posted September 28, 2017 10:49 AM            

Early this AM

When did Hurricane Maria make landfall?

September 20th

posted September 28, 2017 11:45 AM            

Hey leftists, there's 3,000 shipping containers of food, medicine, clothing, generators and other supplies sitting on docks in Puerto Rico waiting for local truck drivers to show up and transport them where they're needed. OR, was Trump supposed to send the trucks and drivers from our shores to do that too!

You leftists are in way over your heads with this phony meme...which is almost always where you find yourselves.

WaPo Pushes Propaganda Narrative Surrounding Puerto Rico Relief Efforts­
September 27, 2017
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After the devastation created by Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is in crisis everyone agrees with that overall sentiment. However, as we noted last weekend, the media reporting on the recovery issue is ridiculously politicized.

Hillary Clinton, her crew of sycophants, the democrats and their ideological leftist media cohorts are working earnestly to turn the Puerto Rico crisis into an anti-Trump false narrative. The media are exhausting themselves on propaganda instead of focusing on real issues of helping the people of Puerto Rico.

Today the Washington Post pushes a story of the U.S.N.S Comfort being ordered to Puerto Rico and claiming it was Hillary Clinton who forced the issue:

We saw this narrative coming last weekend and shared the ridiculous nature of it. The propaganda writer for the story, Dan Lamothe, needed to be challenged because it's just false; and he even admits he knows he's written a BS story.

The USNS Comfort is a 900 (length) x 100 (width) hospital. It was built by modifying a 1970's era oil tanker (old hull design non bulbous bow), and it weighs approximately 67,000 tons. It's essentially still an old oil tanker in water placement design; meaning it needs a port to receive it on arrival.

Additionally, it takes approximately five days to activate Comfort into service. Fueling, supplying, and the engineering to prepare for ocean passage of a massive vessel is a lengthy process. She also needs personnel to arrive and stage etc. All said, the logistics and engineering takes five days prep time.

When CTH challenged the WaPo author, Dan Lamothe, about this factual spin-up time, and how Comfort was ordered to prepare PRIOR to Clinton's tweeting about it, Lamothe admits Clinton didn't have anything to do with Comfort's activation.

USNS Comfort's activation was put on hold (stand down) because: A) there was no port that survived the storm in a capacity able to receive her; and B) the governor of Puerto Rico requested she not be sent.

Despite the misleading WaPo headline the author Dan Lamothe admits Comfort was activated prior to Clinton.

Then things just get silly:

That last response from Dan Lamothe tells you everything you need to know about journalists in general and WaPo writers specifically.

Notice how he intentionally left out the fact that USS Iwo-Jima and USS New York were on the Puerto Rico rescue mission: because they returned to port in Mayport, Florida.

Well, how exactly do supply missions work?
**(Yeah, these 2 US ships had already been to PR, dropped their cargos and returned to Florida!)**

There comes a point where leftist propaganda just becomes silly.

Puerto Rico is an island. The first job is to get the ports open. Every single aspect of relief and recovery is dependent on getting all ports operational. Nothing matters more.

That is exactly what FEMA, Homeland Security (coast guard), and the U.S. Navy understood even before the hurricane hit the island. All assets were staged to ensure the first job was to get the ports open.

posted September 28, 2017 12:03 PM            

As of yesterday, there's 3,000 containers sitting on docks in PR waiting for local truck drivers to show up and transport them.

posted September 28, 2017 12:13 PM            

FEMA Administrator Brock Long Explains Puerto Rico Recovery Issues…
September 27, 2017
sundance

The U.S. media are being intentionally obtuse and in some cases downright false in their assertions of the primary problems for Puerto Rico. CTH has ongoing numerous conversations with recovery and relief efforts around the entire impacted island.

The most consequential logistical issue was port access for the arrival of relief supplies. That immediate and critical issue was met by the U.S. Defense Department, FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security.

However as FEMA Director Brock Long outlines in this interview, albeit with diplomatic nuance, the Puerto Rican municipal government system has essentially collapsed. Government and public sector workers are not showing up to work, and the U.S. military is having to try and fill the roles of local officials within society.

The culture within the island nation is based around comfortable dependency, and Puerto Ricans are currently showing no capacity to care for themselves, their neighbors, or take action as individual communities to help their own recovery.

There are thousands of tons of relief supplies sitting in ports, 3,000 full containers, with the U.S. army ready to help load up Puerto Rican trucks for local delivery. However, the municipal governments and local transportation officials are not lifting a finger to get these supplies into their communities.

WATCH THIS VIDEO BELOW:

The lifting of the “Jones Act” to allow any flagged ocean carrier to deliver supplies is not needed because the ports are backlogged with ample supplies and fuel while the Puerto Rican government does nothing to transport them.

Neither FEMA, nor the DoD, can be expected to take the place of municipal authorities; yet that is exactly what it appears the Puerto Rican government expects.

FUBAR.

This is what happens when a culture of dependency is allowed to fester over generations. Yes, there are many Puerto Ricans who do not fit that narrow definition, however their numbers are in the minority. The vast majority of island residents have no concept of self-sufficiency, and the municipal workers reflect the same ideological mindset.

Domestic Puerto Rican truck drivers sit at home waiting for FEMA or the U.S. Army to arrive with breakfast, lunch and dinner. Meanwhile the cargo of foodstuffs and supplies they should be transporting sits in various Puerto Rican ports waiting for them to show up and do their job.

posted September 28, 2017 12:22 PM            

Experts see even the offer that was made by the bondholders less as a gift and more as a backdoor for creditors associated with the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, or Prepa, to take advantage of the disaster by enriching themselves. Offering a desperate population the ability to drown themselves in even more debt is hardly generous.

posted September 28, 2017 02:24 PM            

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No amount of aid is going to help Puerto Rico until the people who live there agree to lift a finger and begin to help themselves.

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With what? Just what options do the citizens of P.R. have to help them selves?

posted September 28, 2017 06:03 PM            

I know leftists have a limited capacity to handle more than one thing at a time. Fortunately, Trump is a multi-tasker and able to handle lots of different problems at the same time.

posted September 28, 2017 06:07 PM            

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Originally posted by juniperb:
With what? Just what options do the citizens of P.R. have to help them selves?

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posted September 30, 2017 08:15 AM            

These are Americans albiet mostly poor ones... yet American s.

How can we fight over them like they are toys???

Facts are facts. Perceptions and bias will not feed and cloth these people.

posted September 30, 2017 12:28 PM            

Of course there are mercenaries over there too.. airlines have jacked up their prices making evacuation difficult for all but the wealthiest.

posted September 30, 2017 05:18 PM            

Seriously, you are going to poke fun of a mayor in the middle of a human disaster?
Put your self in her shoes and walk her mile.

posted September 30, 2017 06:19 PM            

He said that personnel and equipment should have been shipped to the island well in advance of the catastrophe and the military given greater authority much sooner.

posted October 01, 2017 08:33 AM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.co m/2017/09/smoking-gun-san-juan-teamsters-didnt-show-work-distribute-relief-supplies-us-aid-rotting-ports/?mtcid=cf

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Randall, regarding your gateway pundit links, at least you are throwing all your cards into the alt right basket

I`m pretty certain those white supremacists the gateway indulges are Puerto Rican haters too. Maybe misogynist as well.

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The website is known for publishing falsehoods and spreading hoaxes.

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mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-gateway-pundit/Notes
The Gateway Pundit is a hard-right website that is not afraid of conspiracy
theories and the occasional flirtation with outright white supremacists.

posted October 01, 2017 02:07 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.co m/2017/09/smoking-gun-san-juan-teamsters-didnt-show-work-distribute-relief-supplies-us-aid-rotting-ports/?mtcid=cf

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Something leftists haven't come to grips with...yet. Facts are pesky things which pop up at the most inconvenient time to put the kibosh on leftist lies.