Posted on 02/05/2023 8:06:44 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Republicans were being “hypocritical” when criticizing President Joe Biden on the Chinese balloon incident.
Booker said, “Well, I want to make one more point about this. I think what is problematic when Democrat or Republican have one standard for one president and another for another president. We should remember that this is now known to have happened under the Trump administration multiple times. And so to create another standard for Biden when Trump, it seems allowed this to go over the United States is just a bit hypocritical.”
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Leftists always tell the truth.
Prove it booker ….. I’ll bet you are a liar
Did you ask the host why the media didn't report it???
Spartacus standing up to power.
FYI: The warhead on the US Sidewinder missile did NOT detonate when it impacted the Chinese War Balloon. It could be because the target was too soft to cause the missile’s impact fuse to work, and maybe its proximity fuse could not “see” the thin floating balloon enough, that it was unable to reflect enough of a signal to “read” its proximity. But more likely? I believe the US Air Force removed the explosive warhead from the missile, so they were basically firing a supersonic dart at the balloon, so as to take no chances of damaging the technological apparatus it was carrying!
I wonder... Did they not consider the possibility of getting a C130 or C17 in the air, opening the loading bay door and capturing the balloon, and thus discovering what instruments were attached and what their purpose was?
I’m a wimp. Liars everywhere
Here’s the difference, yesterday it was the CCP, but during the Trump administration it was the NSA, THE FBI, THE FDA, THE FTC, THE FEC, THE DNC AND THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OPERATING THE CONTROLS OF THE SURVEILANCE TECHNIQUES.
So in that point, Spartacus is correct. It did happen many times under the Trump administration.
The Sparta (GA) Cus is at it again. We must have a presidential election coming in our future.
Do what is suggested (capture) would have been better. Blowing the balloon blew up evidence
“We should remember that this is now known to have happened under the Trump administration multiple times.”
Did it?
Former DNI Ratcliff, said this morning that this did not happen during Trumps watch...
And Rubio on the Intelligence Committee said the same.
They’ve been saying that, but where’s the evidence?
The BS story about trump never happened it’s a lie.. how do I know.. simple if it were true it would have leaked years ago yet I’m supposed to believe after pretty much everyone who worked for trump stabbed him in the back they would not have mentioned this lil tidbit oh really
“Did they not consider the possibility of getting a C130 or C17 in the air, opening the loading bay door and capturing the balloon..”
At 60,000 feet up?
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It's a fair question for a civilian to ask, but in practice, hollywood doesn't reflect reality. This is not a Michael Bay film.
That said, do you know how many meetings were held in the past week where someone who should have known better asked the same question and because of his or her rank, the rest of the people in the meeting had to get on the phone and ask the people who just might, maybe, on the off chance someone knows something. SpaceX was probably called at least four times, someone probably demanded to talk to Elon.
There is at least one US proven aerial catchment system in existence, but it was not designed for this, and likely it has been mothballed for so long that by the time they even figured out where the dang thing was the balloon would be gone, much less figuring how to modify it to catch a balloon satellite.
We all remember those civilian sightings and videos of high flying Chinese balloons during 2017 to 2020, don’t we?
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