What Really Happened with Aid to Puerto Rico
What Really Happened with Aid to Puerto Rico?
So here’s what’s really happening in Puerto Rico. The governor of Puerto Rico has adamantly denied that president Trump was stalling on delivering aid for the island. Quite the contrary, massive amounts of aid were made available, much of it even before the hurricane actually hit. It was the Mayor of a city outside of San Juan that said otherwise. Not surprisingly, the mainstream media hammered the one story, while ignoring the other.
The real problem appears to be that all that aid is sitting on docks, waiting to be transported to where it’s needed. The bulk of the drivers and trucks must come from Puerto Rico. Unfortunately, only about 20% of the available drivers and vehicles on the island have shown up to do the job. The U.S. can provide drivers thru the teamsters union, but shipping the necessary trucks is another matter, and absolutely none of it has anything to do with president Trump.
Initially, the media tried to say that president Trump refused to wave the Jones Act, thereby hampering the many hundreds of foreign ships headed to the island with aid. This too, was a lie, but it was a politically convenient lie, designed to hurt the president and create one more false narrative during a crisis.
Meanwhile, the president tweeted, attacking the Mayor of this Puerto Rican town, for playing politics. This was held aloft as absolute proof that president Trump hates Brown people, even though the mayor is clearly White. She is Puerto Rican, though, so that, apparently, is all that’s needed to trigger a racist like Trump and his supporters. This particular story arc, is not a racist assumption about either president Trump or his supporters. Or about White people in general. Because only White people can be racist.
As absurd as this may sound to some, it is widely believed and taught on elite college campuses, and among left-wing political groups. Not just here, either, but throughout much of the Western world. And, as if we needed even more evidence of the president’s virulent hatred of non-Whites, some modestly clever person tweeted out a picture of the mayor standing in flood waters, battling the tide, while Trump sat, scrooge-like in his mansion cackling maniacally about Puerto Rico’s suffering. But, again, this blatant, race-based lie isn't a form of racism.
Is there any wonder why race has become a major issue again in American life. The left attacks relentlessly every racist deed—whether real or imagined—as though all of America was Mississippi, circa 1945. In response to this race based propaganda, every barely hidden trace of real racism blooms like a rose, seeking justification for its existence and finding it thru the media.
Having written this, any evidence that attempts to exonerate President Trump, is viewed as racist, from racists, by racists, and anyone who says otherwise, is a racist. So, by all means, light the fire and watch America burn. It beats challenging one’s own beliefs. That’s for certain. Better it all burns than that.
Mark Magula
So here’s what’s really happening in Puerto Rico. The governor of Puerto Rico has adamantly denied that president Trump was stalling on delivering aid for the island. Quite the contrary, massive amounts of aid were made available, much of it even before the hurricane actually hit. It was the Mayor of a city outside of San Juan that said otherwise. Not surprisingly, the mainstream media hammered the one story, while ignoring the other.
The real problem appears to be that all that aid is sitting on docks, waiting to be transported to where it’s needed. The bulk of the drivers and trucks must come from Puerto Rico. Unfortunately, only about 20% of the available drivers and vehicles on the island have shown up to do the job. The U.S. can provide drivers thru the teamsters union, but shipping the necessary trucks is another matter, and absolutely none of it has anything to do with president Trump.
Initially, the media tried to say that president Trump refused to wave the Jones Act, thereby hampering the many hundreds of foreign ships headed to the island with aid. This too, was a lie, but it was a politically convenient lie, designed to hurt the president and create one more false narrative during a crisis.
Meanwhile, the president tweeted, attacking the Mayor of this Puerto Rican town, for playing politics. This was held aloft as absolute proof that president Trump hates Brown people, even though the mayor is clearly White. She is Puerto Rican, though, so that, apparently, is all that’s needed to trigger a racist like Trump and his supporters. This particular story arc, is not a racist assumption about either president Trump or his supporters. Or about White people in general. Because only White people can be racist.
As absurd as this may sound to some, it is widely believed and taught on elite college campuses, and among left-wing political groups. Not just here, either, but throughout much of the Western world. And, as if we needed even more evidence of the president’s virulent hatred of non-Whites, some modestly clever person tweeted out a picture of the mayor standing in flood waters, battling the tide, while Trump sat, scrooge-like in his mansion cackling maniacally about Puerto Rico’s suffering. But, again, this blatant, race-based lie isn't a form of racism.
Is there any wonder why race has become a major issue again in American life. The left attacks relentlessly every racist deed—whether real or imagined—as though all of America was Mississippi, circa 1945. In response to this race based propaganda, every barely hidden trace of real racism blooms like a rose, seeking justification for its existence and finding it thru the media.
Having written this, any evidence that attempts to exonerate President Trump, is viewed as racist, from racists, by racists, and anyone who says otherwise, is a racist. So, by all means, light the fire and watch America burn. It beats challenging one’s own beliefs. That’s for certain. Better it all burns than that.
Mark Magula