What other conclusion could I or anybody else draw from the woeful, shameful response—lack of response—to the destruction caused by Hurricane Helene?
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden don’t care about white people.
There: I said it. Others are saying it too.
Biden and Harris simply don’t care.
You’re probably old enough to remember Kanye West saying the exact same thing about black people and George W. Bush in 2005, when Katrina hit New Orleans. The levees shouldn’t have broken in the first place, and then the federal response was slow and confused, leaving people stranded without food and water for up to five days. There was widespread looting and violence. Even FEMA itself complained that red tape and bureaucratic incompetence prevented it from mobilizing and delivering vital supplies.
Kanye West said what so many Americans, especially black Americans, were thinking—although it took Mike Myers and Chris Rock by surprise.
Katrina became a debacle that defined the Bush presidency, alongside the global War on Terror.
Hurricane Helene may yet become a defining debacle of the Biden presidency.
The scale of the damage is Biblical. As of Sunday, 2.4 million people across five states are still without electricity—Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina and Tennessee—dozens are dead and thousands have been displaced and are missing. Entire communities have been wiped off the face of the earth as surely as if the hand of God himself had smote them.
Accuweather is estimating the damage caused by the hurricane to be upwards of $110 billion, making it one of the most expensive in US history. For comparison, Hurricanes Katrina (2005) and Harvey (2017) each caused around $125 billion of damages.
The Category 4 hurricane made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida on Thursday night, with winds reaching over 140 mph. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spoke of “complete obliteration” in the parts of his state the hurricane passed through. It’s reported that 90% of communities like Keaton Beach, which was still struggling to recover from last year’s Hurricane Idalia, have been washed away by flooding.
The Carolinas have borne the brunt of the hurricane’s fury. Two dozen people have already been confirmed dead in South Carolina, the highest total of any state so far. In Buncombe County, North Carolina, more than 1,000 people still remain unaccounted for. It’s hoped that once electricity is restored, contact with these people will also be restored. But given the extent of the damage and the volumes of water that have swept over the Carolinas, it’s not hard to imagine that a significant proportion of them could remain missing or, even worse, be dead.
In North Carolina, Yancey County experienced 29.5 inches of rainfall. To give you an idea of the scale, that’s about half a Zelensky, measured from end to end.
Zelensky—the US government has billions for Ukraine’s diminutive comedian-in-chief. Over $230 billion and counting, in fact. A further $8 billion just last week, for bombs and missiles that can reach deep into the heart of Russia and may end up triggering World War III.
Anything you ask for, Vlod. There’s always money for wars overseas. But for the heart of America? Nothing.
On the tarmac on Sunday, as he waited to board Air Force One, Joe Biden was asked about the Hurricane. Did the President have any words for the victims?
Biden said something garbled, incomprehensible. Something about a “distinction between the numbers on the ground and the numbers FEMA uses.” It sounded like an attempt to fend off criticism about the government’s response. He squinted and looked around like a demented old man searching for an ice-cream stand or a child to sniff—or both.
One of the reporters asked him if there were any more resources the government could give.
"Do you have any words to the victims of the hurricane?"
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BIDEN: "We've given everything that we have."
"Are there any more resources the federal government could be giving them?"
BIDEN: "No." pic.twitter.com/jDMNGhpjOz
“No,” he said, without hesitation. His demeanor at once became steely and focused. “We’ve pre-planned a significant amount of it even though they didn’t ask for it yet”—whatever that meant. Probably another attempt to fend off criticism.
And then he was gone.
We could say the same about the woeful, shame response to the terrible fires in Lahaina, last year. The federal government did barely anything, at a time when it was pumping money into Ukraine to keep the meat grinder grinding, and the victims on Hawaii weren’t just white. So what’s the difference?
The victims in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee aren’t all white either, but a significant proportion of them are, and what’s more these are red states. These are the people the Biden-Harris regime is doing its best to disenfranchise and, ultimately, replace. These are people who voted Trump and will vote Trump.
Buncombe County is the mirror image of Springfield, Ohio, the one submerged under floodwaters, the other by 20,000 Haitians flown in on special government chartered-flights. (It looks like the government is even using flights designated for the remains of US service personnel to bring Haitians in.)
As one Twitter user noted, the base formerly known as Fort Bragg is 268 miles from ground zero of the disaster. The XVIII Airborne Corps is based there and they have large numbers of rotary-wing aircraft, a medical brigade, an engineering brigade, a police brigade and the communications infrastructure to coordinate a complex disaster-relief mission under the most challenging of conditions. Fort Bragg has been used time and again as a launching post for such missions, including Hurricanes Katrina and Fran.
So why not now?
What gives?
The Biden-Harris administration has been utterly ruthless in rewarding its friends and punishing its enemies. The people of the hurricane-ravaged states are, in large part, enemies of the regime, and so the response is the same. Punishment. In the plight of these bedraggled, homeless people, we see a vision of the future of America, the Harris future of America. Whole communities, a people and a way of life, washed away in the deluge—but not an act of God, far from it.
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