Did you know that the Biden administration has been busy handing out money like Halloween treats to lots of questionable entities besides the Green grifters I wrote about a week or so ago?
Shoot, yeah.
Your money was flying out the door as fast as Janet Yellen could print as POTATUS promised. Quite a bit is going to the usual sweater-wearing suspect. However, POTATUS decided to shake things up while he was in Africa and wrote them a big check on your tax dollars there, too.
$725,000,000 Blinken announced yesterday for Ukraine.
— Charles (@chiefbacher) December 3, 2024
$1,000,000,000 Biden announced today for Africa due to natural disaster.
What is this money being spent on? Who is Biden paying off? How is it being laundered?
These are the questions I'm asking. pic.twitter.com/mgo8UXkHXk
The "rains down in Africa" will probably be our tears over more wasted cash we keep getting told we don't have to begin with.
Now, there's a caveat to all this public largesse.
Those were the flashy giveaways that POTATUS could both semi-stay awake for and that he could brush off the blowback. Plus he got a safari out of it.
It's the behind-the-scenes handouts and special favors that are only now getting exposed, which should have everyone, well, literally flipping out.
And it's Blinken uh-gain.
...Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined on November 8 that "it is in the national security interest of the United States" to waive mandatory economic sanctions that bar Iraq from transferring upward of $10 billion to Iran in electricity import payments.
The Biden-Harris administration has renewed the waiver repeatedly over the objections of congressional Republicans, who warned that the cash helped fuel terrorism and Iran's war against Israel. In one case, the administration signed off on the sanctions relief one month after Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel.
The most recent iteration of the waiver lifts sanctions for 120 days, at which time the incoming Trump administration will have to decide whether Tehran will continue receiving the relief.
Though the first Trump administration did green-light the same waiver—causing tension with some congressional Republicans—it narrowly tailored the waiver to restrict Iranian access to the cash. The Biden State Department tweaked the waiver last year to allow Tehran to convert the funds from Iraqi dinars to euros, then hold those euros in bank accounts based in Oman. Access to a widely traded currency like the euro enables Iran to more easily spend the cash in international markets. Under the first Trump administration, Iran had to keep the cash in an escrow account in Baghdad, making it more difficult to access.
The State Department confirmed last week that it issued the waiver.
POTATUS is rewarding Iran for being...Iran.
The body count in the Middle East caused by the Democratic Party's bizarre obsession with funding the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism is staggering and will be written about by historians for decades https://t.co/XdUKGV9Rm2
— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) December 10, 2024
In the Biden administration's waning days of fevered philanthropy, it appears all comers with extended paws receive a taxpayer handout or easier access to frozen funds. Even if you're a state sponsor of terrorism, you have been financing a war against our closest ally and the only democracy in the Middle East.
No worries!
That's how POTATUS rolls with few exceptions.
Do you know who doesn't get a Biden big buck check?
Americans.
Okay, okay - some of them got $750. You know, those mountain people who just won't shut up.
Some of them only needed the simplest thing to help out.
🚨#BREAKING: A North Carolina resident requesting $200 for a broken window was denied by FEMA.
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) December 5, 2024
Instead, FEMA offered her a 2-room hotel voucher for 30 days in the South Park Marriot Hotel.
This stay would cost taxpayers over $14,000. pic.twitter.com/sGB7TRTPbY
Others, whose situation is far more dire and has been since the waters roared through, are suffering unimaginable deprivations.
As of three days ago - THREE DAYS - FEMA was tap dancing about heavier walled canvas tents with 'heating sources' being acceptable shelter for citizens in winter, and, you know, like, those thinner things for the kids in the backyard. That's an appalling enough discussion when you are talking about Americans desperately in need of shelter after a natural disaster that happened months ago.
I would like to propose a new FEMA policy:
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) December 7, 2024
Since it’s FEMA’s official position that “canvas tents with a heating source” are acceptable housing in #WNC...
I propose that all FEMA employees in #WNC must live canvas tents this winter, until all RESIDENTS are out of canvas tents. pic.twitter.com/GO7Q1Rdage
What makes it even more disgusting is that FEMA denied anyone living in tents as "misinformation" until no less than Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse called them out for the blatant lie.
Thank you @SamaritansPurse to let America know that #FEMA is lying. People are living in tents in #WNC We live here and people are freezing at night .
— Southern "Belle" (@patlicata) December 7, 2024
Oh. Then it became a 'depends what your definition of tent is' semantics CYA game.
Why isn't the biggest story in America right now about how FEMA is holding press conferences in #WNC explaining the differences between people living in "lightweight" tents versus "canvas" tents?
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) December 10, 2024
...it's a TENT, why aren't you helping them get OUT of the tent?
Unreal. pic.twitter.com/2ojo79mqn0
"What do you need?"
Months after Hurricane Helene ravaged North Carolina, families are still living in tents and shelters as winter brings new challenges. Volunteers are stepping up, but the need remains urgent. CBS News’ @JanetShamlian speaks with residents about their struggles and resilience. pic.twitter.com/LwQsKPWBGg
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) December 3, 2024
JUST SOMEONE TO COME CHECK ON US
It tears your heart out...as another billion flies out the window to somewhere, anywhere else but those bitter cold mountains and the people on them.
While quibbling over 'heat sources, ' FEMA forgets that those sources require fuel and the ability to refuel, and it all costs *checks notes* 'money.'
When you've lost everything where are those additional funds for your very survival to come from?
Winter weather challenging Helene recovery - @chelseatorrestv on @foxweather from Swannanoa, North Carolina pic.twitter.com/1wFNOTeRXD
— Fox News MMR (@FoxNewsMMR) December 5, 2024
What a disgrace.
In Western North Carolina, some Helene survivors are turning to yurts for shelter as winter temperatures hit the teens.https://t.co/HL5zUcXZdi
— Blue Ridge Public Radio (@BlueRidgePublic) December 8, 2024
This isn't the Mongolian Steppes - it's America.
Or it was until Joe Biden's regime.
FEMA's even blocking trailers and donated tiny homes from being placed because "flood zone." No one does that to anyone living on the oceanfront in Florida.
It's hard not to believe that Biden and Co. would rather see people freeze to death if they couldn't leave than put a temporary dry and warm roof over their heads.
Which is all any of them are asking for.
And have every right as American citizens in dire need to expect.
JD Vance speaking to residents in western North Carolina who were impacted by hurricane damage:
— The American Conservative (@amconmag) December 7, 2024
"It's ridiculous, it's a atrocious, and we need a government that responds quickly to the needs of its citizens."pic.twitter.com/y6jKDG7VIg
No amount of pleading for common sense and plain old mercy has moved Biden's bureaucrats.
You know who matters to Democrats now.
"THE DEMOCRATS HAVE NOT BEEN PUTTING AMERICANS FIRST!" @brianGlennTV and Tera Dahl discuss how many in NC are suffering as the weather begins to change while the Biden administration sends billions of dollars overseas. @michellebackus_ @thebeaudavidson @EmilyRoseFinn pic.twitter.com/rVo4gkb0Qn
— Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) December 10, 2024
All the while, the money to help every last person goes somewhere else.
Don't ever forget it.
BEEGE UPDATE: Breaking right now from "frozen Russian assets."
RIGHT
BREAKING: Biden Administration to issue $50 billion dollar “loan” to Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/Pzx3NisrEL
— Dominic Michael Tripi (@DMichaelTripi) December 10, 2024
I know where we have frozen assets a lot closer to home who need the money more.
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