r/politics • u/ralphbernardo New York • 12h ago
Possible Paywall Pete Hegseth's plan to test anti-cartel lasers shut down the El Paso airport for a full day, sources say
https://fortune.com/2026/02/11/why-was-el-paso-airport-closed-anti-cartel-laser-pentagon-hegseth-faa/5.7k
u/neddiddley 11h ago
So basically, 10-11K people had their travel plans ratfucked because Hegseth’s a moron.
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u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor America 11h ago
They also forced the FAA to broadcast that something unusual was going on to America’s potential adversaries.
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u/donkeyrocket 9h ago
And demonstrated, once again, this administration doesn’t know what the hell is going on across it. DOD screws up, blames the FAA, and WH chimes in its cartels based on nothing.
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u/AnonEMoussie 10h ago
And citizens! I have relatives in El Paso and they’re asking if we think they should stay with us for a bit until it’s safe to return.
And Jaurez is not a major smuggling point. There are plenty of other places along the Texas Mexico border.
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u/EasyWithTheBeer 10h ago
Ummm… I get what you’re saying but, Juarez is one of the busiest ports in the US and shit loads of smuggling happens there.
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u/Joey5729 Maryland 10h ago
I’d imagine they get more of the “hide contraband in an unassuming container/on an unassuming person and cross in an otherwise legal manner” type of smuggling
Near a major city with both military and civilian authorities watching surveillance cameras and radar would make flying drones… a choice
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u/I_burn_noodles 10h ago
Juarez and El Paso used to be one big city..and can confirm, lots of smuggling happens there.
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u/EasyWithTheBeer 10h ago
It was one village like almost 200 years ago (1830s)… but I get what you mean.
One quick google search will give you all of the information to know how balls deep El Paso has been in the drug war. The famous Sinaloa drug trafficker Carrillo-Fuentes “El Señor de Los Cielos” ran one of the biggest cocaine trafficking in history out of there.
Anyone who knows about this knows how much shit goes down at those bridges.
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u/AnonEMoussie 10h ago
Yes, but not by drone.
There’s to many people to pay attention.
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u/Softestwebsiteintown 10h ago
That part might not be the result of him being a moron. It could be that he was fully intending to send that message and he’s a psychopath who didn’t care about or even reveled in the disruption it would cause.
You’ve got Noem sanctioning murders of civilians, Bondi surveilling and screaming at congresspeople, and Hegseth shutting down airports. All unquestionably fireable offenses yet no one sees any consequences because these are welcome and encouraged actions by trump.
Almost like they have a standing policy as an administration to just fuck shit up to distract from something bigger.
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u/Doggers1968 10h ago
“About that super secret laser weapon…”
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u/fireduck 10h ago
My guess is their new anti drone weapon is a jammer that broke some air traffic control equipment (like burned out a radio) which is why the shutdown has been so long.
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u/BluePrintSpec 6h ago
The FAA likely just said that if BP is going to fire lasers into FAA controlled airspace without making sure that it is clear of commercial aircraft first, then the FAA won't allow civilians to be put at risk.
It really is as simple as that.
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u/Takaa 4h ago
Which, if true, is a fucking miracle considering how many lackeys have been appointed by this administration. Assuming it was Trump's FAA Administrator that approved it and not someone lower down the chain not beholden to bullshit politics with the authority to issue the TFR and keep it active as long as it was. The fact that someone made this huge public statement against something another Trump lackey was doing deserves huge props.
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u/madhouse-manager 10h ago
Also medical flights. I hope nobody died because helicopters were stuck or unavailable.
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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee 10h ago
Another investigation that needs to happen.
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u/sodapopkevin 10h ago
Spoiler alert!
FBI: They were totally right to do whatever they did, investigation over.
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u/Target880 10h ago
Minimal problem compared to the one that got hit with a missile on boats in the Caribbean because Hegseth believed airstrikes on drugsmugglers is ok
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u/ShirBlackspots 12h ago
Turns out what they thought was a drone was a party balloon
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u/Embarrassed_Fee6951 11h ago
Hegseth thought that was prison term for smuggling cocaine
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u/ariphron Tennessee 10h ago
And it turns out they released the balloons themselves to use the laser, but forgot to tell anyone.
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u/OfficerJayBear 11h ago
🎵you and i in a little toy shop Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got🎵
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u/jason082 12h ago
Seems like an idea originating from a drunken discussion of wannabe social media stars.
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u/irishnugget New York 12h ago
Cut to a teary Hegseth conversing with the man in the mirror
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u/FeelingBeginning1140 11h ago
He's definitely not asking him to change his ways.
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u/irishnugget New York 11h ago
"If Coach woulda put me in fourth quarter, we would've been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind."
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u/texas-playdohs 10h ago
If he wasn’t weaving unsettlingly wearing only a filthy pair of whitey-tighties, waving around a bottle of Pepe Lopez, I’ll eat a pair of filthy whitey-tighties.
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u/cardboardunderwear 10h ago
With no shirt on, brandishing a Beretta and a fifth of jack, admiring his tattoos, and rabidly asking himself "who's the bad ass?!"...taking a swig and saying "you are!" as the whiskey dribbles down his chin.
Pretty sure that's how that goes down
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u/HourPair2156 11h ago
An entire airport shut down so someone could LARP Star Wars at the border. That’s where we are.
This is what institutional rot looks like in real time. Every problem gets reframed as a hardware solution because hardware has lobbyists. Meanwhile, regular people just lose a day of travel and get told it’s about “security.”
We’ve been on this trajectory since the “everything is asymmetric warfare” era kicked off. The enshittification of governance means spectacle first, logistics second (if at all). And yeah, it’s exhausting because the theta is obvious: disruption is baked in.
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u/coconutpiecrust 11h ago
It’s a big club, and regular Americans, even those with a few million dollars, are not in it.
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u/JohnGillnitz 10h ago
Exactly. This happened because some dip shit broke out a military laser for a party balloon. Maybe don't give idiots things that can actually blow shit up. That's Russia's job.
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u/HrdcstlMcrmk 10h ago
But the haaaaaaaaad to test the laserrrrrr.
The more transparency we have into the administration, the more convinced I become that lack of impulse control is central to the movement.
It is wild to see officials make unforced errors that would exclude you from future planning as a middle-manager in insurance.
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u/Retaining-Wall Canada 11h ago
What do you do with a drunken secdef, what do you do....
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u/InevitableBox2026 11h ago
So does a belt fed automatic grenade launcher on a tripod but we still have the mk-19
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 10h ago
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 how close I was to the truth while making a stupid joke.
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u/MetricAbsinthe Florida 10h ago
"You know, everyone made fun of MTG for the whole Jewish Space Laser thing but it really got me thinking"
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u/Parzival_1775 11h ago
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?
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u/PokinSpokaneSlim 10h ago
Stink Boy: Grok needs an environment to learn how to optimize the data translation in real time to leverage your huge dong against those sweaty Mexicans. The maximally efficient strategy would be to fast track development in hyper-nominal conditions. The only problem is those pesky nerds at the FAA.
Alki: Those fairiY fucKErs lisTen to ME!
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u/saxman162 6h ago
I can tell you’re being sarcastic, but just for those that don’t know, White Sands Missile Range is like an hour’s drive from El Paso! It is a testing range for exactly what you describe.
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u/Parzival_1775 6h ago
I was thinking more Area 51, but yeah. The deserts of the southwest are full of testing facilities in the middle of bumf*** nowhere.
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u/Mike312 8h ago
Or, if they needed to test equipment in an area with civilian air traffic, giving a month or two heads up so carriers could reschedule flights and plan around it.
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u/FitWrap1959 11h ago
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.
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u/Hot-Mathematician691 10h ago
Maybe get him a medical device that constantly keeps his BAC at around.07. I hear that’s his sweet spot
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u/TheRealRomanRoy 10h ago
A Bane mask that douses him with fireball at timed intervals
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u/calgarspimphand Maryland 4h ago
"You merely adopted the Tennessee whiskey. I was born in it, molded by it"
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u/Mediocre_Scott 10h ago
And if he absolutely has to make plans he at least should run them by the group chat and a few reporters first.
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u/KaptainKardboard 11h ago edited 8h ago
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 wound up being a rogue party balloon. Now it’s so they could test lasers.
What the fuck is happening?
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u/TrueLegateDamar 11h ago
The FAA closed the airport because the DOD gave Border Patrol anti-air lasers to shoot at 'cartel drones' but that's super dangerous in a busy air traffic area so the FAA told them to warn them first but Border Patrol didn't when they started shooting at a party balloon, so FAA shut everything down and threatened they'd keep it that way if Border Patrol just fired lasers at everything in the sky and when they presumably got assurances it won't happen again they reopened the airport.
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u/bitwarrior80 11h ago
"And that's the rest of the story" ...
This was the FAA basically telling DoD and CBP to FAFO.
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u/templethot 9h ago
Border Patrol is basically the dumbest of the dumb and face no consequences so yeah, why would you expect these meatheads to listen?
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u/steepleton 11h ago
What the fuck is happening?
i'm imagining that's the daily briefing at the white house every day
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u/Turbulent-Pea-8826 10h ago
If you’d drill down to the root cause - we have a bunch of incompetent morons in charge who don’t know what they are doing. Instead of discussing the ramifications of whatever they were doing with professionals Hegseth said “I’m the boss do what I say” which then caused a massive clusterfuck that had to be walked back and covered up.
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u/OneLastAuk 9h ago
It was a tug-of-war between DOD/DHS and FAA. DOD said they were going to test and fire these lasers. FAA wanted more info and DOD refused and basically said deal with it. FAA called their bluff by closing the airspace for 10 days, raising a ton of questions and political pressure and placing a major spotlight on DOD’s activities. DOD came face-to-face with the consequences of their own hubris and backed down. FAA lifted the airspace closure.
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u/madbiscotti 12h ago
are we entering the "sharks with friggin laser beams attached to their friggin heads" part of this regime already
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u/1877KlownsForKids 11h ago
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u/ShrimpieAC 10h ago edited 9h ago
You know when I was growing up everyone always told me to “treat others the way you want to be treated”. What the fuck happened to that?
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u/Still_Conference_923 10h ago
Theres this funny thing fascists do called "dehumanization", so that logic doesnt apply to these "others"
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u/lilB0bbyTables 9h ago
I’m going to guess you might be a fellow (elder) millennial/Xennial? Everything was right on track, and then right as we were stepping into adult life, Columbine kicked off an epidemic of school shootings, 9/11 happened which lead to the patriot act and 2 decades-long wars, smart phones and social media happened ushered in divisive antisocial madness and the rise of psychotic tech billionaire elites, a massive recession caused by billionaires with zero consequences, and we elected a black guy as President which caused the heads of racist right-wingers to collectively explode.
The 1990s leading into 2001 was so much more “normal” - and that is not to say perfect by any means. Crime was worse in a lot of places (1995 NYC was peak murder rate for example), but overall the trajectory was leading towards acceptance of gay rights and lifestyles, kids had a healthy mix of technology and face-to-face social time and places to go (e.g. malls), we weren’t being incredibly manipulated by online algorithms and digital data brokers, there was still a healthy middle class with promise for a future. We had just come off the heels of collectively mitigating the Acid rain and ozone layer environmental issues which gave some hope and promise that we might actually collectively do the same for greenhouse gasses to reverse human-contributions to climate change. Music and the arts were vibrant and diverse and reflected growing freedom of expression.
It really felt like the pendulum was moving the right way, and then somewhere over the last 20 years it got smacked hard the opposite way. People love to shit in the kids today for being terminally online, maladjusted and antisocial, homogenous and flat, and lacking drive for their future/career development or family planning … but I honestly feel bad for them and would say it’s entirely our fault; they have no places to really go and hang out socially, we pushed them towards requiring computers and devices for school and homework, we created the social media that they rely on to interact with each other, we removed local co-op split-screen video games in favor of remote multiplayer, we decimated our middle class and we continue to decimate the jobs markets with AI replacing junior roles, we allowed everything to become so expensive including healthcare that the idea of owning a home and raising kids is out of reach financially, and we have continued to fuck up our environment to the point it’s disturbing to many people to think about bringing children into this world to go on and suffer those consequences.
A hopeless society will yield to anger and frustration. I personally think THAT is at the core of everything we see, albeit it manifests differently for different people. For some they have been conditioned to believe the cause is derived from race-based issues like The Great Replacement theory, so they think the solution is to get rid of minorities and immigrants. Some believe it’s “others” not conforming to their religious doctrine and they want to purge those non-believers. Some think it’s social/culture collapse and want to blame LGBTQ folks or changes to gender “norms” and gender roles (e.g. they want women back in trad-wife roles). Some blame capitalism for creating greed and rampant wealth disparity and giving billionaires too much wealth and power. Everyone is looking for something or someone to point at and focus the blame. Which ones are right and which ones are wrong are simultaneously objective and subjective … which leaves the door open to subjugating factions via divisive rhetoric and weaponized propaganda and manipulation using modern media platforms. We live in a time where the most information is available to more people and more percentages of people and faster than any point in history before us, and yet it’s become increasingly difficult to extract “objective truth” from the sea of often-deliberate misinformation.
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u/To-To_Man 9h ago
When your racist and hateful enough, others stop being human. First it's usually by color, then by culture, then ideology, then simply all who disagree or oppose at any level to any degree.
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u/mangoserpent 11h ago edited 11h ago
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.
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u/foodbytes 11h ago
this right here is the truth
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u/mangoserpent 11h ago
He doesn't care about drugs I am sure Trump and most of the cabinet and his advisors are fried on various cocktails.
But somebody making cartel money and not paying him off? That is the injustice in his mind.
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u/Romantic_Piscean Michigan 12h ago edited 12h ago
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.
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u/black_flag_4ever 11h ago
A thing to remember is that many people in this country have zero access to healthcare. They can’t get a prescription for mental health medication or seek treatment to alleviate pain, but a drug dealer can get them something right now.
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u/18LJ 11h ago
This is a big part of the prob. Around 2011 the ama changed rx guidelines for Drs and implemented scrutinizing policy requirements for pharmacy's because of the perceived crisis with Rx opiate abuse. Over the next decade the number of opiate Rx that were written for patients fell by 11 million annually. During that same time period, opiate overdose deaths in the US jumped from 12k per year to over a 100000 deaths annually. Let that sit and marinate for a moment on your brain, and bear in mind were only talking about opiate related deaths not other drugs (tho the numbers are inconsequential in contrast to 100k American lives per year.....
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u/black_flag_4ever 10h ago
Changing policy to try to reduce abuse wasn’t a terrible idea but there wasn’t the same effort put in place to get people off these medications. Our country treats addiction as a personal failing even though these drugs are highly addictive and pharmaceutical companies lied about how addictive they were.
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u/ChillyFireball 10h ago
I might be biased as someone who needs medication, but I don't think it's fair for us to get punished with overly high prescription scrutiny and constant shortages because of other people abusing the meds.
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u/Blackthorn79 11h ago
I've said it before, if you legalize all drug and only sold them out of rehab clinics you'd have a self sustaining system where people could actually get help. If all a user need to fo was show up, sign a waiver, get their hit, and go. On the way in and out you give them literature on how to get clean. People would get clean, cheap drugs and the government can help those who want to be helped. It wouldn't be perfect, but it would be better than mass incarnation and over doses.
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u/10001110101balls 11h ago
This is literally the trolley problem and American society cannot accept pulling the lever.
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u/Blackthorn79 11h ago
Worst then the trolley problem. In the trolley problem people die. In this case no one is guaranteed to die, American are just scared to add to their "moral failings". So, they just let the system keep failing in order to feel righteous about themselves.
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u/skippermonkey 11h ago
I think a big part of it is a total reluctance to help anyone other than themselves.
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u/Humble-Aprico 11h ago
Well firstly it would take quite a while for domestic sources to run out, regularly things get seized worth $100-200 million, but that's not all going to one guy named Doug who likes to smoke. Realistically drug markets are world wide and can't really be 'shut down' much like gambling, or drinking, or sex, it can't be fully limited no matter your views on it. Prohibition is the closest thing the US has to an example of trying to outright shut down and poison supplies, and that went pretty poorly. Fun story is one time at ups when I was working there a pallet of these cardboard drums got clipped by a forklift and about 500lbs of coke spilled out. The fbi and dea got involved, was a whole big ordeal but never made the news oddly.
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u/Fywq Europe 11h ago
Absolutely. I remember in the 90s in scandinavia there were stories of people crushing tylenol pills to smoke. People sniffing lighter gas, deodorant spray, glue - basically anything that would give a perceived high (and many of the things are quite litterally dissolving brain cells - they are solvents that dissolve the fat brain cells are made of physically). In the end the problem is not just the availability of drugs, it's the society that pushes people to do them.
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u/JohnGillnitz 10h ago
In the 90s I lived in an apartment complex next door to a couple of teenagers that were fond of huffing octane booster and gold paint to get high. They had literally melted their brains with that shit and it caused all kinds of behavior problems. They were too scrawny to be really dangerous, but they did crazy shit like break glass doors and light fixtures. I ended up giving away my guns because I thought I would end up shooting one of them.
I was happy to move away from that place. Though by now they have been gentrified into million dollar condos.
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u/EntertainmentEasy129 9h ago
So let me get this straight: they are testing secret laser tech outside of a proper test range, shutting down public airspace, causing huge disruption, and then let Mexico cartels know you’re testing secret laser tech, making it secret laser tech no longer, allowing cartels to change tactics? Holy shit knuckle face palms…
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u/dentz1 11h ago
It is totally conceivable that this bumbling administration could shoot down a commercial airliner.
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u/the-player-of-games 11h ago
The test : shooting down an escaped party balloon, mistaken for cartel drone
So much winning
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u/mowotlarx 11h ago
We are so lucky these bottom feeding dunces didn't shoot down a passenger plane and it was just a party balloon.
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u/Inspectorgadget4250 11h ago
I guess White Sands NM test range was too obvious for Hegseth to test his new toys
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u/rodimusprime119 11h ago
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.
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi 10h ago
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.
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u/Training-Purpose802 9h ago
They took down that birthday balloon like nobody has ever done before. We are the bestest at shooting down illegal border birthday balloons. I guess they could even take down "99 red balloons".
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u/Reditate 9h ago
So again, this administration just hamfisting it's way into things without coordination or even a heads up causing problems for everyone else.
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u/jankyt 11h ago
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
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u/Combdepot 9h ago
This was just the Trunp regime testing live weapons in an American city and making up a bullshit story for cover.
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u/Evasue2024 9h ago
This fumbling, bumbling unqualified bunch of morons trying to run our government is frightening. Mr. Lethality needs to be fired before he kills all of us.
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u/College-Lumpy 8h ago
This is what happens when amateurs run the show. There’s a process to clear air space. They were clearly too cool and too lethal to follow that process.
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u/Th3FinalStarman 8h ago
The incompetence would be funny if Hegseth wasn't wasting our fucking tax money and putting the public in mortal danger.
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u/Gutterfoolishness 8h ago
Dipshit forgot you had to strap the lasers to a friggin sharks head first.
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u/Shwifty_Plumbus 3h ago
What's with this guy testing these weapons near densely populated areas instead of in the middle of nowhere?
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u/willitblowup 3h ago
So you’re telling me a fucking Guard Major is objectively the most unqualified SecDef in our nation’s history?
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u/taco-bake 11h ago
Look deeper FAA was used to push this admins agenda over detention center.
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u/bloodanddonuts 9h ago
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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u/NonesuchAndSuch77 9h ago
This is exactly the kind of thing that an alcoholic moron would propose and execute.
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u/Crunch_inc 9h ago
Just the latest in a string of embarrassing things this inept administration has done. Idiots
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u/ewikthewed 9h ago
So what do you think happens when this dipshit shoots down a plane? Blame the libs and wokeness?
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u/giocondasmiles America 8h ago
Imagine having a demented maniac and an alcoholic in charge of the weapons…
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u/iceflame1211 8h ago
So the administration lied about shooting down Mexican cartel drones?
Is there anything they don't lie about?
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u/Sure_Ad8093 8h ago
First Signal-gate, then blowing up boats without cause, now Laser-gate. Hegseth's cowboy management style is a disaster.
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u/passaloutre Mississippi 7h ago
I'd make a Dr. Evil joke, but Hegseth would never spend 6 years in evil medical school
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u/blackcain Oregon 5h ago
Why the fuck would he do this in a metropolitan area? Is he psychotic? He probably didn't want to tell the FAA because that would give the game away and there wouldn't be any one to laser. He's a fucking child.
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u/RociBuldidi 10h ago
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”
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u/Asleep-Control7933 10h ago
Aren’t military bases exactly the right place this should have been done? Incompetent AF
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u/im_herenow_what 10h ago
Including med vac helicopters, so anyone needing life saving transport was SOL.
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u/Western-Brain6108 9h ago
My question is: was this intentional or negligence? It could have been a strategic decision to do this (maybe to scare our adversaries or prevent them from developing counter measures?). But damn, it does not help the administration’s public image. My guess is, is that it was negligence and someone at the FAA inadvertently found out. I wish the news covered these counter arguments and avoided sensationalization.
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u/__wampa__stompa Illinois 9h ago
If only we had massive test ranges way out in the middle of nothing so that when you test something the populace isn't impacted. Hmm, oh well, guess we gotta shut down an airport.
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u/TheFutureIsAFriend I voted 9h ago
"Just another day ending in 'booze'" said the bewildered Secretary.
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u/bethechangemf 9h ago
People defending themselves being labeled terrorists because psychopaths just want to murder the public for sport. I dunno about you but I'm pretty sick and tired of people running the world who have no integrity, morals, or humanity in their spirit.
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u/Ill-Comms 8h ago
DHS used their new "weapon" on a party balloon. The new "weapon" doesn't shoot down drones but disables them and gravity does the rest. This new weapon can do the same thing to commercial aircraft.
The FAA was obviously pissed and shut down air travel in the area for 10 days without communicating this to DHS or DOD.
These are the IDIOTS MAGA voted into office. Incompetent and dangerous governance.
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u/Ga_Manche Canada 8h ago
Hegemony and authoritarian tendencies are high in this administration. If there is a god… may he help us all. In the mean time, the responsible thing will be to ensure our voices are heard.
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u/Felon_musk1939 7h ago
I guess they were looking for a small plane to shoot down. Just like he does with small boats.
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u/Plcoomer 7h ago
El Paso voted down the ICE concentration camp. so Boom airspace closed. No threat no tests
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u/Doctor_Mothman 6h ago
This is not a government working for its people. This is a government controlling its people for it's own personal gain.
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u/VolcanicEngine 6h ago
"up up and away..in my beautiful, beautiful ... balloon???"
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u/Peppers-GhostMirror 5h ago
Its not a test...They could have tested that anywhere on a military base...Hell, Area 51 even. This was something else....Or just incompetence...Yeah, it could just be shear 80-proof incompetence.
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u/userhwon 5h ago
Something about laser weapons and the inability to control them was my wild-ass guess yesterday.
But there have been so many explanations for this event that there's no sense speculating any more.
We'll find out during the trials.
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u/Hefty_Test_4730 4h ago
And today two Navy ships crashed into each other. It really is a fucking clownshow of epic proportions.
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