I nearly just fucking flipped my desk at work right now:

“Casualties don’t make a person look bad, so I have no reason to dispute these numbers,” House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters when asked about Trump’s tweet blaming Dems for PR death toll. “It’s an isolated island that lost its infrastructure and power for a long time.”

— Ashley Killough (@KilloughCNN) September 13, 2018

Asked if he was disturbed by the tweet, Ryan said, “I’ll just say what I just said, which is there is no reason to dispute these numbers. This is a devastating storm that hit an isolated island. And that’s really no one’s fault. It’s just what happened.” https://t.co/p0V6mH9qGM

— Ashley Killough (@KilloughCNN) September 13, 2018

Paul Ryan: There’s no reason to dispute that 3,000 died in Puerto Rico, but those deaths are nobody’s fault, “it’s just what happened.” https://t.co/BGj20AC6fw

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 13, 2018

Sweet motherfucking christ, I hate Paul Ryan. And I know the rest of the GOP isn’t any better, judging by the lack of condemnation for Trump’s bullshit tweets either.

This was murder by neglect. And the media will simply act like these are somehow ‘judicious responses’ and any pushback will be labeled ‘uncivil’ and ‘politicizing the disaster’, because fuck everything.