Thread by @ALT_uscis

Trump hating on Puerto Rico has one other reason beyond racism.
It is called PREPA.
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority. The sole electricity provider in Puerto Rico, owned and run by the government of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

They want to completely crash it or privatize it.

2/ Among public utilities in the USA, PREPA is*:

Number 1 in served customers
Number 1 in revenues
Number 7 in kWh generated
Number 8 in kWh sales
*American Public Power Association, 2013-2014

That is a goldmine to trump’s swamp

3/ just an FYI. In 2015, trump left a failing golf course in Puerto Rico that he was supposed to turn around when it was $30 m in debt. He walked away leaving Puerto Rican taxpayers on the hook declaring $70 m in debt. He was supposed to turn it around... he said.

4/ to date, $11.2 billion was distributed to Puerto Rico in form of aid. Not $92 billion. Trump’s administration spent $10 billion so far in locking up brown folks and their brown kids then deporting them.

How about this crazy proposal:

Send asylum seekers to Puerto Rico and give Puerto Rico the billions you give to your swampy private prisons friends. I guarantee you Puerto Rican’s will raise and educate the kids properly.

I nominate the Puerto Rican population for a @NobelPrize this year for fuxking surviving despite trump.
End of thread

One more tweet for this thread.
A chef, @chefjoseandres, did more for Puerto Rico than the entire government of the United States. From a few kitchens and a dozen food trucks.
End of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 thread