Posted on 06/18/2024 4:03:41 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin
The good news: Thanks to God’s underrated sense of irony, President Joe Biden’s administration’s ludicrous plan to build a pier in Gaza without putting U.S. boots on the ground in order to deliver aid that absolutely, positively wouldn’t be stolen by Hamas has been, for the moment, foiled by the unseen element of bad weather that happens every year in the Mediterranean. More’s the pity.
The bad news: Apparently, “devout Catholic” Joe Biden can’t take a divine hint and the American taxpayer will be on the hook for at least another $22 million to fix the thing so Hamas can restart stealing … erm, I mean, borrowing aid.
According to the The Jerusalem Post, the $320 million pier had apparently been fixed and ready for action last Saturday after breaking apart under moderate seas and partially sinking in late May. However, it only managed to say open for a single day before that darned water stopped cooperating again.
“The pier was reattached to the coastline Friday after a mishap in which heavy seas cost at least $22 million in damage to the structure. More than a million pounds of aid flowed over it Saturday, but operations were curtailed again Sunday and Monday because of more heavy sea conditions,” The Washington Post reported, citing military sources.
In addition, the World Food Program announced on Sunday that they were suspending aid operations because of rampant looting.
“We are reassessing the safety aspects of where we should be and what this means for us,” said World Food Program head Cindy McCain. “It made things a lot more dangerous. … The crowd is already hungry. They’re desperate. And then to have something like this occur?”
“[WFP trucks] are looted because it’s so difficult to get along,” she added.
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Overtaxed, hard-working Americans trying to get by.
TAXATION with horrible representation. CONgre$$.
The DEI General at the Pentagon is probably running the $hit show and collecting a kickback
Just so long as it’s used only for supplies going in—and not people coming out!
It’s not being used for that so-called pier.
Where is all that money really going?
Reminds me of a certain movie quote...
President Thomas Whitmore:
I don’t understand, where does all this come from? How do you get funding for something like this?
Julius Levinson:
You don’t actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you?
The surf in that area can get very rough.
There is a reason there is few ports there.
The company that got this contract was a group of retired military and some facilitators with access to State Dept. Can’t remember name right now but looked it up at the time. Shocking incompetence and a $322 million ripoff of taxpayers.
Biden voters and donors…no doubt.
Take a look at this pier if you can find some pics. Unlikely there were engineers involved.
Back in the day we would call this a FUBAR or a Charlie Foxtrot, but that seems to be story with everything Joey does.
I have a plan to create a new port on the coast of Gaza...
It’s called Operation Plowshares II.
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