Posted on 02/06/2023 5:02:03 AM PST by FarCenter
You mess in our affairs (e.g. South China Sea and Taiwan), we can mess in yours.
To advertise a sale at Mattress King?
Why did they send the balloon surveillance?
BECAUSE THEY COULD.
It's not really a competition if only one side competes.
Maybe the best thing to come out of this shirt-show clown event is waking up a small percentage of the anesthetized population.
Why does a dog lick it’s balls?
NOW it can be revealed, it was really a bylloon. The bylloon’s pronouns are (*&”/#@/&*) a State secret. Because the bylloon was not destroyed over US airspace can be interpreted to mean that bylloonphobia, and antibylloonism are not growing as fast as suspected, and there is still time to institute Federal re-education (preschool to post graduate level) bylloonism sensitivity training and brainwashing. By the time the Feds are done, any cis/hetero balloons will be a distant memory.
To spy on and humiliate us. Rub our noses in it.
The military says these balloons have a certain amount of maneuverability. How much? And, how much of a payload can they carry? Japan bombed Oregon during WWII with balloons. What are the possibilities of Chinese balloons being used for offensive weapons??
They didn’t send *a* balloon. Just sayin’.
Plus... The price of balloons have gone up. Put’em in the
air and shoot’em down. Gotta keep testing various measures.
At 60,000 feet the horizon is 300 miles away. So take the path of the balloon and draw a parallel line 300 miles on each side and that’s what could be visually observed. Hopefully we can retrieve the payload from the ocean and tear it apart to see it’s capabilities.
Would you rike to ride in my beautifur barroon?
Would you rike to gride in my beautifur barroon?
We courd froat among the stars together, you and I
For we can fry, we can fry
Up, up and away
In my beautifur, my beautifur barroon
Keep dem cameras moving
round’em up, shoot’em
down, rawhide.
What could they possible spot on the ground that can't be seen with their own satellites or Google Earth?
Hell, I could see my car parked in my driveway via Google Earth.....
Why do people assume we aren’t doing similar stuff to China? Not balloons…but watching them? I would be more surprised to find out we didn’t.
Yes, but they do it to pathetic and helpless nations. This was not a U2 overflight or anything like that. It was a bold, open, and in-your-face move.
In a way, it was like how the great powers sent gunboats up the Yangtze River 100 years ago. China was pathetic and helpless in those days. It looks like the shoe is now on the other foot.
Yeah. Some folks with Team Biden already backtracked the story that it happened 3 times under Trump. It just wasn’t true but they did what they wanted. They got the lie out there and it gets repeated over and over.
The national security establishment would not have informed Trump, lest he do something rash.
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