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YessirAtsaFact

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6. Regardless of the label, Puerto Rico was not provided enough help quickly enough

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Thu May 31, 2018, 02:00 PM

May 2018

And it was racially motivated. It was because they aren’t Anglos.

If they were English speaking with Northern European heritage, they would have been provided the same level of assistance as Houston and Florida.

As it was, OrangeTurd threw some paper towels, provided graft money to some favored companies and turned his back on PR.

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