sundance:
Puerto Rican born and raised, Colonel Michael A. Valle (”Torch”), Commander, 101st Air and Space Operations Group, and Director of the Joint Air Component Coordination Element, 1st Air Force, responsible for Hurricane Maria relief efforts, has the following comment:
…They have the generators, water, food, medicine, and fuel on the ground, yet the supplies are not moving across the island as quickly as they’re needed.
“It’s a lack of drivers for the transport trucks, the 18 wheelers. Supplies we have. Trucks we have. There are ships full of supplies, backed up in the ports, waiting to have a vehicle to unload into. However, only 20% of the truck drivers show up to work. These are private citizens in Puerto Rico, paid by companies that are contracted by the government”.. (link)
The ports are so full of relief supplies they can’t fit any more on the available space. CNBC ground report confirms Colonel Valle’s ground report. WATCH:
https://youtu.be/f4Z01o4tBlI
The reason for truck drivers not showing up? The Puerto Rican Teamsters Union, Frente Amplio, is refusing to move the product.
Did mayor of San Juan mention union workers at port are on STRIKE & demanding money first before distributing supplies off boat? #amjoy
— Kambree (@KamVTV) September 30, 2017
50% of Puerto Rico's native National Guard members didn't report for duty when called in. https://t.co/uylhuKps35
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) September 30, 2017
When the Left is in full control, the graft, corruption and lies become so second nature that they forget to effectively cover up their filth.
But, the media, here, mostly Left, too, tried their darndest to use these lies to make Trump look bad.
He is ending up smelling like a rose!
General Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Office of the General Secretary-Treasurer
25 Louisiana Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
(202) 624-6800
Let them know those mainland teamsters going to help are being called SCABS
Is the media giving this the proper thorough coverage? Let me guess…. NO.
Kinda quick to jump on that fake news train ain’t ya Curt?
You cut short the next paragraph . Let’s allow Col. Valle which you quoted from to finish:
@Ajay42302: Its all there in the link where will they get this food and water for their families? ON THE DOCKS, but they cant they are on strike, do you know what happens to SCABS? The drivers coming from the mainland dont have to worry about heir families at home.
Go after the Union Leader and jail him for attempted murder, babies need milk. Break the strike.
@Ajay42302: Hey, that reminds me…
What is your substantiation for calling Trump a racist?
Does Hillary dropping N-bombs make her a racist (and, by extension, all of her supporters)?
Is ANTIFA committing violence?
Shouldn’t the left be demanding Yale University change its name because Elihu Yale was a slave trader and the school was built with support from slave traders?
Tell us of how Trump “breached the Constitution”.
Why do liberals get to make vile, unsubstantiated accusations in media but conservatives get fired if they voice a non-liberal opinion?
How is questioning Obama’s demonstrably dubious birth records racist?
Are immigration laws expected to be enforced?
Who is justifying “mass murdering people not of their heritage”?
Who has ever asserted that “all Hispanic and Latinos are murders, rapist, and drug dealers”?
When did Trump ever grab anyone’s vagina and who was it?
What did Trump lie about?
Whose wages did Trump steal?
What is the nature of Trump’s “con”?
How did I indicate your answers would be meaningless?
What answer have you provided that has been ignored?
Trump’s response to the hurricane disaster in Puerto Rico has been praised by the majority of government leaders in that region, hence the media blackout on how bad things are there. This is a classic example of the contemptible absence of integrity that is the definition of leftist ideology. Truth is the enemy of the left. Only propaganda that can be used in a pathetically dishonest way to make the evil inherent in leftist philosophy look attractibe is ever reported.
There’s been no problem on the right delivering manure, apparently.
Fake news posts blame Puerto Rico’s truck drivers for refusing to ship relief supplies
@Greg: In the attempt to disprove the strike story, the “fact check” discredits the idiot San Juan mayor and supports the fact that ample support has been extended to Puerto Rico, but distribution is the problem.
Speaking of fake news, what did you think of this story?
Socialist liar Paul Krugman tweets about a cholera outbreak in Puerto Rico
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2017/10/02/fake-news-nyts-krugman-tweets-cholera-outbreak-puerto-rico-heckuva
What would be the positive purpose of spreading the false rumor of a cholera outbreak?
@Greg:
Most by CNN and MSNBC grasping at anything to make America look bad.
Geraldo wanted to open another Capones vault and find those dying PR that ended that interview pretty quickly.. I found this pretty interesting http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/daddy-yankee-lite…
This guy can get fuel delivered maybe he should run the island side relief efforts. This Pop star has more clout than the Madam Mayor.
@Deplorable Me, #9:
The story that unions are refusing to deliver supplies is complete, unadulterated right-wing BULLSHIT.
There’s a right-wing conspiracy that union truckers are refusing to deliver crucial supplies in Puerto Rico — here’s the truth
Did Puerto Rico’s Teamsters Union Go on Strike During Hurricane Maria Relief Efforts?
Then you’ve got Trump, bouncing off the gunnels from one side to the other like the loose cannon that he is.
White House walks back Trump’s Puerto Rico comments as Wall Street reels
Trump’s statement, broadcast on Sean Hannity yesterday evening, resulted in the market value of Puerto Rico’s general obligations bonds dropping from 56 cents on the dollar to 36 cents on the dollar overnight.
@SATjay42302: Note: you wrote on Sat so your correct name that day was SATjay, but I corrected it for you. So, it’s just a bunch of Dimocraps so let’s make up excuses for them. Does what you wrote sound reasonable. Well…..for a Dimocrap, maybe. For the World, hell no.
Try to keep your name straight.
@Greg: T
No, the Dimocraps have given them plenty of it.
@Greg:
that would be a Vast right-wing conspiracy, wouldn’t it?
@Greg:
“Trump’s statement”? Like any other liberal enclave, Puerto Rico has about ten times the debt it can ever repay AND its rickety infrastructure has been destroyed. How much do you think Puerto Rico’s commitment to repay its debt is REALLY worth?
OK, I accept the false story of a strike blocking delivery of supplies. Do YOU accept the falsehoods the San Juan mayor was spreading about Trump not supporting Puerto Rico with aid (after all, without the aid, there would be no issue of truck drivers, would there)? Do you accept that Krugman issued a blatant lie to incite panic? Do you accept that the left wing media has been spreading lies about Trump’s reactions to all the storms?
I am honest… can you be?
That’s a baldfaced lie. Does “sundance” not understand that people can post anything they want on Twitter, or is he or she really that effing stupid? Judging from the sheer volume of Kambree Kawahine Koa’s Twitter posts, she does nothing all day long but crank out and repost this sort of drivel.
@Greg: Will you be answering my questions?
I think the Mayor of San Juan made an entirely valid point, and has legitimate reason to be angry. The response to the island-wide catastrophe has been slow and not especially well organized. Blame has been repeatedly put on the victims, and a Category 4 hurricane has been treated as if it is something secondary to budget problems. Trump’s shallow, clueless comments and absurd performance throwing out rolls of paper toweling during his brief stopover on the island couldn’t have done much to put her mind at ease.
@Greg: So, it’s settled and out in the open. You believe any fake news lie that attacks Trump or conservatives while denouncing inaccurate stories that attacks the left as if that was the only falsehoods in play. That’s kind of dishonest, Greg. But, it explains why you are ALWAYS on the wrong side of every issue.
Carmen Yulin-Cruz is an opportunistic liberal liar. She knows that all she has to do is lie about the aid she is getting and liberals will adore her. If Obama were still President, she would be an ambassador somewhere by now. She is happy to see her people suffering because body count sells her product… lies. Like the liberal position on gun control, she is SALIVATING for more dead and dying so she can blame her own incompetence (she doesn’t even participate in FEMA meetings) on Trump… and people like YOU will gobble it up.
By all REAL accounts, the Trump administration has done an outstanding job in the face of three hurricanes. He contributed $1,000,000 of his own money to disaster relief. Obama could do that; he’s a millionaire and all he has to do is stand up behind a teleprompter and tell the audience, “You’re racists and I’m great” and they’ll pay him $300,000. Where are the millions from the Clinton Foundation? Hell, the interest on the donations they took for Haitian relief and never spent could cover that.
You’ve definitely confirmed the suspicions; you LIKE the lies. You traffic the lies. There are no lies you don’t like unless you find a conservative lie.
I was honest. You can’t be. I preserved my credibility, you lost yours. Now, you are but another liberal hack mouthing the words the lying liberal media tell you to parrot.
Pity.
You probably didn’t even know who she was until you read her name recently in some right-wing smear article—and whatever you read there would probably be the full extent of your current knowledge.
All that you really know is that she had the audacity to publicly criticize Donald Trump, regarding circumstances on the island and in her city that she knows all too well.
@Greg:
You mean before she stood in front of mountains of aid and supplies and said she was getting no help? Indeed, she was a nothing liberal mayor of a crumbling liberal city… not exactly unique. No doubt, she realizes this and needed something to boost her lib-cred. So, she lied about Trump.
All I know is that she lied. I don’t like liars. I also know that in no time at all, she will be back in the liberal backwater and unless she has to testify about some of her lies or thievery, she will be again unknown in a month. You see, liberal liars lying about Trump are a dime a dozen.
Audacity? Really? You think in the rarefied world of the liberal media, lying about Trump is audacious? Audacious is the Puerto Rican governor speaking the truth, that Trump is providing all the aid they need and is supporting Puerto Rico with as much aid as is possible. He doesn’t get any coverage, does he? He isn’t a liberal icon, is he? HE was audacious… he told the TRUTH.
Reports that truck drivers are on strike in Puerto Rico are false — Teamsters have asked mainland truckers to distribute supplies in the U.S. territory.
@Greg: Why are the truck drivers on the island not helping? Why do they need truckers that are not as familiar with routes and roadways? Are they able to redirect the donations from non American ships, those dont require 2 police escort.
How was the pop artist able to get fuel for the food pantry stuffed with donations?
The appearance is they wont help anyone but themselves.
Why didnt the people go to the pantry themselves?
@Deplorable Me:
I especially liked the scene of her standing before pallets of water talking about the food behind her rotting. Never seen rotted water in bottles. But doubt that she would know the difference. She’s clearly not the brightest bulb around.
@Greg:
So you’re now claiming you already knew her before the hurricane, that you are familiar with all libtard mayors. sure….. I’m know where some oceanfront prop in Nebraska is for sale.
What do people not understand about a collapsed infrastructure? Only 11.6 percent of cell phone towers on the island are functional; only 6.9 percent of the people have electricity; less than half of the island has access to drinking water; gasoline and diesel supplies are spotty; computer systems are down; credit and debit cards don’t work, so the island is suddenly on a cash economy, but many ATMs aren’t working.
Apparently drivers are supposed to abandon their families to such circumstances and somehow find their way to work locations miles away, when there’s no way to call first, or be contacted by their employers. If they do go in, they’ll be totally out of contact with home when they do so.
Twenty percent have managed to get to work, despite those issues. Then what happens? How do you find out what needs to go where? That’s all normally done by computer. How does it get done when you don’t even have phone or electrical service?
@Redteam, #26:
Yes, I did know who she is, because San Juan was formerly my home. I graduated from high school there. I enlisted there and returned there after my discharge. I still have friends there. I care about the place and I care about the people. Is there something odd about keeping up with the news from your former hometown?
Why do you so often have contempt for people and places you know nothing about?
@Greg:
If they dont go to work the supplies needed for rebuilding the island does not get distributed. Mainland drivers are to abandon their families without a way to contact them. An Island only 100 miles by 35 miles as described by Madam Mayor pretty much means they go home at night. They earn a paycheck to rebuild their families homes.
If your attitude is the same as theirs that island is screwed. You did not venture an answer as how the pop star got diesel to the food pantry, or why he had to distribute it. Is this a secret food pantry?
@Greg:
What do you not understand about someone taking a crisis situation, some of it of your own making, and blaming it on the President simply because you know other butt-hurt liberals will become giddy at your ignorance? We UNDERSTAND that Puerto Rico has been swamped. What good does using that as a platform to further the whiny, sore loser crybaby agenda?
How are the driver’s families going to get relief if no one delivers the aid? Or, are you suggesting that all these drivers have been liberalized to such an extent that they are just sheltering in place until an amorphous SOMEONE saves them?
I guess if the good mayor would participate in the FEMA coordination meetings instead of being a pouty liberal bitch, she could help in that regard.
What are we missing? Her hobbies? She has exposed herself as just another vindictive, sore loser liberal that will say ANYTHING, no matter how big a lie or who is harmed, to try and demean a President that is making every effort to render aid to the people of Puerto Rico. Henceforth, that is her persona and that is HER fault.
Alienating a particular category of United States citizens will have consequences. But never mind that. You can write off any consequences as the fault of “vindictive sore loser liberals.”
An Exodus From Puerto Rico Could Remake Florida Politics
@Greg:
Yeah, that’s what Hillary found out, isn’t it? Exactly how is observing that Carmen Yulin-Cruz is a damned liar alienating anyone, except for liberal liars? And we already have enough of those.
What exactly is it that Carmen Yulin-Cruz lied about?
Should we count up Donald Trump’s lies, and see how the numbers compare?
@Greg: Lets do Obama vs Trump instead.
The Madam Mayor said people were dying, could not tear herself away from the liberal cameras long enough to actually attend a Fema meeting. Complain about a process to better distribute the thousands of tons of aid, Please do it for me I might be late for a meal at the shelter Ive parked my ass at. She really is repugnant wearing the shirts, either a gift from CNN or had the time to get manufactured. Hey what about that Popstar greg libspain that one.
Our personelle are doing a pretty good job
http://status.pr/?lng=en
@kitt, #34:
What does Obama have to do with it? The Mayor said some critical things, so Trump tore into her on Twitter, but she wasn’t cowed by his attack. Instead, she fired back. Good for her.
Trump’s rosy characterization of how well relief efforts are going in Puerto Rico was both misleading and self-serving. The situation for much of the island remains quite grim. People, in fact, are dying, and the full extent of that is not yet known. Sorry if the Mayor of San Juan pricked this guy’s balloon, but what she said needed to be said, assuming we want to have a clearer understanding of the reality of what has happened. Some people, of course, don’t. They seem to think it’s all about scoring political points. They seem to think everything is about scoring political points. They aren’t without electricity, drinking water, food, shelter, and access to medical care.
Inland Puerto Rico still suffering weeks after Hurricane Maria
@Greg:
Why, I do believe you are serious. Do you think the question will find me unresponsive, running away like AJ… or you? She has lied about not getting the Puerto Rico needed from the Trump administration. She was lying, in fact, right in front of a mountain of aid. The only problem was that she was ignoring FEMA coordination conferences and didn’t know what to do. So, she just lied and blamed Trump.
She is, in fact, doing all she can to keep the aid from being distributed, no doubt so she can lie some more.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-01/puerto-rico-cop-says-mayor-san-juan-sabotaging-hurricane-aid-political-gain
By all means, let’s compare lies. What has Trump lied about?
It IS grim. However, it isn’t the fault of the aid effort. You leftists, including Cruz, simply cannot handle the fact that Trump is doing as well as the federal government can do in this disaster; a disaster made worse by the sorry state of a liberal government and collapsed infrastructure. At least we don’t see the Clinton vulture circling overhead to make a profit off the disaster, as they did in Haiti.
@Greg: No libspain on the Popstar that can access diesel in 2 hours for a stuffed food pantrys fridge.
Or why PR needed an ice rink and not electrical upgrades and repairs.
No emergency planning, no idea how to respond to a catastrophe except crocodile tears for cameras. She made our country sound bad, she sucks.
Again not the victims fault, its the victimizers. How fast does she expect the country to be rebuilt by off island help?
What is our obligation to them as they only pay in SS and Medicare taxes, we are suppose to feel horrible because things are not happening the way she wants them to?
Americans help Americans thats what we do, Americans dont like to see floppers crying it isnt enough fast enough. Electrical poles are being shipped to the island, the dam that was not maintained is being shored up by relief workers. Repairs and how they are prioritized the mayor had no time for that, sent someone from her admin to do her work for her. Wouldnt pick on her so much, but as soon as Trump left she was back on her pity pot again. MSM took it upon themselves to make her the face of PR.
You know and I knows she isnt, but the Governor wont play their “make America look like shit” games.
@Deplorable Me, #36:
She didn’t say that no supplies had arrived on the island. What you have is an attitude, not facts. Try again.
@kitt:
Funny, I guess they, like Al “I’ll just buy this $9 million mansion right in the path of the rising ocean” Gore, don’t wholeheartedly believe in the global warming doomsday. I guess they didn’t really expect another hurricane out there in the Caribbean, where hurricanes ALWAYS form. Otherwise, they would have prepared instead of building ice rinks.
@Greg: Explain what else, aside from aid, helicopters, 15,000 workers, power supplies and fuel she was needing? If she can’t bother to go to the FEMA coordination meetings, lying is all she CAN do.
That’s FACT. Blaming everything on Trump is “attitude”, and it is wearing mighty thin. Maybe Trump sent all the help to Russia. Better run off and check it out. Maybe get a couple of special prosecutors on the job.
You still haven’t directly quoted a single specific lie she told, have you? Maybe you’ll quote something Trump claims she said on one of his Twitter posts as an example. Did he have any specific example? Or was he just throwing one of his typical hissy fits because someone dared to criticize something he said—and a woman, yet.
President Trump’s list of false and misleading claims tops 1,000
@Greg: Defending her makes me think you love our countrys response was made to appear bad by her and the MSM looking for anything to make America look bad. Shes a flopper, no leadership abilities what so ever, if left to her skills the death toll wouldnt remain under 100 for a cat 5 storm, we would be hearing of canibalism.
@Greg:
No, nothing specific other than her generally blaming Trump for the fact that a few days after a hurricane blew over her shanty-town and washed away all the rotting infrastructure they have been ignoring they don’t have 100% restoration of services. However, specifically, when being interviewed by CNN’s Cooper, she said she had no aid but when she started bitching it all showed up. That was a lie; the aid had been coming in as soon as the weather allowed but HER people would not show up for distribution. She also lied about “people are dying”. When questioned about that by Rivera, she didn’t have an answers… just told him to look. Is that specific enough?
If she is so desperate to help the people of San Juan, why does she ignore the FEMA coordination meetings? Because she wants the desperation to continue as long as possible so she can stretch her 15 minutes of liberal fame. Her ENTIRE problem is that HER OWN PEOPLE will not contribute the effort. The United States government cannot transport enough personnel to Puerto Rico so that all the residents can sit at home and watch over their possessions.
Hers is the typical liberal response. When a disaster strikes, even though their own negligence has made the situation worse, if they don’t have all the problems resolved instantly and all the inconvenience resolved immediately, they start pointing fingers… at everyone else. Never themselves.
I wonder why the Washington comPost never compiled a list of Obama’s lies? They could have started with Obamacare; there’s a thousand lies right there. How about closing GITMO? I do believe it, to be closed on “day one” is still open. How about transparency? How about honesty? Did the WaPo report on all that? Did they make an Obama Lie list? No, because they are part of the propaganda apparatus. But, their long list of “lies” are pretty thin and reveals their whiny butt-hurt as well.
You never addressed Krugman’s lie about disease spreading in Puerto Rico because of Trump’s weak response. What possible positive purpose does such a lie serve? Oh… BE SPECIFIC.
Trump didn’t lie about Obama having him bugged, did he? He didn’t lie about improving the economy or creating jobs (something the WaPo simply said was just about to happen, anyway… though it never did for eight years). He didn’t lie about Obamacare being an absolute disaster. He didn’t lie about the foreign policy disaster he inherited.
You know, if you feel your weak, liberal argument defending this whiny, crybaby liberal that wants to exploit a tragedy for her own benefit is collapsing (it failed long ago) you should admit it or, at least, just fade away to your next false issue. Stooping to playing the gender card simply raises a white flag. You’re done, you surrender, you admit defeat… toss out the gender (or race) card.
I get it; you’re wrong and you know it. I know it. We all know it. No need to further embarrass yourself by trying to imply Trump would have reacted differently to baseless, politically motivated lies by a MALE. Perhaps you need some “specific” examples of where he has lit into males that lied?
@Deplorable Me: Its like gun control, give us control we will decide who deserves their rights. Its what the mayor wants give her the control over aid and recovery and she will decide who deserve$ it.
@kitt: Had Hillary won, they could have made a killing together. I have no doubt Bill and Hill would have, as they have every time in the past, gotten richer off of this tragedy. Cruz, for a political appointment and a few million in her pocket, would have gladly helped.
Meanwhile, as in Haiti (which she cynically cited) people are STILL suffering.
@Greg:28
Having lived there 50+ years ago means that you still know someone there. yeah, I still go back to my hometown and I still know a lot of people there. But it’s nice you’re on first name terms with the Mayor, though I doubt she was even born until 30 years or so after you left the Island. I’ve been there back when I was in the Navy, but I don’t remember meeting the mayor.
Do you know any Caucasian people there?
@Greg:
People are dying? that’s on the Dims shoulders there in Puerto Rico. Had they just elected a few competent people to have their infrastructure in good shape before the hurricane hit. And then, apparently they are sympathizing with the truck drivers to not deliver the goods. Watching Puerto Rico self destruct is a lesson in watching liberals govern. If we didn’t have some Conservatives in DC that cared, I guess the PR’s would just all sit down and die. They don’t seem to care, just hold out them tin cans for more relief. And the we have some like Greg that defends that kind of activities.
@Greg: I am surprised to hear that some patients in the hospitals are dying. Shocked, I tell you. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of sick people in a hospital dying, have you. Hospitals must be run by dimocrats and have dimocrat doctors, otherwise, surely no one in a hospital would be dying. Why I’ll bet some of them are actually dying from being sick, or something……….
No…. Wait…….it can’t be the Dims fault, they don’t get credit for anything……
@Redteam:
Like Ms. Cruz, all they care about is having someone to blame. Victimhood is stronger than their survival instinct.
Hard to differentiate between the effects of the hurricane and the effects of Obamacare.
@Redteam, #47:
How would you feel if someone you cared about died in the hospital because their oxygen tank ran empty? This has happened to some people already.
Things are very bad already, and could quickly get far worse:
Puerto Rico could become a public health catastrophe
What do you think happens when hospitals have no electrical power for a prolonged period, can’t keep blood supplies refrigerated, and run out of essential drugs? What happens when entire communities don’t even have the means to boil contaminated water? Maybe you should give that some thought.
Maybe Trump will fly down, observe how wonderful everything is going despite the fact that the island is in debt, and throw out a few rolls of paper towels. Alternately, they could figure out how to get diesel fuel to hospitals so they can run their emergency generators. Are 58 delivery points an impossible mission?
@Greg:
If it happened on a rickety island that had just had two hurricanes pass over, I would probably not be blaming the federal government. If it was in a hospital that the mayor of the city spent more time railing against a President she hated than doing her job, resulting in the available aid not being distributed, I would be goddamn pissed.
Liberals sit on their asses and point fingers. THAT’S what happens. Except in regions that have been properly governed, of course.