Dan Hollaway
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If you're in a local community and you have a disaster, make an Amazon wish list and just put it on the internet. People like us will share it and you will get the stuff you need, I promise. And Amazon's quite a bit better at getting it there than the government typically is. But yeah, the DOD is already on staff. We have
If you include all the National Guards, we've got like 2 million people on staff. Why are we going out and paying? Why do we have an entire additional federal agency stood up that isn't even good at it?
If you include all the National Guards, we've got like 2 million people on staff. Why are we going out and paying? Why do we have an entire additional federal agency stood up that isn't even good at it?
If you include all the National Guards, we've got like 2 million people on staff. Why are we going out and paying? Why do we have an entire additional federal agency stood up that isn't even good at it?
The military?
The military?
The military?
That was so I can tell you the story if you'd like to hear it. Well, how long is it? Very brief.
That was so I can tell you the story if you'd like to hear it. Well, how long is it? Very brief.
That was so I can tell you the story if you'd like to hear it. Well, how long is it? Very brief.
So the governor, we were going back and forth on the phone with the governor of North Carolina at the time. He's gone now. He's a fucking idiot. He didn't know. He says he didn't know. What exactly am I supposed to do here? He was asking the NGO. What am I supposed to do here? It's like declare a state of emergency, cede control to the DOD. That's it. Then they'll take care of it.
So the governor, we were going back and forth on the phone with the governor of North Carolina at the time. He's gone now. He's a fucking idiot. He didn't know. He says he didn't know. What exactly am I supposed to do here? He was asking the NGO. What am I supposed to do here? It's like declare a state of emergency, cede control to the DOD. That's it. Then they'll take care of it.
So the governor, we were going back and forth on the phone with the governor of North Carolina at the time. He's gone now. He's a fucking idiot. He didn't know. He says he didn't know. What exactly am I supposed to do here? He was asking the NGO. What am I supposed to do here? It's like declare a state of emergency, cede control to the DOD. That's it. Then they'll take care of it.
No. Because one female colonel in the North Carolina National Guard, I can't remember her name, but fuck her, right? People are dead because of her. And I hope there's an investigation into this at some point and she goes to prison for the rest of her life. But she was in his ear the whole time. I had people from below her and above her telling me this, like in the National Guard there.
No. Because one female colonel in the North Carolina National Guard, I can't remember her name, but fuck her, right? People are dead because of her. And I hope there's an investigation into this at some point and she goes to prison for the rest of her life. But she was in his ear the whole time. I had people from below her and above her telling me this, like in the National Guard there.
No. Because one female colonel in the North Carolina National Guard, I can't remember her name, but fuck her, right? People are dead because of her. And I hope there's an investigation into this at some point and she goes to prison for the rest of her life. But she was in his ear the whole time. I had people from below her and above her telling me this, like in the National Guard there.
She was in this dude's ear like, no, don't give up control. We need to be the site commander. Why? Why? You're the fucking commander of a fucking North Carolina National Guard unit. You've got the 82nd Airborne down the road, which I was in, by the way. We specialize in jumping into places and setting up a city. That's what we do.
She was in this dude's ear like, no, don't give up control. We need to be the site commander. Why? Why? You're the fucking commander of a fucking North Carolina National Guard unit. You've got the 82nd Airborne down the road, which I was in, by the way. We specialize in jumping into places and setting up a city. That's what we do.
She was in this dude's ear like, no, don't give up control. We need to be the site commander. Why? Why? You're the fucking commander of a fucking North Carolina National Guard unit. You've got the 82nd Airborne down the road, which I was in, by the way. We specialize in jumping into places and setting up a city. That's what we do.
We jump in, seize an airfield, and set up medical, ammo supply, fucking security, comms, everything. We can jump in and within three days set up a fucking city, a functional city. That's like what we do. It's like what we're trained, the 82nd Airborne specialty is to do exactly that, right? Going behind enemy lines and set up a fucking base.