Biden buys the votes of another 60,000 people, topping 1 million so far, average loan forgiven in this round is $70,000 vs. $42,500 from FEMA for home repair assistance after the hurricanes

 It's great to be a College Democrat.

CNN reports that if your home was destroyed in the hurricane your  "current maximum amount for home repair assistance, for example, is $42,500." 

What was that about equity, Kamala Harris?

President Joe Biden, who has forgiven more education debt than any other president in U.S history, said that the number of borrowers to benefit from the program under his administration now exceeded 1 million. ...

The average student loan balance forgiven under PSLF is around $70,000, according to a rough estimate by higher education expert Mark Kantowitz.

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Hurricane flooded electric cars going up in flames

17 in the wake of Hurricane Helene.

 

Longtime Democrats Doug Schoen and Andrew Stein speechless after rudderless Biden-Harris administration fails Hurricane Helene victims

The failure of the Biden-Harris administration to take charge of urgently needed rescue and recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene underscores a key question: Who is really running this White House?

Right now, we have no clear answer.

President Biden’s and Vice President Harris’ cavalier indifference to the Americans fighting to survive in the disaster zone has left us — both longtime Democrats — speechless. ...

It took six days for the White House to activate a paltry 1,000 military members to help deliver assistance — even though three of America’s premier military divisions with critical search and rescue experience are based within just a few hours of the hardest-hit areas in the Carolinas and Georgia.

Compare that to President George W. Bush, who ordered nearly 10,000 troops to the Hurricane Katrina disaster zone in 2005.

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Trump strongholds in North Carolina and Georgia were hit hard by Hurricane Helene

 

Politico reports here:

Hurricane Helene hit especially hard in heavily Republican areas of Georgia and North Carolina — a fact that could work to Donald Trump’s disadvantage in the two swing states. ...

The parts of western North Carolina and eastern Georgia that were flooded by the monster storm are largely Republican. In 2020, he won 61 percent of the vote in the North Carolina counties that were declared a disaster after Helene. He won 54 percent of the vote in Georgia’s disaster counties. ...

State records show that nearly 40,000 absentee ballots were mailed to voters in the 25 North Carolina counties that were declared a disaster following Helene. Fewer than 1,000 have been returned.

The Harris-Biden messaging is in complete disarray: Kamala boasts right now about spending millions to aid Lebanon, which harbors Israel's enemies, while her own DHS Secretary is warning FEMA is running out of money for hurricanes

 And Mayorkas couldn't care less about FEMA running out of money or the suffering in the Southeast. He went clothes shopping on Saturday.

This administration excels at in-your-face bad optics in addition to doing a horrible job.

Harris-Biden administration sending $157 million in emergency aid to Lebanon, but FEMA is out of money for Western North Carolina relief from Hurricane Helene

 

Toilet paper shortage blamed on Hurricane Helene demand and/or panic over the port strike which lasted three days, either way we're sol so to speak

Walmart releases statement after seeing increased demand for paper towels, toilet paper

 A spokesperson for Walmart said there has been “increased demand in some communities on items like bath tissue and paper towels - especially in areas impacted by Hurricane Helene.”

 Port strike 2024 triggers toilet paper 'panic buying' at Costco locations

The rush to buy is in response to thousands of dockworkers going on strike Tuesday, shutting down 36 ports along the East and Gulf coasts. ...

Jennifer Lee, of our sister station FOX 29 Philadelphia, spoke with Dr. Subodha Kumar – a professor at the FOX School of Business at Temple University – who says the port strikes won’t have much of a short-term impact on consumers, and absolutely none on the supply of toilet paper.

The Harris-Biden M/O: Create an illegal alien emergency through asylum gimmick, redirect emergency funds meant for hurricanes to communities overrun with foreigners, run out of money when hurricanes hit, blame Republicans

 

Local fire official tells private chopper pilot not to rescue people in Western North Carolina after rescuing people or be arrested

 Helicopter pilot threatened with arrest after flying rescue missions in flood-ravaged NC 

“I can only imagine what the people were thinking. You’ve been stranded for 24, 36 hours. No way to speak with anyone. You don’t know what’s going on and you see a lifeline fly over and they keep going. I can only imagine what they were thinking.”

He added: “If I had to do it over again, I would have stopped and I would have rescued as many people until they decided they were going to arrest me.”

Officials in the town of Lake Lure could not immediately be reached by The Post on Wednesday. 

UPDATE:

 

Harris-Biden disaster response in Western North Carolina is a disaster: 40 civilian choppers rescuing people stuck in the mountains, many at their own expense, but only 2 US government

What got me fired up about this was yesterday, me and my team did the rescue of that 11-day-old baby and all these government officials and social media, they're showing that video, pictures and video of that rescue and claiming that they have some government help with that. Even USA Today wrote an article about it saying it was a Florida National Guard that went and got it with a helicopter. No, it was me, my buddy Charlie, and a civilian named Zeb with his own personal helicopter out of Wilmington, North Carolina. 

Without that civilian, that baby would be dead. And the old lady we went and rescued after that, she'd be dead too because she had one day left of oxygen. No one was going to go get them. 

I will tell you when we go up in the air, I probably see 40 civilian helicopters. I might see two Blackhawks, National Guard, military, whatever they are. That's it.

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Tennessee sent 700 National Guard to Kuwait the day Hurricane Helene blew in

 In Tennessee, on the day the hurricane blew in, 700 National Guard troops were deployed ...to Kuwait, to take part in some waste-of-time military exercise organised by a Pentagon that hasn't won anything since VJ Day and takes twenty years to lose to goatherds with fertiliser. Ukraine matters, union disputes in Yemen matter, the millions swarming across the Rio Grande to be resettled across the fruited plain matter. But Maui, East Palestine, and rural North Carolina don't matter. ... Unlike Katrina, this hurricane is nothing to do with whoever's running the executive branch of the United States. As to who precisely that is, all we can say for certain is that, of the more than seven billion people on earth, it's not Joe Biden, because he's focused on collective bargaining in Yemen, and Kamala Harris, because nobody would put her in charge of anything.

Well, except for half the voters in the United States.

If those numbers hold up, expect a lot more of western North Carolina in your future.

-- Mark Steyn, here 

Over 700 Tennessee National Guard Soldiers Deploy to Kuwait for Operation Spartan Shield :

Over 700 soldiers from the Tennessee Army National Guard's 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment are set to leave their home state for a deployment in the Middle East this Saturday. These service members, specifically from the regiment's 2nd Squadron, will spend a few weeks at Fort Bliss, Texas for final preparations before heading to Kuwait.

More than 2.5 million still without power 64 hours after category 4 Hurricane Helene made landfall