Join us for the opening salvo of Days of Thunder, as we recap the events of today's events, including the confirmation of Pete Hexas as the new Army Chief of Staff, and a call-in from Sen. James Lunsford (R-NC).
00:01:22.520Starting next week, starting on Inauguration Day in the afternoon, President Trump's going to get to work, and I think it's going to really shock people.
00:01:32.180Everything is going to get pushed out here.
00:01:33.560It's going to be absolutely amazing, amazing, amazing.
00:01:36.400And we're going to be a front row seat to it and make sure that you guys are going to be active participants because you're going to be doing all your War Room work to push things out.
00:01:48.940If you have not called your senator at 202-224-3121, make sure you do it today.
00:01:55.460Maybe you do it tomorrow morning about support of Pete Hexas.
00:01:57.920Pete Hexas was nothing but magnificent in what he did today, and it was quite intense.
00:02:04.220It's really, really actually quite brutal, but I think they showed the unhinged nature, and Pete just keeping us cool, being a matter of fact,
00:02:12.160and showing that warrior ethos that we all admire out of him, even General Barry McCaffrey,
00:02:18.920and a couple other people on MSNBC, when McCaffrey's a renowned hater, said that, look, hey, this guy's going to get confirmed or approved by the Armed Services Committee.
00:02:31.000I think he's going to get confirmed by the entire Senate, I think, with every Democrat voting against him, except maybe, I don't know, Fetterman or somebody like that.
00:05:31.540I mean, they come up here with FEMA, and they knock on, they say they knock on doors, and then the people come and say, well, where were those FEMA people today?
00:06:00.440And Asheville, Democrat City, it honestly, they're rebuilding Ukraine faster than they're rebuilding parts of North Carolina and Tennessee and Georgia that have been affected by this hurricane.
00:06:11.420It is beyond words what's happening out here.
00:06:14.960And you have a few of these guys, like Terry Ramey, commissioner, that's actually willing to stand up and go on camera and tell the truth about it.
00:06:48.900I mean, I can't speak for Terry, but I've not seen that many FEMA people other than when they say, oh, we'll send two or three people to come and interview the people and update their applications.
00:06:59.140But I've not seen the big running around everywhere in the FEMA jackets like you would see them everywhere, and I'm not.
00:07:06.560I've not even seen any of the vehicles.
00:07:09.060Can I ask the folks that are standing in the back there, any of you guys feel like the response from FEMA has been adequate, yes or no?
00:07:23.620Terry's the county commissioner here in Haywood.
00:07:26.080Right after the starting of the storm, right after the storm just happened, we saw a lot of FEMA people around,
00:07:32.180and they've had a FEMA representative here, and they've been taking a lot of applications and stuff.
00:07:36.980But as far as they put out a survey to find property to put FEMA trailers on, as of Monday's commissioner meeting, we had five trailers is all that's been set up.
00:07:52.620But all these other trailers, we've got a ton of trailers in here, but they've been donated by people across the country, and they've really stepped up and helped us.
00:08:02.640FEMA, they've took a lot of application stuff, and they're working on a lot of different stuff.
00:08:08.500But it's, you know, like everything else, it takes forever.
00:08:10.540I don't know how long it'll, you know, for anything to start happening.
00:08:16.300Like you said, it's been about four months now, nearly.
00:08:18.680Ben, ask Terry, and ask the guys, but also the crowd.
00:08:25.820I'd like to have two separate answers.
00:08:27.960Do they believe that this is because this is MAGA country, that there's a huge tendency out there to support MAGA and to vote for President Trump?
00:08:37.180Do they think there's politics, and this is a little bit of payback from the Biden regime?
00:08:43.320So the questions to these guys, but also to you, do you think the reason this is happening, is this payback because this is such strong MAGA country, President Trump country?
00:08:57.140Do you think this was political, or what do you think the reason why this response has been so slow?
00:09:05.440I think they just don't care because, I mean, we're a small area, and the locals didn't ask for help soon enough, so the state didn't ask for help soon enough.
00:09:16.480But, yeah, there's probably some slap in the face, too.
00:09:19.900Well, the county was asked to do it, put out some fillers for some property, you know, to put these FEMA trailers on.
00:09:28.600But what happened is we turned in a lot of names and a lot of property, but they've never got back to these people.
00:09:33.980The FEMA's never even called them back.
00:09:36.580We're also hearing, Steve, that there's a push to buy up the property.
00:09:39.540There's some big-name companies out there, corporations out there coming and buying property for pennies on the dollar.
00:09:44.460Are you guys hearing any of that for the mining rights, the minerals, any of that stuff, too?
00:09:48.460I haven't heard much of that in Haywood yet.
00:09:50.860I've heard rumors of it, like around the spruce pine and places like that.
00:09:54.120Anything else? Anyone else want to jump in?
00:10:01.720Well, honestly, when you're sending all of our money overseas to Ukraine, which was a wasteless war, I mean, trillions of dollars would do a lot here.
00:10:15.520They actually have found lithium up through where the flood zone is.
00:10:23.560I mean, you could take it as a conspiracy theory if you want to or what, but that is a fact that they do have lithium being mined that is fixing to be—they're buying money.
00:10:36.600Like you said, pennies on the dollar for the land, but there's actually lithium supposed to be under it.
00:11:21.980The people—has it been a lack of information put forward by FEMA and other authorities that lead people to believe that it could be, I don't know,
00:11:30.200some conspiracy to make sure the property's sold at kind of below market value?
00:11:35.820Are people have—FEMA and other government officials been out there and explained to people exactly what's going on?
00:11:42.900Is that one of the problems that people are coming up with their own theories of what's happening?
00:11:47.840I think they come up with their theories, but I don't think FEMA explains anything to them.
00:11:54.860I mean, about—and it just gives them too much time to think of, to try to make up reasons for herself,
00:12:00.920because they've got plenty of time to think right now while they're trying to rebuild their lives.
00:17:31.480If it weren't for him, I'd be homeless right now.
00:17:33.780I'd be out in this cold and don't know where I'd be without him other than SOL, you know.
00:17:40.100But I've been in appeal with FEMA for 60-something days now and not hearing a word from him, not hearing a word.
00:17:46.300My TSA ran out on January 10th, and if it weren't for this man, I don't know where I'd be.
00:17:51.660I mean, he's blessed me and my family.
00:17:55.660And, you know, what's incredible about this, Steve, is you go around, there's little communities like this setting up where the people have come together.
00:18:02.180This is the, you know, this is Haven on the Hill here, but it's like this.
00:18:06.520We're just up in Irwin, Tennessee, and you've got a community up there that's coming together.
00:18:10.540And it's the people coming together because the government has failed them.