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struggle4progress

(118,350 posts) Mon Oct 2, 2017, 01:39 PM Oct 2017

Puerto Rico Feud May Damage GOP

By Christopher Condon and Margaret Talev
October 2, 2017, 4:00 AM EDT

... Trump suggested islanders struggling without basic services were lazy, and that the mayor of its largest city was a poor leader and a politically-motivated "ingrate."

... the president may have done lasting damage .. to the Republican brand among Latino voters ...

“People have been told to register via internet for FEMA relief, when we don’t have any internet or very little internet even in the San Juan metropolitan area,” San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.

Trump’s official schedule showed an hour of briefings about Puerto Rico on Saturday and none on Sunday ...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-02/trump-s-puerto-rico-spat-risks-lasting-damage-to-gop-standing

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Puerto Rico Feud May Damage GOP (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2017 OP

I am beginning to believe they are made of teflon. Nothing seems to damage them. redstatebluegirl Oct 2017 #1

They are in full possession MontanaMama Oct 2017 #2

It's beyond incredible! How this Bozo manages to avoid even getting held to account COLGATE4 Oct 2017 #5

A so called Prez who golfs & is ready to loot us calling anyone lazy ... Madam45for2923 Oct 2017 #3

he only cares about the foxnews audience, and that's impervious to all his fails. unblock Oct 2017 #4

"... the 'presidunce' may have done lasting damage 3catwoman3 Oct 2017 #6

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)

1. I am beginning to believe they are made of teflon. Nothing seems to damage them.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Oct 2, 2017, 01:40 PM

Oct 2017

MontanaMama

(23,337 posts)

2. They are in full possession

Reply to redstatebluegirl (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 2, 2017, 01:49 PM

Oct 2017

of our government and nothing is their fault, ever. Beyond frustrating.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

5. It's beyond incredible! How this Bozo manages to avoid even getting held to account

Reply to redstatebluegirl (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 2, 2017, 02:00 PM

Oct 2017

for 1/10 of 1% of all the horrible things he has done is just beyond any normal comprehension. Are our standards as a country really so low that we accept all his craziness as 'normal'?? I give up.

Madam45for2923

(7,178 posts)

3. A so called Prez who golfs & is ready to loot us calling anyone lazy ...

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Oct 2, 2017, 01:53 PM

Oct 2017

unblock

(52,328 posts)

4. he only cares about the foxnews audience, and that's impervious to all his fails.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Oct 2, 2017, 01:59 PM

Oct 2017

ever fail merely gets the 65% of the country that opposes him more outraged.

the 35% is unlikely to change, but the intensity of the 65% does.

hopefully this translates to massive democratic turnout in 2018 and 2020.

we'll need it to overcome the propaganda and voter suppression and other dirty tricks.

3catwoman3

(24,051 posts)

6. "... the 'presidunce' may have done lasting damage

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Oct 2, 2017, 02:26 PM

Oct 2017

...to the Republican brand."

Let us hope so.

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