Joel and Mile aren ' t exactly known for their acting abilities . Mike is a great actor . Are you forgetting the characters he has done ? <| sep |> That was fucking mental . That ' s some truly original content . <| sep |> Plaque is not considered morally wrong and brushing your teeth is not then considered the morally right thing to do . <| sep |> Yay ! You got the joke . <| sep |> This is the complacent party line about Puerto Rican statusthat the USA can ' t do anything , it ' s all in Puerto Rico ' s hands . The problem with this logic is that the USA claims plenary power over Puerto Ricothat ' s legalese for we can do anything we want to them without seeking their consent . Basically , USA simultaneously holds these two positions 1 . Puerto Rico is responsible for fixing its status problem 2 . Puerto Rico does not in fact have the right to govern itself . Some choice quotes from the G . W . Bush administration report on Puerto R i c o r e p o r t b y t h e p r e s i d e n t t a skforceonpuertoricostatus . pdf Congress may continue the current commonwealth system indefinitely , but it necessarily retains the constitutional authority to revise or revoke the powers of selfgovernment currently exercised by the government of Puerto Rico . Thus , while the commonwealth of Puerto Rico enjoys significant political autonomy , it is important to recognize that , as long as Puerto Rico remains a territory , its system is subject to revision by Congress . pp . 56 Note that Congress just recently revised Puerto Rico ' s government . The PROMESA Act creates a Puerto Rico Financial Oversight Board as an entity within the territorial government and which shall not be considered to be a department , agency , establishment , or instrumentality of the Federal Government . As a result , Puerto Rico ' s government today effectively has a Congressionally appointed branch with unchecked powers over the branches that Puerto Rico ' s constitution provides for . Congress ' s power under the Constitution ' s Territory Clause includesthe power to relinquish its sovereignty over a territory . See U . S . Const . , Art . IV , Cl . 2 . Congress thus may determine whether and under what conditions a territory may receive independence and may regulate those conditions until the point of independence . p . 7 , my boldfaceFor all the lip service that American politicians pay to Puerto Rican selfdetermination , it is the position of the US government that they have the right to determine whether Puerto Rico is allowed to be independent at all .