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Oct. 2, 2024 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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The Wrath of Helene and the Victory of Vance

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I've seen it.
Look, the NRA, I was an NRA guy for a long time.
Senator, we have so much to get to.
Margaret, I think it's important because...
We're going to turn out of the economy.
Thank you.
Margaret, the rules were that you guys weren't going to fact check.
And since you're fact checking me, I think it's important to say what's actually going on.
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That is not a person coming in, applying for a green card and waiting for 10 years.
Thank you, Senator.
It has now been five days since Hurricane Helene devastated the Southeast.
The death toll is now at least 149, with hundreds more still missing.
Hundreds of thousands still remain without power.
The disaster relief people, they were like, do not donate your time.
We don't want you to donate time unless we ask for you.
And we don't want you to donate stuff to other people.
You need to just donate money.
And stuff to us and get your instructions from us and listen to us.
What?
And then you say, they said yesterday, we don't go into areas that the roads are not easily accessible.
What?
You are the disaster relief people.
Like that is your job to go into the areas that are hit by disaster and provide relief.
What the government is doing right now to the entire state of North Carolina and Tennessee is a nothing short of just plain awful.
Like, I do not physically have the words for it.
We have not heard from my aunt since Friday because of Hurricane Helene.
And there is no government aid.
None.
Zero.
Zilch.
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 f***ing help people survive.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily, live here from Washington, D.C. Today is October 2nd, 2024.
Anno Domini.
J.D. Vance, who delivered a command performance last night there in New York City.
I was there in New York as well at Trump Hotel.
I went down to the CBS Center, came back to train this morning.
Here I am back home.
It was incredible to see him, see his work there up on that CBS stage.
We're not waiting for J.D. Vance.
He's about to, we're told imminently, he's actually supposed to speak about 30 minutes ago here over in Michigan, one of the swing states, one of the key states.
So we're going to take that as soon as we can as a programming note, and then we'll be back on the other end.
But just my recollections of the debate, I think I put it out there.
What J.D. is doing is he is targeting those The shy Trump voter is what he's going for.
You know, there's something about those tweets or really also the social taboo around Trump that the media has created, that the left has inculcated, people like Tim Walz, of course, have played into, where, you know, it's wrong to vote for Trump.
It's wrong to support him.
Those people are waiting for some kind of permission.
Well, J.D. Vance just gave them permission last night to say, look, this guy is going to be the vice president.
He's not as brash.
He's not as bombastic as President Trump.
He gives you the ability to say, you know what?
I don't know if I was for Trump before, but now I am.
And folks, again, because I had a lot of people comment to me and they said, Why is it that JD isn't, you know, why isn't he blowing him up?
Why isn't he just, you know, pounding him?
Why isn't he just nailing him to the wall?
No, no, no, no, guys, understand.
You are not the audience for this.
What J.D. is doing is strategic.
What J.D. was doing was targeted.
Strategic targeting of voters and voting groups that we know can and will vote for Trump in places like, oh, by the way, suburban Philadelphia, where those collar counties outside of Philadelphia, some of them have already begun I mentioned yesterday my mother has already voted.
By the way, Mom, I saw that you posted the picture.
She posted it.
It's up.
I retweeted it.
Look, my mom voted before you guys.
She voted in September.
That's how early this can be done.
The election is already going on now.
The election is now.
We are in the election.
Election Day, that is an outmoded way of thinking.
We're in it now.
But there's something else that people are in right now, and that's something that I wish that the debate had taken longer on.
CBS, of course, changed this to a climate change discussion, but the real discussion is that the people of Appalachia, the people that J.D. Vance represents in a way that we've never really seen before on the national stage, those people are hurting because of Hurricane Colleen.
And CBS turned it into some sort of Argument about climate change when they want to sit there and say, oh, well, the hurricanes have done this and the science and the PhDs and this and that, etc., etc.
It's ridiculous.
And JD is trying, you know, to say, what about the people that we're trying to save?
What about the people that we're trying to help?
Well, where you're going to hear from those people, we're also going to talk to folks that are down there this week in Tennessee and North Carolina because these are the areas that have been completely decimated by this.
Some towns, and you've seen the videos, I've seen the videos, where they're just absolutely washed away.
Now, folks, I mentioned before that we are still waiting for J.D. Vance to come on, so I'd like, if I can, to bring on now Human Events columnist Kenny Cody, who has been taking some time.
He stepped away from his writing tasks and his writing duties because there's a higher duty that's going on in his community right now, and he's been helping out.
Kenny Cody, how are you, my friend?
I'm doing okay, brother.
Just be praying for us.
And I've been doing work around our community, been doing work around our region to give back.
And because, I mean, I think we're going to rely on each other and rely on our community and those that are willing to support us before we're able to rely on anybody else.
But I'm okay as I can be.
Well, Kenny, I've been seeing your tweets and seeing your information being put out there.
Tell people, I know you're East Tennessee, but were you in a spot that was severely affected or are you just sort of near to those areas?
Yeah, we were pretty severely affected.
I live in an area called Cott County, which is right on the North Carolina border.
We were right next to the Great Smoking Mountain National Park.
So we're right on the borderline of North Carolina and Tennessee, so we experienced a lot of flooding.
Most of my community is still out of water.
If we do have water, it's kind of dirty.
We have to boil it for right now in a lot of areas across our community.
I think most of our power has been restored, but we have schools, we have our local government, we have charity organizations around the county, and Here in a few minutes I'll probably give to people some leaks to go and donate or some websites to be able to go and donate.
There's the first one that is Cott County Mount Strong so there's a QR code there at the bottom of the page that if people want to go down there and donate they can make a donate directly to Cott County which has been severely affected.
We've been one of the most affected in the community because where we were next to the Waterville Dam, the Null Chucky Dam, From the floods over North Carolina that was spilling over, a lot of our community was flooded.
So if you want to go there and donate, please do that.
There's a QR code there at the bottom of the page that goes directly to our Economic Development Commission that's giving it relief.
There's actually a Cott County Relief Fund right there.
As well, there's a Mountain Tough page that's a charity organization that's That's giving back.
There's a Mountain Ways donation page that you're seeing there on the screen to help support recovery efforts through East Tennessee and Western North Carolina that's kind of on the border of each other.
And then, of course, I think we got another link somewhere.
Glenn Jacobs, who is the Knox County mayor and a former WWE wrestler, Kane, is hosting a A food donation drive and a canned food drive in Knoxville on Saturday at the Kingston Pike exit in Knoxville at Knoxville Wholesale Furniture.
That's going to be from 4 to 8 on Saturday.
So we're hosting a lot of events here in our community trying to give back.
Our community is deeply suffering right now, and we're rural Tennessee, so we're right on the border of Western North Carolina.
We're severely affected.
Real quick, for folks that aren't local and for folks that are local, if you can, I'm sure Kenny would love to have you out there.
For folks who aren't local, what's the best place for them to go?
Is it a website?
Is it Give, Send, Go?
What's the best way for folks who aren't local to be able to support these efforts?
I think the Mountain Ways page, especially, that's getting back directly to East Tennessee and Western North Carolina, just go there and donate, and I think Samaritan's Purse.
It's another charity organization taking many donations across the country.
I think there's a lot like Red Cross, Samaritan's Purse, multiple different charity organizations set up in East Tennessee and in Western North Carolina, which are the two worst affected areas because of the flooding.
The two donations pages that we've looked at are mainly localized, but anybody from the country can actually donate to these pages, and I think the Mountain Waste page is a lot more wide expanded through the southeast part of the region.
Got it.
So, Kenny, tell me, what's it like?
What are you seeing out there?
You know, just seeing a lot of people who are just struggling.
You know, I think that, you know, we've not lost a lot of lives.
I think we've only lost a couple of lives here in Cock County, but there's been many lives lost.
North Carolina, many people still missing.
It's mostly just a lot of household loss, a lot of food.
Water is the main concern right now.
We've not had a consistent water loss.
Since Saturday, most households in Cock County and in Greene County and in Western North Carolina are still struggling to have water, so we've had incoming donations of bottled water for people to wash their clothes, for people to take showers, For actual clean water consumption, I think the water has been turned back on in some areas solely for cleaning purposes, but it's not clean yet.
It has to go through a filtration system for not to be contaminated for things like E.coli.
So we're trying to tell people not to drink that water as of yet, even if it has been restored just purely for cleaning purposes and for potable water for purely cleaning and flushing purposes for the basic humidity of using the bathroom for taking showers and things like that.
But it's just been a huge struggle.
You know, people have lost their homes.
People have lost a lot of their household items.
You know, people's power boxes have been drained.
There's been water that has made their power basically go out completely.
You know, just the basic need.
Like I said, I don't think there's actually been a lot of lives lost except for a couple here in Cott County.
But mainly what we're struggling with is water.
Mainly what we're struggling with is just people being able to cook, people being able to take showers, people being able to use the bathroom and A lot of our local churches and charity organizations are helping people out, but we need all the donations and all the help that we can get here in our community because our people are suffering.
Well, and this is just, I mean, it's horrific.
Was there, and I've gotten spotty reporting about this, so when this thing took its track, you know, take us back a couple of days when Helene was coming up and they were, you know, they were looking at that, I think it was the Alabama-Georgia line, that's what they were talking about.
And did you receive any evacuation orders?
Do you know if anything like that went out?
Talk us through, just in the days and hours leading up to this, did people really feel like there was a sense of warning?
So, you know, I've seen a lot of people get on the line on how more states like Tennessee and North Carolina are prepared.
So there was really a difference between the hurricane evacuations, like in Georgia and Florida, And the flood evacuations in North Carolina and Tennessee.
We saw the after effects of evacuation in North Carolina, Tennessee days after the hurricane actually occurred.
So on Saturday and Friday especially, we saw evacuation efforts because we thought that a lot of the dams were being compromised in North Carolina because of the onslaught of water and flooding in North Carolina.
So where we're on the border of North Carolina, we are directly connected to the Waterville Dam in North Carolina, to the Noel Chucky Dam here in Tennessee.
And when that onslaught of water happened, We did have evacuation notices here in Cott County, especially in downtown Newport, which is our county seat.
And people had to literally evacuate their homes because of the fear of those dams collapsing and actually an onslaught, an overflow of water coming into our town.
And our downtown did get flooded to the point of where people had to evacuate.
So on Friday and Saturday, those were the two main concerns.
Mostly on Friday was the big concern.
Evacuation notice here in Cock County.
And I think that that was the kind of difference because people were, I've seen, of course, the Democrats, the leftists try to criticize Tennessee for not being ready.
But we really were ready because there was a difference between a hurricane evacuation and a flooding evacuation.
And we had a state of emergency on Friday and going through Saturday for flood evacuation notices.
So that's kind of what happened.
We got the kind of the after effects from the hurricane, and that's what caused a lot of the flooding, a lot of the damage in our area.
But would you attribute that then to the fact that people were able to kind of get out ahead of the flood and perhaps that's why so many lives were saved?
Yes, absolutely.
Yeah, the evacuation notices were 100% the right thing to do.
I think that we did have precautions.
A lot of our state, when we put in a state of emergency, we got the message out, kind of like an amber alert system through the Tennessee's emergency management.
We were able to get a lot of people out of their homes, even if they were damaged and we're kind of in the recovery effort now.
That initial evacuation notices in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee and counties like Cox, Sevier, Hamblin, and Greene County, we were able to get out and save a lot of people's lives.
And now we're just kind of in the recovery effort to make sure people stay alive, make sure that people have everything they need to survive over the next few weeks.
Now, how about the, you know, and this has been something that's going kind of viral and, you know, in situations like this, you always have sort of a fog of war aspect.
How would you say the response has been from the federal government?
Because there's been some criticism.
Why aren't anyone, why doesn't it seem like any of the high-level politicians have gone in, the officials, but they're firing back and saying, hey, we've delivered all the aid.
So, you know, you're there.
Just tell us what you're seeing.
I mean, I'm seeing a lot more support from our state government and from our local government than I have seen the federal.
I mean, FEMA is here, and I'm very thankful that FEMA has been as supportive as they have been, but they've mainly done a lot of precautionary checks to make sure, like I said, the water's safe, the land is safe, there's not any catastrophes that's going to happen afterwards, but mainly what we're relying on is our state government local officials.
People like Mayor Glenn Jacobs, like Jeremy Faison, Senator Blackburn, Senator Hagerty, Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger, people like Robbie Starbuck, and other local leaders are the ones that are giving directly back to our community.
You know, Jeremy Fajan and Robbie Starbuck are literally going around East Tennessee, setting up Starlink Wi-Fi.
They're setting up internet capability because of all of our cell phone towers have been compromised and are out.
People don't have cell phone service to be able to communicate.
I want to give a huge shout out to people like that, people like Jeremy Fajan, Glenn Jacobs, and others who have been directly giving back and have boots on the ground in Cock County, have boots on the ground in East Tennessee that are giving directly back to our community.
Our state government's doing great.
Our local government is doing fantastic.
I can't say that much about the federal government, even if the funding has been approved, and hopefully there is more of a congressional aid package coming for East Tennessee, coming for the affected flood areas in the Southeast United States, but Really, the people that are helping us out are those local officials, those state officials, and those local leaders and volunteer workers who have been on the ground.
People at my community, Cosby High School, the Cock County School System, who literally have donation centers at every school in this county and donation centers at every church in this county, being able to give back to their community.
So it's relied mostly upon state government and local government leaders and our church and community services.
I just want to throw it out there again.
The East Tennessee Flooding Relief Food Drive is going to be this Saturday, October 5th from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
It's at the Knoxville Wholesale Furniture in Knoxville.
You can go to missionofhope.org.
That's missionofhope.org to get more information.
We've got the QR code.
Can we make that full screen so people can see that QR code?
You can just Take a screenshot of that and that'll give you access to all of the information or just follow Kenny Cody on Twitter and I'll post this as well of course for anybody who's there who can get to Knoxville or folks who just want to get involved.
And by the way, we are going to have Glenn Jacobs on.
We were trying to get Glenn on today.
He's a friend of the show and has been on many times.
You know, he said, look, he said, I'm just too busy today.
I'm just too busy going around helping people.
But he's going to, I believe, we're going to get him for a few minutes on Friday just to help promote this food drive.
And it's just incredible seeing leaders like that step up, do what needs to be done.
I've seen, you know, Mark Robinson over in western North Carolina, and he's going around and doing what he can.
You know, this really is a moment where people can show their true nature and show what they're really all about.
And, Kenny, it sounds like in your area there in eastern Tennessee, It really does sound like the community is doing what it needs to do to help the people that got hit the worst by this.
Absolutely.
You know, like Mayor Rob Mathis has done a great job.
You know, Jeremy Fajan has done an amazing job.
And just really like a lot of the school administrators in our county, you know, almost every school is a donation center.
Almost every church is a donation center taking in clothes, cleaning supplies.
Food, especially water, because of our water struggle here in the county right now, people have really stepped up.
I've never felt a sense of community like that I've felt in the last few days, and I've been so privileged and so honored to be from Cott County and be from Cosby, Tennessee over the last few days.
You know, people ask me all the time, Why don't you leave?
Why don't you do something else?
And things like this are exactly why that I stay here because I love my community and I love my hometown.
I'm very appreciative for the unity that we've shown over the last few days.
It's been really, really heart-strong and really, really reflective of the great people that we have in our community.
Who are the people that are asking you to leave and where are they asking you to go?
Well, I mean, over the last few years, you know, like I stay here as a teacher.
I stay here as a community.
I try to be at least a community servant here.
And people ask, you know, why don't you go walk in Washington, D.C.? Why don't you go work in Nashville?
But, you know, seeing the community give back and seeing the unification that we've seen over the last few days is exactly why that I stay here and want to give back to the community that I love so much.
You know, I've been offered jobs.
I've been offered other opportunities at several different times in my life to go and do something else.
But the Things like the last few days really show why that I want to stay here in Cott County and give back as much as I can.
Well, I mean, I think that's incredible and seeing something like that, especially communities like Appalachia that I'm just going to say it, you know, usually this is considered flyover country.
This is considered like the, you know, I've always kind of said that anytime they show the Midwest and even Appalachia isn't exactly Midwest, but anytime they show the Midwest or Middle America in a movie, It's always like a horror movie, right?
So it's either like Michael Myers in, you know, I think that's Midwestern Indiana or Illinois, and then anything to do with Appalachia, it's always like the hills have eyes or something like that, or the hillbillies are going to come and get you when your car breaks down, and that's what it's like.
And I'm like, I've spent time there.
It's not like that at all.
It's like what you're describing.
Exactly.
Yes.
Well, just the community sense.
I've been a lot of people all over the country in cities and even areas like mine, and there's still not a sense of community pride like there is here in rural Appalachia and here in Cott County, Tennessee.
And like I said, I just couldn't be any prouder of the unification and the advocacy.
We talk all the time, you know, we think about poor areas.
We think about cities like Chicago.
We think cities like Detroit that struggle with poverty, that struggle with homelessness, But it's kind of criticism to make fun of those people, and they want to give direct aid to those people.
But when it comes to rural Appalachia, you don't see the same sort of unification.
You don't see the same sort of sympathy and empathy for the people of my region.
But over the last few days, I've been very thankful to see the unification across our state, across our region.
And for people like you, and for me members, for the Republicans and the Democrats who actually care For Southeast Tennessee, who care for Western North Carolina, giving back to the community has been really refreshing to see.
Because, you know, like Vance has written about in Hillbilly Elegy, you know, a lot of times we're looked at as flyover country, we're looked at as these dumb hillbillies, but we're not that.
We are a strong people, we are a proud people, and that's been no more reflective in its history than it has been the last few days here in Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina.
Well, Kenny, I just have to say, you know, it seems to me is if this were hitting a major metropolitan area, if this was happening to a different group of people, I think it would be all over the news.
I think it'd be all over the mainstream.
I think the establishment would be going out there.
I think that you'd see...
Presidents and vice presidents and all sorts of people flying in and the celebrities would be doing telethons and all the stuff that you saw in the aftermath of Katrina would be going on right now.
But because it's your part of the country, because it's a group of people that aren't supposed to exist, right?
Because if you listen to any of the mainstream networks, poor white people aren't supposed to exist.
There are no poor white people.
White people are the You know, the patriarchy and the systemic racism, the oppressors of all society.
And it's like, well, Appalachia is kind of a bit of a pebble in the shoe of that argument because that's, you know, plenty of struggles, which, and yes, obviously, J.D. Vance brought up many, many, many times, not just in his career, but certainly most poignantly last night on that stage.
That it's like, no, you guys have it all wrong.
You just have it all wrong.
And what's really, it's sick, actually, to me, to think that our government would play games with something like disaster aid, not based on who needs it most because they got hit by the hurricane.
But two years ago, you have Kamala Harris up there saying that we need to distribute a disaster relief based in terms of equity.
And equity?
How about you just go help the people that are stuck out there?
You know what I mean, Kenny?
Well, exactly.
I mean, I could care less what gender you are, what sexuality you are, what race you are.
If you come to Cosby High School, if you come to Cott County High School, if you come to any of the churches around here, we're going to make sure that you have water to carry away, that you have clothes, that you have food, that you have cleaning supplies to go back and help your home.
And I wish the federal government felt the same way the people in my community do.
We are attempting to give back.
We are attempting to help our community, no matter who needs it.
It doesn't matter who needs it or who lives here.
If you live in Cock County, Greene County, if you live in Eastern Tennessee or Western North Carolina, you're going to get the aid that you need.
If you will come and ask us for help, we're going to give it back because that's the exact way hillbillies do, and that's the exact way that the people from my community do.
We give back to the people who need it.
And that really is what it's all about.
That's what people say and they're always looking for.
Like when J.D. Van says, I think the average person, not just rich people, wants to be able to afford a nice meal for their family and live in a nice neighborhood and don't want to be surrounded by people that don't speak the language, that don't have our values, that are from different You know, and you look at a town like Springfield where they just import, you know, wholesale, 20,000 people across the country, 4% of the population of foreign countries.
Why do we want that?
Why is that making it better?
That's not helping it out, right?
These towns need assistance, sure, and they need A government and establishment that isn't purposely trying to put them in these situations rather than actually just letting them live their lives.
And again, you see, you know, are there problems with crime?
Are there problems with fentanyl?
Are there problems with opioids?
Yeah, of course.
So let's deal with that.
Like, that's kind of the, I don't know, purpose of having a government, you know.
You know, I laugh because it's so ludicrous.
It's just so ludicrous.
Or, you know, And, you know, Kenny, you've written a lot about this as well, but, you know, the idea that in D.C. you have people that are so focused on things that are happening thousands and thousands of miles away, and look, that doesn't mean that we don't have a heart to care about people around the world, but shouldn't we, as a country, and shouldn't we, as a matter of policy, make sure that our people are the ones who come first?
And that's what America First is all about.
Because people came to me and they said, you guys, about the debates, about Iran strikes, about Ukraine.
I said, no, no, no.
I want to talk about the hurricane because these are Americans that are directly affected by this.
I know there's a lot going on in the world.
I've lived all over the world.
I was in the Navy.
I've been all over the world.
But you know what?
When it comes to a matter of policy, we should be focused on Americans first.
And Kenny, that's a big part of the movement.
And your writings have been a big part of that movement.
Well, 100%, you know, I've seen all those memes on Twitter.
You know, if Tennessee was called East Ukraine and North Carolina was called West Ukraine, I wonder if we'd get more funding from the federal government than what we're currently getting.
You know, and I really hope that, you know, after seeing the community bond together and seeing people like you, you know, conservatives unite for the region that a lot of them represent, I'm really hoping that locally, though, this example of local leadership, this example of unity is an example to the rest of the country.
We have to take care of our people first.
We have to be sure that our people and our citizens are taken care of before anybody else.
You know, you don't see any Ukraine donations or Ukraine packages being passed right now because of how bad the optics would look because our people need our help right now.
The people who are the most vulnerable, people who are literally stranded in rural areas and stranded by the flooding are getting help right now.
Not necessarily from the federal government, but they're getting help From their own community leaders that are on their own state and government local-wide leaders and region-wide leaders just like they need to be.
And that's the way that I see, Jack, that I prefer a lot of the time because we know our people and the federal government cannot pick out Cott County, Greene County, or anyone else probably on a map in terms of relief.
But you know who does know our community is the leaders from here and the people from here.
So I'm very thankful that Those like you are giving people like me and others in our region a voice.
People like Glenn Jacobs a voice because we need help like we never have before because our people are willing to give it.
Well, you know, it's amazing too, Kenny, because this is an area Appalachia is also, and it's this interesting incongruity where Appalachia, this is an area that sends so many people off to fight in these foreign wars.
And J.D. Vance made this point last night on stage as he himself suited up and joined the Marines and went off to fight in Iraq.
And yet, when he came home, it's like, great, I went and did this, and I love my country, and I went and fought, but what is my country going to do for my town now?
We have all this money and these troops over here, and now you look at all the military bases that are sitting there in North Carolina and in various parts of the region.
And people are saying, look, we've got some National Guard, but we'd love to see, you know, 82nd Airborne or the 101st.
And there's so many messages.
My brother had a message coming out of people that are there on Fort Bragg.
And I'm sorry, folks, it's Fort Bragg and it's going to be Fort Bragg, okay?
That are sitting there on Fort Bragg, and I said this on the show yesterday, that they're being told, oh no, we're not being spun up for HADR, H-I-D-R, so Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief Operations.
They want us being spun up for a possible Middle East deployment.
And I said this on the show yesterday, and I tweeted it, and I got some pushback.
I said, you know what, guys?
Walk over to the Blackhawks right now because you've got people that are stuck up in the hill country and they're drowning as their roofs are caving in.
So walk over to the Blackhawks.
Just take off.
Literally just fly over.
And in a couple of months time, Donald Trump will give you a pardon.
Because, Kenny, it's so incongruous to me to think that we have all of these assets that are sitting right there from a military perspective that could help people.
And there's civilian aircraft going all over.
And Mark Robinson said that the civilian aircraft are far outnumbering what we're seeing from the military.
I mean, that kind of makes sense from one perspective.
But the idea being that, why is it so much a civilian volunteer effort when you have all of this military material that's just sitting right there?
And also lives at TikTok last night.
She's been tweeting about this.
Other people saying that...
Some people even saying that the civilian aircraft, when they try to go and embark in some of these missions or, you know, hey, there's somebody on a roof and I saw them on Facebook and I'm going to go try to save them, and they're getting pushback from local officials.
Now, obviously, you want to deconflict, but at the same time, the question is, you know, are we really doing all that we could?
And I think I have to imagine...
That the current priority set of our government that's so focused on what's going on overseas and so focused on what's going on with equity and DEI and has just totally overlooked communities like yours has led to this situation.
Well, without a doubt.
You know, it's just like when the reporter asked Biden the other day, you know, what all are you doing for the Hurricane Hillian relief victims?
And they said, well, we're giving them all we can.
And he was asked, well, are there any more resources that are going to get poured in?
And he said no.
Like, he's treating this like it's just a normal sort of disaster relief, like it's just a normal hurricane relief.
And I have, you know, 100% that relief that needs to go to Georgia, needs to go to Florida.
But for the after effects of those in North Carolina and Tennessee, you know, the fact that he's not giving me any...
Kenny, I'm being told that...
Kenny, I'm being told that J.D., we've got him up on the screen there, so J.D., the proudest son of Appalachia, has just taken the stage there up in Michigan.
He's about to deliver his first remark, so we're going to be going to him, and thank you so much, Kenny.
in the great state of Michigan once again.
It is great to be at an incredible manufacturing firm, Visioneering, and it is great to be in the state that I think is going to be pivotal to giving us 270 electoral votes and making Donald Trump the next president of the United States.
Now, it's hard to believe, but we've only got 33 days until the election.
Now, that's a good news, bad news situation, because that means we've got a very limited amount of time to make our case to the American people that Donald Trump ought to be re-elected president, but the good news is that means only 33 more days for Kamala Harris to gaslight and lie to the American people, and that's a pretty good thing.
Now, we, of course, had a debate last night, a vice presidential debate.
I thought it went pretty well.
Now it's funny because we did this debate and then I talked to the President afterwards and we talked a little bit about what actually happened and some of the points that I made, some of the points that Governor Walz made.
And he made this observation.
He said that Tim Walz said that he was friends with school shooters twice.
And that's something I actually didn't notice that Tim Walz had said that on the debate stage.
And I said, did he really say that, sir?
And he said, I'm telling you, man, go and watch the clips.
He said he was friends with school shooters twice.
And I said that was probably only the third or fourth dumbest comment Tim Walz made that night then.
Because look, look, I got to be honest, I feel a little bad for Governor Walz.
And the reason I feel bad for him is because he has to defend the indefensible.
And that is the record of Kamala Harris.
And think about this.
For the past eight weeks, Kamala Harris, who never won a Democrat primary vote, She has gone around the country saying that she is on day one going to tackle the affordability crisis that's making it hard for you to afford groceries, housing, and everything else.
She says on day one we're going to make energy prices lower for American consumers.
And on day one she says we're going to tackle the instability and conflict all over the world.
Well, Kamala Harris, day one was 1400 days ago.
What the hell have you been doing that whole time?
Why don't you get to work?
Instead of just talking about what you're going to do, why don't you actually do it?
Here's the thing.
I'm running to be your next Vice President of the United States, and I'm incredibly honored to stand here And ask you for your vote and ask you for your hard work.
But if we win, and I believe that we are going to win in 33 days, my friends, I feel very confident about it.
But when we win, the American people will have given me an awesome responsibility to represent them on the world stage, to advocate for Donald Trump's policies, to work with Congress to get things done for the American people.
You know, I get sick of having a Vice President of the United States for three and a half years pretend that she bears no responsibility for all of the policies that have made this country weaker, less prosperous, and less secure.
And part of our responsibility, part of our job, my friends, over the next 33 days is to remind Michiganders and everybody else that yes, Kamala Harris is at fault for the Inflation Explosion Act.
Yes, Kamala Harris is at fault for the explosion in federal spending that drove inflation through the roof.
Yes, Kamala Harris is responsible, as the borders are, For the wide open border.
Kamala Harris has been in power.
She caused the problems.
We're not going to entrust her to solve the very problems that she created.
we're going to trust Donald Trump with the presidency of the United States.
Now let's talk a little bit about manufacturing, because I know we've got a lot of employees and a lot of family members who work with Visioneering, a great American aerospace company.
We believe, Donald Trump and I believe, that one of the biggest mistakes our leaders made is that they decided over 40 years that we didn't need to make our own stuff anymore.
And this company stands as a proud, And stark contrast to that because right here in Visioneering, you've got 350 American workers that are making great American products.
We're proud of you.
We're going to fight for you.
and we're gonna build on that great track record.
You know, my Papaw was a Union steelworker for almost 40 years.
And the steel mill that employed my Papaw had almost 10,000 jobs at one point.
Now it's got about 2,000 jobs.
And the steel mill, we're one of the lucky ones.
Because a lot of those great American steel producers, they didn't just shed 8,000 jobs, they went out of business altogether.
And why did they do it?
They did it because other countries used literal slave labor to undercut the wages of American workers and destroy our industries.
And Donald Trump, if we stand for anything, we stand for an end to that practice.
We're going to build more in America, we're going to manufacture more in America, we're going to make more in America, and we're going to do it with American workers and build American prosperity in the process.
That is our promise.
That is Donald Trump's solemn promise.
Now here's the thing, of course, Visioneering is a great aerospace company, but we got a lot of other proud industries in the state of Michigan and a lot of proud industries that are not thriving thanks to Kamala Harris's policies.
Now, where did we Go in this country where you've got Kamala Harris who wants to tax working people so that rich people, she wants to subsidize rich people to buy electric vehicles made in China.
Is that a good idea?
Absolutely.
It's not a good idea.
Now here's the thing.
My Papaw, like I said, was a union steel worker and he was a little gruff from time to time.
I love my Papaw.
But you know what?
He had a word for the kind of policies that Kamala Harris is pursuing where we're going to tax American workers and then send their jobs overseas.
One word and that was bullshit.
Doesn't make an ounce of sense.
And it's not just American workers and Michigan workers in particular.
I mean, look, we've got the proudest auto industry in the entire world built right here in the state of Michigan.
As a Buckeye, it's hard for me to admit that, my friends.
It is hard for me to admit how good Michigan workers are at making automobiles.
But why are we trying to tell Americans that they've got to drive electric vehicles made in China?
Why don't we send this message?
This is America.
drive whatever the hell you want to because we believe in freedom and we believe in choice in the United States of America.
And look, if we pursue those policies that say, yeah, if you want to drive an electric vehicle, by all means, drive an electric vehicle.
But if you want to drive a Michigan-built gas-powered car, that is your right, and we're going to support your choice to do whatever you want to do, and we're going to build prosperity for Michigan workers in the process.
But thanks to Kamala Harris's policies, this is a person who loves to pretend that she stands for American workers.
Well, nobody stood as strongly and as proudly for American workers than Donald J. Trump.
He did it for four years, and he's going to do it again.
So just in the last few years under Kamala Harris's leadership, I'm going to read this to make sure I get my facts right.
Stellantis announced that it was going to lay off 2,500 Michigan auto workers who make the Ram 1500 Classic.
What a disgrace that is.
A great American automobile and those jobs are going to get destroyed and either replaced with factory jobs in Mexico or completely eliminated altogether because Kamala Harris doesn't want to empower Americans to buy Michigan-made automobiles.
Last year, GM let go 1,300 Michigan workers at two separate facilities.
And Ford is currently rolling back a lot of its EV production because a lot of Americans don't want to buy EVs.
They want to buy the cars that they want to buy.
Now, why are we doing this to our own workers?
Why are we doing this to our own industry?
Why are we doing this to our own country?
Because Kamala Harris has decided that she's going to pursue policies that make her donors, her green scam donors, rich, and she's going to impoverish a generation of Michigan auto workers.
I say, hell no.
Let's empower and enrich Michigan auto workers with the leadership of Donald Trump.
Now look, this is not just about, you know, 2,500 jobs, my friends.
That's not just a number.
Think about that.
That is 2,500 American families that have a family supporting wage, and that disappears, thanks to Kamala Harris's policies.
That's 2,500 moms and dads that are going to have financial stress they didn't have before, Because of Kamala Harris's policies.
That's 2,500 families that are going to be worried about putting food on the table or paying heating bills because we all know it gets pretty cold up here in the middle of a Michigan winter.
That is 2,500 families made to suffer not because of an act of God, not because of something that happened Not accidentally, but because our own leadership failed to do its job.
And if this election is about anything, it is about getting back to some common sense economic principles that put American citizens, American workers, and American consumers first, and that's exactly what we're going to do.
Every single day, that's why we exist, is to serve you, not to destroy your jobs like Kamala Harris.
Now, of course, remember the promise that was made.
And Tim Walts made this argument last night.
And one of these things that really, really annoyed the hell out of me is he said, well, look, you know, here's this economist who says that Donald Trump's plans are going to lead to higher inflation.
Well, first of all, Tim, Donald Trump was already president for four years.
We got rising take home pay and lower inflation.
So I don't think those economists know what the hell they're talking about.
But even if you ignore the evidence of what Donald Trump did in office, look, what these economists are saying is that if we ship our entire industrial base off to countries like China, it's going to make American workers richer somehow.
It's going to make our goods cheaper somehow.
Well, we've been living through the inflation of the last three and a half years, and we know that when we make our country less self-reliant, when we pursue the policies that Kamala Harris says that we ought to pursue, It makes Americans poorer.
It drives up the cost of food and of housing.
It makes our country less prosperous.
And it makes our nation more dependent on people who don't like us to make the critical stuff that we need.
We've got to get rid of that.
Stop listening to the economists and start listening to the common sense in this country.
But the thing about this, they said, here's the deal.
Tim Walz has the audacity and Kamala Harris has the audacity to say that, well, if Donald Trump's policies are enacted, that's going to lead to higher prices for American consumers.
We already ran this experiment once.
Donald Trump's economic policies worked for American families.
They worked for American consumers.
But here's the thing.
Think about this.
If a Chinese company wants to hire a literal slave laborer making $4 a day, And they want to import the goods made by that slave laborer, then it's going to make Americans poorer.
Because, of course, we shouldn't expect American middle class workers to work for a slave wage in China.
We ought to expect our middle class workers to be able to support a family on those wages, and that's what we're going to fight for every single day.
So here's what you've got to do.
To prevent those companies and those countries from undercutting the wages of American workers, you've got to be willing to impose tariffs.
Fight back against the theft of the American middle class, penalize those companies that are shipping jobs overseas, and give a tax cut to American workers.
That's how you build prosperity for this country, and that's what we're going to fight for.
And let's just recap what Kamala Harris's policies have actually done.
The average Michigan family is spending over $1,000 per month to pay for what they could have bought three and a half years ago.
That's $12,000 a year, a hidden tax of $12,000 a year just to be able to buy what you could have bought three and a half years ago.
That's not pro-working people.
Kamala Harris has presided over policies that has seen the cost of housing go up by over 50%.
That is not pro-working families.
She's seen policies that have seen the cost of eggs go up by more than double.
A gallon of milk is now about four bucks in the state of Michigan.
Groceries are up 25%.
Kamala Harris's leadership has been tried, and it has been found wanting in Americans.
We want to get back to common sense.
We want to be able to afford a nice living, a nice house for our families, and to do that we have got to elect the common-sense leadership of Donald J. Trump, and that's exactly what everybody in this room is going to do.
Now I want to talk about just something else that You know credit card delinquencies are about 9% right now.
That means a lot of American families are sacrificing.
They're not paying their credit card debts so they can afford groceries or they can afford the mortgage.
What a disgrace and what a sad commentary it is on Kamala Harris's economic policies that you've got hardworking people who are doing everything that they can to provide for their families and they're falling further behind.
Not because they're not doing their job, but because Kamala Harris isn't doing hers.
And ma'am, you're right.
Kamala Harris doesn't care about this because she doesn't understand, because she doesn't talk to anybody, she's afraid of interviews, so she doesn't talk to people and she doesn't realize that her economic policies are making it harder on American families.
And you all know my story.
I talked about it a little bit last night.
But I was raised by a grandmother who sometimes would refuse to turn on the heating at night when times got especially tough.
I was raised by a woman who would sometimes forego paying for her own medicines so that she could put food on the table in our family.
And I remember feeling, even though money was tight, that thanks to my grandmother, I never really lacked for anything.
But American grandparents and American parents shouldn't have to make those sacrifices to begin with.
If you work hard and play by the rules, you ought to be able to afford a good life for your family.
And that's what Donald Trump and I are going to fight for every single day for the next four years.
And I want to talk about one more issue.
We're going to, of course, take a few questions from the reporters, but I want to talk about one more issue.
Because the American media, and especially Kamala Harris and Tim Walsh, they don't want to talk about how this illegal immigration crisis is a theft of the American dream from American citizens.
And we see this in small communities.
We see this in big cities all over our country.
When you let in 25 million people, you know what that does?
That stresses municipal budgets.
So a lot of cities and towns can't afford to provide for their own citizens because they're focused on providing for people who shouldn't be here.
You know, hospital wait times, because illegal aliens use hospital emergency rooms primarily, so hospital wait times have gone up in the state of Michigan.
They're close to three hours.
For American citizens who want to go into the hospital and see a doctor.
We've got so many problems.
Housing.
You know, when you let in 25 million illegal aliens and they compete with Americans for scarce homes, that drives up the cost of housing and that is a major cost of the housing crisis.
I had the debate moderator attempt to fact check me last night.
She said, what's your evidence that illegal immigration promotes and increases housing cost increase?
And I said, well, first of all, common sense.
When you let in millions of people who shouldn't be here, you got to house them somewhere.
And those are houses that ought by right go to American citizens.
Donald Trump and I are going to fight for that every single day.
American homes for American people.
But there's also, to talk about Tim Walz's economist that he loves to cite, our own Federal Reserve has commissioned a study that shows that when you let in a lot of illegal aliens, it jacks up the price our own Federal Reserve has commissioned a study that shows that when So how about this simple principle?
Kamala Harris wants to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
She wants, she does.
She wants to bankrupt Medicare by giving Medicare to illegal aliens.
Do we want that?
She wants to bankrupt Social Security by giving Social Security to illegal aliens.
Do we want that?
Here's the Donald Trump plan and here's the Donald Trump message to illegal aliens in this country.
In six months, pack your bags because you're going home.
That's what we're going to do.
And you know, you heard this a little bit last night.
You hear a lot of talk about compassion when the issue of illegal immigration comes up.
Well, let's talk about compassion.
Because I'm the father of three beautiful young kids.
I don't think that it's compassionate to empower the Mexican drug cartels to engage in sex trafficking along our southern border.
That's not compassionate.
I don't believe that it's compassionate to flood American cities and towns with fentanyl that is killing our citizens by the tens of thousands.
I don't believe that it is compassionate to allow our southern border to become a drug trafficking and business zone For some of the most evil and terrible people in the world.
You know what's compassionate?
Closing that border down and putting the interests of American citizens first.
and that is what we're going to do.
You know, because these guys, they love to talk about threats to democracy.
Well, as Donald Trump will often remind you, he took a bullet for democracy, so I don't think that any person can accuse the guy of doing anything other than fighting every single day to make this country more prosperous, And to make the world more peaceful.
But when the media talks about threats to democracy, you know what a threat to democracy is?
When you have Kamala Harris running for president despite not earning a single vote from Democratic primary voters.
That's a threat to democracy.
You know what else is a threat to democracy?
When big tech firms and major American companies and big government censors American citizens and deprives them of their voice in the town square.
That's a way bigger threat to democracy than anything else going on, and we're going to stop it right away.
Because look, I genuinely think this is one very big difference between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
Look, I disagree, of course, with Kamala Harris.
I disagree with Governor Walz.
I disagree with a lot of the folks who support him, but I would die fighting to defend their right to speak their mind even if I disagree with it.
And I think every single person in this room believes that because we believe in free speech.
And as a person who was raised by a couple of working class, blue-collar Democrats, I want to say to every Democrat who's watching at home, every Democrat who's in this room, you are more than welcome in Donald Trump's Republican Party.
We're the party of common sense.
We got a big tent, and you're welcome in our movement.
Because whether you agree or disagree with us about tax policy or regulatory policy, I think a lot of Americans are saying they're sick of the censorship.
They're sick of being told what to think and what to say.
They're sick of being told that they're not allowed to be friends with people they disagree with politically, and they're sick of tired of being told by their government to shut up.
Because we believe in the First Amendment in this country.
You have every right to petition your government and tell them they're screwing up.
And that's exactly what Kamala Harris is doing.
And that's why Bobby Kennedy endorsed Donald Trump.
That's why Tulsi Gabbard endorsed Donald Trump, because we believe in persuading our fellow Americans and not silencing them.
And that is a big difference between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
You hear these people talk, and Governor Walz mentioned this yesterday, he talked about you can't shout fire in a crowded theater.
And you know what that from?
That line is from a disgraced Supreme Court opinion.
We believe that the solution to bad ideas is to debate them and persuade our fellow Americans.
Kamala Harris believes the solution to things she disagrees with is to silence you and to shut you up.
It's disgraceful, it's anti-American, and we will not stand for it, and Donald Trump's political movement.
So I wanna close before I take some questions I just want to remind you that we got to look through Kamala Harris's lies.
She talks about all these great plans that she has.
And look, some of them she's straight up copied from Donald Trump.
So some of them I'm like, you know, Kamala Harris, that doesn't sound that bad.
You went on DonaldJTrump.com and copied and pasted it.
She's going to put on a red MAGA hat next thing you know.
But look, If you've got all these great ideas, Kamala Harris, I've got a message.
Why don't you try them right now?
Because you're the sitting vice president and you haven't done a damn thing for American workers or the American people.
The sitting vice president cannot say on day one, we're going to tackle the affordability Day one was 1400 days ago and your policies caused the affordability crisis.
She can't say on day one we're going to make the borders more secure because she's been the border czar for years.
telling Americans that the border is secure, she ought to do something about it now instead of lying and gaslighting the American people.
She talks about restoring American leadership to the world and bringing back peace and stability to the world that has turned to chaos And when she says that, I say, Kamala, I've got a really good idea for how we can bring peace and stability back to the world.
vote for Donald J. Trump and bring him back to the Oval Office.
So to all of you who are here and all of you that are watching or will see some of the clips of this later on, I just want to tell you that we have the greatest country in the history of the world.
We've got, we've got the, I mean, flying in here, trust me, as a Buckeye, it is hard to admit it.
You have got the most, one of the most beautiful states in the entire United States of America, especially this time of year.
I love being in Michigan.
We've got the best natural resources, the best people, the best workers, the best history anywhere in the world.
And I know a lot of people feel like the American Dream is out of reach.
I know a lot of people feel like it's gotten way too expensive to afford food and energy.
It's gotten way too expensive to pay the rent.
And I just want to tell you, please, do not give up on this country.
Because as broken as the leadership of this nation is, it's going to change in 33 days, but only if we get out there and work for it.
So to every American out there, we're going to bring back the American dream.
We're going to bring back affordable groceries.
We're going to make housing and rent possible to afford for normal American citizens.
We are going to cut the border crap out and close down that border.
We're going to bring the American dream back.
But only if Donald J. Trump is back in the White House.
We've got 33 days.
Let's make it happen.
Let's fight for it.
Let's work for it.
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