Do Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Care about White People?

The response to Hurricane Helene sends a clear answer to that question

What other conclusion could I or anybody else draw from the woeful, shameful response—lack of response—to the destruction caused by Hurricane Helene?

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden don’t care about white people.

There: I said it. Others are saying it too.

Biden and Harris simply don’t care.

You’re probably old enough to remember Kanye West saying the exact same thing about black people and George W. Bush in 2005, when Katrina hit New Orleans. The levees shouldn’t have broken in the first place, and then the federal response was slow and confused, leaving people stranded without food and water for up to five days. There was widespread looting and violence. Even FEMA itself complained that red tape and bureaucratic incompetence prevented it from mobilizing and delivering vital supplies.

Kanye West said what so many Americans, especially black Americans, were thinking—although it took Mike Myers and Chris Rock by surprise.

Katrina became a debacle that defined the Bush presidency, alongside the global War on Terror.

Hurricane Helene may yet become a defining debacle of the Biden presidency.

The scale of the damage is Biblical. As of Sunday, 2.4 million people across five states are still without electricity—Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina and Tennessee—dozens are dead and thousands have been displaced and are missing. Entire communities have been wiped off the face of the earth as surely as if the hand of God himself had smote them.

Accuweather is estimating the damage caused by the hurricane to be upwards of $110 billion, making it one of the most expensive in US history. For comparison, Hurricanes Katrina (2005) and Harvey (2017) each caused around $125 billion of damages.

The Category 4 hurricane made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida on Thursday night, with winds reaching over 140 mph. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spoke of “complete obliteration” in the parts of his state the hurricane passed through. It’s reported that 90% of communities like Keaton Beach, which was still struggling to recover from last year’s Hurricane Idalia, have been washed away by flooding.

The Carolinas have borne the brunt of the hurricane’s fury. Two dozen people have already been confirmed dead in South Carolina, the highest total of any state so far. In Buncombe County, North Carolina, more than 1,000 people still remain unaccounted for. It’s hoped that once electricity is restored, contact with these people will also be restored. But given the extent of the damage and the volumes of water that have swept over the Carolinas, it’s not hard to imagine that a significant proportion of them could remain missing or, even worse, be dead.

In North Carolina, Yancey County experienced 29.5 inches of rainfall. To give you an idea of the scale, that’s about half a Zelensky, measured from end to end.

Zelensky—the US government has billions for Ukraine’s diminutive comedian-in-chief. Over $230 billion and counting, in fact. A further $8 billion just last week, for bombs and missiles that can reach deep into the heart of Russia and may end up triggering World War III.