Posted on 09/24/2017 7:17:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
In case you didn’t get enough MSNBC on TV, you can check out Joy Reid on The Daily Beast with a wild and woolly editorial headlined: “Puerto Rico Is Trump's Katrina: President Donald Trump … does not care … about brown and black people.” (Ellipses in the original.)
At least it was marked “OPINION.” It also had the unsubtle subheadline “NERO.” Reid began with the usual flourish:
As a dam cracked in Puerto Rico, spreading fear across an already devastated island, Donald Trump was in Alabama, calling a black former NFL player a “son-of-a-bitch.”
During a 90-minute rant that veered from incoherence to the raw belligerence we’ve come to know in the Age of Trump, the madman who is president went after sidelined NFL quarterback Collin Kaepernick without calling him by name.
This is pure DNC advertising copy....or maybe a nasty NAACP commercial spiking the race card. So when Trump actually interacted with African-American hurricane victims, Reid dragged out a nasty "petting zoo" metaphor:
Trump visited Texas, making a petting zoo out of black evacuees and writing his name on a wall. He vowed to visit Puerto Rico, too. He called the governor. But mostly, he focused on his preening, and stage stalking in Alabama, where the contest to replace his attorney general in the U.S. Senate gave him a chance to do the thing he loves most: be Donald Trump.
Reid was reminding readers of 2005, when rapper Kanye West used a Katrina telethon to trash President George W. Bush who "didn't care about black people." It was a low blow, one that Bush said really hurt. So of course, Reid wants to drag that metaphor out for another use:
How will history remember Donald Trump’s response to the serial natural disasters that flattened U.S. territories and hemispheric friends in the Caribbean? How will it record a president who with his party dismisses climate change as a hoax, whose sympathies come by tweet, and who spends the days of devastation for American territories largely populated by black and brown citizens, preening in Alabama?
They are so predictable.
And of course the media is reporting this. /s
Just another stupid a##
The butthurt neurosis is strong with this one!
Maybe Bill and Hill can start a disaster fund for Puerto Rico, Joy!
Bwaaaaahahahaaaaaa
How did Chuck Berry get into the middle of this?
.... So .... Mainland ..... vs ...... a territorial Island constituent? All I can say is that the response will be MUCH greater that the previous administrations response to the 2010 Nashville Flood ..... Yup ....... The flood that was barely reported by the MSM and most Americans never heard of....... Ya .... That flood.
Maybe we should threaten to drop Joy Reid on North Korea.
No. Just like NOLA and Katrina, Irma is the governor of Puerto Rico’s Katrina. The states do 90% of the operational organizing for national disasters. FEMA assists but operates on the state’s disaster recovery plan.
“Are your absolutely sure that isn’t Jerry Reid?
Just sayin’....”
Please! Jerry Reed was a good guy (aka Cletus Snow in Smoky and the Bandit)
Sounds like they’re getting plenty of help, but I’m hearing they won’t have power for 4-6 weeks.
She’s just another insane lib off her meds, but, as far as I’m concerned, she’s right: I’ve reached the point where “I don’t care about black people.” I’m sick & tired of paying for their free lunch EBT cards, BLM protests, riots, looting, drug dealing, knock-out games, pants around their knees and other tribal antics. I could care less about em. I was never that way before until their blessed messiah told me I was a racist just because I was born white. IF they don’t like it here, maybe they should immigrate to Zimbabwe. Now, there’s a country where they could really make a difference.
Sorry, Joy, wrong as usual. It won’t be. Now, Shut up because you sound like you are bitter!!
No, she is not. Not, it won’t.
That’s fine. Doesn’t have to be the same Jerry Reid.
“:^)
“I’ve reached the point where “I don’t care about black people.””
Besides the few decent Black friends I have who are just as appalled at this confluence of despicable behavior as I am, I too am done with caring about them.
And I think that all of this latest batch of nonsense and protesting, being called out for what it is by President Trump, may well drive the final nail in the Black’s coffin as they relate to the rest of us. Eight years of Obama have so poisoned the well, that it is now unrecoverable.
False, democrats always use hurricanes to stand down authorities so that their beloved gang bangers take over the area like Gotham to get their off the books wealth funneled during the chaos.
Democrats are the joker and the thugs taking over Gotham are the looters who pretend to be poor on the books while they have a ready drug financed army ready to take over as soon as Democrats stand down and put their Joker mask.
“She’s right. This will be Trump’s Katrina.”
uh, yeah. right.
She’s right. This will be Trump’s Katrina.
You seem to agree w/libtard Joy Reid. You keep posting the same thing. Sheesh.
Let it go.
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