THE ERA OF TRUMP

[Speaker to Animals]

Good!

[Okeefenokee]

And as half of Puerto Ricans are still out of electricity, rescue workers (if you can call them that anymore) seize stockpile of badly needed parts from other part of the government.

day after becoming aware of a massive store of rebuilding materials being held by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the U.S. federal government — the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, along with their security detail — entered a Palo Seco warehouse owned by the public utility to claim and distribute the equipment, according to a spokesperson for the Corps.

Rumors of a tense standoff had been circulating on the island, but the encounter was confirmed to The Intercept in a statement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Asked if the federal officers were armed when they entered the warehouse, USACE spokesperson Luciano Vera said they were indeed accompanied by security detail and quickly began distributing the material after seizing it.

As PREPA hoards crucial resources that could help remedy the island’s dire situation, the Puerto Rican government is attempting to annihilate the power provider’s only regulator.

“Warehouse 5” — the one which USACE and FEMA entered Saturday — “falls under the control of the [PREPA] transmission division and has lacked transparency in inventory and accountability,” the email from Vera continued. Carlos Torres, appointed by Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló to oversee power restoration, was on site as well.

“Due to the size of the warehouse,” Vera said, accounting for everything contained therein is still underway days later. Among the materials recovered so far are “2,875 pieces of critical material to contractors” along with the sleeves of full-tension steel, a component of Puerto Rican electrical infrastructure required to erect new power lines

The governor is calling for DOJ probe on the issue.

Wonder what kind of racket was going on.

Probably what was being alleged months ago when this hoarding was exposed. Probably that.

FBI Looking Into Allegations That Puerto Rican Officials Are Withholding Necessary Aid
October 13, 2017

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Friday that they are reviewing allegations that local Puerto Rican officials are withholding much-needed hurricane relief as they squabble over who's in charge over whom.

The FBI says Puerto Rican residents also call frequently with complaints that local officials are doling out recovery supplies to friends and campaign contributors first, often leaving those in need with nothing.

“People call us and tell us some misappropriation of some goods and supplies by supposedly politicians, not necessarily mayors, but people that work for the mayors in certain towns,” FBI Special Agent Carlos Osorio told The Daily Caller.

"They’re supposedly withholding these goods and these supplies and instead of handing them out to people who really need them, they say they are assigning them to their buddies first — people that have voted for them or people that contributed to their campaigns or what not.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/22242/fb ... ly-zanotti#

The Daily Wire is an American conservative news and opinion website founded in 2015 by political commentator Ben Shapiro.

[Fife]

Good thing there's no ebul "price-gouging" being allowed, tho. Just imagine how horrible things would be if the state wasn't keeping everything on the up-and-up.

:goteam: :drunk:

[TheReal_ND]

Oh look a shithole island full of monkeys is hoarding all the gibsmedats. Nothing to see here.

[Okeefenokee]

[ssu]

Probably what was being alleged months ago when this hoarding was exposed. Probably that.

Thanks for the article, Okee.

Yep, and when it's just corruption and the ineptitude of the local government and not of the administration, these news tend not to be on the first page.

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[Fife]

Yep, and when it's just corruption and the ineptitude of the local government and not of the administration, these news tend not to be on the first page.

¡Viva la Administración!


:goteam: :drunk:

[clubgop]

Has it occurred to anyone yet that the issue isn’t about immigration policy, so much as having a drunk uncle in command?

Hack bitch say what? We talking about Hillary? Trump doesn't drink but that bitch does.

Has it occurred to anyone yet that we don't want to talk about immigration policy because we are OBB, so much as going for the personality/culture war?

FIFY. Yes we know.

[clubgop]

The prime takeaway from this collective tantrum is that, when the democrats finally do reduce the United States to a third world shithole, they won't even acknowledge what they did. If they can look at Haiti and El Salvador, and not admit those places are objectively shit holes, then imagine what America will look like if the democrats ever regain power again.. Seriously. Ponder that for about two seconds.

Far as I can tell this whole thing, other than the president's usual utter lack of class, is similar to who can use the N word. My wife's colleagues, an MD from Haiti and an MSW from El Salvador, said that only THEY can call their countries the shitholes that they are. This is all part of the identity politics you guys adore.

Yeah the same people that say "Anti Zionism isn't Antisemitism." now turn around and say calling countries that are shitholes actual shitholes is racist. Yes, that is some dumb identity politics that I would drown in a tub like yesterday.

[TheReal_ND]

Being counter semetic isn't anti-semetic. I'm sure Israel would be up in arms if our dual citizens (started for Israelis) went to Israel and told them to import shitholers.