Don’t you peasants understand that your rulers in Government know better than you?
N.J. needs to ‘calm down’ about drones, Gov. Murphy says. Sightings are down.
Gov. Phil Murphy was asked Monday what message he had for people in New Jersey who have been staring up at the night sky anxiously looking for flying lights, worried about a strange wave of reported drone sightings in recent weeks.
“First of all, I’d say calm down,” Murphy said during a news conference at the Statehouse in Trenton. “There’s no evidence of anything nefarious here. We never say never, but … take a breath.”
Murphy also said drone sighting reports in the Garden State have been “down meaningfully” in recent days — to just 12 on Saturday night and one on Sunday night. That’s down from 49 last Sunday.
How do people calm down when there is zero explanation as to what the drones were doing and who’s they were? Does Murphy now know something that he is not saying to We The People? The people do have a right to know, so, no, they do not need to chill out, they need answers, not patronizing placation.
Murphy said he understands everyone’s concerns. For days, officials — including the governor — said they didn’t believe residents were in danger, though they didn’t know exactly what the objects were or where they came from. That caused a combination of fear, guessing, and frustration among residents and local officials — as well as several conspiracy theories.
How would they know that the people weren’t in danger when they didn’t know anything about the drones?
“I can’t walk out that door and have somebody not stop me and say, ‘Tell me what’s going on with the drones,’” the governor said. “And I get that completely. It’s unnerving and it’s really when life is not a math problem with X plus Y equals Z where there’s a hard and fast answer.”
“People rightfully get uncomfortable, a little bit anxious. I just wish elected officials were calm influences in the absence of more knowledge.”
Asked if this is all the result of mass hysteria and inflated sighting numbers, Murphy said: “I hesitate to use mass hysteria because I think the anxiety is legitimate.”
Yes, it is, so, get some answers, sparky.
Those comments stood in contrast to ones made Monday by President-elect Donald Trump, who was asked about drones during his own news conference at his Mar-A-Lago estate in Florida around the same time as Murphy’s.
Trump, a Republican who takes office next month, said he believes “the government knows what is happening” but “for some reason, they don’t want to comment.”
This would be the same government that can figure out which grandmas wandered peacefully through the Congressional building on J6 and hunted down and arrested them from blurry photos.
Government.
Your tax dollars.#Drones pic.twitter.com/0KCHMh9k19— Emergent Perspective (@_emergent_) December 16, 2024
Trump said something interesting about this yesterday: The government knows and they should tell you.
So, Trump, who gets the daily intelligence briefing, KNOWS that the government KNOWS and he is telling us that the government doesn’t want us to know, even though there is no good reason why they are keeping it a secret.