This situation is disgraceful. Where is Congress?

Half of them are probably wondering what and where "Portericko" is.

Congressmen and women from "libbrul" states not only tend to know where it is, but can spell it correctly as well.

.. and give the rich a fucking tax break.

America really die for this person or was it never really there, just a facade for him/her also? I suspect the latter since this person does not know what the Democrats stand for and trashes us right along with the Trumpsters. All the same? Really?

Perhaps this just is not the time for this person to self blame? Or perhaps there'll never be a better time than now.

Because I strongly doubt that this person who does not self identify, differentiate, or passionately wish that Obama was still in office got his or her ass to the polls to vote Democrat in 2016.

It might be nice if everyone who did not vote Democrat had to be in Puerto Rico right now, but who'd explain the lesson that should be burning into their brains to them?

swayed from one viewpoint to an extremely different one.

Thinking about it, though, Democrats know there are huge, incredibly huge differences between us and trumpsters and between Obama's Democratic and the current Republican administrations. Does anyone doubt that if Obama were in office all pertinent instruments of government would be turned to rescuing these Americans? That if he went anywhere it'd be to PR and the USVI, not a rally in Alabama?

But this person pretends we're no different, as conservatives tend to do when trying to cover their actions or lack of them, certainly doing whatever is required to believe liberal governance is no better than conservative. So perhaps not a weak spirit but merely a leaning conservative one in whom adversity is having its usual conservatizing effect.

being written by a stressed person who was trying to get a point across about the current administration.

Had more thought been put into his writing, it probably would have been worded differently.

I can't make the leap that he was talking about the Democratic Party. Perhaps he was, I cannot get into his mind.

And WE never mistake ourselves for Republicans. That's for those who are not Democrats. The stress is real, of course, and anger is understandable.

Misdirected anger is dangerous and usually results in at best contemptible actions, though. It is what elected Rump and empowered the ultraright, and it's not hard at all to recognize it in this post.

when you are living through a disaster, you are lucky if you can remember how to tie your shoes after a few days of no sleep and getting disoriented because your town looks like a landscape on mars. So I will forgive something that may be ambiguous. My point in posting the OP was to hear first hand about the conditions from someone who is there.

I was objecting to your posting this for us to read. Or even to the poster's anger at not enough response so far. Fear does that, and fear is obviously fully justified.

and thanks to our weak-ass media presence, i can totally understand why. getting down on someone because someone who lives in an island territory doesn't know the positions and nuances of modern Democratic policy since FDR? really?

to the extent non-Democrats (and even some who register as Democrats) know, seems to me like many have their views defined by GOP agitprop. Democrats are for "big government and high taxes" and that's about as deep as it goes. it's a goddam miracle we win ANY elections anywhere.

if the Democrats don't step it up with getting our message out, the Republicans won't even have to steal election wins anymore. this whole country could turn into Idaho and we'll have no one but ourselves and lackluster media presence to blame.

I cannot see this happening under the Obama Administration.

They sure could use help from Cuba

He sees a foreign group of people, lots of debt, no return on investment. I suspect maybe his tepid response to PR is his way of ridding the US of something he doesn't like.

Not being snarky; it's just that I have a friend with relatives there who is completely unable to communicate with them.

by using a usb or 12 volt adapter in his car. Very common.

This is why I love DU.

it is the kind that plugs into a cigarette lighter type of connection (12 volt). Have not really had to use it yet though.

But it probably wouldn't have occurred to me. I would have just assumed the internet was down because of no electricity lol.

But I'm not super computer savvy, as you can tell.

sporadically available there.

Who is POTUS, their power grid
is going to take a long time to repair.

I've seen pics of power lines that are going
to take heavy duty lift choppers to replace.

It isn't going to back to normal for a long
time.

On the long term bright side, they should be
able to do the repairs so this doesn't happen
again.

on military equipment. choppers included.

Obama would have deployed them as soon as it was safe to do so.

Every minute wasted is a life lost.

Assets are being conserved for war.

Time and a lot of material are needed
and things are not going to happen
by magic no matter who is President.

1) Time. The clock started over 2 weeks ago. That's 2 weeks lost already. Obama would not have let this happen.

2) Time and material. We have it. Why isn't it there already? Why wasn't it there last week?