Goddamit! Invade Puerto Rico! Send in the troops, the cargo planes, the “MASH” units, everything we got and everything we can beg or borrow! There is no possible excuse for Americans dying from water-borne diseases except if we have done everything humanly possible.
The military has medical supplies and trained people, bulldozers, engineers, and dedicated personnel. Do it, goddamit, just Do It! If it fails, we still learn something we will likely need to know again. What is better, clearing roads that exist, or cutting quick and dirty paths just good enough for trucks. So on and so forth.
Hell, I’ll even cheer for some chin-jutting ironass giving a gung-ho speech! “The enemy is American suffering,misery and death. Go and kill the enemy!” Whatever it takes. I will personally install a flagpole by my double-wide, raise the flag every morning, take it down every night, pledge allegiance three times, and even sing that god-awful song!
But Goddamit! These are our people, and if they are not our people, who’s people are they? If it was the Iranians or the Belgians doing this shit to us, we would be on them like Trump on cake!
And we get this nonsense from his twitter feed today.
Because leaving is clearly the right thing to do. I’m guessing FEMA is still in Texas and Florida, with no plans to leave. Haven’t heard him say “boo” about CA yet though.
“If they wanted to be Americans, they should have been born in America, not on some Island in the middle of the ocean somewhere. And anyway, they should be doing this all themselves. What are they, lazy? They should be happy with those paper towels.”
The Army could do it without White House approval. Declare it an “impromptu readiness exercise” and send most of Fort Sam Houston to San Juan. And why aren’t the Seabees there already?
Oh sure, you say that now, but what about when the massive insurgency starts? :eek:
Puerto Rico is going to be Trump’s New Orleans, though frankly, his administration is a lot more like a monkey fucking a football than even Bush et al managed to be. Sadly, this is going to be no comfort to the Puerto Rican’s who are American citizens (I wish someone would inform Trump of this, though he’s probably immune to facts).
There was a Navy base there at one point, mostly closed at the request of the Puerto Ricans. It’s now a small Army base, if I understand Wikipedia correctly. Ivylad (former submariner) and I wondered if having an open Navy base during the hurricane would have allowed aid to be rendered more quickly.
“And anyway, when I bulldoze the ruined shacks, cars, phone poles, and other crap and put in my golf courses, swimming pools, and luxury condos, THEN the island will be better than ever! Plus, I’ll be creating jobs for all those brown-skinned Spaniards. Win-win!”
