October 9, 2024
Infamous “October Surprise” Black Swan Event Bending Arc Of American Election Has Arrived
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A compelling new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Donald Trump most factually proclaimed on Saturday: “We’re at almost $300 billion for Ukraine and yet they’re offering people $750 for the worst hurricane that anybody’s seen”, says this proclamation was followed by the news yesterday: “Ukraine is no longer planning to hold a second peace conference on ending hostilities with Russia, a senior aide to Vladimir Zelensky has said…The meeting had been scheduled for November”, and it was also revealed this morning: “The meeting of the so-called contact group on Ukraine’s defense in Ramstein-Germany, scheduled for 12 October, will not take place…The reason for the cancellation of the meeting of Western leaders was the natural disaster in the United States…Due to Hurricane Milton, neither US President Joe Biden nor Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will be able to attend the meeting”.
With millions of Americans suffering from the historic catastrophic effects of Hurricane Helene, and millions more of them about to be slammed by the even worse Hurricane Milton, this report notes, the strictly non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) grimly revealed yesterday: “The Biden administration has spent much more than it collected in revenue, with a budget deficit for fiscal year 2024 standing at $1.8 trillion, the highest level since the Covid-19 pandemic”—a grim revelation joined with the grave news: “The US share of the global economy has tanked below 15% during Joe Biden’s presidency…By the end of his term, it is projected to hit a record low of 14.76%”—all of which was followed by Axios beyond all belief reporting about Marxist radical Vice President Kamala Harris, whom President Trump branded “Comrade Kamala”, today: “Vice President Harris said during an interview with ABC News’ “The View” on Tuesday that “there is not a thing that comes to mind” when asked whether she would’ve done anything differently than President Biden”.
In a desperate bid to aid Comrade Kamala, this report continues, the leftist New York Times reported about radical leftist American investigative journalist Bob Woodard today: “The journalist Bob Woodward cited an unnamed aide saying that Donald J. Trump had spoken to Vladimir V. Putin as many as seven times since leaving office…Multiple sources say they cannot confirm that report”—when asked about this comical claim from an unnamed source even the New York Times couldn’t verify, top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov truthfully responded: “No this is not true”—and was a desperate comical bid to aid Comrade Kamala that followed the Wall Street Journal revealing: “Beneath the headline results in many polls, something unusual has turned up with big implications for politics: More voters are calling themselves Republicans than Democrats, suggesting that the GOP has its first durable lead in party identification in more than three decades”.
What radical leftist Woodward was attempting with his lying claim about President Trump talking with President Putin, this report details, is called an “October Surprise” news event that may influence the outcome of an upcoming November election, but about which the leftist Washington Post most factually observed today: “Any number of October surprises could affect the 2024 election, but right now, none loom larger than the fall hurricanes…Hurricane Helene is already the deadliest mainland hurricane since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, ripping through the swing states Georgia and North Carolina after tearing up parts of Florida…And now Hurricane Milton — currently a Category 5 storm — is bearing down on Florida in a way that officials believe could be even more catastrophic than Helene”.
Agreeing with the “October Surprise” observation made by the leftist Washington Post, this report notes, was conservative Fox News, that in its just released article “The Infamous “October Surprise” – The Black Swan Event That Could Bend The Arc Of The 2024 Presidential Election — Has Arrived” most truthfully assessed: “Hurricane Helene, which clobbered the Southeast recently, is not the surprise; after all, October is hurricane season, and we expect big storms…Rather, it is the disgraceful aftermath – the shockingly poor and tone-deaf response from Vice President Kamala Harris and the White House, the administration lying about FEMA spending hundreds of millions of dollars on illegal immigrants and then warning that emergency funds for hurricane victims may run short, the frantic warnings from liberal news organizations that complaints about the government’s relief efforts are “misinformation” and speculation that the tardy recovery effort might prevent Trump voters from participating in the upcoming election…For Harris’ campaign, it was the perfect storm…And, it could get even worse as monster Hurricane Milton barrels into Florida, creating even more challenges for the incapable White House ”.
As to how “incapable” Comrade Kamala and her White House really are, this report concludes, President Trump vice presidential running mate Senator J.D. Vance, in his just released open letter “Biden-Harris Mismanaged Hurricane Helene”, shockingly revealed to the American peoples:
A White House that tried to shift FEMA’s priorities left the citizens of North Carolina suffering for days.
During times of crisis and war, presidential leadership is critical to cut through competing bureaucratic fiefs and protect Americans from death and devastation.
The Biden-Harris response to Hurricane Helene, the deadliest storm since Katrina, has the people of the Southeast and especially Appalachia paying an extraordinary price for the administration’s incompetence.
Shortly after Helene made landfall in the U.S. on Sept. 26, Joe Biden was at his house in Rehoboth Beach, Del. Vice President Kamala Harris was flying between ritzy California fundraisers, hobnobbing with celebrities. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was in Los Angeles, presiding over an awards ceremony. Before the storm, Ms. Harris had blown off her disaster-response briefings, which were a staple of the Trump administration’s disaster-response planning. The lack of prioritization had real-world ramifications.
While Ms. Harris and Mr. Biden flouted their duties, a bureaucratic bottleneck was delaying the deployment of active-duty military personnel to the western mountains of North Carolina. On Oct. 2, six days after the storm made landfall, the Defense Department announced that 1,000 troops had been authorized to deploy to the hurricane-response zone, including elements of the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Liberty, N.C. These troops bring with them debris-clearing and water-purification equipment—critical resources for communities with blocked roads and orders to boil drinking water. As evening fell on Friday, Oct. 4, fewer than half of the 1,000 troops were conducting operations and deployed to Western North Carolina.
Deployment delays became severe enough that North Carolina Sens. Ted Budd and Thom Tillis issued a joint statement on Oct. 4 calling for “an active-duty military leader who has extensive experience with operations of this magnitude to lead moving forward”. The statement seemed to have an effect: The rest of the active-duty forces were deployed by the evening of Oct. 6, and the Pentagon authorized an additional 500, including advanced command-and-control resources.
In disaster response, every second counts. A week went by while the citizens of North Carolina suffered without the equipment and soldiers needed to save lives and begin recovery. This is the sort of bureaucratic hiccup that engaged political leaders solve. A competent leader would have ordered those men and women into motion earlier, bureaucracy be damned. Ms. Harris and Mr. Biden treated the situation like a public-relations disaster instead of a real one.
Even the Obama administration was better at deploying assets in disaster zones. When an earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, it took just two days to deploy troops, including the 82nd Airborne, from Fort Liberty (then known as Fort Bragg) to help with disaster recovery. Large numbers of active-duty troops were deployed more rapidly during the Katrina response, which was sharply criticized at the time for being insufficient.
Federal Emergency Management Agency staff are working hard. The agency’s response to Helene has been praised in some quarters and criticized elsewhere. But it too has been the victim of misplaced Biden-Harris political priorities.
Under Ms. Harris and Mr. Biden, FEMA has funneled millions of dollars to nongovernmental organizations whose stated goal is facilitating mass migration into the U.S. The effort stems from a White House directive to reorient FEMA’s institutional focus away from U.S. citizens and toward aliens who either have no legal right to be here or whose legal status depends on the say-so of the Biden-Harris administration.
Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris have been sending that message since the beginning of their tenure. In 2021 Mr. Mayorkas directed FEMA to participate in a “government-wide effort” to receive and shelter migrants. By 2023 FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell was testifying that although FEMA is not an immigration agency, it would “continue to focus on supporting jurisdictions that are managing the care of immigrants through our Shelter and Services program”. While some have claimed the funding going to these programs is distinct from disaster-relief funding, the same can’t be said for the attention and focus of Biden-Harris officials—that all comes from the same limited supply.
FEMA even seems to be picking winners and losers among the American people. In March 2023, FEMA hosted a panel titled “Helping the LGBTQI+ Community Before Disasters: Preparedness and Mitigation Considerations”. Ordinary Americans of all backgrounds know that especially when it comes to disaster relief, federal agencies exist to serve all Americans, not to give some groups special treatment.
President Trump and I are realists. We know there’s no perfect disaster recovery and that a storm like Helene will bring hardship to American towns no matter how well the government responds.
But this wasn’t the response that the people of Western North Carolina deserved. As Hurricane Milton barrels toward the Florida coast and Secretary Mayorkas claims FEMA is running out of disaster funds, it’s time the Biden-Harris administration got its act together.
[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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