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Pete Buttigieg Skewered for Telling Drone Pilots to Stay Away from Hurricane Recovery Efforts
Breitbart ^ | 10/03/2024 | Hannah Knudsen

Posted on 10/03/2024 11:45:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is getting skewered on social media for releasing a message asking drone pilots to no longer fly their drones “near or around rescue and recovery efforts” for Hurricane Helene victims.

” Drone pilots: Do not fly your drone near or around rescue and recovery efforts for Hurricane Helene,” the U.S. Department of Transportation said in an X post.

“Interfering with emergency response operations impacts search and rescue operations on the ground,” it continued, sharing a video of Buttigieg repeating this sentiment.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aid; bootygigger; buttigieg; disaster; drone; efforts; hurrican; pilots; recovery
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Too many drones !

What a fag !


21 posted on 10/03/2024 12:34:58 PM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: packrat35

And the people who wind up waiting longer when a drone damages a rescue copter will feel yours.


22 posted on 10/03/2024 12:37:48 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Pete Buttigieg Skewered for Telling Drone Pilots to Stay Away from Hurricane Recovery Efforts

"Skewered" - isn't that what Buttplug's 'type' likes?

23 posted on 10/03/2024 12:49:10 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (President Trump saved by DIVINE INTERVENTION. GOD CONTINUES TO BLESS AMERICA!!!)
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To: discostu
Seems legit to me.

I heartily disagree.

Planes and Helicopters are going to be flying at least several hundred feet above trees. Drones (quadcopter type) are going to be flying just above treetops and even lower.

SO the chance of interference is very low.

If you are laying on the ground starving and bleeding to death, would you rather they took the risk ?

However, I would agree with you both on restricting the higher flying drones which are only there to get video of the carnage so they can put it on Youtube or Rumble.

24 posted on 10/03/2024 12:52:20 PM PDT by UCANSEE2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He thinks a man can breast feed, what more do you expect from that fool creature?


25 posted on 10/03/2024 12:53:00 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I actually think he wants to prevent pictures and video from getting out showing how bad the situation is and how little the Andmistration is doing to help these poor folks.


26 posted on 10/03/2024 12:56:21 PM PDT by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: discostu
It all sounds great until something crashes.

It is inevitable that something will crash or someone will die during rescue attempts, especially huge ones like this. Matter of fact, it's already happened and that was with 'approved' rescue personnel.

The only way to avoid such mishaps is to never make any rescue attempts at all.

27 posted on 10/03/2024 12:58:48 PM PDT by UCANSEE2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In his defense, he’s a new mother so it’s easy for him to get a little scatterbrained and confused.


28 posted on 10/03/2024 1:04:41 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
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To: IAGeezer912

THAT’S a bingo!


29 posted on 10/03/2024 1:07:32 PM PDT by Z28.310 (does not comply well with others)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Like all ByeDone’s cabinet picks, he’s a complete dud, a fraud.


30 posted on 10/03/2024 1:10:15 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: discostu

Are you seriously defending this administration?


31 posted on 10/03/2024 1:16:26 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: yldstrk

I don’t believe Pete has a lack of intelligence.

What he has is a lack of relevant experience or training.


32 posted on 10/03/2024 1:19:17 PM PDT by UCANSEE2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

” Drone pilots: Do not fly your drone near or around rescue and recovery efforts for Hurricane Helene,” the U.S. Department of Transportation said in an X post.

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Then, that means drone pilots should fly their drones in places where there are no rescue or recovery efforts going on.

Which is what many have been doing. Because the area and amount of devastation is to huge of a task for even the ‘government/LEO/Rescue’ personnel to process with the speed needed.


33 posted on 10/03/2024 1:25:29 PM PDT by UCANSEE2
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To: discostu

BULLSHIT!

They don’t want the drones flying in the area because they don’t want the news getting out that they are DOING NOTHING TO HELP!!!!


34 posted on 10/03/2024 1:28:30 PM PDT by 5th MEB (1)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
After this picture was posted on the Internet, World-wide Alien Sightings have dropped to a record low of ZERO.


35 posted on 10/03/2024 1:36:59 PM PDT by UCANSEE2
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To: packrat35

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. And given how annoying drones proved to be the last time we mountain fires here I can totally see them wanting to keep drones away. Even with the best of intentions random things flying around aren’t good.


36 posted on 10/03/2024 1:37:55 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: UCANSEE2

Except they won’t necessarily. Rescue copters like to get low, less winch time. And drones can get high. The right altitude for both is in the same area.

And of course how do you tell the difference between lookie-loo drones and trying to help drones? If people want to help go to the rescue centers, they always need people, blankets, and food.


37 posted on 10/03/2024 1:40:54 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: UCANSEE2

But it will happen more when random idiots that aren’t on the radio communicating with rescuers are flying random junk around. Just because something is inevitable doesn’t mean you can’t have LESS.


38 posted on 10/03/2024 1:42:58 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: 1Old Pro

Yup, the new low benchmark of suck.


39 posted on 10/03/2024 1:51:38 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Pollard

“People are using drones to find people that need help.”

And that is why he did it.


40 posted on 10/03/2024 2:27:20 PM PDT by Openurmind
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