@spruce112358 saidI assume that it is news, especially if it ends up to be nefarious, so probably the media should be letting us know, but you are right, they talk about it every 11 minutes.
@sh76
Why do only Republicans care about this? 😆
I'm serious. This is ALL conservatives can talk about. No body else seems to give a scat.
I'm assuming "there's drones up there!" is to try to distract everyone from the mess their gummint is about to make. 😆
@AverageJoe1 saidI saw Bigfoot once. Sequoia National Forest, 1951.
I assume that it is news, especially if it ends up to be nefarious, so probably the media should be letting us know, but you are right, they talk about it every 11 minutes.
It made a sound that I would not want to hear twice in my life. 😆
@spruce112358 saidI have a relative who believes in him big time. So I have to believe you. Did u follow him
I saw Bigfoot once. Sequoia National Forest, 1951.
It made a sound that I would not want to hear twice in my life. 😆
@spruce112358 saidConservatives have become hyper paranoid snowflakes who believe that deep state conspirators are secretly running the world.
Yeah. It might surprise, but there are conservatives in a lot of places. 😆
What is the fascination?
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@wildgrass saidAl Capone bought off nearly all of the Chicago politicians and cops and the Rockefellers could not do that on the national level? LOL!
Conservatives have become hyper paranoid snowflakes who believe that deep state conspirators are secretly running the world.
@spruce112358 saidI remember the Great Republican Black Helicopter Freakout of the mid-1990s.
Are they black drones? 😆
It seems only right-wingers fall for this kind of BS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter
Media attention to black helicopters increased in February 1995, when first-term Republican northern Idaho Representative Helen Chenoweth charged that armed federal agents were landing black helicopters on Idaho ranchers' property to enforce the Endangered Species Act. "I have never seen them", Chenoweth said in an interview in The New York Times. "But enough people in my district have become concerned that I can't just ignore it. We do have some proof."
Still waiting for that "proof."
Yes, some kind of reconnaissance may be occurring. Whether domestic or foreign is indeterminate. But such reconnaissance has been likely going on for some time now, and paranoia and hysteria are now fueling a frenzy of false alarms. Frankly, if anything is really going on, I'd look in the direction of the perpetrators of most home-grown terrorism in the US these days: right-wingers themselves, operating as lone wolves or in association with some nutty militias giddy at the prospect of a coming civil war and establishing a fascist regime. They've already been caught out attacking the power grid:
https://time.com/6244977/us-power-grid-attacks-extremism/
A string of mysterious attacks on power stations across the U.S. has rekindled fears about the vulnerabilities of America’s electricity infrastructure, which security officials have warned presents a growing target to extremists and saboteurs.
Attacks and suspicious activity at U.S. power stations reached a decade-long high last year, with more than 100 reported incidents in the first eight months of 2022, according to a TIME review of the Department of Energy’s most recent data, which runs through August. Since then, there have been at least 18 more publicly reported attacks or potential attacks on substations and power plants in Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, and Washington.
In each of the last three years, law enforcement has foiled plots by right-wing extremists designed to sow chaos by attacking America’s electrical infrastructure.
@shavixmir saidyou're an idiot
Yeah.. drones over military bases… call Mulder, quickly!
Drones over or near airports are taken out. It’s a danger to airplanes. Or they are in contact with air traffic control (which means they’re being used in an official capacity and are not in flight paths).
do you think it's some kind of joke that a passenger jet had to alter its approach at JFK airport to avoid a drone?
Hahaha Hohoho
@sh76 saidDo you think UFO's to be benign? Same people
I have no idea what the "real" answer is (and speculation is useless and silly), but something is up. This is not a bunch of Venus or airplane sightings.
I have no idea what the real answer is, but I do hope somebody figures it out and that the explanation turns out to be benign.
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@Earl-of-Trumps saidThat's the Christmas spirit EOT!!! 😛
you're am idiot
do you think it's some kind of joke that a passenger jet had to alter its approach at JFK airport to avoid a drone?
Hahaha Hohoho
I believe you meant "an" not "am" of course the letters are next to each other and you may have big clumsy fingers. 😉
-VR
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@spruce112358 - I'm serious. This is ALL conservatives can talk about. No body else seems to give a scat.
this is absolutely true, but as a liberal, you should never brag about your blissful ignorance
@AverageJoe1 saidC'mon @AverageJoe1. It's such an easy quote... 😆
I have a relative who believes in him big time. So I have to believe you. Did u follow him
I can't believe you don't remember it.
@Soothfast said"I remember the Great Republican Black Helicopter Freakout of the mid-1990s." Musta missed that one. 😆
I remember the Great Republican Black Helicopter Freakout of the mid-1990s.
It seems only right-wingers fall for this kind of BS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopterMedia attention to black helicopters increased in February 1995, when first-term Republican northern Idaho Representative Helen Chenoweth charged that armed federal agents were landing bl ...[text shortened]... wing extremists designed to sow chaos by attacking America’s electrical infrastructure. [/b]
"Since then, there have been at least 18 more publicly reported attacks or potential attacks on substations and power plants in Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, and Washington." Well I remember the one on substations in Moore Co., NC - some hunyuk with a rifle. Some hospitals had to go to generator power, so that was real anyway.
@spruce112358
The Global Times further suggests that “the accusations against ‘Chinese spy drones’ coincide with a recent move in the U.S. Senate, where a provision within the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 aims to create mechanisms for further oversight and prohibition of the use of Chinese drones.”
“The bill seeks to add Chinese drone companies to the Federal Communications Commission’s ‘Covered List,’ which would prevent their use in telecommunications industries. Proponents of the bill argued that the U.S. should ban Chinese drones, claiming that these drones pose a threat,” the article further claims.
https://modernity.news/2024/12/20/chinese-state-media-mocks-americans-over-drones-delusion/
Any problem can defy solution when there's a Republican around. Want answers about the drones, people? Republicans say: fuck you.
https://apnews.com/article/congress-drone-technology-jersey-sightings-c7607e5f52210bdf7f4e099df078372f
Bill responding to drone sightings is blocked in the Senate [by a Republican]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was blocked Wednesday from quickly advancing a bill that would allow local law enforcement agencies to track aerial drones, ensuring Congress won’t act this year on the mysterious drone sightings that have bewildered residents of New Jersey and across the eastern U.S.
Schumer, a New York Democrat, sought to speed a bipartisan bill through the Senate by seeking unanimous consent on the floor, but Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, objected to its passage.
It really does make sense to give authorities the simple ability to track a drone when it enters restricted or sensitive areas. That's all that the bill that Chuck Schumer (a Democrat) tried to advance proposes to do. But no. Nothing sensible can happen when Republicans have a say. Nothing.
Because the United States is not really a country but rather a patchwork of tiny fiefdoms each with their own provincial rules, it isn't really possible to track a drone to see where it lands up. Sooner or later some county line or village boundary is reached beyond which tracking is disallowed. The drones are expensive. They must land somewhere and be retrieved by their operators.
Rand Paul is a cracker retard who stands out even among the flock of dipshits that constitutes the Republican Senate caucus.
@Soothfast said1. I totally agree.
Any problem can defy solution when there's a Republican around. Want answers about the drones, people? Republicans say: fuck you.
https://apnews.com/article/congress-drone-technology-jersey-sightings-c7607e5f52210bdf7f4e099df078372f
[quote]Bill responding to drone sightings is blocked in the Senate [by a Republican]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leade ...[text shortened]... tard who stands out even among the flock of dipshits that constitutes the Republican Senate caucus.
2. How did you get the anglo-saxon terminology passed the censors???