Shouldn't the deaths in Puerto Rico be receiving way more coverage

[malaise]

Last edited Fri Jun 1, 2018, 07:56 AM - Edit history (1)

That's more dead people than 9/11; more dead people than Katrina - why isn't this receiving more coverage even from M$Greedia, Democratic Reps and the scumbags who run the Federal government and the fugging Legislative branch.

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/excess-deaths-and-toll-puerto-rico-hurricane-maria


Stole this from JHB's cartoon thread

[Solly Mack]

1. Yes

[Zoonart]

2. Absolutely!

Unfortunately, we are engaged in yet another scalp hunt.

[Guilded Lilly]

3. Yes. Everything should be getting more coverage than what is

Being covered now. As important as Tweet spew can be...

There is always so much excrement from this administration to pick up and put in dog poop bags that the media has to broaden it’s platform away from the reality show “show” and report on some other serious tragedies.

[dembotoz]

4. Gop types hate it in meetings when u use this to demonstrate their moral hypocrisy

Great fun.
They turn colors

[guillaumeb]

5. I think that we both know why.

There are worthy victims, and there are the others that are victims. Puerto Ricans are brown and Spanish speaking, just like the people that Trump calls animals.

[malaise]

6. Well Dems should be screaming about this from rooftops

I don't get the silence

[guillaumeb]

7. Possibly because like the media, many Democrats

feel compelled to respond to all of Trump's lies and diversions.

Puerto Rico is being treated like the subjugated colony that it is. It is useful as a resource, and for cheap labor, but not valued.

[malaise]

8. This is too sad

[guillaumeb]

12. Haiti is in the same position.

As are all of the Central American, South American, and Caribbean countries.

I well remember the US outrage when your one time PM Michael Manley dared to deal with Fidel Castro.

[malaise]

15. Tell me about it

He was almost killed

and the files are open on some of these countries and the assault on our democracies.

[guillaumeb]

21. The Monroe Doctrine applies north of the border as well.

There was a joke that I heard many years ago that is still applicable.

Q: What is the difference between the US and Canada and Mexico?

A: The US has good neighbors.

[malaise]

23. It applies

north, south, east and west apparently.

You know that the vast majority of the gangs that have ended up creating havoc in the US were welcomed originally since they were the right wing goons willing to overthrow home governments.

[guillaumeb]

24. That could make an interesting post.

[Va Lefty]

9. Agreed! This should be lead story!

[bronxiteforever]

10. Absolutely and the silence of the coverage

Is the silence of the grave. Our government abandoned American citizens in their time of need. And the President threw paper towels at them like they were there for his amusement.
Kick and recommend the op.

[onecaliberal]

11. Do you think any of the "fake news" is going to report on brown people dying.

[Anon-C]

13. This is what Trumpism is...ethno-nationalist disaster capitalism.

It's going to get worse, sadly.

[malaise]

18. But where are the adults in the room? n/t

[Anon-C]

27. Honestly, I think we're it. Nt

[GusBob]

14. We can't fuss about that!

Celebrities are using vulgar words! Much more horrific

/sarc/

[malaise]

16. Can you fugging believe this?

[Uncle Joe]

17. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread malaise

[panader0]

19. Somewhere, George Bush is relieved that he is no longer the worst hurricane responder.

[Lint Head]

20. Yes!!!!!

[babylonsister]

22. Yes, absolutely. Instead we get

Roseanne. Our priorities suck.

[BigmanPigman]

25. YES...many really important issues are being overlooked

by BS diversion. I am sickened!!!!!

[HopeAgain]

26. Uhhh, yes

At least there was outrage for the POC in New Orleans after Katrina. The Puerto Rican deaths barely get any notice.

[elleng]

28. HELL YES!

[beachbum bob]

29. its a statistical estimate...

Need empirical proof

[malaise]

48. Huh? n/t

[Snackshack]

30. Yes.

[Ohiogal]

31. Yes I thought the same thing.

[tclambert]

32. Yes, but how many of the victims were old rich white men?

Wait, doesn't Puerto Rico owe a lot of money to old rich white men? There are the victims Donald Trump might worry about--the creditors who might not get paid .

[MurrayDelph]

33. Why do you think there's so much hubbub

today about Samantha Bee, and the reemergence of the crap about Joy Reid?

[mountain grammy]

34. Yes, absolutely!

This was an exhaustive study, done on the ground talking to thousands of residents and gathering their stories. To ignore this is, well, inhuman. I hope we're all contacting our representatives and demanding answers and aid for Puerto Rico.

[Ferrets are Cool]

35. Absolutely!!

[DonCoquixote]

36. as someone with idepentistas in his family

I will say that the USA better be thankful Chavez is dead, he would be all into this..

[BobTheSubgenius]

37. Goes without saying.

It is nothing short of an outrage, and there should be (figurative) blood in the streets,

[G_j]

38. it's criminal

we have failed.

[gollygee]

39. Yes!!! nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

40. Yes of course. I wonder if Katrina would have

Gotten as much coverage as it did if a maniac like we have was in the WH. Bush was bad enough.

Got to concentrate on ending this attrocity we are living through ASAP

[mythology]

41. Yes it should. It's sad that it isn't.

But sadly I think that because it happened so many news cycles ago, people have forgotten it. Which is partially why we as a society don't really care about the slow recovery there either.

[Honeycombe8]

42. Yes. nt

[oasis]

43. Their Governor didn't raise enough stink about it. He was probably

afraid of pissing off the powers that be, which would result in a more negative Fed response. Guess what? It happened anyway.

[Heartstrings]

44. Yes! This!

[malaise]

49. Stunning

Thanks

[Demovictory9]

45. yes!

[denbot]

46. Umm.. dude, they tan effortlessly, plus speak English AND Spanish..

That offends the MAGA shit stains, and lord knows the networks abhor offending them Sad, but that’s where we find ourselves these days.

[malaise]

50. Dude?

Nah - female - but I get your point

[disillusioned73]

47. YES..