Oct. 5, 2024 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Welcome back to the second hour of tonight's live broadcast, a Saturday evening, October the 5th.
Folks, as we said at the top, our people are hurting.
We're suffering tonight in the South as a result of the devastating blow given by Hurricane Helene.
What are we doing with a radio program like this if we are not here to help at, as the Bible puts it, such a time as this?
We're putting politics aside tonight.
The whole show tonight is going to be about and has been about and will be about those who have been affected and audience members who are in the disaster zone, even as we air live this evening, assisting in relief efforts that you can trust and count on.
12 segments, 12 different guests tonight in the first hour.
You heard from Patrick Martin, Rich Hamblin, John Hill, and Rick Tyler.
How can you help?
To what extent is the government impeding help from being given?
We're going to continue the conversation now with Dr. Michael Hill, President of the League of the South.
Chief, it's great to have you back, especially tonight.
Yeah, thank you, James.
Yeah, this is an unfolding tragedy, and I don't think that we'll know the depth and breadth of it for a while.
And I think once it's all told, people are going to be amazed at the level of destruction and death.
And it's being complicated and compounded by the fact that not only is the federal government not giving any help, it's hindering the people of this area and people from outside.
I'll give them credit for that.
People outside coming in and sending money and trying to get things done.
But the government apparently is preventing a lot of this from happening.
And it really is a shame.
I don't know what to say.
Well, Michael Hill.
Pardon this interruption, brother, but if I could ask you this, and I want to be sure to get this in because this isn't confirmation bias.
This is something you've had actually eyewitness and first-person experience with going back to your experiences with the League of the South trying to help victims in the Mississippi Gulf Coast during Katrina, for example, Panama City later on with another hurricane some years later.
So when we ask you, Michael Hill, is this, as I asked Rick Tyler in the last segment of the first hour, is this failure of government buying competence or design?
You actually can give a testimony that is rooted in experience.
Yeah, absolutely.
We gathered up literally thousands of dollars worth of supplies in 2005 when Katrina hit.
And we were sending them down by a, we actually got a huge semi-truck loaded down with these things.
And we went down, took it down to our Mississippi State Chairman around Wiggins, Mississippi, near the coast.
And before we got in there, FEMA, FEMA stopped the truck and didn't want to let it go in, but we managed to get it in.
But they were going to confiscate all the stuff.
And we had everything, water, toilet paper, generators, you name it.
Why?
Why would they do that?
Why would they do that?
You saw this.
You were there.
Why did this happen?
Well, they believe that, at least on the surface, they believe that they have the right to control the area that's having an emergency and that they can do this better than anybody else, which obviously they can't.
But I think it's part of it's jealousy on their part, and part of it is just maliciousness on their part.
I don't think that they want to help white folks in the South or anywhere else during a disaster.
And I've seen this.
I mean, you know, what Katrina was almost 20 years ago, 19 years ago.
And we didn't run into quite the same problems when we were helping out with Hurricane Michael a few years ago.
But FEMA was not there, and we were.
We were the first people on the scene to help out with Hurricane Michael.
And FEMA was a very important thing.
That affected the Florida Panhandle, Panama City, I believe, if I'm not mistaken.
I know that was one that you had a heavy hand in helping, and you were down there rebuilding and giving supplies.
A comment here that came in, don't look to the Biden administration for more than superficial help.
The people in the southeast United States are considered deplorables by the United States government, double deplorable according to Hillary's latest pronouncement.
Global Homo is not coming to help, only to wreck things.
The necessity to help ourselves cannot be emphasized enough.
And that's what we've got people on to let you know how you can do that and how you can aid their efforts.
That's really going.
But another thing you've got to think about, Michael, is that, you know, and this was something that was sent in by a friend as well.
A lot of these contracts that are going to go to rebuild the infrastructure like bridges must go to minority hustlers.
This diversity tax, you have migrant, so-called migrant workers, illegal aliens arrested for looting during Hurricane Helene.
Some people knew they needed to evacuate for higher ground, but they had to stay and defend their homes because they knew the looters were out.
And this is all very concerning.
And I think a cause for your foundational message, which is an independent South.
Patrick Martin talking in the first hour, the first segment of the first hour about the Florida State Guard.
Could we do this better?
Could we do this more efficiently?
Could we do this the way it needs to be done if these impediments were not in our way?
Hell yes, we could.
And that's exactly what we've been needing for a long time is our independence so we can take care of our own affairs and our own business and do it well.
The federal government in D.C. wants us dead, James.
You know that.
They don't give a damn about us.
All they want to do is use up our blood and treasure in furthering their own interest.
And if that's not evident right now to everybody out there, even all these so-called normies, I don't know if they'll ever get the picture if they are not getting it right now.
And Southern independence is absolutely the fundamental solution to this problem.
I mean, we can dance around that issue, but as long as we're under the heel of D.C., this is how we're going to be treated.
Southern men need to help their southern brothers tonight, Michael.
How can they do that?
What is your message to that end?
About circumventing, in fact, some of these dragnets of some of these obstacles and barriers to actually delivering that.
John Hill has just said, you know, I'm going down there.
Come and find me.
Come stop me.
He's down there, as you know, giving away chainsaws and generators and water and food and all kinds of other items, cash.
And so we've got people doing that, but you have experience with this as well.
What should people be doing tonight?
Well, right now, people should be giving to John Hill's organization, and also they should be giving to Paul Lawrence over at Dixie Republic.
That and a local effort that we have going on here in northwest Alabama are the three that I'm supporting right now personally and with the league.
But we I've directed, I don't know how many league members over the past 24 hours or so to contribute to John Hill and to Dixie Republic and Paul.
And I'll continue to do that this coming week.
Well, if there was one that you endorsed that I didn't know about, please give me the information because we have endorsed John Hill's efforts, Paul Lawrence's efforts.
By the way, Paul will be with us in the third hour.
We're going to go to South Carolina the third hour.
They were hit hard too, but they're doing efforts outside of South Carolina.
I mean, because people don't understand, there's really a tri-state area there.
I mean, maybe you understand if you know.
But Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina really kind of meet there.
There's just a narrow strip of North Carolina in between Tennessee and South Carolina.
So right there in that part of the country, it's, you know, it's all very relative.
I mean, it's just, it's the same area.
Greenville got hit very hard.
Chief, where we were at for the TPC conference was absolutely flooded.
I mean, absolutely flooded.
The Reedy River was downtown Greenville was submerged anyway.
But they didn't get it nearly as bad as North Carolina.
But, I mean, there's still some damage there.
And we're going to be talking about their relief efforts and what they're doing to help people outside of South Carolina.
The entire South.
I mean, the Florida State Guard, God bless them, they're out there.
They're helping all of Dixie.
We can be doing that too.
So, yeah, I think you and I have both landed on the same organizations that we should be supporting tonight.
Another word to you, Chief.
We've got two minutes remaining.
Yeah, I would just like to encourage everybody to be as generous as they can.
As I said to start with, I think once the smoke clears, as it were, and we find out how many people have died over there and how many people have lost everything without any insurance, it's going to be a tragedy of terrible proportions.
And please, please be generous in giving to these people that we're supporting.
They can be trusted.
You know them.
I know them.
We worked with them, James, and anybody out there listening, take our word for it.
These groups that we're advocating that you support, please do it.
They're trustworthy.
They're not only trustworthy, they're giving above and beyond.
They're giving their time and their physical efforts and giving it all to where it needs to go.
There's no administrative fees.
You give a lot of these charities.
About 80% of it goes to salaries and then 20% of it.
It's not that way here.
So what John Hill is doing, Paul Lawrence, Dixie Republic, with the physical items, not just the financial items, and then other folks like Kirk Lyons, who has been displaced.
Well, we're going to be talking about all of that as the program goes on tonight already.
Such an important start.
Michael Hill League of the South has experience on the ground with the league helping in situations like this.
So his testimony and his shared experience tonight verbally is very important.
Michael, if you don't mind, sticking around for another segment, Rich Hamblin, actually the only guest tonight who's getting a double dip.
He's going to be back with us in the next segment.
And I'd actually, I think, like to pair both you and Rich together in this next segment.
I think that'll be dynamic before we get to Rebecca Dillingham and Kirk Lyons later this hour.
They're both in North Carolina, close to Asheville.
Very hard hit, and some very heartbreaking stories you'll hear, but we need to hear it.
We need to remember.
We need to know.
We'll be right back.
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We are now pairing, keeping Michael Hill over for one additional segment and pairing him with Rich Hamlin, who has been on with us in the first hour already.
Still, so many more people, at least a half a dozen more guests to come tonight.
Rich Hamblin, though, was the man who really gave me the idea to do this tonight.
And I'm so glad that that brainstorm took place.
I don't know, gentlemen, how this affects the presidential race.
Certainly that pales in comparison to what we're talking about tonight, but most of the people affected are going to be rural, conservative, white Christian voters.
Obviously, Asheville is a little bit of an outlier in so much as it is an artsy, purple-haired, transgender-friendly type of town there in Asheville, North Carolina.
Their mayor and city council is made up of seven women, including an Esther, a Shanika, a sage.
So you've got three blacks, and I don't know how many lesbians.
So Asheville is in for a world of hurt, I think.
That liberal outlier in otherwise predominantly conservative southern Christian areas.
And so we'll see how that plays out.
I mean, but these bridges over river gorges aren't going to rebuild themselves.
And we talked about how that's going to go going forward.
But as we continue on with Michael Hill, Rich, you were bringing up something you wanted to talk about.
And this was actually said, and I couldn't believe it.
I couldn't believe it.
I mean, I believe it, but I had to verify it because it's just so obtuse.
Kamala Harris saying priority in this relief should go to people of color.
Yeah, I couldn't believe that when I heard that.
It's just unfreaking believable.
And of course, North Carolina is in play.
You know, it's, I think Trump's lead in 2020 wasn't all that great.
And do you think they're going to spend any kind of effort to enable those people up in the western part of North Carolina to vote?
You know, I mean, they're not even going to the trouble of recovering bodies now.
The death toll, as Mike, as Dr. Hill said last day, there's no telling what it's going to be.
I've heard anywhere from at least 2,000, which I think is pretty credible, to as many as 10,000.
There's just an untold number of people that are missing.
And I've heard of Sheriff's Department saying, well, quit sending us water.
What we need is body bags.
That's how bad it is.
Dr. Here, you want to take that?
And I know, Rich, you had some things about the grid.
We'll get to it in a second.
But, Michael, I want to pair you and Rich together.
Y'all both know each other.
You've worked well together over the years in the league.
And you're both talking about really not just the failure, but, frankly, perhaps the design of failure for the government as it when compared to who they're giving aid to and doing things for and the victims here.
I don't think you're going to see a reciprocal effort.
Go, Michael.
Yeah, absolutely.
And also, we can't forget that there are resources in those mountains that people, companies like BlackRock are just salivating over getting their hands on.
What's going to happen to all these poor people who don't have insurers, don't have flood insurance, and can't rebuild up in there?
What's going to happen to their property?
What's going to happen to the infrastructure in there?
Just like Rich was pointing out, you know, who's going to rebuild it?
I mean, are you going to, like you mentioned, James, you're going to bring these diversity companies in there to build these bridges?
I mean, I've traveled a good bit in that part of the world, and it's hard to get around.
I mean, it's just tough to do.
And now that you've got everything down, rebuilding that is going to be a gargantuan project.
And they're bound by the federal government.
They're almost forced to give it to some standard contractors.
Yeah, absolutely.
Or their preferred vendors, you know, their approved vendors, which is another way of just saying, you know, crony capitalism.
Yeah, that's right.
And from what I understand, they don't like for volunteers to go in there and bring their own stuff because they contract with certain groups to bring in stuff and they overcharge and everybody ends up making money off of this stuff, all the insiders, you know.
So that's one reason I've heard that they don't like just regular people coming in and bringing stuff and giving it directly to the victims of this disaster.
So it's a scam from the top to the bottom.
I mean, every way you slice this, it's going to be a scam.
And the victims are going to be the people who live in that area and whose families have been there and whose families probably settled that area 200 or more years ago.
And this is a shame.
I mean, this is a national shame what's happening right now.
And we should never let people forget that, that this is when the government finally failed Southerners.
And it became so obvious that it's undeniable.
How can that be?
Rich, I want to give you this, but we got six minutes and 20 seconds left this segment.
Michael, give us 10 seconds on how we listen, suffering is good for people.
If it wasn't for the suffering of the South, we wouldn't have been bound together as a unique ethno-state, even in the shape that we still exist now.
It was because of the suffering that we were bound together.
Suffering can have its benefits.
And what can this suffering, in terms of our future, what can the suffering do for us?
And we've got to go right back to Rich.
But give us maybe 15 seconds on that, Michael.
Well, listen, James, if we do this the right way, we're going to let those people up there in that part of the Carolinas and Tennessee and other places know that they have brothers and sisters who care about them in other parts of the South.
This can do nothing but help bind the South together as one unit against our enemies who want us to die.
They want our death.
I mean, this is obvious to me.
And we don't want we don't wish this on anyone, but since it's it had since it has happened, let this be a takeaway and let this be something that people think about.
Rich, to you.
Yeah, I'd like to see one of those privately owned rescue helicopters paint a big old battle flag on fuselage and go delivering stuff to the hills.
Let them know exactly who's taking care of them.
Absolutely should.
Michael said, yeah, resources up there.
There are existing lithium mines up there.
There's two of them, which were miraculously evacuated two days before the storms hit.
Like somebody, you know, maybe somebody tipped them off.
And of course, some of the purest quartz in the world can be found up there, which is, you know, is essential for manufacturing semiconductors.
And to show you how bad it is up there, there is a company in the wake of the war in Afghanistan where they rediscovered, just like they did in the mountains of Italy in 1944 and 45, mule transport.
So they're having actual mule teams.
I saw that.
I've seen the footage.
It's real.
That's absolutely amazing.
And I think right now it might be a good time, James, for you to cue up Hank Jr. singing a country boy will survive.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Yeah, our people know how to get things done, and that use of mules just exemplifies it there.
All right.
I am actually working on the music.
But, all right, Rich, what else do you have for us this segment?
I have it down.
We've got the studio clock on tonight.
We normally know.
We got three minutes, 45 seconds left.
We are running a tight operation tonight.
Different guests every segment.
No flexibility, but not a moment wasted.
Rich, tee up the final topic of.
Yeah, people just don't really quite, unless they're on the ground up there, quite understand the enormity of this tragedy.
If there's one video I would recommend everybody watch, and I sent it to you last night, James.
I don't know if you saw it or not, but it's by a couple called Truth Stream Media.
They're out of Austin, Texas, and it's called What Actually Happened in North Carolina, Part 1.
I mean, it was so much information that she had to split it up into two videos.
And it gives a really good overview of just how bad it is up there.
And the things that people don't think about is all these areas that were wiped out, gas stations and plants and whatever, you know, all that water, all that stuff is being flushed into the water system.
So there's no telling what the long-term consequences of that's going to be.
Not to mention the tremendous amount of unrecovered bodies and animals, farm animals that couldn't escape.
And I've heard from reading various posts that the stench up there is just absolutely horrible.
And it's going to get worse as more people say are laid or left or aren't found and only notice when you smell something.
That's to think of it.
It's just really bad.
And as far as rebuilding the grid, no telling how long that's going to take.
And I think a lot of the areas up there never will be.
Never will be rebuilt.
Yeah, gentlemen, let me remind y'all of something, too, in case you hadn't thought about it.
There's another storm developing in the Gulf.
Yeah, I was going to say, I was just, Michael, I was just looking at that.
Hurricane Milton is coming right back for Florida.
Hey, my prediction is it's going to come a little bit to the west of the previous track over Alabama, over Middle Tennessee, up into Kentucky, and We'll have this all over again.
Yeah, my wife was joking that DARPA's DARPA's probably really PO'd it at DeSantis.
So they're going to goose this one into a hurricane.
Listen, that cannot be discounted.
You know, we're going to do subsequent segments on this in the weeks to come.
We're not going to just do, as Rush Limbaugh called it, drive-by media, talk about it one night and then move on to whatever's in the news.
No, we're going to continue to cover this, and we will cover that too.
Tonight, we're covering the hard stuff, what you can do, what we know for sure, where this money is going and where it's not going.
But anyway, I want to thank you both, Michael Hill and Rich Hamblin, for being on tonight.
And at Rich's request, I think as we hit the halfway point of tonight's live broadcast, most appropriately so, we will take you into the break with this and we'll come back with Rebecca Dillingham.
Thank you, Mike.
Thank you, Rich.
You see, a woman and the kids and the dogs and me.
I got a shotgun, a rifle, and a four-wheel drive, and a country boy can survive.
Country folks can survive.
Hey, stay tuned, folks.
We're halfway through tonight's broadcast.
Another half still to come.
More great guests.
Set tight.
We'll be right back.
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One of the most important shows I can ever remember us doing.
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This is why we're here.
If God gave us a voice for a reason, it was to help our people.
And that's what we're trying to do tonight.
If you go to thepolitical cesspool.org, go to that top blog entry, folks.
That's where you need to go.
The top blog entry tonight, well, if you're listening in the archives, if you're listening a couple of days after, if you're not listening live, you're listening later in the week, go to thepolitical cesspool.org and click on the link listen to the political cesspool live tonight, Saturday, October 5th.
That's the link you need to go to to find the list of TPC-endorsed hurricane relief efforts, the John Hill effort through the A.P. Hill Legacy Foundation.
You can link over there if you want to give cash.
We have the relief effort sponsored by Dixie Republic.
If you want to deliver or donate goods, do it by the mail.
We're going to give you more information about that in the third hour.
Sit tight about that.
And then you're going to hear in the next segment from Kirk Lyons, who Lives 19 minutes to the east of Asheville.
And now you can help him and his family.
Kirk is, we can't help everybody, all right, but we can help our own, and we should.
And that's what we're trying to do tonight.
And joining us right now to continue the conversation, one haymaker after another.
I am really honored to say and proud to say that everyone who were among my first choices tonight accepted the invitation.
Everybody I wanted to have on the show said yes.
And that includes Rebecca, dissident mama Dillingham.
Rebecca is back with us tonight.
Rebecca lives a little east to the east of Asheville as well.
And she has a compelling story.
Rebecca, how are you doing tonight?
And I mean that quite literally and seriously.
Well, I'm doing well.
We live in the Piedmont, so all we got was a ton of rain.
But my mother-in-law lives in Avery County, which is right near Mitchell.
It's an hour north of Asheville, half an hour west of Boone.
I mean, it was right in the heart of the storm bands and all those little hollers and hillsides.
That's what Avery County is.
And so we lived through this tragedy through the experience of my mother-in-law.
So her name is Judy.
And I may call her Granny too, because she's a special woman and she's alive, but she has one hell of a story.
And so do all of her neighbors and family who live up there.
Would you mind sharing it with us?
Yeah, so she lives in a little community called Henson Creek.
It is literally on Henson Creek.
And she's a widow and lives by herself.
And, you know, she's experiencing all the rain and all the scariness and the warnings and stuff.
And I think that some people, I think most people are just kind of numb to warnings.
So she's thinking, oh, you know, we're going to have to dig out of this a little bit, but it's not going to be that big of a deal.
So anyway, Friday.
And I should say, in the defense of North Carolinians, if you're at 2,100 feet above sea level, you don't think a hurricane is going to be that big of a deal.
I didn't even think to be freaked out about it, honestly, until pretty late on Friday night.
And I started really digging into it.
I'm like, oh my God, granny might be dead.
So anyway, we started freaking out.
We didn't get in touch with her until days later.
That's a whole nother story.
But anyway, she's on Henson Creek.
Her basement floods.
Water comes through the floor, Joyce.
She's by herself.
And then she hears her basement door crash.
On one side, she has a dried-up branch.
And then on the other side, a driveway that goes up the hill to where her aunt and uncle live.
And anyway, each side of her house has become a waterfall.
The dried-up branch is now not dry.
It is a flood.
And she's just in fight-or-flight mode.
And she packs a couple of pairs of underwear and grabs her keys.
And she's going to, you know, drop her daggone Toyota Camry off the mountain.
You know, thank God her neighbors who live down below her, closer to Henson Creek, are knocking at her front door.
And they're like, our house is about to wash away.
And they all pile in his truck.
She steps out of her house to water up to her knees.
They drive up a paved driveway of a neighbor's house who like lives in Florida half the year or whatever.
And they like sit there and just watch as it's the three of them.
It's the husband and wife neighbor, granny, and then the husbands and wife, dog and cat, all in their truck, just sitting there watching as literally they're thinking everything is going to wash away.
And then they stuck together.
Granny has since been rescued.
We thought she was dead.
She is obviously not.
She's been rescued by her hero brothers, Dale and Mike.
Her neighbors are now in her house because she has like a propane going and like a gas stove.
They had generators going.
People are siphoning gas.
She wants me to say that it is the community, the people, people sharing their starlink, people, the good old boys getting out there with their chainsaws and their side-by-sides and their four-wheelers just doing what needed to be done.
And then I talked to her brother Dale just a few minutes ago.
He lives in Altamont, which is also in Avery County.
And he said, you know, I have no faith in government.
He said, a lot of what I know is hearsay, but a lot of it is fact.
And he did not see any kind of state, nothing, whether North Carolina or federal.
He said he didn't see any kind of chop or anything like that until yesterday.
And he's like, that's like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
He's like, we all have been helping each other.
And people, the powers that be are getting in the way.
And he has a million stories.
And I know that y'all have been discussing many of these stories.
But the point is, the American people, the Southern people, the Appalachian people, they are strong in spirit.
They are strong in faith and they are resilient.
But that is also one of the reasons that the powers that be hate them.
So that's where we're at, James.
The mask is off, and I think people are seeing it.
Do you think that this could be a lesson that is well learned this time?
Or is it going to be something that, you know, after a certain indeterminate amount of time passes, everything just goes back to normal and we get back to bread and circus and relying on the man for our daily bread?
Well, those of us who maybe didn't live through it will have an easier time doing that.
But I think the people who live through this are forever changed.
You know, the Appalachian mountain man mentality is what my mother-in-law calls it.
And she said, and Christianity came first, you know, and Christianity can be a kind of a hot mess sometimes.
And we got a lot of things going on, but people, their faith has been resilient during this and they pulled together, not because they had to, not because somebody was telling them, but because they know in their heart they have to help their people and it's the right thing to do.
And they just were thinking about the consequences later.
I mean, I didn't even live through this and I want to cry because it's so, um, it's so beautiful what what's happening up there in the midst of tragedy, you know, beauty from ashes and it's story after story.
And I, the fact that we know people who live through this and they're just, and not even the people who live through it, the relief efforts, just random people who don't even know a soul up there.
And they're just doing what is right because that's what needs to be done.
And it's beautiful.
It is beautiful, Rebecca.
And your testimony is beautiful.
And you and your family are beautiful.
And I'm so glad that Granny is okay.
I mean, this has affected real people.
This isn't something that has affected statistics or just something you read online and then you move on.
This has affected our people, our community, our family, you know, real flesh and blood family.
Any of these people could have been related to us.
This was one that was related to you.
And again, I've been asking this of the guests.
I'm not, I hope we're not landing on some form of confirmation bias here where we just see what we want to see.
But I think we're hitting it pretty close with regards to, I mean, or am I entirely wrong in your opinion?
Because again, you live in North Carolina.
You have family members who are affected.
Are you seeing the federal government, the Biden administration, namely, going out and doing their best efforts?
Or is it not that at all?
Oh, Lord have mercy.
It's all Taiwan and Lebanon and Ukraine and Israel and everybody else, but Appalachia.
And, you know, is a week, a week and a half enough time for them to have gotten mobilized and gotten there if they were serious about doing it?
I mean, they could have been there within hours.
I mean, right?
The Yankee Empire, when they want to do something, they can do it super fast.
I mean, I think that this isn't tone deafness.
This isn't just money spent.
This is not having the will.
You know, I often say they hate us and want us debt.
And I think that that is abundantly clear to most people now.
It is, you know, they call us names.
Specifically, people in Appalachia, they're rednecks and inbreds, but by God, they get out there and help each other.
You know, I mean, just the castigation is non-stop.
And, you know, if there's a will, there's a way.
And, you know, Roy Cooper was slow to sign.
The Fort Bragg folks getting out there.
I mean, even Biden said days ago he could have done that.
He was slow to that.
I mean, just slow.
What storm bands?
I mean, Sleepy Joe doesn't even know what the hell's going on.
You know, it's not that government has to be there because you know what?
I saw a meme the other day where it was like, you know, we can't help you.
And then, you know, the little Chad guy was like, well, that's fine.
We'll just do it ourselves.
And they were like, yeah, people are doing that.
People, we're having on tonight.
What you've done, what you're doing for your mother-in-law.
30 seconds left, Rebecca.
What's the takeaway?
What is the last thing you want people to know?
The takeaway is community and neighbors and good old boys and faith and resilience.
And Jesus Christ is protecting people and the volunteers with the helicopters and the people packing up water and mittens.
And that is America.
That is the South.
That is Appalachia.
And it is strong and resilient.
With people like you, we cannot fail.
I love you, Rebecca.
I love your family.
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Always good to talk to you.
I wish it was under better circumstances tonight, but I'm glad you were on to provide an important voice to the guest, the lineup we have tonight.
We'll be back with Kirk Lyons next.
Thank you, Rebecca.
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One wonderful guest after another, and we take you now to just outside of Black Mountain, North Carolina, where we are hearing live from the scene from Kirk Lyons.
Kirk Lyons, of course, longtime friend of the program, long time, even longer time champion for our cause in the court, not just the court of public opinion, but in the courts of law as well.
Kirk Lyons co-founded and serves as the chief trial counsel for the Southern Legal Resource Center, which is, of course, a nonprofit public law corporation that offers legal support to defend First Amendment violations, violations of civil rights, and discrimination against advocates of Southern heritage.
If there's been a monument battle in the courts, Kirk has probably been there, and he's there now with the Arlington Monument.
He's been there across the country, across Dixie for many, many, many years, and he continues to advance our cause in the court.
But he lives, ladies and gentlemen, 19 minutes east of Asheville, which was really, frankly, one of the epicenters of this entire destruction.
And he's here with us now to share his story.
Kirk, I'm so glad to be able to talk to you tonight.
How are you?
Where are you?
And what has happened since last week?
I filed a motion in the Arlington case to where they have tried to move the remains of the memorial and give it to Virginia to try to moot our appeal because they'd say if the court said put it back, they could say, well, gee, we don't have it anymore.
So we filed a motion to stop them from doing that.
And that was the day before the storm hit.
And I literally don't know what has happened with that.
It got filed, and that's the last I've heard about it because I've had no computer, had no internet, I just now got phone service back.
But the storm hit Thursday night, and by about four in the morning, the power was off, and we had heavy, heavy rain and blowing winds.
I've got a 120-year-old oak tree that I was watching very carefully as it swayed and was afraid it might come down.
And I was afraid enough of it.
It did not come down, thank goodness.
It could have destroyed the house.
But we're probably going to have to get it down now.
I have some roof damage, and everybody in Black Mountain has a flooded basement.
But there were when the wind stopped and the rain stopped, we could not get out of Mountain Tree Road because there were so many trees across the road, which, of course, knocked the power lights, the power lines down.
So we're starting here now a week later to get power back, but we may, it may be several months before we get a permanent water solution.
The pumping station in Black Mountain was obliterated.
Obliterated.
It's gone.
It's gone.
Asheville, I've been in Asheville.
I had to go check on my handicapped sister.
And you don't see a lot of damage.
There were some places that got high water, but Suannanoa, where my sons live, is a battleground.
It looks like Armageddon happened there.
The Suananoa River swole 9 to 11 feet over its banks.
And the big storm for us was the historic big storm for us was the one of 1916, which obliterated the town of Old Fort.
And the gatehouse at the great big stone gatehouse at Biltmore marks where the 1916 storm got to, as high the water was.
This one was a foot higher than that.
Oh, yeah, Biltmore took a lot of flooding damage as well, if anybody's familiar with it.
Well, but it's not hard to flood Biltmore, but there was a lot of damage and flooding.
I don't think the historic house was hurt too bad, but there was a lot of flooding along the river there.
You know, I heard the French Broad River, which borders Asheville, normally crest at one and a half feet up to 26 feet.
It was almost right under the bridge, the I-40 bridge leading to I-26.
It was amazing.
I mean, and just scary as it can be.
But we've got several towns that now cease to exist.
Marshall, North Carolina, Hot Springs, North Carolina, Bat Cave, Chimney Rock, Old Fort.
By the way, if anybody went down as I did to the TPC 20th anniversary conference in Greenville, South Carolina back in May, I drove right through there.
You see Bat Cave.
Here's the exit to Bat Cave.
Bat Cave's gone.
I mean, these towns are gone.
They're gone.
And a lot of Suatanoa River is a snakey little creepy, slow river that very rarely has that much water in it.
But it was, and it's got about nine to 10 foot embankment, but it was nine to ten feet above the banks.
And I have a member of our church who saw a father and son washed out of their mobile home.
The son was able to hole up in a tree.
The father drowned.
We have another church member whose daughter and son-in-law saw eight people drowned.
And out in front of their house, there was a mudslide.
And when they came out, there were two hands sticking up above the mud.
So a lot of the roads were washed away completely, especially around Montree.
They had to use mules to get water up to people.
My son Stewart was staying at his wife's grandfather's house in Ridgecrest, which is right on the crest of the mountain.
And it fronts the old highway, which goes down to Old Fort, which was hit very hard.
And the highway on either side was literally washed away from the gate leading up to the house.
And the private road leading to the house was blocked with mudslides and oak trees.
But Stuart, my son Stewart, the engineer, organized some neighbors and they built a fire trail down the mountain.
And then he built literally out of chopped logs a corduroy bridge that he was able to get his car across and get his family out of there.
So I'm very proud of Stuart.
As you should be.
Your family is one to be proud of, Kirk.
I know, have met some of your boys.
I know some of our listeners know them better than I, but I know you.
And folks, as I said earlier, we can't help every single individual affected by this.
We can do the best we can with what we've got.
If you want to give to the community at large, support John Hill's efforts.
You want to give physical items, support the effort sponsored by Dixie Republic, which we'll be talking about in the next hour.
But if you want to give to an individual, I would submit it to be Kirk Lyons.
This is a man who has been a longtime friend, longtime champion, longtime guest on this program.
We can't help everyone, but we can help our own.
And, Kirk, what can we, folks?
I'll say again, go to that blog entry at the top of thepoliticalspool.org, the one dated Saturday, October 5th.
There's a link to Kirk's Southern Legal Resource Center.
PayPal, Kirk, what can we do to help you?
What do you need?
Well, right now, we have power back.
There is damage to the roof of the house, which it's a hundred-year-old house.
I'm going to have to restore the roof, and I don't know how much that's going to cost.
But it will be, I'm sure it'll be expensive.
The house is actually in my deceased-in-law's name, and so there may be some problems with the insurance.
We're going to have, I'm going to try to talk to the mortgage.
I'm sure there will be.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure there will be.
But anyway, that may be expensive, and we've got to take that oak tree down, and that's going to be expensive.
That'll be several thousand dollars.
All right, folks, listen, we've got, we've got, if you want to give financially to one person, we've endorsed, officially endorsed three different relief efforts for the general folk.
Give to John Hill's AP Hill Legacy Foundation for physical items.
We're going to talk to Dixie Republic folks, our friends at Dixie Republic in the next hour.
But if there's just one you want to give to, I submit it be Kirk Lyons.
We have his contact information on the website tonight.
PayPal, we can't help everybody, but he has been helping us and fighting for our people in court for decades.
He has put his name and his livelihood and his profession and everything on the line for us.
Now is a time of need.
Now is the time for our people to come and assist one of our own.
And if you can only help one, I think that's a good place to start.
And that's why we have put it up there on the website for your consideration.
If you want to get directly to Kirk, I appreciate what you're saying.
And before I get to be self-deprecating, my wife will probably come over here and slap me.
No, I know.
Listen, we're men.
We don't like to ask for help.
You are welcome, brother.
And I'm glad that I could do it because it is hard for us to do it ourselves.
We don't like to do this.
We're men.
We're warriors.
We're out there.
We're doing these things and we're fighting.
But let me do it for you.
I have a warm fuzzy.
James, I have a warm fuzzy.
Mr. Potato Head, our regime head, flew over Suananoa and Black Mountain eating an ice cream for me, and he waved at us.
And I am so, I feel so warm and fuzzy about that.
That's good.
And we'll probably get Kamala next, no doubt.
So, you know, boys are working in volunteer work.
Neil Payne is doing chiropractic treat adjustments for the first responders.
So everybody's pitching in.
We're trying to rebuild.
It's going to take several months on the water because the pumping station was obliterated.
What do you think?
Kirk, we got 30 seconds left.
Very quickly.
Give me 10 seconds.
What do you think you'll be able to go back to your home?
I mean, we're going back tomorrow to see.
We don't want to abandon it because there's looters.
So we'll head back to my daughter's house tomorrow.
Okay.
All right.
Well, God bless you, brother.
I know you have to pay that diversity tax and go.
Yes, indeed.
You got to pay that diversity tax to protect your home from looters, even though you don't have water.
But we're going to try to do what we can to help you.
And you should, folks.
Go to thepoliticalasspool.org to donate directly to Kirk Lyons.