Red states are being punished, itâs that simple.
Hearing stories like that fire me up. Why does it have to be like this? I have a group of us heading up to Boone, NC tomorrow morning to work with Samaritanâs Purse. Itâs a large organization, but it will help me get my foot in the door to meet other people. My goal is to meet connections that can get me back in the woods further to locations untouched. Those are the people suffering. A friend of mine has a son who is a LEO. One of his co-workers, who was deployed with his unit in the National Guard, has been updating the rest of the force daily. They are stationed in Burnsville. His first text back said that the news is worse than what the news crews are even saying. Yesterday, Oct. 2, they flew 400 bodies out. Supply trucks are being held at gunpoint so residents can get needed supplies. The Guard unit actually had to loot for food and water. Their temporary residence is a school that was abandoned many years ago.
FEMA is broke. $1 billion in funds was siphoned off from what I understand to feed, house and otherwise take care of illegal immigrants according to Fox news.
Please share the link to that if it is true.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Wednesday said that the Federal Communications Commissionâs decision to not move forward with an award for SpaceXâs Starlink to provide rural broadband may have cost lives in North Carolina when it was hit by Hurricane Helene.
Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, responded to a post on X from a user who noted that âNorth Carolina would have 19,522 working Starlink kits available today after Hurricane Helene had the FCC not revoked in bad faith the grant that was awarded to SpaceX as the winning bidder.â
âHad the FCC not illegally revoked the SpaceX Starlink award, it would probably have saved lives in North Carolina,â Musk wrote in his response. âLawfare costs lives.â
The western part of North Carolina was hit particularly hard by Hurricane Helene, which also brought devastation to other parts of the Southeast after it made landfall in Floridaâs Big Bend region as a category 4 hurricane. At least 170 people have been confirmed dead in six states â Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee â in what is now the second-deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland.
SpaceXâs Starlink, which provides high-speed internet via satellite connections, was awarded $885 million by the FCC in 2020 to help expand high-speed internet access around the country in rural areas.
The FCC rescinded that initial award in 2022, arguing Starlink wouldnât be reasonably capable of meeting the programâs requirements, and reaffirmed that decision in Dec. 2023.
An FCC spokesperson told FOX Business in a statement, âChairwoman Rosenworcel stands by the FCCâs thorough review of a program meant to provide long-term access to reliable and affordable broadband in rural communities.â
âIn this instance, the agency denied public funds to more than a dozen companies â not just Starlink â who did not meet the program requirements. As an independent agency, the FCC takes seriously its obligation to ensure that taxpayer dollars only go to entities that fully comply with the rules and the law,â the FCC statement continued.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who has criticized the agencyâs decision not to award rural broadband funds to SpaceX, told FOX Business: âThere is no question that communities across the country would be in a materially better position today, in terms of connectivity, if the government had not unlawfully revoked the 2020 award Starlink lawfully won.â
Carr previously told FOX Business that he viewed the decision to rescind the Starlink award as being driven by partisan politics in light of President Bidenâs prior statements that Muskâs relationships with other countries are âworthy of being looked atâ and other regulatory scrutiny federal agencies have brought to bear on Muskâs business.
Residents of communities impacted by Hurricane Helene, which brought historic flooding to regions of western North Carolina, are still trying to restore communications and power to affected areas â an effort thatâs been hampered by the level of damage to roads and bridges in the region.
Former President Trump said Monday that he âjust spoke to Elonâ because he wanted to âget Starlink hooked up because they have no communication whatsoeverâ due to storm damage.
White House spokesperson Andrew Bates had posted Monday afternoon on X that âthis was already happening.â In an update on Wednesday, Bates said on X that FEMA has helped provide 67 total Starlink systems to the state.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said in a press release Wednesday that it has provided 50 Starlink satellite systems to help with respondersâ communications.
Starlink said Tuesday that a total of roughly 500 Starlink kits have arrived or will arrive in areas impacted by Hurricane Helene.
Musk also announced that Starlink was working to make the system work in hurricane-affected areas regardless of payment status, essentially providing free access for those impacted by Helene.
FOX Businessâ Aislinn Murphy contributed to this report.
Original article source: Musk blasts FCC for âillegallyâ pulling Starlink award, says it wouldâve helped victims of Hurricane Helene
I know plenty of folks out there and who are helping out there. Theyâve all said the same. It is a red area and will be last on their list. Elon has seen the light and now heâs also last. AS Iâve said before, team blue has never worked harder to kill Americans. That alone should see them get zero votes and go to jail.
Best I can do yaâŠ
Thank you. Thatâs it! they did the same with fuel reserves, no?
Yup, sold to China.
These are the types of incidents that burn my balls.
Just my opinion, if youâre going to save people from this disaster, please , by all means ask, and LEAVE THE DEMOCRATS TO SUFFER, DROWN AND STARVE.
Just ask them as you fly by Trump or Kamala. Youâll probably save on fuel!
LEAVE THE DEMOCRATS BEHIND, I IMPLORE YOU! Time to give back!
Are we really going to save someone who is a NON AMERICAN and doesnât believe in our country and kneels for our National Anthem, drop them in the phuckin ocean! Their time has seriously come!
Donât look to the Government for help â look to the body of Christ â the Church! ALL the churches are stepping-up and serving their neighbors. So MANY are being innovative and persevering through this unprecedented disaster! Mule Trains and ATVs to deliver supplies to isolated communities. Samaritanâs Purse is there and working, both in Boone and the surrounding counties, and in Asheville! Baptist On Mission are serving in every small town, servinf meals and distributing supplies brought in by other ministries and volunteers. Samaritanâs Purse is deploying 1,000 new 4Kwat generators and Starlink Internet Servers to a church in every small town! Folks, it is CHRISTIANS who are meeting the needs of this disaster, and its an amazing and wonderful thing to see!
Furthermore, who ever said, that when the real sh1t comes down, that
âThey wonât be following ordersâ. If the government wants us dead, they will, by all, means, kill us! By following orders! There should be no doubt!
Weâre living in some sick times!
I think Iâll head to the meme section before I say something that is
AGAINST THE FIRST AMENDMENT!
THE DAILY MAIL BROTHER,
- DHS Sec. Mayorkas said FEMA doesnât have enough cash for hurricane season
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The disaster response agency FEMA is out of money to help Americans in distress after Hurricane Helene despite blowing billions on illegal migrants.
Over the last two years, FEMA has been given over one billion taxpayer dollars to specifically support illegal migrants with housing.
But now money is coming up short for American citizens in need after over 150,000 households impacted by Hurricane Helene have reached out to the federal government for assistance.
âFEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season,â Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas shockingly admitted Wednesday.
Congress just last week passed a funding bill with $20 billion dollars additionally allocated to the agency specifically for the anticipated hurricane season.
Amongst MANY other reports of OUTRAGE!
IDK, Maybe Iâm OVER REACTING! Iâve been known to d that When AMERICANâs are Killed or P!ssed on!
If this isnât a WAKE-UP call to Every AMERICAN against this Marxist Regime then there wonât be a United States of America anymore.
I love ya brother, but this was the wake up call, we just hit the snooze button! Twice!
Now weâre paying for it! You canât be un-late! Thatâs like un-firing a bullet!
Brace yourselves thereâs another hurricane headed our wayâŠ
And yes, FEMA has been giving the money earmarked for Americans during disasters to house and feed future illegal voters
Curious to me is why they donât stop that usage today (or a few days ago, and let these honest hard working folks get by on the free gifts so far.
I was furious from day one how the feds were handling this situation. Today listening to Glenn beck and the clay and buck show at work, my blood was boiling when folks were calling in and talking about what they seen and what they didnt see in the areas impacted.
Unfortunately its gonna get a whole lot worse. Only people you can trust is your neighbors and good Americans.
Something tells me the feds wont help to get these folks makeshift polling stations.
Pete Buttigiegâs response to all this was to put a ban in place for flyovers of private drones over the affected areas.
They donât want us to see what is going on in TV and YouTube anymore because itâll shape voters opinions of what a fiasco the Governmentâs non response is.
Yesterday a local Fire Chief stopped a private citizen from flying in his helicopter to rescue people because it interfered with HIS operation.
We have lost our wayâŠ
I read that story, it was on the local news website. Unbelievable
I want to give a salute to everybody whos helping out down there. Whether its a neighbor or someone from out of the area whos helping out.
One politician i do want to give a shout out to is Florida rep Corey Mills. Hes supposed to be in FL stumping for his reelection but hes in NC setting up helicopters for deliveries, etc. Not the first time for him either, he helped get Americans out of haiti earlier and also when pedojoe surrendered in Afghanistan, he was getting Americans out.
If we had more like him, our world would be a lot better