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Not buying it
Flopping Aces ^ | 02-07-23 | DrJohn

Posted on 02/08/2023 7:55:56 AM PST by Starman417

I am not buying it.

A 200 foot balloon with a 2000 pound payload was able to breach US airspace over Alaska and went unimpeded as it completed its mission spying over the US. Joe Biden allowed it to finish the mission before ordering the balloon shot down, specifically ordering the payload targeted. My guess is it was done to minimize disclosure of Chinese success.

That balloon could have carried mini-surveillance devices, small dirty bombs, EMP weapons or even hypersonic missiles. The next one also could.

Only until the furor grew to a fever pitch did the Biden administration "reveal" that similar balloons violated US airspace during the Trump administration. High level Trump officials denied it. A rumor spread that SecDef James Mattis knew about it but refused to tell Trump for fear of his overreaction. Mattis then denied that. The chief purveyor of the phony Alfa Bank/Trump connection, Jake the pasty snake Sullivan, once again spewed his typical tranche of lies

“[B]ecause the intelligence community made this a priority at the direction of President Biden, we enhanced our surveillance of our territorial airspace, we enhanced our capacity to be able to detect things that the Trump administration was unable to detect,” Sullivan said at a Monday event with the US Global Leadership Coalition. “And were also able to go back and look at the historical patterns. And that led us to come to understand that during the Trump administration, as you said, there were multiple instances where the surveillance balloons traversed American airspace and American territory.”
Sullivan is a professional liar. he has absolutely no business being anywhere near government.

Magically, only after Trump left office was the Pentagon, using "forensics", able to discover three incursions during the Trump tenure, but making it public only after Biden failed to act on the current trespass. This is simply not believable. The current balloon was seen by lots of people and pilots. It's 200 feet in diameter. It is not feasible that during three prior events these stealth balloons were not witnessed by anyone. And that bring me to NORAD.

NORAD blew it.

“Every day as NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America,” Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck of the North American Aerospace Defense Command told reporters. “I will tell you that we did not detect those [previous] threats. And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out.”
Domain awareness gap. That's a good one. VanHerck should be relieved of command. Frankly, so should Biden.

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To: Starman417

It’s impossible for me to believe it was “unimpeded”.


21 posted on 02/08/2023 9:34:41 AM PST by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: Starman417

As long as Beijing Benedict Biden is in charge our face off with China will be delayed.


22 posted on 02/08/2023 10:03:50 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: BenLurkin

If they recover the payload intact then the truth about it being a spy mission is even more damning on the incompetents of the deep state and BiteMe. No payload and no proof, then it’s speculation. This is the deep state and BiteMe in CYA mode.


23 posted on 02/08/2023 10:10:07 AM PST by sarge83
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If they recover the payload intact then...

They are not going to recover the payload intact. They already know what it was and what it was doing. The truth that they allowed this to continue is too intolerable for the administration to want publicized.

They will stall as long as possible and hope that everybody forgets about this incident when something else comes up to distract them. It is a good bet.

24 posted on 02/08/2023 10:28:23 AM PST by flamberge (An "honest politician" is one who stays bought.)
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To: Starman417

Once again... Show me the Twitter posts.
If it had happened people would have seen it. If they had seen it they would have commented.

So, show me the Twitter posts from 2017 to 2021 where people are talking about seeing a big ol balloon floating across the USA.

It doesn’t have to be Twitter, I’ll take fakebook, instagram, Youtube, Reddit, Quora, I will even accept ChiCom...eh sorry I mean TikTok.

Just show me the posts.


25 posted on 02/08/2023 10:34:28 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: OKSooner

I don’t buy it as well—This was a set up. How many millions did China pay Biden to fly over? Its horrible that I could think this way. If WW III starts, Biden will throw in the towel like France in 1940.


26 posted on 02/08/2023 11:19:19 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: flamberge

They are not going to recover the payload intact. They already know what it was and what it was doing. The truth that they allowed this to continue is too intolerable for the administration to want publicized.

They will stall as long as possible and hope that everybody forgets about this incident when something else comes up to distract them. It is a good bet.

They’re already making a big show about recovering the balloon. The balloon is nothing. It’s the payload that matters. I’ll bet that will never be found. Very convenient for Joe and his Chicom goodbuddies.


27 posted on 02/08/2023 1:37:37 PM PST by rxh4n1
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"Biden administration "reveal" that similar balloons violated US airspace during the Trump administration.

The biden misadministration should be able to provide a date, time and approximate location for all of those violations.
28 posted on 02/09/2023 1:01:32 AM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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