chris1515 said:

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That pier looks like a portable/temporary pier that can be reused. Is that correct?

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Incorrect.

Your statement implies that it was used to begin with.

If you ask Biden about the pier being dismantled he wouldn't have clue what u are talking about. Someone should go down for this absolute failure. I'm sure there is some conservative admiral they could pin it a
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JayM said:

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This shouldn't be on Joe. This directly correlates to the deterioration of our military. You think somebody in the military should have said "we don't have the technology" before we failed?

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So whose dumbass idea do you think this was?

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I've got, "What is the Military Industrial Complex for a gazillion, Alex."

Did I win?

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At least 27 senior officials in the Biden administration worked for Biden's nonprofit organizations, and many of them for Obama before that. 122 NGOs that are formally headed by these senior officials received Cart Blanche contracts for the top earners. The majority of them are directly facilitating the invasion of the southern border. 14 of the NGOs are involved in Ukraine. They are primarily funded by USAID funding. There are 5 NGOs tethered to the DoD and funded through the Pentagon.

One of the top donors to a pro-Biden dark-money group is a non-profit run by an early AI and cryptocurrency investors. the non-profit arm of Future Forward, They run the primary Super PAC supporting Biden, run by James McClave and Emily Berger. The couple work at Jane Street, a Manhattan trading firm, and McClave was an early investor and are principal shareholders in the AI company Anthropic. They are also heavily leveraged in cryptocurrency. They also by chance sit on the majority of boards of the NGOs that are indirectly tied to Biden's 27 senior advisors. The same advisors responsible for distributing the NGOs contracts. 77% of Biden's staff were from the Obama administration. These are the people who are running this country not Mr Potato Head.

Tax records for 2022 reviewed by Comer's Staff, which have publicly not been reported provided by an IRS whistleblower, show that BEMC 4 Association, a non-profit whose only two executives are McClave and Berger, received $7.2 billion and was distributed to Future Forward USA Action in 2022, From there it's dispersed to the next level NGOs most of which are stationed down on the border. That's more than any group other than the George Soros-linked Open Society Policy Center, which got $15.2 million from various gov contracts vis USAID and the State Department that year.

These deals go on a daily basis and it's not just Biden. All these hawkish politicians on both sides are wetting their beaks in Ukraine. That's been a laundry mat for years and the crooked guard it with their lives and they are the ones that are all out to keep Trump out of the White House because he will expose it all.

Your remitted federal tax dollars floating away on the Mediterranean?

Yep.

How many avg. tax payers had their monies washed away? ~27,000?

More like $50k to build the pier and $349,950,000 to line to pockets of Biden, Schummer, and Hamas.

Biden's Pier = Biden's Driveway

Biden driveway story posted by aggiehawg

FJB

chris1515 said:

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That pier looks like a portable/temporary pier that can be reused. Is that correct?

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Call the pier by its correct name:

USS Grift

Why do you mention portable/temporary, reused? Do you know where your buddies plan to grift us next?

MaroonStain said:

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Biden's Pier = Biden's Driveway

Biden driveway story posted by aggiehawg

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Surprised you remembered that thread. Thanks for reposting it.

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We are such a joke

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We can't build a pier, but we can do this...

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I really hate having only BK on military bases. They are horrible.

At least Biden told the truth about this. Unfortunately, he was all too correct.

Who is dumber, Biden, or voters in Delaware?

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No Spin Ag said:

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JayM said:

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This shouldn't be on Joe. This directly correlates to the deterioration of our military. You think somebody in the military should have said "we don't have the technology" before we failed?

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So whose dumbass idea do you think this was?

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I've got, "What is the Military Industrial Complex for a gazillion, Alex."

Did I win?

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At least 27 senior officials in the Biden administration worked for Biden's nonprofit organizations, and many of them for Obama before that. 122 NGOs that are formally headed by these senior officials received Cart Blanche contracts for the top earners. The majority of them are directly facilitating the invasion of the southern border. 14 of the NGOs are involved in Ukraine. They are primarily funded by USAID funding. There are 5 NGOs tethered to the DoD and funded through the Pentagon.

One of the top donors to a pro-Biden dark-money group is a non-profit run by an early AI and cryptocurrency investors. the non-profit arm of Future Forward, They run the primary Super PAC supporting Biden, run by James McClave and Emily Berger. The couple work at Jane Street, a Manhattan trading firm, and McClave was an early investor and are principal shareholders in the AI company Anthropic. They are also heavily leveraged in cryptocurrency. They also by chance sit on the majority of boards of the NGOs that are indirectly tied to Biden's 27 senior advisors. The same advisors responsible for distributing the NGOs contracts. 77% of Biden's staff were from the Obama administration. These are the people who are running this country not Mr Potato Head.

Tax records for 2022 reviewed by Comer's Staff, which have publicly not been reported provided by an IRS whistleblower, show that BEMC 4 Association, a non-profit whose only two executives are McClave and Berger, received $7.2 billion and was distributed to Future Forward USA Action in 2022, From there it's dispersed to the next level NGOs most of which are stationed down on the border. That's more than any group other than the George Soros-linked Open Society Policy Center, which got $15.2 million from various gov contracts vis USAID and the State Department that year.

These deals go on a daily basis and it's not just Biden. All these hawkish politicians on both sides are wetting their beaks in Ukraine. That's been a laundry mat for years and the crooked guard it with their lives and they are the ones that are all out to keep Trump out of the White House because he will expose it all.

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Yep, and if you look a little harder, and further in the past, you'll start setting the names Cheney (not the daughter) and Bush (not W) popping up with all other names and organizations linked to them.

Uni Party is more appropriately named than most realize. Hence, why I said Military Industrial Complex

So folks? Need someone with more knowledge to weigh in on this one"

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Ever since it was first announced as a publicity stunt during the State of the Union, the U.S.-built Gaza pier has been nothing but a money pit.

The project that was supposed to be an "emergency mission" to provide humanitarian aid into Gaza kept getting more expensive, as it became obvious that the Biden administration was writing checks with its mouth that the military couldn't cash easily.

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Officials with the US Central Command first brought up the option of building a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza in late October, the senior administration official told CNN. The risks however were deemed too great at the time, with unpredictable winter weather and heavy fighting in Gaza.

The pier also didn't have a great track record operating in choppy seas.

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It's also been more than a decade since the military last used this kind of floating pier, known as a Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore, or JLOTS, in a real operation, when it delivered humanitarian aid to Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake.

"This is something that we haven't done in a really long time," a defense official told CNN.
"We assumed a lot of risk in using a military operation for this purpose," a second senior administration official added. "We have done these kinds of operations before but not for this specific purpose, this capability is not typically used in these cases which creates a different dynamic"

There are also questions as to how well the Army maintains watercraft involved in JLOTS missions. Speaking to CNN on condition of anonymity, a retired warrant officer who served as a chief engineer on Army watercraft criticized the capability as a whole, saying that the Army has for years underestimated the difficulty around using the floating pier and does not invest enough resources to it.

"Army boats have not been ready, capable, or in a mindset they'll have to do something dangerous or in the real world … for decades now," the retired engineer said.

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Didn't matter. Joe Biden wanted the optics of a pier delivering food to people starving in Gaza, so a pier was going to be built to the tune of $320 million. And then it broke. But hey! Now the Pentagon claims that even with $22 million in repairs after the pier was broken, the entire project is now only estimated to cost $230 million so we're really SAVING money! Government math at its finest, everyone.

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Though DOD originally estimated U.S. Central Command's Joint Logistics, Over-the-Shore capability to cost $320 million when the mission was first announced in early March, that figure is now reduced by approximately $90 million, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters.

Costs for contracted trucks, drivers and commercial vessels were lower than expected and the United Kingdom contributed a berthing vessel for soldiers and sailors. This lowered the latest cost assessment to approximately $230 million, Singh said.

She added that the $230 million figure includes costs associated with repairing and rebuilding the pier after high sea states and a rare North African weather system converged on May 25, causing the pier to become dislodged from the Gazan shoreline.

"As a reminder, these are estimates and initial assessments," Singh said, "and the cost could fluctuate depending on the length of the mission and future cost an example of that being additional repairs."

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JayM said:

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This shouldn't be on Joe. This directly correlates to the deterioration of our military. You think somebody in the military should have said "we don't have the technology" before we failed?

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So whose dumbass idea do you think this was?

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I can understand the poor opinion of Biden. I am as concerned about the ability of our military to do their jobs as well as they have in the past.

aggiehawg said:

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NEW Lifespan of Biden’s $320 million pier:

May 17: Biden’s pier opens

May 21: “No aid from pier has been delivered to broader population”

May 28: Pier ops suspended after piece breaks off

June 8: U.S. resumes pier deliveries

TODAY: Pier to be torn down due to rough seas pic.twitter.com/Y9ATqyUOLU

— John Hasson (@SonofHas) June 14, 2024

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For context, the pier has been in place for less than a month, and it's already suffered multiple shutdowns related to moderate seas overtaking it.

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Joe Biden has logged yet another foreign policy disaster under his belt after the Pentagon announced the "Gaza pier" will be dismantled due to damage.

Some press reports describe the move as "temporary," though it's questionable whether the project will ever resume after being completely torn down and towed away. This marks the latest in a string of logistical issues involving the president's prized pier.

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Another Biden failure.

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We need to tax the rich to make this up. </party of economic dunces>

This must have been Trumps plan</same party>

I wonder if Fat Leonard had something to do with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Leonard_scandal

DrEvazanPhD said:

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But a cool 32 million to the biden family. Easy money.

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Haha, but the percentages may be flipped this time (10% to the project, 90% to the big guy). $320M to build a ****ing pier is possibly the worst overspend our government has incurred, and we know something about overspending (it doesn't even do anything; It just floats there). Some crony got PAID.

On that note, Peter Ducey needs to give no quarter during the next press conference.

It appears they needed more Pier Review.

And this pathetic president and the Democrsts want to raise our taxes so they can throw away more of our money. Who in their right mind would vote for these idiots.

Easy to waste money when you didn't earn it.

But kickbacks to friends and family delivered just fine

They're literally just dreaming up reasons to spend billions of dollars on boondoggles so they can get their cut.

Solyndra on steroids. They've perfected the grift.

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agent-maroon said:

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JayM said:

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This shouldn't be on Joe. This directly correlates to the deterioration of our military. You think somebody in the military should have said "we don't have the technology" before we failed?

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So whose dumbass idea do you think this was?

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I can understand the poor opinion of Biden. I am as concerned about the ability of our military to do their jobs as well as they have in the past.

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Our military prefers to land a marine assault in contested areas where they bring everything up on land. They reserve the supply piers to established naval bases and they're permanent. Not sure that they really have any expertise in temp floating piers nor would they have any reason to.

Or if I'm missing something someone please correct TIA

TexasAggiesWin said:

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This administration with another boondoggle. Who in their right mind would vote for leadership like this?

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I posted on the original thread when they shut it down the first time that this entire endeavor would be mothballed and memory holed.

Democrat voters will never even remember this was done and if brought up will probably somehow rationalize it away...probably as Trump's fault.

JayM said:

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This shouldn't be on Joe. This directly correlates to the deterioration of our military. You think somebody in the military should have said "we don't have the technology" before we failed?

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I seriously doubt the soldiers given the task were consulted, I'd say this was a political decision and the grift was pushing the idea.

agent-maroon said:

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JayM said:

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This shouldn't be on Joe. This directly correlates to the deterioration of our military. You think somebody in the military should have said "we don't have the technology" before we failed

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So whose dumbass idea do you think this was?

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I may be cynical but would say those companies that made the most dollars advocated(and bribed for) this farce.

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The pier accomplished nothing, outside of resupplying hamas, like many here knew would happen. But hey, it made liberals, like certain posters here, feel good and that's all that matters to these people.

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We won't know until the election whether it accomplished its primary goal, which was to lock down the Dearborn, Michigan and Minneapolis voters.

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rocky the dog said:

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We are such a joke

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We can't build a pier, but we can do this...

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I really hate having only BK on military bases. They are horrible.

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They have a Popeyes and a Subway on Keesler AFB. Is BK an Army thing?

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agent-maroon said:

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JayM said:

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This shouldn't be on Joe. This directly correlates to the deterioration of our military. You think somebody in the military should have said "we don't have the technology" before we failed?

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So whose dumbass idea do you think this was?

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I can understand the poor opinion of Biden. I am as concerned about the ability of our military to do their jobs as well as they have in the past.

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Have you read aggiehawg's post, it answers your question.
https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3467171/replies/67804437

The Biden (Obama) administration sucks at international diplomacy and would not deal with Egypt or Israel to improve the supply situation but wanted credit for helping the Gazans so they came up with a reckless scheme to make useful propaganda with for their Michigan Palestinian sympathizer voters.