Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. Puerto Rico is a mess, and the federal government appears to be slow in getting assistance to the island. Talk about restoring power is measured in months.

That’s unacceptable. It’s unacceptable that we’re already dropping talk of the damage done by Irma and Harvey, when we know that Texas and Florida were devastated by the storms and massive amounts of work needs to be done to restore power and infrastructure there as well.

Puerto Rico is the immediate concern, with no power, a dam threatening 70,000+ people, a lack of potable water, and no power.

Bringing in bottled water isn’t a solution. What’s needed are water purification units, which are far more cost effective and can serve more people than shipping containers of water. For instance, a system like this can provide 6,000 gallons of water a day. That means for the weight of 3 suitcases, you can deliver pallets’ worth of water for a fraction of the cost.

A pallet could contain about 300 gallons of water. Do the math. That’s weight and size and bulk that could be filled with other critical needs.

That’s weight/size that would better be used in bringing in generators, telcom, and other critical gear, plus housing materials. So, while the intention is good to ship water, it’s not the best use. We keep seeing this from one natural disaster to another.

Meanwhile, Trump’s busy calling for violating the 1A again, this time demanding the NFL fire players who don’t stand for the national anthem. This fucker simply doesn’t care about the law or the constitution and the GOP continues enabling his actions on a daily basis. Their silence is assent.