... except that they're truly crazy, and their guns have real ammo.

I’ll be surprised if she makes it past President’s Day.

Her mission is to cause damage. Wreck shit. And loot.

That's what this regime is all about.

Oh and child abuse.

Is he going to force Nutlick, a male, out or one of his window dressing females?

She follows orders, draws fire, and makes him horny.

unless they criticize or defy him. These cretins are his zombie warriors and replacing any of them would be a public confirmation that he exhibited poor judgement in nominating them. It's all about projecting "strength" and not "weakness" in his psychotic, addled brain.

Besides, if you rubbed the balloons 🎈 on your hair, you generate static electricity, so they were clearly agitators.

What really happened was border patrol called up Hegseth, asking if they could practice with the laser in case they found a Meskin they might want to shoot. Hegseth, recognizing a fellow member of the grab-your-crotch-and-grunt brigade ( because that makes a man MANLY, no matter how inadequate he feels his equipment might be), said sure, go ahead. He may have meant to notify the FAA, but it was last call and so he was distracted.

In sum, morons enabling morons.

What a mess.

I just shared it to BlueSky with these translated lyrics

This is what we've waited for
This is it, boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As ninety-nine red balloons go by

I love that song and hadn't heard it in years

It had a bit of a funkiness, combined with that 80s pop and a taste of theater as well.

Great song. Funnily enough, we farm folks always seemed to prefer the original version. I knew plenty of rednecks who would be singing gibberish in their attempt to sing along, but they never seemed to have the English version handy. (That one was what usually got played on the radio.)

I just wanted to get the lyrics out there, especially since it's so appropriate in the context of the keystone kops unleashing weapons on a fucking party balloon, shutting down an airport for 10 days, then going oops! that was kinda dumb.

watching the deadly airstrike against a couple of balloons? I wonder what costume she would have picked out for such an occasion.

Was the same uniform as used by the commander on the dark Star. You know the guy Darth grabbed him with his mind and squeezed his neck. I'd post a picture, but du wants me to have a separate picture repository.

A crew of incompetents running complex agencies they have neither the knowledge nor experience to effectively manage their organizations.

Who could imagine that a chaotic president would hire idiots to run the most complicated country in the world?

Do they really want a country like this?

.... Cover their drones. Launch a few dozen, heck, tens of dozens, party balloons as decoys.

their incompetence should be enough to bring that clown show down.

Some people should not be trusted with technology next thing you know they will be putting out peoples eyes with lasers.

the sheer incompetence is staggering