Has anyone noticed that the Red Cross isn't seen in NC?The MOST bad ass thing about the help NC is getting is that the teams doing the real work are totally self sufficient.
— FoxyFarmer๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ (@GardensR4Health) October 6, 2024
This crew has damn farm machinery in front to clear any path issues they face. They are going to get these supplies to stranded folks come hell or high water. pic.twitter.com/mdrMcXuiFL
Sunday, October 06, 2024
Has anyone noticed that the Red Cross isn't seen in NC? FEMA is ineffective yet volunteers are harassed?
Saturday, October 05, 2024
Friday, October 04, 2024
This account from the disaster zone is hard to hear...but you should hear it...
Hunter Wilson drove $10,000 of supplies into Black Mountain yesterday.
— FoxyFarmer๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ (@GardensR4Health) October 4, 2024
His account is honest but very hard to listen too. I’m glad to hear the national guard is running helicopters there now.
This man can NOT process what he just saw, he’s in complete shock. ๐ pic.twitter.com/mR0IRtSw6e
So proud of these boys! The Cajun Wing is in NC doing God's work!
ABSOLUTELY LUV THIS SHIT!!!! WELL DONE BOYS!Thanks to @Mercury1Charity, we've doubled our "Cajun Wing" Squadron from 25 to 50 ๐s doing SAR & Air Drops! We're also offering an all expense paid swamp tour back in Louisiana for anybody impeding relief efforts! #FAFO ๐๐ช⚜️ #louisianimals #CajunNavy #NorthCarolinaFloods pic.twitter.com/0umeFEEWH9
— United Cajun Navy (@Unitedcajunnavy) October 4, 2024
Tim Kennedy verifies reports that FEMA is hindering relief operations!!!
FUCK FEMA!Tim Kennedy on FEMA: 'They are directly interrupting our ability to conduct missions'
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) October 4, 2024
"I went to put a couple of people into a hotel last night, and they have a security guard at the hotel and they said, 'Oh, we're so sorry. The entire hotel has been booked for federal… pic.twitter.com/CMpfigYSuF
When the govt says we're here to help watch your ASS!!!!!
Can you believe this shit! FEMA is stopping aid from getting to people. Sometimes I wonder who the real enemy of the American people is!Just received this text 20 mins ago.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2024
The level of belligerent government incompetence is staggering!! pic.twitter.com/wWbBR7FfUo
War crimes galore and the fools on both sides of the Russia/Ukraine conflict are video taping themselves doing it...
I hate censorship. I believe the public needs to know the good, bad and especially ugly. But the snuff vids that both sides are putting out is past old. So why post this one. To highlight the fact that we keep seeing fools on both sides posting vids of war crimes. Not of combat but of fucking war crimes. Everyone knows I want this war turned off. Part of the negotiations should be to deal with the individuals that participated in these acts.21+ Russian soldiers executed a Baltic volunteer who fought in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. pic.twitter.com/CWHO7sk8ZO
— Clash Report (@clashreport) October 4, 2024
Thursday, October 03, 2024
Small gripe. The staff types showed up and flexed the rule book during a disaster....
I was bitching about the response to the Asheville disaster (regional disaster) happening as we speak.
We're seeing the usual from local officials (the lust of power and the ability to fuck with people remains long after covid went away...covid = common cold by the way), and just like Katrina we're seeing the same state emergency officials frozen in a state of inaction due to idiotic analysis instead of LEANING into the problem.
That's my gripe.
The staff types (never knew I had so many on these pages...thought it was just knuckle draggers) told me how its supposed to be done. What the law requires yada yada yada.
I get that.
The law is the law.
But its supposed to be backed up by common sense, compassion and a bias to find ways to help your fellow man, not quote the rules when they're YOUR fellow countrymen trying to survive a natural disaster.
What I can't figure is if this is just politics at play (defending the Biden Admin and helping Kamala) OR an actual slowness to act because they live in an environment of pushing papers.
The US Army has sent 1000 Airborne Troops. Freaking awesome. BUT WE HAVE A COMBATANT COMMANDER FOR NORTH AMERICA!!!!
That fuck can draw troops just like everyone else.
When we saw the first reports of this thing everyone was monitoring it. I'm sure they were doing the same at least in the intel shops at Bragg and Lejeune. They should have been doing the same at Ft Dix, Ft Campbell AND at Ft Benning (I think that covers most of the big bases in the region although Dix is outside the zone but still belongs to the 18th Airborne Corps...I think).
If I was the Commanding General of those forces I would have my shops draw up contingency plans to assist. I would have sent a message up to Northern Command letting them know what Engineer, Military Police, Infantry...FUCK EVEN MOTOR T available to assist.
Long story short?
Even if the locals said kiss my ass we got it, it would have been one helluva snap exercise to test unit readiness.
But they did need the help and 1k Airborne ain't shit considering the massiveness of the disaster.
Another point of order.
I'm really sick and tired of having the most powerful, highest priced and technologically advanced military able to get shit done for ass wipes on the other side of the planet but when shit kicks off here they sit on their hands and when I bitch about it some staff types show up to tell me how wrong and ignorant I am (can't argue the last).
So yeah. We SHOULD follow the law but we should be biased to ACT when it comes to helping our fellow citizens.
Sidenote.
It irks the hell out of me that I don't see any Marines involved in this effort. For Christ's sake send the wing with some Hueys and 53s to help. I know our engineers are shit shape with Force Design 2030 but we SHOULD be apart of this effort.
Iran is not ready for war with Israel???
They bang the war drums so hard!“We don’t have a fucking air force,” a source in Tehran close to the Iranian military told me, under condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. Of the attack on Israel, he said, “I don’t know what they are thinking.”https://t.co/r3UDUv58J4
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) October 2, 2024
We're all focused on North Carolina & the IDF action in Lebanon. Meanwhile Russia is making huge gains in Ukraine...
Ugledar is destroyed. 71% of Donetsk region is occupied, 22% of Ukraine. Russian losses amount to 0.4% of the population, and the military budget exceeds the Ukrainian one by 6 times. They have no reason to stop. Europe either helps Ukraine or prepares for battle itself.If China is the enemy then they must be laughing their asses off. The idea that the US especially but the West in general is depleting its war stocks for wars elsewhere is simply amazing. I would bet body parts that we don't have enough missiles, bombs, etc...to fight ONE major regional war much less two. If Iran does China's bidding and launches a major fight against Israel OR Israel does the same to Iran then our attention will be focused like a laser beam to that region. Add in the spike in oil that will arrive, outrage from the public, and economies in the West being pushed into recession all during a presidential election in America and China will have their window to strike.
byu/Swimming-Beyond378 inLoveForUkraine
This Chief ceremony (I guess) is an absolute MIND FUCK!
Aint no way lolForget there being more rolls than a bakery shop. Did that fucker actually do that? MIND FUCKED!
byu/V3NOMous__ inUSMC
Monday, September 30, 2024
Ashville, NC. A terrible look for the Biden Admin, and US Military (especially NorthCom)
Do you see this clown?
Saturday, September 28, 2024
What Would A Far Cheaper Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter Actually Look Like? via WARZONE
Read the article, then come back here.What Would A Far Cheaper Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter Actually Look Like?
— The War Zone (@thewarzonewire) September 24, 2024
The Air Force now says it may want a 6th generation fighter that costs around $100M instead of $300M, but is that even possible?
Feature story: https://t.co/KnhjYLu3bk
A comment made me pause and then brought this to mind (warning...talk about religion)
A reader made a comment about how Shia Islam views things and by extension gave their view of the killing of the Hezbollah leader.
Unfortunately you miss a major point, the whole Shia Islam is around the concept of Martyrdom.
Are you happy in your coach thinking about your next holiday or next meeting at work ?
Well, those guys are looking for martyrdom, because that would please God and assure their place on heaven.
On the contrary of Christian, who just read about the Apocalypse, they (=Muslim) see Satan in action bombing their cities.
think about that, are you kind of Christian? If four raiders would literally appear, would you care about your mortgage or about giving God a sign of how good you are?
It is a serious question. Please answer.
For them it is pretty much the second option.
do you think that killing their leader will stop them?
You are gravely mistaken.
On one thing we agree. The killing of Hezbollah's leader won't stop them. I pretty much stated the same by remarking that the second in command is usually much more radical and will dial things up to 12. What that will lead to in this fight is beyond me but this thing could have been turned off but the IDF and Hezbollah both seem to want the fight.
But ignoring all that for a second. I want to address his view on Christianity.
IN THE MODERN ERA, OUR CHRISTIANITY HAS BEEN USED AS A WEAPON AGAINST BELIEVERS.
Unfortunately those that have a BASIC reading of the bible focus only on the "peace and love" but there are several passages that says that if you call yourself a Christian you're not to go gently into that night.
Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. Psalm 144:1-2
Where did I get that from? Not from the black church I attended. Not from my grandma or grandpa or mom or dad. Not from some elder in the church that served in the military.
No.
I got that from my batshit crazy senior Drill Instructor. Never asked but the dude his views on things but he wore a camo cross around his neck that you could sometimes see pop out from under his t-shirt when we were involved in some type of vigorous training.
He had us saying the portion in red like a fucking mantra. Don't care who was around. Colonel pop down to watch us do our thing? Before we hook and jab we'd say that shit. Capt walking around monitoring shit? We'd say that shit.
It was a MUCH different time. Much different Marine Corps. But it got across to me that doing God's work sometimes involves violence.
My reader at the start of this talked about how we view the end times.
Jesus himself talks about coming back as a lion, not as a lamb. Hell the bible itself talks about a massive war between good and evil.
Christianity has been bastardized, made weak and feeble and made to have no standards of behavior or consequences for evil doers.
Long story short?
If you're a true believer then you believe in fighting for what's right.
My only quibble with this killing is the unintended consequences of the action, the inevitable knock on deaths caused by continued fighting.
Won't cover it but the endless wars are of the devil himself. That we should rail against. Not the just fight but the prolonged fight for profit.
Friday, September 27, 2024
The IDF went after the Hezbollah leader. Looks like they tagged him and things are heating up.
Netanyahu was scheduled to leave for Israel tomorrow, but now he's leaving early.
Bomb shelters in Israel are being opened up.
Hezbollah has already started a missile barrage into Israel.
The US rushed forces into the area. We know about the air and especially the naval forces but the movement of ground troops especially SOCOM (Rangers, SF, SEALs & Raiders) along with probably the 82nd is less known.
Don't know if many have been following it but CENTCOM has been planning for the evacuation of civilians from Lebanon for weeks now.
Unintended or badly planned, the consequences of this thing might spiral and once again the US COULD be pulled back into fighting in the Middle East.
Sidenote. Why is hitting leadership such a thing now? When will we learn that the next guy up is ALWAYS more radical than the fool we're currently dealing with!