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"Always the hurricanes blowing...."

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Republicans are incapable of handling emergencies like Puerto Rico because they see the situations as opportunities to soak the victims to benefit cronies.

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Whyu, as in, "Whyu gotta be such turd goblins?"

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So we’ve essentially owned it as a colony for more than a century, despite it having no natural resources to exploit like colonial powers usually do? It wasn’t a tourist destination until a few decades ago.

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And those poor people need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps

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One word for you, Puerto Rico: Stilts. And solar panels. Okay, that's three words. And hurricane-proof houses. Hmmm . . . that's more words. Okay, so houses on stilts that have solar panels, all totally hurricane-proof. Living underground would probably make you hurricane-proof, so underground houses with solar panels, on stilts. There, I've solved the problem like Maria.

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God's aim is notoriously shitty (see a few years ago when he tried to punish the gay Swedes in 2004 and accidentally hit the Indian Ocean instead, causing a bit of a ruckus.

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To those in Nova Scotia, this probably wouldn't be the best weekend to do what they do up number eleven.

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Well, they're probably happy you didn't get that job either, with that attitude.

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"Always the population growing..."

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In a way that's sort of the same thing with "wokeness." Republicans use being "woke" as a weakness at best or more likely as a con because being "woke" is not a lot different than being empathetic and that's something that they just can't fathom.

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How about we pass a new Jones Act that sends Alex's money to PR?

Alas, Bills of Attainder are unconstitutional.

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I'm glad that in the text you specified "all the Eastern Damp provinces", since without that correction it would mean all of Canada.

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I have a bottle of champagne just waiting for that happy day.

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As long as Black and Brown people suffer more the Republicans are ok with it

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There was a push to make PR a renewable powerhouse, mini grids could avoid the major damage island wide grids can't endure, apparently this model stalled also... fuck!

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