“Did you ever think you would have to illegally smuggle supplies to help people in need?”
The big-wave surfer Kai Lenny, the boy with the mild, defenceless eyes of a lamb flung down between the hyenas and the tigers of the world, has mobilised his over one-million followers after supplies of insulin to fire-ravaged Maui were blocked by government bureaucrats.
“Something big is happening right now,” said Lenny in a piece to camera. “We’re trying to get insulin flown in from Kona but our flights are being blocked by the Department of Health…a lot of people need their medical needs met…people are suffering… we have no support…”
The strikingly unique Maui native whom no woman or man can resist, spoke about government, county through state and federal, hindering efforts to get medicines on the island including stopping jetski and boat deliveries.
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The absurd bureaucratic red tape alongside a lack of governmental support drew sharp fire from Lenny’s followers.
My thoughts are with you guys, Biden disgusts me, he can send billions to Ukraine and to prolong that war and the Maui islanders are struggling to get supplies and be blocked by red tape.
STOP VOTING FOR AND BELIEVING IN DEMOCRATS HAWAII! Case in point. @kai_lenny puts it down perfectly here. We are supporting through individuals, F the corrupt liberal government in evil DC
Did you ever think you would have to illegally smuggle supplies to help people in need?
So sorry for all you people over there are going thru. My take on this mess up with our government, the want us to completely depend on them for support and all. Then when we need them the most they aren’t there. Biden just left our state. Couldn’t figure out why he was really there but he shows up, and says he’s doing all he can to help you. “Maybe quit running around doing stupid stuff and send aid to those who need it most right now”!!
his is BS. The Health Department is schooled in disaster preparedness and in working with The Red Cross to make sure this “red-tape” crap doesn’t happen. Get the people of Maui the medication and everything they need!
Of course, no government is immune to the power of social media and shortly after Lenny’s post, The Department of Health cleared the flight and the Coast Guard agreed not to stop the skis and boats.
“Because everyone shared and posted about it it’s been cleared… this is the power of the people,” said Lenny.
The response to the fires, which have killed at least eighty people, has echoes of George Dub Bush’s response to ravaged New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Americans left to fend for themselves in wretched conditions despite the almost limitless resources of the world’s richest country.
It always surprises me, and it shouldn’t by now I suppose, when presidents don’t throw the kitchen sink at a disaster, launching choppers and ships and pouring money into boots and supplies on the ground. The political capital gained is immeasurable and the money spent can be found later.
Fly in, hug a few weeping mamas, visit the hozzy, promise to rebuild and so on.
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does Melania drive?
behind the scenes: lawyers,
guns,and money…The government isn’t sending enough aid! What do we need?
Smaller government! /s
“Biden disgusts me, he can send billions to Ukraine and to prolong that war” Thats a MAGA meme.
Hippy just wants his card to be filled every month.
BOOM! EXACTLY! Not part of the “script”!
Next, they’ll tell us the Amish horses are the reason troons put their dicks in blenders.
REEEEEEEeeeeeee
You know what I love about the typical left commentator is that they often have thousands of comments. THOUSANDS. Hmmmmm. Is this your job to belittle people who are speaking in fact. It kind of reminds me of censorship in general, that only really started when people began to speak the truth. Same with fact checkers who it turns out were just opinions when facebook was under oath in court about it. So these opinions arent actually facts at all but they deplatformed people and then little men like you try to insult truth in comment sections of websites. Bet its not just here either…
Yes Lasers. Its all over the news if any of you wish you look. They were blaming the chinese. Hmmmm remember the ‘spy balloon’ which was actually just a satelite that drifted down. Thats all they are. If china wanted to spy they could just turn one of their space satelites around to look at anything they wanted to? Google earth even ha ha satelites ha ha lol.
The conspiracy to cover up the actual truth, has a budget of over $850Billion a year. The average “person”, just wants to slurp starbucks, get their pot, and eat saccharin. The truth would most likely scar their “utopia”
Its just fascinating to watch happening.
I was looking through an instagram post recently and it was all very pro voice to parliament and a few people questioned the fact information was withheld from the australian people. It was not just a one page document and instead was 26 pages outlining proposals that any land owner in the country might like to look into instead of being gaslit by a government illegally using tax payer dollars to swing a vote while also putting forward a bill that can censor, fine and imprison ANY other opinion, and do you know who is exempt from the bill? The sitting government ha ha Hows that democracy? Anyway, I digress. All these similar accounts just start to abuse and belittle the people asking legitimate questions. Almost violently abusive. Same with any left agenda. Mention trans and youre screamed at online. It wild.
Anyway. Maui. Youre going to see first hand what happens as a warning for the rest of the world. They did it here in Aus with bushfires and flooding. Got the people off the lands they want to build their new infrastructure on. The rest of you in here should have questions and I suggest you start asking your crazy conspiracy friends because theyve been correct about the rest of it.
We’re conspiracy theorist until the sheep has it’s wool taken against it’s will. Then the sheep wants to be a victim, but still enables the Wolf.
Long live the Sheepdog!
Damn, I thought the space lasers were Jewish not Chinese! Thanks for the info!
“Biden disgusts me, he can send billions to Ukraine and to prolong that war “
Hah.
Gotta love the willing consumers of Russian propaganda.
The new Black in Black shorts
Yeah, a fool with the best presidency in decades, highest job growth, inflation is on the downswing, lowest border crossing in 12 years, etc. But you don’t know what’s going on because you live in an echo chamber—but the best part about that doesn’t matter because you’ve made it so you don’t matter. Here’s a clue, Trump lost, and he’s likely going to jail; covid is real, vaccines work, and life in the USA is generally still great and the best place on earth to live… So, why are you so miserable?
You could only live in a psyche ward lefty echo chamber to believe Biden has brought highest job growth, that inflation is on the down swing and that border crossings are the lowest in 12 years. Those are all out and out false you dumb fucker.
I think you make the echo chamber argument better than anyone. When was the last time you read a book? A comic book, any book will count – when? Jr. High?
Just finished Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose.
Got any other dumb questions ya fag.
Just one – what’s it like to live with such bitterness and fury? Goodnight, mate. Get better.
And, we realize you’ve never traveled outside the United States! If Trump goes to jail, your little dream spot will spiral to hell QUICKLY!
I don’t live in the US—and Trump is going to jail – take the “if” out of it, along with your head out of your ass.
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Huh? Is English your 2nd language, too?
Quite honestly, you talk like some little shrimp pos politician from NZ. The “cultural appropriation Capitol of the World”! Therefore, just stfu, and wait for Chinese leadership to give you talking points.
Dude, you do know that China is bankrupt, right? You need to watch something other than Newsmax, turn off Steven Bannon… you’re reading an old surf report.
Nice response. Have a good night.
Good boy, now roll over.
WTF are you whinging about – the USA is the world leader and always claims the higher ground, but this is clearly a global problem – whether it’s China or the USA or Europe that are the worst polluters, we’re all the biggest consumers, so it doesn’t matter – this isn’t poker, it’s not chicken, so that whole “they do it, too” argument is lame. The earth is heading off a cliff. We all lose. Get it? Climate change-caused catastrophe has been a staple of countless documentaries and books for the last 50 years. We ignored it. This is all on us—and it is mainly on the right-wing idiots who continue to deny global warming because that entire culture is underwritten by big oil. Grow up. Read a book.
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oh jeez. like its bidens fault.
to immediately turn this horrific human tragedy into a way to vent your politics is a special kind of stupid.
Josh Green not popular in West Maui at moment. Direct correlation.
I fail to see why he is so unpopular in Hawaii.
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You believe this is a conspiracy to take over the island by wealthy developers?
Interesting. Please post links to your evidence that the fire was staged for financial gain/control so that we can prosecute the guilty.
Mick Fleetwood: Then Play On…
When it comes time to rebuild, the regulations that will be imposed will of such that only a certain class will be able to afford it.
Biden is being blamed for the nightmare of Hawaiian politics? Hey, all you small government guys, this is what happens – whatever you think of Biden, he’s not a fool, the optics of this are grim, and Maui will get billions in Federal aid. Billions and billions.
Biden not a fool?! You’re fucking insane
Biden has been a fool his entire political career. And now we know that he and his family are corrupt to no end, yet you stickup for him. You need to fuck off.
This is how you know who has always been the pivot, in a circle jerk.
You are a proud member of the ignorant minority – fun to poke you, tho.
You praise Biden, a fool who eulogized an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan.
Biden is having a good presidency under impossible circumstances – to deny that is to be delusional. You might prefer the anti-democracy and chaos of Trump and company, but most Americans would rather address injustice and inequality. Last Thursday, Biden had already declared Maui a National Disaster; to blame him for the post-apocalyptic nightmare of the moment is wrong-headed. Goodnight.
We’re a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. Based upon Biden’s approval rating, no, most Americans would rather address the border, high inflation, curb government spending, make elections more secure, have energy independence than deal with your looney bin delusions of an America that is fraught with injustice and inequality.
Enjoy your Trump vaccine.
He saved your life .
Heart goes out to Maui people. But Kai Lenny is a MAGA crazy? Didn’t see that coming.
It’s a cancer, mate.
Biden could have tossed some paper towels.
Maybe squirt guns?
Anything that happens. MAGAts see the same views. They are lost, no one can find them.
Yeah, such a bummer. I have lost good friends and family to this craziness.
I lost Tired of Winning to this disease
lol I miss talking to you Bro
Maui government handling of situation by most accounts a big fail. As well as Josh Green response per virtually all local on ground witnesses.
Green is comparable to Biden in most every way that is why the narrative is such.
Who names a governor Josh? What’s next President Skippy ?
Few things ill point out.
The guy just said they want to take the land.
There were wooden street signs still in tact while the building next to it is in rubble. The petrol station didnt even have a mark on it yet it houses highly flammable liquid and a lot of that gets spilled onto the ground when you pull your nozzle out. Maui has been earmarked for 15min city. Climate change is a hoax (rising sea levels anyone…) D.E.W
Ive seen images of half cars scorched. Plastic garbage bins perfect next to rubble of houses. Trees and timber powerpoles in tact. Restaurants in rubble totally burned out but their umbrellas out the front perfect. Microwaves. Lasers shining down on Hawaiian islands in recent weeks. F.E.M.A all over it yet not allowing any help in. Land grab.
Trump withheld $20 billion in relief for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, one of the deadliest U.S. natural disasters in over 100 years.
But partisan idiots who cheered Trump when he callously tossed paper towels at Puerto Ricans are now using the Maui fires to attack Biden.
Great job by Kai Lenny. He showed frustration at government bureaucrats but he didn’t make it a partisan issue.
Nor should we.
Trump is too dumb to know that PR is part of the USA. As for the fire on Maui I’m being told real estate agents started it so they could redevelop the entire region—the confluence of the anti-science anti-woke anti-BLM anti-logic antic-democracy anti-grace and the new age-anti-vac vegan nazi clan is going to produce lebensborn groms that will make the christian right proud.
Damn that was good and true, esp vegans as part of the new right. https://uploads.disquscdn.c… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
The ‘Wellness to Fascist Pipeline’
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Reading this post that I like reminded me that there is one STP song that I approve of.
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Dude you stepped up your game.
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Agree with most of what he said but I don’t think right now is the time for politics and sowing division. A unified effort is more important. There’s people blaming Trump/republicans for climate change and the resulting disaster in Lahaina pretty amazing how peoples psyches have been captured.
Still, it is important to know that climate change is the major driver in nearly every firestorm and weather-driven catastrophe in the last few decades. This is clear. We were warned. We ignored the warning for bigger trucks and cooler AC.
Is “never let a catastrophe go to waste” a political slogan? Hurricanes are a common occurrence here and given we are in an El Nino weather pattern were seeing more than usual it’s also not uncommon to have these kinds of winds from regular trades as we did just a few months ago. Grassland fires have also happened every year since I can remember long before climate change was an issue. We were warned by “concerned” billionaires and politicians over a decade ago that the world would be ended by now due to environmental catastrophe, but it hasn’t. These same people have created ways to enrich themselves through climate change legislation while being total hypocrites and making our lives harder. The climate has been changing since forever and will continue to do so long after people are gone. You could argue that people are speeding up global warming and that may be true but it’s going to happen regardless of what we do. Seems to me climate change hysteria is just another ploy to gain power/control over people. You think the people in charge are benevolent and actually care? If they did the bombing of the Nord stream pipeline would have been condemned. It released 500 kilo tons of methane (methane is 80 times more harmful to the atmosphere than carbon by weight) into the atmosphere making it the largest greenhouse gas emission in recorded history yet not a peep about that climate catastrophe, you ever wonder why?
Well, first, we’re in charge – or we can be if we want to be… I don’t subscribe to the idea that there’s some vast conspiracy behind these issues, the weather and crime catastrophes, etc; school shootings aren’t false flags to undermine the 2nd amendment. Covid isn’t a conspiracy. We get the government we deserve. Yes, the climate is constantly changing, but these extreme weather events that have begun to batter the world are because of man-made climate change, to think otherwise is to dismiss enormous data and science, willfully or not. The writing is on the wall with CC; we can fix it or die from it. It is up to us. The corporate class is ruthless, but I don’t think real estate agents conspired to murder a few hundred people and burn down billions of dollars just so they can speculate on Maui development.
Interesting how you lump in obvious and ridiculous conspiracies together to try and discredit real events/legislation. You know what a “red herring” is?
I’m not a fan of realtors or developers, but it is unlikely they have banded together to burn over a thousand people to death to exploit real estate opportunities. These events have been a long time in coming; we have been warned about climate change and its accompanying disasters for decades. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and much of Europe are on fire. The ocean is warmer than ever in recorded history, and SoCal is about to flood from a historically significant hurricane. Add that to local dysfunction regarding goods and services (water & power, etc.), and you can have catastrophes like this one. There is nothing big oil and big coal, et al., would like better than for people like you to continue to point fingers and place blame on anyone and anything—but those industries. Keep up the excellent work; those trillionaires appreciate your efforts.
I love the c02 thing. Scary stuff!!! Its literally what trees NEED to survive. For all the ‘trust the science’ idiots out there this is simple science. When humans breathe out we emit c02. ‘They’ try to tell us c02 is from burning of ‘fossil fuels’ ha ha are we really meant to believe a human creates the same gas when we breathe as my car exhaust? Really? No, seriously, really? Trees such in c02 and through a lovely system of photosynthesis they pump out 02 which we breathe in. We currently have more than enough trees to suck up the c02. The climate fear mongering and subsequent control taxing is one of the biggest global rackets ever. It was 20yrs ago now that old mate Al Gore was telling the world we are about to end. 20yrs before that we were told of rising sea levels yet I bet Al owns a beachside property of two like the rest of those crooks. Hows the maldives going? Oh its still there? Cool.
covid ha ha exact same numbers as common flu. Flu vaccines come out before the new variant ha ha how convenient for us its almost like they know what ‘nature’ will release this year. covid treatments in hospital? Remdesivir and ventilator. It kills you. Remember hydroxichloroquine and ivermectin were BANNED? Why? oh but now that we killed people in hospitals with the wrong protocol they have been forced to go back on ivermectin. Here is a little idea to consider. The vaccine was not made for the virus. The virus was made for the vaccine.
Whatever you do you should not get any sunlight or walk barefooted on the earth instead keep platering your skin with known carcinogenic chemicals and washing the vitamin d off your skin with more chemicals and be sure to get your flu shot again. Oh and buy an EV charging it up at night via your fossil fuel powered electricity. Oh damn I forgot about renewables ha ha remind me again which one of those work?
wow. The censorship is real.
FYI I didnt write the above comment. My comment was deleted by a ‘moderator’
ha ha goodluck out there idiots.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
S0, what would be the blame for the fires in the 1800′, 1700’s, 1600’s, 1500’s? Oh crap, just took you off script. It’s so sad reading something like this!
All those fires that occurred before we started running our planet on oil and coal?
I’m seeing stuff that the hydrology of Maui has been fucked by the plantation economy, and this contributed to the fire. Less water, exacerbated by more energy in the atmosphere from carbon emissions.
Are you as stupid as this post makes you look? Hard to imagine.
YES! Whatever it takes to make you calm, so your medication doesn’t get you upset. I’m sure your husband doesn’t want you to pull a muscle…
You’re actually factually incorrect. 97.5% is by direct cause ( arson ) or poorly maintained power transmission operations. Nice try but it was hotter in the 1800’s and will be hot and dry again long after our selfish , partisan , retard asses are gone.