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The Donald is perhaps definitely kinda NOT coming to Ireland
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No worries, though I already did yesterday:Kidchameleon wrote: »Ok so lets talk about it... First you will have to educate me.
Power - Thousands of Puerto Ricans are still without electricity nearly a year later - https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/6/13/17413828/puerto-rico-blackout-power-grid-hurricane-maria . Without power you do not have a fridge or freezer and cannot store food, and with Puerto Rico being an island it is obviously trickier to get a steady supply of food in. Obviously it also makes it an awful lot more difficult to prepare and cook food which only makes the problem worse again.That what FEMA and disaster relief is for - supplying clean water, food, shelter, and protection against violence as people fight for a lack of them. Without these things, people die from starvation, thirst, disease, exposure to the elements and violence from others desperate to not meet that fate.
What happened to Puerto Rico's disaster relief?
Food - FEMA were only providing 200,000 meals to feed the 2 million people impacted, and when you only have one meal for every 10 people, well they begin to starve - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/11/puerto-rico-food-shortage-hurricane-maria . After a disaster like this, a lot of food already in the country would have been lost or destroyed. A lot of the animals were killed meaning a lack of meat, while crops would have also been destroyed and the land they grew on badly damaged.
Water - Added to that, the water supply was badly tainted and dirty drinking water = disease - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/08/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-water-quality . Yet the US Environmental Protection Agency tried to claim the water was undamaged and so didn't really make much effort towards fixing it. This is in no small part to due to the fact that Donald "drain the swamp" Trump decided to put climate change denier Scott Pruitt - a guy who had sued the EPA 14 times, and who openly boasted about being "a leading advocate against the EPA's activist agenda" - as it's head, who instead spent the money on $130 pens, $43,000 illegal phone booths in his office, and millions on first class travel and increased security because he knew how corrupt he was. In fact, it only came out in the last few weeks that there has been $22mn dollars worth of clean, bottled water in Puerto Rico that the US government just... decided not to give to them for no known reason - 20,000 pallets worth - https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/12/us/puerto-rico-bottled-water-dump-weir/index.html . I have checked, and one pallet holds 1,728 bottles of water which would mean that comes to 3.45 million bottles of water were just withheld for no good reason as people continue to die from lack of access to clean water.
Shelter - PR also has a tropical climate, which means heavy rainfall can be quite frequent. This can be fine when you have the opportunity to go home during the rain to keep dry, or after to change into dry clothes. When you don't have a home or shelter, those aren't options and so you're left with all your clothes being wet and dirty which again gives a huge increase to chances or disease and illness. This is still the reality for a lot of Puerto Ricans:
So you have huge shortages of food, for many no way to store/preserve what little food they actually do have (and PR being hot and humid means it going rotten in almost no time at all) as well as very limited access to clean water for many (as the US government simultaneously denies this and decides to not give them the 3.45 million bottles of clean water already there) both for drinking and for cooking of said food. And on top of all that, a lack of access to power to cook what little food there is as well as a lack of shelter to keep dry, and safe from the elements - it's a nice little recipe for death and disease.
This is how the pathetic reaction under Trump to the disaster has contributed massively to those 3,000 deaths - so many of which would have been preventable as Donald is claiming only 16 (or 64 now?) died during the event itself. And instead of increasing funding to try and get a handle on it, instead they have just further defunded FEMA (disaster relief) and thrown the money at ICE to kidnap, drug, torture and 'lose' even more children, including those of US citizens.
What happened to hiring 'only the best people'... or is this an example of what Trump supporters consider 'the best'?
No worries, though this is the third time in 3-4 days/3-4 pages of this thread that I have been asked for these same citations:Kidchameleon wrote: »Citation pleaseAnd, again, as I already went through in detail in another post in this very thread, the fact that under his administration children (including those of US citizens) have been systematically kidnapped, drugged and tortured:I'll just leave links for context for others, as the poster is banned.
Hundreds of Immigrant Children Have Been Taken From Parents at U.S. Border
Migrant Children Drugged Without Consent At Government Centers, Court Documents Show
Federal Agencies Lost Track of Nearly 1,500 Migrant Children Placed With Sponsors
Ice Can't Find Parent of Child Separated at Border Over a Year Ago, and Both May be US Citizens
Trump Admin is Now Admitting They ‘Might Be’ Detaining and Separating U.S. Citizens0 -
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Kidchameleon wrote: »Who said they were not mainstream? Certainly not me.
I was asked to give specific sources and I picked two "out of my hat". I do not blindly follow any source unlike most people here it seems...
You spelt 'hole' wrongly
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