Politico ran a very encouraging story yesterday headlined, “
DeSantis orders Florida to organize charter flights for Americans stranded in Israel.”
For obvious reasons, most commercial airlines have indefinitely cancelled all flights to and from Israel. Politico’s sub-headline reported, “The governor estimates that 20,000 U.S. citizens, including Floridians, remain in Israel.”
I’ve mentioned that I know at least one stranded group of Floridians, now in Jordan, from a church in Fernandina Beach that the Childers family attends whenever we take a weekend beach holiday. According to Pastor Zach Terry’s most recent Twitter update, they are currently waiting around in Jordan, and the tour’s members are trickling home a couple at a time as seats open up on the few available flights.
Pastor Terry is characteristically stoic and remains optimistic, trusting in divine providence. But there is growing concern that Americans stranded in the area could be exposed to hostile activity, retaliation, or kidnapping, depending on what happens next in Gaza on a minute-to-minute basis.
So yesterday afternoon, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order directing Florida’s Division of Emergency Management to immediately charter planes to retrieve Americans who are stranded amidst the conflict — regardless of which state they’re from — and get them safely back home from Israel at no charge.
DeSantis’ administration reported that at least 35 Americans stranded in Israel have reached out to the Florida governor’s office for help so far, after being ghosted by the U.S.’s useless Embassy in Israel, which Biden and the State Department told them to call in their social media advisories.
Florida’s rescue planes will also haul emergency relief supplies to Israel on their inbound trips.
He didn’t say it directly, but it appears obvious the Governor’s rescue operation came after observing frustrating Biden bureaucratic buffoonery and general incompetence. Early yesterday, State Department spokesman John “Baghdad Bob” Kirby announced the federal government would immediately charter planes to rescue Americans. So far, so good. But then later in the day, Kirby backed off the “immediately” part, telling reporters he had no idea how many Americans were stranded in Israel,
if any, and said the government was “still working out details” of how many flights to send and what their destinations would be.
Hours after
that, Kirby suggested the government was running into turbulence finding any charters to hire, you know how it is, and said, “we’re exploring
other options, whether it’s possible to help Americans leave by land and sea.”
What?
Land or sea? Like walking across the desert or swimming the Suez Canal? And,
exploring options? They’re
exploring the options? Like Cortés or something? Do they plan to get back from the exploration before the holidays?
Kirby said there was no timeline yet.
So DeSantis, apparently fed up with Kirby’s moronic nonsense, and recognizing a Bidenic debacle shaping up on the scale of Afghanistan, said that’s it, enough was enough, and signed his own executive rescue order. Within hours the Governor tweeted “wheels up!”, signaling the first charter had already left, while the Biden Administration continued to explore other options.
Florida was ready to go, since it has already contracted with private air charters to help illegal migrants relocate to friendly sanctuary cities offering robust immigrant services up in the Northeast, like Martha’s Vineyard.
Come fly the freedom skies.
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Finally, yesterday Governor DeSantis announced that the State of Florida, which is a significant investor in beer giant Anheuser-Busch, will now investigate the woke corporation for mismanagement that breached the company’s duties to shareholders and injured the state’s investment portfolio.
