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- American football, a sport more akin to rugby than international football and distinguished principally by players’ high rates of brain injury, typically begins with a live performance of the country’s national anthem. Several players from the country’s historically marginalized African-American minority group have taken to kneeling during these displays of patriotism, a protest designed to highlight that unarmed black Americans are routinely killed by members of local security services.
Finally bowing to public pressure, Trump visited the island and mockingly tossed rolls of paper towels to residents, apparently to suggest they could easily clean up the "flooding" themselves.
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nowaypablo · 2395 days ago · link ·
Hey, I only like political satire when it doesn't apply to me! I want to share this piece on Facebook, but I fear the backlash would be too annoying to remain funny, and result in dismissing the whole purpose of bringing attention to the neglect of Puerto Rico :(the mafia-dominated and heavily polluted province of New Jersey