Posted on 08/16/2025 5:23:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Hurricane Erin is approaching Puerto Rico. So you know what that means, within 48 hours, Anderson Cooper and a trained elite CNN camera will walk ashore on a sandy beach in Puerto Rico to interview a local lefty official who will claim that because of Trump everyone is dead.
Hurricanes usually devastate Puerto Rico because even a small leaf can take down the island’s entire electric grid which is made out of wishful thinking and money laundering (plus some solar panels) and despite nearly killing President Truman as part of a demand for the island’s independence, no one can figure out how to run the place.
But it’s only a problem when Trump is in the White House.
Storms hitting Puerto Rico under Biden got back page coverage, but everyone remembers the storm of lunacy and lies that broke out with Hurricane Maria, including a massively inflated death toll with no basis in the real world.
“Hurricane Maria killed more than 4,600 in Puerto Rico, not 64,” USA Today blares. “A New Study Says Nearly 6,000 Died In Puerto Rico,” BuzzFeed shouts. “Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria Death Toll Could Exceed 4,000,” the New York Times reports slightly more cautiously.
4,000, 4,600 or 6,000. Which is it?
This is what comes of a media monopoly that thinks fact checks are only for Republicans.
Except that the margin of error is “plus or minus 3,852.”
They surveyed 3,299 random Puerto Rican households, used the survey results to generate a death rate of 14.3 per 1,000 between September 20, the date the hurricane hit, and December 31.
That’s over 100 days after the hurricane hit.
Then they compared those numbers to the same period in 2016 and produced 4,645 deaths.
Just wait until a month from now they pull the same trick again and declare that 5,000 people died.
You can bet they will pull the same trick again.
Hahahahaha! The first two paragraphs were excellent!
... but everyone remembers the storm of lunacy and lies that broke out with Hurricane Maria, including a massively inflated death toll with no basis in the real world.
Excellent Sultan Knish article to start Saturday.
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The Ed Sullivan Show would have performers doing their tricks but not the kind CNN is famous for.
Great piece by Greenfield, as always!
Why can’t members of the Enemy Media get hit by a Hurricane every once in a while?!?!
Every hurricane is an opportunity for the left to create another “Bush/Katrina” moment. They go up the chain of command until they find a Republican, and them dump ALL the blame on him. If there’s no Republican, the matter is dropped.
So when sleepy Joe was president, NO disasters were blamed on him.
Send them aid and then buy it back when their leadership steals it all for themselves for resale. The snow in their Christmas ball never settles to the bottom.
Outer bands of Hurricane Erin wreak havoc on Puerto Rico.
Film at 11.
Great piece.
Could be better if he highlighted how Puerto Rican nationalists in the 1950s shot five members of congress in the Capitol.
The outrageous assassination attempts by these radical leftists make January 6 look like Jan 6
Yet a Democrat President pardoned one of the unrepentant shooters decades later.
Reckless disregard for the serious climate change problem! 😴😴😴.
One of my best friends is Puerto Rican. Rock ribbed conservative and the hardest worker you’ve ever seen. He said the majority of Ricans are lazy useless and love the government cheese. Oh. And corrupt.
As usual.
I’ll tell you why- they’re Disaster Vultures; they swoop in to feast on the carrion of tragedy afterwards. They wait for it. They live for that. They don’t just report on disaster: they FEED off of it.
Live and die where you want. Your choice; your problem.
Yep.
Good article.
Always the hurricanes blowing,
always the population growing...
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