Do you think the drone stuff was just to take the light off the Biden pardons?
Only in part, although the 'drone-screen' is an effective way to at least start to do that.
The power grab, in order to eliminate civilian drone ops, is certainly consistent. ("When drones are outlawed, only outlaws will have drones." Or those that Big Brother allows to terrorize folks...)
If you know that folks might want to survey their land and neighborhoods to repel invaders that are ALREADY HERE, isn't taking BOTH their guns and 'eyes in the sky' a great goal?
I tend to think the nuke issue is also likely a ruse, for several reasons. The "suitcase nuke" and lost warhead stories have been around for literally DECADES. I have little doubt there are probably some in the US, but "why now?"
The answer seems to be the COG and "date certain" for an inauguration that the Deep State will "pull out the stops" to ensure never happens. I don't believe for a second that they care about "stopping" a threat to January 20th.
More likely, setting up an excuse for Plan B, since they haven't been able to kill Trump otherwise, yet.