37 posts from Friday, October 4, 2024

- Over 220 Americans dead from Hurricane Helene. Hundreds still missing and loved ones crying in agony. Cadaver dogs have joined search and rescue crews to sniff out bodies stuck under structures. One North Carolina woman lost her parents and her seven-year-old. - I was stuck there for a very long time in the water and I was, you know, held down by roots and trees. And in that moment, you know, in the midst of the chaos, all I heard was God telling me to be still and to stop fighting the water. - Your son, Micah, seven years old, from what I've been told you're wearing one of his t-shirts, you call him a superhero. - Yes, he wanted to be Deadpool for Halloween and in his honor, I wore it today for him. - Micah, man. - Tell us about Micah and the legacy that he's going to leave on this earth. - This moment. You know, I'm so proud of my son because in his last moments, he wasn't screaming for me. He was screaming, Jesus, Jesus, save me. Jesus, I hear you. Jesus, I'm calling upon you. And his wildest dreams and everything that he wanted to be was a superhero and that was his goal in life. And instead, he's my hero because he reached for something past flesh, past human, past anything that even grown adults, I think, would reach for. My son called out to the one God Almighty. And I think at that moment, he was rescued and he became my hero. - Helene's the third deadliest hurricane in American history, right behind Katrina and Sandy. If you survived, you're living without food, power, a roof over your head and you're begging for help. - We're not getting the amount of support that we need. - We haven't seen FEMA, we haven't seen Red Cross, we haven't seen Harvins with hands, we've seen no agencies come through here. Most people drive through with their cameras out, filming us like we're animals in a zoo and don't stop. - How could the government do us like this and how could the whole country just forget about us? It's not enough, what is being done is not enough. I mean, there are entire communities that have been just decimated. I mean, where is our (beep) government? I mean, for Kamala and I am an avid supporter for her to stand in Florida today and make a statement, where is our government? - Sources say over a thousand troops in North Carolina are just sitting around doing nothing, waiting for orders that haven't come. They haven't heard from the North Carolina governor and the Biden administration's blocking ongoing rescue operations. They're in the way, they are directly interrupting our ability to conduct missions and operations. And I'm not gonna disparage anybody because we are trying to work within partner relationships, both government and non-government entities within state and federal and county. I went to put a couple of people into a hotel last night and they have a security guard at the hotel and they said, "Oh, we're so sorry." The entire hotel has been booked for federal employees. And I was like, "No, no, I have people that would just pull out of a mountain that are living out in the hills and there's not a place for me to put them because we have federal employees that are staying in the hotel. I slept in this white car last night. I smell like foot and death right now." As does every single person on our team. - The hurricane left thousands homeless and the federal government saying, "Sorry, can't stay here, no vacancy." This is like when FEMA plopped down at the Four Seasons during the Maui fires, remember that? And Mayor Pete won't let anybody fly drones to scout for survivors. It's against regulation. - There's also some safety issues that come up. For example, temporary flight restrictions to make sure that the airspace is clear for any flights or drone activity that might be involved in helping to allow those emergency responders to do their job. - Tiny drones aren't getting in the way of anything. This is all hands on deck. What does Mayor Pete embarrass that private crews are IDing survivors faster than the feds? Biden shut down the entire sky just for a look-see. - Yesterday for President Biden's dog and pony show to come in and see photos, he put a 30-mile TFR, which is basically a restriction in the Arizona, which means that he actually stopped from 12 o'clock until 1,604 p.m. He stopped air traffic and helos from transferring supplies, dropping SAR teams, picking up individuals from medivacs. So that was not only irresponsible, but if you're gonna come a week later, at least make sure that you're not trying to hinder in any way further the actual operations that are being led by civilian organizations and veterans such as myself and others that are trying to do what is right. And so I found the entire response so far to be not just lacking, but irresponsible and inept. - Americans drowned while Biden was at the beach and Kamala was at California fundraisers. But they come in five, six, seven days later and they say they're doing a heck of a job. Bush flew over Katrina and hit the ground three days later and his presidency never recovered. - When the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast extended their hand for help, help was not there. We can talk about levies that couldn't hold, about a FEMA that seemed not just incompetent, but paralyzed and powerless, about a president who only saw the people from the window of an airplane instead of down here on the ground, trying to provide comfort and aid. - I covered Katrina and Sandy as a producer and the entire federal government stopped and focused everything it had on the natural disaster. Kamala Harris is in Wisconsin today campaigning with Liz Cheney. North Carolina is living in the dark because Biden and Harris hate Elon Musk. They stopped paying for his Starlink, which would have given internet to everybody in the hurricane's path and now nobody can communicate. Elon says it would have probably have saved lives. The White House spent $42 billion to wire rural America with internet and nobody has internet in the foothills of North Carolina. Nobody. Biden and Harris had to be jawboned into loosening the purse strings. - When the first emergency declarations came down, there was only 11 counties in that. A lot of people were outraged, including me, 'cause there was such devastation in up to 90 counties. So we called the White House, we spoke to the president's chief of staff, the FEMA administrator and said, look, you're sending the signal that you're not paying attention to some of these rural communities. - Communities underwater and the federal government all of a sudden has alligator arms. Usually they just print money. Now they're tossing you $750 and saying, get yourself something nice. - The federal relief and assistance that we have been providing has included FEMA providing $750 for folks who need immediate needs being met. - The Biden-Harris administration has spent hundreds of billions of dollars overseas. We give more money to our enemies, a half a billion to the Palestinians, six billion to the Iranians, or even here. - We spent a half a million dollars for an anti-racist oyster reef in AOC's district. She lives in Queens, they're not even fresh. $750 per person in America. After you lost your entire home, all of your belongings, and you have no food, power or water. Where's the money? - We do not have the funds, FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season. - So where'd the money go? - In the last two years, the Biden-Harris administration spent a billion dollars of FEMA money on illegal aliens. A billion dollars, so foreigners had free hotel rooms and culturally appropriate food, which they threw in the garbage. We bought them Xboxes. This doesn't even include taxpayer-funded college tuition for illegals or illegal alien sex changes. When American citizens, the ones who were born here and pay taxes, deserve help, Biden and Harris are saying, oh, sorry, we gave it all away to the people who broke into the country. We just found out last week that half a million of the migrants here are criminals, rapists, convicted murderers. And the Biden-Harris administration gave people like that money, before they gave hurricane victims money. This was Trump just moments ago. Listen. (audience laughing) - And all her FEMA money, billions of dollars on housing for illegal migrants, many of whom should not be in our country, including one billion for gift cards for illegal aliens and putting them up in luxury hotels, with a gift card to welcome them to America, as our veterans are sleeping on the sidewalks below those hotels, and they're being walked into luxury hotels. - This is probably one of the biggest scandals of the Biden administration, and there's been many. This scandal is criminal because people are dead and more people will die today, tomorrow, over the weekend. Kamala Harris just doesn't have the right priorities. She wants hurricane victims given resources based on their gender and skin color. - It is our lowest income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions, and impacted by issues that are not of their own making. - And women. - Absolutely. And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts out at the same place. And if we want people to be in an equal place, sometimes we have to take into account those disparities. - If these were Democrat precincts, would Kamala handle this the same way? I'm not even sure it's fair to speculate, but Republican counties have been the hardest hit, and there's an election coming up. How are people gonna vote if their polling places and mailboxes are obliterated? But voting secondary, safety is the number one priority. And we're not saying there's an agenda, but why has the federal response been so inadequate? And Hollywood doesn't care. Where's George Clooney raising money? Where's the telethon? Same thing happened in East Palestine. Same thing happens when a migrant brutalizes a little girl. Silence. People who weaponize virtue have nothing to say when five states get wiped out. We'd like all Americans, wherever you live, wherever you are, to please donate to the Red Cross. Every little bit helps. Because when the federal government doesn't come through, it's up to you and I and all of us to help our brothers and sisters out.

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What the government is doing right now to the entire state of North Carolina and Tennessee is a nothing short of just played awful. Like I do not physically have the words for it because if you don't know we have not heard from my aunt since Friday because of Hurricane Helene and there is no government aid. None. Zero. Zilch. There's a few but it's small government offices mainly run by civilians because you want to know what's happening right now in North Carolina and Tennessee. There are entire towns that there is no way in or out those roads are not drivable because of the mudslides and the power lines and the downed trees. There are doctors right now physically walking across that because their cars can't get through to go help these people to go check on these people. There's a mudslide by my aunt's house because she lives on a mountain she lives in the middle of it. There are currently civilians digging that mudslide out with their bare fucking hands. That's what's happening right now. There is no power. There is no water. They have no supplies and the government is currently trying to arrest people who are delivering supplies via helicopter. They are threatening to arrest those people. They are threatening to arrest people who are trying to fucking help people survive. My aunt is 70 years old with mobility issues. Anyone know what the government's fucking doing? Jack shit. But you want to know what the civilians the people here in America are doing? I have had several people on this platform alone reach out to me and go oh this person this doctor's going there. I'll tell them and they'll tell the fire department. I'll put the word into all these shelters. I'll do this. There is somebody right now in Burnsville, North Carolina. His name is Warren and he himself he's a real fucking hero. I'll tell you that he got together a list. He went door to door to people's houses to make sure that they were okay. Door to door wrote their names on a list and posted it on Facebook so families could see if their family members were alive or not. His wife is currently making food for everybody. You want to know what the government is doing? Do you want to know what Kamala Harris is doing right now? You want to know what Joe Biden's doing? Joe Biden said we're doing all that we can for North Carolina. Kamala Harris is currently having a fundraiser for her campaign in LA and Las Vegas not for the people in North Carolina or Tennessee for her fucking campaign. Fuck them.

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