We cannot and do not, in good conscience, recommend sending so much as a thin dime to either the Red Cross nor Satan's Army for use for any victims of the current fires in SoCal.
1) The American Red Cross has the official policy that they, and they alone, will set a secret limit of relief for any given disaster. Any funds contributed for a given disaster which exceed that amount, will be shunted without informing you to their general operating funds, for use howsoever they see fit, including for disasters that are less sexy and PR-positive.
Any way you slice that, it's underhanded, and we refuse to give them any money because of that sneaky shit. They should either publicize it forthrightly, and either return excess contributions, or ask your kind permission before repurposing them for their own pocket.
Any other course of action is quite simply fraud.
2) Satan's Army, AFAWK, never fired the two woketarded @$$holes from a couple of years back, who promulgated as an official policy, the idea that whypeepo were the root of all evil.
Fuck them sideways, with a rusty chainsaw, until they forthrightly renounce that, publicly fire those two sumbitches at a public press conference, and apologize profusely for ever giving them a platform for their vile anti-white hate speech.
If you choose to send them instead a pre-printed White Guilt apology slip in lieu of cash in any amount, good on you.
If you choose to look up either of the above grifters' addresses, and instead send them a bag of dildos from an adult store, and suggest that their leadership eat said bag of dicks until they get their collective heads out of their hindquarters and return to their apolitical missions of humanitarian aid, feel free to do so, with our profound and sincere compliments.
Otherwise, seek other venues for any aid you might wish to contribute to actual victims. And vet any agency to which you contribute very carefully, to include who else they take care of. Ideally, such victims not being millionaire dilletantes who wouldn't give two shits if your home burned down. Anyone of those celebutwats who didn't send contributions to the Western NC or Florida hurricane victims "because that's Trump country" should be considered de facto ineligible for anything but another bag of adult appliances as well.
Do as you see fit.
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Agree 100%
I gave to Samaritan's Purse for NC and am in touch with a friend who may make a direct run with a 5th wheel trailer full of cattle feed.
If you have any way to touch base with someone you know that has direct information about said disaster, they can help you get the money where it really needs to go.
Articles going around today about "officials" kicking people out of Amish built tiny homes because they don't meet code and are unsafe. For fuck's sake. More unsafe than freezing to death??
Chewie
Chewie
Samaritan's Purse is a good charity. The money goes where they say its going, and they do good work for people in need.
Big fan of Samaritan's Purse. They do good, don't care about your politics nor religion, and don't waste too much their donation money on internals.
I am with you 1000%. My wife volunteered at the Red Cross when some tornadoes tore up central Florida some time ago. I pretty much crossed them off the list to donate to back then. Both of those charities have tons of wonderful people donating time and doing work, it's the trunk of the tree that's rotten.
For NC relief, I doubled my monthly check to Samaritan's Purse. The affected area is practically in their backyard and I've seen tons of reports on the good they're doing.
I used to be partial to contributing to Samaritan's Purse over the Red Cross because they utilize 90% of contributions directly to relief efforts in the various disasters they help with according to organizations that monitor their spending habits. Red Cross averages 70%. The rest of Red Cross contributions go to "overhead", i.e. the salaries of the President of the Red Cross and the various top mangers.
I did that until I learned that Samartian's Purse, along with a whole host of other Christian charities, are aiding and abetting the invasion of illegals over our Southern border by giving them food, water, shelter and bus rides North.
Nemo
If you can stomach it, check this scumminess from the CA Guv -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5CvP37_M_M&pp=ygUPdGltY2FzdCBhY3RibHVl
I lived in San Francisco during the 1989 earthquake. The next morning I walked down to the Marina District to see the mess. ARC had a table set up, giving away bottles of water and taking donations. As I started to write my check, the rep/volunteer asked me to make it out to “ARC SF earthquake Relief.” She said that way 50% could stay local, otherwise 100% would go to the HQ. THAT was the last $$ I ever gave to the ARC.
As you probably know from my comments, I live in Southern California.
In November 2018, I left my house with two fire department pumpers in front. Fire had burned down the other side of the canyon and its natural behavior would have been to race up the side toward mine. Firemen told me that they couldn't stop it because there was too much wind.
Fortunately, for me, but tragically for others, the wind direction changed and the fire raced down the canyon burning several homes. I mention this because I have "skin in the game" now.
I see references on TV concerning fundraising efforts for the victims of the Los Angeles fires. If there is some way to determine where that money will be spent before you send it, I think you will do more good. The average house in Pacific Palisades costs $4 million. The residents there have suffered an enormous personal tragedy, but they're people who will manage on their own.
Money directed to those who live in far less affluent areas are the ones who should receive any money you can spare and wish to donate.
@Survivorman,
That's primarily why I brought up the topic in the first place.
Most areas hereabouts don't need disaster relief.
They need to be forbidden from permitting future construction in future disaster zones, unless they're going to require draconian prevention and mitigation measures before any permit is issued.
Make Stupid Hurt Again.
Aesop, I understood that. There will be no argument from me about your points.
When the liberals who predominate in the Palisades get firsthand experience with the bureaucracy here in trying to re-build, there may be a re-thinking, at least by a few, of their liberal politics. That would be a start.
The Texas Gulf coast has come pretty close to being done with Red Cross officially. Unofficially, I don't know anyone who wouldn't tell them to fukc right off. Their behavior during our disasters has been infuriating. The money issues, and redirecting aid to other things should be more than enough reason to starve them, but it it's not, then their arrogant and high handed treatment of local people doing the work before RC arrived, should put you over the top.
I lived for years in and between the mandatory evac zones for the current fires. There are many (if not most) neighborhoods with streets of blue collar residents, tradesmen, and ordinary people mixed in among the streets of $1M 1200 sqft bungalows. A lot of ordinary people live in rental homes in those areas and will have lost everything too, as well as people living in homes that have been in their family for 40 or more years. They can only stay there because they bought before the crazy increase in prices.
Avoid the big "charities" and find something local.
nick
+1 for Samaritan's Purse. They really do the most good with your dollars.
Yup. They're the Gilette of charities.
Gillette. Sigh.
Used to live in a small town in Montana. Salvation Army donations there fell off a lot after that wokeist crap.
ARC and Catholic Charities are using our tax money to help fund the invasion of our country and have been since we've heard about those immigrant convoys.
I guess from comments that Samartian's Purse is in that mess too.
@JW,
The correct spelling is Jillette.
https://i.imgur.com/U1BmIUh.jpg
@nick,
Had similar experiences.
ARC paid staff think they're God's gift, and treat their own volunteers like red-headed stepchildren, when in reality the volunteers are literally rocket scientists, while paid staff are actually the people that were too under-qualified to get a job with a real company, so they settled for lower-paid non-profit gigs.
Eventually the rocket scientists get tired of suffering the fucktards, and simply leave.
All my family in deep south Louisiana puts arc in the category of looters.
Most need to be shot on sight
I wrote off the Red Cross in 1978 when my grandmother died when I was in boot camp. The RC decided it would be too disruptive to my training to pass along notification of her death. I had to find out by reading a letter. I wouldn't even contribute to the organization (don't remember what its called) that they push all service members to donate to, even to the point of being called before XO and asked why I was the only holdout. He accepted my explanation and I was never pressured again.
As Aesop said, "f*ck them sideways with a rusty chainsaw."
Likewise the fake christian army organization.
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