By Ray Cardello for October 1, 2024, Season 29 / Post 2

From Maui to Asheville, NC, the people have spoken, and Joe and Kamala, you’re fired. We needed water, food, and shelter, and you gave us high tide photo-ops in Reheboth and let it roll on black bets in Vegas. As the wildfires in Hawaii and Helene showed us in the southeast, you can have leaders who will stand with you and those who talk to you. Time after time, from East Palestine, Ohio, to Sunset Beach, Florida, we have had occasions where people have lost everything, where they are standing where they used to live, and there is now an empty lot of twisted structures that used to be their homes. These people have lost it all, and now they look to us to lend them a hand to help them rebuild and take their spot searching for the American dream.

Hurricane Helene touched American soil on Thursday, and I had an eye into its strength and destruction. My life partner was hunkered down in her condo on Sunset Beach. She had a place on the Gulf since the 1980s, but this was the first time she would experience a hurricane in person. She chose a bad one to be initiated, as Helene may prove to be one of the deadliest storms ever to hit the Florida land. She spent the night in the stairwell as the elevators were shut down and the residents were urged to leave their condos. She awoke to see devastation around her that she had never witnessed. Cars were literally floating out of the lower level garage, and hers, which she had moved to the parking lot, could not be seen as it was covered with sand. The parking lot was now part of the beach. Single-family homes around her building no longer existed. The boulevard was not passable as Helene had covered it with beach sand. There was no power, and the only sound was the wind. She was able to walk a few miles to the other side of the bridge to be picked up by her niece and brought to a hotel at the airport. The devastation continued inland as shops and restaurants showed Helene’s mercilessness. She was lucky to be able to get a flight home on Saturday, but many others would be forced to stay on Treasure Island and rebuild their lives.

I don’t think Joe and Kamala can identify with the people in Florida or throughout the southeast who woke to find their homes or even their cities washed away. When Joe Biden was asked why he and Kamala were not at the White House to monitor and react to the storm and aftermath, he cavalierly said he was on the phone, at the Delaware beach house, for two hours each day with FEMA. Kamala would cut her West Coast campaign swing short to return to Washington, but not until she attended a big-ticket fundraiser.

Joe and Kamala have no empathy or sense of urgency when it comes to the plight of the American people. The people are their pawns whose only purpose is to keep them in power and pay taxes to fund their projects. They claim that Donald Trump is only in this game for himself, but that is purely a projection on their part. Trump was on the ground in Alabama and Georgia since Saturday doing what he could to jumpstart private crusades like Samantha’s Purse to get started getting the impacted people the essentials they needed as they reassessed their lives. This is the action and leadership we have been solely missing for four years and why, on election night, Trump will be able to say to Joe and Kamala, “You’re fired.” They will be very sweet words to millions of Americans.