It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Dickens’ famous words ring as true today of America as they did of London and Paris in the dark and yet coruscatingly brilliant days of the French Revolution.
America is a country that embodies extremes of moral decay and virtue, and no event better reveals this than Hurricane Helene and its dreadful aftermath.
Let’s start with the worst. The past ten or so days have revealed, if it weren’t clear already, the full depth of the American regime’s hatred of the American people.
In the past few months, that hatred has been on display for all to see in Springfield, Ohio, Aurora, Colorado, Charleroi, Pennsylvania and a host of other small cities and towns across the nation’s heartland.
We’ve seen little left-behind, struggling communities—honest hard-working people made victims of the globalist dream of money and people without borders—swallowed up in the gaping maw of deliberate unrestricted mass immigration.
We’ve seen 20,000 Haitians flown in, on government-chartered planes, to a city of 58,000 people reeling from the hopeless decline of American industry and the corporate mass murder of the opioid crisis. Not even the residents’ pets are safe.
We’ve also seen gangs like Tren de Aragua—“MS-13 on steroids”—holding Americans to ransom in their own communities, openly wielding guns with impunity as if they were still back home in the slums of Latrine America. Their MO: using terror to gain control of hotels and apartment blocks as bases for their drug- and people-trafficking business.
But even this doesn’t compare to what we’ve seen since Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida less than two weeks ago.
The federal response has been a disaster unto itself.
A billion dollars of FEMA funding, money that should have been available, at a moment’s notice, to help the people of the states affected by the hurricane, has instead been allocated to fund the resettlement of illegal aliens.
In a letter sent to Rep. Matt Gaetz, whistleblowers said FEMA withheld pre-disaster funds and also failed to issue deployment orders to first responders, leading to critical failures when the hurricane struck.
“This news comes after FEMA has spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on migrants due to Border Czar Kamala Harris’ open border instead of prioritizing funding for Americans impacted by disasters,’ Gaetz wrote in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas on Friday.
“My office has been in contact with whistleblowers in numerous emergency-management functions at the federal, state, and local levels, and they all point to the same critical mismanagement issues.
“FEMA has wasted taxpayer funds misappropriated funds, and left other federal, state, and local responders without deployment orders on the ground.”
On Sunday, Joe Biden finally announced that military units with “advanced technological assets” would be deployed to aid the recovery.
Why didn’t this happen straight away?
Why wait ten days?
While Americans rot in the floodwaters and the living gather what little remains of their shattered lives, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, the man responsible for FEMA and who said a few months ago the agency was “tremendously prepared for hurricane season,” takes his middle-aged paunch for a shop at shi-shi Sid Mashburn in Georgetown.
Vice President Kamala Harris, instead of showing the leadership one would demand from a future president, appears as a guest on a skanky podcast where women talk about bleaching their buttholes and other edifying, presidential subjects.
Call Her Daddy—call her anything but “madame President,” please.
The mainstream media has already said the quiet part out loud. Hurricane Helene could swing the election. If you think the regime is above sabotaging a relief operation to stop Donald Trump becoming the president, think again. After seven years of Trump derangement, it’s quite clear that nothing is off the table. The former president has already nearly had his head blown off twice. It’ll probably happen again.
But at the same time as America’s governing elite has plumbed fetid new depths, we’ve also seen the best of America. The simple virtue that has distinguished ordinary American people since the first Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock; that drove the pioneers ever westward, in the face of crushing hardship and deprivation; that made a nation, e pluribus unum, from sea to shining sea.
Americans of all means and backgrounds have rolled up their sleeves and got their hands dirty, doing anything they possibly can to help.
While FEMA and the military are nowhere to be seen, dozens of private helicopters have delivered hundreds of thousands of pounds of relief materials to remote communities in North Carolina and Georgia.
People like Adam Smith, who created Savage Operations Center, are flying endless sorties to keep people warm, fed and alive.
Smith has created a GoFundMe page to support Savage Operations Center. So far it has raised $180,000. If you want to help, that’s a good place to start.
So ordinary Americans are doing what ordinary Americans have always done: looking out for each other, whether the government is there to help them or not.
This is no excuse for the government’s behaviour. It’s wrong. Despicable, actually. Those who are responsible must be held to account. Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene has already promised that the director of FEMA, Deanne Criswell, will be brought before the House Oversight Committee and given the full “Kimberley Cheatle” treatment. And yes, that’s the same Deanne Criswell who presided over the shameful federal responses to the appalling disasters in East Palestine, Ohio and Maui, Hawaii, last year.
Uncomfortable grillings before the House and maybe one or two resignations will not be enough to secure justice for the people of North Carolina and Georgia. Only a leader who can unite the nation as one people and scatter the carpetbaggers and profiteers of American decline to the wind, can provide that.
Donald Trump has pitched his claim to be that man. Until he or someone else fulfils his promise, America will remain a nation divided: the American people, doing their best to get along and survive; and the American regime, doing its best to destroy them.