otherwise engaged with the content on the Facebook page," the ACLU said in a motion filed Thursday in U.S. Superior Court in Washington.
That could include nearly 6,000 Facebook users who "liked" the page from Nov. 1, 2016, to Feb. 9, 2017.
Two other warrants obtained by the Justice Department would require Facebook to hand over "all information from the personal Facebook profiles of local DisruptJ20 activists' Lacy MacAuley and Legba Carrefour from Nov. 1, 2016, through Feb. 9, 2017.
The warrants demand "all private messages, friend lists, status updates, comments, photos, video and other private information solely intended for the users’ Facebook friends and family, even if they have nothing to do with Inauguration Day," the ACLU said.
Facebook didn’t immediately respond to questions about whether it would comply with the warrants.
Tom Price resigns as health secretary over private flights and the richasshole criticism
the rich asshole Takes Aim at Last CaliforniaRepublicans
Are NFL teams taking some rich asshole’s advice?
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the rich asshole’s HHS Secretary Stole Over $1 Million From Taxpayers And Now He’s Unemployed
some rich asshole ran and won on a platform of “drain the swamp.” He supposedly meant that Washington was corrupt, and that nobody in the establishment could be trusted. However, he has run the swampiest of Washington swamps that America has seen since the Watergate scandal with President Richard Nixon. Case in point- his Health and Human Services Secretary, Tom Price, being mired in scandal for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of trips around the nation and world in private jets on the taxpayer dime. He has sworn, now that he is caught, to pay back every dime to taxpayers over this scandal of luxury, but that was never true. Taxpayers paid over a million dollars for these trips, but we’re only getting reimbursed for Tom Price’s personal seats.
Well, it seems that the news coverage has gotten the best of Price, because we all know how much The rich asshole wants to be loved by cable news. As such, the news coverage made the rich asshole and his administration put more pressure on Price, and that pressure has worked. Tom Price has now resigned as Health and Human Services Secretary.
Under all the pressure from the public and the press, as per usual, the White House is in hiding. They released a simple statement:
“Secretary of Health and Human Services Thomas Price offered his resignation earlier today and the President accepted.”
And, in case you were wondering, no, neither Sarah Huckabee Sanders nor any other the rich asshole Administration official came to a camera to discuss this huge development, which comes on the heels of a humiliating defeat in the FOURTH attempt from the GOP-led Congress and the the rich asshole Administration to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. All this proves is what Democrats have been saying about Republicans all along – they are corrupt, and they are incapable of change and of governing. Do America a favor next time, folks, and vote BLUE.
Tom Price resigns as health secretary over private flights and the richasshole criticism
· Health secretary resigns after president says decision imminent
· Former Georgia congressman had apologized and repaid some costs
Friday 29 September 2017 16.48 EDT
The health and human services secretary Tom Price has resigned, after revelations that he spent hundreds of thousands of tax payers’ dollars on chartered flights.
The White House said in a statement Price offered his resignation on Friday and the rich asshole accepted it. the rich asshole had teased the announcement earlier in the day when he told reporters: “I’ll be announcing something in the very near future.”
“He’s a very fine man,” the rich asshole said of Price, not long before his resignation was announced. “I certainly don’t like the optics. I’m not happy, I can tell you that. I’m not happy.”
Don Wright, the deputy assistant secretary for health and director of the office of disease prevention and health promotion, will serve as acting secretary starting on Saturday.
the rich asshole Takes Aim at Last CaliforniaRepublicans
Attacking blue-state taxpayers may produce collateral damage.
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It's hard to know exactly what shape Republican "tax reform" will take. Many details are missing from the "framework" that the administration presented this week. (Describing actions, or promises of action, by the some rich asshole administration often necessitates the use of quotation marks.) But it must have seemed a good idea to someone to complement the rich asshole's culture war against liberals with a fiscal war.
The deduction for state and local taxes, which is targeted for extinction in the White House framework, is most valuable in states where income and property taxes are high, such as California and New York. That's why ending it has been called a "tax attack on blue states."
But it's amazing how many Republican donors and voters live in such states. the rich asshole lost California to Hillary Clinton by more than 3.4 million votes, a greater margin than her national popular-vote win. Yet the rich asshole received more votes in California than he got in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and West Virginia combined.
Americans Against Double Taxation -- yes, there is already an organized lobby against ending the so-called SALT deduction -- said that of the 20 districts nationwide with the highest percentage of returns claiming the deduction, nine have Republican representatives. New York alone sends nine Republicans to the House of Representatives, equaling the combined number of Republicans from Alabama and Mississippi. California sends 14.
Democrats need to win two dozen House districts currently held by Republicans to take over the House in 2018. One-third of the top targets are in California, where seven Republicans represent districts that were won in 2016 by Hillary Clinton, and two other seats are also on the Democratic Party hit list.
If you designed a policy to loosen the Republican grip on the party's last batch of California House seats, you could surely do worse than ending the tax deduction for state and local taxes. "They continue to try to figure out ways to alienate California from the Republican Party," said Democratic consultant Bill Carrick.
California, where every statewide office is held by a Democrat, is already hostile territory for Republicans. Carrick, a longtime adviser to California Senator Dianne Feinstein, thinks Democratic candidates challenging Republican incumbents have gained a ready message with the proposal to end the SALT deduction. "My gut," he said in a telephone interview, "is they can make a pretty good case: Send them a message. Quit punishing California."
Or as Feinstein herself put it to the Los Angeles Times, “I don’t believe California should suffer in order for President the rich asshole to give tax cuts to the rich.”
Affluent taxpayers in California, New York and other high-tax blue states could see money lost in the SALT deduction repeal returned to them with the repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax, which the White House framework also calls for. But few individuals are likely to do the math, many are likely to assume the worst, and none will know the final details of legislation that doesn't yet exist. Arguably the chief perceived benefit of GOP rule to educated, affluent, white swing voters -- lower taxes -- is in jeopardy.
the rich asshole's open hostility to nonwhites has already made the demographic shifts in many Republican districts potentially more challenging. Representative Darrel Issa, for example, represents California's increasingly Hispanic 49th congressional district. He won re-election in 2016 with 50.4 percent and a margin of a couple thousand votes. If Republicans follow through with elimination of the SALT deduction, affluent white voters in Issa's district may also find a new reason for dissatisfaction.
According to a Los Angeles Times analysis, 46 percent of tax filers in Issa's district use the SALT deduction, with an average deduction of $10,024. As the Times reported, repeal of the deduction "would hit especially hard in wealthier areas, some of which are on the exact turf Democrats are trying to win over in Southern California."
The potential to use repeal of the deduction as a lever, in California and elsewhere, to flip the House to Democratic control seems fairly acute. House Republicans from vulnerable districts are already squealing, and Senate Finance Committee chairman Orrin Hatch is balking. Yet without the enormous revenue raised by repealing the deduction -- more than $1 trillion over a decade -- the Republican framework's costly benefits to the nation's wealthiest become even more untenable.
Given the stakes and complexity, and the rich asshole administration's comical record so far at rounding up votes, it's hard to believe this assault on Democratic-voting states will make it all the way to the end of the process. Presuming, of course, that unlike the effort to repeal Obamacare, the tax "reform" process ever reaches an end.
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
Are NFL teams taking some rich asshole’s advice?
September 29, 2017
Teddy Cutler
Posted with permission from Newsweek
On Thursday night the Green Bay Packers did as they had promised, as players and coaches linked arms on the sideline while the Star-Spangled Banner played. Martellus Bennett, one of three Packers who knelt last weekend at Lambeau Field, stood for what the tight end called a symbol of “unity.” On Monday night, the Dallas Cowboys took a road apparently designed to upset nobody, kneeling briefly before the anthem along with owner Jerry Jones before standing with arms linked, like the Packers.
After one of the more incendiary, politically-aware weekends in its history provoked by President Donald Trump’s call at a rally in Alabama for players kneeling during the anthem to be “fired,” has the NFL quickly reverted to a position of safety?
Drew Brees, the New Orleans Saints quarterback, tweeted on Friday that the Saints will “kneel in solidarity” before the anthem prior to their game in London against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. “As a way to show respect to all, our #Saints team will kneel in solidarity prior to the national anthem & stand together during the anthem,” Brees wrote.
The Saints, then, will follow the Cowboys’ and Packers’ models but they are not alone. NBC’s Pro Football Talk reports that other teams this weekend will choose to both stand and kneel, news that comes in the wake of a “unity meeting” held between NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, ten franchise owners and eight players. The New York Daily News quoted Giants defensive captain Jonathan Casillas, who said co-owner John Mara would like his team captains to stand during the anthem. Mara, Casillas added, will support those who choose to kneel. “It’d be, if he [Mara] had any request, that’d [standing] be a request of his,” Casillas said. “But he also said if anyone in the locker room feels like they want to kneel, feels like they have to kneel, he’d be supportive of anybody who has to do that. Honestly, as a player in this league and everything going on, we can’t really ask for anything more than that.”
The Denver Broncos, who host the Oakland Raiders at Mile High on Sunday, said on Thursday that they would be standing as a team. “We may have different values and beliefs, but there’s one thing we all agree on: We’re a team and we stand together—no matter how divisive some comments and issues can be, nothing should ever get in the way of that,” a players’ statement quoted by the Denver Post read. “Starting Sunday, we’ll be standing together.”
Trump tweeted five days ago on September 24, as his comments at the rally were gaining overwhelmingly negative traction, that, “Standing with locked arms is good, kneeling is not acceptable.” In keeping with the general decrease in volume during the week, Trump has shifted his focus on social media to the crisis in Puerto Rico. His last football-related tweet was in praise of Jones on September 27.
In opting for team unity, or choosing to both stand and kneel and please everyone, there is a chance and a risk that the NFL’s players could look like they are acceding to Trump’s demands. The protests aren’t over, but they do appear set to be quieter and more acquiescent than a week ago. And that’s probably bad news for anyone who doesn’t want Colin Kaepernick’s original message to become diluted.
Violence, race and religion all are tied up in the rich asshole’s strange feud with NFL players who take a knee
Teddy Cutler
Posted with permission from Newsweek
On Thursday night the Green Bay Packers did as they had promised, as players and coaches linked arms on the sideline while the Star-Spangled Banner played. Martellus Bennett, one of three Packers who knelt last weekend at Lambeau Field, stood for what the tight end called a symbol of “unity.” On Monday night, the Dallas Cowboys took a road apparently designed to upset nobody, kneeling briefly before the anthem along with owner Jerry Jones before standing with arms linked, like the Packers.
After one of the more incendiary, politically-aware weekends in its history provoked by President Donald Trump’s call at a rally in Alabama for players kneeling during the anthem to be “fired,” has the NFL quickly reverted to a position of safety?
Drew Brees, the New Orleans Saints quarterback, tweeted on Friday that the Saints will “kneel in solidarity” before the anthem prior to their game in London against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. “As a way to show respect to all, our #Saints team will kneel in solidarity prior to the national anthem & stand together during the anthem,” Brees wrote.
The Saints, then, will follow the Cowboys’ and Packers’ models but they are not alone. NBC’s Pro Football Talk reports that other teams this weekend will choose to both stand and kneel, news that comes in the wake of a “unity meeting” held between NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, ten franchise owners and eight players. The New York Daily News quoted Giants defensive captain Jonathan Casillas, who said co-owner John Mara would like his team captains to stand during the anthem. Mara, Casillas added, will support those who choose to kneel. “It’d be, if he [Mara] had any request, that’d [standing] be a request of his,” Casillas said. “But he also said if anyone in the locker room feels like they want to kneel, feels like they have to kneel, he’d be supportive of anybody who has to do that. Honestly, as a player in this league and everything going on, we can’t really ask for anything more than that.”
The Denver Broncos, who host the Oakland Raiders at Mile High on Sunday, said on Thursday that they would be standing as a team. “We may have different values and beliefs, but there’s one thing we all agree on: We’re a team and we stand together—no matter how divisive some comments and issues can be, nothing should ever get in the way of that,” a players’ statement quoted by the Denver Post read. “Starting Sunday, we’ll be standing together.”
Trump tweeted five days ago on September 24, as his comments at the rally were gaining overwhelmingly negative traction, that, “Standing with locked arms is good, kneeling is not acceptable.” In keeping with the general decrease in volume during the week, Trump has shifted his focus on social media to the crisis in Puerto Rico. His last football-related tweet was in praise of Jones on September 27.
In opting for team unity, or choosing to both stand and kneel and please everyone, there is a chance and a risk that the NFL’s players could look like they are acceding to Trump’s demands. The protests aren’t over, but they do appear set to be quieter and more acquiescent than a week ago. And that’s probably bad news for anyone who doesn’t want Colin Kaepernick’s original message to become diluted.
After one of the more incendiary, politically-aware weekends in its history provoked by President Donald Trump’s call at a rally in Alabama for players kneeling during the anthem to be “fired,” has the NFL quickly reverted to a position of safety?
Drew Brees, the New Orleans Saints quarterback, tweeted on Friday that the Saints will “kneel in solidarity” before the anthem prior to their game in London against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. “As a way to show respect to all, our #Saints team will kneel in solidarity prior to the national anthem & stand together during the anthem,” Brees wrote.
The Saints, then, will follow the Cowboys’ and Packers’ models but they are not alone. NBC’s Pro Football Talk reports that other teams this weekend will choose to both stand and kneel, news that comes in the wake of a “unity meeting” held between NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, ten franchise owners and eight players. The New York Daily News quoted Giants defensive captain Jonathan Casillas, who said co-owner John Mara would like his team captains to stand during the anthem. Mara, Casillas added, will support those who choose to kneel. “It’d be, if he [Mara] had any request, that’d [standing] be a request of his,” Casillas said. “But he also said if anyone in the locker room feels like they want to kneel, feels like they have to kneel, he’d be supportive of anybody who has to do that. Honestly, as a player in this league and everything going on, we can’t really ask for anything more than that.”
The Denver Broncos, who host the Oakland Raiders at Mile High on Sunday, said on Thursday that they would be standing as a team. “We may have different values and beliefs, but there’s one thing we all agree on: We’re a team and we stand together—no matter how divisive some comments and issues can be, nothing should ever get in the way of that,” a players’ statement quoted by the Denver Post read. “Starting Sunday, we’ll be standing together.”
Trump tweeted five days ago on September 24, as his comments at the rally were gaining overwhelmingly negative traction, that, “Standing with locked arms is good, kneeling is not acceptable.” In keeping with the general decrease in volume during the week, Trump has shifted his focus on social media to the crisis in Puerto Rico. His last football-related tweet was in praise of Jones on September 27.
In opting for team unity, or choosing to both stand and kneel and please everyone, there is a chance and a risk that the NFL’s players could look like they are acceding to Trump’s demands. The protests aren’t over, but they do appear set to be quieter and more acquiescent than a week ago. And that’s probably bad news for anyone who doesn’t want Colin Kaepernick’s original message to become diluted.
the rich asshole whines about ‘cost of rebuilding’ Puerto Rico — and gets resoundingly destroyed by San Juan’s mayor
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The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico on Friday shot back at some rich asshole after the president argued “big decisions” have to be made about the cost of rebuilding the island, which is still reeling from a lack of basic necessities over a week after Hurricane Maria hit.
“The fact is that Puerto Rico has been destroyed by two hurricanes,” the rich asshole wrote on Twitter. “Big decisions will have to be made as to the cost of its rebuilding!”
San Juan Major Carmen Yulín Cruz, who’s been critical of the administration’s response in Puerto Rico, took issue with the rich asshole’s comment Friday, telling CNN, “If we let them die, nobody is going to pay the debt!”
JUST NOW: "If we let them die, nobody is going to pay the debt!!"
The mayor of San Juan responding to POTUS comments on "costs." twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
One of the rich asshole’s first remarks in response to the devastation in Puerto Rico was to complain about the “massive debt” owed by the U.S. territory.
“Texas & Florida are doing great but Puerto Rico, which was already suffering from broken infrastructure & massive debt, is in deep trouble..” the rich asshole tweeted Monday.
Despite the president’s apparent focus on the “debt” and “costs” associated with an island that’s home to 3.5 million American citizens, the the rich asshole administration has been adamant that the federal relief efforts are in full force. On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke said she’s “very satisfied” with the administration’s efforts.
“I know it is really a good news story in terms of our ability to reach people and the limited number of deaths that have taken place in such a devastating hurricane,” Duke said
Cruz on Friday rejected Duke’s assessment, telling CNN’s Alisyn Camerota, “Dammit, this is not a good news story.”
“This is a ‘people are dying’ story,” she said.
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The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico on Friday shot back at some rich asshole after the president argued “big decisions” have to be made about the cost of rebuilding the island, which is still reeling from a lack of basic necessities over a week after Hurricane Maria hit.
“The fact is that Puerto Rico has been destroyed by two hurricanes,” the rich asshole wrote on Twitter. “Big decisions will have to be made as to the cost of its rebuilding!”
San Juan Major Carmen Yulín Cruz, who’s been critical of the administration’s response in Puerto Rico, took issue with the rich asshole’s comment Friday, telling CNN, “If we let them die, nobody is going to pay the debt!”
JUST NOW: "If we let them die, nobody is going to pay the debt!!"
The mayor of San Juan responding to POTUS comments on "costs." twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
One of the rich asshole’s first remarks in response to the devastation in Puerto Rico was to complain about the “massive debt” owed by the U.S. territory.
“Texas & Florida are doing great but Puerto Rico, which was already suffering from broken infrastructure & massive debt, is in deep trouble..” the rich asshole tweeted Monday.
Despite the president’s apparent focus on the “debt” and “costs” associated with an island that’s home to 3.5 million American citizens, the the rich asshole administration has been adamant that the federal relief efforts are in full force. On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke said she’s “very satisfied” with the administration’s efforts.
“I know it is really a good news story in terms of our ability to reach people and the limited number of deaths that have taken place in such a devastating hurricane,” Duke said
Cruz on Friday rejected Duke’s assessment, telling CNN’s Alisyn Camerota, “Dammit, this is not a good news story.”
“This is a ‘people are dying’ story,” she said.
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