Posted on 10/05/2024 9:27:32 AM PDT by Starman417
Yesterday, Politico ran a grotesque story headlined, “Helene hit Trump strongholds in Georgia and North Carolina. It could swing the election.” The story breathlessly described how hurricane-fueled voting problems will hurt President Trump’s election chances. But Politico never once mentioned the political implications of the slow, defective federal response to the storm, or impeached Democrat Mayorkas, who heads FEMA.
There is a nightmarish parasitic fungus called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, or ‘cordyceps’ for short. It invades the brains and central nervous systems of small insects, usually ants. Once installed, the fungus takes complete control of the victims’ actions, forcing them to act in ways that help spread the fungus. The victims’ bodies waste away as the fungus continues badly animating them in disturbing, herky-jerky movements. As the infected near death, the fungus forces them to climb as high as possible before exploding in a cloud of spores that rain down on other uninfected insects.
That’s the sanitized version of how cordyceps operates.
It’s debatable which cruel parasite, exactly, was responsible for destroying our once-free media. Maybe a corporate takeover by a handful of companies, all sharing the same globalist agenda? Occupation by deep-state psy-operators for national security? Chinese marxists? Or, instead of a complicated conspiracy theory like those, maybe the editors’ and reporters’ brains are growing cordyceps fungus. If you see them start climbing, run.
Regardless, we have a new hero to thank today for doing the media’s job and shaming the federal government into begrudging action. Yesterday, Elon Musk tweeted an update from one of his engineers deployed to the North Carolina disaster zone. The engineer, part of a team using private helicopters to deliver free satellite communications gear to stranded citizens, complained how FEMA and the FAA were shutting them down, part of “regulating the airspace.”
After Elon tweeted out the report from his own engineer, a known first-hand source, media accused the space billionaire of spreading misinformation and denied the feds were hampering aid delivery in any way. Then, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg chimed in:
Elon, an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur, is experienced in solving this kind of bureaucratic whackamole. He called Mayor Pete. About five hours later, Elon posted a thank-you:
This happened because Elon has a giant public megaphone. Do you know who else has a giant public megaphone? The media. Except, for political reasons, since we are a month out of the election, the media has buried its megaphone under a toxic solar-panel graveyard. And people are literally dying because the media refuses to report anything that might embarrass the Biden Administration.
You can sort of understand how the far-left corporate media refuses to cover certain important stories due to politics, like the Hunter Biden laptop. It isn’t healthy. It erodes our democratic republic. But at least that kind of media malfeasance isn’t a direct threat to anyone’s well-being. But the hurricane coverage is completely different. In this case, the media’s malfeasance means many Americans in this country who might have been rescued will die instead.
Compare the media’s hyper-critical 2005 Hurricane Katrina coverage to its endless praise and knee-jerk defense of government during this hurricane. Media was all over the government’s response to the 2005 disaster. Local interviews with countless abandoned citizens pilloried slow-motion aid efforts, to the point President Bush was forced to deliver daily press briefings.
But yesterday, in an insectile frenzy, the media frantically fact-checked President Trump, accusing him of lying when he claimed FEMA gave nearly a billion dollars of disaster money to illegal immigrants — because that was a totally different Federal Emergency Management Agency budget category.
What FEMA could possibly have to do with relocating illegal aliens remains anybody’s guess. Here’s a link to the program on FEMA’s website. But yesterday, the media painted the emergency disaster agency’s money funnel to illegals as natural a phenomenon as breathing political air.
Meanwhile, reports from citizens in the disaster zone of widespread federal incompetence continued piling up yesterday. They are unverified, obviously, since the media refuses to look or listen. One compelling example was a report from the founder of Save Our Allies, formed initially to help rescue Americans and allies stranded in Afghanistan after Biden’s calamitous surrender. Now Save our Allies is working in North Carolina. Its founder complained that local hotels had been reserved for FEMA employees, who aren’t even there yet, and now there is nowhere left to house rescued civilians. FEMA people should be sleeping in a bus or a tent, not hotels.
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Katrina-POC were the victims
Helene-White folk only-ignore them
If Helene had gone through Atlanta the news would be 24/7
And I won’t hold my breath waiting on Green Day to record a music video with helicopters flying in with supplies for abandoned people like they did after Katrina to smear W.
Where are the Country singers? This is where country music was born.
That never gets old.
It was in the news yesterday that Dolly Parton donated US$1M for relief efforts.
Comparing Helene To Katrina Suggests Americans Are Left To Die Because Democrats Run The White House
It’s not about ‘race.’ It’s about who’s in the White House.
If a Republican were president, the media would focus on the “POC” who were killed by this hurricane.
They would be complaining nonstop about FEMA’s poor response, and they might even blame it on ‘racism.’
But, a Democrat is president, and the Dems in media want Kamala to win.
So, they’re not only downplaying the hurricane story. Oh, no, they’re taking it further...
They are defending the White House (and Kamala) from any and all criticism.
Adding:
Also, if a Republican were president, and if most of the victims are white, the media would say the president doesn’t care about poor people. They’d say he only cares about the rich.
Excellent article. I was wondering how the response to Helene compared with Katrina. That article explained it well.
The press did a story about mules used to deliver supplies to Helene victims, as if mules are the only way to get in and out of some hard-hit areas.
But, the article you linked asks about helicopters. Why not more helicopters?
If Trump were POTUS and mules were delivering supplies, the press (and the Dems) would be screaming.
ABC’s “This Week” — House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.; Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell.Figure Cotton and Turner will be solid, and Lara Trump should be. The remainder will mostly be reaching across the aisle to say how there's good cooperation—Johnson, Tillis, and Ernst—leaving fat slob Larry Hogan to spend his entire time Trump-bashing. Meanwhile, all those Democrats will be talk about the wonderful job FEMA is doing led by Harris and how Trump and Musk are spreading misinformation for political gain.NBC's “Meet the Press” — Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
CBS’ “Face the Nation" — Sens. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C.; Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio; Catherine Russell, UNICEF's executive director.
CNN's “State of the Union” — Kelly; Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee; former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Republican nominee for Senate; Jonathan Greenblatt, director of the Anti-Defamation League.
“Fox News Sunday” — Johnson; Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and John Fetterman, D-Pa.
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