Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus Thinks You're Soft
Does the drone story represents an escalation between Russia and the United States? Or is it a story blown out of proportion by grifters like Steve Neuhaus and the Orange County Republican Committee?
(Image courtesty of the Des Monies Register.)
Someone asked the other day if I were to re-release "Social Media Is Bullshit" (St. Martin's Press), would it just be 200 blank pages with a single, lonely sentence at the end that said, "I told you so."
For about a decade now, the answer was yes. There's not much I said in 2012 that I would change today in 2024.
But watching this drone story develop, there would be one thing I'd add to the old book.
Before we go any further, I want to stress: We don't know much about the drones beyond what the BBC first reported last month. That is to say, drones have been spotted in the UK near military bases housing American military assets. A few weeks later, drones are being sighted around military installations in New Jersey, according to the Department of Defense. Last night, one of the drones briefly closed down a runway at Stewart International Airport in Newburgh.
The drone sightings in the United Kingdom started about a week after the United States —…