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malaise

(294,942 posts) Fri Feb 27, 2026, 06:30 AM 21 hrs ago

WTF-Dept. of Defense shoots down Customs and Border Protection drone near El Paso: Officials

Dept. of Defense shoots down Customs and Border Protection drone near El Paso: Officials
Clown show is kind

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WTF-Dept. of Defense shoots down Customs and Border Protection drone near El Paso: Officials (Original Post) malaise 21 hrs ago OP

Reminds me of the movie "Idiocracy" (again).... SergeStorms 21 hrs ago #1

I guess drone season has started. Buns_of_Fire 21 hrs ago #2

Will hegseth claim it was really a Mexican cartel drone? mwmisses4289 21 hrs ago #3

Nono, he shot down one of the caravans /s durablend 20 hrs ago #5

I'm old enough to remember when the United States was a serious country. Now it's a clown show. sinkingfeeling 20 hrs ago #4

But nobody is laughing. Klondike Kat 20 hrs ago #6

Scary clowns. VERY scary clowns. niyad 18 hrs ago #9

Another example of... MarcoZandrini 19 hrs ago #7

The Right hand doesn't know what the Right hand is doing. Swede 19 hrs ago #8

Shot ourselves in the drone.... Ol Janx Spirit 18 hrs ago #10

Wow. party drones (balloons?)? cbp drones? Wonder what is next. niyad 18 hrs ago #11

747 with ties to Qatar? uncle ray 18 hrs ago #12

Hmmmmmm niyad 18 hrs ago #13

SergeStorms

(20,346 posts)

1. Reminds me of the movie "Idiocracy" (again)....

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 07:06 AM

21 hrs ago

Where Luke ("Not Sure" ) is "escaping" prison and the machine guns on the outside of the prison shoot each other off the wall.

Once again, life imitates art in the Trump administration.

The U.S. has become "Idiocracy."

Buns_of_Fire

(19,095 posts)

2. I guess drone season has started.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 07:11 AM

21 hrs ago

It's very nice that CBP is supplying something for hunters to practice on until duck season/wabbit season starts.

I wonder if you need a permit, and who would issue it.

mwmisses4289

(3,781 posts)

3. Will hegseth claim it was really a Mexican cartel drone?

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 07:14 AM

21 hrs ago

Or that his department has discovered evidence cbp is really working with the cartels? Or...or...something something something is the reason we shot it down?

durablend

(9,155 posts)

5. Nono, he shot down one of the caravans /s

Reply to mwmisses4289 (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 08:01 AM

20 hrs ago

sinkingfeeling

(57,634 posts)

4. I'm old enough to remember when the United States was a serious country. Now it's a clown show.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 07:20 AM

20 hrs ago

Klondike Kat

(934 posts)

6. But nobody is laughing.

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 08:17 AM

20 hrs ago

niyad

(131,314 posts)

9. Scary clowns. VERY scary clowns.

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 09:27 AM

18 hrs ago

MarcoZandrini

(184 posts)

7. Another example of...

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 08:25 AM

19 hrs ago

…Tge incompetent being led by the incontinent.

Swede

(39,031 posts)

8. The Right hand doesn't know what the Right hand is doing.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 09:14 AM

19 hrs ago

Not a typo.

Ol Janx Spirit

(907 posts)

10. Shot ourselves in the drone....

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 09:28 AM

18 hrs ago

The FAA, CBP and the Pentagon issued a joint statement late Thursday that acknowledged the military “employed counter-unmanned aircraft system authorities to mitigate a seemingly threatening unmanned aerial system operating within military airspace.”

https://apnews.com/article/military-laser-border-drone-texas-airport-55aaab7093f7d6dd174f909f3875001c

That's some A+ military mumbo-jumbo right there.

I wonder if Biden will have to pay us back for the CBP drone we just had to shoot down because of the lack of border protection that led the cartels to use drones to bring drugs over the border?