48 thoughts on “Priorities”

  1. Not going to happen under this administration, but what an excellent opportunity to rebuild green. Solar panels on the new roofs …

     

  3. Priorities. Yes, priorities.

    Three or four (more, actually) responses to what we see coming from DC in general, the WH more specifically and SF in particular are heard echoing through our house. A sampling are: What the fuck? Jesus F—-g Christ; Goddammit;  What a moron…

    you get the idea

  4. sjwny, solar panels, yes! absolutely the way to go! ship a load of those out along with the generators and fuel supply.  this is excellent time for the companies that produce solar powered products (like flashlights, radios, battery  rechargers, ovens, water purifiers, etc) to show off their stuff.  contribute ships full to Puerto Rico, film progress, make tv ads about it, get tax right offs for donating the products…  win win for all.

  5. “What has football to do with the russian coup d’état ?”

    xr, glad to see in print telling it like it is: russian coup d’état. hope the phrase becomes a meme.

    as for what does it have to do with football?  ever hear of trick plays like fumblerooskies?  the twit must have watched a few of fsu coach Bowden’s fake plays.  what we have here is a russkie-rooski.

  6. last night’s “Vietnam” episode included the tricky dicky play re screwing up the peace talks (aka colluding with foreign country aka treason) in order to beat Hubert Humphrey.  reminds me of what happened with the iran hostages allowing Reagan to beat jimmy carter and the recent debacle with twit and putin.  here’s the lbj tape…. a part of which was incorporated by ken burns in the film plus the one where Nixon lies to lbj about it. both lbj and hhh kept quiet due to the way the info was acquired.  this damaging info was part of why Nixon broke into democrat files at Watergate.

  7. he’ll feed them once Wall Street is paid off …

    Donald J. Trump

    @realDonaldTrump

    …It’s old electrical grid, which was in terrible shape, was devastated. Much of the Island was destroyed, with billions of dollars…. …owed to Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with. Food, water and medical are top priorities – and doing well.

    Could this be a factor in Trump’s mind: Puerto Ricans overwhelmingly vote Democrat. Those who’ve moved to Florida are tipping the balance away from Republicans in areas such as Orlando, where more than 300,000 now live. Expect many more on the way, Perhaps that prospect will incline Republicans to make the island habitable again.

  9. excerpt from wapo:

    Criticism of Trump has come from Democratic politicians, celebrities and others, focusing in part on the heavy attention he has put in recent days on his opposition to football players who kneel during the national anthem.
    [Trump administration facing pressure to speed up recovery efforts in Puerto Rico]
    “At the same time that he was doing all of that, we had American citizens in Puerto Rico who are in a desperate condition,” Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee Trump defeated last year, said in a radio interview on Monday. “He has not said one word about them, about other American citizens in the U.S. Virgin Islands. I’m not sure he knows that Puerto Ricans are American citizens.”

    Marc Anthony, the Latin pop singer, was more blunt, urging Trump on Twitter to “shut the [expletive] up about NFL.”

    “Do something about our people in need in #PuertoRico,” Anthony wrote. “We are American citizens too.”

    [….]

    And some Republicans chimed in as well.

    “There are millions of our fellow Americans on Puerto Rico facing great danger and suffering,” GOP strategist Steve Schmidt, a frequent Trump critic, said on Twitter on Monday. “Trump silence and inaction is appalling.”

    Trump’s lack of public attention to Puerto Rico has been striking in part because of the major focus he put on helping Texas and Florida recover from earlier hurricanes, a factor many analysts have cited in explaining Trump’s recent uptick in his job approval numbers.

  11. bw, you talking about the bannon that said this (as quoted by business insider):

    “If people take a knee, and the National Football League players want to take a knee, they should take a knee at night, every night and thank God in heaven Donald J. Trump is president of the United States,” Bannon said in a rare cable television interview with Sean Hannity, seeming to inaccurately link the kneeling demonstration as a protest against the president.

    “He has saved this country so much grief, he’s done such a tremendous job with virtually no help,” Bannon added.

     

    yep, the twit is still following bannon’s lead and playbook to the letter.

  12. Mother Nature finished-off what the humans did to Puerto Rico years ago.   trump will do nothing more than he has to for Puerto Rico and the exodus off of the island began in 2006 leaving an aging population without any economy.  Rich humans look to the islands for money laundering, building hotels, not saving humanity or providing basic services.

  14. As if he gives a shit.

    “The U.S. ramped up its response Monday to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, even as President Donald Trump brought up the island’s struggles before Hurricane Maria struck — including “billions of dollars” in debt to “Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with.”

    * * *

    “However, the Trump administration said Monday it would not waive federal restrictions on foreign ships’ transportation of cargo as it had following Harvey and Irma. The administration said it will continue to enforce the Jones Act, which requires that goods transported between U.S. ports be carried on U.S.-flagged ships.”

    Chicago Trib.

    Maybe Puerto Rico should take the SFB approach – declare bankruptcy and screw your creditors – in this case WallStreet and the banks.  Asswipe.

  15. patd, I caught Colbert’s monologue last night – best two lines IMHO was him saying he watched Ken Burns’s Vitenam War to cheer himself up after watching the news and Colin Kaepernick’s mom tweeting “Guess that makes me one proud bitch.”

    Isn’t it amazing that with all the BS SFB spews on Twitter, it takes one tweet of 7 words to make him look like the asswipe he is?

  16. I’ve enjoyed watching santorum squirm over his health care bill known as the gracas health care debacle…he has been one proud papa over the authorship of the bill.  He hasn’t been in office for 10 years and the gopness group let’s him author the bill because he whines over the cost of his silver plan for his large family.  It is the first time santorum has to pay for insurance since his feeding tube was yanked-out of the government.    And he has to pay for it, not let others carry his sick family.    (I avoided the frothy mix of health care, until now!)

    More waste by the gopness.

  17. Of course SFB doesn’t give a damn about Puerto Rico…  it’s full of brown Spanish speaking people.  I agree with BlondeW…  he’ll do the minimum for that island.  He’ll do the same for the US Virgin Islands too.

    Maybe Puerto Rico should take the SFB approach – declare bankruptcy and screw your creditors – in this case WallStreet and the banks.

    Pogo… I like the way you think…

  19. Santorum.  Quasi Christian wearing his Catholicism on his sleeve.  I hoped I had heard the last of his stupid shit when he retired from Congress.  Oh, well, if wishes were horses…

  22. the guardian; ‘Height of hypocrisy’: Clinton calls out Trump team over private email reports

    Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law among six administration figures who reportedly used private email accounts for White House business

    ….

    Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, admitted through his lawyer on Sunday that he had used private emails in the administration’s early days.

    According to a New York Times report on Monday Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump, aides Gary Cohn and Stephen Miller, and former staff members Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus also used private accounts for official business.

    None of those named are believed to have broken the law, which allows public officials to use private addresses where official emails are forwarded to government accounts to be archived for reasons of transparency.

    However, the reports have the potential to cause serious embarrassment to Donald Trump, whose election campaign was built in part on regular and heavy criticism of Clinton for her use of a private email server while secretary of state.

    Clinton was the subject of regular chants of “lock her up” at Trump rallies and beyond during the campaign. In her recently published book, What Happened, the former first lady and senator identified the investigation into her emails and former FBI director James Comey’s handling of it as a major reason for her defeat.

    Speaking to Sirius XM radio on Monday, Clinton hit out at “the hypocrisy of this administration, who knew there was no real scandal, who knew that there was no basis for all their hyperventilating.

    “We’re finding with the latest revelations – they didn’t mean any of it. It’s just the height of hypocrisy.

    “It is something that if they were sincere about I think you’d have Republican members of Congress calling for an investigation. I haven’t heard that yet.”

  23. pogo, who do you think the unnamed ones are? sure hope the ky school isn’t uk and the fl school isn’t fsu.

    usatoday  sports: FBI arrests four college basketball assistants on charges of fraud
    Four NCAA assistant basketball coaches were indicted in a fraud and corruption scheme  — which also included managers, financial advisers and representatives of a major international sportswear company — by federal authorities on Tuesday.
    According to the FBI complaints made public, the four coaches involved are Auburn assistant Chuck Person, Southern California assistant Tony Bland, Arizona assistant Emanuel Richardson and Oklahoma State assistant Lamont Evans.
    They were among 10 people facing federal charges in New York’s U.S. District Court. Further details will be discussed at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
    [….]

    The six others named on court documents included: James Gatto (director of global sports marketing at Adidas), Merl Code (recently left Nike for Adidas), Christian Dawkins (NBA agent who was recently fired from ASM Sports for charging approximately $42,000 in Uber charges on a player’s credit card), Jonathan Brad Augustine (president of The League Initiative and program director of the Adidas-sponsored 1 Family AAU program), Munish Sood (a financial adviser), and Rishan Michel (former NBA official who founded Thompson Bespoke Clothing line). 
    Adidas issued the following statement, in reference to Gatto: “Today, we became aware that federal investigators arrested an Adidas employee. We are learning more about the situation. We’re unaware of any misconduct and will fully cooperate with authorities to understand more.”
    Names of specific schools involved were not named, only being referred to as University 3  — with numerals. One of the schools was based in the state of Kentucky and one of the schools was in the state of Florida. 
    University 1 was identified as Auburn, where Person was employed as an associate head coach and where he had previously played college basketball.
    [….continues….]

  24. SF will visit Puerto Rico next eek to view hurricane damage.

    The deal maker! Always a day late and a dollar short.

    What a fucking disgrace! He has no priorities aside from his own ego. It will take this country a generation or more to recover from this travesty. The only thing lower that SF are his republican apologists and deplorable supporters.

    Pestilence is the only word that aptly describes them.

  26. here’s an old 2015 cnbc story Trump golf club in Puerto Rico files for bankruptcy

    The Trump International Golf Club Puerto Rico, which bears the name of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, court documents show.

    Owned by developer Empresas Diaz, the club uses the Trump name under a licensing agreement. Donald Trump does not own the club.

    “We merely licensed our name for a fee and have nothing to do with the ownership, development or entity,” Eric Trump, executive vice president of The Trump Organization and son of Donald Trump, said in a statement.

    The club has been in default on its obligations to Trump for months due to the company’s financial constraints and a difficult business climate in Puerto Rico, Eric Trump said.

    […continues…]

  28. and a may story of this year in Miami herald Did bankrupt Trump golf course in Puerto Rico leave taxpayers on hook?

    President Donald Trump accused Democrats of using Puerto Rico’s debt as a bargaining chip before the deadline to settle the federal budget.

    “The Democrats want to shut government if we don’t bail out Puerto Rico and give billions to their insurance companies for OCare failure. NO!” Trump tweeted April 27.

    Trump appeared to be referring to an effort by Democrats, including Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, to address a Medicaid shortfall in Puerto Rico, which became the largest municipal bankruptcy on May 3.

    The Florida Democratic Party fired back at Trump’s tweet in a press release, suggesting that Trump shares blame in the island’s economic downfall. A Trump golf resort, the party said, crashed in Puerto Rico and hurt taxpayers.

    “Trump conveniently left out the fact that his golf course on the island defaulted, like so many of his other failed business schemes. The failure left Puerto Rican taxpayers with a nearly $33 million bill, another example of Trump’s many scams that make him wealthier and con hardworking families,” the party wrote.

    Did Trump really leave the island stuck paying for a bungled investment?

    We found that the bankruptcy of the golf resort did leave taxpayers with a bill, and that Trump had pledged to turn things around.

    [….continues….]

  29. PG has always made money on various tax deals -abatements etc.  Only when he gets a handout does he make money.

    Anyone who still believes he can do anything is remarkably stupid

  30. so he’s going to Puerto Rico but guess what was uppermost in his mind this morning — started his day Twit Slamming NFL again:

    “ratings for NFL football are way down except before game starts when people tune in to see whether or not our country will be disrespected.” He also tweeted that booing at the Dallas game Monday night when the team dropped to its knees was the “loudest I have ever heard.”

  31. Ken Burns said he was sure the biggest critics would be from the war hawks.  I think the biggest fault will be found by people who did not get it wrong, who understood it at the time and didn’t need twenty thirty or fifty years to figure it out.  And by the way it was not LBJ’s fault.
    Vietnam was divided in 1954 with a promise of elections within two years. What happened to those elections. The US and other colonial nations did not want the elections because Ho Chi Min would have won. 30 years later Robert McNamera told Charlie Rose that he had been wrong about Ho Chi Min. He was more like Tito then a hard liner. Seriously Bob you fought this war because you believed in the red menace?
    probably a good time to haul out Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    ‘Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” The words belong to Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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  32. Ken Burns said he was sure the biggest critics would be from the war hawks.  I think the biggest fault will be found by people who did not get it wrong, who understood it at the time and didn’t need twenty thirty or fifty years to figure it out.  And by the way it was not LBJ’s fault.
    Vietnam was divided in 1954 with a promise of elections within two years. What happened to those elections. The US and other colonial nations did not want the elections because Ho Chi Min would have won. 30 years later Robert McNamera told Charlie Rose that he had been wrong about Ho Chi Min. He was more like Tito then a hard liner. Seriously Bob you fought this war because you believed in the red menace?
    probably a good time to haul out Daniel Patrick Moynihan
    ‘Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” The words belong to Daniel P

  33. patd, beats me.  Almost all the schools wear Nike.  should be interesting.

    Jace, how do you really feel?  🙂

  34. Poobah, I forget where I heard this, but it gets applied in therapy programs – don’t tell me what’s important to you.  Show me.  Apparently the NFL is what’s important to SFB.

  35. Years ago I read a great quote about the differences between Elizabeth I & Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth ruled with her head; Mary ruled with her heart. *Ding ding ding ding ding.*

    Which leads to today & #45. Forgive me for being crude but our President leads with his dick. This whole NFL thing made me think of the failed USFL. He wanted to be in the big league. The NFL had other ideas, plus he was a lousy owner. History.

    #45 has turned the Presidency into the world’s most powerful payback machine. Old hurts never heal. They just fester & ooze. Three million Americans on a devastated island are an afterthought to his getting back at a closed clique of billionaires because they embarrassed him.

    Hate to say this but I hope the North Koreans are the adults in any upcoming ‘situations.’ Wow. Relying on the North Koreans for reason & commonsense.

     

     

  36. I’m beginning to think there are not enough words available in the world to accurately detail everything that is lacking in trumplestiltskin. His supporters & cronies will go to hell with him when judgment day comes, but he will be in the darkest, hottest, most hideous part along with Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Caligula, all the mass murderers who have ever lived and a host of other worst of the worst. I almost can’t look at any news anymore because it just makes me sick and worried. I despair for the people of Puerto Rico who have lost so much and have to deal with a man who would rather have a twitter war with football players and others who are exercising their right to free speech and lawful protest than to provide solace and concrete assistance to those in need. I hope if and when he shows up in Puerto Rico next week that he gets the welcome he deserves! But, being the coward that he is I’m sure he will arrange for any negativity to be blocked well in advance of his arrival. The man makes me sick. Sorry for the rant but every day all my news feeds are so filled with the evil and harm that this tiny man does that I just have to scream. So this is me screaming! Here are two points of view from this weeks issues I ran across today. One is for screamers like me. The other is an example of beautiful protests done quietly and eloquently.

  37. Well, we just now finished the great bulk of our yard clean up post-Irma. Trying to be happy about it, but seeing the images from Puerto Rico what we had to do was light work. Wish I had taken the before photo of the above but suffice to say you could not even see the walkway or putting green. Think Toby might actually miss jumping over the limbs and debris, was fun sport to her.

  38. Mitch and company pulling the plug on the health care vote. Me thinks that there were more than three who were going to vote no.

    now it is on to tax reform. Ya right. Look for language in a tax reform bill that somehow effects Obamacare care drastically.

    If you liked the republican healthcare plan you’ll just love their tax reform plan.

  39. For the sake of the country, I hope republicans in the Senate don’t come to the conclusion that Mitch isn’t very good at what he does. They might decide to choose somebody better.

  44. I take no pleasure from the outcome in the Alabama senate race both candidates are ass hats. That said to see Mitch’s chosen one go down is sweet.

    As for aTrump endorsement, apparently it’s not worth a bucket of warm spit.

    So long Big Luther.

  45. Jace, as an Alabama native, I don’t know what the fuck to think tonight. I can’t believe that the idiots in my home state elected Roy Moore, but like you I do find a certain sweetness in the fact that Mitch McConnell and SFB’s chosen candidate lost.

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