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.
Likewise, back in the 1980s and 1990s I notice the media only cares about homeless people when a Republican is president.
One the plus side: Heavy rain storms will a least mean that every Puerto Rican will have taken a shower.
The hurricane is up to Category 5. I am sure that is racist!
Maybe the storm will wash away Trump’s floating island of garbage.
Being on the MS Gulf Coast - I track all disturbances/storms/hurricanes - for the last 3-4 days, the predictions were for it to go north of Puerto Rico and “sneak” between Cuba and the Bahamas - just looked and Erin is now north of Puerto Rico and they’re only getting some rain and strong breezes from some outlying feeder bands.
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