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Published: 2018-08-24 20:05:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 2000; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 1
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People in Puerto Rico don’t have water or power, people in Flint don’t have clean water, yet we obviously have money for a bloody space force and military parades.
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The trucker unions went on strike blocking the harbor so yeah its really Trumps fualt.
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Help was sent
The SJW governor just sat on it and claimed nothing had come
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Not to sound like a callous SOB, but, why should the US help a chunk of land that isn't even a State?
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Puerto Rico is still United States territory, and the people who live there are United States citizens by law. Hope that answers your question.
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Trump did sent supplies to Puerto Rico but it didn’t.
One video show Trump throwing a toilet paper to the community in Puerto Rico after the hurricane.
Trump can be great but some flaw he need to fix!
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You don't really expect Trump to spend money on black and brown people if he can possibly avoid it, do you?
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I would expect that when he was elected President that he would mature if not a teeny bit....but then again I am an eighteen year old kid who doesn't know a whole lot about life compared to someone of your age who's been around for a long time to know how the cookie crumbles. Still, I would expect better behavior and priorities from a sitting President, and the fact that it's been over a year for Puerto Rico without basic necessities (Not to mention there's ANOTHER freaking tropical storm coming it's way) and for Flint it's been over 3 YEARS without clean drinking water just shows that the current government's priorities are screwed up.
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Ouch! Now you're making me feel old! LOL
Some people do grow into the office. I think that both Bill Clinton and George W Bush did. But someone like Trump can't admit to any kind of error or imperfection, can't accept criticism, can't laugh at themselves, and are horribly insecure. And because of that they can't change. If someone's still acting like a high school bully when they're 70, it's unlikely that they're ever going to grow up.
And you're right to expect better from a sitting President. Even our worst Presidents in recent memory have never sunk as low as Trump. And that's why he's unfit to be President. And it is beyond shameful what's happened in Flint and Puerto Rico. And what's also shameful is that the news media have pretty much stopped covering either story.
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Yeah, but I remember you talking a whole lot about the Clinton Administration, which makes me come to the conclusion that you came of age to vote during that time. But still, Bill Clinton, being the first Baby Boomer President, was often looked down upon for being young (He was 43 when he entered office if I remember right), and yes, he did a lot of maturing during his time in the Presidency. Also, despite the media portraying him as stupid and foolish, I think George W. Bush matured too, even though he was in the shadow of his father, and not to mention that he made his Presidency his own.
But I should have probably known that Trump would not mature, and based on how many bloody 3 AM tweet notifications I got from him on my phone, I don't think he's maturing anytime soon. I mean, it only takes one person to say something ill of him or critisize him, and all the sudden, he whips out his phone and tweets some low-brow insult at them and basically he has not moved past the name calling of people he doesn't like. Still, sometimes I think he may mature, but you cannot teach a old dog new tricks.
But yes, I do expect a President to carry himself with maturity and grace. We're one of the prominent countries on the world stage for pete's sake! But still, Trump has got to be the worst President in recent years in terms of maturity I got to say that. I agree with you on the media, it's like the suffer from sort of Columbu syndrome, they only focus on the issues when they're hot or if it's election year, but then as soon as that time passes, they totally forget those issues. Like the media, which includes CNN, has dropped the ball in holding Trump accountable for Puerto Rico and for all the damage he has caused. Plus, Flint still doesn't have clean water, and it's been over 3 YEARS. That's just deriliction of duty for the President.
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Actually yes, I turned 18 in 1994. Although I was going through some pretty major life changes in 96, so I don't think I voted that year because I just had other things on my mind. To be honest, I occasionally need to be reminded that it's not the 90's anymore - sometimes I feel like my life has been on pause ever since then.
It isn't fair to call bush stupid, he certainly isn't, and he has a good heart. What he did, he did with the best of intentions. But I do think that it's fair to say that Bush never really had... I'm not even sure how exactly to put it. The judgement to be President? The mindset? Something like that. I do remember his father being President, and I think he was really a pretty good President - certainly much better than a lot of people give him credit for. He raised taxes even knowing it would infuriate his base because it was the right thing for the country and needed to be done. That probably cost him re-election.
Yanno, people sometimes talk about Presidential primaries using the language of romance - they say that voters may have a spring crush on one candidate or another but eventually settle on the reliable choice (usually.) I think that's actually a really apt metaphor - in some ways choosing a President is a lot like a relationship. Starting a relationship thinking that you're going to change the other person is a formula for disaster. We know that people change over time, but you can't count on it. You have to pick someone who's going to be someone you can live with as they are now.
By the way, I kind of over stated before when I said that people who see admitting any kind of imperfection as a weakness can't change. Everyone can change, it's just that sort of attitude makes it really hard.
By far the biggest cirticism I have of the media is that they have a really short attention span.
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Bush was not stupid, despite how the media portrayed him to be. I mean, I agree with you that he had good intentions, but he received faulty information from his advisors and his strategy for getting out of Iraq once we got our business done there needed work. Still, I agree with you that he didn't have quite the judgement to become President, and sometimes, he made rash decisions that came back to haunt him years later. Still, I admire his ability to make decisions based on education, and even though lots of people HATED the tax hike he made, it was the right thing to do (This coming from a person who likes low taxes), but still, in order to get public funds for schools, each and every citizen must give their fair share of money into the pot.
Still, lots of people view any election as a romance, but still, once that victor gets into office, the honeymoon is often over, and the media is back to reporting some nonsense rather than real news, or blatantly butt-kissing or bashing the President or congress. Basically, most of our elections, save with the election of Barack Obama, was choosing between the lesser of the two evils. I mean, no body like Trump or Clinton, and lots of people liked Bernie, but he got cheated out of the the nomination. Still, only blind racists or stupid people (Such as me as a sixteen year old, and I will never be able to take back all those weird ass drawings of Trump 
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Honestly I'm not really a fan of the way people talk about being smart or stupid just in general. I think that what people call intelligence is just a certain set of related skills that our culture thinks of as being "higher" than other skills. Particularly skills relating to memory, logic, and math. But there are lots of different kinds of skills that are important in life. For example, a lot of very "smart" people have really really bad emotional and social skills. I also don't think there's nearly as much difference in the native abilities of "smart" and "stupid" people as is generally thought. I think a lot of the difference is more about education and practice than ability. When you tell people from a very early age that some of them just aren't up to doing certain things and others are, it becomes a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I think that intelligence skills are like most other skills in that there's a broad range of competence that the large majority of people can reach if they decide to put in the effort. It's kind of like how almost everyone can learn to play basketball or the piano at least competently. It may take more time and effort for some people than for others, but most people can do it. There are a few people on the extremes who either really aren't capable of doing it (maybe they have a disability or something) and at the other extreme there are a few people with exceptional ability who can do things that others simply can't.
The way I look at taxes is like what Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr said about it, "Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society." And society and government are like everything else in life - you get what you pay for. If we're too cheap in paying for society, we wind up with a cheap product. When we don't pay enough taxes and government functions are underfunded, we get things like the 2007 bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Flint's water system, and the levees in New Orleans crumbling under Katrina. When people complain about long lines and bad service at government offices, they need to realize that's probably because the office is underfunded and doesn't have enough staff to do their job properly. Now if someone wants to argue that the government shouldn't be doing something or shouldn't be providing a particular service, I respect that. I'll probably disagree with it, but it's a reasonable respectable argument. On the other hand I'm honestly largely out of patience with people who say things like "taxes are too high" or "spending is out of control." That makes me think of a married couple working on the family budget. One says, "We're spending too much!" The other replies, "Okay, honey, so do you want to not buy groceries this month or should we skip paying the mortgage?" Some people seem to think that the government spends all its money on things like thousand dollar toilet seats, but it's really not true.
You know, there really are a lot of people who like Hillary Clinton and think she would have made a good President, including me. When you dig down into the bad stuff people say about her, for the most part it's either really exaggerated, simple fiction, or just plain silly. Yes she has flaws and there are things about her I don't like. But there's no such thing as a perfect candidate.
LOL Don't worry too much about having liked Trump at 16. We all did stuff at 16 that's extremely embarrassing now. When I was 16 I was the same way about Ross Perot. Although to be fair that was before he started talking like a complete nutter.
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Yup....Those are the priorities when you have Trump as president and the whole world going to hell! Awesome piece of work!
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Thank you, I think he needs to focus on what's more important in the here and now. Also, he could stop with the tweets at the crack of dawn, because I have school and work and I cannot afford to wake up in the middle of the night to a twitter notification,
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He needs to concentrate on being a leader, not a tweeter. Tbh I think he could do good for the economy (But he's still regressive in his position on social issues like LGBT rights, women's rights, etc.) but still he can't do that when he's enstranging allies and trying to start nuclear wars while on the toilet at 3 AM in the morning.
Not to mention that he's called White Surpremists "not bad people," even though they killed a woman in the Charolettevile protests and that's bad, and one of his faults is that he's blind to things like police abuse of power, equal protection under the law, etc.
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You see it too! Yeah you are soo right about everything you said in your statement!
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It's not entirely Trump's fault, the local government in Puerto Rico is also to blame for their incompetency on handling the situation over there.
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The whole idea of creating a space force for military use, while NASA continues to be underfunded is just beyond stupid.
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That's foolish, and we also have underfunded Puerto Rico's relief and even missed important things too do.
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Our government's priorities are so out of line it's unbelievable
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It's more scary than unbelieveable to be honest with you. I mean, it's been a year, and Puerto Rico has still not gotten power. Not to mention it's been two or three years and Flint doesn't have clean water....
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Space force! I rolled on the floor laughing when I heard that. The US doesn't even have space shuttles anymore, they have to board the russian Soyuz to be able to leave Earth. Ridiculous.
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Yeah, plus how are we gonna get money for it? We cannot borrow from other countries anymore because we're already in deep debt already
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Parades, space force... it's all just insubstantial distractions from his flaming incompetence.
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Still, the money would be better spent in repairing Puerto Rico's infastructure and giving Flint clean drinking water. Or better yet, use it to improve the schools in the inner cities! A space force would be an example of over the top spending (Yet they accuse democrats of spending too much money)!
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Of course it would. I totally agree with that. Both our statements are not in conflict with each other at all.
And naturally, the republicans are anything but fiscally conservative...
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Yeah, they complain that the democrats spend too much money when they're ust as bad, such as when they quadrupled defense spending and they cut other programs out like food for Title I schools, medicare, social security, etc.
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Just imagine one fifth of defense spending being reallocated to education...
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That's their american patriotic logic. Better have a powerful military-industrial complex than have the poor people be happy.
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