So the Slobfather's supposed repairs in Puerto Rico after Maria

[malaise]

Last edited Mon Sep 19, 2022, 07:24 PM - Edit history (2)

are collapsing. The chickens are coming home to roost.
Everything he touches turns to shit.
1.4 million have no power and only 30% have running water. Bridges supposedly repaired after Maria have collapsed.
Remember now that this is a Cat1 hurricane but with 30 inches of rain.

[Afrocat]

1. My memory may be failing me

but I distinctly remember a no bid repair contract being given to some rinky dink firm out of Colorado with zero track record dealing with repairs of that magnitude.

[malaise]

2. Yep

Puerto Rico, New Orleans and overseas Sri Lanka are model examples of the Disaster Capitalism that Naomi Klein write about.


https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20180930/study-post-maria-contracts-go-mainland-not-puerto-rico

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[gratuitous]

3. Whaddya bet the media have total amnesia about this?

I had to go poking around a bit, but I did find one article that raised a journalist eyebrow back in October 2017

Small company awarded big Puerto Rico contract has ties to Trump administration

*Introductory snippage*

The government power company -- known as PREPA -- signed the contract with Whitefish Energy, a two-person, two-year-old company whose largest previous federal contract had been for $1.3 million to upgrade lines in Arizona.

The $300 million contract is the biggest yet for Puerto Rico's recovery effort -- and for Whitefish, which relies on subcontractors for their work.

* * *

And its ties to the administration are under scrutiny. Whitefish is backed by HBC Investments. That firm's founder and general partner Joe Colonnetta gave $33,000 to the campaign of then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is now Energy secretary. Colonnetta and his wife gave $28,200 to President Trump.

More at the link.

[malaise]

4. We had lots of discussions here back then

Lock them up

[ultralite001]

5. What about Elon Musk's urge to replace Puerto Rico's power grid after Hurricane Maria???

Guess he got bored and turned his attention elsewhere...


That is all...

[malaise]

8. Musk?

I’d never trust him- that is all😀

[llmart]

6. Don't they have enough paper towels though.

They can sop up the excess water with them. Hope they were Bounty.

[UTUSN]

7. He did *any* repairs?!

[malaise]

9. As the atrinidadians would say

Making as if😀😀😀

[Maru Kitteh]

10. And Ryan Fucking Zinke has adverts up all OVER Montana

And that dick with ears will probably win even if he does go to jail.