Meet The New Boss...Dumber Than The Old Boss

I'm too old and jaded to assume that any branch of the federal leviathan is any good at what they are tasked with doing. I'll reserve judgement about our armed forces, because even with the catastrophe of Obama's purges and the focus on how to walk in pumps and respecting people's pronouns, there are undoubtedly many NCOs and even some officers who are expert at killing people and breaking their things, and can lead their troops to do something other than a bump and grind.

But in the main...government is bad at doing things, and the federal government, with its magical never-ending stream of funds seems to be the worst of the bunch. Yet every day it seems as though they are getting worse! The shift from minimally competent government employees that we expected even into the beginning of the 21st century has morphed into a chaotic clown show of poorly planned responses, idiotic Newspeak pronouncements from gibbering fools, and the abject failure to do even the most basic stuff.

Six Shot Missed Within 5 Feet: House Task Force Publishes Damning Report on Trump's Attempted Assassinations

The agent who noticed the suspected shooter was five feet away when he noticed the barrel of a gun. He fired six shots and struck naught. However, the Secret Service has yet to confirm the actual number of shots fired, another embarrassing failure by the elite security service to account for ammunition spent.

I won't even address the shocking failures in process and planning, and the even more shocking complacency that was perhaps intentional.

How can the United States Secret Service keep in its employment a man who missed his target from five feet away? With six rounds? How can the United States Secret Service fail to notice that at least one of their front-line employees -- a man tasked with protecting the life of a former and soon-to-be current president -- can't shoot his weapon with anything approaching competence? What sort of training and evaluation does that federal department use that is unable to sort out and reject a man who is that profoundly bad at his one job?

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Mystery Drone Swarms Spread to Maryland

[...]an FBI official confirmed in an interagency press call on Saturday that drone sightings had spread to Maryland, but stopped short of saying they were directly connected to the original reports in New Jersey.
“There’s no confirmation that any of those [initial reports] are linked to anything that’s being observed throughout the country, or at other locations,” the official said.
“I don’t want to cause alarm and panic, but we can’t ignore the sightings that have been there, and we are concerned about those just as much as anybody else [who’s a] resident here of New Jersey,” he added.
The official said the FBI is conducting an ongoing investigation into the origin of the sightings.

If the United States federal government is so fantastically incompetent that it cannot call upon its vast resources in the armed forces, the Department of Homeland Security, the FAA, and the various other overlapping functions that it funds with our tax dollars to figure out what the hell is going on, then they obviously need to be sent packing, because they are worthless.

Well, except at butchering the English language with nonsensical blather that means nothing. At least the official is "concerned!" That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

Every day that passes with more of these sightings and without a coherent and understandable response from the federal government makes normal people suspect that either the government isn't trying hard, or they are incredibly incompetent, or they are covering up something.

My money is on all three.

At the risk of being coarse, my current impression of our government is that they could f*ck up a wet dream. Can anyone point to a successful project or action by the federal government in the last four years?

And yes, they have succeeded in flooding the country with illegals, but they did it in such a hamfisted way that pretty much the entire country is pissed off and wants it to end. So what they got for their labors is a profound realignment in, and hardening of America's opinion about illegal immigration, and as a lovely bonus it probably got Donald Trump elected!

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1 I'll get em

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2024 12:00 PM (fwDg9)

2 Drones!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2024 12:02 PM (Q4IgG)

3 Saw a Fox video of a drone crash with more emergency vehicles responding than a 20 story apartment fire fully engaged

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2024 12:02 PM (fwDg9)

4 In a field too, with nothing around it. Some young guys drone crashed wouldn't get a response

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2024 12:03 PM (fwDg9)

5 The Federal government is very good at immiseration

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2024 12:05 PM (D7oie)

6 "The agent who noticed the suspected shooter was five feet away when he noticed the barrel of a gun. He fired six shots and struck naught."

Only Imperial Storm Troopers are so precise.

Posted by: Obi Wan Kenobi at December 15, 2024 12:05 PM (PiwSw)

7 @3 And now we have to worry about "copy-cat" drone operators.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at December 15, 2024 12:05 PM (LPS7w)

8 Obi Wan Kenobi

Exactly!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2024 12:06 PM (u82oZ)

9 rumor is that the drones are part of a scan for nucleotides, to try to find a dirty bomb.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2024 12:06 PM (D7oie)

10 People who think about 1973 less than Candice Owens:

1) Sailors

2) American sailors touring in the Mediterranean

3) American sailors touring in the Mediterranean aboard the USS Liberty 2: The Torpedening

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 15, 2024 12:06 PM (lhenN)

11 rumor is that the drones are part of a scan for nucleotides, to try to find a dirty bomb.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2024 12:06 PM (D7oie)

More like they're scanning for tidepods so they can eat them.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 15, 2024 12:07 PM (AiZBA)

12 Deranged conspiracy theorist Adam Schiff on why he opposes
@Kash_Patel
as FBI director: "This is a conspiracy theorist." 🤡

https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1868311786291961906

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2024 12:08 PM (7ALPQ)

13 6 "The agent who noticed the suspected shooter was five feet away when he noticed the barrel of a gun. He fired six shots and struck naught."

Only Imperial Storm Troopers are so precise.
Posted by: Obi Wan Kenobi at December 15, 2024 12:05 PM (PiwSw)
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I feel bad for Alec Guiness saying that with such gravitas only to be proven comically incorrect by every scene involving storm troopers firing at them.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at December 15, 2024 12:08 PM (LPS7w)

14 "The agent who noticed the suspected shooter was five feet away when he noticed the barrel of a gun. He fired six shots and struck naught."

Only Imperial Storm Troopers are so precise.
Posted by: Obi Wan Kenobi at December 15, 2024 12:05 PM (PiwSw)

To "steelman" this, Routh had set up a nest with two ballistic plates hung on the fence to protect him. However, that agent probably should be given a shotgun for future patrols until he can get more practice on a range.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2024 12:09 PM (D7oie)

15 Biden Never Considered the "Specifics" of the 1500 Clemency Cases He Commuted

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Details, schlemieltails.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:09 PM (L/fGl)

16 Don't forget:

As ham-handed as the Deep State is, they took over the most revolutionary governmental system of all (citizen government through representatives). They looted it to almost collapse, and funded all their fellow barbarians. while trying to enslave citizens.

So unchallenged, the Deep State can do great evil. And come very close to winning.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2024 12:09 PM (u82oZ)

17
The drone phenomenon is a repeat of the Chinese spy balloon debacle, only orders of magnitude larger and more discrediting. Like the federal government thought that the balloon humiliation was a step in the right direction, but was just proof of concept.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2024 12:11 PM (xPNeT)

18 More like they're scanning for tidepods so they can eat them.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 15, 2024 12:07 PM (AiZBA)

fine. Radionuclides. Happy?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2024 12:11 PM (D7oie)

19 Kindltot

Neutron radiation, not nucleotides, which are in DNA , mRNA, and RNA.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2024 12:12 PM (u82oZ)

20 Every day that passes with more of these sightings and without a coherent and understandable response from the federal government makes normal people suspect that either the government isn't trying hard, or they are incredibly incompetent, or they are covering up something.

This goes back to Obama, who made ideological purity the metric for hiring and retaining Federal personnel. Merit and competence ceased to be factors.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 15, 2024 12:12 PM (xCA6C)

21 Thank you CBD

This is the first time I’ve heard the agent was so close to Routh when he fired and the first time I’ve heard he fired so many shots. It always seems to get worse with more info; like slanted roofs in Butler. I remember this agent being lauded in the immediate aftermath for being such an eagle eye to see Routh’s rifle barrel in the foliage… but from 5 feet away it doesn’t seem like such a feat…. In those Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, Clint Eastwood could shoot apples off trees from 100 paces… and shoot hats off heads without hitting the head beneath! I guess that agent is not the man with no name…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2024 12:12 PM (5MZNC)

22 Have the traditional targets at the training facility in Glynco, Georgia been replaced with the side of a barn?

"Hey, Jason put one right through the first 'O' in Coca-Cola!"

Posted by: Paco at December 15, 2024 12:12 PM (njExo)

23 Kindltot

Happy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2024 12:12 PM (u82oZ)

24 Neutron radiation, not nucleotides, which are in DNA , mRNA, and RNA.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2024 12:12 PM (u82oZ)

Yeah.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2024 12:13 PM (D7oie)

25 I’m going to go out on a limb and guess the 5/6 miss shooter was a member of the DEI crew.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2024 12:14 PM (/StR6)

26 I think they figured out what the drones in New Jersey are all about.

https://tinyurl.com/yedvps6f

Posted by: Paco at December 15, 2024 12:14 PM (njExo)

27 ...has morphed into a chaotic clown show of poorly planned responses, idiotic Newspeak pronouncements from gibbering fools, and the abject failure to do even the most basic stuff.

Oh come on now. Don't mince words. Tell us how you really feel.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2024 12:15 PM (W/lyH)

28 > rumor is that the drones are part of a scan for nucleotides, to try to find a dirty bomb.
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The NEST (nuclear emergency response) has aircraft and vehicles that can already do this. In fact, detectors are all over the NYC area, the D.C. area and most other large metro areas and along Interstates.

Why use drones if you've already got the gear to do this?

If it's a proof-of-concept I would think a better location to test this would be out at Area 51 or some other out of the way place.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2024 12:15 PM (Q4IgG)

29 Drone hysteria is looking like a psy op.

More federal power is the objective.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at December 15, 2024 12:16 PM (00gEw)

30 @29 Just like the UFO sighting records psyop.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at December 15, 2024 12:18 PM (LPS7w)

31 Martini Farmer

Not US Military. Not foreign. Leaves out DOJ, FBI, DHS, and the FAA.

This is easy to describe using ATC radar, or an Aegis Display. Why has this not happened?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2024 12:18 PM (u82oZ)

32 We have this mythical notion of the US military as an all knowing, all Seeing, all powerful entity. But it’s not. It’s just people? Who in many cases suck at their job.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2024 12:18 PM (/StR6)

33 How can the United States Secret Service keep in its employment a man who missed his target from five feet away? With six rounds? How can the United States Secret Service fail to notice that at least one of their front-line employees -- a man tasked with protecting the life of a former and soon-to-be current president -- can't shoot his weapon with anything approaching competence?

The point of the government is to take as much money, and as many freedoms, from the populace as possible.

Anything else it does is merely incidental

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2024 12:19 PM (oZhjI)

34 I really don’t care about the drones. In fact, anything that makes the government look ridiculous I applaud. After Jan 20 I expect if they continue Trump will get to the bottom of it quickly.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2024 12:19 PM (5MZNC)

35
I suppose six muzzle blasts at close range threw off the assassin's aim and alerted the target. Better than nothing.

The larger question is why Trump was playing golf in a location with an unsecured perimeter.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2024 12:20 PM (xPNeT)

36 The drone issue has morphed into a multi-state shit show with a bunch of copycats. It will get worse until one is finally sucked into the engine of an airliner in either take off or landing. (Lots of open fields near Seattle's airport and many Air Force bases.

They could be government, but I am more inclined to think its a bunch of nerds screwing around messing with people.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2024 12:20 PM (W/lyH)

37 Deranged conspiracy theorist . . .

johnny maga@_johnnymaga
There’s a segment of Kamala supporters on TikTok that are convinced JD Vance is working with the feds to “turn state's evidence” against Trump and Elon Musk for stealing the 2024 election.
They believe Kamala will be inaugurated.
It’s insane how deranged these people are.

https://is.gd/ibyytl

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Lots of good crazy at the link.

Speaking of crazy . . .

https://is.gd/OKo52C

And I firmly support her response.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:20 PM (L/fGl)

38 At the molecular level, think of every govt employee vs an employee in the private sector. In the private sector, you do a shit job you eventually get fired. In the govt not only is there job for life security, promotions are automatic in most cases, just due to seniority.

There is no incentive to hire good people. And there is no incentive to do a good job. The entire system is set up for failure.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2024 12:21 PM (/StR6)

39 The most plausible explanation for the drone sightings I've read, is this;

A test of technology to vacuum up data from both wired and wireless devices that transmit over the air and/or physical data/phone lines. Data from cell phones, wireless devices, credit card readers, security systems, telemetrics from 'connected' vehicles and so on.

A contractor for the feds is running it. The feds would you rather not know the scope of the test and the scope of the data being collected.

It would allow warrantless, mass searches of every type of data communication used by the public. And it leaves no trace.

You know why the feds would love to be able to do this on a whim, right?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2024 12:21 PM (Q4IgG)

40 To be fair, the people running private companies aren't all that, either. I first noticed the decline back in the 90s. My grandparents would never have put up with the slackness of America today. (And I see no indication it's better anywhere else.)

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2024 12:22 PM (1bNHn)

41 We have this mythical notion of the US military as an all knowing, all Seeing, all powerful entity. But it’s not. It’s just people? Who in many cases suck at their job.

Since the end of WWII American military leadership has tended to poor, and frankly since the end of the Cold War traditional notions of competence have been de-prioritized anyway.

It is more important to our military leadership to have an officer that will follow DIE requirements or enforce the clot shot mercilessly then someone that could say violently defeat an enemy force on the field at minimal cost in American lives and treasure.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2024 12:22 PM (oZhjI)

42 FA is OK but FO is a bitch.

DC Restaurant Server Fired After Comments About Refusing Service to Trump Officials

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:23 PM (L/fGl)

43 The specific mechanism for poor organizations is mediocre people keeping power in their own hands.

The mediocre do not want challenges to their power by competent people. So they only hire people worse than them. And those less competent people hire even less competent people. Until you get Dick Levine, Wray, or many others.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2024 12:24 PM (u82oZ)

44 40 To be fair, the people running private companies aren't all that, either. I first noticed the decline back in the 90s. My grandparents would never have put up with the slackness of America today. (And I see no indication it's better anywhere else.)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2024 12:22 PM (1bNHn)

But at least in the private sector the market eventually corrects things. A poorly run company will eventually go out of business. The govt will never go out of business no matter how poorly run it may be.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2024 12:24 PM (/StR6)

45 Winning squared.

Time Magazine's Few Remaining Subscribers Are Cancelling Over Them Naming Trump "Person of the Year"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:25 PM (L/fGl)

46 They could be government, but I am more inclined to think its a bunch of nerds screwing around messing with people.
Posted by: Diogenes at December

This would be very well off nerds as the size of the drones are huge. They also are capable of transforming from fixed wing to rotary. These aren’t drones you purchase from Best Buy.

There is a theory someone snuck a nuclear weapon across the boarded and the drones are searching for it. This is sadly plausible.
Its that or we are in for something pretty big that this admin thinks is cool, but the rest of us are going to think is insane.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2024 12:25 PM (d2kuJ)

47 Time Magazine's Few Remaining Subscribers Are Cancelling Over Them Naming Trump "Person of the Year"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:25 PM (L/fGl)

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These same people also call Trunp voters cultists. 😂

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2024 12:26 PM (/StR6)

48 Boarded = boarder

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2024 12:26 PM (d2kuJ)

49 It would allow warrantless, mass searches of every type of data communication used by the public. And it leaves no trace.

You know why the feds would love to be able to do this on a whim, right?

Potentially even more then that. Remember in one of the Nolan Batman movies they use wifi as a sort of sonar so they can monitor not just electronic communications but also allow you to physically construct any location they want with sufficient wifi signal? I saw a group presenting a successful demo of this...

But to the larger point the drone stuff is either:

1) The government doing something and answering with their standard "who knows...maybe its ALIENS!" answer they always use when they want to cover something up

2) The FNM spinning crap up for ratings. I have noticed a non-trivial number of these "drone sightings" are just airplanes at a distance noticed by people that don't normally look up in the night sky

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2024 12:26 PM (oZhjI)

50 Boarded = boarder

Border.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2024 12:27 PM (/StR6)

51 But at least in the private sector the market eventually corrects things. A poorly run company will eventually go out of business. The govt will never go out of business no matter how poorly run it may be.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2024 12:24 PM (/StR6)

actually, to prevent this is the one of the main functions of a cartel. No one will go out of business if there is no alternative for the service.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2024 12:28 PM (D7oie)

52 those are high quality drones, man! they are not falling out of the sky. *military grade ?????

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2024 12:28 PM (QTCRF)

53 The agent who noticed the suspected shooter was five feet away when he noticed the barrel of a gun. He fired six shots and struck naught.

He's one of our graduates!

Posted by: The Imperial Stormtrooper Acacdemy! at December 15, 2024 12:28 PM (uxCna)

54 I remember seeing a guy who bought a couple of larg-ish drones, but a hammock between them, and used them as a sort of hover couch.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2024 12:28 PM (oZhjI)

55 I smell a Svengoolie movie! Kids eat radioactive Tidepods and turn into dinosaurs!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:29 PM (L/fGl)

56 actually, to prevent this is the one of the main functions of a cartel. No one will go out of business if there is no alternative for the service.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2024 12:28 PM (D7oie)

That doesn’t last long term. Compare the 30 companies of the DJIA going back 100 years. They change constantly. Because even the biggest and baddest companies with all the power eventually lose that power when a better alternative comes along.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2024 12:30 PM (/StR6)

57 To be fair, the people running private companies aren't all that, either. I first noticed the decline back in the 90s. My grandparents would never have put up with the slackness of America today. (And I see no indication it's better anywhere else.)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2024 12:22 PM (1bNHn)

This is absolutely true. I’ve worked in engineering and technology for mumble-mumble years and recently I’ve often found myself in conversations with friends I came up with where we lament the deplorable state of engineering in our orgs. There is no rigor, no original thinking, not even documentation of work beyond sloppy PowerPoints… I’m actually surprised when our systems work. Oh and management is a total mess and doesn’t have a clue. My first manager would weep

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2024 12:31 PM (5MZNC)

58 This would be very well off nerds as the size of the drones are huge. They also are capable of transforming from fixed wing to rotary. These aren’t drones you purchase from Best Buy.

Piper,
I was chatting with one of the profs in aeronautics at the U of Washington about ten years ago. One of the classes there was on UAVs/Drones. Their final exam was to build a workable aircraft. Some of them were incredible in both size and capabilities. And these were undergrads.
But, I am almost equally convinced it is some government thing, if for no other reason than what is all the media coverage NOT reporting on?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2024 12:31 PM (W/lyH)

59 The FNM spinning crap up for ratings. I have noticed a non-trivial number of these "drone sightings" are just airplanes at a distance noticed by people that don't normally look up in the night sky

Never underestimate the power of mass hysteria.

OTOH, I am unpleasantly reminded of all the hysteria over shark attacks in the summer of 2001.

Nothing to do with 9/11, yet somehow the gestalt was still warning that Something Was Coming.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 15, 2024 12:31 PM (uxCna)

60 He's one of our graduates!

Posted by: The Imperial Stormtrooper Acacdemy! at December 15, 2024 12:28 PM (uxCna)

One thing I give some credit to Frank Herbert for - he came up with a reason why some random low level bad guys couldn't just blast the main heroes - they had shields.

Presumably Lucas could have changed a few of the scenes in the original trilogy to have Obi-wan or Luke deflecting the blaster shots at their friends.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2024 12:31 PM (oZhjI)

61 After Trump assumes the White House he should make damn sure the Secret Service agents assigned to him during both assassination attempts are put on *biden's and Obama's details.

It's only fair.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2024 12:31 PM (Q4IgG)

62 It would allow warrantless, mass searches of every type of data communication used by the public. And it leaves no trace.

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OMG! They could steal all my best jokes!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:31 PM (L/fGl)

63 What Eeyore said, basically, at least to complete the picture. There's a general decline in quality and standards. Like any other large group or institution, guvamint will to a great extent mirror the merits and flaws of the society from which it is drawn.

The "woke" poison has been around a while, but was for a long time confined to academia - another separate, artificial universe with its own known pathologies - and scoffed at as just another one of those pathologies. Well now it stains almost all institutions, public and private.

And then there's the fundamental but boring discussion of public vs. private goods. Which is basic to all this, but ignored or unknown.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2024 12:32 PM (1m82a)

64 To be fair, the people running private companies aren't all that, either.

The name of the game in corporate America is regulatory capture and influence peddling. Producing a superior product at a lower cost isn't nearly as important as it once was.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2024 12:32 PM (oZhjI)

65 Ok. I'm sure that, compared to a lot of Morons, I'm a *lousy* shot. I'm busy and consequently lazy with free time. I haven't put in a lot of consistent range time since I was in high school and had all that beautiful free time to go plinking. Usually just a half dozen times a year. Shamefully, it's been a couple years since I went shooting at all, because of work and family stuff.

But six shots inside *5 ft?* Yeah, I'd have hit the motherfucker. Probably fatally. Certainly disabling. Even with the wife's snubnose .38.

Unless this guy was Agent Smith from the Matrix, there's very little excuse for missing like that. I remember once being ashamed because i unloaded a revolver without hitting a target at least 12 ft away. But that was a scurrying marmot, not a full sized person standing on two legs. And I was firing from a moving vehicle.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2024 12:33 PM (BI5O2)

66 OMG! They could steal all my best jokes!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:31 PM (L/fGl)

And mine too!

/Crouches down, makes a weird face

Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 15, 2024 12:33 PM (oZhjI)

67 The larger question is why Trump was playing golf in a location with an unsecured perimeter.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 15, 2024 12:20 PM (xPNeT)

Because the USSS failed to secure the perimeter and failed to tell Trump.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2024 12:34 PM (d9fT1)

68 Thx CBD. The SS agent has the aiming ability of the kid in Pulp Fiction that shot at Travolta and Jackson

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2024 12:34 PM (qK9lf)

69 But six shots inside *5 ft?* Yeah, I'd have hit the motherfucker. Probably fatally. Certainly disabling. Even with the wife's snubnose .38.

Compare how much time Agent DEI spent taking HR compliance courses versus field live fire exercises.

I suspect the former will be many times the latter.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2024 12:34 PM (oZhjI)

70 That doesn’t last long term. Compare the 30 companies of the DJIA going back 100 years. They change constantly. Because even the biggest and baddest companies with all the power eventually lose that power when a better alternative comes along.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2024 12:30 PM (/StR6)

It does if you can get the government to control the cartel through "anti-monopoly" legislation. remember, the first thing Congress does in this case is consult with the major players for the targeted industry. Try mounting a start-up in an industry that is being regulated by anti-monopoly rules.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2024 12:35 PM (D7oie)

71 Perhaps a few hundred members of the Cajun Navy could scout out the mysterious Mother Ship and post the coordinates. From the clips I’ve seen, it appears the drone’s lights show their pathway to and from said Ship.

Posted by: BionicBack at December 15, 2024 12:35 PM (trQq/)

72 Obviously the Secret Services points blank misses mean they didn't want to hurt a CIA asset

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 15, 2024 12:35 PM (wBaIH)

73 How can the United States Secret Service keep in its employment a man who missed his target from five feet away? With six rounds?

I am familiar with one Federal agency, and the Federal civil service rules are written to require vast amounts of senior management time to fire someone, if the person chooses to contest his firing.

So, you have a choice - do you tie up a lot of the time of senior management trying to fire some terrible performers, or do you just assign them to make-work slots, where hopefully they won't do too much damage.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 15, 2024 12:35 PM (uxCna)

74 I'm sure that, compared to a lot of Morons, I'm a *lousy* shot.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2024 12:33 PM (BI5O2)

Minimally competent is more than enough skill to hit a stationary target at five feet.

My guess is that the guy freaked out and shot wildly, then ran away.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2024 12:36 PM (d9fT1)

75 'Can anyone point to a successful project or action by the federal government in the last four years?'

They were able to prosecute their political enemies.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2024 12:38 PM (3wi/L)

76 Mass hysteria/power of suggestion is one thing, but I find the focus on that aspect uninteresting. I return to the three cases of reported anomalous drone activity over US military installations - central VA/naval, UK, and Ramstein. All confirmed by the military. At least the VA one was many consecutive nights, with many UAVs.

There have been UAV intrusions, mostly harmless, some nefarious (like the guy from Chy-nah and Vandenberg), for years now. This is very different.

Have no idea about the NJ stuff. Easy to find idiots online going nutz while looking at a landing pattern for an airport, with aircraft stacked up. This is a distraction. Those other incidents need to be explained.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2024 12:38 PM (1m82a)

77 I have been looking at some of the videos on those drones in New Jersey and I have to say some of the are obvious fakes and others are most likely airplanes or helicopters.

Not saying there aren't any mystery drones flying around off of the east coast but I haven't seen anything remotely close to proof yet.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2024 12:38 PM (Rcnd3)

78
If these agencies weren't starved for funding they'd perform better. But you MAGAts think only of your own selfish interests and not in the common good.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2024 12:38 PM (dxSpM)

79 The name of the game in corporate America is regulatory capture and influence peddling.

It's why large corporates love DEI, "ethical investing", and all that claptrap - it's a way of creating barriers to entry for potential competitors.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 15, 2024 12:38 PM (uxCna)

80 I suspect it's gotten to kids with drones now fkin with people. But the started events still unsolved

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2024 12:39 PM (fwDg9)

81 ". . . my current impression of our government is that they could f*ck up a wet dream."

Isn't that the goal?

In any case as the great Milton Friedman noted, "If you put the Federal Gov't in charge of the Sahara Desert, within 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2024 12:41 PM (x0n13)

82 Do we have almost *any* details about this SS incident? Five feet away? But the guy was behind a fence on which vegetation concealed him almost completely, I thought? So firing at the suspected location of the perp might easily miss, even from 5 feet? In other words, this was in no way a clear shot from 5 feet at a target on a stand, at the range.

Still hard to see how one round doesn't land, but all depends on where the agent thought the shooter actually was, standing/kneeling/prone, I would think. Which he might not have been able to determine due to the vegetation.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2024 12:41 PM (1m82a)

83 Speaking of FAFO . . .

Safeway grocery stores close San Francisco Location because of theft and safety concerns

-
Let them eat smug!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:42 PM (L/fGl)

84 Look up history of Predator development and deployment. Review locations of current UAV development including XP-4.

Here’s a fun link:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/12/14/

Posted by: epador at December 15, 2024 12:42 PM (eI42w)

85 They're building up to something big with these drones. VERY big. Something to disrupt Trump's inauguration big.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 15, 2024 12:43 PM (V362x)

86 Mayorkas on ABC This Week w/ Snuffalumpis

"Let me set the record straight here, George. There are thousands of drones flown every day in the United States. Recreational drones, commercial drones. That is the reality."

"And in September of 2023, the Federal Aviation Administration, the FAA, changed the rules so that drones could fly at night."

"And that may be one of the reasons why now people are seeing more drones than they did before, especially from dawn to dusk."

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 15, 2024 12:43 PM (hoCmQ)

87
Morning all.

27 hours without power so far this weekend. I'm in a crowded starbucks with a lot of people in pajamas, waiting for outlets to free up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at December 15, 2024 12:44 PM (Kgsi0)

88 21
I guess that agent is not the man with no name…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2024 12:12 PM (5MZNC)
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Maybe if he wore a poncho?

Can Weasel recommend a suitable cheroot to the agent?

Posted by: Ciampino - Notice how I think ahead again? at December 15, 2024 12:44 PM (i0xsb)

89 Speaking of cases of mass hysteria I'm reminded a bit of the mad gasser hysteria. https://tinyurl.com/4p5dna92

Back in the 40s people became convinced that someone was breaking into houses to pour gas in them that would sicken people.

Many people definitely reported sickness or weakness and smelling odors. But evidence that it was an actual miscreant was rather lacking and honestly someone trying to gas people from outside their house seems rather...unlikely.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2024 12:44 PM (oZhjI)

90 85 They're building up to something big with these drones. VERY big. Something to disrupt Trump's inauguration big.
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 15, 2024 12:43 PM (V362x)

Among the illegal aliens we are flooded with, Chi-Com agents are all over the place, near and in some cases inside very sensitive miltary facilities. Not all, but I would think many of these drones are being flown by Chi-com illegal alien invader intelligence agents.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2024 12:45 PM (x0n13)

91 Success depends on the desired outcome, the unelected power elite wanted to kill Trump and allow the assassin to escape. They accomplished neither. They wanted to ruin the economy, and they have had great success. They laundered money via Ukraine in case they needed it, but the goal was to clear the way for Blackrock to get richer. Not sure how that will all pan out. I wish complete failure for Blackrock and his friends in DC. In fact, I suspect they are pushing Biden to pardon them all. I hope he doesn't.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at December 15, 2024 12:45 PM (2NXcZ)

92 Nuclide or gamma radiation?

Posted by: Ciampino - Notice how I think ahead again? at December 15, 2024 12:46 PM (i0xsb)

93 Nuclide or gamma radiation?
Posted by: Ciampino - Notice how I think ahead again? at December 15, 2024 12:46 PM (i0xsb)[a/i]

"Gamma radiation is a friend to all the children"

--Misheard tagline

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2024 12:47 PM (D7oie)

94 88 a suitable cheroot to the agent?
Posted by: Ciampino - Notice how I think ahead again? at December 15, 2024 12:44 PM (i0xsb)

Mike Brown Swisher Sweet!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2024 12:47 PM (x0n13)

95 Among the illegal aliens we are flooded with, Chi-Com agents are all over the place, near and in some cases inside very sensitive miltary facilities. Not all, but I would think many of these drones are being flown by Chi-com illegal alien invader intelligence agents.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2024 12:45 PM (x0n13)

And plenty of our own. The biggest loss will come to the unelected in power. Believing that they will accept their consequences is stupid. They are dangerous cornered animals.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at December 15, 2024 12:48 PM (2NXcZ)

96 Or maybe a friend to Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2024 12:48 PM (D7oie)

97 Time Magazine's Few Remaining Subscribers Are Cancelling Over Them Naming Trump "Person of the Year"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:25 PM (L/fGl)

(Jump to top of page)

These same people also call Trunp voters cultists. 😂
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2024 12:26 PM (/StR6)
***

Speaking of cults. Here we are with yet ANOTHER Sunday and we are stuck with yet ANOTHER KC Chiefs game on the tube. I'm starting to hate football.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2024 12:48 PM (W/lyH)

98 Speaking of weird stuff, it's been like a '60s western around here. Cattle rustling is making a comeback here on Colorado's Western Slope.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:49 PM (L/fGl)

99 > Among the illegal aliens we are flooded with, Chi-Com agents are all over the place, near and in some cases inside very sensitive miltary facilities. Not all, but I would think many of these drones are being flown by Chi-com illegal alien invader intelligence agents.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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There's a Navy recruiting office in Alhambra, CA that is staffed totally by Chinese nationals.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2024 12:49 PM (Q4IgG)

100 A long time ago now: The NFL is for manly men that like manly things.

Then: The NFL is gay

Now: The NFL is for middle aged women that want to pretend they are still teenyboppers

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2024 12:50 PM (oZhjI)

101 It would be nice if Trump decided to skip all the pomp and circumstance and parades and balls and take the oath of office at Mar a Lago and start work as soon as possible.

Biden's administration is sacking the treasury, pardoning thousands and setting up traps everywhere for Trump.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 15, 2024 12:50 PM (Xwwcf)

102 l
98 Speaking of weird stuff, it's been like a '60s western around here. Cattle rustling is making a comeback here on Colorado's Western Slope.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:49 PM (L/fGl)

Set to music:

They’re eating the cats
They’re eating the dogs
They’re rustling the cattle
In Colo-ra-do

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2024 12:51 PM (W6hoT)

103 Not saying there aren't any mystery drones flying around off of the east coast but I haven't seen anything remotely close to proof yet.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2024 12:38 PM (Rcnd3)
~~~~~

I've seen them and where I live I routinely see everything from F16s, Harriers, Coast Guard helos and Hueys to prop jobs pulling banners over the beach. I don't know what these things are and have never seen them before, but they are large and look like oversized drones. Sometimes dozens of them appear at one time and come from over the horizon.

Your guess is as good as mine, but they're not small planes or helicopters.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 15, 2024 12:52 PM (3ImbR)

104 Not saying there aren't any mystery drones flying around off of the east coast but I haven't seen anything remotely close to proof yet.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 15, 2024 12:38 PM (Rcnd3)

It's possible this is the shark attacks of razor blades in candy bars, but it's also true the Secretary for Homeland Security is going out there saying he has nothing to say about it.

As soon as that little mexican f**kwit gets tossed in prison won't be soon enough.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2024 12:52 PM (lH8E4)

105 I'm starting to hate football.
Posted by: Diogenes

Uhh.

https://is.gd/zVQGlE

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:52 PM (L/fGl)

106 102 l
98 Speaking of weird stuff, it's been like a '60s western around here. Cattle rustling is making a comeback here on Colorado's Western Slope.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:49 PM (L/fGl)

Set to music:

They’re eating the cats
They’re eating the dogs
They’re rustling the cattle
In Colo-ra-do
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2024 12:51 PM (W6hoT)

Had a story in the MR a week or so ago that oil tank cars are having their contents stolen via bandits with drills and hoses.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2024 12:52 PM (x0n13)

107 @63 The "woke" poison has been around a while, but was for a long time confined to academia

You're doing the same rant-n-rave the anty-gummint squawkers are. Academia is never a leading indicator of social trends; it has to be dragged, kicking at clods, into offering courses of what has already become hep to the hepcats. We are resentful and envious of academics, so want badly to blame them for all our social ills, but you might as well blame catholic clergy or a conspiracy of milkmen. Settle down and think this through.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 15, 2024 12:53 PM (zdLoL)

108 Not going to say its aliens but it's aliens.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 15, 2024 12:53 PM (gPDe9)

109 A long time ago now: The NFL is for manly men that like manly things.

Then: The NFL is gay

Now: The NFL is for middle aged women that want to pretend they are still teenyboppers
Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2024 12:50 PM (oZhjI)

That, and the game is fixed by gamblers.

No thanks. I'll watch professional wrasslin' if I want to watch staged play.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2024 12:54 PM (lH8E4)

110 99 > Among the illegal aliens we are flooded with, Chi-Com agents are all over the place, near and in some cases inside very sensitive miltary facilities. Not all, but I would think many of these drones are being flown by Chi-com illegal alien invader intelligence agents.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
--------
There's a Navy recruiting office in Alhambra, CA that is staffed totally by Chinese nationals.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2024 12:49 PM (Q4IgG)

As if Chi-Com police stations in NYC and elsewhere weren't bad enough. Meh, I keep asking but how did John Brennan, a card carrying Gus-Hall voting commie ever become a CIA Agent let alone rise to the top slot????

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2024 12:55 PM (x0n13)

111 It's possible this is the shark attacks of razor blades in candy bars, but it's also true the Secretary for Homeland Security is going out there saying he has nothing to say about it.

As soon as that little mexican f**kwit gets tossed in prison won't be soon enough.
Posted by: BurtTC

Cuban. But yes, he needs to rot in prison.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 15, 2024 12:55 PM (dR6yv)

112 Lots of fun still to be had in the MidEast. US and Brit aircraft hitting the Houthis again (just what the effing "strategy" might be behind the absurd US non-reaction to the Red Sea situation is one of the larger mysteries of the last four disastrous years). Israel still working down their target list in Syria (now onto EW and comms infrastructure).

And something we'll all love - Israel now deploying automated surveillance/security towers with .... remotely-controlled machine guns.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2024 12:55 PM (1m82a)

113 Cuban. But yes, he needs to rot in prison.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 15, 2024 12:55 PM (dR6yv)

They're all mexicans.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2024 12:56 PM (lH8E4)

114 Boston PD arrests a couple dudes who were operating drones near Logan airport.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3mrnxx

Posted by: Methos at December 15, 2024 12:56 PM (Dnobf)

115 105 I'm starting to hate football.
Posted by: Diogenes

Uhh.

https://is.gd/zVQGlE
Posted by: Anonosaurus

So 10 years of in your face woke shit didn’t make you hate it. But saying happy birthday to Tay Tay did?

Bruh.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2024 12:57 PM (/StR6)

116 45
'Time Magazine's Few Remaining Subscribers Are Cancelling Over Them Naming Trump "Person of the Year"'

I hope the Trump presidency hurts the leftists as much as they histrionically claim it will.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2024 12:57 PM (3wi/L)

117 100 A long time ago now: The NFL is for manly men that like manly things.

Then: The NFL is gay

Now: The NFL is for middle aged women that want to pretend they are still teenyboppers
Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2024 12:50 PM (oZhjI)

Yellow flag. Personal foul 15 yard penalty for criticizing Patrick Mahomes (or any QB) or breathing the same air….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2024 12:57 PM (i5Vkf)

118 rhomboid! Awesome to see you. Been awhile

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2024 12:58 PM (BI5O2)

119 48 Boarded = boarder

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2024 12:26 PM (d2kuJ)
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Border.

Posted by: Ciampino - Notice how I think ahead again? at December 15, 2024 12:58 PM (i0xsb)

120 automated surveillance/security towers with .... remotely-controlled machine guns.

No home should be without!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 15, 2024 12:59 PM (8a6Vw)

121 nurse ratched, I've been saying that since before the election. Never likely to happen. But a great symbolic start to the rescue operation would be a quick swearing-in followed by 8 hours of signing EOs, then one party - with guests like disabled vets, Angel Moms, etc.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2024 01:00 PM (1m82a)

122 The drones moved to Maryland from NJ because they figured out they can refuel there themselves, and not need to wait for someone to do it for them.

Posted by: Roy at December 15, 2024 01:00 PM (z+ik4)

123 there only one thing left to do! fight drones with drones!

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2024 01:00 PM (QTCRF)

124 As if Chi-Com police stations in NYC and elsewhere weren't bad enough. Meh, I keep asking but how did John Brennan, a card carrying Gus-Hall voting commie ever become a CIA Agent let alone rise to the top slot????
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2024 12:55 PM (x0n13)

There's a blind spot where evil operates in the open, because good people can't believe that much evil is possible.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2024 01:00 PM (lH8E4)

125 They're all mexicans.
Posted by: BurtTC

Pretty funny and only somewhat offensive Chris Rock monologue from SNL.

https://is.gd/cBnwPS

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 01:00 PM (L/fGl)

126 27 hours without power so far this weekend. I'm in a crowded starbucks with a lot of people in pajamas, waiting for outlets to free up.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone

I guess I must have missed it but why is your power down?

Posted by: Tuna at December 15, 2024 01:01 PM (oaGWv)

127 The drones moved to Maryland from NJ because they figured out they can refuel there themselves, and not need to wait for someone to do it for them.
Posted by: Roy at December 15, 2024 01:00 PM (z+ik4)

Plus it doesn't smell as bad.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2024 01:01 PM (lH8E4)

128 The NFL is a product. Like all products the producers aim to maximize profits. If they think bringing in TayTay fans increases profits? Then it will be done.

It’s all it is. A business. All the bullshit about tradition and fan appreciation and all that is just marketing. No different than Procter and Gamble selling detergent.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2024 01:01 PM (/StR6)

129 Academia was the source of the international Left since Marx and Engels, a key target since Antonio Gramsci, and its purest and most powerful agitprop tool since Marcuse.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2024 01:02 PM (BI5O2)

130 65
'But six shots inside *5 ft?* Yeah, I'd have hit the motherfucker.'

You could probably throw the pistol and hit them.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2024 01:03 PM (3wi/L)

131 Plus it doesn't smell as bad.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2024 01:01 PM (lH8E4)

ESAD. Said politely of course, and with the best intentions. Cheers!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 15, 2024 01:03 PM (iODuv)

132 professional wrasslin'

Invented to make boxing look honest.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 15, 2024 01:03 PM (JazRo)

133 If I remember correctly, it turned out that most of the SS agents present in PA were just office staff on overtime and not the actual protection guys who were all at Jill's event.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 15, 2024 01:03 PM (aD39U)

134 You could probably throw the pistol and hit them.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2024 01:03 PM (3wi/L)

It works against Superman.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 15, 2024 01:04 PM (aD39U)

135 And something we'll all love - Israel now deploying automated surveillance/security towers with .... remotely-controlled machine guns.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2024 12:55 PM (1m82a)

Heh.

Israel:RMC Machine Guns :: Factorio:Spidertron

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 15, 2024 01:04 PM (/HDaX)

136 Imagine what could happen if some smart, accomplished people were in charge for a few years.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2024 01:05 PM (LkLld)

137 Good afternoon good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2024 01:05 PM (WXNFJ)

138 The govt will never go out of business no matter how poorly run it may be.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2024 12:24 PM (/StR6)

We need to talk.

Posted by: The Byzantine Empire at December 15, 2024 01:06 PM (Y0+2O)

139 Surely they meant five YARDS and not five FEET.

Even then. Jeepers.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 15, 2024 01:06 PM (/mzXQ)

140 66 OMG! They could steal all my best jokes!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:31 PM (L/fGl)

And mine too!

/Crouches down, makes a weird face

Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 15, 2024 12:33 PM (oZhjI)
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I know! ...... change the punchline to all your jokes every so often, then you will be able to tell when they were spying.

Posted by: Ciampino - end with a different fart noise at December 15, 2024 01:06 PM (i0xsb)

141 > Boston PD arrests a couple dudes who were operating drones near Logan airport.
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I commented yesterday that there are now an unholy number of hoops and hurdles one has to go through to operate a drone that weighs over some number of ounces... not pounds, but ounces. FAA certification (license) and the costs associated with it, insurance, specific gear for your drone so the FAA can track it and so on.

If you're operating a drone near one of the thousands of "No Drone Fly" zones in the US, and are caught, you're going to be paying a hefty fine and perhaps doing time if it was near a military installation or fedgov facility.

Unless you're Chinese, Iranian or some other protected agent of chaos.

The drones over NJ are allowed to fly there. Specifically there. By specific people For a specific reason. The Feds know. They'd rather you didn't though.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2024 01:07 PM (Q4IgG)

142 If I remember correctly, it turned out that most of the SS agents present in PA were just office staff on overtime and not the actual protection guys who were all at Jill's event.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 15, 2024 01:03 PM (aD39U)

I don't believe they even worked for the SS. They came from other agencies. These assholes fostered an environment that maximized a situation for a successful assassination attempt.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 15, 2024 01:07 PM (dR6yv)

143 If I remember correctly, it turned out that most of the SS agents present in PA were just office staff on overtime and not the actual protection guys who were all at Jill's event.
Posted by: Grump928(C)

Judging from the recent pic of Jill lusting after PDJT, she probably wishes she was at his Bedford event too.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2024 01:07 PM (WXNFJ)

144 I keep asking but how did John Brennan, a card carrying Gus-Hall voting commie ever become a CIA Agent let alone rise to the top slot????

And he let all our spies in China get executed through poor communications security, which didn't have the slightest impact on his career.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 15, 2024 01:09 PM (uxCna)

145 91 Success depends on the desired outcome, the unelected power elite wanted to kill Trump and allow the assassin to escape. They accomplished neither.”

I believe they wanted Israel to be put in its place - instead Israel’s enemies are in complete disarray and Israel is arguably stronger than it has ever been. Interview in a Saudi outlet today with remaining Hamas leadership, admitting that they realize Oct 7 was a huge mistake. They suddenly realize they’ve lost all of their patrons.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2024 01:09 PM (W6hoT)

146 Still haven't watched a football game since Eagles Superbowl

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2024 01:09 PM (fwDg9)

147 Good morning all, happy Sunday, good coffe.

Here's some Drone target practice:

https://tinyurl.com/y33h2xf4

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 15, 2024 01:10 PM (+3jTj)

148 Still haven't watched a football game since Eagles Superbowl
Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2024 01:09 PM (fwDg9)

I haven't chosen to watch since Dallas broke my heart and America's Team took a knee.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 15, 2024 01:10 PM (aD39U)

149 If I remember correctly, it turned out that most of the SS agents present in PA were just office staff on overtime and not the actual protection guys who were all at Jill's event.
Posted by: Grump928(C)

I assume that includes the fat chick who couldn’t holster her weapon in a panic…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2024 01:10 PM (ANuwa)

150 Secret Service guy was maybe looking through some hedges? But still, must have been able to see the guy, or why shoot? Or maybe the rifle was five feet away, but shooter guy had already taken off? idk.

We are probably lucky SS guy saw him at all, or that he engaged him instead of ignoring him.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 15, 2024 01:11 PM (Cus5s)

151 And sure, I'm resentful of academics. They fleeced me for a nontrivial sum of money. But I'm not that resentful. I knew it was a con job heading into it, but it seemed sorta fun. Like a carnival geek show.

Envious, though? LOL. No, I'm not envious of a man in a classroom.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 15, 2024 01:11 PM (BI5O2)

152 Interview in a Saudi outlet today with remaining Hamas leadership, admitting that they realize Oct 7 was a huge mistake. They suddenly realize they’ve lost all of their patrons.
Posted by: Tom Servo

The kidnap, rape and murder of innocents is bad press?

Who knew?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2024 01:11 PM (WXNFJ)

153 So the thing with the drones (and the arrests linked above may be just copycats), whatever they are, no one has told the incoming President since he's calling for them to be shot down, which I suspect he wouldn't if he knew they were ours, particularly ours doing something important.

Posted by: Methos at December 15, 2024 01:11 PM (Dnobf)

154 Brennan was a known nutcase long before his public profile emerged (NSC, Dubya years, I think, though he had a marginal portfolio). There were several of this type who inexplicably rose even in times when serious adults were in charge.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2024 01:11 PM (1m82a)

155 It’s all it is. A business. All the bullshit about tradition and fan appreciation and all that is just marketing. No different than Procter and Gamble selling detergent.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2024 01:01 PM (/StR6)

The American people have been sold a lie, that the customer is always right. Now, in a certain sense I'm sure that's true, but they don't seem to have gotten the memo: You aren't the customer. You are the product.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2024 01:11 PM (lH8E4)

156 Food for thought:

Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray
3h
All these fake drone reports are part of a bipartisan Congressional effort to control civilian drones and limit their use and ownership to law enforcement and government agencies.

And you are falling for it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 15, 2024 01:12 PM (adINt)

157 I assume that includes the fat chick who couldn’t holster her weapon in a panic…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2024 01:10 PM (ANuwa)

and the one that went and hid.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2024 01:12 PM (D7oie)

158 They're all in the pay of Big Drone.

Posted by: And we all know it at December 15, 2024 01:14 PM (dg+HA)

159 If I remember correctly, it turned out that most of the SS agents present in PA were just office staff on overtime and not the actual protection guys who were all at Jill's event.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 15, 2024 01:03 PM (aD39U)

I don't believe they even worked for the SS. They came from other agencies. These assholes fostered an environment that maximized a situation for a successful assassination attempt.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 15, 2024 01:07 PM (dR6yv)

Seems pretty obvious to me Crooks didn't fire the shot that almost took Trump's head off. I'm sure the guy who took that shot was CIA.

So yeah, inter-agency cooperation.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2024 01:15 PM (lH8E4)

160 They're all in the pay of Big Drone.
Posted by: And we all know it

We need common sense drone control!!

(Actually, we do.)

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2024 01:15 PM (WXNFJ)

161 I saw a NOVA episode from a long time ago when they occasionally did newsworthy items.

This episode they were examining the graduating class of Harvard. They asked them basic questions to see how'd they do and the one that stuck with me was "Can the moon be out during the day".

One in three Harvard graduates said no.

Which means 1/3 Harvard graduates, in addition to knowing nothing about astronomy also never bothered to look in the sky...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2024 01:16 PM (oZhjI)

162 They're all in the pay of Big Drone.
Posted by: And we all know it at December 15, 2024 01:14 PM (dg+HA)

Big Penguin needed an aerial attack mode, to supplement their ground and naval attacks.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 15, 2024 01:16 PM (VNX3d)

163 The man who headed the group is SS. He planned the layout and delegated the responsibilities. An example of his professionalism is the short woman assigned to cover the president. Assume the woman a competent professional it was an incorrect job assignment for her. A junior ROTC would know that.

Heard a moment of him testifying last week. He's a crybaby who cannot answer a yes or no question. SS needs a complete R&R.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 15, 2024 01:16 PM (+3jTj)

164 I like the way Trump no longer refers to Biden or the Biden Administration, and just calls them "a very stupid group of people."

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 15, 2024 01:16 PM (wBaIH)

165 The kidnap, rape and murder of innocents is bad press?

Who knew?
Posted by: Tonypete

Not me!

Posted by: Diddy at December 15, 2024 01:16 PM (L/fGl)

166 Doggies.

https://tinyurl.com/3wt42dhe

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2024 01:16 PM (LkLld)

167 148
'Dallas broke my heart and America's Team took a knee.'

They're BLM's team now.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 15, 2024 01:17 PM (3wi/L)

168 Israel closed Ireland's embassy. Hilarious, and probably overdue.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2024 01:17 PM (1m82a)

169 Mystery Drone Swarms Spread to Maryland
[...]an FBI official confirmed in an interagency press call on Saturday that drone sightings had spread to Maryland, but stopped short of saying they were directly connected to the original reports in New Jersey.

They are sniffing. Sniffing for a dirty bomb.

Thanks to unchecked illegal immigration. But they can't tell the public that. They broke blue state residents with covid. No way the could say there's a dirty nuke bomb somewhere in CONUS.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 15, 2024 01:18 PM (8LcsK)

170 Judging from the recent pic of Jill lusting after PDJT, she probably wishes she was at his Bedford event too.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2024 01:07 PM (WXNFJ)

It warms my cold heart, seeing how willing old Jill is to let the world know how much she hates Cummala.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2024 01:18 PM (lH8E4)

171 119 48 Boarded = boarder

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2024 12:26 PM (d2kuJ)
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Border.
Posted by: Ciampino - Notice

I can’t believe I even did this. I may be a great example for why education is worthless.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2024 01:19 PM (p4NUW)

172 We aren't all bad at what we do in the federal government. The wife and I worked for the FBI for over 30 years planting evidence, faking evidence, disappearing evidence, railroading innocent citizens and all the while padding our retirement accounts, sucking up for promotions and rank and loafing on the clock.

It was a great career!

Posted by: Joe and Martha Jablonski, Ham & Eggers at December 15, 2024 01:20 PM (R/m4+)

173 Back when (80s?) there was a big cocaine scandal involving some Cowboys players, some wag grabbed an all-time award by reworking Dallas's nickname to "South America's Team". Beautiful.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2024 01:20 PM (1m82a)

174 Not me!
Posted by: Diddy at December 15, 2024 01:16 PM (L/fGl)

It's funny to see how Jay Z is getting too close to the real power structure, and I'd bet dollars to donuts he gets off.

I mean, it's possible Diddy hangs, while Jay Z gets off, but I think it's more likely than not Diddy will play whatever cards he has, and the whole thing goes away.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2024 01:21 PM (lH8E4)

175 I am ecstatic over all the organizations and groups that are absolutely falling apart and have justly earned the public's scorn:

All Federal agencies
NGOs
Universities
Big Medicine/Pharma
Big Ag
Big Sports
Celebrities
Entertainment
etc.

Aren't we blessed to be able to witness it? Who knows how it will end up, but in order for even the beginning of meaningful change, what those groups have been doing to us has to be noticed.

And it finally is.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2024 01:22 PM (WXNFJ)

176 Candace Owens named "antisemite of the year" 2024. Beat out some notables like Greta Thurnberg. Quite an accomplishment.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2024 01:24 PM (QTCRF)

177 It was a great career!
Posted by: Joe and Martha Jablonski, Ham & Eggers at December 15, 2024 01:20 PM (R/m4+)

I've always said calling these people incompetent was part of the op.

All their failures fall in the area of what we were TOLD their job was, which made it easier for them to do their real jobs. Which has absolutely nothing to do with law enforcement, or protecting the American people from threats, foreign and domestic.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2024 01:24 PM (lH8E4)

178 They are sniffing. Sniffing for a dirty bomb.
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Only if it's a non-state actor they're worried about.

Nuclear weapons are nearly 80 year old technology.

Posted by: Methos at December 15, 2024 01:24 PM (Dnobf)

179 Luigi's high priced lawyer is crazy.

https://is.gd/hoZYbx

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 01:25 PM (L/fGl)

180 Sniffing for a dirty bomb - plausible
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156 Food for thought:
Ian Miles Cheong@stillgray3h
All these fake drone reports are part of a bipartisan Congressional effort to control civilian drones and limit their use and ownership to law enforcement and government agencies.

And you are falling for it.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,

--- > Plausible
------------

Problem is, our govt is so corrupt and distrusted that our assumptions are no more than that.
One thing for certain --- they are difficult to shoot down.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 15, 2024 01:26 PM (+3jTj)

181 "OMG, OMG, just because she disagrees with some things does not make her an antisemite!11!" Oh, really ? She claimed that Jews were behind the assassination of JFK, that "Zionists" are members of a satanic Frankist cult. She is a wack job.

Posted by: runner, anticipating the usual commentary at December 15, 2024 01:26 PM (QTCRF)

182 The govt will never go out of business no matter how poorly run it may be.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 15, 2024 12:24 PM (/StR6)

Syria has entered the chat.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2024 01:26 PM (W6hoT)

183 Sniffing for a "dirty bomb" from altitude? An unexploded "dirty bomb"? Depends, but most dirty bomb concepts use medical/industrial radioactive materials as their active ingredient. Even after explosion, doubtful there'd be detectable levels at altitude, but unexploded can't see it at all. But it's been a while and "dirty bomb" wasn't really a thing back when. Relatively dirty real nukes, sure.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2024 01:28 PM (1m82a)

184 And then she claimed that Stalin was a jew.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2024 01:28 PM (QTCRF)

185 How can someone be a bigger antisemite than Greta “F Israel” Thunberg? Yikes

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2024 01:28 PM (ANuwa)

186 >>>I mean, it's possible Diddy hangs, while Jay Z gets off, but I think it's more likely than not Diddy will play whatever cards he has, and the whole thing goes away.
Posted by: BurtTC
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It was a big malicious rumor started by jealous less successful people.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 15, 2024 01:29 PM (+3jTj)

187 It was a big malicious rumor started by jealous less successful people.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 15, 2024 01:29 PM (+3jTj)

The Michael Jackson defense.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2024 01:30 PM (lH8E4)

188 Ravens QB Lamar Jackson talks about his unisex cologne, says he "likes to smell like a girl sometimes"

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Uhh. OK.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 01:30 PM (L/fGl)

189 There was a rumor in the mid-00s that the feds had intercepted a dirty bomb in a port in Southern Ca - can't remember LA or SD.

Possible? Sure but never confirmed.

I assume the feds are using radiological sensors at ports and perhaps border crossings. Could they put those on drones? Meh...I'm not sure it works from that far up unless they are very sensitive and then you have to deal with different base levels of radiation depending on the type of soil.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2024 01:31 PM (oZhjI)

190 Dirty bombs are not easy to come by. And then arranged to be shipped.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2024 01:32 PM (QTCRF)

191 It was a big malicious rumor started by jealous less successful people.
Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 15, 2024 01:29 PM (+3jTj)

The Michael Jackson defense.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2024 01:30 PM (lH8E4)

Which of course will include the "Yer rayciss" argument.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2024 01:32 PM (lH8E4)

192 >>> 188 Ravens QB Lamar Jackson talks about his unisex cologne, says he "likes to smell like a girl sometimes"

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Uhh. OK.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 01:30 PM (L/fGl)

I thought the quarterback was buggering the linebacker, not the other way around.

Posted by: that cop in Heathers at December 15, 2024 01:32 PM (KcwUg)

193 Candace Owens posted some really stupid stuff earlier this year. Not just Jew hatred, but some stuff that was just ignorant.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2024 01:32 PM (W6hoT)

194 18-1 that's just what I was getting at above. "Sniffing" generally refers to detecting radioactive suspended particulates. Spy planes over China/USSR collected samples that allowed some inferences to be made about the design of nukes tested there above ground.

A dirty bomb is an entirely different thing. And yes sensors have been in use, mostly in ports, for some time, to detect radiation sources.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 15, 2024 01:33 PM (1m82a)

195 183 Sniffing for a "dirty bomb" from altitude? ... Relatively dirty real nukes, sure.
Posted by: rhomboid
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We only see them at altitude when their lights are on.
Turn lights off, descend at designated area, sniff, ascend, turn lights on. The movements are a distraction for us from their designated assignment.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 15, 2024 01:33 PM (+3jTj)

196 The drones are weapons. End of story.

Posted by: Eromero at December 15, 2024 01:34 PM (FuCE/)

197 When the balloon goes up, as it were, all our refineries are going to be fire bombed by drones.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 15, 2024 01:35 PM (aD39U)

198 181 "OMG, OMG, just because she disagrees with some things does not make her an antisemite!11!" Oh, really ? She claimed that Jews were behind the assassination of JFK, that "Zionists" are members of a satanic Frankist cult. She is a wack job.
Posted by: runner, anticipating

Exactly. It was a very disappointing turn she made.

Posted by: Piper at December 15, 2024 01:35 PM (p4NUW)

199 CBD Rocks!

Posted by: Dr_No at December 15, 2024 01:35 PM (ayRl+)

200 Ravens QB Lamar Jackson talks about his unisex cologne, says he "likes to smell like a girl sometimes"

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Uhh. OK.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 01:30 PM (L/fGl)

You never hear him talking about his wife.

That's so nice of him to keep her out of the public's eyeball.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 15, 2024 01:35 PM (lH8E4)

201 193 Candace Owens posted some really stupid stuff earlier this year. Not just Jew hatred, but some stuff that was just ignorant.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Because of her positive defiance and bravery she got promoted above her pay grade.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 15, 2024 01:36 PM (+3jTj)

202 Candace Owens posted some really stupid stuff earlier this year. Not just Jew hatred, but some stuff that was just ignorant.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Tim Young@TimRunsHisMouth
Whoopi has no idea how health insurance works:
"If I don't go to the hospital for a whole year, where is my money? Why don't you give me the money back?"

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Yeah. What's up with that?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 01:36 PM (L/fGl)

203 Just goes to show… don’t get too quickly enamored with any one individual. I’ve never been a Candace Owens fan but I liked how she called out the BLM grift during and after the summer of love. But she has seemed absolutely off the rails since 10/7.

This is why as much as I appreciate Musk I’m not yet to the point of trusting him. Glad he’s teamed up with Trump and think DOGE will do good things…. I’m just not convinced yet he’s on my side (or always will be)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2024 01:37 PM (ANuwa)

204
All Federal agencies
NGOs
Universities
Big Medicine/Pharma
Big Ag
Big Sports
Celebrities
Entertainment

Woke religious denominations

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2024 01:38 PM (dxSpM)

205 Years ago when I worked for a large defense contractor,we experimented with the idea of putting a laser on a drone/aircraft to laze suspect areas then "sniff" for specific elements. Sniffing wasn't just sampling the air, but imaging the spectrum for analysis.
Interesting idea but I moved on before it went very far.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 15, 2024 01:38 PM (W/lyH)

206 https://tinyurl.com/bdfpek9w

It's safe, I promise. It's even a .mil site.

Posted by: pookysgirl's contractually obligated favorite plane at December 15, 2024 01:38 PM (dtlDP)

207 When I was doing oilfield work in the 80’s, we used radioactive sources for some equipment. These were carefully controlled, but one fell off the back of the truck late one night. We were all gonna be in trouble if it wasn’t found, and I remember driving a pickup up and down the highway with a guy in the back holding a Geiger counter in the air, looking for it. We actually found it in a ditch next to a country intersection.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2024 01:41 PM (W6hoT)

208 The Feds have aircraft and ground vehicles equipped with sensors that can detect most radioactive materials... even relatively small amounts. People undergoing chemo have set them off before. IIRC ionization type smoke detectors are "nuclear" in some fashion... ionizing radiation. But basically harmless. Those too have set off detectors before.

The whole story stinks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2024 01:41 PM (Q4IgG)

209 I’m just not convinced yet he’s on my side (or always will be)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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He's not on your side. There's two things about Musk: 1. He's going to Mars, 2. He believes America is the world's last best hope for civilization or we descent into chaos. What he does to achieve that may or may not appeal to you or I.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 15, 2024 01:43 PM (+3jTj)

210 Dirty nukes in NJ? Explains the large population of mutants in the Garden State.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 15, 2024 01:44 PM (wBaIH)

211 Dirty nukes in NJ? Explains the large population of mutants in the Garden State.

====

I am not a mutant!

Posted by: Chris Christie at December 15, 2024 01:45 PM (QTCRF)

212 If the Governor of New Jersey is extremely concerned about these things, why hasn't he ordered the NJ State Police or the NJ Army or Air National Guard to use one or more or their helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft to get a closer look at them? Also to see how they react when approached in the air. One NJ sheriff ordered his force to send-up a drone and approach one of the things. The report I read said the drone couldn't keep-up with the target it was trying to get near.

Things don't add up. People and organizations who can take official investigative actions don't appear to be doing so. One sheriff launched one of his drones, on his own authority, and that's all that's been done? Do state officials in NJ and other locations know what's going on and sincerely believe there is no threat to citizens and property? Have they been ordered by DoD, DHS, or the White House to not do a number of investigation actions? Or what?

Posted by: Gref at December 15, 2024 01:46 PM (aBgBM)

213 They are sniffing. Sniffing for a dirty bomb.
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Only if it's a non-state actor they're worried about.

Nuclear weapons are nearly 80 year old technology.
Posted by: Methos

Iran. All it take is nuke material wrapped around tnt to make a dirty bomb. They don't need a Nagasaki.

Covid broke brains. Think what a radioactive dirty bomb would do.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 15, 2024 01:48 PM (8LcsK)

214 >>The Feds have aircraft and ground vehicles equipped with sensors that can detect most radioactive materials.

The federal government is by and large made up of very stupid people that couldn't find their ass without a map.

This is them.

https://tinyurl.com/jx3u75ax

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2024 01:48 PM (LkLld)

215 Just a SWAG here - how about trying to find an unaccounted for European nuke warhead from the 80's disarmament process? Like I said, just throwing stuff out there.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 15, 2024 01:49 PM (WXNFJ)

216 FUN FACT: Some clay kitty litter is radioactive.

Posted by: Weasel at December 15, 2024 01:51 PM (RG6z4)

217 Prior to the collapse of the Berlin wall, and the slow beginning of the dissolution of the USSR, the Brits became convinced that the IRA had chemical weapons, though in retrospect, the IRA may have gotten them from the MoD just to keep the pot boiling.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 15, 2024 01:51 PM (D7oie)

218 > The federal government is by and large made up of very stupid people that couldn't find their ass without a map.
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True.

I was making the assumption the Feds actually wanted to find this purported "dirty bomb." That may or may not be the case.

I still think there's another reason these drones are flying around and the local, state and federal officials seem to be oblivious of why. Or care.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2024 01:52 PM (Q4IgG)

219 If the Governor of New Jersey is extremely concerned about these things, why hasn't he ordered the NJ State Police or the NJ Army or Air National Guard to use one or more or their helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft to get a closer look at them? Also to see how they react when approached in the air. One NJ sheriff ordered his force to send-up a drone and approach one of the things. The report I read said the drone couldn't keep-up with the target it was trying to get near.

Things don't add up. People and organizations who can take official investigative actions don't appear to be doing so.

Possibly because they have been told to stand down because it's a Homeland Security op. Because the NJ governor and select mayors have been breifed.

That's the only reason I can think of why no government or military has been trying to find out. Because they've been told to stand down.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at December 15, 2024 01:53 PM (8LcsK)

220 Regarding the Harvard daytime moon, I was at football practice freshman year when I first really noticed the daytime moon. It was gorgeous: deep blue sky, fall foliage and the bright white moon.
If you lived in a dense city, I could believe never noticing the daytime moon.

Posted by: Accomack at December 15, 2024 01:53 PM (aHqhe)

221 >>>The federal government is by and large made up of very stupid people that couldn't find their ass without a map.

This is them.

https://tinyurl.com/jx3u75ax
Posted by: JackStraw
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Respectfully disagree. _ They Can't Read a Map.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 15, 2024 01:55 PM (+3jTj)

222 Hubs is watching Moonfall and at one point the frustrated side character says "What would Elon do?"

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 15, 2024 01:55 PM (0JWOm)

223 Speaking of weird stuff, it's been like a '60s western around here. Cattle rustling is making a comeback here on Colorado's Western Slope.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Peppermint Mocha! at December 15, 2024 12:49 PM

Doesn't surprise me, the herd is at a historic low. Beef prices are about to go way up.

Posted by: Bert G at December 15, 2024 01:56 PM (VARTN)

224 Candace is still a 1

Posted by: Accomack at December 15, 2024 01:56 PM (aHqhe)

225 I was making the assumption the Feds actually wanted to find this purported "dirty bomb." That may or may not be the case.

If looking for a dirty bomb, why would the search only be conducted for a few hours at night and not 24/7?

And there are much better terrestrial tools that can do this without the drama.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2024 01:58 PM (rHxhM)

226 Note, people are being ordered that if a drone does fall, NOT to approach it, and to call in one of the highly classified Hazmat teams to take care of it

So they can then tell you its a weather balloon, and not part of a US Spy Agency...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 15, 2024 01:59 PM (QAkQ3)

227 Maybe they know where the DB is and are doing field trials

Posted by: Accomack at December 15, 2024 01:59 PM (aHqhe)

228 >>I was making the assumption the Feds actually wanted to find this purported "dirty bomb." That may or may not be the case

It might be.

I've had the unfortunate experience of dealing with the federal government most of my career and I can assure you there are layers of stupid that are damn near impenetrable before you get anywhere near Dr. Evil.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2024 02:00 PM (LkLld)

229

VA Orgies!

Posted by: FedGov Wins at December 15, 2024 02:00 PM (diHH+)

230 215 Just a SWAG here - how about trying to find an unaccounted for European nuke warhead from the 80's disarmament process? Like I said, just throwing stuff out there.
Posted by: Tonypete
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From my 9-11 suitcase research those things must be maintained or some necessary components deteriorate relatively fast. They may be radioactive but they are inert.

Posted by: Braenyard - some absent friends are more equal than others at December 15, 2024 02:02 PM (+3jTj)

231 Nood tax records

Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 15, 2024 02:02 PM (8AONa)

232 Have they been ordered by DoD, DHS, or the White House to not do a number of investigation actions? Or what?

The FAA Reauthorization Bill is due for renewal this week with all kinds of Orwellian drone laws attached.

You are supposed to be terrified so that it is cool when the FedGov grabs more Rights and kicks up the surveillance.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2024 02:04 PM (rHxhM)

233 Does no one around here have the cultural awareness to see these drones are appearing in NEW JERSEY? Does HG Wells mean NOTHING TO YOU?

Posted by: Richard McEnror at December 15, 2024 02:07 PM (XIdhs)

234 Academia is never a leading indicator of social trends; it has to be dragged, kicking at clods, into offering courses of what has already become hep to the hepcats.
——-

You sir, are smoking your socks. The university system is the leftist proving grounds for the latest experimentation, mind fvckery, and golly knows what all. They have their own little fiefdoms setup.

No right to a presumption of innocence. No Lawyer. Expelled for after the fact accusations. No hearings. No appeals. No cops allowed, etc.

Note this is exactly the new “standard” employed by politicians and especially the media kingmakers. Accused of wrong doing 40 years ago?

Why, it’s a Credible Accusation!

Posted by: Common Tater at December 15, 2024 02:16 PM (TwIK5)

235 Rumor control had it 40 years ago at least, that at least a few “suitcase” devices were smuggled via diplomatic pouch.

One of the coolest related stories. The Soviets gifted the US Embassy a heraldic eagle thing to hang on the wall. Well it was actually a passive spying device. Inside, was a very delicate mechanism designed by a guy named Theramin - the same spooky hands free audio instrument.

The Soviets wouod beam a specific resonant frequency radio beam at it, and they could strip off the voices talking in the room from maybe 100 yards away. Nobody discovered it for a few years, by accident. The Brits were picking up convos. No batteries required, pretty clever.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 15, 2024 02:23 PM (TwIK5)

236 Another point about Musk: Starship lands anywhere. So he doesn't care about our ports being mobbed up, inefficient stinky ports full of commies. They should be automated but them being inefficient benefits Musk.

Posted by: Boulder Terlit Hobo at December 15, 2024 02:25 PM (Y0+2O)

237 As for Candace, although I am the last person to argue against dipping it in ink, don't dip it in crazy.

Posted by: Boulder Terlit Hobo at December 15, 2024 02:28 PM (Y0+2O)

238 Yet there are still a large percentage of Americans that think government is the bestest at everything.

Posted by: Jukin The Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 15, 2024 02:42 PM (17s+e)

239 The hedge was very dense. There's a reason the would-be assassin wasn't seen until the barrel protruded through. The agent couldn't actually see the shaded assassin, only fire at the approximate position of where a shooter would be based on the end of the barrel.

See photo at the Guardian article: https://tinyurl.com/3kmwp4mj

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at December 15, 2024 02:53 PM (9dt0e)

240 Posted by: Gref at December 15, 2024 01:46 PM (aBgBM)

Mayorkas. Mayorkas: Border, Secret Service, FEMA, and now drones. Why do we have a guy born in Cuba in charge of the border? DHS has drones, plenty of drones. I do not believe in the Iranian "mother ship".

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at December 15, 2024 02:54 PM (2NXcZ)

241 This drone business smacks of being a "new shiny object" operation. By the powers that be.

OR they want to stampede us into some new idiocy.

Posted by: Beverly at December 15, 2024 03:49 PM (Epeb0)

242 Keep in mind that communists throughout History never give up power willingly or peacefully. These drones may be an attempt by the communist death democrat federal government to create a crisis and prevent President Trump from lawfully being sworn in as President. Sounds crazy but desperate democrat communists have no respect for anything except power. Be prepared for the worst.

Posted by: Junius at December 15, 2024 03:56 PM (OnD9b)

243 Now it can be told! The Jersey Drones ARE Project 2025...

Posted by: Richard McEnror at December 15, 2024 04:10 PM (XIdhs)

244 The federal govt is looking for something that is being hide and hard to find...such as one of those 80 nuclear weapons that went missing in Ukraine in the 1991-1993 period....

Posted by: P O'Neil at December 16, 2024 01:37 AM (5FsGG)

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