Most of the people interviewed are over 70. They live in a world of Fox News fictions, and frankly I'm sick to fucking death of their ignorance, selfishness and mean-spiritedness. The article does a great job following up their ignorant-assed statements with gentle qualifiers. For instance, one old bastard - actual name is Hogg - says that Puerto Ricans... Hell, let's just listen in, shall we?
“Guess what? There’s a big chunk of the population that lives without electricity all the time,” Ramirez said, saying he was sharing the experiences of a friend who has family on the island.
Hogg, 76, nodded his head in agreement: “They never had it. Never had it.”
“They don’t live deprived, because it’s a beautiful environment,” she continued. “The weather is nice, the climate is good most of the time, so it’s different from here . . . It works there because of the climate. It wouldn’t work here.”
About 96 percent of Puerto Rico’s electricity customers had service before Maria made landfall, according to federal data; many of the rest had no power because of Hurricane Irma two weeks earlier.
Ramirez said the government should encourage those living in the hardest-hit areas to move to the mainland, out of the direct path of hurricanes and into communities with more-reliable infrastructure.
“I object. I object. They should stay where they are and fix their own country up,” Hogg responded softly, shaking his head, wrongly referring to the U.S. territory as a separate nation.
What - exactly - is the common factual ground that you can take with these people? Of the five people interviewed, only one, Mary Maddox, is done with Trump. Patsy Hogg tries to defend her husband, because he comes off like an insufferable dick in the interview.
Two things. First, this article drives home the point that white women who should have known better gave us Donald Fucking Trump. Second, until this cohort of people who came of age in the '60s shuffles off their mortal coil, we are truly screwed.
Sorry/not sorry if I'm pissy. Things have happened today that have brought home all the horribleness of this world Trump's building. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of being ashamed for my country because ignorant, selfishness assholes finally elevated one of their own to the Oval Office.
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