Friday Open Thread | They continue to try and kill these American Citizens

I told you long ago, when Hurricane Maria happened that it was the intention of this Administration to kill these American citizens on the Island of Puerto Rico.

Here’s the latest:

Puerto Rico faces food-stamp crisis as Trump privately vents about federal aid to Hurricane Maria-battered island

By Jeff Stein and Josh Dawsey
March 25 at 2:10 PM

TOA BAJA, PUERTO RICO — At the Casa Ismael clinic for HIV-positive men with severe health complications, the staff used to immediately change patients’ diapers after they were soiled.
But last week, clinic administrator Myrna Izquierdo told the nurses that had to stop. To save money, the nonprofit clinic, which relies on its patients’ food-stamp money for funding, will ask patients to sit in diapers in which they have repeatedly urinated, sometimes for hours.
The Casa Ismael clinic is short on funds in part because of cuts in food stamps that hit about 1.3 million residents of Puerto Rico this month — a new crisis for an island still struggling from the effects of Hurricane Maria in September 2017.
“We just don’t have the money right now,” Izquierdo, 56, said in an interview in the clinic’s sparse first-floor office, where a chunk of ceiling tiles remains missing since the hurricane. Izquierdo pulled out a chart with each patient’s name, annotated with the cost of his adult diapers for the month. “It’s very hard. It is so unfair. That cut is going to kill us.”
The federal government provided additional food-stamp aid to Puerto Rico after the hurricane, but Congress missed the deadline for reauthorization in March as it focused on other issues before leaving for a week-long recess. Federal lawmakers have also been stalled by the Trump administration, which has derided the extra aid as unnecessary.
Now, about 43 percent of Puerto Rico’s residents are grappling with a sudden cut to a benefit they rely on for groceries and other essentials.
……………………………
After initially vowing to reject the food-stamp funding, President Trump has agreed to the emergency request to help Senate Republicans pass a broader disaster-relief package, which may be taken up for a vote this week.
But at an Oval Office meeting on Feb. 22, Trump asked top advisers for ways to limit federal support from going to Puerto Rico, believing it is taking money that should be going to the mainland, according to senior administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details of the president’s private remarks.
The meeting — an afternoon session focused on Department of Housing and Urban Development grants — ended abruptly, and Trump has continued to ask aides how much money the island will get. Then, Trump said he wanted the money only to fortify the electric grid there.
Trump has also privately signaled he will not approve any additional help for Puerto Rico beyond the food-stamp money, setting up a congressional showdown with Democrats who have pushed for more expansive help for the island.


This is DELIBERATE.
This is CRUEL.
This is WHO THEY ARE.
And, I hope folks wake up to this fact.
These are non-White citizens, and so, in this Administration’s eyes, they don’t count. What is happening to the citizens of Puerto Rico SHOULD NOT be happening in this country. Period.

Once again, I will repeat, there is no middle ground here. This is the cruelty that his part and parcel of this Administration. There’s nothing here, in this cruelty, where people can ‘ meet in the middle’. They want to kill American Citizens…We do not.

I ask those Puerto Ricans on the mainland—are you registered to vote? Do you see why your vote matters?

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112 Responses to Friday Open Thread | They continue to try and kill these American Citizens

  1. eliihass says:

    The ‘liberal’ msm, fam.. rah-rah-ing for and declaring the ‘exonoration’ of a Russian asset… one who once called McKay ‘handsome’..

    https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/1110955214444601344?s=20

    https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/1110974659321884673?s=20

  2. eliihass says:

    Beware fam..

    The ‘liberal’ mainstream media is right back at it ..all revved up for 2020 with their ‘new and I mproved’ white nationalist business model, and leading Americans by the nose and noose, straight into the GOP’s deadly embrace …solidifying their dangerous and illicit stranglehold on our politics and degraded democracy ..fiercely protecting, reaffirming, reframing, repackaging, normalizing, legitimizing white nationalism… white supremacy, white privilege, white entitlement at its most basest, racist, ignorant, dangerous, treasonous, best..

    The brazen reintroduction as ‘reasonable, informed, strategic, relevant, indispensable’ voices of ‘wisdom’, brazen racists, white nationalists and white supremacists like Steve Bannon (fresh off his “we want him as our Dictator rally” and beamed in from Europe where he’s been hard at work currying favor, auditioning for his ‘power’ gig back, and collaborating with all manner of Nazi types to promote white nationalism and wreaking havoc via Yellow vests in France, Brexit in the U.K etc.)..

    https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1111036224905437185?s=20

    Beware, the seemingly ‘open-minded’, gay, New Yorker, drunken with white privilege trust-fund babies like Anderson Cooper – he of effusive “Can we all agree that this is a good day for America. The ‘president’ is not a Russian asset. We should agree and be celebrating”… a talking intentionally and insidiously burrowed into the psyche of the American people …sold as Mueller ‘complete exoneration’ by all manner of media …including print media like the Washington Post, NYTimes etc. based entirely upon hired flunky Barr’s 4 page ‘summary’ in lieu of a still unseen 300+ page taxpayer funded report..

    Anderson Cooper, like Maggie Haberman etc., are the modern-day reincarnation of entitled beneficiaries and fierce protectors of white nationalism/supremacy as status quo …and in all of its most racist, wealth, relevance, power ideals and protectionism ..

    Never forget too that like access-Maggie, Anderson Cooper, was the trusted family friend brought into the gaudy faux-gold-plated tower with the fake Renoir to help recast image..

    Never forget …if you’ve ever wondered why a very white privileged billionaire trust-fund kid who will never ever want for money in a 1000 life-times, and with absolutely nothing to lose ..and who could easily take on and help topple the treasonous abomination …still ducks, slinkers and mealy-mouths, and has never really pushed back hard against the treasonous buffoon, kkklan and cohort..

    Anderson Cooper who frequently, boldly, snarkily and condescendingly expressed his disdain and often felt the need to ‘take on’ the historic president, (and felt the upstanding, double Ivy League educated historic black FLOTUS was somehow ‘beneath’ him, because black..) –

    If you’ve ever wondered … remember that Anderson (Vanderbilt) Cooper, of (‘fake news’) CNN, was who was entrusted with the exclusive sit-down softball at Mar-la-lago right after the Florida RNC debate …He’s who the treasonous buffoon (who’s still to this day, has never attacked Cooper) and vapid Birther moll trusted, and personally handpicked and invited into their ‘private’ NY space in 2016 – after the Access Hollywood tape release, to exclusively interview/handle with kid gloves (and cast as sympathetic, poor damsel – but yet, ‘tough’, “respectable”😂) the gold-digging Birther moll turned 3rd wife at the gauche ‘gold’-plated tower that all manner of ill-gotten, laundered and dubious Rubles built.. and against the backdrop of the fake/knockoff 2 Sisters Renoir painting they tried to pass off as the real thing (the one authentic and only original hangs at the Art Institute of Chicago) ..

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uXCouhcs9TY

    Sympathetically lobbing softballs without any follow-up questions or probing. He basically framed her as an unwitting victim alternately of the media and of the women accusers. He continues to this day to defend, run interference and provide cover for her and him, all while reverential in his profuse use of sacred honorifics to address them both..

    CNN boss, Jeff Zucker, treasonous buffoon New York pal cum ‘frenemy’, has been hard at work too staffing up CNN with all manner of right-wing nuts …including Beauregard’s former communication’s person as senior management and content folk, with CNN now skewing decidedly ‘right’ in its programming and host opinions..

  3. rikyrah says:

    👏👏👏

    AJ+ (@ajplus) Tweeted:
    Puerto Rican entertainer Rita Moreno is getting a Peabody career achievement award. That will make her only the 3rd person ever to win a “PEGOT” 🏆

    (PEGOT = Peabody + Emmy + Grammy + Oscar + Tony) https://t.co/ZzXGq9e5JV https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1111350871344832512?s=17

  4. Liza says:

    Nothing but a shit-for-brains schoolyard bully.
    https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1111575867115880448

    • vitaminlover says:

      She is a powerhouse and I hope she continues to grow. She is so smart and bright and intense.

      • Liza says:

        I just watched her on the Chris Hayes town hall. She is quite poised in front of an audience. Does not appear to be nervous and stays focused. Also tries to answer the question asked, doesn’t circumvent the issue. I’ve been very impressed with her.

  5. Liza says:

  6. Liza says:

    For some reason, this really aggravates me.
    https://twitter.com/mikefreemanNFL/status/1111413793777541120

  7. Ametia says:

    Subpoena this bitch

  8. Y’all know he’s not a real president so stop addressing him as such. He’s an IGNORANT THUG. But white people did this. They put this monster on America. I will NEVER get over what they have done.
    https://twitter.com/ColbyItkowitz/status/1111425704942395393

    • eliihass says:

      Exactly, SG..

      Drives me nuts this sudden profuse use of that honorific for a well-known conman and treasonous buffoon who has neither earned, deserved or embodied the title..

      Especially by folks who only knew how to use last name and Mister, just a few years ago..

  9. Liza says:

    Y’all need an escape from reality. I noticed that TCM is showing Steve Martin’s 1981 musical Pennies from Heaven on April 7. Pennies from Heaven is kind of a resurrected flop. Roger Ebert reviewed it in 1981 and he hated it, but a lot of folks have come to like it and most agree the musical numbers are really good. Here’s what Ebert said:

    ““Pennies from Heaven” is dazzling and disappointing in equal measure. It’s a musical with an idea, and ideas usually have been deadly to the musical, that most gloriously heedless of movie genres. The idea this time is that there was a great contrast between the grim reality of the Depression era, and the mindless song-and-dance of the era’s favorite escapist entertainment, the musical.”

    One of the highlights of the film is Christopher Walken’s tap dancing strip tease. (Yes, that is sweet, hunky Nick from The Deer Hunter). Elaine (Bernadette Peters) is pregnant, alone, and abandoned when she meets Tom (Walken) who is a pimp. Then they start dancing to Cole Porter’s “Let’s Misbehave”.

  10. Ametia says:

    Betsy DeVos Explains Benefits of Larger Class Sizes

    video-check out dude in background-SMH-& so is HE
    https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4788257/betsy-devos-explains-benefits-larger-class-sizes

  11. rikyrah says:

    Get the ENTIRE Phuck.Outta.Here.

    Barr now says that his 4-page letter last weekend wasn’t really a “summary” of Mueller’s report and he never intended to summarize 400 pages because that wouldn’t have been in the “public interest.” The technical legal term for this is “walking back your story.” https://t.co/4ZeUkWTnTB

    — Tim O’Brien (@TimOBrien) March 29, 2019

  12. rikyrah says:

    Odd twist in leadership at office overseeing Mueller-tied cases
    Rachel Maddow reviews some of Robert Mueller-related cases being transferred to the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., and notes an unexpected twist in a change in leadership at that office.
    March 28, 2019

  13. rikyrah says:

    Documents show Trump practice of misrepresenting his wealth
    David Fahrenthold, reporter for the Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about documents showing Donald Trump presenting a distorted picture of his financial holdings to make himself appear to have more wealth, and whether such lying comes with any legal liability for Trump.

  14. rikyrah says:

    Trump fabulism seen in overinflated claims of wealth
    Rachel Maddow reviews some of the lies Donald Trump told in documents that purported to show his net wealth, as uncovered in new reporting in the Washington Post.

  15. rikyrah says:

    Expectations grow for legal battle over Mueller report release
    Rep. Jim Himes talks with Rachel Maddow about Rep. Adam Schiff’s confrontation with House Intel Republicans, and the looming battle for Congress to get access to the full Mueller report.

  16. rikyrah says:

    Schiff shames grandstanding GOP with litany of Trump corruption
    Rachel Maddow shows how little of the Mueller report is actually in A.G. Barr’s memo to Congress, and shares video of Rep. Adam Schiff excoriating Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee for condoning Donald Trump’s conduct with regard to Russia after they tried to make a show of condemning him.

  17. My cousin died a few days ago. He drove to he and my nephew’s business, got out of his truck and fell to the ground dead. My nephew found him laying right outside of his truck.

    😭😭😭

  18. rikyrah says:

    Clap Clap Clap Clap

    skeptical brotha 🌈 (@skepticalbrotha) Tweeted:
    u may think it’s okay that Beto O’Rourke is friends w/ GOP Rep. Will Hurd.

    u may think it’s okay Beto didn’t endorse a Democrat 2 unseat Hurd & she lost by 800 votes.

    u may think it’s okay Hurd called 4 Schiff’s resignation today & is complicit w/ Russian collusion.

    i don’t.
    https://t.co/Hb5RlEX02Z
    https://twitter.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1111442786857816064?s=17

  19. rikyrah says:

    These evil azz muthaphuckas

    skeptical brotha 🌈 (@skepticalbrotha) Tweeted:
    DHS will ask for sweeping authority to deport unaccompanied children https://t.co/Qi7nb5yOYm via @nbcnews https://twitter.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1111418463489126405?s=17

  20. rikyrah says:

    Good!

    skeptical brotha 🌈 (@skepticalbrotha) Tweeted:
    House Dems expand voter suppression probe to Kansas and Texas https://t.co/fdrHr3msD6 https://twitter.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1111365390884573186?s=17

  21. rikyrah says:

    Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) Tweeted:
    Wow! The U.S. government is trying to force a Chinese company that owns the gay dating app ⁦@Grindr⁩ to relinquish control over concerns that China could use personal information to blackmail or influence American officials.

    https://t.co/knIigQ201Y https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1111361103165046785?s=17

  22. rikyrah says:

    Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) Tweeted:
    I say this to the President, and his defenders in Congress:

    You may think it’s okay how Trump and his associates interacted with Russians during the campaign.

    I don’t.

    I think it’s immoral. I think it’s unethical. I think it’s unpatriotic. And yes, I think it’s corrupt. https://t.co/nTdgRVfssQ https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1111289977143545856?s=17

  23. rikyrah says:

    Rob Reiner (@robreiner) Tweeted:
    When the ranking member of the House Intel Committee demands that Chairman Schiff resign, we know we’re in an out and out war for the soul of Democracy. The GOP cult will do anything to protect the Corrupt Autocrat. Don’t let down. Dig in. Long fight ahead. https://twitter.com/robreiner/status/1111266523824287745?s=17

  24. rikyrah says:

    Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons (@GuthrieGF) Tweeted:
    Church sign winning across the street from the U.S. Capitol. https://t.co/S2on4EjAlP https://twitter.com/GuthrieGF/status/1110908735306821638?s=17

  25. rikyrah says:

    Matt Viser (@mviser) Tweeted:
    Stacey Abrams adviser on talk of her being Joe Biden’s VP: “What makes it particularly exploitative is that Biden couldn’t be bothered to endorse Stacey in the gubernatorial primary. Now he wants her to save his ass. That’s some serious entitlement.” https://t.co/3g1DeOQXvL https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1111097348875304962?s=17

    • Liza says:

      But Trump blows 24/7.

    • majiir says:

      He never stops showing the world how stupid he is on every matter/subject. I could teach my dog to understand that solar and wind power are stored in batteries which provide energy when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. DJT is a dumb-@ss mthrfkr, and he’s very proud of it.

  26. rikyrah says:

    Madeline Peltz (@peltzmadeline) Tweeted:
    In 2018, Tucker Carlson defended alt-right activists on his show. https://t.co/UmQkztRGWc

    Today we learned one of them was connected to the Christchurch massacre.

    To call Carlson anything other than a white supremacist is journalistic malpractice. https://t.co/7ZEh9DK0Hs https://twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/1110964535731593217?s=17

    • Ametia says:

      LOL@ making good potato salad

      “Identity politics have never computed for me,” says Buttigieg

      Really?

      Pete Buttigieg makes the case for “democratic capitalism
      he rising Democratic candidate on everything from his vision for the economy, military interventionism, and the role of gender in the 2020 campaign.
      By Zack Beauchamp

      Zack Beauchamp
      I want to ask you about another controversial thing about your experience — one of the things that’s been swirling around your candidacy recently. I’ve seen some prominent feminist critics argue that you’ve had a bit of an easier time of it than a woman would.

      The comparison is explicitly drawn to Sen. Warren, who has a similar reputation for being smart and conversant with policy details. In their view, you’re getting a sort of unfair free pass and level of attention from the media based on your identity, specifically gender and racial identity. How do you feel about this?

      Pete Buttigieg
      Well, if somebody is pointing out that there are advantages — many of them unfair — that go along with being male in our society and in our politics, then I completely agree.

      If somebody is saying that I should not compete because I’m a man, I don’t know what to say to that. And if somebody is saying that I had it easy, I would invite them to join the military and enter Indiana politics in 2010 as a gay person. See how easy they find it.

      Zack Beauchamp
      Fair enough.

      https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/28/18283925/pete-buttigieg-mayor-pete-interview-capitalism

  27. Ametia says:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSw6ZkMcJ2M

    Apparently, Adam Schiff does NOT think it’s OK, EH?

  28. rikyrah says:

    Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) Tweeted:
    Source says RNC and America First are prepared to attack reporters. “Any reporter who tries [to attack Trump] will be hit with 30-second spots of all their ridiculous claims about collusion. Their tweets have all been screencapped. It’s all ready to go.” https://t.co/qbSijmXztA https://twitter.com/elainaplott/status/1111351703805276162?s=17

  29. rikyrah says:

    Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) Tweeted:
    Source says RNC and America First are prepared to attack reporters. “Any reporter who tries [to attack Trump] will be hit with 30-second spots of all their ridiculous claims about collusion. Their tweets have all been screencapped. It’s all ready to go.” https://t.co/qbSijmXztA https://twitter.com/elainaplott/status/1111351703805276162?s=17

  30. Ametia says:

    But Jussie Smollett, THO!

  31. rikyrah says:

    Taxpayer money 😠😠😠

    Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) Tweeted:
    SEEMA VERMA – who’s pushed Medicaid work rules and other controversial policies – has spent millions of taxpayer dollars on GOP communications consultants to help with her PR and image. https://t.co/XDu21Br7VZ Exclusive with @adamcancryn https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1111578215661924353?s=17

    • Ametia says:

      Evil! but know that this sort of evil has been with us all along. It’s just now, cameras & audio are everywhere today.

      Big brothers & sisters really is watching us.

      fair & equal Justice still stinks to high heaven

      Rich keep getting richer

      Poor keep getting poorer

      Racism still runs rampant-

      White supremacist sits in the highest office in the land.

      WASH, RINSE, REPEAT.

      So much REGRESSION.

    • Ametia says:

      Listen to White grievances? NO THANK YOU!

      They’ve made their choice in 45. LIVE WITH IT, MOFOS.

      HAVE A SEAT PETE.

      • majiir says:

        I’ve said it before, and I’m saying it again: The one thing a majority of Black Americans aren’t afflicted with is Stockholm Syndrome. We know evil, racism, and discrimination when we see it, so when some claim there is no evidence of these, we already know better, and we know why they’re trying to dismiss our concerns. I don’t associate with those who seek to demean, disparage, and dehumanize me to serve their own purposes and to advance their own interests above my own. I will never seek the approval of any human to validate my worth.

  32. rikyrah says:

    skeptical brotha 🌈 (@skepticalbrotha) Tweeted:
    A recipe for a democratic death spiral.
    https://t.co/i2YbeaYagQ via @slate
    https://twitter.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1111043768059334657?s=17

  33. rikyrah says:

    ‘She can’t row or anything like that’: Kimora Lee Simmons shades Lori Loughlin as she celebrates her daughter Aoki getting into Harvard at the age of 16 on merit

    Kimora Lee Simmons threw shade at actress Lori Loughlin as she celebrated her daughter Aoki’s acceptance into Harvard University on Thursday night
    ‘She really did it on her own merit and we’re really so proud because Aoki can’t row or anything like that,’ Simmons said as she gushed on Instagram
    Loughlin and her husband are accused of paying a $500,000 bribe to get their daughters into USC while posing as crew recruits
    Simmons showed her daughter crying at the computer as she read her Harvard acceptance e-mail, welcoming her to the Class of 2023
    The fashion designer pointed out to her fans that Aoki is just 16

    By MARLENE LENTHANG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

    PUBLISHED: 01:48 EDT, 29 March 2019 | UPDATED: 09:07 EDT, 29 March 2019

    • Ametia says:

      Yep, Pete says, listen to those WHITE 45 deplorables, and grouchy, grandpa, grifting Sanders, says, no Reparations for thee, BLACKIE!

    • majiir says:

      I’m sick and tired of these mthrfkrs placing more burdens on struggling Americans just because they can. Research exists that shows much of what they think about the poor isn’t true, but do they look at it? No. They rely on their ”gut feelings.” Their guts tell them if one is poor, one automatically abuses drugs, and if one is poor, one doesn’t work. Neither of these is true.

  34. rikyrah says:

    Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄

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