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In the wake of biblical-level devastation left by Hurricane Helene this last week, fatalities have soared over 200, more than 1000 people are unaccounted for, and severe flooding has washed out towns, roads and bridges from Florida to North Carolina, the hardest-hit state. Whole communities have been without necessities like water, power, cell phone service, and food for nearly a week. Some residents are trapped in mountainside homes with no way to communicate with emergency personnel. This is an ongoing disaster of epic proportions.
One resident of Fairview, a suburb of Asheville NC, said “the heavens came down” with the hurricane. “It was incomprehensible, what we witnessed, as it relates to the magnitude it was,” reported a Charlotte City councilman. “[I]t was truly something that you really can’t even visualize unless you see it.”
In true American style, civilian volunteers, many from out of state, have leapt into action to locate and assist survivors. Their heroic efforts stand in sharp contrast to an absent federal government that has no clear leadership. Decrepit, deposed President Joe Biden belatedly issued a statement about sending in a too-little, too-late force of a thousand Army servicemembers. Kamala Harris, who is worthless under the best of circumstances, has been busy salvaging her campaign after running mate Tim “Not Ready for Prime Time” Walz’s catastrophic performance in Tuesday’s vice presidential debate. So no one in the White House is available, or cares enough, to help Americans in dire need.
One Fairview resident said, “I’ve seen lots of out-of-state rescue, lots of county ambulances. I’ve seen lots of state resources, wildlife resources… But I haven’t seen any federal government. I guess when you have a disaster like this, you imagine the federal government would swoop in, but that hasn’t been the case here.”
Unfortunately, the federal government now is swooping in; to paraphrase Ronald Reagan’s famous statement, “We’re from the government and we’re here to make a terrible situation immeasurably worse.” Department of Transportation diversity hire Pete Buttigieg took a break from complaining that highways are racist to announce that civilian helicopter pilots and drones used for locating victims would no longer be allowed in the airspace of the devastation. Indeed, volunteer chopper pilots trying to assist survivors in need are being threatened with arrest. The purported reason for this policy is that civilian volunteers might hinder government efforts or create “safety issues.” The real reason is that the government is a jealous god and resents civilians swooping in and doing a better job.
A “cynical” person might even believe that the Biden-Harris (Harris-Biden? Obama-Rice?) regime doesn’t want civilians helping because it doesn’t care about the lives of rural whites. After all, Kamala said back in 2022 that the Biden regime would distribute disaster relief “based on equity” by directing funds to “communities of color.”
In any case, there are no disaster funds for anybody. Homeland Security Secretary and open-borders enthusiast Alejandro Mayorkas broke the news to reporters on Air Force One that FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has no more money to address the crisis: “We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the [storm] season and what — what is imminent.”
That deficit is a result of Homeland Security allocating $640.9 million this year alone in FEMA funds to aid state and local governments in processing and resettling illegal migrants swarming over the southern border which the Biden-Harris regime purposely left open. “Mayorkas and FEMA — immediately stop spending money on illegal immigration resettlement and redirect those funds to areas hit by the hurricane. Put Americans first,” Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted Wednesday.
Fat chance. America First is not a Democrat principle.
Four million dollars have been paid directly to hurricane-ravaged families and individuals in the last week, according to White House press propagandist Karine Jean-Pierre. Those funds are from a $10 million FEMA allocation that allows storm victims pathetic grants of $750 for groceries – $750. In a joke that would be hilarious if it didn’t contain so much painful truth, the Babylon Bee satire site posted this mock headline: “North Carolina Asks [Ukraine President] Zelensky For $100 Billion In U.S. Funding.”
“FEMA spending over a billion dollars on illegals while they leave Americans stranded and without help is treasonous. U.S. citizens are dying. Pray for our country folks,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) tweeted.
Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) wrote: “‘The Biden-Harris FEMA spent over $1 BILLION on funding illegal aliens. America LAST.”
“Connect the dots, if you can,” wrote Tim Murtaugh, an adviser to former President Donald Trump’s campaign. “DHS says FEMA might not have enough cash to help people through hurricane season. But in 2 years of a new Biden-Harris program, they’ve spent $1 BILLION on housing and other services for migrants.”
Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany from Wisconsin tweeted, “$750 for Hurricane Helene victims. $700 for Maui fire victims. $175 BILLION to Ukraine. FREE flights, health care, housing, and food for illegal aliens. Under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, American citizens come last.”
Indeed they do. This East Coast apocalypse is the direct consequence of the Democrat obsession with flooding Ukraine with billions in taxpayer funds (remember them enthusiastically waving Ukrainian flags in Congress? Can you imagine them doing the same with the Stars and Stripes?) and flooding the entire country with illegal migrants they are counting on to vote blue. Every death, every missing resident, every washed-away community in the wake of Hurricane Helene can be laid at the doorstep of the Biden/Harris/Obama White House and a Democrat Party that always prioritizes the needs of illegals, Ukrainian kleptocrats, and Palestinian Jew-haters, with American citizens always a distant and dead last – and white rural Americans bottom-most.
Also culpable, it must be said, is a feckless Republican Party that willfully refuses to get its act together to defend American citizens from Democrat destructiveness.
In less than five weeks Americans get to decide whether this nation proceeds with the havoc wreaked by a far-Left, America-hating Democrat Party, or changes horses to an America First, Make America Great Again Party that embraces American exceptionalism. When voters enter the booths on Election Day, let them remember who is responsible for, among other disasters, the devastated communities of North Carolina.
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As predictible some are ale ready blaming this Hurricane on Global Warming/Climate Change like they did with Katrina Sandy Harvey and Irma you can always count on the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders along with those annoying twats from Greenpeace EDF, Friends of the Earth Sierra Club Etc. To blame this all on Global Warming/Climate Change
And yet the generally ignored cutting-edge science/research shows that temperature variation is due to activity of the Sun and not to anything anthropogenic..
And weather satellites, which can measure average global temperature to within thousandths of a degree fahrenheit, have recorded that temperature hasn’t deviated by a single degree fahrenheit for twenty seven years, and 1997 was a stand alone year that was slightly warmer than 1996 and succeeding years.
It’s also worth pointing out that F5 (EF/IF5) tornadoes have gone extinct worldwide. They used to be roughly an annual event, but the last one anywhere in the world was in 2013. It’s kind of funny watching the scaremongering in the latest Twisters movie knowing that.
And in this case, high atmospheric moisture levels are the product of Hunga Tonga. Maybe Mayorkas can sue the earth’s mantle for reimbursement.
From this day forward up to the election please, please keep in your thoughts of all the States, the Swing States, and the Southern States in particular, how the Harris-Biden administration raided the FEMA account of 1 billion dollars and purposed it for illegal immigrant needs, leaving the hurricane victims in the ditch! The pathetic Mayorkas had to admit FEMA is out of money. There is another hurricane forming as of 10/6/2024! This criminally negligent, and outrageous insane theft of 1 billion dollars must be punished by the voters and the law!!! The entire Democrat Party has evolved into a criminal enterprise. Please remember when you go to the polls: “does the Biden-Harris Administration and the Democrat Party finally turn your stomachs??” Where the is FEMA???????
Alzheimer Joe and Heels Up Harris’s handlers reportedly looted FEMA of $1.3 billion to provide illegal alien invaders with everything they need and then some. The ungrateful parasites demand more, of course. And as many as possible have been flown and bussed to so called battleground states to illegally vote in the election next month. Those people aren’t migrants. They aren’t nomads. They don’t migrate from place to place, they invade America and never leave. They are NOT nomadic.
FEMA is a government agency designed for disaster relief ONLY. It is NOT designed to reward illegal alien invaders with 1.3 billion worth of lavish goodies. Those funds were stolen illegally by the same White House handlers who’ve sabotaged America’s economy and raised prices of EVERYTHING beyond the limit most people can afford to pay. I notice the administration doesn’t use money from other government sources to help the flood victims now that FEMA is broke.
Every American who can vote early had better do it. Everybody who waits till polling day to vote if they don’t have to wait are fools. They can expect polling centers to be closed or the voting machines mysteriously not functioning, like in Maricopa County AZ in 2022. Those who are forced to wait until election day can expect sudden problems in some if not many areas.
And don’t ask me how those suffering flood victims are going to vote. Just another reason the administration and D-Bags want to leave them to suffer, no doubt. Demons.
Correct – but remember Joe gets -10% on everything he authorizes!
As per Hunter Biden.
I hope he drowns 10%. That would be enough to kill that frail old geezer.
Sleepy Joe shithead responded “What storm??” when asked about the jaw-dropping disaster in NC.
(Imagine if Bush43 had said that in the wake of Katrina.)
Leftist politicians & journalists lie to us as casually as they breathe, but the attempt to try to actually sell us that Grifter Joe is “sharp as a tack” was brazen as it was laughable.
Informed people knew Sleepy was asleep at the wheel before he stole office.
Everyone else found out after the debate, yet Cackles STILL tried to sell the “he runs circles around everyone” bullshit. (Although, with Kamala that’s probably true.)
“After all, Kamala said back in 2022 that the Biden regime would distribute disaster relief “based on equity” by directing funds to “communities of color.”
That’s what America is seeing now – federal aid being withheld because the victims are white.
With Katrina around 2005, many of the victims were black, so the media called President Bush a racist for not supplying more aid more quickly.
It would be interesting to compare the amount of governmant money being sent for Helena disaster relief to the amount of government money spent to rebuild the inner cities that the George Floyd riots destroyed. Curious…
Or Katrina in New Orleans.
Genuine American citizens doing the job flaming government burocrats simply can’t/won’t do.
What’s intriguing is that it’s assumed (correctly) that a severe majority of these resolved volunteers are MAGA.
Flaming Trans Sec Pete doesn’t surprise anyone that he’s a vindictive bitch. His being part of the problem is what encapsulates this administration. (Pete took 2+ months off once, and no one noticed because he’s a useless idiot. It’d benefit all involved if he’d do so again.)
Many people here literally despise the road reconfiguration for an electric bus route instigated by Butt-Jig because it is not only inconvenient but also ugly. The Left turns everything into ugly because they,
perhaps unconsciously, hate beauty, balance, symmetry and harmony. Look at what has happened to architecture and art, etc., etc. They gleefully want you to suffer with slow torture as they pummel you with lies and manipulative deception. That’s what the 17 SDGs are all about.
How can you say “ Americans will decide” when you just wrote and we all know that it will be Haitians, Venezuelans, people from Congo, Iranians, etc who will be ILLEGALLY voting who will decide and will of course vote Democrat?!?!?
Will you, too, call this election “ legal” and shy away from admitting it if it is stolen like the last?
Why write? Why speak if we speak convoluted lies? And if we tell the truth, then what? Is there any other relevant question?
Their cheating margin is a limited percentage, so it can be overcome – at least on THIS election cycle.
If these DNC low-lifes get 4 more years to bus in millions more vagrant welfare dependents, they’ll stuff ’em in red areas exclusively and your point will have become irreversible.
(Martha’s Vineyard, Malibu, Kennebunkport, Chappaqua, & other posh liberal enclaves will remain unblemished by migrant crime gangs.)
Like the sub-title of the book says, they can’t cheat if the winning margin is overwhelming.
Lots of money for Illegals as well as the “Palestinians,” but not for the incomprehensibly devasted Americans. Some [qualified] Geoengineering specialists even have suggested that the path of the storm was electronically directed.
You’re glossing over one important fact that most people miss: All money belongs to the government. Just because you work for a living and they let you keep some money from your paycheck does not negate that fact.
Think of the government as your silent business partner. You do all the work while they do nothing. When it’s time to get paid, they expect to share in the profits too. And because they’re the government, they get theirs first and you get what’s left.
And if you complain to loudly, you’ll get a visit from the IRS who will explain to you why it’s in your best interest to STFU and be happy with what you go (i.e., what they allowed you to keep.)
As for the FEMA money that was intended to help Americans devastated by the disasters? That money belongs to the government. It’s none of our business (the American tax payers) what the government does with “it’s money.” You have the right to pay you taxes (on time), sit down, STFU and mind your own business. c’est la vie!
Thank you. Orwell couldn’t have said it better.
You aren’t exactly inspiring, Mr. Negative.
Lots of moolah for the Iranian mullahs, too. $150 to$175 billion. They just used that money to bombard Israel with over two hundred missiles, as you know. Trump said today it was 280.
FEMA has run out of money because Biden/Harris are giving it to illegals. The progressives are basically thieves. I cannot wait for the Obama/Clinton kleptocracy to finally come to an end in November.
35 years years of dysfunction. Hopefully jail will be the order of the day with a Trump DOJ leading the charge.
If this doesn’t happen, America as we have known it will be gone, and will probably not come back.
Our problems of immorality in the government we allow to exist are entirely self created. It begins with lack of a personal moral character base and extends into just being lazy. These people realize that when they are elected there are no limits to their self aggrandizement. You allow it to continue.
While Don sounds good he cannot stop the destruction in 4 years even if he is allowed to take the oath. What have you done to help in the affected areas? Send a check? Deliver food or clothes? Help rebuild a home? Nah, too much trouble, I’ll just whine!
What have you done?
Fair question but has a bit of snotty. I have been eating peanut butter sandwiches and sitting in the dark. The water tastes better than that which arrives in the tap normally. 1 gallon from the creek plus 2 drops Clorox is a fair mix. The breeze through the house from the tree fall has been worked on.
Actually my snide comment was directed towards the political side. By not voting and organizing locally we have allowed these things to happen such as stealing FEMA monies. This is one issue that people can easily understand. Americans that pay taxes and some vets are given less money than the new voters coming across the border. The issue is easy to understand and is difficult to refute, unlike “Trump is mean” Trump lies” “Trump is a felon” etcetera. If you and your friends do not bother to vote and maybe if you do we are to be cast out at best.
The Trilateral Commission is full of simple people that do not consider that there is an end to the money they steal. The productive class has propped up the system since 1913 but the tide is heading out.
Not all of us can afford to help out.
They misappropriated funds from FEMA and other agencies to pay for their pernicious illegal invasion attack on America.
It is actually a federal crime to misappropriate funds and divert them from their intended purpose. It’s a crime. Where is the Republican Party????
31 U.S. Code § 1301 – Application
(d) A law may be construed to make an appropriation out of the Treasury or to authorize making a contract for the payment of money in excess of an appropriation only if the law specifically states that an appropriation is made or that such a contract may be made.
This act, also known as the “Purpose Statute,” requires that appropriated funds be used only for the objects (purposes and programs) for which appropriations were made. Congress has the “Power of the Purse,” and the Constitution specifically references use of appropriations (“No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by Law”).
Where is it in the budget to fly illegal alien invaders all over the country or build an app to expedite the invasion or to pay for their housing, food, medical and education services? Please show me that in the budget.
The American people have been emasculated by years of psychological abuse by the DemoNazi Party through education, governmental corruption and tyranny, and unrelenting Soviet style propaganda from the vast DemoNazi Propaganda Machine.
CRIME of TREASON.
Never surrender. Fight, fight, fight for America 🇺🇸
They also know that most Republican money is coming from many of the same people who are now giving to help the Hurricane victims. The Dems already have their globalist billionaires funding them, so it doesn’t hurt their fund raising in the least. I’ve donated, but I’d go myself to help if my husband wasn’t already scheduled for surgery next week! If his recovery isn’t too long, I’ll go afterwards and just take time off work (and I’m 68!) jUST BE SURE TO GIVE TO AN ORGANIZATION that doesn’t misuse your funds – DON’T GIVE TO THE RED CROSS! Much of that money goes to pay their executives. Give to Samaritan’s Purse or smaller organizations where the money gets where the people need it.
Agree completely with your priorities for gift giving. Red Cross has destroyed their reputation with their refusal/inability to assist hostages held in gaza; Samaritan’s Purse is an ideal organization to help with this disaster. Good comments!
80% of money donated to the Red Cross goes to “operating costs.” Like you wrote, its executives. And it lets Paleosimians rename their ambulances “Red Cresent,” put the islamic star and crescent on them, and let the Paleos use them to transport weapons.
That organization will never get a penny from me.
I hope you all can see that video…It says everything I am feeling.
Take a long hard look at the trail of destruction and suffering.
That is the government’s plan for the rest of the country.
So where’s Congress? The Executive department is just taking $$ under Congress’s nose? Or did they just take it without Congress? Author Tapson didn’t say. We have no reckoning or accounting of our money mainly because most people don’t petition their Congressmen and Senators. I do. I usually receive a fair reply even though I may not agree, but I don’t always get an explanation for everything —-I will be interested to hear their story on this one.
My letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). They are allowing these violations of the law to continue with impunity. It is in violation of the Purposes Statute and a Misappropriation of Funds.
Government agencies cannot just divert and use money for whatever purpose they want. It must be set into law by Congress.
Where in the budget does it permit the use of billions of dollars to traffic illegal invaders and pay for their homes, food, education and medical expenses? Where is the line item for building an app to expedite this illegal invasion and for flights into and around our country?
Please show me that in the budget.
To Whom It May Concern,
I have some pertinent questions as I am greatly disturbed by the misappropriation of funds by our government. As a taxpayer, I find it deeply troubling that government agencies are appropriating funds for things other than what is proscribed by law.
Is it against the law for a government agency to use funds for anything other than its intended purpose? To be clear, can FEMA use disaster relief funds to settle illegal aliens across our country? Is that the intention of FEMA to resettle illegal aliens across the country? Is that what those funds are supposed to be used for? Can any agency do whatever they want with government taxpayer funds?
Can FEMA arbitrarily use funds for anything that they want or are they ruled by the law?
If not, why is the federal law on misappropriation of funds not enforced?
It seems to me that these funds are not being used for their intended purposes and have left American citizens in dire need, while illegal aliens, who have entered our country illegally, are given everything they need with American taxpayer funds. Does that seem right to you?
This is a violation of the The Purpose Statute, also known as 31 U.S.C. § 1301(a), is a federal law that defines how agencies can use appropriations:
Purpose: Appropriations can only be used for the purposes for which Congress intended them.
I certainly would appreciate answers to these questions.
As a concerned legal immigrant and citizen, I would appreciate an answer to my questions. Something is very rotten here.
This is an extremely grave matter and falls under the GAO jurisdiction.
You can write to the Government Accountability Office here:
antideficiencyactrep@gao.gov