Month: November 2024

Gavin Newsom and his wife deliver a Thanksgiving message to Californians. (Credit: @CAgovernor screenshot)

Failed California Governor and likely 2028 presidential candidate Gavin Newsom got a series of brutal reality checks after he and his wife delivered what they thought was an innocuous Thanksgiving message.

Earlier this month, Newsom paid $9.1 million to move his family into a ‘hidden’ mansion in the Marin County town of Kentfield. According to the San Francisco Standard, the posh residence has six bedrooms and five and a half bathrooms across 5,609 square feet.

It also has numerous floor-to-ceiling windows with views of Mount Tamalpais.

At the same time, Newsom has flooded the state with illegal aliens, presided over the worst homeless crisis in the nation, and record crime. With these facts, it’s no wonder why millions have fled the Golden State during his reign.

Despite this reality, Newsom and his wife Jennifer attempted to ‘relate’ to ordinary California residents from their brand new home.

“Thanksgiving is about gratitude, it’s about appreciating what you have and who you’re with,” Siebel Newsom began.

The California Governor then expressed gratitude for their families before bragging about their gratitude for the state of California and what it stands for.

The husband and wife duo went on to thank and lavish praise on their constituents before wishing all Californians a Happy Thanksgiving.

WATCH:

Happy Thanksgiving, California!

This Thanksgiving, we give thanks to Californians across the state who make us strong, resilient, and united.

Wishing everyone a joyful holiday filled with love, good food, and connection. pic.twitter.com/c8DAOugfWl

— Governor Newsom (@CAgovernor) November 28, 2024

X users had plenty to say in response to Newsom and his wife’s Thanksgiving message. Safe to say, they showed no mercy in reminding Newsom how he ruined California, his actions during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the fact he posted the video from his new mansion.

Happy Thanksgiving! How’s the weather over there in the $9 million mansion? Will you be offering tours?

— Jenny G. Shao (@JennyGShao) November 28, 2024

As you destroy the finances of the State of California. How’s slumming in your $9.1 million mansion? Where did the $ come from? You have no business or accounting sensibilities so was it the Cartels? The Getty’s? Money laundering from the $24 billion in missing homeless funds?

— Xavier Roder (@XavierRoder) November 28, 2024

Happy thanksgiving! love your new mansion pic.twitter.com/bYFfT8Fgr1

— ‍ TT ‍ (@TeslaTrillion) November 28, 2024

Where will you be having dinner???????? pic.twitter.com/z07Scjkp7h

— TInaMariePx2 (@PerezTMx2) November 28, 2024

Connection? You dare to utter the word connection when you locked us in our homes, decreed we couldn’t even take long drives, screwed over our children while yours attended in-person school sans masks & you & @JenSiebelNewsom hit @_TFL_ the French Laundry with lobbyists? pic.twitter.com/5c7dQGYsl3

— Roxanne Hoge (@RoxanneHoge) November 28, 2024

What about all the homeless Americans especially the vets in your state?

— Patty (@pattyisright) November 28, 2024

You bet. pic.twitter.com/PHUeeZyhQe

— Shipwreck (@shipwreckshow) November 29, 2024

Homeless veterans and homeless families due to the high cost of living and you pocketing all the grant money but you want to use our money for illegal migrants !!! @CAgovernor if you really cared about the people , you would step back and let Trump do his thing because THATS what… pic.twitter.com/YmCo7OB8TK

— None Ya (@yeah_right1213) November 28, 2024

I am celebrating Thanksgiving with 16 other family members who escaped California in the past 5 years. We all moved to Red States. From South Carolina, to Tennessee and Florida. None of us miss your tyrannical state.

— Lady Liberty (@WeDidItOnce) November 28, 2024

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In the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the Israeli ambassador met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and got from him a guarantee that Moscow would not kill his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.

Now, 3 years later, Israel got into two wars of its own and implemented a jaw-dropping program of decapitation strikes that took out the complete leaderships of Hamas and Hezbollah.

But now, Russia, after having Western-made long-range missile strikes into its territory, has unveiled a new hypersonic weapon Oreshnik (Hazel), and after a first strike in a defense compound in Dnipropetrovsk, is warning that it may now use it against high-value political targets.

Putin said Moscow may use the Oreshnik to attack ‘decision-making centers’ in Kiev in response to Ukraine’s firing of Western missiles at Russian territory.

Reuters reported:

“Russia has not so far struck Ukrainian government ministries, parliament or the president’s office in the course of the 33-month war.”

Watch: Putin is asked if Russia is preparing for a new launch of the ‘Oreshnik’ at the ‘decision-making centers’ in Kiev. He recalls an old Soviet joke, and adds that ‘today, anything is possible’.

Putin is ready to strike everything in Ukraine with Hazel missile pic.twitter.com/BKBRSsVltN

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) November 28, 2024

While Kiev is heavily protected by air defenses, Putin has said that the ‘Hazel’ can’t be intercepted by any existing systems.

‘’Of course, we will respond to the ongoing strikes on Russian territory with long-range Western-made missiles, as has already been said, including by possibly continuing to test the Oreshnik in combat conditions, as was done on November 21’, Putin told leaders of a security alliance of ex-Soviet countries at a summit in Kazakhstan.

“At present, the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff are selecting targets to hit on Ukrainian territory. These could be military facilities, defense and industrial enterprises, or decision-making centers in Kiev’, he said.”

Zelenskiy called this as ‘a tactic to disrupt attempts to end the war’.

“’He doesn’t seek an end to this war. Moreover, Putin wants to prevent others from ending the war’, Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. ‘He can go on wielding his Oreshnik only to thwart the efforts of President Trump which are sure to follow his inauguration. Putin wants to escalate the situation to such an extent so that President Trump’s attempts will fail. So that he cannot end the war’.”

Even without the Oreshnik, Russia is obliterating Ukraine’s energy system, using Kaliber cruise missiles with cluster munitions to cut power to more than 1 million people.

“Russia says Ukraine fired more ATACMS at its Kursk region on Nov. 23 and Nov. 25 and struck Russia with British Storm Shadow cruise missiles too, after the United States and Britain agreed for the first time to allow Kiev to strike deep inside Russian territory with these weapons.”

Russia has ‘several’ Oreshniks ready to use, and again warned that the missile was comparable to a nuclear weapon in terms of its destructive power and would ‘atomize’ everything at the point of impact.

Oreshnik missile:

– Top speed: Mach 10 (12,380 km/h)
– Rapid targeting: Can strike major European cities within minutes
– High penetration capability: Effective against heavily protected targets
– Strike power comparable to nuclear weapons pic.twitter.com/KmfFvum2q6

— RT (@RT_com) November 29, 2024

Read more:

THE HAZEL EFFECT: Putin Says No Air System Can Intercept Russia’s New Hypersonic Ballistic Missile Oreshnik, That ‘When Used in Massive Scale Is Equivalent to a Strategic Nuke’

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One of Hollywood’s most deranged anti-Trump voices has finally given up on his social media accounts.

The actor and director Rob Reiner has spent years using the platform to make ridiculous statements against Donald Trump and in support of Democratic candidates.

Reiner’s final post before the election took place was one for the ages.

“A woman gave birth to each and every one of us,” Reiner posted the day before the election. “Tomorrow a woman will give birth to a renewal of our Democracy.”

“Kamala Harris will be the 47th President of the United States.”

After Trump’s extraordinary victory, Reiner then went silent for several weeks before finally breaking his silence.

His post read:

Now that America has elected a Convicted Felon with Authoritarian proclivities, I fear that Democracy’s return won’t be any time soon.

The long term solutions are daunting. Democrats need to re adopt the 50 state strategy. And most importantly, a competitive information distribution system must be built to combat the massive disinformation currently being fed to the American people.

By a “competitive information distrubition system,” Reiner is of course referring to a platform that aggressively censors conservative viewpoints and only allows content that furthers the entrenched progressive worldview.

Reiner later followed up by calling for Trump to be removed from office and claiming that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had successfully destroyed America.

“The case against Donald Trump is beyond a slam dunk,” Reiner wrote. “If he is not thrown out of office, Putin will have been successful in destroying our 243 year Democratic Experiment.”

MEATHEAD RETURNS: Rob Reiner Breaks Silence on Twitter/X for First Time Since Trump Election Victory

Reiner’s account has now been deleted, along with his 2.3 million followers.

BREAKING: Super Liberal Rob Reiner has just deleted his X account and left the platform. pic.twitter.com/R3cXy6ryFp

— Officer Lew (@officer_Lew) November 29, 2024

The 77-year-old Stand By Me director was among the millions of leftists who have migrated to Bluesky, an alternative social media platform and left-wing echo chamber designed to compete with the X platform.

However, that experiment was also unsuccessful, with Reiner complaining that the platform had been infiltrated by “MAGA scum” who had turned it “vile, racist and evil.”

Rob Reiner’s time on BlueSky lasted less than 2 weeks lol. I guess he will now. Either set himself on Fire or be back on X. pic.twitter.com/O8RMuOkSSs

— DogFacePonia (@DogFacePonia) November 22, 2024

Last week, Reiner announced that he was checking himself into a facility to help deal with the devastating loss.

“I have made the decision to take the next few days to check into a facility for peace and relaxation,” he wrote. “No phones, social media, no trolls, just calmness to heal my pain.”

Let’s hope Meathead gets the help he so desperately needs.

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A 10-year-old boy from El Salvador was abandoned by coyotes.

A 10-year-old boy from El Salvador was found abandoned and in tears after being left behind by smugglers in Maverick County, Texas.

On Thanksgiving morning, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers discovered the young boy lost and equipped only with a phone.

Lt. Chris Olivarez, spokesperson for the TxDPS South Texas Region, revealed that the boy, equipped only with a phone and the knowledge that his parents were somewhere in the United States, had been left to fend for himself by a smuggling guide.

Lt. Olivarez said in a statement:

As many of us are celebrating Thanksgiving with our families & friends. Let’s not forget many children will not get to enjoy the holidays or see their families because they have been placed in a dire situation due to open border conditions, and many more who are trafficked across the southern border are exploited and exposed to a dangerous criminal environment during their journey to the US.

11/28: This morning, TxDPS Troopers found a 10-year-old boy from El Salvador who was brought across the border in Maverick County by a smuggling guide who left him behind.

The child was crying and told troopers a smuggling guide left him behind and that he was lost. The child only had a phone and stated his parents were in the US. The child was turned over to the US Border Patrol.

WATCH:

This heartbreaking incident is just one of many tragic outcomes of the Biden-Harris administration’s refusal to enforce immigration laws and secure the southern border. The administration’s policies have created a magnet for human smuggling networks, placing innocent children in harm’s way.

The Texas DPS revealed even more harrowing discoveries in Maverick County earlier this week.

Over 200 illegal immigrants were apprehended in a single day. Among them were 60 unaccompanied minors, including a 2-year-old girl from El Salvador.

The young girl, found with only a piece of paper bearing a name and phone number, explained that she arrived in the U.S. alone, her parents presumably somewhere inside the country.

WATCH: An unaccompanied two-year-old child from El Salvador explains she arrived in the US by herself and that her parents are in the US. The child had a piece of paper with a phone number & name.

This morning, @TxDPS encountered a group of 211 illegal immigrants in Maverick… pic.twitter.com/rXFoqee3Kk

— Chris Olivarez (@LtChrisOlivarez) November 24, 2024

In addition to that, some of the illegals were from special interest countries including Mali and Angola. These areas are considered “special interest” because the US Government sees those countries as a threat to national security with potential links to terrorism.

VIDEOS of unaccompanied children/minors and photos of special interest immigrants from Mali & Angola. 2/2 pic.twitter.com/HQPZBgieKY

— Chris Olivarez (@LtChrisOlivarez) November 24, 2024

The Biden-Harris administration’s open border agenda has emboldened cartels and smugglers, leading to record-high encounters at the southern border.

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Georgian PM Kobakhidze: ‘We must clearly show certain European politicians and bureaucrats, who are completely devoid of European values, that they must speak to Georgia with dignity, not through blackmail and insults’

The great Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has crystalized the conservatives’ vision of the European Union by saying that it’s ‘a bad contemporary parody of the Soviet Union’.

Now, why would someone want to join a club like that?

We have been writing a lot about Eastern European Country of Georgia because it is one of the most important battlegrounds of the planetary war between the sovereign power of nations and the ultra-liberal Globalist empire; between family and tradition and the deranged gender and environmental fantasies imposed on everyone.

Now, Conservative Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze just implemented a ninja move and temporarily severed ties with the ‘blackmailers’ from Brussels.

Associated Press reported:

“Georgia is suspending talks on its bid to join the European Union for four years, its prime minister said Thursday, in view of what he described as “blackmail and manipulation” from some of the bloc’s politicians. His announcement outraged the opposition and triggered a new wave of protests.”

Read: COLOR REVOLUTION – Globalists Trying To Topple Georgia’s Re-Elected Conservative Government Try to Hype Protests in Tbilisi by Deploying Anti-Jew ‘Climate Activist’ Greta Thunberg

Kobakhidze announced this as he was reappointed to the PM job by members of the governing Georgian Dream party.

The protests have been ongoing since the election, with massive foreign support.

The EU granted Georgia candidate status in December 2023, and put its accession on hold earlier this year.

They oppose the conservative and nationalistic policies from Tbilisi.

“Kobakhidze said Thursday that while the country will pursue its bid to join the EU, ‘it will not put the issue of opening negotiations with the European Union on the agenda until the end of 2028. Additionally, we are rejecting any budgetary grants from the European Union until the end of 2028’, he added.”

The European Parliament adopted yesterday (28) a resolution that condemned the Georgian parliamentary vote as ‘neither free nor fair’.

“The Georgian prime minister fired back, denouncing what he described as a ‘cascade of insults’ from the EU politicians and declaring that ‘the ill-wishers of our country have turned the European Parliament into a blunt weapon of blackmail against Georgia, which is a great disgrace for the European Union’.

‘We will continue on our path toward the European Union; however, we will not allow anyone to keep us in a constant state of blackmail and manipulation, which is utterly disrespectful to our country and society’, Kobakhidze said. ‘We must clearly show certain European politicians and bureaucrats, who are completely devoid of European values, that they must speak to Georgia with dignity, not through blackmail and insults’.”

In #Tbilisi, at a protest in front of the Parliament against the suspension of European integration, the police used force against the protesters

The Interior Ministry used special means against the protesters. The police used pepper spray, water cannons and batons, Ekho… pic.twitter.com/PiP3IawhIh

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) November 29, 2024

The PM said that the Parliamentary election was in a way ‘a referendum between immoral propaganda and traditional values, and our society chose traditional values’.

Now, if things were not heated enough, there comes a Mid-December Presidential Election to turn up the heat even more.

“On Wednesday, the ruling party nominated Mikheil Kavelashvili, a 53-year-old former national team and Premier League player, for the presidential post. He is all but certain to win the Dec. 14 vote by the electoral college controlled by the ruling party.”

Read more:

Controlled by Conservatives, Elected Parliament in Eastern European Georgia Holds First Session – As Country Comes Under Siege by Globalist Opposition and Its Color Revolution Efforts

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While most Americans are simply grateful for the freedom and prosperity they enjoy, some Democrats are insisting that Thanksgiving is also about being grateful to illegal aliens.

As the country celebrated Thanksgiving on Thursday, various Democratic lawmakers posted messages urging people to be grateful for the “undocumented immigrants” who helped put their meal on the table.

Among them was Barack Obama’s former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julian Castro, who specifically called on Trump supporters to show their gratitude to migrant workers.

“Everyone at the dinner table today, especially MAGA, please give thanks to the undocumented immigrants that picked and packed the food you’re enjoying,” he wrote on the X platform. “They deserve our grace. Happy Thanksgiving!”

Everyone at the dinner table today, especially MAGA, please give thanks to the undocumented immigrants that picked and packed the food you’re enjoying. They deserve our grace.
Happy Thanksgiving!

— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) November 28, 2024

California Rep. Robert Garcia echoed this sentiment, but also chose to bring attention to their work cleaning hotel rooms.

“This Thanksgiving, please remember that many of the people picking our food, working in our favorite restaurants, and cleaning our hotel rooms are undocumented immigrants.”

This Thanksgiving, please remember that many of the people picking our food, working in our favorite restaurants, and cleaning our hotel rooms are undocumented immigrants. Thanks @CapehartJ and The Last Word. pic.twitter.com/IM9xd2u9gS

— Congressman Robert Garcia (@RepRobertGarcia) November 28, 2024

Also chiming in with a similar message was the New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Luján, who also praised the worker of migrant workers.

“Join me in taking a moment to appreciate the hands that harvested the food on our Thanksgiving tables this year,” he said in a statement.

“Our meals wouldn’t be possible without the tireless work of migrant farmworkers, farmers, and ranchers across the country. Thanksgiving doesn’t happen without them.”

Join me in taking a moment to appreciate the hands that harvested the food on our Thanksgiving tables this year. Our meals wouldn’t be possible without the tireless work of migrant farmworkers, farmers, and ranchers across the country. Thanksgiving doesn’t happen without them.

— Senator Ben Ray Luján (@SenatorLujan) November 28, 2024

While it is true that many illegal immigrants do work jobs that help keep the country running, their doing so has only undercut the wages of ordinary American workers and consequently force them out of the industries they used to work in.

Tyson Foods Under Fire and Boycott Calls for Replacing Hardworking Americans with Illegal Immigrants

Despite their mostly generic statements, it is probably safe to assume most Democrats did not feel huge amounts of gratitude this Thanksgiving.

With Donald Trump returning to the White House on an unprecedented mandate, their political agenda will suffer major setbacks. Which means for most Americans, there is a lot to be grateful for.

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On November 27, in an appeal to the American people, representatives of a group of veterans made public a list of 18 peer-nominated names. According to an X post by Jordan Karr, a nine-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force who served as an intelligence officer, the list “contains potential senior executives for senior cabinet officials to consider as direct staff reports” in the new Trump administration. The “rank and file nominations” can be viewed in her post:

 

On behalf of the ‘Rank and File’ of the Armed Forces and Veteran communities, please meet 18 Senior leaders recommended for service in the next administration.

These 18 leaders are the first of hundreds recommended through a grassroots campaign conducted in Constitutionalist… pic.twitter.com/pIqyNmJJ1q

— Jordan Karr (@JordanLkarr) November 27, 2024

According to Kacy Dixon, the spokeswoman representing the group, “These veterans do not belong to a special interest group or have any financial stake in receiving an appointment, which makes them ideal to serve in a trusted capacity.”

The Gateway Pundit spoke to some of those named on the list. According to them, it was created to represent a community of over 80,000 impacted veterans who were either kicked out, forced out, or received undue punitive action for standing up to the current administration’s unlawful COVID-19 mandates, feckless policy, and institutional degradation.

Mike Berry, who serves as executive director, Center for Litigation at America First Policy Institute, told The Gateway Pundit that “President Trump’s resounding election victory came not a moment too soon, [and] now is the time for bold, decisive action to return America and our military to its dominant status as the Alpha.”

Berry, who stood out for his staunch legal defense defending service-members’ religious liberties, sees this as a return to American exceptionalism whose best values are espoused in the military. Berry argued, “Now is the time to stop showing military weakness and instead return our focus to lethality, meritocracy, and excellence.”

Each person named on the list that wants to help restore the military to this level has a strong record of service, and according to their peers, have distinguished themselves as individuals who can be trusted due to their courage displayed while standing up to the unlawful actions of the previous administration. Central to this theme is the fact that these veterans stood up for injustices while oversight mechanisms failed or simply rubber-stamped the actions of the out-going administration.

For example, Ryan Sweazey who is the founder and president of Walk the Talk Foundation remains focused on oversight reform within the Inspector General offices, “For too long the Department has operated above the law while entities tasked with the role of performing checks and balances on it have complicity spectated.”

Many others on the list have been featured in various news outlets either by name or by pseudonym. Review of their professional resumes reveal a list of impressive accomplishments, with those who are still in the service leading critical functions across all five branches, while those who are out have excelled in the private sector. These nominees have deep experience in strategic thinking, operations, aviation, personnel management, and a litany of other skill sets.

This experience also extends to the private sector. One nominee, Stephen Simmons, a former Marine Corps major who was forced to leave active duty after 17 years of service, now leads Amazon’s last mile delivery performance operations team, and has added over $1.5 billion of value to the company in his first year with the company. Despite this success, he remains focused on supporting efforts to reform manpower policy, a subject in which he repeatedly has been quoted as a subject matter expert.

For the nominees, the list is about supporting restoration efforts within the Department of Defense (DOD) and broader reform across the U.S. Government.

As president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth continues to grapple with the bureaucratic DOD that is showing itself more and more hostile to the Trump agenda and conservatives in general. To restore the military, it will be critical to place competent and trusted executives throughout the DOD. The list presented offers a unique opportunity to transform the nation’s military through many qualified and trusted candidates.

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Establishing a trendline means having at least three data points.  Now we have three data points in drone incursions against U.S. military facilities.

During December 2023 we had 17 days of unrelenting, unchallenged drone swarms over the largest cluster of military facilities in the world, the Hampton Roads/Virginia Beach region of Virginia.

Then starting on November 18, 2024, drone swarms started visiting Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, approximately 35 miles to the west of New Jersey.  Picatinny is the DOD center for small arms and ammunition.

Now, the three core U.S. Air Force facilities in Europe, Royal Air Force (RAF) Stations Lakenheath, Mildenhall, and Feltwell have experienced drone swarms.  One note – it is a long-standing clause of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that these are called RAF vice U.S. Air Force Bases.

The roar of the non-response to the drone swarms other than aggressive press releases is deafening.

These events are not UFO freak outs nor drone enthusiasts.  These are well planned, coordinated, and executed on a large scale.

They lead to the intuitive conclusion, with the initial known evidence on the evidence table, that this is the work of a hostile foreign power or powers.

Many ask on social media, “Why are we not shooting these drones down? “, which is a reasonable question.

Retired CIA Operations Officer Mike Baker said on a recent show (tongue in cheek), “At CIA headquarters we would have the interns run outside and throw classified documents in the air to knock down these drones”.

Unfortunately, it appears Mike’s Concept of Operations (CONOP) would be more effective than what has been done so far.

Were Chinese ships the source of drones in the UK?

With the three installations in the UK, the question is where were these drone swarms staged from?

There are no conspiracies, but no coincidences.  The Baltic Sea has become a Chinese lake with the diminished U.S. Navy tied down in the Middle East.

The Chinese are becoming a proxy of their proxy Russia as Chinese ships are regularly breaking undersea infrastructure in the Baltic.

This is Fifth Generation Warfare on steroids as China punches back for US/NATO actions against Russia.

Doing a simple route analysis, the Chinese ships come very close to the East Anglia airfields as they leverage Arctic routes to bypass US Trade Sanctions, or right by the bases if they use the English Channel route.

Some of these ships are bulk carriers, such as the villainous Yi Peng 3, which is currently stopped and surrounded by NATO ships.

But the NewNewPolarBear (a real Chinese ship, not a Seinfeld joke) is a container ship that broke a gas line and two undersea cables in the Baltic in October 2023.

Containers are wonderful to hide opportunities for all kinds of clandestine skullduggery (like the Russian Club-K missile or the container-looking U.S. Typhon Missile system).

Germany’s Rheinmetall is already publicly making what looks to be an ISO compliant container for drones.

For a logistician, planner, or operator in clandestine operations, the container makes perfect sense.

A Chinese ship could turn off its Automatic Identification System, go dark, do the mission, move away and turn back on its AIS.

Domestic drone defense is a far different game than combat zone drone defense

The social media responses are often profanity-laced versions of “shoot it down”.  Not so fast.  The flights are often taking place over residential areas.

A Centurion system spewing out 20mm cannon shells is not a viable option.  Anyone who wants to volunteer their house to test this option is welcome.

This is not the desert in Iraq or Syria.  A more sophisticated CONOP has to be applied, more along the layered defense mode of Iron Dome operations in Israel.  There are three basic issues to address in counter-drone CONOPS in the U.S.:

            Surveillance:  Anything that emits radio frequency (RF) energy to surveil the protected facility is almost a non-starter from the beginning.  The American domestic RF space is a complex gridlock, and any new RF capability will take years to pass the Federal Communications Commission obstacle course to ensure it does not cause mayhem with air traffic and residential electronics.  The Surveillance solution will have to be passive.  The Chinese AI enabled, spinning electro-optic is a good starting point for passive surveillance – the U.S. needs to develop an analogue with alacrity.

            Notification:  There should be two parts to the Notification part of the CONOP.  First is the ability of Federal, State, and Local entities to rapidly notify and share information on the situation.  The Federal Government, especially the Department of Defense has effectively no authority to do anything beyond the fence line of the facility so a tight, mature, information sharing process needs to be implemented for a coordinated response.  Like the Israeli Iron Dome model, there should be a return to the past with air raid sirens as well as an amber alert, so all know to take shelter during an engagement.

            Neutralization:  This is where innovation is really needed.  Guns, missiles, and rockets spew deadly debris and shrapnel.  Trained raptors cannot take on the larger drones being reported.  Nets are a silly idea.  Jammers have a similar challenge because of the RF emission issue.  Lasers and very targeted and focused jammers make the most sense, but there is still the issue of falling debris from the drone.  Elon, Vivek, thoughts?

DOGE should drive the feckless Inter-Agency process to closure on domestic drone defense

Why has this issue run circles around the U.S. Government?  The simple answer: the U.S. Government has not figured out the process and procedures to respond to drone swarms in the domestic airspace.

What Department is responsible for what needs to be resolved.

The issue has been bogged down in the U.S. Government Inter-Agency process for years.  The U.S. Government flails until roles and missions have been defined, assigned, and resources apportioned.

The domestic counter-drone issue is largely mired and ensnared in the domestic airspace usage issues for drone delivery of packages and urban air mobility concepts (Uber in the air) industry is pushing.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is kind of in the driver’s seat leading the inter-agency debate.

Domestic counter-drone policy and plans is a perfect opportunity and test case for Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and the Department of Government Efficiencies (DOGE).

Elon and Vivek can get the Inter-Agency rowing at ramming speed.  Starting January 20, 2025, DOGE can lead the Inter-Agency to a solution within 45 days (or less).

All viewpoints are personal and do not reflect the viewpoints of any organization.

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According to BRICS News President Trump’s team is proposing halting all weapons shipments to Ukraine if the country does not enter peace talks with Russia.

Trump has been pushing to deescalate the tensions in the region.

JUST IN: US President-elect Trump’s team proposes halting all US weapons deliveries to Ukraine if it does not enter peace talks with Russia. pic.twitter.com/1UTgxb3Je7

— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) November 28, 2024

Earlier this week Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters Trump had been trying to negotiate peace between Ukraine and Russia but Joe Biden continues to escalate the war between the two nations before he leaves office.

“Indeed, from the circle of Trump supporters and those who have been nominated for future positions in the future administration, the word ‘peace’ or ‘peace plan’ is being heard,” Peskov told reporters. “No such words are being heard from the current (Biden) administration while… pic.twitter.com/1AEUEFvfdq

— Screwpulas (@Screwpulas) November 28, 2024

Peskov says the circle of Trump supporters who have been nominated for future positions in the future administration, the word ‘peace’ is being discussed but not so with the Biden regime.

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Eric Trump and Laura Ingraham on FOX News

First son Eric Trump told Laura Ingraham what his father will do on day one to help save Americans.

President Trump is going to confront China, Mexico, and Canada on the fentanyl pandemic that is wiping out over one hundred thousand Americans each year.

This is an area Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have not addressed the past four years. Where were they?

Eric Trump: Laura, I’ve talked about fentanyl every single day of the campaign trail. It’s something that affects me great. I have four friends who have lost children based on Fentanyl. I took my son, my daughter in the football game yesterday, a Dolphins game, and they were sitting on my lap, and the guy next to me turns around, looking at my son and said, “A couple of months ago, I lost my son. They killed him. They killed him with fentanyl. I lost my little boy. Cherish every single moment that you have.”

He’s literally looking at my son, sitting on my lap at his first NFL football game, and it broke my heart.

When my father sent out that tweet, ‘You want to allow drugs to come through our Southern border? We’re going to tariff you. You want to allow them to come through Canada? We’re going to tariff you. China, if you’re going to allow this stuff to get sold in our country, largely produced in China, we’re going to add another 10 percent to your chair. We are going to cost your countries, your economies, we’re going to cost your businesses billions, hundreds of billions of dollars.”

If you think you’re going to poison Americans, it’s not going to happen.

You’re not going to destroy our youth, you’re not going to destroy our society, you’re not going to destroy our families, you’re not going to do it. It’s going to cost you. I’m going to put an end to it. Laura, when my father sent that 20 minutes ago, I literally cheered out loud. There’s nothing more twisted and perverse than what the cartels have done, what China has done.

You know what? Biden and Harris have literally been absent. They don’t even talk about it. They haven’t even talked about the fentanyl crisis that is killing so many people.

Via Trump on TRUTH Social.

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