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You know those drones that are flying over New Jersey that everyone's talking about? People are asking, is it an alien invasion? Is it the Iranians? Is it the US government? I don't know. I don't know what it is. One New Jersey state senator is trying to shed some light on this. State Senator John Bramnick told News Nation that he suspects the government knows a lot more than they're letting on. Whatever these drones are doing, the government really doesn't want us to know. That must mean they're more concerned with us getting knowledge and being afraid of that information than having no knowledge and having all these questions. That's why I'm worried about it. It must be something going on that they can't tell us because they are so fearful of what the public's going to do when they hear what the drones are doing. There's no way the Department of Defense does not know what's going on. Have we heard one word from the Department of Defense? Zero.
Okay, so there are two ways to look at the Department of Defense, CIA, FBI, the Deep State, and this state senator is expressing one of those views. He's saying there's no way the Defense Department doesn't know; there's no way our government doesn't know exactly what's going on. This is the James Bond view of the government: they know exactly what's going on, the CIA controls everything in the world, they're extremely efficient, they're extremely effective, and they are in control of everything.
But there's another view of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the FBI, and the Deep State. The other view is the Coen Brothers' "Burn After Reading" view. The other view is that these agencies, though they have done some heroic and impressive things, are government agencies, and they screw up and bumble in. In "Burn After Reading," the CIA, every time they try to do anything and fix any problem, it just gets 20 times worse. They say, "Okay, well, keep your eye on it," and then people are dying, and it's getting totally crazy, spinning out of control. Those are two views of government: his view, the government is really in charge, don't worry; and the view that the government doesn't really know how to do anything effectively.
What's odd is people simultaneously hold both of those views. The very same people who will tell you that the government is full of bumbling idiots who can't do anything right and that's why we need to privatize so many sectors of our public life are the same people who will tell you, "Oh, the CIA knows what's going on; the Defense Department knows exactly what's going on; they've got their finger on the pulse of every vein around the world."
So that's one view. Some more information coming out of New Jersey: a New Jersey Mayor, Michael Melum, has just stated that he heard from the state of New Jersey that if any of these drones go down, they should not interfere with it. They should not touch it; they should call in a bomb squad and the state government. Immediately on the way here, I was on the phone with my OEM team, and we now have guidance coming from the state. That guidance does say two different things. First of all, there is a downed drone in our vicinity; we are immediately to call the bomb squad of our county. Second, our fire department has been instructed to make sure they wear hazmat suits. So if something falls out of the sky that people have seen, and some of these things are as big as an SUV, if that happens, you're to treat this more than a plane crash. It's treated like an attack on the homeland. That is correct because they're not quite sure if there's a payload or not, and that's what we were told during our briefing on Wednesday.
Something's not adding up here. It sounds like it might very well be our highest level government; it might be government assets that are being deployed as a countermeasure. Okay, so this is another theory that Michael Melum has floated, which I saw going around X as well: that these drones are US military equipment. However, they are a countermeasure against if someone, say, had a dirty bomb, God forbid. These are able to detect nuclear weapons or some terrible threat. So that's what's going on; they're being sent over as a countermeasure.
Another theory is they're being sent over just as a trial run to see if they would work effectively as a countermeasure and, secondly, to see how the public would react if there ever were an actual threat, which at present there is not. But if there were, how would the public react to the drones flying overhead?
Then there's another theory expressed by John Kirby, the National Security spokesman at the White House, which is that we don't know anything about the drones. The government doesn't know a damn thing. This is pretty much the full-on "Burn After Reading" view: we don't know anything about it, and so because we know so little about the drones, we actually can't shoot them down.
Well, okay, the idea of taking something down again, you want to worry about public safety. First of all, we don't have enough conclusions to take that kind of a policy action. But let's just assume for a minute, Martha, that we did. I mean, you're not going to want to shoot something down where it could hit somebody's house or hurt somebody. Coard says there are 30 of them following one of their ships in the ocean. So would that work? I mean, again, we have to develop the policy options based on what we know we're dealing with here, and we just don't know enough to take those kinds of actions. But my goodness, we're going to do everything we can to find out, and we're going to share as much as we can. I understand it's frustrating for folks; it's frustrating for us. We want to know as well.
Okay, I love Martha's response here. She goes, "Hold on, hold on, John. You're telling me that you don't want the drone to go down on someone's house? Well, what about when they're way out into the ocean following Coast Guard ships? Why can't you shoot them down in the ocean?" Oh, well, we don't know; maybe it'll poison the ocean water. Who knows? We're not going to do anything. But by God, Martha, we're going to get to the bottom of this.
So what do I think is actually going on? I suppose if you put a gun to my head, if you put a drone to my head and said, "Michael, tell me exactly what you think is going on," I find John Kirby's explanation to be the least likely. Because if the Pentagon, if the White House didn't really know what was going on, I don't think they would tell you that. I think that if the White House didn't really know something about these drones, they would nevertheless project strength. If this really were some threat, that this were from Iran or from China or from wherever, the first thing the White House would be doing is saying, "We know everything; we're totally in control; nothing to worry about here; move along, move along."
The fact that their actual line, their strategic line, is, "Yeah, we don't know what it is; we're trying to figure it out," says to me they do know; they're not terribly concerned about it. I'm not terribly concerned about it. I am not easily distracted by things fluttering around in the sky. I'm not distracted by butterflies; I'm not distracted by lightning bugs; I'm not really distracted by these drones. I think that there are more pressing matters on the table. If this were really something to be concerned about, then if that were the case, what the White House's line would be is, "Hey, we know exactly what it is; we're totally in control." With this kind of a dishonest, lying White House, then I would know it's time to be scared. As of now, I'm not. I'm not too concerned about the Martian landing or the Iranian landing. By the way, the only alien invasion I'm concerned about is the one at the southern border that the White House seems to love distracting from.
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