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Pete Hegseth’s plan to test anti-cartel lasers shut down the El Paso airport for a full day, sources say

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  3. madbiscotti on

    are we entering the “sharks with friggin laser beams attached to their friggin heads” part of this regime already 

  4. Romantic_Piscean on

    I checked with a couple of people I know, and at least where I’m at, the availability of meth, cocaine, heroin, etc. has not been impacted. There is a lot of money to be made and supply chains will simply adjust to whatever a government like the US might do to disrupt it. It’s quite resilient. Meanwhile, we do nothing to address why people turn to such drugs and, in fact, I’d even argue we’re creating a country where such demand is increasing, especially when the President’s son provides an example, as that’s a family that likes to ski.

    Some day in the future, this whole “war on drugs” period is going to be seen as a misguided and incredible failure and a national embarrassment. We’re getting closer to that day.

  7. FitWrap1959 on

    Pete shouldn’t make any plans in the morning until he’s had a drink or two. And Pete shouldn’t make any plans after he’s had a few drinks. Maybe it would be for the best if Pete doesn’t make any plans at all.

  8. mangoserpent on

    I think what makes Trump mad about the cartels is not that they run Mexico or have deep ties in the US, it is that he is not getting his cut from the action.

  11. KaptainKardboard on

    I’m confused. They said they would close the airport for ten days, then it wound up being for less than one day. Then I heard it was because of a national security threat, such as foreign “cartel” drones. Then I heard it was just so they could shoot down what wounded up being a rogue party balloon. Now it’s so they could test lasers.

    What the fuck is happening?

  15. Parzival_1775 on

    If only DoD had dedicated testing facilities in remote areas where they could test equipment without interfering with civilian air traffic. Wouldn’t that be something?

  16. the-player-of-games on

    The test : shooting down an escaped party balloon, mistaken for cartel drone

    So much winning

  17. mowotlarx on

    We are so lucky these bottom feeding dunces didn’t shoot down a passenger plane and it was just a *party balloon.*

  19. jankyt on

    Seems like an idea to test in one of many military bases in remote areas with restricted airspace already where full scale testing and stress testing could be done.

    This just seems like idiotic military flexing causing domestic chaos

  20. dentz1 on

    It is totally conceivable that this bumbling administration could shoot down a commercial airliner.

  24. rodimusprime119 on

    This is a WTF to begin with. It is not like there are not multiple other locations in the USA to test the crap not near a major international airport. Plenty that the only airport that gets f up is a military one.

    No instead let’s screw up a blue city because well they are idiots.

  25. 714Bananas on

    Wait so even Jewish space lasers was projection? It’s all projection from top to bottom inside and out. 

  29. Capital_Past69 on

    Couldn’t they have just done this in the middle of the night when there are no flights coming or going from the airport?

  31. RociBuldidi on

    If only we had 482 existing military bases and facilities within the 50 states, millions of acres of some of the most remote military facilities to test this stuff?

    If “only”

  35. juliuspepperwoodchi on

    In one of the initial threads about the 10 day ground stop I joked that Pete Kegsbreath must’ve gotten drunk, housed a jar of Old El Paso, got sick, and shouted at an intern that ol El Paso is officially a “no fly zone” and the intern took that way too seriously.

    I hate learning that my *joke comment* wasn’t even that far off from the truth.

  40. bloodanddonuts on

    How is a man this stupid still alive? Surely by now he would have looked up in the rain too long and drowned.

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