I don’t know where you are getting your “facts” but 3/4 of Americans pay more in payroll taxes than in income tax. Puerto Rico has to pay those.

I did look it up, though I read it wrong. The thing says that they pay most federal taxes, with the main exception being income tax. But they do pay billions in federal taxes.

Well, that’s just wrong. They are not a state and are not subject to all US taxes, but they do pay some of them, including income tax. In fact, they actually pay almost as much to the federal government as some states.

And still Trump says we can’t help them forever. I’ll say it again: He doesn’t see them as Americans. He realizes that it’s his obligation to help Florida and Texas, because he knows they are Americans, but the thinks Puerto Rico is not really American. Because of this, he thinks anything he gives them is a gift, and…

I’ve heard people respect the FEMA director, too, but it seems like FEMA is shitting the bed pretty bad right now.

He is. I think Trump still doesn’t truly believe Puerto Ricans are American. He acted like this was all a gift to them, as opposed to Texas and Florida, which were obligations because they are “real Americans.”

Can I also point out, he just said that a senator should resign for criticizing the president. These far right nuts love to pretend they are the real guardians of the Constitution, but it seems like they don’t understand basics like the separation of powers or the first amendment.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told, even by my fellow liberals, that this is the one area the Trump administration won’t screw up. They’ve got good folks in this area. They learned from Katrina.

I’m all for replacing him with anyone or anything. I don’t mean to trash the guy. He seems like a nice person. However, he is not well suited to that job. He can do some parts of it, but he is a terrible interviewer.

He threw paper towels at them! What more do you want?

That’s a fair point (the first part). But still, that’s a less valuable demographic and she is hated by the current, more valuable demographic. Jack made a better call when he traded his cow for some magic beans.

Even if you believe that (and her insane amount of coverage on the New Black Panther Party would beg to differ), it’s still a completely different skill set than what she is doing now, and her show catered to a completely different demographic. Fox News has an audience that is largely made up of older white people.…

She doesn’t anymore, because she pissed them off. But she did have them for a while, and her ratings were still good when she left, so she must have been holding onto a lot of them. But then she went to a place with a different audience where she would have to do something completely different. It wasn’t likely to…

From her point of view, I totally get it. Getting away from Fox News was a smart idea, both because it is losing ratings and because of her pissing off Trump voters.

My point is that NBC had no reason to think she would be successful in a very different job with a very different audience.

In general, but that’s not the audience for this show. It’s mostly women, ages 25 to 54. A decent chunk of them are non-white. That’s not her audience. That demo hates her.

I still can’t understand why anyone at NBC thought this was a good idea. She’s very popular with a specific segment of the population (old white Republicans) doing a certain thing (looking smug while pushing conservative spin).

This job is completely different and the audience you are going for is completely…

I don’t even know how to react to that. Who in their right mind writes that? He knew the dude was a “sexual gangster” and was okay with it, but cutting some goddamn movies poorly is worse!? It seems like this guy is pretty okay with sexual assault and sexual harassment.

Has he? I’m actually asking, not just trashing your point. Everything I’ve seen is of rumors. The original woman who supposedly was talking about him has said she wasn’t, yet they keep bringing it up as if she was. I have yet to see someone say that someone else has come out and accused him, or even anonymously told…

Okay, I’m not usually one to comment on fashion but... What the fuck is she wearing? I’d say she got dressed in the dark, but I feel like you would see those in the dark...

Yeah, they need something more sweeping than this. For one thing, they need to limit the size of clips. Any shooter that has to reload every 5 or 10 bullets is going to be much less effective. But on the fire rate, having a gun where you have to manually do something to get it to chamber another bullet would be idea.