As The North Loop Burns
By Mitch Berg
As her reelection bid collapses, Betsy Hodges is more concerned with virtue-signaling her hatred of The Donald than fixing her own city’s issues:
She’s referring to the Democrat mayor of San Juan, PR.
Who, ironically, is also more concerned with virtue signaling than doing her job, too…
Hacks of a feather.
October 2nd, 2017 at 6:29 am
Here’s what you’re not hearing from fake news:
– She is known to have supported a convicted Communist terrorist. (FALN)
– All the other mayors are praising the relief effort.
– She was cornered on camera admitting she has not even bothered to meet with FEMA.
– There are tons of food rotting on the docks as union truck drivers negotiate gouging rates with FEMA.
-Jereraldo Rivera has mocked her “Im here, where is the dying? I will go help!)
That last point is the one that makes the MSM complicit in furthering the suffering. Puerto Rico was destroyed years ago, not by natural disaster, but by corruption.
Their leftist government has drowned the people in debt; the island is bankrupt. Now the crooks will be working overtime to steal the billions of dollars of aid that are pouring in there. And CNN is helping them do it.
October 2nd, 2017 at 7:53 am
I’m confused. What is the federal government supposed to provide after a natural disaster? Not Constitutionally obligated to provide – I know the answer there is “nothing” but Congress has long since agreed to ignore that – but practically speaking, give me a list: what is FEMA supposed to send to Puerto Rico and drive around the island to deliver to residents, free?
Cans of Spam?
Bottled water?
Aspirin?
Diapers?
Geritol?
Laundry detergent?
Miller Lite?
Wal-mart could deliver that stuff to the dock for local truckers to haul to the local Wal-Mart store for residents to purchase, but that’s a for-profit business with a supply chain, inventory system and distribution network. Does the federal government have all that?
Should it?
October 2nd, 2017 at 9:47 am
As Mitch indicates, Hodges can’t fix her own house, so she attacks another. In psychology, this is known as displacement: Displacement is the shifting of actions from a desired target to a substitute target when there is some reason why the first target is not permitted or not available.
October 2nd, 2017 at 10:39 am
God forbid any disaster should befall Mpls with Betsy Hodges at the helm of city government.
October 2nd, 2017 at 11:45 am
IMHO, it will one day be common knowledge that most of the US politics of the period 1965-2025 were driven by the moral vanity of educated baby-boomers and appeals to the moral vanity of educated baby-boomers.
October 2nd, 2017 at 12:01 pm
IMHO, it will one day be common knowledge that most of the US politics of the period 1965-2025 were driven by the moral vanity of educated baby-boomers and appeals to the moral vanity of educated baby-boomers.
Hope you’re right, because 2025 isn’t that far away.
October 2nd, 2017 at 12:49 pm
God forbid any disaster should befall Mpls with Betsy Hodges at the helm of city government.
Just the decades-long disaster that is DFL one-party rule in the Twin Cities.
October 2nd, 2017 at 1:37 pm
I’ve read a couple of articles “defending” the mayor against Trump, and what’s really clear is that if indeed the journalists tried to figure out what pre-disaster planning had been done by her, they came up with bupkus. If there is a more damning indictment of her, I can’t think of it. Not even that stupid t-shirt.
October 2nd, 2017 at 4:05 pm
bb;
I might add that it’s pretty telling when the Governor and several other mayors on the island, also call B.S. on her claims and also out her for not attending the meetings with FEMA.
October 2nd, 2017 at 4:34 pm
Her situation reminds me of flying a (mercifully) now-defunct airline when it had just declared bankruptcy. My plane flew into a bird, destroying a cockpit window, and when the airline asked to get one at the airport, the parts company said “not unless you pay cash on the barrelhead, we’re not going to be stiffed.”
Instead of paying a couple thousand bucks for the new windshield, they left about a hundred people stranded in Denver who would never, ever fly their airline again if they could help it. And in San Juan, truckers are telling her the exact same thing. Can’t say as I blame them.
October 2nd, 2017 at 4:35 pm
And the kicker; MarkAir wasn’t actually bankrupt. They were using Chapter 11 as a ploy to expand, and quickly found out that ticking off lots of customers was not the best way to go about it–but was rather the highway to Chapter 7.
October 2nd, 2017 at 9:17 pm
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