Harris/Biden Denied Starlink to Hundreds of Thousands; Now They Rely On It

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Residents hit by Hurricane Helene are getting internet through Starlink because no other service is working, and in many cases won't be for weeks or months. 

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In fact, there are regions with no access to communications at all, but for Starlink, which is why Elon Musk and Donald Trump are rushing in Starlink terminals. 

What most people don't know is that, originally, Starlink was approved as part of Kamala Harris' plan to connect hundreds of thousands of rural homes to the internet at broadband speeds. 

You know, that program that has yet to connect a single home...

I say originally because the FCC--for obviously political reasons--decided to cut Starlink out of the program due to bogus claims that it hadn't proven that it could provide the service reliably, and there is no way on Earth that the government would spend money on something that wasn't 100% bulletproof. 

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No way in hell. The government is dedicated to Five Nines of reliability!

As Joe Biden would say, no joke. 

Now individuals, local government units, and soon Elon Musk himself will rush into the stricken areas RELIABLE Starlink terminals to provide communications services to people, first responders, and the National Guard. Without Starlink, tens or hundreds of thousands of people would be completely cut off. 

Even the federal government is going to deploy Starlink systems in the stricken area, although at a far slower rate than private individuals who are pitching in to help out. 

I'm not joking about that. Hundreds of Starlink terminals are flowing to the stricken area, and if you search Twitter/X you will find tons of people pitching in to restore communications to the region. 

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Yet the FCC still maintains that it has to wait and spend 10-100 times more to string fiber to homes in the middle of nowhere to ensure reliability. Reliability goes away the moment that severe weather hits some areas. The Starlink Mini can even use a battery until a generator is available, and can provide wifi (and wifi calling) to lots of people. 

This is all politics. Donald Trump is public enemy #1 for the Democrats, and Elon Musk comes in a quick second place. They hate him so much that hundreds of thousands of people are being denied broadband, and North Carolina is 19,500 Starlink terminals short of where it would be if the original FCC contract had been honored. 

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Everything Biden and Harris do is done in light of partisan politics. Not a single home has been connected to broadband for no reason other than Biden and Harris want to ship the $42 billion set aside to their political allies. 

Donald Trump and Elon Musk will have done more to restore communications to stricken regions than Biden and Harris. They have done more already, actually. 

There are lots of reasons to vote like your life and freedom depend on it this November (or even sooner), and they aren't only the big issues of freedom and security. Sometimes it is about efficiently and nonpolitically providing basic government services. 

You can't trust Kamala Harris, who is not coincidentally in charge of the broadband initiative, to get even the small things right. She is too concerned with spreading the money around to her buddies. 

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