Apparently the symbol is just the name Bhudda in mandarin

In a lot of ways DC still might as well be a different planet. That was the perception of DC that got Trump elected.

Doesn't DC vote 92% democrat?

Wikipedia says 91%.

That's the vote of DC residents. They're even further from the political class than we are.

You got scammed bro @King Canuck

I got a bracelet

no fucks given

Only $2

Those fucks are all over in nyc

that's like, a coffee

Yeah a bunch tried to get me when I visited DC

It's a braclet for a few dollars of my time

Fucks not given

The political class lives in the suburbs in VA and MD, not in DC proper.

Does anyone else find it slightly obnoxious when someone is loudly talking on the phone in another language

and that if you try and call them out you might get called a racist

Its annoying regardless of the language

For me it's worse if it's not english cause I can't even overhear

Call those fuks out

Brad Parscale ought to be contracting Youtube people to make Republican commercials.

I've got a student across the desk from me who's been talking rapid punjab on the phone for almost 20 minutes

Rec them and post to Twitter

Call fbi in them they terrorist

Prolly will be called a racist if you do that

Fuk it at least you prevent a atak

https://youtu.be/tkFpNVxzhTs

it's back

Rip

@Atkins

This is an astounding level of delusion.

I don't think it's a good idea for him to have tweeted that, but it's the same sort of tactic he's pulled off dozens of times.

Tweet something hyperbolic > media goes into outrage mode and 'fact checks' him > fact check illuminates what he wanted to illuminate.

This is a new level

But this doesn't seem like a good place to use this tactic.

he's legitimately trying to say that the democrats lied about almost 3000 deaths just to make him look bad

Despite a commissioned report & Puerto Rico's governor raising the official death toll.

ro posted an excerpt from an article earlier that shows he may not be completely wrong in his facts
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/463054787336732683/489795792090169345/image0.png?width=584&height=570

🤔

Those directly killed number only in the dozens, with most of the deaths coming from the mismanaged aftermath.

I'd still count that as deaths from the hurricane, personally, but you've made a good point

What he ***wants*** the media to do is point this out, then immediately he'll start tweeting about the mountains of wasted supplies sent to PR

Like the 8 bazillion bottles of water they just found, or the untold shipping containers full of food that is just rotting on docks.

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I don't think it's a particularly good idea though. Makes him look callous.

his wording implies that he thinks the dems retconned reality

Basically "yeah they're dead but it's not **my** fault so whatever", which doesn't exactly make one look good.

If I recall the governor of PR refused to outlaw a truckers strike during the Maria recovery.

The pile of water is just astounding when you think about it. FEMA moved thousands of tons of bottled water to PR and handed it over to locals who ***FUCKING FORGOT ABOUT IT***

"Hey what's that giant pile of water doing there?"
"I dunno. Not my problem"

@King Canuck lol that would cost you about six dollars here. Good deal

Worse than Ray Nagin not using the school buses to evacuate people.

what the bracelet?

yeah, It's nice

Worth the two bucks

Is trump playing forth dimensional chess again?

no, he's too busy summoning hurricanes with his dark magic

the washington post said so, so it must be true

I think he expects the cleanup from Florence to go much more smoothly than Maria.

And the idea is to shove all the blame for Maria onto the PR government. Kinda pointless.

I’m we have better infrastructure sooooo

“Better”

I think he realizes that regardless of the competency of the PR government, he did not do enough to ensure that the aftermath was handled properly.

If there was not enough transportation or heavy machinery available, he could've sent in marines or national guard.

Expect overcompensation after Florence. Photo ops galore.

As a Puerto Rican

And a current Floridian

Who deals with hurricanes all the time

He’s right

And I get where he’s coming from

The democrats are right also in their own way

The thing is the dems are being disingenuous because all they care about doing is calling him wrong and a racist

When he says “a few dozen died because of the hurricane” he’s referring to direct death caused by the hurricane immediately

I see Elon Musk avatar

The dems never bother making this distinction

Reminds me

His compulsive nodding during that interview

Reminded me

The dems don’t care about having a real discussion they just want to smear shit all over the place

So it pisses me off when I hear the dems being disingenuous and using Puerto Rican deaths for political gain

As a Puerto Rican it pisses me off even more

Now when it comes to trump he said Puerto Rican’s are basically just Mexicans or some shit

So he can fuck himself too

Just not for this

What I would like to see is a proper investigation of what happened and the development of better plans for distribution of aid in the future. Identify local government resources, identify what local private resources can be appropriated, make plans for getting local volunteers to help, and make plans for filling any shortfall in local distribution infrastructure with national guard (or failing that, marines). Instead we're getting political shit-flinging.

What they need is to become independent and rid themselves of the shitty American import laws that force them to only have imports from American ships

This will lower shipping costs, food costs, allow them to compete at better prices for vacations, and more easily import necessities during disasters

Import laws were waived for the disaster

There was so much aid they turned away ships

the problme is that the infrastructure on the island is and always has been absolute shit

One COASTAL highway runs the length of the island

Most of it is impassable mountains and jungle

Puerto needs one of two things to solve its infrastructure crisis

1- A full airwing of helicopters (200 ish)

IIRC they're effectively running on the 1970s-80s still

2- A multi billion dollar infastructure program

and they don't have cuba's excuse of a total trade lockout with the states

They're completely broke though. Can't really even afford to rebuild.