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2025-10-05 Government Corruption

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Posted by 3dc 2025-10-05 00:06|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1796 views ] Top
File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

1 Their unelected La Junta, our unelected Deep State.

A familiar theme; Trump and the US are the problem.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-10-05 02:15|| 2025-10-05 02:15|| Front Page Top

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Yes, the number of PR citizens will drop.
Given about 40% of PR is on US Gov assistance, plus there are large numbers of the breeding ages moving to the USA Mainland.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-10-05 06:51|| 2025-10-05 06:51|| Front Page Top

3 Give it back to Spain?

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-10-05 07:59|| 2025-10-05 07:59|| Front Page Top

4 Puerto Ricans are US citizens and thus can immigrate to the rest of the US without difficulty; many have done so. Maybe in a few years it can become the private island of Musk or Bezos...

Posted by Glenmore 2025-10-05 08:38|| 2025-10-05 08:38|| Front Page Top

5 Worked in a NJ factory in the summer that had very high populations of Cubans and Puerto Ricans, I was "privileged" cause I spoke English.

The PRs where despised by the Cubans as being lazy and criminal.

They didn't get along at all well...so much for Hispanic solidarity.

Posted by alanc 2025-10-05 09:26|| 2025-10-05 09:26|| Front Page Top

6 BTW: I have been married for 49 years as of last week. She is of PR Taíno Southern Rain Forest area.

Posted by NN2N1 2025-10-05 10:54|| 2025-10-05 10:54|| Front Page Top

7 The Jones Act has to go!

Posted by 3dc 2025-10-05 12:11|| 2025-10-05 12:11|| Front Page Top

8 The PRs where despised by the Cubans as being lazy and criminal.

Mexicans are of similar opinion of Cubans. So our Coasties think the same of anyone in fly over country. Gee, human nature.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-10-05 15:20|| 2025-10-05 15:20|| Front Page Top

9 they have their own 'high speed' urban rail system called, Tren Urbano

about 10 miles long, 16 stations
cost about $2.5B (original estimate about $800M)
ridership about 25k/day, original estimate about 60k/day

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-10-05 16:08|| 2025-10-05 16:08|| Front Page Top

10 But if they had two Dem Senators as our 51st State, everything would be right as rain

Posted by Frank G 2025-10-05 16:20|| 2025-10-05 16:20|| Front Page Top

11 49? Congrads NN!

Posted by Woodrow 2025-10-05 20:00|| 2025-10-05 20:00|| Front Page Top

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