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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily here live in Washington, D.C. Today is October 7th, 2024, Anno Domini.
And of course, being that it's October 7th, we do have to remember that it's one year, just one year after the horrific attacks that took place in Israel.
I still remember sitting right here in the studio and observing that attack, observing the footage that came out.
We had some of the images coming through on We're good to go.
Ten minutes down the road from where I was with my own family.
So obviously we remember and we commemorate October 7th and understand it for its role in the world and its role now, honestly, in history because it will always be remembered as 10-7th.
But we must also look to the future because many things are happening.
If we want to right the problems with our world, then we must achieve victory now.
And that is what this entire weekend was about in the state of Pennsylvania, my home state, where I returned with my brother who's going to be joining us here in just a minute while he is working with the P.A. Chase Look, I know the media is saying, let me tell you something, I've been to Trump rallies, I would say easily 80,000 to 100,000 people were at that rally.
It was the largest Trump rally that I've certainly ever been at.
It's the largest Trump rally that I've heard of.
It took us two hours to get out of the parking lot when we were there, and this was a historic rally and a commemoration.
A commemoration of what happened on J-13.
On J13, when he radicalized ActBlue donor, climbed up with a rangefinder, with a drone, jumped around building to building, and it was, and we'll talk to my brother about it, but just the feeling to be standing there on that ground, on that hallowed ground, in the field of miracles.
And that's what it is, the field of miracles.
We will not call it We will not call it a place of darkness because it was a place of miracles, but we do also have to commemorate the fact that a brave patriot and a firefighter lost his life that day, got to meet his family very briefly, pay my respects to them.
Cory Campatore and his family, their fight, their struggle, their sacrifice, their father's sacrifice, For this country, it's two lovely daughters who were there.
And it's a testament to the fact that we must win.
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A member of the Pennsylvania Chase and your Human Events field correspondent for the remainder of the election.
And we'll see, ladies and gentlemen, Kevin Posobiec.
What's up, Kev? What's going on, Jack?
Great to be here again. Having a good day out here, ballot chasing, knocking on some doors.
It's very reminiscent of the way we grew up, man.
Gotta say. It's awesome.
So where are you right now?
What part of Pennsylvania are you in right now?
So I'm just northwest of Pittsburgh.
Yeah, it's a great little town, Steelers Town, working class town.
Honestly, a lot of people are just out working today, which is great.
But yeah, we saw a lot of people with flags out, very patriotic neighborhoods.
Like, it just reminded me of home, man.
Like, lots of brick houses, like, working class people.
You know, the big old, like, wood patios, like, where we grew up.
Yeah, it's just good to see.
Got about a book done.
Got about a book done so far.
I'm probably going to go back after this.
So, how many is in a book?
Let's see. Probably...
Probably 50 or so.
Yeah, I'd say 50. Okay.
And then, you know, you go to another neighborhood.
Some are apartment complexes, houses, whatnot.
What are people saying?
You've got the America First shirt on there.
What are people saying when you come up?
And who exactly is it that you're targeting specifically?
So we're targeting mostly conservatives and then some swing voters as well.
We're using a specific app for that, and it tells you ahead of time.
It's pretty great. So some of them, it would be like, honestly, some were like a conservative and a liberal relationship there.
But like I said, not everybody's home, but the ones we did get, they were really happy to see us.
They were saying, oh man, like there's so many Paris people coming around and it's just good to see you guys doing what you're doing.
So, yeah, so far so good, man.
Well, what do you mean they said there's so many Harris people?
So Harris is hitting these same areas, is what you're saying?
She is. She is.
And we saw a little bit of a mix.
There's some Trump signs, some Harris signs.
But the one guy in particular was very happy to see us.
He was very animated, like...
Thankful that we were there with the literature and with mail-in ballot applications, just getting them hyped up.
A lot of them, honestly, too, were just either already voted or they're planning to vote in person.
But again, this is just a small sample size.
I just got here yesterday, just jumping into the fire here.
I'm sure I'll be meeting a whole lot of great Pennsylvanians along the way forward.
Well, that's great. And by the way, that's good intel that it looks like you're hitting the same targeted areas of Pittsburgh, southwestern Pennsylvania, that Kamala Harris is hitting.
So this is the battleground of the battleground.
You're in ground zero in the southwest.
Obviously, you and I are from the southeast, but it's important to be hitting all parts of Of the state.
So Kamala Harris, she's got her forces out.
The PHAs, you've got your forces out.
As well, going through, hitting these doors, making sure these people know how to vote.
They have to know how to vote.
That's key. Voter education is key.
We've got the registration, but it's the education of, okay, hey, you're registered, now where do I go?
Do I go to a polling place?
What's a polling place? How does that work?
What's this ballot? I just thought it was going to say Trump or Kamala.
What's all this other stuff on it?
So we've got a lot out there, and I appreciate you being there and what you're doing.
Also, tell people real quick, what did we do yesterday morning over there, and what did you do yesterday morning there in Pittsburgh?
So yesterday, we took it upon ourselves to travel to a local mass and try and reach out to some Latin mass voters, also get people to register, whatnot.
We brought the Trump cookies from Butler.
That was a smash hit.
We brought it to coffee and donuts.
Nobody saw that coming, but...
Yeah, a lot of the families were happy to see that.
Nobody turned us away and got some interviews in.
Met my buddy Andrew.
Shout out to him.
He's probably watching and Yeah, great, great group of people.
I think there was like 600 people at that Mass.
Most precious blood of Jesus, Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Pontiff.
It was a great, great early Mass.
And this is the plan that you and I, you and I, look, we just kind of like on the back of an envelope and just...
Over text said, hey, you know, we keep hearing how Catholics and the Catholic vote is going to swing Pennsylvania in 2024.
Oh, not just us. Not just us. There's all kinds of articles.
Right, everyone's saying it, so we're reading it.
So we say, how can we help with that?
Hey, we're a couple of Catholics from Pennsylvania.
And suddenly, boom, it just hit us.
Why not start looking up the Latin masses?
Because we know the Latin mass goers are going to be your more conservative types.
So whatever we're doing, wherever we're at in Pennsylvania between now and the election, we're going to be hitting up those Latin masses and we're going to make sure that everybody's registered and that everybody knows how to vote come election day or do early vote in person.
Pennsylvania is absolutely the play.
And Kev, just talk about the, really quickly, The Latin Mass, you know, a lot of people are sitting there saying, what's the Latin Mass?
I thought that was something from pre-Vatican II. What are you talking about Latin Mass?
Why are people even talking about that?
I thought that was something from, you know, ancient times.
Well, it is from ancient times.
It is the original Mass, pre-1962.
It's the Mass of the Ages. And, you know, we're facing, like, woke, liberal movie narratives now, and Nobody has a problem with supporting like Transformers or Marvel, this and that.
But why are you and I Jack getting attacked?
We're praying the St. Michael the Archangel prayer on the day, and then today is our Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.
Why are we getting attacked for praying to the supernatural?
And they have no problem with praying, you know, or idolizing these CGI characters in movies these days.
Why is that? And it's because The demons know the truth.
It's a spiritual warfare.
We're just trying to get people saving souls, sanctification, redemption, resurrection life.
And honestly, if you want to get practical, President Trump is literally saying he's going to create a federal task force against Christian persecution, getting in office.
Pro-lifers are being jailed.
So I don't know why you would be against that.
Like, you know.
Well, and in addition, what people need to understand, so for the non-Catholics out there,
even for Catholics who, you know, aren't familiar, the Latin Mass came back in around 2007
when Pope Benedict wrote an encyclical really reinstituting it.
Now you've got these massive Latin Mass, here we are almost 20 years later,
these massive Latin Mass centers that have opened up all over the country.
They're very conservative.
And by the way, Kev, I'll just put it out.
When you and I went in there, we actually brought the average age up.
When we went there, because they're very young when we go in there, and we're in our 30s, but it's very young, and the kids, you know, every family's got two, three, four kids or more, and you've got people who are just very conservative, and we have one mass, 600 people, The next mass had another 600 people.
So this is happening all over the country in these Latin masses.
You can't even find a seat.
We went to the 8 a.m. mass.
You also went to the 11 a.m.
mass. So this is a real traditional movement that's growing up.
And in Pennsylvania, it's really hitting hard.
And so that's why we decided to take upon ourselves to hit these things and say, wait a minute, nobody's working this stuff from a political angle, yet we know these are our people, we know they're conservatives, so we have to make sure because they have the same values as us, and yes, of course, because we are the post-soap bros and because we pray the rosary every day, that we wanted to make sure that all of the people that are in...
That are in our movement, we're going up and making sure that they knew how to vote and that they were registered to vote to do so.
And I gotta say, just incredible reception there yesterday.
Obviously, I don't want to post a lot of pictures of it because it's got families and things like that, but people just coming up to me, people stepping out of line from communion to recognize me and say thank you, and even recognize you.
The priest came over to say thank you.
They ate all of our Trump cookies that we brought down from Butler.
But I do want to talk about Butler and the importance of that because we have a lot going on right now, folks, and we're going to get into the rest of it.
Stay tuned. Be right back. All right, Jack, we're back here live, Human Events Daily.
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Kevin, talk to me a little bit about the Butler rally and how it felt to be there on the spot where President Trump almost lost his life, where a miracle was held.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, this ActBlue donor, his bullet missed.
Of course, our country could have gone into quite a bit more had that bullet just been one inch to the right or if President Trump had not moved his head at the opportune moment.
Tell me your reflections on that moment.
Well, in that moment, there was a bit of a Symbolism of, you know, Trump getting up in red all over his face and then he looks back out again in Butler and he sees a sea of red, but it's all red hats.
You know, it's all red and white and blue.
You know, no more blood, but if anything, it's the blood of patriots.
You know, we're all there for him.
We're all still there for him and we're all fighting.
And especially being in our home state, it was an amazing feeling.
I mean, You got us right up front, man.
Like, we met everybody. And so many people along the way.
We got there at, what, 8 a.m.?
We were there a solid 12 hours.
The line was going for at least till noon, 1, like, all day long.
As far as I can see, 100 yards into the tree lines.
And, you know, it was just amazing to see that, like, people there...
People there are all rallying.
We're not going anywhere. Nobody is afraid.
There were so many Secret Service, security sheriffs, like, everybody was there.
Just an incredible, incredible sight.
Seeing the flag, the same flag, like...
I was breathtaking. The flag was there.
Amongst the singer, Christopher Macchio was there unannounced at 611.
You know, just breathtaking.
I mean, that was incredible to me when Chris Macchio came out, President Trump, and as you say, we're very close, and President Trump says, it is now 6.11 p.m., and everybody just kind of stopped because we all know what that means, 6.11 p.m., and that's on 6.11 p.m.
on July 13th, a crazed ActBlue donor shot President Trump, shot him in the ear, killed Corey Comparatore, Injured two other individuals who were in the crowd.
And every single person, by the way, every single person who came there on that day, yourself included, Joshua Lysak, who flew out for it, we knew.
We knew that the chances were that it could happen again.
But President Trump went there with the leftist class in front of him.
Security was very tight.
But he said, you want to kill me?
You want to kill me?
I'm right here.
And President Trump said...
I want to stand in the exact same spot that I stood that day and finish the speech that I intended to give and that's exactly what he did.
He stood in the exact same spot.
He didn't move an inch.
You try to take me down.
You try to hit me in the face.
You try to shoot me. You try to kill me.
I'm going to come right back and I'm never going to stop coming.
Look, that's a Pennsylvania spirit.
And that's the MAGA spirit, man.
It's just, it's what it's all about.
And it truly, and President Trump kept saying it over and over, that he believes his life was spared by God for a very special reason and a very special purpose.
What did that mean to you?
Courage in the face of fear, like Elon was saying.
His speech was short.
And then, yeah, Elon comes out, courage under fire.
And, Kevin, the fact that You know, put together what you were saying earlier, that President Trump is now, he's got Elon on board, and he's now openly embracing Christianity in a way that we have not yet seen before on the campaign trail or really in the Trump era, where after this brush kissed on the ear by death, That he's embracing Christ, that he's having the Ave Maria song, he's doing the St.
Michael prayer. Talk to me a little bit about what that means and the fact that, and if we have the picture of, I know it's on the cover of Bulletproof, we can throw it up, the fact that this was the spot where he knelt and prayed.
And I gotta say, folks, this was just an incredible, moving situation to see him there, to be there with the family, the Corey Compitore family, and know that as horrific as it was, as terrible as it was, there are still deep questions that need to be answered about who exactly it was who shot and killed Corey Compitore.
Because keep in mind, this was a murder.
This was a murder.
And Thomas Matthew Crooks isn't just the person who attempted to kill Donald Trump.
He is the person who murdered their father, who murdered her husband.
And we need to get to the bottom of the fact of whether or not this guy was acting alone.
And that's why in Bulletproof, we've got the report that's already out.
Full device analysis.
We've got private investigators going into Bethel Park, where Crooks lived.
We're going up through Pittsburgh.
We're going into Butler, doing everything we can to actually figure out who this person is.
I don't trust the feds. I do not trust the feds.
Kev, do we have you there? Yeah, I'm back.
You hear me well? Okay, great.
I can hear you just fine. I just wanted to give a shout out.
There was a tattoo artist there.
He did a painting of Donald Trump kneeling, and it was reminiscent of that George Washington painting that you bought for dad before, just like kneeling by his horse in Valley Forge, and now Trump at Butler.
You know, it's...
We're...
Christian nation. That's how we started.
Just to see it demonstrated and examples of people helping us get the show going, we started with a table and chair.
We had some guy, Pete, from the United Republicans of Butler County.
He gave us a poster board for a bulletproof book.
We got that up.
We had Tim come over with the Cybertruck, man.
That's not Providence.
I don't know what is, but that's the Pennsylvania spirit.
That's the American spirit, man.
People were there for each other.
People coming together.
We could talk about it all day, but actions speak louder than words.
It was phenomenal to be there with that.
So many people coming up and talking with us, thanking us for And that's what it means to be a force multiplier, Kevin.
That's what it means to be a force multiplier when you get involved, when you take action, when you step up.
God favors those who take action.
God favors. God helps those who help themselves.
What do I mean to say? That if you're just sitting around, if you're being idle, and you're not doing anything, and you're on the couch, and you're thinking, oh, I'm good to go, and I'm just going to do this, I'm not going to get involved, I'm not going to take action, I'm not going to go to the next step, then guess what?
Not the silent majority. No longer.
You're just staying silent.
You're just staying silent. But if you step up, if you move to the next thing, then God will give you the power, and God is the ultimate force multiplier because he is the creator of all force.
And so God, when he gives you that power, then suddenly you and the people you meet and the people you interact with, it all comes together to create something greater than the equal sum of the parts.
This wasn't even a rally.
I don't even know how to describe what Butler was, but I will tell you something, that I vow to get to the bottom, even now more so than ever, of who Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh were, not just for President Trump and not just for this country, but for the Campatore family who had their father and their husband stolen from them.
A good man, a great man, stolen, ripped from their arms.
And this kid, we don't get any answers about him.
We don't get any questions. No, I'm sorry.
It's not good enough, and that's why the Bulletproof Project exists.
That's why we're doing what we're doing.
Kevin, I know you've got to run in a couple of minutes, but if I could ask you to talk just on something else that's come up, you know, these hurricanes have really been rocking the swing states, and now we hear And Kenny Cody's about to come on, but now we hear that the next hurricane's about to hit where you're currently based out of down in Tampa, Florida. What are you hearing out of Tampa?
Oh, I'm hearing a lot from Anna Polina Luna.
She's doing a great job there reporting.
DeSantis is leading there.
But I believe it's a Category 5 now and almost 120, 150 mile an hour winds.
You know, I live right down there near Bayshore Boulevard where you've seen the guys, like the goofballs, like riding by in the Trump John boat.
But it is looking like 12 to 15 foot storm surge waves.
Mandatory evacuations, it is terrible.
I was down there in St. Pete with Bernie Jacques last week trying to clean up.
And up here in Pittsburgh, you got like snow banks, right?
Like when they plow the roads, but down there, it's all sand.
So they literally just have, and DeSantis talked about it, he overruled the policy where the landfills must stay open 24-7 so we can clean up as much as we can before this hits.
And it's going like...
If they don't clean that up beforehand, it will truly be devastating.
There's already houses.
I saw water levels five feet tall in some houses trying to clean it up.
And it's catastrophic.
Especially for polling places.
What are we going to do about North Carolina if there's nowhere to even vote?
We're going to be talking about that coming up next year.
Let's pray for everybody down in harm's way.
Clearwater, St. Pete's, Tampa, anyone down there about the next thing.
And Kev, you need to stay up in Pennsylvania because you're not allowed to go down and fly back into them hurricanes.
God bless you and have fun out there knocking doors.
I don't know what's going to happen.
Yeah, if you want a free car, go head to Kevin's house because he's got two trucks and they're about to be floating away in the next couple of days here.
All right, stay tuned. We'll be right back. We're going to Tennessee.
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We're doing an all-human events episode today.
We had our human events correspondent, Kevin Posobiec.
Now we're going to human events columnist, Kenny Cody, who is joining us from East Tennessee.
Kenny, how you doing, man? I'm doing good, brother.
We're seeing some improvements here, and I'm glad to be back on with you with some good updates.
Alright, so, you know, it's been a few days since you came on.
You guys had the big fundraiser over the weekend, the big food drive, fun drive.
How did that go? Really well.
You know, Mayor Jacobs did a really good job in organizing it.
You know, I saw people like Tim Burchett, Representative Jason Zachary, who's a state representative from Knoxville, that were literally hands-on, you know, unloading cars, loading up trucks, and actually distributing water, baby supplies, you know, anything that you think of canned food mainly.
All to every county in East Tennessee.
Counties like Unicoi counties, counties like Cock County, Greene County, Johnson County, all the counties that were affected in East Tennessee, Glen Jacobs was ensuring that that distribution was happening in those areas.
For a county like Unicoi that literally had people on top of rooftops of hospitals, on top of rooftops of plastic distribution centers that were struggling to even survive, helicopter rescued, we've seen the amount of Efforts and leadership from local leaders like Glenn Jacobs, like Jeremy Faison, Diana Horstbarger, Marcia Blapper, Bill Haggerty, and our friend Robbie Starbuck, who have all been working tirelessly in getting help to our region.
So, you know, it's just a huge shout out to them.
I think the Mission of Hope charity event that we had on Saturday with Mayor Jacobs did a really good job of ensuring that we got, I mean, it was busy all day long.
I was there for a few hours on Saturday working side by side with Mayor Jacobs and others.
And as you're seeing on the screen, there's donation centers that you can go to on that website to contribute to counties like Unicoi, Cock and Greene County and Johnson County.
But yeah, the event went amazingly.
Mayor Jacobson, Tim Burchett and others did a very, very good job working with Mission to Hope to give directly back to our community, which we're not seeing a recognition or a lot of publicity from those like the mainstream media or Vice President Harris.
In their response, so it's awesome to see local leaders step up and step up for their community when the federal government won't.
Well, can you talk to me a little bit about that?
Because Mayor Jacobs and I have been going back and forth on Twitter talking about FEMA. A lot of people out there talking about FEMA. You know, there's this big question.
I think the big political question right now is, is FEMA doing what they need to do?
I also saw the New York Post headline to cover over the weekend was this huge story they had about a FEMA crew.
I believe it was in North Carolina.
Saying that they couldn't go down this one road because there was a road closed sign on it.
And that was against their regulations.
When they had people from, I believe it was the town of Batcave.
And they were saying that they wanted, they were saying, just go around the sign.
Just go around the sign. They wouldn't go around it.
You know, is this really a situation?
And obviously I was with Elon over the weekend at the rally.
He's been highlighting this a lot as well.
Is that something that you're seeing?
Where's the truth here?
I think it's somewhere in the middle.
You know, I think TEMA, which is Tennessee's Emergency Management Agency, has done a really good job in working with our local government to ensure that we're getting all the resources that we need and there's been no blockades of assistance from TEMA. But, you know, FEMA also suffers from a perspective of scammers.
You know, this has been pretty common in our area and in counties throughout East Tennessee and Western North Carolina.
Where people are literally pretending to be FEMA agents and trying to derive and steer off of the people getting donations and rescues being able to happen to make a quick dollar.
So I think this distrust of FEMA is palpable, but it's also dealing with a scam from people who are wanting to grift off the backs of people who are suffering.
So I do think that there are some barriers and some walls being put up From FEMA because, like I've said, the federal response has not been as good as we would have hoped for and local leaders are having to step up, but we're also dealing with our own grifters that are literally trying to pose as FEMA agents to grift off the back of those who are suffering the most.
So we're dealing with a lot of different problems.
I think that we need local leadership and we need people like Glenn Jacobs and others to ensure that we can look to other resources besides FEMA that already has sort of a distrust and Not to suffer from scammers like we're seeing throughout the region.
Unfortunately, this is a huge problem that crops up with every natural disaster or even just movements these days online.
GoFundMe is replete with these things.
And that's even just for myself because I run social media accounts.
You've got to be really careful what you share.
You've got to be really careful what you put your name on or what you give out to your followers.
You know, there's a real trust there, and if you break that, that's going to come out.
But, you know, just Kenny, in general, tell me from, you know, this political angle, do you think that the federal government is really doing what they should be doing in these areas?
No, I don't. I mean, I think that you see a different response in cities like Houston, Tampa, you know, cities that, you know, have urban areas.
I think you see a lot more, you know, even North Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, you see a nationwide mainstream media-led effort, both from the federal government and the media itself, that, you know, either the federal government is going on these stations and asking for donations, volunteers, and things like that, and donation centers, charity organizations. Uniting as a country literally to help our cities.
But you're not seeing that kind of response for Appalachia.
You're not seeing that kind of response for East Tennessee or Western North Carolina.
You're seeing kind of like we're going to help them for a few days and then they can handle their business on their own.
And that's not the way that we've seen disasters in Houston, in Tampa, in New Orleans.
That's not the same kind of response.
But for some reason, because we're filtrated with small towns in Appalachian rural areas, For some reason, we're just expected to kind of act on our own.
And we have. And I'm very proud of the region for responding the way that we have and uniting the way that we have.
And oftentimes, I would rather have it like that because we know our people.
We know our needs. Oftentimes, I wish those regulations and FEMA regulations would just kind of be left alone so we can help our own people.
Just give us the money and the resources to make the rescues and do what we need to do on our own and then leave us alone.
Besides that, just give us the donations and give us the resources that we need But oftentimes I've just seen such a differentiated response between those urban areas and those cities rather than in the Appalachian rural areas.
And that's really unfortunate because we do need those resources and we do need the money.
It seems like they care more about blocking people who are willing to help than actually spreading the word nationally and getting this sort of effort that we need nationally, like we saw in Houston and like we saw in New Orleans back in the 2010s and early 2000s.
I wish we were seeing that kind of response from the federal government and the mainstream media, but we're not.
And we all remember what that was like.
We remember the Blackhawks.
We remember the 82nd Airborne going around to Katrina and New Orleans.
I certainly remember that.
And by the way, Bush, for all the complaints that he got, for all the response that he got for not doing enough, he had the 82nd Airborne there within a couple of days.
They were right there. And now we're hearing, J.D. Vance was talking about this over the weekend, that they're trying to send the guys in, but they're not sending as many troops as they wanted, or the people that are going aren't actually conducting these paratrooper drops to be able to save people, to get them out of there, search and rescue.
And I even said over the weekend, I said yesterday, that look, we've got one video of them dropping some supplies with a few Chinooks, which is great, but If you want search and rescue, if you want people to be saved, unfortunately, that's a little bit too late.
Day late and I was short on that one.
We interviewed Corey Mills over the weekend.
Actually, Kevin interviewed Corey Mills, and Corey said specifically, with the way these landslides were, these flash floods, we're going to be finding bodies for months.
Through the end of the year, they're going to be finding bodies, pulling them out of the mud on this horrific Coming back after the break, more with Kenny Cody, live from East Tennessee, talking about the federal government's response, or lack thereof, to Helene.
Right back. I'm Jack Pacific, back live, Cuban Events Daily. We're on with Kenny Cody coming up from East Tennessee.
You know, it occurs to me, Kenny, that we were just talking with Kevin about the importance in Butler of people joining together, the way that people just step up.
People step up to do the right thing when terrible things happen.
You saw that in Butler.
You saw that with the first responders who tried to help Corey Campatore.
You saw people jumping across the bleachers, jumping across the aisles.
Even a doctor who went over tried to help him out when that happened and a horrific situation.
But you see people step up.
And then, of course, Elon Musk getting involved, being there in Butler, and it's something as well when it comes to this hurricane response, that when the federal government's not there, that it's individual Americans, and you don't have to be Elon Musk and Donald Trump to get involved and help.
Now, we like when Elon Musk and Donald Trump get involved, of course, and they can help in other ways, but it really is just everyday Americans doing little things Yeah, I mean, it's just the collaboration from people like, you know, church, we have people from church leaders, we have people from Pennsylvania that have actually came down here.
You know, Robbie Starbuck, who is a conservative influencer here in Tennessee, has We've stepped up and distributed Starlinks all over the East Tennessee region and the Western North Carolina region.
You know, you have people like Representative Jeremy Fajan, Glenn Jacobs, Diana Harshbarger, Marshall Blatburn, you know, hospitals, neighbors, nonprofits, the state government, the local government.
Like, we're all uniting together for one cause because I think that you're seeing that lack of federal response or, I mean, to be quite honest, a lack of federal empathy for the Appalachian region.
And I think that when you see the lack, it creates this anger and emotion within you like, okay, if they're not going to help us, we're going to help ourselves.
And, you know, I think that that can be compared to what was happening in Pennsylvania with Trump, with Elon Musk, with J.D. Vance, and all those that are in Butler post-assassination attempt.
You're seeing a unity unlike never before in the Republican Party and in the conservative movement.
And notice what we are seeing here in East Tennessee.
Like, You're seeing Republicans and conservatives pick up their bootstraps and go and work.
You're not seeing people sit in their offices and watch other people work.
You're seeing boots on the ground.
You're seeing people willing to get dirty, willing to get their hands dirty, going there and lifting literally truckloads of supplies of water, of canned foods, and distribution centers.
People literally lending their own helicopters, their own trucks, their own distribution ways and means.
To give back to the community.
And I think you're seeing that in Unicoi County.
You're seeing that in Green and Cott County here in East Tennessee.
You're seeing that from local leadership.
And that's kind of what it takes. Unity is what we need.
Hope is what we need.
You know, the Harris campaign, let's talk about joy.
I'll tell you who's not really having joy right now is seeing those in Appalachia struggling and seeing no response from their president or their vice president.
But yet, where we're having hope from is It's our local leadership.
It's those in East Tennessee, those in Western North Carolina that are on the ground working every single day to ensure that the Appalachians in our communities and the Appalachian Mountains are ensuring that they're able to live, that they're able to survive through one of the roughest catastrophes and tragedies that we've ever seen in our region.
And that's not because of the joy from the Harris campaign and the joy from the Biden administration.
But from the hope that those like Trump, Vance, and local leaders here in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina have stepped up to provide.
Kenny, that's amazing.
And there's another question, though, that I do have to ask.
And I've spoken to some folks down in Western North Carolina as well.
And that's the question of voting. Because we are just, we are less than one month away from the election.
It is a very tight election.
People are asking me, Tennessee, North Carolina, these affected areas, how are people going to be able to vote there?
It's going to lift up the state governments.
You know, I think I saw something the other day where the North Carolina government is passing a resolution to give, you know, local governments the ability to, you know, have funding to provide all available resources for those to be able to early vote.
Because I think Western North Carolina, I think all North Carolina actually is able to be able to vote early vote on the same day.
I think it's October 17th or around there when they start early voting.
And I Things like Tennessee, state governments like Tennessee are how we need to approach it.
We need to deploy all assistance.
We need to employ voting centers.
We need to employ people to be able to literally bring people to the polls to vote.
We have to be able to early vote.
We have to be able to vote by whatever means possible.
And every state government, every election administration, Every single election commission in these counties need to be willing to step up and not just sit back and go, OK, well, we have to sit back and just wait to see how the tragedy is going to affect turnout.
We actually have to have the resources and the assistance available to bring people to the polls in North Carolina and in Tennessee.
And I'm hoping that with seeing that kind of leadership from Tennessee, I'm not worried about my state, to be quite honest.
I think the state government and local governments are going to step up and ensure people can early vote and ensuring that people can step up and get to their locations.
But they need to take The advice from Tennessee and from states that are stepping up to bring people to the polling, we need to distribute and make sure that we are allocating all funds and all resources to ensure that even people who are suffering through one of the worst tragedies are able to get to the polls and vote because that's what people care about right now, is changing the way things are right now, ensuring that they're not left alone by the federal government like they have been during Hurricane Colleen and actually vote to make change.
And the way that is to make change is to vote.
And ensuring that we have all the resources, the funds, and allocations to be able to vote.
So I hope that North Carolina, the counties of North Carolina, and the regions of North Carolina are doing the same thing as Tennessee and stepping up and ensuring people are able to vote by whatever means necessary.
This is what it is, folks. This is what it's all about.
Because these are, and I'm just going to say it, the Democrats would love nothing more than to suppress these votes.
And I said it on War Room, I'll say it again today, that it's starting to look to me like a very deliberate voter suppression operation in swing states.
Not so much Tennessee, but particularly Western North Carolina and Northern Georgia.
If those areas are not able to vote, Then you will see a massive voter suppression operation that has been done, slow walking the resources, slow walking the aid.
Look, I understand that voting is not on the top of anyone's priority list when you're faced with something like that.
But that being said, if you want to fix things, if you want things to get better, if you want to respond to the government that is not giving you the resources you deserve in a disaster, This is your way to send a message that you want new government and to change your government by putting Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance in office.
And J.D. Vance is the voice of middle America.
Kenny Cody, where can people follow you, man?
At Kenny Cody on X and on Truth Social.
You can find all my comms.
It has to be done.
What can I say? I'm not from the area.
I'm a dirty Yankee, but when people are hurting, you got to come in and help out.
