Cartels are retaliating for being labeled terrorists by using an IED to kill someone

People don't understand the vision of what "Gulf of America" really entails.

butt the favelas was my favorite map in COD!

Big booty Latinx war wife harems for everyone

Sounds like there'll be an excess of Latinx.

Now that would be a fun 51st state.

If you torture Burger-troops you're going to have a real bad time.

All those weddings we drone-striked in the Middle East weren't actually accidents but retaliation for corpse desecration of dead US troops.

The glowies can zoom in and count the moles on your face with satellites, you think they don't realize they aren't drone-striking the correct person? Nah, they absolutely know and go "oopsies! it wasn't our target! Just his entire family"

Yeah but then everyone loses.

OMFG the one in Pennsylvania pisses me off so much. Every time a million people get killed in real Lebanon I try to look it up and just find out what the weather is there.

It's going to happen soon.

I was gonna say getting a working RPG warhead is probably the hard part, but in the US probaby not

I'd be shocked if the US didnt have radar and jamming equipment (and most likely kinetic defenses) installed around the white house though. You cant permanently GPS&wifi jam the center of D.C., but you can install small radars around the white house to detect drones and have the jamming equipment activate when a drone enters the WH grounds. That pretty much only leaves fibre-optic wire guided drones like we've started seeing in ukraine, but theres alao been tons of different kinetic defenses developed against sUAS and I'd be surprised if the SS doesnt have a couple different ones ready at the WH.

Then again, given maybe im overestimating the glowies. Imagine if that dude had used a drone.

But WH and other high-security places aside, im also really surprised we havent seen weaponised drones used more outside of warzones. Theyre so cheap and easy to get, and sticking a few grenades worth of ANFO and nails to it is so trivial, I would expect even street gangs to use them instead of drive-by's (outside of the "street cred" element of drive-by's

set it down and in like 50 seconds clear the white house lawn and all defenses

This absolutely is not happening lmao

cUAS is actually a really big industry, it would be harder than you realize

Ive been saying the border should be constantly patrolled by a chain of 2000 reapers or whatever it would take to always a have one over hea.

Don't need a wall then.

To make it even better, some of the advice given or lack thereof is reading like absolute nonsense when considering it's the Agriculture commissioner giving safety tips to farmers and ranchers:

• Avoid dirt roads and remote areas: Impractical given that it's cattle ranching, and ranchers are going to be the people who will need to use these roads most often.

• Avoid cartel controlled regions: How would ranchers identify these regions without more specific information?

• Limit travel to daylight hours: Agricultural work typically requires work in the early morning and evening.

• Stay on main roads: I'm going to go out on a limb and say Texas' ranches are like any other ranch in any part of the US that has a lot of ag, which is that many of them are only accessible by secondary roads.

• Report suspicious activity to law enforcement: how? To which law enforcement agency? Just local police? The sheriff? Send a tip to the Feds? It's incredibly vague on who to report to and how when considering this is cartel activity we're talking about. And there's no mechanism provided to do so. There's actually no mention at all of any specific resources.

• Basically says LRGV is important and then essentially advises to avoid it. Which is fricking enormous. Also it implies that their so called backbone of Texan agriculture should just be abandoned.

• Stay vigilant: but gives no specific threat indicators to watch out for, so that's fricking meaningless.

• Refrain from touching unfamiliar objects: Yeah, that makes sense for a military context for dealing with IEDs. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's pretty impractical for farmers and ranchers who on a daily basis need to handle a variety of objects, cowtools, and miscellaneous materials.

• I guess Visitors to Mexico and people who operate near the border are addressed in the same statement regarding the same threat. As though those are groups with the same needs.

• The statement describes an IED attack. Then gives advice on how to avoid random encounters. Perfect advice for an IED, which tend to be sophisticated and planned actions.

Now I'm not a Texan or a rancher. I might be making some redditor observations and talking out of my butt or out of my depth. I probably am at a few points. But some of this seems pretty suspect and strange considering it's by the guy who oversees agriculture in the entire darn state of Texas, where agriculture is a multi-billion dollar industry. The person, who above all else, should understand daily life realities of farmers and how to give practical, specific guidance.

Except the overuse of that as a buzzword for journos is exactly why it's an AI buzzword since it has such a high prevalence in training data. Alongside that this is a statement issued by the state of Texas with the Comissioner's name attached. The standards of writing and style are different than what's expected by a Buzzfeed employee.