Kamala Harris gives $157M to Lebanon while Helene Victims GET NOTHING. Who do you think deserves this money more?

[SolitarySolace]

Kamala Harris Under Pressure to Visit Hurricane Helene-Ravaged States - www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-pressure-hurricane-helene-1961071

The victims of the Hurricane here in the US

The people of Lebanon

Updates

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"FEMA Disaster Preparedness Meeting:

"We should focus our efforts on LGBTQIA people… they struggled before the storm"

"FEMA relief is no longer about getting the greatest good for the greatest amount of people…. It's about disaster equity." - x.com/endwokeness/status/1843095899695931884?s=46

[Zack-Bann]

“ Today, the United States, through USAID and the State Department, is providing nearly $157 million to address the urgent humanitarian needs in Lebanon and the region affected by the current hostilities. These funds will enable the UN, other international organizations, and NGOs to provide food assistance and critical relief items, improve collective shelters, offer health services, and support humanitarian coordination. ”


This is verbatim what is said in the press release by USAID


While I understand this is a rage bait post designed to point out how the US government doesn’t put US citizens first. And by all means rage away.


It’s worth pointing out something very important which is that the Hezbollah terrorist milita is an unrecognized entity residing in Lebanon with no allegiance whatsoever to the country itself nor any official backing


However the civilians and first responders getting bombed every day by weapons also funded by the United States are in fact Lebanese citizens many of whom never partook in any regional war effort
The aid is directed towards them

So if you’re up in arms about the US government sending aid money why do you approve of that government using your taxes to fund insurrections, invasions, and all kinds of violations of international law and human rights

In an ideal world not a single dollar bill leaves the US one way or the other that would bode well for everyone

[WhiteSteve]

Everyone got an initial hit of cash of $750 from FEMA to help the through the immediate aftermath, and more relief will be on the way once damage is assessed. Very dishonest to suggest people affected by the hurricane are just being left out in the cold

[FunkyMonkee]

But, they are!! That $750 won't do shit for them!! They've wasted trillions of our tax dollars on Ukraine and other countries! They've pissed away billions on the illegals pouring into the country!!
That's NOT why we pay it!

[WhiteSteve]

@FunkyMonkee No, that’s the narrative you’ve been fed. I’m not going to argue with you because you clearly are only interested in having cause to be aggrieved for the sake of political debate fodder, but I hope and pray to The Old Gods and The New that you find your way out of the cult you’re currently so devoted to. It must be exhausting, I don’t know how you do it. I’m so tired from just constantly having to point out that people are blatantly lying, I can’t imagine how tiring generating and promoting the lies must be on you guys’ end😓😓😓

[FunkyMonkee]

Oh! Is it? So, YOU'VE NEVER heard Joe say he's giving billions of dollars to Ukraine or any other countries?
Right, I just wanna sit around and argue with idiots all day about politics!
Sorry, kid, I'M NOT the one in any kind of a cult! YOU'RE the brainwashed one!! Maybe you should try looking at the facts and thinking for yourself, for a change!!
You've got Trump living rent free in your head 24/7!! THAT must be exhausting!!
Consider your own life!! YOU'RE the one living on and creating the lies!! Where are your facts?

[WhiteSteve]

@FunkyMonkee yes, I’m in the cult of Independent voters. What in the world are you talking about?

Have you ever noticed that you believe that the world is all fucked up, and only this ONE GUY can save us? And everyone wears the same hat and repeats the same slogans the guy makes up? And dozens and dozens and dozens of people who have personally worked with him or interacted with him in some way have all these terrible things —usually very similar terrible things— to say about him, but you and all the other people in the red hats say every single one of those people is a liar, all because the guy tells you so, even though basic elementary school reasoning skills should lead one to predict that maybe it’s much less likely that this significant multitude of people are ALL lying in a nefarious conspiracy, and much MORE likely that this one guy is actually just a bad egg, and HE’S the one lying?

[WhiteSteve]

@FunkyMonkee And that any and all media reporting anything bad about Trump, or even just anything good about Trump’s opponents, are biased and doing it with a sinister agenda, and are immediately dismissed as “fake news”, while you all ironically consume the fakest imaginable news, so fake that I can’t believe adult humans believe it? Have you ever just considered that maybe instead of all this super-complicated behind-the-scenes crazy-ass conspiracy theory bullshit, maybe Trump actually just sucks, and a great deal of us are rightly horrified and are equally dumbfounded that you folks actually buy into it as if it’s a good thing by any reasonable moral standard? Like honestly, have you EVER thought of this? Or do you just passionately believe in this movement based off of mostly exaggerated or completely imaginary things that you’re conned into believing are happening, that you buy into because of either extreme gullibility, or you have some kind of irrational prejudice that you think will be more comfortably allowed under a MAGA regime? And if you dare to speak out and question the Supreme Leader or the mission statement, everyone will immediately turn on you and kick you out?

HOW is this not a cult?🤔🤔🤔

The entire sane world is laughing at you. Forget Kamala….. what other president in the history of this country has used their voter to hawk worthless merchandise to? Trump coins, Trump bills, Trump trading cards, Trump sneakers…. you guys are SUCKERS.

And he KNOWS IT, that’s why he keeps selling this garbage to you. That, and to pay his legal fees because —I hope you’re sitting down— HE’S A FUCKING CRIMINAL. I know, I know….. it’s all rigged, it’s all a sham, it’s all a hoax, it’s all because Trump is so strong and tough and powerful and awesome that “they” can’t have him assuming power and taking down the establishment…. holy FUCK, you guys. I mean, really and truly…. HOLY FUCK🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[FunkyMonkee]

Yeah? So? He CAN!! He did it 4 years ago, he'll do it again!! Have YOU ever noticed that you've got a corpse running the country? Well, that's giving him too much credit. He's just a puppet! This is actually Barry's third term!! He and Hitlery are the ones REALLY running the country, now!!
At least his slogans mean something!! So far, nobody's been able to figure out what Skamala says and even Joey doesn't even know what HE says!!
And, look at how many quit on Skamala!!
Well, let's see, we've had 4 years of him in office and he did wonders for this country and quite a few others!! Then Joey cheated his way into office and the entire planet's gone to shit because of him!! And you want 4 to 8 more years of THAT SHIT? YOU'RE the psycho!!! Joey, Skamala and the media are the ones doing all the lying!! And you're just stupid enough to believe ALL OF IT!!

[FunkyMonkee]

Wrong again, honey! YOU'RE the one listening to all the lies and are too stupid to realize it!! Funny how most of the world agrees with me and almost none agrees with you! Everybody with a working brain sees how crooked and corrupt your puppets are!!
Have you ever considered that you're a braindead fuckwit? If Trump is SO BAD for the country and is planning on doing all these terrible things, why DIDN'T he do them the last time? And, if Skamala's ACTUALLY GOING to do all the stuff she promises, most of which is TRUMP''S agenda, why hasn't she done ANY of it in the past 4 years? why isn't she doing it right now while she's IN power? Answer: because she's NOT GOING TO DO ANY OF IT!!! Like, REALLY! Have YOU EVER THOUGHT?
How are YOU not cult?
LOL!! No, SORRY!! The ENTIRE world is laughing at YOU!!
They'll all be worth a lot more in the future. What's Joey got, shit-filled underwear? Special sneakers that help him walk up a flight oof stairs?
Wrong again, honey!! JOEY'S the criminal!! Trump has done NOTHING wrong!! We're still waiting for someone to tell us what his crimes are!!
Yes! You're RIGHT!! It IS all a big scam!!
If you don't like it here, move to China!! They'll be happy to take commies like you!

[WhiteSteve]

@FunkyMonkee You sound like a legitimately unhinged person, so I’m just going to end our engagement here🤦‍♂️

Hope you find your way to a more sane mindset. Rooting for you, bud🙏

[FunkyMonkee]

Yyyyyeah, right!! Take a look in the mirror!!

[exitseven]

People do not just get a check from the government like illegal aliens do. They have to apply for it and there must be some proof that you have to present to show that you need the money. I bet less that 10% of people actually got a check. And then to add insult to injury people have to declare that check as income and pay taxes on that money so it ends up being about $500 bucks instead.

[WhiteSteve]

@exitseven
www.fema.gov/.../myth-and-fact-north-carolina-helene-response

The fact that this page even had to be created is direct evidence of why I think MAGA’s blatant dishonesty-for-the-sake-of-political-gamesmanship is so damaging. This is INSANE that one party is just outright lying to the people about the response to a VERY bipartisan issue of a natural disaster, just to try to make the incumbent party who is running a candidate from the current administration look bad in the final weeks of a campaign. Heard a guy in near-tears who had called into a radio show talking about his father-in-law refusing aid after Helene or as Milton was approaching, I’m spacing on the details, but the moral was he wouldn’t apply for help because he believed this nonsense that FEMA would take his house. These are real people’s lives, this shit has a really bad impact, it’s not just a game to say patently false things.

[exitseven]

@WhiteSteve You do realize that this had been written by FEMA? I would believe that Elvis is still alive before I would believe any of this bS.

[WhiteSteve]

@exitseven I don’t know, man, I understand healthy skepticism of anything, but if we’re just going to live in the the land of a fundamental umbrella-distrust of of the government unless Trump is in charge…that’s pretty tough to navigate in any discussion. Most of these people are just career bureaucrats, they aren’t political operatives. Replacing them with a bunch of Trump loyalists would be a disaster.

I’m only trying to be a little bit of a smart ass here, but are you sure you like America? You guys always say “love it or leave it” to people, but all you do is disparage the place, say it’s in decline, that it’s no longer great. The Republicans I used to know, for whatever disagreements I may have had with some of their agenda and attitudes, would NEVER talk shit on America like that. This IS the greatest country in the world, hasn’t stopped being so for a while, even though I could fill a library if I wrote down all my grievances with a lot of how we arrived here, and how we conduct ourselves in some foreign and domestic aspects.

[exitseven]

@WhiteSteve In the neighborhood where I grew up most of the men were WW2 vets including my father and the fathers of all my friends. I try to think of what these guys would think if they were alive today. Most of these guys were democrats but I bet they would no be democrats now.

[FunkyMonkee]

"This is INSANE that one party is just outright lying to the people", yeah, the dems are lying.
"just to try to make the incumbent party who is running a candidate from the current administration look bad" She's doing a DAMNED good job of that all by herself!!
"it’s not just a game to say patently false things." Oh! Butit's perfectly fine when the dems do it!! So far, I haven't heard ANY lies coming from republicans!

[FunkyMonkee]

"You guys always say “love it or leave it”" And you guys keep saying that if Trump gets elected, you're leaving the country! So far, the ONLY one that actually HAS left was Rosie O'Donnel! I guess it's not as bad as you thought or we'd all be republicans in this country!
It IS in decline!! Ever since Joe cheated his way into power!! Are you THAT BLIND that you haven't seen any of that, yet?
"This IS the greatest country in the world, hasn’t stopped being so for a while" It USED to be 3.5 years ago!! If it keeps going in the direction it's going now, it WILL be cease to even exist in next to no time at all!!

[WhiteSteve]

@FunkyMonkee Definitely wasn’t talking to you. We’re done here.

And don’t think I forgot about that time you tried to tag team me with your pink account, and I busted you for having some grammatical tells in both of your posts. That’s WILD, bro. Time to do some long, hard thinking about where you’re at in your life if you’re doing things like that. Of course you’ll deny this publicly, but…. you and I both know😉

But while I wish you well as a fellow human, you’re just not somebody I want to waste any of my existence interacting with. It detracts from my life quality, so I’m just establishing a boundary. Have a blessed day/life, hope you find your way to somewhere better, sincerely🙏

[WhiteSteve]

@exitseven I respect WW2 vets as much as anyone. But history and just life in general is nuanced. Not saying any of the guys you knew, but many vets fought bravely over in Europe or the Pacific, and then came home, and maybe opened up a diner or something, with “Whites Only” on a sign on the door. We want to just readily call someone a hero or villain, but so many people are BOTH.

My dad and I don’t see eye to eye on much politically, but I think he’s a great guy, yet he still says things sometimes where, if I heard it from someone else, I’d be irreparably negative in my judgement of them.

Most things the Democrats are pushing for these days is just “the right thing to do”, morally, so I’m just kind of appalled at the idea that anything would be more important than doing the right thing morally, and that any alternative, particularly based on selfishness, ignorance and bigotry, or pursuit of prosperity, would even be on the table as a possibly-more-important proposition. That’s just unconscionable to me as an aspirationally decent person. Not even trying to high-horse anyone for my own aggrandizement, I’m just legitimately dumbfounded that this isn’t the automatic mood that comes standard in civilized humanity.

[FunkyMonkee]

I don't care!
Sure IS wild! Considering I don't HAVE a pink account!

[FunkyMonkee]

"maybe opened up a diner or something, with “Whites Only” on a sign on the door" Only democrats would've done that. That's why they started the KKK. Do you still have your sheet and hood?
"Most things the Democrats are pushing for these days is just “the right thing to do”, morally" You mean, things like: lying, cheating in elections, destroying cities and the people that live and work in them, pissing away all our tax money so we don't have it to fall back on when we need it, having people put in jail for no crimes, raping and molesting children?
Really? Democrats understand civility?

[Daniela1982]

Why give anything to Lebanon? I don't see any country coming around with a spare tit when we are in need. Besides, isn't an enemy of Israel an enemy of ours?

[Gwendoline]

Sending hezbollah money is not a good idea.

Praying for all those going through tough times with these hurricanes.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Helene Victims, this is why Donald Trump is winning a landslide this Country called America is screwed up big time.

[MisterWack]

“Harris is currently campaigning in Las Vegas but is planning to cut the trip short to return to Washington, D. C., and take part in briefings about the disaster response at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).”

That is from the exact Newsweek article you shared. Though not one mention of Lebanon. So she is doing what you are requesting. HELL go a step further and DEMAND Speaker Mike Johnson end the vacation and promote funding to FEMA since Congress is the only one who can introduce the bill to push to Senate to end up on the President’s desk where he’ll sign it. Do it! Do it! Do it!

[lightbulb27]

and yet trump is campaigning and already been there... she's so disconnected. got her priorities jacked up... given she does have a job to do.

[goaded]

@lightbulb27 Is the date on this question messed up or is it just you?

"2 October 2024

President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris have travelled to south-eastern US states hit by Hurricane Helene, as the death toll from the storm climbed to 180."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgmgz3elmjxo

[lightbulb27]

@goaded I didn't notice, good for them! they've got a lot of hot potatoes in the air, don't see how they'd have time to campaign.

[goaded]

OMG, you're such a liar. Someone in government had to waste their time writing a page of rebuttals to all these lies, and some of them are putting rescue workers at risk, like the lie about FEMA confiscating people's land or goods, which is bound to lead to some people staying where it's not safe and probably even shooting at the people there to help them.

https://www.fema.gov/disaster/current/hurricane-helene/rumor-response

[ohsheeT]

She just lost my vote even though she wasn't going to get it... When you send $157 million overseas nobody really knows where it goes to

But if you spend it in your own country there's going to be a paper trail and you can't mind line pockets that way

I'm getting more and more disgusted each and every day

[NaultD]

The house of Representatives that is controlled by Republicans have the power of the purse. Meaning how vast majority of the budget is distributed and if any changes are needed.

While the executive branch has some limited resource allocation. they are currently being used in the full extent of said power limits.

[Berethor]

Lebanon has allowed Hezbollah to flourish so it don't deserve as single dollar, Harris is scum.

[DrPepper12]

What is it with you guys and giving Credence to some rando on Twitter?

Jim Morrison came to me in a dream last night and told me that the funding for the Asheville recovery is going to be paid for personally by Bibi with all of the corrupt money he has squirreled away. I'm going to post that in a few minutes and if you give me your name I'll tag you in it. 🙄

[exitseven]

Jim Morrison? He has been dead for over 50 years.

[Fireguy17]

You really need to take care of your own citizens first, look at the homeless problem.
It's sad, hopefully fema will come through soon.
Or when Trump goes and does something then the dems will have to do something.

[DryGermanGuy]

20+ million dollars in short-term aid has already been paid out to the hurricane victims. Ask the GOP governors how they assess the collaboration with the federal government. What is this nonsense?

[Radiate143]

They have interests over there that are about world domination. They don't care about America.

[Goahead76]

Yes, exactly, thank you. Someone who understands. It's rare to see someone who gets it, I'm impressed.

[Radiate143]

@Goahead76 Welcome. Try not to get too frustrated delaing with folks.

[exitseven]

America stands in the way of world domination. Trump stands in the way of destroying America.

[Goahead76]

@exitseven. That doesn't make any sense. World domination by whom? The US is the one who has overthrown somewhere north of 88 to 100+ other countries, that or we sanction them to death. I mean, take a look at how many countries we've sanctioned, and its more like are there any countries left we haven't sanctioned or bullied in some way.
As for Trump, though, I want to agree, but all I heard during the debate was them trying to one up each other on who would be more subservient to Israel. It was amazing, of all the issues facing the US, helping Israel wipe out the Palestinians is our number one objective by both candidates.

[FunkyMonkee]

She's also been under pressure to visit the boarder for nearly 4 years and she FINALLY just went about a week ago!! She'll go to the hurricane area in about 4 years!

[msfuntastic]

You are a liar and a disinformation pushing tool, and it's super obvious.

[CaptainSmartass]

Sending money to a known terrorist group is seriously fucked up, not to mention illegal. How the f**k she's not on some sort of watchlist is beyond me.

Simples...

[msc545]

Prove it instead of lying for a change. Link to a credible article and not some YouTube, BS or Fox News BS.

[SolitarySolace]

"The people of Lebanon are facing an increasingly dire humanitarian situation. I am concerned about the security and well-being of civilians suffering in Lebanon and will continue working to help meet the needs of all civilians there.

To that end, the United States will provide nearly $157 million in additional assistance to the people of Lebanon for essential needs such as food, shelter, water, protection, and sanitation to help those who have been displaced by the recent conflict. This additional support brings total U. S. assistance to Lebanon over the last year to over $385 million." - VP Kamala Harris on X

https://x.com/vp/status/1842710797241434259?s=46

[msc545]

ok looks legit. So the only part you lied about is Helense victims getting nothing.

[Caroline91]

Using different funding sources for different needs. Nothing wrong with that.

[exitseven]

just another reason to vote for President Trump. He will put America First.

[DrPepper12]

Seems he put Putin first with free secret covid testing equipment...

[exitseven]

@DrPepper12 take off the tin foil hat.

[DrPepper12]

Putin confirmed receiving the kit and he's more trustworthy than our intelligence services

[exitseven]

@DrPepper12 It was really Dean Wormer that put him on double secret Probation.

[RowdyYates]

The deep state via Kamala, had to figure out a way to keep the storm victim, silent until after the election.

[AmeerX]

You see 157M$ but you don't see 35 trillion Dollars US debt and 150 billion not million dollars given by US to Ukraine 🤣🤣🤣

[OddBeMe]

Yes of course. Why are republicans voting against fema?

[Jamie05rhs]

"And my cat sometimes does this. She gets really loud suddenly."

[Tamera952]

This is BULLSHIT. A total LIE.

[Avicenna]

Kamala loves Hezbollah and other Nazis

[Twalli]

I was aware the VP had that power.

[Twalli]

*Wasn't

[Ladsin2]

American money should go to American citizens.

[Dongie]

Somebody Trump her.

[Malwi93]

a no brainer