# Invade Puerto Rico! NOW!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 12, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660 "2017-10-12T17:17:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/1 "2017-10-12T17:17:52Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/2 "2017-10-12T17:20:41Z")
Concur. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/3 "2017-10-12T17:27:20Z")
And we get this nonsense from his twitter feed today. > [@](#): > > Bumbler in Chief > …We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders, who have been amazing (under the most difficult circumstances) in P.R. forever! 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. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/4 "2017-10-12T18:11:15Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Goddamit! Invade Puerto Rico! Send in the troops, the cargo planes, the “MASH” units, everything we got and everything we can beg or borrow! But if we invade them, then they become our territory (Ummm, **Spidey** , I got something to tell you) & they speak some furren langwitch & we don’t let furreniers in this country! (Ummm, **Spidey** , I got something to tell you). ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/5 "2017-10-12T18:16:41Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > 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. Except for this > **[Trump orders federal aid for California wildfires](https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/trump-orders-federal-aid-for-california-wildfires/482290040)** ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/6 "2017-10-12T18:33:21Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > 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! I assume that would be a urinal cake. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/7 "2017-10-12T18:44:21Z")
Yeah, the first responders in Puerto Rico are in difficult circumstances. You know who else is in difficult circumstances? The Puerto Ricans. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/8 "2017-10-12T18:46:42Z")
Trump speak: “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.” ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/9 "2017-10-12T18:47:26Z")
Some of you guys might not know this, but Puerto Rico is _AN ISLAND_. An island in _THE OCEAN_. _A VERY BIG OCEAN!!_ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/10 "2017-10-12T18:51:12Z")
o/`Nobody knows in America, Puerto Rico's in America... o/` ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/11 "2017-10-12T18:52:12Z")
Inb4 “we only invade brown people countries if they have oil.” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/12 "2017-10-12T19:01:06Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/13 "2017-10-12T19:05:40Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Inb4 “we only invade brown people countries if they have oil.” This is American territory and it’s being threatened with a military invasion. We need to send troops to defend our island. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/14 "2017-10-12T19:05:51Z")
Got as many votes in PR as he has in New York City. Just another distraction technique from this seemingly endless run of policy failures. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/15 "2017-10-12T19:35:03Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Inb4 “we only invade brown people countries if they have oil.” Well… [https://petroglobalnews.com/2013/12/puerto-rico-has-offshore-oil-and-gas-usgs-says/](https://petroglobalnews.com/2013/12/puerto-rico-has-offshore-oil-and-gas-usgs-says/) We should invade indeed… [/sarcasm] ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/16 "2017-10-12T19:39:37Z")
Maybe they should pull a Grand Fenwick, and declare war on the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/17 "2017-10-12T19:44:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Invade Puerto Rico! NOW!!! 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). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/18 "2017-10-12T19:47:25Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Except for this > > [Trump orders federal aid for California wildfires | abc10.com](http://www.abc10.com/mobile/article/news/local/trump-orders-federal-aid-for-california-wildfires/482290040) I didn’t realize that Jerry Brown and Trump were on speaking terms. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/19 "2017-10-12T19:49:38Z")
There was a [Navy base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Roads_Naval_Station) 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. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660/20 "2017-10-12T19:55:12Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Trump speak: > > “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.” “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!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invade-puerto-rico-now/798660.md?page=2)