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You are here: Home / Politics / An Unexamined Scandal / Late Night Puerto Rico Open Thread: Lest We Forget

Late Night Puerto Rico Open Thread: Lest We Forget

by Anne Laurie|  September 21, 20181:31 am| 24 Comments

This post is in: An Unexamined Scandal, C.R.E.A.M., Open Threads, All Too Normal, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue

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The problem with being Dinesh D'Souza is that people become habituated to Dinesh D'Souza, so that you have to be more and more extremely Dinesh D'Souza for people to notice you as Dinesh D'Souza.https://t.co/9tTWVjOTr8

— SupersedingHat (@Popehat) September 20, 2018


 
Under normal circumstances, I’d be posting this tomorrow when more readers would see it… but Murphy only knows what skeletons will fall out of various Repub closets for this week’s Friday News Dump…

A year ago today, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico. It would be the worst storm to hit the island in 90 years.

"Blackout in Puerto Rico" examined why the storm left the island in the dark and struggling to survive. https://t.co/kcse4zMppc pic.twitter.com/Ffzt5dq0AP

— FRONTLINE (@frontlinepbs) September 20, 2018

Let’s be clear: Maria was a tragedy. And the ensuing response—or lack thereof—was a travesty. 365 days later, our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico are STILL suffering on parts of the island. They need our full support. https://t.co/aFm8RtQ8CE

— Tom Udall (@SenatorTomUdall) September 20, 2018

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24Comments

  1. 1.

    Quaker in a Basement

    September 21, 2018 at 1:39 am

    So now Puerto Rico is a colony? And they owe us tribute?

    Is Dinesh a time traveller from the 18th century?

  2. 2.

    Major Major Major Major

    September 21, 2018 at 1:45 am

    @Quaker in a Basement: I think maybe we should… ignore that guy.

    To paraphrase a tweet that’s stuck with me, the internet works better when you share the things you want other people to see…

    ETA not intended as a criticism of this post!

  3. 3.

    westyny

    September 21, 2018 at 1:45 am

    @Quaker in a Basement: Idiot time traveller, to cite Ruben Bolling.

  4. 4.

    TriassicSands

    September 21, 2018 at 1:46 am

    Dinesh D’Souza is like Donald Trump — there is absolutely no bottom to the pit of awfulness in which he thrives. No matter how bad DD’S is today, he will find a way to be worse tomorrow. That’s because his audience is Republicans and they are never satisfied with yesterday’s abominations.

  5. 5.

    patrick II

    September 21, 2018 at 2:08 am

    Trump and the big money men on Wall Street want Puerto Rico to be a disaster — if a hidden one. Puerto Rico had debt problems before Maria, and their power company was a cause of much of it. After the hurricane, in addition to giving P.R. little debt relief the Trump and the Republicans imposed a tariff on imports from P.R., stifling what little industry they had — much of it the manufacture of medicine. They have made sure Puerto Rico received little debt relief putting them in the position of borrowing even more money to rebuild.
    With fewer jobs and less money, there will be bankruptcies which the banks will take advantage of, and there has already been a bill proposed to privatize the power company (unsaid, but after forcing it into bankruptcy). The Republicans and their money men see a wounded animal and they are going to kill it and eat it.
    For those of you who have not read “Shock Doctrine” — you should but only if you want to become as cynical as me.

  6. 6.

    Duane

    September 21, 2018 at 2:14 am

    @TriassicSands: D’ Louza just got to tne colony thing first. Plenty of wingnuts wish they had thought of it. The search for peak wingnut never ends.

  7. 7.

    Ruckus

    September 21, 2018 at 2:20 am

    I had this whole stick about dds being an asshole and really it wasn’t worth the pixels it cost to type it. 5 words is all it really takes.
    He’s just a fucking asshole.

  8. 8.

    jl

    September 21, 2018 at 2:28 am

    That is yet another unimaginably stupid and vile thing I’ve seen today. But so butt ignorant I couldn’t help but laugh.
    D’Souza obviously has no idea what Puerto Rico is, or what the many businesses very important for the US economy (of which PR is part) do there.
    We need to add Alexander Hamilton’s phrase.”A spectacle both hilarious and disgusting’ to the rotating heads.

    I always like to find a silver lining, and will think of a superlative to congratulate D’Souza onhis moronic tweet. And, only think I can think of is that it tops the BS Trump has emitted recently. And that is an accomplishment. He should get an award of some kind.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    September 21, 2018 at 2:42 am

    Glad all over (once more) that my computer set-up doesn’t display anything embedded within tweets.

  10. 10.

    smike

    September 21, 2018 at 2:54 am

    @jl:
    Some kind of award like a pardon, maybe?

  11. 11.

    montanareddog

    September 21, 2018 at 2:58 am

    Dinesh D’Souza probably thinks that the Puerto Ricans cannot be American because they are brown, with loose sexual morality and funny-sounding foreign names. Oh, wait!

  12. 12.

    montanareddog

    September 21, 2018 at 3:00 am

    @montanareddog: And they have criminal tendencies, too!

  13. 13.

    Jay

    September 21, 2018 at 3:27 am

    It’s supposed to be Convicted Felon D’nesh,

    It’s always supposed to be Convicted Felon D’nesh,

    That’s his nym, forever.

  14. 14.

    Chetan Murthy

    September 21, 2018 at 3:29 am

    @Jay: Surely D’Felon D’vorce D’spousa, no?

  15. 15.

    smike

    September 21, 2018 at 3:30 am

    @montanareddog:
    It only makes sense that dotus would pardon a criminal immigrant instead of sickin’ ol’ Beauregard on him.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    September 21, 2018 at 3:31 am

    @Chetan Murthy

    D’plorable.

    ;)

  17. 17.

    sm*t cl*de

    September 21, 2018 at 4:23 am

    So his point is that Puerto Rico is not sufficiently exploited to qualify as a colony, and is the net recipient of US largesse? One more argument for granting it the status of a State, albeit a Southern one?

  18. 18.

    Aleta

    September 21, 2018 at 4:47 am

    How Puerto Rico Became the Newest Tax Haven for the Super Rich

  19. 19.

    Amir Khalid

    September 21, 2018 at 4:51 am

    “Obscene” is not too strong a word for Dinesh D’souza’s characterisation of Puerto Rico as a colony — especially since he uses it to justify the Trump administration’s cruel abandonment of Americans there and its indifference to their suffering. Someone hould ask D’souza if he believes that Haiti, one of the poorest countries on Earth, should be paying the billions that France, one of the richest, is still demanding for the value of French-owned slaves lost when Haiti gained independence two centuries ago.

  20. 20.

    SFAW

    September 21, 2018 at 7:23 am

    Hey, D’Felon, Pooooo-AIRRR-to Reee-co (as your fucking moron “leader” pronounced it last year, thinking he was being cool/funny) apparently provides yet another set of persons that you racist, fascist motherfuckers can lie about.

    Take your fucking Backpfeifengesicht the fuck out of America, fuckwad.

  21. 21.

    Evil Paul

    September 21, 2018 at 9:05 am

    Well, if we’re going 18th century here, allow me to dust off this little gem:
    “No taxation without Representation!”

    Statehood for Puerto Rico!

  22. 22.

    Tokyokie

    September 21, 2018 at 9:26 am

    @NotMax: @NotMax: Are you referring to the Cole Porter tune with the refrain, “It’s D-gusting, it’s D-mented, It’s D’souza.”

  23. 23.

    J R in WV

    September 21, 2018 at 9:47 am

    What a surprise, Dinesh D’Souza is a colonial imperialist pig who believes we should be stealing improverished third-world nations blind, like the British Raj did his home nation of India. I’ve visited poor territories like the Virgin Islands, and saw people living on beautiful beaches under broken boats turned upside down. Scratching for a living, anything to earn a crust.

    No thanks, Dinesh, that’s not how a moral nation makes a living.

    Morally, we need to pour resources into those poor island nations to save them from the calamity of tropical storms. Perhaps you don’t believe in helping others, but just because you have no morality, no sense of proper ethics, don’t believe in what is taught in the Bible by Christ, doesn’t mean we all have to be greedy selfish pigs like you.

    You set such a fine example of greedy pig.

  24. 24.

    Johnny Gentle (famous crooner)

    September 21, 2018 at 12:47 pm

    Rick Scott is flying the Capitol’s flags at half-mast because, like, he totally cares about Puerto Ricans and isn’t blatantly pandering for their vote. A flag at half-mast a year later is perhaps even worse than “thoughts and prayers” at the time of the incident.

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