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In reply to the discussion: Horrifying Header on CNN right now. [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)74. He's commander of a navy with more aircraft carriers...
...than the rest of the fucking world put fucking together!!!! Just one of them deployed to PR could bring all sorts of needed supplies; a patient ready major hospital staffed with nurses, doctors, and surgeons; a whole wing of helicopters to assist in rescue missions; and enough nuclear power to share it.
Why? Oh why hasn't Drumpf moved one to Puerto Rico and one to the US Virgin Islands? Or two!!! Or three of them!!!!!
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Yes Puerto Rico is an island but it's not located out in the middle of the ocean (Atlantic)
Kaleva
Sep 2017
#9
My son and daughter in law were on a Carnival cruise out of Mobile, AL. last week.
Grammy23
Sep 2017
#76
So a private cruise line can look at the weather and preposition relief supplies
bigbrother05
Sep 2017
#89
The USMC has a bunch of amphibious landing craft. The Navy can transport them anywhere.
sarge43
Sep 2017
#34
Clinton pressed Trump to deploy hospital ship Comfort to Puerto Rico. Now its preparing to go.
sheshe2
Sep 2017
#24
From Trump's point of view they are only brown people who can be discarded...
AntiFascist
Sep 2017
#40
Trump is all about "show" and ratings. And his bottom... line. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2017
#50