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Gaza Pier is Perfect Analogy to Biden Presidency
It seems that the $320 million Gaza Pier built by President Biden has broken from its moorings and drifted off to get stuck on the beach. It is the perfect analogy to the Biden Presidency.
In the last 3 months, the US military has spent $320 million to “quickly” build a pier in Gaza to allow for boats to provide aid to the Gazans. Your first question is probably along the lines of, “Gaza is not an island, why would it need a pier when there are highways?” I don’t know the answer to that one. Some people say that the pier was needed because the trucks with aid coming from the highway were robbed by Hamas, and the aid workers were attacked.
The next question in your mind is probably, “If Hamas robs aid from the highway, won’t they rob aid from the pier?” The answer to that is “Yes.” In addition to shooting at the US military building the pier, all of the aid from the pier has been stolen by Hamas or other bandits.
Now that the pier has failed and ships have run aground–sounds like the Biden presidency, right?–what’s next for aid to Gaza? It will not be air drops. That was tried but the chutes failed and it crushed the hungry people. (Is General Les Nessman in charge?) Of course, Hamas stole all the dropped aid. I am guessing that Biden contracts with Amtrak next to attempt to build an aid railway into Gaza. In 2038, when the first aid packages arrive, I am sure they will be stolen by Gazans.
Thank you, Biden Pier, for being the perfect analogy to President Biden. FJB. LGB. 86 46.
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You can’t make this stuff up.
And I would like to know how that cost $320 Million.
Disappearing
Update: Apparently the US Navy was doing some work on the pier, perhaps relocating it, when it broke up and beached itself like a dying whale. #GazaDeathPort
Rather like how Desert One fit Carter perfectly.
Here you go:
and also an interview:
https://www.youtube.com/live/aruA8-mFDLU?si=ObnFLNsmGuBE6DMJ
But the US would rather build this pier than deal with that issue.
It is what it is.
I don’t know whether what is shown in the photo is the totality of the entire pier project but if it is I would have to say only the guv-mint could figure out how to spend 320 Million bucks on material which, just from the looks of it, might, if built by an extremely extravagant contractor, have cost something in the range of a few million.
Another question- why did we have to furnish Hamas with a landing craft? If we were going to give them a bunch of food, etc., couldn’t they figure out a way to get it from the pier to the beach? I know, I know- how naive can you be to even ask such a question?
Finally, as one who was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to walk on Omaha Beach this photo is haunting in the sense that those were thousands of real men who got cut down on June 6, 1944, as opposed to the collection of, quite simply, clowns, thugs, sleazes in our “leadership” these days. And to be clear, nothing in that statement is intended to disparage to the extent of one scintilla the brave men and women Biden sent into harm’s way to build this piece of junk; with all the talk of impeachment I think it bordered on criminal negligence to send our fine military into this pit of barbarians.
It is just a section. Here is the full pier.
Still doesn’t seem like much for $320 Million.
If the government is involved, plan on at least 9 figures.
Well, you see, there are all these
middlemengrifters/Bidens and their hangers-on.They had to ship it across the Atlantic and Mediterranean. In small boats. That gets expensive.
And the boats had to be solar powered. $$$$$
World superpower.
Well, they took as long to cross as the old wind-powered ships did back in the 19th century.
Did it break from metal fatigue or pier pressure?
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Indeed! It lists for $1.29 million on the Costco website, but the delivery and setup is pricey;)
Gen. U.S. Grant built a 2000 foot bridge across the James River in one night and marched his army across it the next day. That was 180 years ago. Does that put this pier debacle in perspective??
Or they got it from Ikea.
Waste money on a horrible project and declare it a success – that is Biden
It’s funding for Area 51 (from Independence Day) . . .
Even better, this was the same US proposal back in the 6-day war in 1967. It was stupid then, it’s stupid now, for the obvious reasons in the OP, and about a thousand others.
The US State Department. Always ready, and willing, to pull out a 60 year old binder (not filled with women), blow the dust off it, and say “Here’s our plan”.
Build Back Better?
Like with this, again…
I am literally terrified what a Biden re-election would mean for our country.
Related. Includes a transcript. Very good podcast.
https://thebillwaltonshow.com/videos/we-won-the-cold-war-and-lost-the-peace-a-tour-de-force-with-erik-prince-and-stephen-bryen/
Reminds me of Jimmy Carter’s failed helicopter rescue attempt during the Iranian hostage crisis. Perfect and pathetic emblem of a failed presidency.
Yep, #6.
Ha! Didn’t see that. Perhaps Biden will have an incident with a killer rodent next?
Or Kamala, either way. (Also, lagomorph.)