Friends of Joe
The Republican Senate did it for four years.
That means they actually support Biden.
That’s why they went to Biden inauguration parties and didn’t attend Trump dinners.
Posted on 02/10/2023 5:57:39 PM PST by Golden Eagle
Once more, the sad reality that America regularly builds up its own enemies demonstrates that our greatest enemy comes from within.
Republican Senators Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Dan Sullivan (Alaska) put pressure on the Biden administration after officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the State Department would not dismiss the possibility that the recent Chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the United States was made with the help of U.S. manufacturing.
Members of the Senate on Thursday participated in a briefing with officials from the three agencies. During the briefing, the question of American manufacturing’s role in the building of the balloon came up.
According to Hawley and Sullivan, the officials would not give a conclusive answer one way or the other when questioned on the matter.
“American companies shouldn’t be helping build spy satellites that are used against their own citizens,” said Sullivan to the press after the meeting.
“Maybe there’s nothing to be said about that,” the senator added. “But somebody asked about it, and nobody, nobody in that briefing said, ‘oh, it’s not a problem.’”
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
no doubt, as of 2017, china STILL couldn’t make ballpoint pen balls... not sure they can yet
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38566114
It has sent rockets into space, produced millions of the world’s smartphones and built high-speed trains. But until now, one bit of manufacturing had perhaps unexpectedly eluded China: the ballpoint pen.
A year ago Premier Li Keqiang went on national television and bemoaned the failure of his country to produce a good quality version of this seemingly-simple implement.
Locally-made versions felt “rough” compared to those from Germany, Switzerland and Japan, Mr Li complained.
High precision
The problem was not the body of the pen, but the tip - the tiny ball that dispenses ink as you write.
It might be something we take for granted, but making them requires high-precision machinery and very hard, ultra-thin steel plates.
Put simply, China’s steel has not been good enough. And it has struggled to shape its pen tips accurately.
Cucks. 🙄
To go with the rocket technology Clinton gave them
Nixon should have left China poor.
I said it!
They knew it. That’s why it couldn’t land on dirt.
>>According to Fox News, which spoke with a source familiar with Thursday’s classified briefing, the Chinese balloon featured Western-made parts that had English writing on them.
English writing! Nobody but US writes in English on parts!
Probably from Western country’s factories in China.
The balloon could have been carrying a nuclear weapon. I didn’t think of that until just now.
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