I’ve seen “no plan” from other non-ghoulish Democrats too. Democrats who have also criticized the war on moral reasons, but “no plan” seems to be their most focused condemnation.

I think it’s because they think it’s the broadest message and likely to sap support. “Forever wars” are deeply unpopular, whereas just not killing innocent brown people gets “ok, but…”. That seems to be the stand out sentient on Iraq and we tortured people and caused hundreds of thousands of death.

Iran smuggles weapons into freaking Gaza. They have proxy groups around the region they arm and ship these exact drones to Russia. They are definitely not being tightly contained for small arms transfers. The United States has little to no insight into what’s actually in any particular shipping crate leaving Iran. We’re talking about an actual state actor covert service rather than a smuggling ring. They can definitely get drones out undetected.

Not while it’s at sea. The whole point is illegal containers pass all the way through ports without any knowledge of their contents. We’ve had fireworks busts at port. You know how many people got charged for that? Zero. No one could be proven to be responsible. And drones don’t even need to make it to through the very limited inspections we have at port. Or even travel to the United States at all. San Diego is like 30 miles from a major Mexican shipping hub.

The police and surveillance state will not protect us. Because it is and has always been a sham. Being as secure as you imagine would restrict profit, annoy consumers, and require manpower they don’t want to pay for. They’d rather just take the hit and funnel the money through arms manufacturers for the response.

It doesn’t even need to be something exotic. Drones can fit in shipping containers and be launched either from a warehouse or the ship itself. Fully visible, just with a fake manifest. Ukraine performed a drone attack deep into Russia by transporting the drones in pre built tiny houses and having unsuspecting truck drivers move them into position.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

a single Mark 48 torpedo, a sophisticated munition specifically designed to sink ships

As opposed to the torpedos not designed to sink ships?

Oh I’m sorry, I thought your complaint was that no one was criticizing anything under his control that happened during his time in office. But it seems like you were just jerking off and now want to make an entirely different argument.

And let’s cross our fingers on Sotomayor.

MERRICK GARLAND

GAZA

You weren’t seeing any Gaza stuff? And you think that makes you a more responsible form of voter?? There was an international genocide case and regular reporting about domestic political groups lobbying Biden/the campaign/DNC to acknowledge it.

Also, you were literally here. Where Gaza material and it’s threat to the election were being posted about.

Or the case put together by Mueller during Trump’s presidency! Where the only impediment to going to trial was that Trump was currently president.

These people will talk about slow and steady justice until the statute of limitations expires and then praise the prosecution for being cautious. If this was the best our justice system could do, we don’t have one.

Kind of like Amon Bundy. I was shocked to learn that his “libertarian” values were actually opposed to masked agents of the state kidnapping minorities and executing liberals.