This is some bullshit right here. Watch as Fox Shill Geralda Rivera has the gall to try and present himself a “non-partisan” as he attacks Mayor Cruz for criticizing Trump and the weak uncoordinated response to Hurricane Marie arguing with her that “I don’t see people dying.”
Via Rawstory
On Sunday, Rivera seemed to take Trump’s side during an interview with the mayor.
“There are all people at all municipalities literally starving, dehydrating,” the mayor told Rivera. “We have had our hospital try to go back to speed but then the electricity goes off and we have to do all the bacteria testing, which takes three to four days.”
“But are people dying?” Rivera interrupted. “I’ve been traveling around, I don’t see people dying. I spoke to the doctors, they say they saw 53 patients and they had a person who was septic, but nobody dying.”
“Dying is a continuum,” Cruz was forced to explain. “If you don’t get fed for seven, eight days and you’re a child, you are dying. If you have 11 people — like we took out of a nursing home — severely dehydrated, you are dying.”
Here’s part II although not a great version, which includes another cheap shot from the Fox and Fools claiming he Mayor hasn’t been to some of their coffee clatch meetings at the air conditioned Convention Center. [A BS argument that was repeated by Treasury Secretary Mnuchin — what a coincidence?]
Repeatedly Geraldo attempts to paint the Mayor as a “Hard Left Partisan” yet when he talks to her she says she’s not even a Democrat. Does he accept that? Does he adjust his view and take that into account?
Nope.
He just keeps picking at her even he himself agrees with the core complaint that the recovery response is inadequate, because it’s plainly true that it is. He rejects the Mayor’s argument that starvation, dehydration, lack of insulin for those with diabetes, dialysis for people with weak or damaged kidneys, or life saving medicines for those who need it are life and death issues.
I guess he won’t believe it until there are bodies piled up on the sidewalk, which is only a matter of time. Just wait. If food, water, power and supplies aren’t made available — just wait.
He whines and laments the “partisanship”, but the Mayor doesn’t make a partisan argument she says “I have one mission, saving lives.” She also says she will meet with Trump when he comes, she’s not the one holding a grudge and walking around with chip shoulders.
Even after she fails to fit his stereotype he goes on after playing the interview to pontificate on how he wants to “broker peace” as a long standing resident of Puerto Rico and friend of Trump’s.
It breaks my heart, it’s something that’s a distraction from the effort to be made here. The was the worst natural disaster in terms of people adversely affected, the numbers of houses destroyed, not people killed. The Mayor is wrong about that. The death count was 16 a week ago, it remains 16. People are not dying, that does not mean that they don’t have all the supplies that they need, that does not mean that this damn power company, this corrupt inept power company should not be hounded.
One idea the (something something Trump) gave me two days ago, he wants to involve Florida Governor Rick (Skeletor) Scott, and have the Florida Power and Light folks come over and assist at getting a thousand miles of wiring and rotten telephone poles replaced. If you have power you can pump gas, if you have power you can pump water.
I think that this politics is a total distraction and it breaks my heart.
Yeah, that’s a load of crap. The person injecting politics into this was TRUMP when he started accusing the Mayor of being partisan when she accurately said that state of things in Puerto Rico is beyond critical and the response in insufficient. She’s right about that, and also this….
And this.
"We are finding dialysis patients that haven't been able to contact their providers, so we are having to transport them in near-death conditions," Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz said, recalling a group's visit to two San Juan-area nursing homes this week. "We are finding people whose oxygen tanks are running out, because ... small generators now don't have any diesel."
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Two people died in an intensive care unit in a San Juan hospital after it ran out of diesel, Yulin said. Their causes of death weren't immediately available. It wasn't clear whether those deaths were among the at least 16 deaths that Karixia Ortiz, spokeswoman for the Puerto Rico Department of Public Safety and Vilmar Trinta, spokesperson of Puerto Rico's Police superintendent, attributed to the storm.
If it really “breaks your heart” Geraldo you need to go back to your “Friend” Trump and tell him to get the frack off the golf course and cut out the cheap shots and bullshit. He’s the one who made this partisan, when he decided to take legitimate criticism personally like a 4 year-old, period.
Sunday, Oct 1, 2017 · 7:29:07 PM +00:00 · Frank Vyan Walton
It’s not partisan that Lt. General Honoré said this.
“The mayor’s living on a cot, and I hope the president has a good day at golf,” Honoré said. In another CNN interview, the former general was even more blunt: “The president has shown again, you don’t give a damn about poor people, you don’t give a damn about people of color and the SOB that rides around in Air Force One is denying services needed by the people of Puerto Rico.”
Or when the Puerto Rican Health Secretary said this:
“We’re finding dead people, people who have been buried, [people] have made common graves,” Puerto Rico Health Secretary Rafael Rodríguez-Mercado is quoted in the Miami Herald. “We’ve been told people have buried their family members because they’re in places that have yet to be reached.”
And lastly Jerry, yes, people are dying — they’re just being hidden from sight as it happens.
The fatalities related to circumstances created by the hurricane are still mounting with each passing day, and official numbers are not counting patients who are not receiving dialysis, oxygen and other essential services, such as Pedro Fontánez, 79, who is bedridden at the Pavía Hospital in Santurce and who the institution is attempting to release since Saturday, while he lacks electricity at home to support the oxygen and gastric tube-feeding he needs to continue living. His daughter, Nilka Fontánez, showed up desperate at the government’s Emergency Operations Center asking for help, but was told they were not accepting patients there.
“There’s no information,” she said, frustrated.
The dead are at the hospital morgues, which are at capacity and in remote places where the government has yet to go, and in many cases, their families are unaware of the deaths. The Demographic Registry certifies the deaths so bodies can be removed by funeral homes, many of which are also not operating for a lack of resources and fuel. They barely began certifying some of the dead on Monday, as Health Secretary Rafael Rodríguez-Mercado confirmed in an interview.