Up to 1,000 soldiers have been activated to help with relief efforts in western North Carolina, the White House said Wednesday. Many communities are still cut off after Helene brought catastrophic floods to the region last week.
The active-duty soldiers will join hundreds of members of the North Carolina National Guard already working in the area.
"These soldiers will speed up the delivery of life-saving supplies of food, water, and medicine to isolated communities in North Carolina – they have the manpower and logistical capabilities to get this vital job done, and fast," President Joe Biden said in a statement.
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Nice try, Biden, but this should've happened on Day One.
Nice try, Biden, but this should've happened on Day One.
ReplyDeleteThe body count would have been high enough for him.
It's about damn time! There should've been semi's loaded with everything needed for the disaster, helos, C-130's, etc headed down their! With all the money this asshole government we have spends overseas and lining their own pockets with, there should've been tons of supplies in the que ready to go before the rain ended! Staging areas could have been set up just outside the storms path with everything ready to go at a moments notice! If they can do shit like that to invade a country, they can do it to save our own citizens!
ReplyDeletethis is fucked up. at Fort Campbell, there is close to 400 choppers that can lift tons of stuff.
ReplyDeletebeside the ones at Bragg. between the two of them, they should handle just about anything
needed there. they should have gone in right after the damn rain stopped !
WTF. oh, yeah. they didn't vote for him. so fuck them huh ?
and they wonder why everyone hates their ass ?
Thank you for calling it Fort Bragg and not the new woke name. 👍🏻
Deleteit will always be Fort Bragg to me. 1/503 PIR a long time ago. dave in pa.
DeleteBillions of our tax dollars sent over seas, billions, on some one else’s war effort or boarder.
ReplyDeleteNot sure whom is at the helm of FEMA but the individual in charge and about three levels down should all loose their jobs over this. Three levels down, no pension, nothin.
You know at some point when the Heritage White American Male, (HWAM) who just wanted to be left alone are enraged lots of government lackies will be assisted in assuming room/ambient temperature. 22BOH.
This delay is all on purpose, you do know that?
This is who https://www.frontpagemag.com/femas-dei-crippled-hurricane-helene-response/
DeleteFEMA spent all the money on illegals
ReplyDeleteDepartment of Homeland Security Announces $300 Million in Direct Funding to Communities Receiving Migrants and $340 Million for a New Competitive Awards Process
Meantime, Billions to Ukraine where Democracy is non-existent.
DeleteThat's good. A little late. Better than nothing. But what about areas in East Tennessee that have been hit just as hard? Erwin or all of Greene County? Or is it no consideration because Tennessee will not be in play for the election?
ReplyDeleteYesterday I saw a convoy of 10 vehicles heading north to I-40 from the Perry County Armory. They was mostly off road capable large water trucks. Better late than never.
DeleteReading Big Country's up date yesterday tells how bad it is.
I agree with everything that was posted.
ReplyDeleteNow lets also remember 2 things.
1. Project 2025 wants to defund FEMA and privatize the weather service. That means no warning and worse response.
2. It took Trump 6 months to restore electrical power to Puerto Rico.
Please take a moment to show us where Project 2025 would be implemented. Trump has said he hasn't even read the proposal and the only people I've ever heard mention it are liberals.
DeleteYeah. Did you get the memo? Anyone who infers the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025" is associated with Trump's official policy statements is either regurgitating the Lefty Talking Points Du Jour or is a brainless bot stirring up trouble. So if everyone can just remember, then yeah, that would be great. Yeah.
DeleteThe comment about Puerto Rico strongly reinforces that you're either a bot or just spouting today's Lefty propaganda. Frankly, it's a miracle power was restored in Puerto Rico within 3 years. PR was bankrupt and had a crippled power grid long before Hurricane Maria.
As for the merits of "Project 2025", I fully approve axing FEMA, NWS, NASA, DHS, FBI, DEA, CIA, HHS, DOE, FDA, FCC, FAA, NEA, SSA, OSHA, all the other TLA's I can't recall at the moment. Treat it like a bankruptcy. Fire all the worthless POS bureaucrats, plus their pensions and retirement benefits are kaput. Like what happens when you have a real job in the real world. Hey! They can all learn to code.
To ensure this bureaucratic nightmare never happens again in the USA, I fully approve a Balanced Budget Amendment which also repeals the 16th amendment allowing the Feds to tax personal income.
OK libtard, next I bet you're gonna bring up W and his Katrina helicopter fly-over. Bite me.
DeleteDeflection is a poor and transparent tactic, leftorrhoid. You should ask your masters for an updated script.
DeleteThat’s because Puerto Rico is like in Mexico or whatever something.
DeleteSurely the National Guard has to be used for this, not the U.S. military?
ReplyDeleteThe NG is being used but the damage is so widespread they're overwhelmed.
DeleteThey want as many as possible dead. It’s so obvious
ReplyDeleteTHIS!^^^
DeleteAnd here it is Wednesday and FEMA is STILL not on site! Obama was right about Biden when he said, "Never underestimate Biden's ability to fuck thing up"!
ReplyDeleteOh, they are there. THey've confiscated donations of goods - saying they're not from "approved vendors" - and cash - which they put into *their* account* - and said anyone else who donates must give it to them to be distributed and disbursed as they see fit.
DeleteGonna need to replace a bunch of electrical power transformers that got flooded. Oh wait! Didn't we just send a sh$t ton of those things to Ukraine? Yes we did. https://x.com/dandcaldwell/status/1841068249716322744
ReplyDeletehttps://x.com/USAmbKyiv/status/1792791129513218539
Gonna need FEMA to jump in and help a whole lot. Oh wait! Didn't Mayorkas just tell us about how FEMA has been "reprioritized" and spent a gazillion dollars on helping illegals? Yes he did.
FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program has been reshaped to provide funding to “families and individuals encountered by the Department of Homeland Security” – aka illegal aliens. $685 MILLION taxpayer dollars have been reallocated to fund illegal aliens.
https://x.com/America1stLegal/status/1841265578201203007
Over the last 4 years the Biden-Harris admin has steadily transformed FEMA — the agency responsible for responding to natural disasters like Hurricane Helene — into an illegal alien resettlement agency that emphasizes DEI over public safety.
https://x.com/America1stLegal/status/1840862874203197691
Should be a bunch of choppers over at New River!
ReplyDeleteIf you haven’t had boots on the ground here and seen the destruction and smelled the corpses you can take your political talk and shove it up your ass
ReplyDeleteOr come here and I’ll help you !!
Fuck off you lefty piece of shit
This is my home and by God we need any and all help we can get
I like the part where Fema is going to give everyone 750 bucks and tell them to shut up.
ReplyDeleteyeah, right. how about a magic money card like you give the illegals with 5 grand a month on it ? didn't the people in Maui get the same deal ? 750 and that is it ?
does anyone else need proof that the Gov't hates you and wants us all dead ?
The dysfunction of the Federals continues and worsens. Comments about the poor national news coverage and criminally inept response from the disaster agencies are shadow banned on the usual platforms. Relief is coming from neighbors and local concerns, and if I mention Christian it's because that's the tradition that sprouted those actions.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like we need a gentle reminder every so often that FEMA isn't there for you. The mission of FEMA. Is to be in charge. Period. It's called "continuity of government", and it's literally their job. It doesn't really matter what else happens, so long as they stay in charge. In the end, FEMA will consider their response to this event a sucess, because they successfully remained in charge. I've sat through literally hours of FEMA PowerPoint hell, and let me tell you...a solid 85 plus percent of the training is about interfacing with the command structure. Almost nothing is said about actually "performing operations".
ReplyDeleteI hate to break it to people, but this event is not an outlyer, it's the standard. The system is working as designed.
Remember Katrina? Same deal. How about all the medical supplies that were stockpiled and not released to the public during the early days of WuFlu? "No no....that's the governments stockpile.....for us....not you". Continuity of government, not saving the people. That costs too much. That was ended when Civil Defense went away and was replaced with FEMA.
While a few senior management types will be thrown to the wolves (with a kick ass pension) to appease the crowds, but nothing will change. You are, and always were, on your own.
They will probably just end up confiscating guns again...
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