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1 posted on 02/03/2023 3:29:39 PM PST by Dr. Franklin
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exactly. they have no idea what this thing is doing, but they know it’s flight is being controlled....and they let it roam around the country freely?

Man, what’s next from these morons.


2 posted on 02/03/2023 3:31:57 PM PST by Jonny7797
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Trial balloon.
Really.


3 posted on 02/03/2023 3:33:58 PM PST by tsomer
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Chief Wild Eagle from F-Troop would have taken care of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlyERnu7zUw


5 posted on 02/03/2023 3:37:51 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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First, I fully agree with you.

But there’s some holes in your basic premise. So let me be the Devi’s Advocate.

What balloon? How do you know it’s Chinese? How do you know the Chinese are engaged in biological warfare? Assuming there is some balloon up there, how do you know it does not have an approved flight plan? Your answers must be from personally known facts, in the first person. They cannot be something you read or heard or assumed.

I’ve been in court a few times and have done a few investigations in my lifetime, and a good attorney or cop can rip you to shreds.

Like I said, I agree with you. I’m just trying to provoke debate.


8 posted on 02/03/2023 3:41:16 PM PST by redfreedom (You can vote your way into socialism, but you may have to shoot your way out.)
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Feds would probably charge the state officials.


9 posted on 02/03/2023 3:42:26 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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They were talking about this on Bannon. They stated that it easily could be a bioweapon to distribute viruses.


10 posted on 02/03/2023 3:44:59 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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Yup. The Chinese balloon is not about it’s purpose or threat.
It is about a foreign country invading our sovereign airspace.

Does anyone think Ike, JFk, Reagan or Trump would put up with this?

That thing would have been shot down the moment it passed over our coastline.


11 posted on 02/03/2023 3:45:40 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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I know some folks in the Tripoli High Power Rocket Club that can do 60 thousand feet!


12 posted on 02/03/2023 3:46:16 PM PST by Species8472 (Don't celebrate sin)
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The Japanese during World War II were experimenting with sending balloons to this country containing some type of bio germ warfare containers. Don’t know how far they got in that program but I am seeing stuff on YouTube talking about it, so this is nothing new. But there’s no excuse for this country not to shoot those the kind of things down immediately it should’ve been taken care of before it even crossed into the continental USA. We are now looking extremely weak, not only to the Chinese, but to the Russians, and everybody else you could be damn sure if Kennedy have been in office it that damn thing never would’ve gone anywhere.


13 posted on 02/03/2023 3:47:41 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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Joe takes orders from the chicoms, so he’s not shooting it down.


15 posted on 02/03/2023 3:49:47 PM PST by I want the USA back (News media are pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho, hoo hoo. )
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It’s all over, Bidet has just surrendered to the balloon.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4128352/posts


21 posted on 02/03/2023 3:59:17 PM PST by matthew fuller (Democrats aren't about Socialism, or Communism. They are all about Ghettoism!)
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Will some courageous governor order his/her Air National
Guard to shoot the danm thing down for the good of all?

*********

I doubt that would occur. But shoot it down and contaminate
the area where it comes down and blown with the wind.


31 posted on 02/03/2023 4:13:40 PM PST by deport
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I called it first!


33 posted on 02/03/2023 4:16:02 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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"So, the Bidet Regime will not shoot down the Chinese balloon."

Maybe it contains a catalog of all the dirt the Chinese have collected on Biden and joe's afraid of who might retrieve it when it comes down.
34 posted on 02/03/2023 4:19:18 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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The balloon is drifting eastward over more populated areas. The window of opportunity for shooting it down only decreases as the chance for collateral damage increases.Shoot it down with small caliber weapon to slowly release gas. Also consider that the balloon is H2 filled(highly flammable gas). The chance for explosion is low because of high altitude and low O2 availability.


35 posted on 02/03/2023 4:20:38 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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0h noes! It must be one of them unstoppable, hypersonic balloons we’re dealing with!


38 posted on 02/03/2023 4:44:53 PM PST by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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So it came in through Canada and hung around over Montana. It then headed south toward St. Louis. What happens if it then takes a course east toward D.C.? Will they do something if it approaches The White House or Pentagon airspace? C’mon man! No big deal, right?


39 posted on 02/03/2023 4:46:26 PM PST by Hatteras
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I doubt that the Air National Guard has any plane that will fly at 66000 feet to shoot down the balloon. The Air Force probably has something.


45 posted on 02/03/2023 6:08:51 PM PST by devere
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Garland would probably prosecute any governor who did.


47 posted on 02/03/2023 6:24:42 PM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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Well Missouri Senator Nick Schroer has the same idea that I have:
Missouri Senator Sends Letter to Missouri Governor Requesting National Guard to Bring Down Spy Balloon and Protect Missouri Residents
48 posted on 02/03/2023 6:46:20 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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