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More Mayorkas Malfeasance Hits Helene Victims
The incompetence of Biden-Harris cabinet secretaries have brought us: an invasion of illegal aliens, including murderers, gang members, rapists, and other hardened criminals across the southern border; the enrichment and appeasement of Iran so it could continue to foment terror across the Middle East and in particular threaten the existence of Israel; a massive longshoremen’s union strike across ports along the East and Gulf Coast ports that threatened stores and other retail outlets with massive shortages—a strike that the Secretary of Commerce admitted, in her own words, “…I have not been very focused on that. I would refer you to the White House or the transportation secretary.” Stunning advice to refer the longshoreman’s union dispute to Pete Buttigieg, the most ineffectual, unresponsive and incompetent cabinet secretary to hold that position.
But the hits keep coming. Ashley Moody, Florida’s attorney general has just called previously impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas on the carpet for spending, according to Fox News, over $1 billion in FEMA’s available natural disaster relief funds for illegal alien resettlement instead:
ASHLEY MOODY: Everyone should be waking up this morning outraged by that comment. This is not something that has just happened recently. And Florida’s been warning about this since this administration took over. Mayorkas has come in like a virus and infected what need[s] to be healthy, strong, fundamental programs to ensure the stability and safety of Americans in times of disaster.
So you heard they have taken the FEMA emergency food and shelter program and over time siphoned off hundreds of millions of dollars into basically making it an illegal immigrant resettlement program. And so when you see these states and cities around the nation declaring emergencies, even blue states, because of what this administration has done, encouraging more and more and more, developing programs to encourage more and more and more people to come here. The government, Biden and Harris, are having to fund that on the backs of the American people. And right now in Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, all of these states are hurting because of this truly natural disaster, not a Biden-Harris-made disaster. They’re saying we need more money. And of course, they need more money because they’ve been laundering it from the intended purpose of this fund that Congress set forth. Laws be damned.
Hurricane Helene has taken the lives of over 200 Americans, left others homeless, left businesses devastated and in ruins and left thousands without power, water, food, and shelter. Did Congress authorize these critical FEMA funds to be spent on illegal aliens? Was it an executive order that diverted these much-needed funds to illegal aliens from those who are now suffering from the flooding? When Kamala Harris recently appeared at the head of a FEMA conference table for her photo op to display her leadership chops, did she bother to ask about the resources available for Helene victims? Does she have an opinion on the fact that some billions were diverted to the illegals that she and Biden have let into the country?
Will anyone in the news media ask her about this? Not bloody likely.
How many emergency generators could have been purchased with those critical FEMA funds? How much water? How much food? How many emergency shelters? Americans will continue to suffer under the incompetence and willful malfeasance of funds from the Biden-Harris administration at least until Inauguration Day…unless, of course, Kamala Harris is sworn in as the next president.
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The whole West is captured by inflation-ism. It “works” for decades until it quits working. They don’t measure it right and it doesn’t work even if they did.
Energy is the number #1 thing that matters. Nuclear and fossil fuels.
The Democrats do the opposite. Most of the Republican Party doesn’t get it.
There is no state in America which has better resources for this. Between Ft Bragg 1 air hour away, and Camp Lejeune another hour, there are hundreds of helicopters of all types, the ability to air drop supplies from C-130s , thousands of combat troops, field hospitals l, kitchens, power and coms, engineering equipment including bridging equipment.
someone just needed to give the order.
This is must watch. Excellent.
https://aerialrecovery.org
Just saw these guys on Fox News during the 8 AM central time show. Really good interview.
They were talking about this on Fox News this morning. They used a word that I wasn’t familiar with. I think it was “strap” something
He was saying that the military has so much experience with this type of delivery and management from Afghanistan. It’s the exact same terrain and difficulties, except nobody’s shooting at you.
This seems like such a simple management problem.
We’re going to get “the rich” to pay their fair share. Plus we can increase taxes on corporations. Kamala has successfully comprehended that tariffs are a tax. Now what we should be working on is leading her to conclude that corporations do not pay taxes – their customers do.
Lies and total incompetence. Mayorkas is a disgrace.
UPDATE: There seems to be a lot of disagreement about whether that area is red or blue.
To be fair, when you’ve got “our side” saying things like “make the pie bigger!” and “a rising tide lifts all boats!” etc, they might be forgiven for seeming baffled if we suddenly switch to “but money and effort are finite and money/effort put into one thing is not available for something else.”
For one example, maybe they figure – and they might figure that WE should figure – that installing a wheelchair ramp makes the business accessible to people who may not have been able to use it before, and that additional business should more than cover the cost of the ramp.
Ah, but what I proposed would be bullying. First class bullying. Don’t talk to Joe first, or ask permission from the Democratic Party’s jug-earred éminence grise. Just do it and force them to either resist you (undermining their own candidate with a month left before the election) or acquiesce. That is leadership, and it puts TPTB on notice that you won’t be lead by the nose like Joe was.
If Kamala was a leader. Which she’s not.
Bush 41 made that stupid handicap accessible law. All of that stuff should be paid for with government funds.
But they don’t want the business to make that decision on its own – they want to force their preferences on everyone else.
And they ignore the time value of money (or other resources) (it takes time to build housing units), and the incentive structure that they are building (if you’re going to give people stuff, why should people save or prepare, and maybe people will come to you specifically because you said you will give them stuff).
Asheville is Blue. Surrounding small towns are Red.
Will they make any COVID Era style arrangements so that the affected, mostly Trump, voters can cast their ballots.
Asheville residents will probably get to vote. Rural voters, perhaps not.
It is not Biden, but “Biden.”
It is the CABAL of folks like Mayorkas that is running the Federal government, not Biden, nor Harris.
Someone spent all his lunch money on the pinball machine.
The question is not party affiliation, but preferred Presidential candidate.
FEMA hasn’t failed, according to their stated goals (https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_2022-2026-strategic-plan.pdf):
When the priorities line up like that, rescuing a bunch of Appalachian crackers must take a back seat.
I’m sure the entire department has been been repeatedly trained in DEI and “climate change.” They can probably do a bang-up job in organizing a diversity seminar or an EV summit. Organizing a relief effort? Not so much, apparently.
China and India put up a new coal powered electricity plant every other week. There is another billion people that are even more destitute poor.
And bless them for it. Global warming is the most important defense we have against the next glacial age. When Miami becomes a glacial ski resort you’ll wonder why no one listened to me.
It’s great to spend other people’s money. It never runs out.
Heading off to read the rest of the Xeets, or whatever they are called now.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/my-blood-is-boiling-furious-elon-musk-goes/
Are you anticipating increased interest in x-country skiing? Mar-a-Lago a ski resort?
“History Lesson,” by Arthur C. Clarke.
This is the interview
https://www.foxnews.com/media/volunteers-rescuing-nc-helene-victims-ask-where-federal-government-no-support-leadership
The Federalist has an interesting article about how the Biden Administration fails at emergency response:
https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/04/comparing-helene-to-katrina-suggests-americans-are-left-to-die-because-democrats-run-the-white-house/
Its a great article, well worth the few minutes to read.
He didn’t break that himself.
Everyone who voted for him in 2020 shares in the responsibility.