October 01, 2017 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
And the Twitter Machine keeps on giving.
America put a man on the damn moon. On. The. Moon.
D-Day? The Marshall Plan? Interstate highway system? Inoculating every American against polio?
We are threatening North Korea when we can’t even do food and water drops on an damn island?
We look like damfools. And you’re not helping.
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The administrator of FEMA said more than that. He basically said the mayor of San Juan was bad mouthing everything they’d done so far. I haven’t heard anything of the sort, but I don’t watch FOX, nor read Daily Stormer.
1Mind if I add one to your list JJ?
The Berlin Airlift
June 27, 1948 to May 12, 1949
Surviving a normally harsh German winter, the airlift carried over two million tons of supplies in 270,000 flights.
Now that’s logistics.
2All things considered, I really think he does not mean logistics and that is taking in everything the previous posters have said plus JJ. But he had to say something almost positive about his efforts. Yes, I understand that a lot of roads don’t even exist any more so those big semis hauling those enormous containers are useless at getting any damn where. But we’ve had that problem before in our history and we overcame it. Parcelling out the contents of those containers to much lighter weight transports is a good idea, especially if they like mud and even water. It might take longer to distribute the contents of one container but they will get further inland to the “lost” areas and thats the damn point.
3Yep it’s tough alright.
If only the Navy had a group of sailors who had skills which included clearing overgrown areas, like jungles, in order to build 5000+ foot aircraft runways in a few hours.
If only the say Army had an organization under its command who could engineer, design, and manage the construction of ginormous projects like dams and canals and such.
If only the Navy had a whole bunch of transport ships that could move objects of all sizes from here to there in a similar manner as a commercial maritime shipping company.
If only the Air Force had a fleet of ginormous freighter aircraft that could tolerate the 1000+ mile distance to deliver life saving matériel to Puerto Rico from say Florida.
Oh yeah, they f’ing do. GET ON THE STICK YOU LAZY SOB.
4Well of course it’s challenging. Especially when Trump and the Republicans purposely defund essential Government agencies , crippling their effectiveness, so they can falsely claim ‘Government doesn’t work’. And then blame it on the Democrats when they do fail.
It’s the CON in Conservatism
“By the start of September, more than a third of the leadership positions at the Federal Emergency Management Agency were still vacant. Not a good way to begin hurricane season. Puerto Rico, anyone?”
5https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/the-growing-irrelevance-of-president-donald-trump/
What Micr and y’all have stated.
Brock Long drew the short stick on this FUBAR. He’ll learn that when ‘covering’ for Donnie, silence is golden. Or, he’ll be caught as have all the others in the Golden Shower that is Dotard45.
6Ships have anchors and can travel on that big water filled ocean around the island and drop their anchors. Then they have lifeboats that can transport supplies from the ship to the communities. There might be a docking problem, but I am confident they can figure something out. The Navy also has landing craft that could make quick work of that.
Spelling “logistics” is challenging.
7My husband (Viet Nam) vet says the US built an entire city in Viet Nam. Roads, airport, medical facilities ,housing and feed an entire Army or in his case Marines. All this during a war, come on put the Military in total charge let them get to rebuilding Puerto Rico.
8Trump’s probably looking to buy some cheap real estate there – you can bet that if Trump had property in Puerto Rico, the FEMA folks would have been on-site in minutes rather than days.
9Where I’m at sounded like what the evacuation of Saigon must’ve sounded like almost immediately after Harvey with all the helicopter traffic. I find it hard to believe that nobody has figured out how to set up the necessary apparatus to support a massive fleet of helicopters. A week ago. Staging area. Supplies out. People in. And yes I realize it’s easy to say from the comfort of our living room.
10This is what happens when you fill governmental positions with unqualified people. I guess that blaming the victims is supposed to make people look somewhere other than the administration to understand the problem.
11Trump administration = incompetence.
12When will the American people day enough is enough?
Heck of a job Brock
13Let’s see…. where to begin.
No. I started typing and I erased it. If the salon customers here can come up with intelligent solutions to this crisis but our own WH can’t, then as they say, we are truly screwed.
Aaaaaarrrrgh!
14It would have been a lot easier if someone had told them ahead of time that Puerto Rico is an island.
15What’s the over under on the people who think we are picking on Brock also denying the existence of the moon landing? Asking for an island in the middle of a BIG ocean, with water!
16Memo to Mr. Long: those who try to carry water for Trump will surely drown in the undertow.
Deb, your memo is exactly right and very well put.
WaPo has a good article on Mayor Cruz. Included is a 31 min interview done by a Puerto Rican news source. It made me fall in love with Madame Mayor and nearly cry for a president like her. She’s really smart, well-educated, articulate, compassionate . . . Well, just listen and read.
https://goo.gl/v2fFwf
17Dear hurricane victims:
While you were unable to get drinking water, food, electricity, gasoline, or even a tarp for your roof, the President personally attended a golf tournament, and even dedicated the trophy in honor of the hurricane victims.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/10/01/as_puerto_rico_begs_for_help_trump_dedicates_a_golf_trophy_to_hurricane.html
There. Don’t you feel all warm and fuzzy?
18Can’t we just call in the Seabees? They built landing strips quickly and well so that airplanes/helicopters could land and take off – and no one is even shooting while they are building this! What about the old Flying Tigers to take cargo over the ocean? It must be easier than flying over The Hump! Have we become a nation of “no can do” instead of “we can do”? Oh, maybe I’ve answered my own question! Government has become the issue, not our willingness to do the right thing to help our own people.
19@slipstream: ‘“You don’t give a shit about Puerto Rico!” someone yelled from the crowd.’
I’d love to know that scene there had enough honor to spit on him.
20I’d love to know that *someone* there had enough honor to spit on him.
21Brock Long is doing a good job. He was forced to go on the Sunday talk shows to try to soften the stupid tweets made by tRump. You can tell when Long is exhausted, he has been working non-stop, when he is short with reporters. His comment was glib and stupid but not reflective of him. He is actually most qualified for the job. FEMA staff respect him and he respects staff which is a nice change from Fugate.
I give the guy a pass on this one. He was doing the political part of his job which sucks to say the least.
22@Micr – My dad was a SeaBee! Their motto is “Can Do!”
23Hard to do a job when you spend all your time playing Golf, and patting your self on the back. Heck of a job Donny!!
24I know exactly where that trophy should go.
Somewhere that it would never gleam in the sunlight.
But Donnie would have to pull his head out first to make room.
What the hell WAS that??
25Does he really think that what Puerto Rico needs from him right now is a shout-out of encouragement?
It’s just grotesque.