(10-14-2017 07:44 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Collusion has not disappeared, it is just that Trump has now been responsible for so many shocking, bewildering, and terrifying acts (firing Comey, sparring with NK, bungling Maria, Charlottesville response, and so on) that public attention can only stay on one thing.

How did Trump bungle Maria? There is this narrative that the response was bungled, but that implies that it could somehow have been done better. How? And with what resources?

There are all these narratives about "shocking, bewildering, and terrifying acts" that simply don't have any facts underneath them. I'm asking about one very specific one in an area that I happen to know something about. The facts are not that the response to Maria was mishandled in any significant way. The facts are that the situation has been handled about as well as possible with available resources. There are legitimate questions of what resources should we maintain to deal with such crises, but those are long-term issues.

If you want to claim that Maria was mishandled, then you need to identify some specific items that could have been handled better. People are without power and are sick or dying. That's because it was a hurricane, not because the response was mishandled.