'Dammit, this is not a good news story'...Mayor of San Juan

[spanone]

San Juan mayor tears into Trump DHS chief: 'This is not a good news story

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz on Friday morning ripped into Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke for calling the government's Puerto Rico response a "good news story."

After hearing Duke's comments, Cruz told CNN it was "irresponsible" to spin the island's devastation so positively.

“Maybe from where she’s standing, it’s a good news story,” the mayor said. “When you’re drinking from a creek, it’s not a good news story. When you don’t have food for a baby, it’s not a good news story.”

Cruz said that as the devastation continues to worsen, people are scrambling to find food, especially in rural areas where supplies are not able to reach as easily.

http://thehill.com/latino/353049-san-juan-mayor-blasts-duke-this-is-not-a-good-news-story

[Achilleaze]

1. republican lies about PR are dangerous

just like their lies about climate change are dangerous for all Americans. Not to mention a VIOLATION of the Ten Commandments they claim to live by. Shameful. Sinful. Sucky sad.

[kentuck]

2. "It's an incredibly, wonderful story.."

"....and President Tweeter has persuaded the Governor of Puerto Rico to validate his wonderfulness."

[bdamomma]

3. Do you think it's happening

that some media outlets are reporting the truth of what is going on in Puerto Rico? And not kissing up to Trump and his "good news story".

[wiggs]

4. I think Trump's whole life has been less about achievement than marketing and deception. In the

world of business it's not uncommon but it's sociopathic and immoral.

In the worlds of government and world leadership it's dangerous, terrifying, and irresponsible. And for the GOP...it works.

[IronLionZion]

5. Well Trump claims the fake news liberal media is lying to make him look bad

and that everything is just peachy and not nearly as bad as the pictures we see every day

[gratuitous]

10. The commitment of Trump's enemies is amazing

Some of them are dying just to make President Trump look bad.

[pangaia]

13. Better be careful. Some people may miss the sarcasm... Seriously..

[niyad]

16. don't forget infecting themselves with cholera first.

[malaise]

6. Was so glad to see and hear her

Good news story - are these people mad? Don't answer.

[wiggs]

7. This is what happens when you combine the marketing world with the political world. Unfortunately,

the fields of marketing and advertising can be darkly effective, bordering on sociopathic. They are sciences whose effectiveness is based in psychology, brain chemistry, sociology, basic instincts, etc.. We are in a world where tens of millions of people buy unhealthy 'foods', bad beer, expensive shoes, tickets to bad movies, etc...why?

The average person has no innate defense against trained, talented sales and ad-men....even if they stick to the truth. Advertising works, right? And sometimes all it is is spreading the word about a valid idea or product. But add in a disregard for truth and you've WEAPONIZED an effective field of science for purposes of manipulation.

Combine state of the art, WEAPONIZED advertising techniques with a sociopath in position of government power and you have a real threat. An early warning came from Karl Rove and was largely ignored maybe because it was more subtle and stealthy:

"The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'."

DUrs have heard the above Suskind quote a hundred times...but it's worth posting over and over in hopes that a wider audience will eventually understand what Trump is trying to do to our perceptions of reality. Lie...move on...lie, move on again while everyone is talking about the last lie....lie, move on...lie move on.

[wiggs]

8. To be clear, I agree with Trump's co-author that he is insane, not smart in

a typical way. But he appears to have brilliantly adapted his school-yard bully skills to adult life. He knows what hurts people. He knows about fear and domination. He appears to know little else.

Idiot savant?

[HipChick]

9. WH is trying to reframe this

Been away from most news for last 2 days....but first I noticed

[calimary]

11. Hillary was urging the deployment of the USS Comfort - about a week ago.

Last edited Fri Sep 29, 2017, 12:10 PM - Edit history (1)

This morning we hear that the aforementioned hospital ship is "getting ready to leave for Puerto Rico." Today. They're "getting ready to leave." Isn't that special.

Infuriating is hearing reports - DAYS AGO - about how the military can parachute in some forgotten backroads empty nothing area and have it fully powered and equipped with electricity and internet and all kinds of supplies WITHIN A DAY. THIS would be a worthy effort by our military. I'd be overjoyed if my taxes were going toward that. War-making and destruction not so much. But THIS? It's worth EVERY DAMN DIME the IRS expects me to cough up every year.

As for covering the salaries of the likes of trump, Jodyanne Jerk-me-off and her "alternative facts," Michael Cohen and Stephen Miller and their schmucky little germs infesting OUR White House, Lying Sarah Liar Huckabee Liar Sanders Liar, Tom Livin'-the-High-Life-on-the-Taxpayers'-Dime Price, Steve Mnuchin and his greedy blonde arrogant money-grubbing designer-label fancy-ass trophy wife, Wilbur Bank-of-Cypress-Money-Laundry-Services Ross and the rest of the Gang from Hell, NOT SO MUCH.

[iluvtennis]

12. I'm loving me some Mayor Cruz - yay!

[Hekate]

14. KnR. You just can't make this stuff up

[NastyRiffraff]

15. How the hell does she see the videos of Puerto Rico

and the devastation there and call it a "good news story"? Did she see them? Does she call people without food or water and hospitals without power and patients at risk "good news"? Apparently she does, and she is evil.