Posted on 10/05/2022 3:03:13 AM PDT by servo1969
FT MYERS, FL — In a desperate attempt to get help for its citizens and deal with the growing humanitarian crisis in the area, a Florida town devastated by Hurricane Ian has taken the unusual step of raising the Ukrainian flag, hoping to convince Congress to send aid.
"The Ukrainian government flies this flag, and they're just swimming in billions and billions of dollars in support from the United States. We're just swimming in sewage," said Ray Valdivia, the Response Coordinator working to assess the damage in the town. "We tried going through the normal channels to get help from the government, but Biden just sent us a letter of "best wishes" that looks like it may have been written in crayon."
Though the situation across the Sunshine State has been critical since the hurricane blew through last week, Congress has maintained a keen focus on funneling astronomical amounts of taxpayer money overseas to pay the salaries of Ukrainian government officials and support American defense contractors' war efforts against Russia.
"These requests coming in from Florida are small potatoes," Nancy Pelosi slurred at her meeting with the press when asked about providing hurricane relief. "Sending money to Florida would not save the world from Russia or effectively launder the taxpayer money in any way."
At publishing time, citizens of Ft. Myers were working on using fake Ukrainian accents and inviting Hollywood celebrities to visit their devastated towns, hoping to convince the ignorant actors that they were visiting war-torn Kyiv instead.
It’s a bumfight for sure.
What IS interesting is how hollow the Russian military turned out to be. I’m wondering about the Chinese military and their actual readiness.
It’s fascinating to watch. I think India could take out China in a conventional war at this point.
I think they are working on the next attack on DeSantis by starting to question the timing of the evacuations before the hurricane. When were people warned ahead of landfall and all that goes with the narrative that the folks in Lee country weren’t warned in time to get out of harms way. Even The Weather Channel is CYA mode this morning talking about when they knew what and when.
That’s how everyone here should be in my opinion.
Some of the posters are not Americans…
A rainbow flag would work even better ...
Faster service ...
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I fell for this one... the Bee’s good.
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