Kash Patel
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The sourcing would be much harder on that than say a kinetic operation
like a 9-11 style attack.
So there's this thing called COOPCOG capabilities, like continuity of government, and everybody's heard about locations around America, can't really talk about, but there's a...
continuity plan for government to keep going and for enough personnel to be around to make sure we can do all those things and supposedly defend the nation and have the commander-in-chief and his cabinet secure and do all that.
But there's no contingency plan to say, if you wipe out the electricity west of the Mississippi, how are we going to turn it on?
It doesn't exist.
Yeah, I guess it'll be like one of those end-of-the-world shows, you know?
I know we did when we were in.
I know we did.
And again, this is a type of lift that you're not fixing overnight.
You got to get Congress's buy-in to budget this, to allow the agencies and department to go in and make this a priority, to allow companies come in and rebuild the infrastructure and fix it.
Same with our nuclear programs and our nuclear arsenal.
It's the same deal.
So we're fucked.
I think we have...
An ability, that's why I think this election is so important, not just for everything we've talked about to this point, but in terms of national security and defense, which is sort of my wheelhouse.
We have an opportunity to come in and reprioritize all the things that you and I have just been talking about.
so that the American people are safeguarded, because they've been neglected for too long, because these have not been priorities of the current administration and some of the previous administrations.
Something's going to happen, if not already.
Here's the other thing.