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Chapter 1: What are the mysterious drones spotted over military bases?
All right, folks, so apparently there are a lot of weird drones that are flying around America, particularly the East Coast and particularly military bases. We keep hearing from the government that it's not a big deal. They're not sure what they are. They're not sure what to do about it, but it's no big deal. And here is my problem.
Perhaps 15 years ago, I would have believed the government, honestly. Perhaps 15 years ago, I would have been more apt to think, hey, they know what they're doing because no way in hell this government would allow, say, foreign drones or even domestic drones to simply hover around military facilities. en masse for weeks on end. There's no way they would do that.
And then Joe Biden was president and Joe Biden allowed a Chinese spy balloon to cross the entire continental United States without shooting it down. And only after he got called on it, did he then proceed to shoot down a bunch of weather balloons with hellfire missiles. So yeah, I've got some skepticism. Now again,
That doesn't mean that these are Chinese drones or Iranian drones or aliens or anything like that. Maybe it's just a bunch of people who are mistaking airplanes for drones. That's quite possible. The thing is, I don't actually trust the members of our government to tell us the truth, even if they knew the truth, because they have not in the past.
According to CNN.com, mysterious flying objects overhead, concern and confusion and calls for military intervention. This isn't the plot of War of the Worlds, but rather the results of numerous unidentified possible drone sightings on the East Coast in recent weeks. The possible drones have been spotted over residential neighborhoods, restricted sites, and critical infrastructure.
Now again, if they're floating above residential sites, I tend to think that probably these are simply domestic drones, people who are hobbyists or something. But again, when you have large swarms of drones that are apparently flying near, for example, military bases in Virginia or New Jersey, I start to have some questions.
A reported drone activity prompted at least one airport, New York's Stewart International Airport, to temporarily close its runways for about an hour on Friday night.
Apparently, New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Saturday said, quote, this has gone too far and she has directed the New York State Intelligence Center to actively investigate drone sightings and coordinate with federal law enforcement to address the issue.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he's now asking the Department of Homeland Security to deploy special detection systems that use 360-degree technology to detect the drones. He said if this technology exists for a drone to make it up in the sky, there certainly is technology that can track the craft with precision and determine what the heck is going on.
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Chapter 2: Why is there skepticism about government explanations of drone sightings?
And I remember turning to Border Patrol and see again, you see this happen over at DailyWebPlus. I turned to Border Patrol and I say, what is that? Our producers were there too. What is that? And they said, well, it's a drone. I said, well, I assume that that's our drone, you know, like from our side monitoring the border. And they said, nope, that is a drug cartel drone.
So again, the idea that there are in fact foreign drones flying over American soil, not only... Do I suspect that is happening? I know for a fact that is happening. I then asked Border Patrol, by the way, why they didn't just shoot down the drone. And they said they would need explicit permission from Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of the Department of Homeland Security.
Mayorkas, for his part, says we have no information on foreign involvement with these drones.
We have not seen any foreign, we know of no foreign involvement with respect to the sightings in the Northeast. And we are vigilant in investigating this matter, the Department of Homeland Security with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the lead.
Again, according to CNN.com, concerns escalated after drones were spotted near Picatinny Arsenal, a U.S. military research facility, and also over President-elect Trump's golf course in Bedminster. According to both military officials and state lawmakers, the sightings prompted the FAA to issue temporary flight restrictions over the properties.
Apparently, there were also reports of drones above the Naval Weapons Station Earl, a U.S. Navy base south of Middleton, although no direct threats were identified. And it's coming from both sides of the aisle, by the way. It's not just a Republican thing.
Democratic Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey posted videos to his X account showing what appeared to be a cluster of drones over the Round Valley Reservoir on Thursday night. On Saturday, he posted on X that most of the aircraft he initially thought were drones were almost certainly planes.
So again, it is possible that people are oversighting, they're over-attributing things to drones that actually are planes, or they have camera error. Any of that is possible. However, I have very little trust in the federal government that they are doing the job that they were designated to do.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said his administration is aware of reported drone sightings and is currently taking them seriously. He, of course, is a Democrat.
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Chapter 3: What actions are being taken regarding drone sightings?
It's because people don't like health care in sort of the abstract, but when it comes to their own health care, a lot of Americans actually are pretty gosh darn satisfied.
Again, that's what the poll statistics actually show. Again, there's a second poll that was done from the Center for Strategic Politics at UHC. And what they found is that 61% of Americans had a negative view of Luigi Mangione, the alleged shooter. Only 18% had a positive view. As for Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO, 35% had a negative view. 19% had a positive view. The rest didn't know.
And that includes, by the way, a plurality of Americans who had a negative view of UnitedHealthcare, which all seems relatively normal. But the reaction from the media is so utterly disconnected, and from Democrats is so utterly disconnected. Okay, let us make something clear. What Luigi Mangione did is a terrorist attack.
It is a terrorist attack when you kill someone in order to quote-unquote raise the issue. If you kill somebody in order to raise the issue, that is the nature of terrorism. You're seeking to bring attention to the issue by doing murder,
And what the American body politics should do and what everybody should basically do is if a terrorist wants you to talk about the problems of the health care system, you shouldn't give them what they want or you're incentivizing people to kill people. Now, we should absolutely have long form conversations about the health care system in the United States.
When I say long form, I mean informed conversations, because let's be real about this. People don't know bleep about the health care systems of the United States. They really don't. Just to take one example, Whoopi Goldberg was on The View on Friday and Whoopi Goldberg started running her mouth about health insurance.
And my goodness, my goodness gracious, does she not understand what health insurance companies do?
There are things we can... fool with and things we can't. Health care is one of those things that you shouldn't be able to fool with. And insurance companies who you pay, I pay into my insurance, you pay into your insurance. I don't understand. If I don't go to the hospital for a whole year, where's my money? Why don't you give me the money back? Then you don't have to worry about it.
Because I feel like, you know, I said this. OK, OK.
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Chapter 4: How is the government responding to drone threats?
Do you see a chance for a Christmas ceasefire and prisoner exchange?
This is a very difficult winter. After Russia destroyed a lot of our energy infrastructure, and after, you know, we are going through these difficult fights, both on the front line, but also civilians suffering from the deadly missile attacks. Just this past week? Yes. At the same time, you know, every time Russia is talking about some ceasefire, they are lying. Russians are lying.
Now, she's not wrong that the Russian negotiation strategy has been dishonesty for many, many decades. However, we're about to find out when the rubber hits the road and President Trump takes office how fast a deal can be reached. And again, President Trump is not in the habit of making bad deals. This is the thing about President Trump. He's a dealmaker.
He does not like being on the short end of the deal. And that's going to be true for Russia as well. All right, coming up, we'll get into Chris Rock on SNL. He said something quite awful about the shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. If you're not a member, become a member. Use code Shapiro. Check out for two months free on all annual plans. Click that link in the description and join us.