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Dan Rather
2 hrs ·
Excuse me, Mr. President but your tantrum tweet storm this morning attacking the mayor of San Juan, a fellow American citizen dealing with a real-time life and death struggle for hundreds of thousands of her constituents on an island of millions in crisis, is not only far below the dignity of the office you hold. It fails even the most basic test of humanity.
Did she have harsh words for your Administration's response to the aftermath of Hurricane Maria? Yes. It's called a reality check, and one that conforms to every firsthand account coming out of Puerto Rico no matter how much you try to deflect with your "Fake News" epithets. To take this personally is to put ego before country. And you also blame the Puerto Ricans themselves? That they want "everything done for them"? No. They just expect to be treated as any other American would.
I have seen more than my share of wretched desperation over the course of my career. I have reported from crisis zones where matters of life and death hang moment to moment in the balance between action and inaction, where communication is limited, and the sense of panic is building. I have seen the most steadfast of leaders feel the crushing weight of responsibility as they survey a landscape of almost incomprehensible need.
It does not take a saintly amount of compassion or empathy to feel for those who are struggling to stay alive, who are worried for the fate of family and friends, and who have seen so much that they have known and loved blown and washed away. You swore to "faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States" and that means a responsibility to look out for all Americans, even if they live on an island in the ocean, or look different or even speak a different language than what you think is America.
I worry that whoever has your ear has not adequately impressed upon you the gravity of this situation, or even the political price you are likely to pay (although that can be no where near the top concern at the moment). Or perhaps you have been told and haven't listened.
Regardless, what Puerto Rico needs now is not rhetoric but help, not a bumbling response, but the precision and competence we expect of our government. I do not believe "blame the victim" is what Americans expect of their president.
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dalton99a
(81,451 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)...the evolutionary ladder than this mis-directed cum-stain. How in dogs name this particular sperm outswam the others is a total mystery. And it begs the question of the existence of an all-seeing, all-knowing and benevolent supreme being.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)I highly recommend this novel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_a_Dog
spanone
(135,823 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)My response would be more along the lines of:
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? WERE YOU RAISED BY WOLVES?
Actually, you can't have been raised by wolves because they take care of each other; you were probably raised by psychopathic velociraptors. But regardless of whose repellent spawn you are, it's obvious that you are fucked up beyond repair, because anyone who had even the tiniest shred of human kindness in their soul would not have said what you said about the desperate people of a part of the United States, the country whose leader you purport to be, or about their mayor, whose only offense was to beg for help that doesn't seem to be coming. No actual human being behaves like that. You are an evil, nasty, bad person. You deserve only opprobrium and loathing. FUCK YOU.
Vinca
(50,261 posts)Rather is still showing "respect for the office," but we're about 200 tweets past that.
Phoenix61
(17,002 posts)A serial killer can fake being a human being better than Twitler.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)The International League of Psychopathic Velociraptors appreciates the comparison. After all Dolt is an honorary member.
Both of you were much too nice.
wryter2000
(46,037 posts)Maybe just the psychopathic kind?
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Our two keep the bears away from our bee hives. However, when they go bat shit, they can be quite the nuisance.
malaise
(268,930 posts)Rec
edbermac
(15,938 posts)mjvpi
(1,388 posts)3catwoman3
(23,973 posts)...an anchor.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)mgardener
(1,816 posts)Can turn on ANYONE. Can leave you or me to die, depending on how it will help him.
No one in the US is safe from Trump. Except Trump. And maybe his family.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)He ran his campaign on anti-immigration, anti-Latino rhetoric. Puerto Rico is filled with brown people who HAVE SPANISHY ACCENTS! To the Deplorables, they're not Americans no matter what the "Fake News" says; they're dirty Hispanics and Merka shouldn't waste money helping them, since everybody knows they're lazy and don't help themselves.
If that sounds extreme, just look at this morning's tweets, where he not only insulted the major of San Juan, but also the Puerto Rican people. His base loves that; anybody with an ounce of empathy thinks he's a monster.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Learning a language other than your first requires patience, a willingness to make mistakes, and concentration. Dump has none of those qualities.
So, I doubt it, although I don't know.
Different Drummer
(7,613 posts)Kleveland
(1,257 posts)And spoke the formerly noble words:
"faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States"
That he sincerely thought "execute" meant to actually kill the office of President of the United States as we know it.
Well folks.... here we are.
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)gademocrat7
(10,654 posts)Chump is an utter failure.
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)and thank you, Dan Rather.
(Mr. Mueller, please indict this lying, insane, criminal POS before he starts WW3)
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I have run out of words to describe how much I hate this man.
H2O Man
(73,536 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)trueblue2007
(17,205 posts)After Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Rico, he didn't even mention the disaster for a whole week.
He spent all last week whining about failure of HIS PARTY ( GOP ) to repeal ObamaCare, YAPPING on Twitter about athletes "taking a knee " & playing golf.
He said Carmen Cruz, the Mayor of Puerto Rico was "NASTY" and a rotten leader for requesting so much Federal help !!!
HE IS A MONSTER. #IMPEACHTRUMPNOW #impeachTrump
Pauldg47
(640 posts)ecstatic
(32,685 posts)read it to him? That could get a little awkward. Someone on CNN should read it to him.