I live in Hawaii, which has banned most fireworks and gets almost every import by ship that comes through a handful of ports. We’re blanketed with fireworks every New Years anyway. Literal shipping containers full of gunpowder. Just mixed in with all the legal goods. We’ve also had Chinese fishing vessels in US waters multiple times without consequence.

It’s not about being invisible, it’s about looking like you’re doing mundane things until you’re not. Most ships don’t have schedules that are both known by the US and precise enough that dropping anchor would be meaningful. And all they need is a shipping container of drones to do some real damage to infrastructure. That’s nothing.

I can totally believe this is bullshit by Trump, but it’s not because doing it would be especially hard or implausible.

“I understand that the landlord needs to get paid.”

Seems like any time the federal government tells a worker they need to work without pay they should also mandate that all their debts and rent should be paused as well.

I don’t know that the TSA is a repository of true believers. They’ve mostly seem bored and annoyed when I’ve passed through.

Air travel was cooler when your soda bottle was an all in one demonstration of altitude and air pressure.

So now your objection is the idea of launching from boat rather than how could they possibly get drones to within striking distance of the US?

And you think the idea of pre-deploying $35k drones for potential conflict against a president that has been antagonistic to them for almost a decade is infeasible? The county that is known for using proxy forces and smuggling weapons?

Boy, do I have news for you about how weakly controlled shipping is. There are so many ships moving around with legit seeming purposes that actually do things they’re not supposed to. And sometimes the people who crew and own the ship aren’t even from the place the ship is registered!

It’s not like they’d be loading satellite visible drones from an Iranian port on an Iranian flagged container ship post attack and then running full steam toward San Diego.

Do you think all of Iran’s drones are exclusively inside Iran or at no point during this highly telegraphed military buildup could they have “unaffiliated” dockworkers load crates onto an “unaffiliated” ship? This isn’t a particularly complex plan we’re taking about here and international shipping is probably the least controlled transport system in the entire world.

It directly says how in the post summary.

Favorability polls are not election choice polls. I voted for Harris and would rate both her and Trump as unfavorable.

We shouldn’t run either of them though. We could actually choose a candidate people like.

It’s like one step up from Joe Rogan disclaiming his own words because he’s a self-proclaimed dumbass. It’s a self-aware statement from an elderly man acknowledging the things he says may be wrong but he just doesn’t care to spend his time trying to be accurate, but from a president and the center of a bluster-based regime it’s shocking.

And in doing so not only didn’t show the president doing embarrassing and disrespectful things, it showed entirely different coffins. Friends and family may have seen that footage and thought it was their loved one only to learn their chosen propaganda-entertainment-news channel thought their coffins were interchangeable props.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-officials-deny-israeli-reports-strike-inside-iran

We should not consider Israeli newspapers as credible sources of information on any wars they’re involved in.

It really depends on how many other books you own along with it. 1000? Possibly not a Nazi. 5? Pretty questionable.

Also libraries exist. You don’t need to keep going back to reference the Fuhrer’s state of mind at different times throughout your life.

I’m sure the courts will have this resolved by around when the invasion of Cuba is wrapping up.

I remember when I first heard that they were elevating his son my mind jumped to it being a young and dynamic war time figurehead. Someone who could grab a gun and pose with the troops for propaganda. Then I remembered that the former guy was 86. All these leaders are so fucking old their children already have gray hairs. This guy fought in the Iran-Iraq War back in the 80s.

I don’t really remember him ever being a rising star. He was in tight with Pelosi and able to pull a bunch of big money, but he was never the go to guy to present the Democratic case on an issue. No one ever talked about how that guy could be president some day.

Yeah. Doesn’t seem like the type of guy to restore some semblance of law and order among the gestapo.

I’m shocked mouth pieces for Israel like Josh Gottheimer and Ritchie Torres backed down.

Which is why the Constitution gives the exclusive power to initiate war to the Congress. They’re supposed to have skin in the game and fear for reelection if they enter into an unpopular war. It’s not just that they didn’t trust the office most inclined to go to war to make the decision, they wanted to spread responsibility across the branch most responsive to public opinion so they couldn’t dodge responsibility.