Behold the Gaza floating pier, a metaphor for the reverse Midas touch that has characterized the Biden regime.
Simply put, everything Clueless Joe and his handlers touch turns to the sort of excrement the North Koreans were floating into South Korea with balloons earlier this week.
That $320 million expenditure for the floating pier was quintessential Biden, throwing money at a problem without regard as to whether or not the solution would work. Hey, it’s all about image, not substance.
Supposedly a way to get aid to desperate Palestinians – desperate because they have ceded political control of their state to terrorists who randomly attack sovereign nations such as Israel and bring the wrath of those aggrieved parties home to roost – the floating pier lasted about two weeks.
“Rough seas” were cited as the reason the pier failed and now it is being towed to a distant beach for repairs. Apparently waves of three feet constitute rough seas for this pier, meaning it probably couldn’t operate on any significant body of water for long.
Bottom line, Biden might as well have dropped $320 million from a helicopter into the Mediterranean Sea.
But Biden and friends are always eager to waste your tax dollars, witness their penchant for vote buying with student loan forgiveness, half-baked electric vehicle tax credits, foreign aid of all stripes, supporting the hordes of illegal immigrants invited in to boost Democrat voting rolls and subsidizing various questionable Woke organizations.
As bad as the floating pier debacle has been, the push for electric cars has been worse. Trans secretary Pete Butt(whatever) got called out on the whole mess recently when it was noted that a $7.5 billion investment had produced just seven charging stations after two years, according to the Washington Post, traditionally a Democratic house organ. But similarly left-leaning Politico claims there have been zero operating charging stations built to date with the $7.5 billion bequest.
Whether it’s seven or zero, it’s not much return on $7.5 billion.
We have a modest bank of chargers at the supermarket along Osborne Street and on Tuesday I witnessed for the first time a car actually being recharged there. Maybe they predate the $7.5 billion allotment.
Regardless, Biden never met a fiscal black hole he wasn’t willing to feed with tax dollars, even though often those shaking the begging bowl are, shall we say, more than a touch ungrateful.
The other day Zelenskyy, the vertically and intestinal fortitude challenged leader of Ukraine, was lamenting the lack of aid, and blistering Biden for planning to pal around with his left-wing crank actor supporters at a Hollywood fund-raiser rather than kissing Zelenskyy’s butt by showing up at a “peace” summit next month in Switzerland.
This denies Zelenskyy yet another photo op, albeit with him needing to stand on a box, ala former actor Alan Ladd, to come close to looking the others in the eye.
Maybe those conscription gangs forcing Ukrainian men into the army and whisking them to the front to be butchered by superior Russian forces might want to snatch Zelenskyy and give him a taste of the action.
Meanwhile, Biden ought to throw a bone to Zelenskyy and offer to give him the floating pier for use in the Black Sea. The only problem is it would require somehow eliminating any waves higher than three feet, which would be about the top of Zelenskyy’s head..
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