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malaise

(294,932 posts)
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 06:30 AM 9 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 9 hrs ago OP
Reminds me of the movie "Idiocracy" (again).... SergeStorms 9 hrs ago #1
I guess drone season has started. Buns_of_Fire 9 hrs ago #2
Will hegseth claim it was really a Mexican cartel drone? mwmisses4289 9 hrs ago #3
Nono, he shot down one of the caravans /s durablend 8 hrs ago #5
I'm old enough to remember when the United States was a serious country. Now it's a clown show. sinkingfeeling 9 hrs ago #4
But nobody is laughing. Klondike Kat 8 hrs ago #6
Scary clowns. VERY scary clowns. niyad 6 hrs ago #9
Another example of... MarcoZandrini 7 hrs ago #7
The Right hand doesn't know what the Right hand is doing. Swede 7 hrs ago #8
Shot ourselves in the drone.... Ol Janx Spirit 6 hrs ago #10
Wow. party drones (balloons?)? cbp drones? Wonder what is next. niyad 6 hrs ago #11
747 with ties to Qatar? uncle ray 6 hrs ago #12
Hmmmmmm niyad 6 hrs ago #13

SergeStorms

(20,343 posts)
1. Reminds me of the movie "Idiocracy" (again)....
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 07:06 AM
9 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

(19,094 posts)
2. I guess drone season has started.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 07:11 AM
9 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?
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 07:14 AM
9 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?

sinkingfeeling

(57,629 posts)
4. I'm old enough to remember when the United States was a serious country. Now it's a clown show.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 07:20 AM
9 hrs ago

Ol Janx Spirit

(907 posts)
10. Shot ourselves in the drone....
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 09:28 AM
6 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?

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