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I just, I really want, I mean, I think I'm not alone when I say that I want our country to thrive and I want our country to be not just catching up to the 21st century. We're a quarter of a century in and we have infrastructure that has not been upgraded for a hundred years. in this country. Plus you combine that with the crime. Nobody wants to get on the subway in any major city in this country right now because of the crime and the filth. And I understand that there are parts of Europe, I mean, you know, in Paris, when you go through La Salle, it's like it smells like urine. Okay. So Europe's not perfect either. Right. But we have We have an overall crumbling infrastructure in this country. And that's what I'm talking about. You know, there are, oh, for example, the broadband money that the last administration was allocated a lot of like in the billions to fix and implement rural broadband and communications and internet. And I think they, They put in like one tower. I mean, it was insane. Like the money did not get spent on internet. And then you look at what happened during Hurricane Helene. Elon Musk had to go in with Starlink to get the communications up and running. And here's something else that nobody really talked about during that emergency is that FEMA was supposed to do that. That's FEMA's job. Here's how I know that. My dad, my stepdad that we take care of now, he was with FEMA for his civil service career. And his job was to go with the first wave of responders. So he was like a first responder. He was always had a go bag. And the minute there was a disaster, he was out the door on a plane at that disaster, setting up communications. And so the fact that the emergency medical, the EMS, the first responders, they didn't have communications. People could not get 911. That was FEMA's job and it wasn't done. So I was out there, you know, I responded to that tragedy. And, you know, I could speak to it, you know, directly. know fema did such a poor job on the onset that especially people in appalachia they're kind of like you know what screw me screw you like i don't even want you around here now yeah and you know that that's going to be that's going to be a wound that's going to take a lot to heal it's just going to take a lot to heal that and and we would be trying to coordinate things between one group of people and another group of people and there's not cellular service there's not landline there's not there's nothing so in order to just make a decision, you'd have to drive and the roads are screwed up. So you got to drive 45 minutes to two hours, find somebody physically, find them, have a little bit of a conversation, get a little bit of a plan together, and then, you know, go back to where you came from. And now you're doing this courier method for just to be able to converse. And it was, it was very, very difficult. And I could only imagine all that could have been better if just that aspect wasn't there. And we were dropping off star links to people and we were sourcing these things to get the communications back up. So it's,