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Joints went legal here last week, found another government lie is that it's better now than than it used to be. Not anything like Panama Red was back in the 70's, no giggles, no time distortion, not even an extreme case of munchies.

Who cares? Really.

Now they are trigger happy. It looks like they just shot "something" else down over Alaskan waters.


It was probably Santa doing a sleigh test flight. RIP Santa.

Is this what "99 Red Balloons" was about?

Was prolly a bald eagle..

This was clearly a surveillance balloon, to give them updated mapping of mostly not-so populated areas , so as they need farmland ....
They're population is starving..... The New Madrid fault line is about to split North America in two.......China knows this, as they are also monitoring the New Madrid Fault line.
This will be chaos for our country as a whole due to the devastation that is to come of it and the Chinese are willing to
take advantage of the situation ..... Meaning an invasion...... Be Ready Patriots....

I’m willing to give them California it they have to take it with them, and they have to leave Taiwan alone.

We should send up a balloon over China and see how that...... goes over.

First they send boat loads of cheap labor to build our rail roads.

Then they lull us into a false sense of security by selling heathy ethnic food nation wide.

Then they ply us with inexpensive goods across all markets.

Yeah - somthin’ fishy is going on….

The humanity..

I think the word we are all looking for here is "incompetent"...

F×ck Joe Biden...

Yeah, it's a no on the stuffed toy... maybe some Chiclets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUQkbXWwJhQ

Whose counting anyway????

Big as TREE BUSES ...

OR

BIG "AS A CAR"......

Remember that 4 star Air Force general that said it was happening during Trump? LIAR!

"The US military and intelligence community had been tracking the Chinese spy balloon since it launched from a base on Hainan Island near the southern coast of China — and officials are looking into the possibility that it may have drifted off course, according to a report.

US officials told the Washington Post on Tuesday that the balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina earlier this month had been monitored for nearly a week before it penetrated US airspace, and that it initially appeared that the surveillance device was heading toward Guam before it took an unexpected turn to the north.

Intelligence analysts are not sure whether the balloon’s sharp turn north was intentional or accidental, but believe the surveillance craft was likely on its way to spy on US military installations in the Pacific before its path suddenly shifted.

The balloon wound up floating over Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on Jan. 28 and then entered Canada before strong winds appear to have pushed it south into the continental US on Jan. 31, the officials told the Washington Post, adding that analysts are examining the possibility that China didn’t intentionally direct the spy craft to penetrate the US mainland."


https://nypost.com/2023/02/15/us-believes-chinese-spy-balloon-was-blown-off-course-after-launch-from-hainan-island/

We spend close to a trillion dollars on our military and they act like they just "tweaked" a knob or something to allow for balloons? Nice misdirection...that dog don't hunt. Pedo Joe let it happen.

it is a complete no win situation... If he shoots it down people get pissed and complain he wasted resources and money... if he does shoot it down the same people complain he left the US vulnerable and is week on Defense of our air space...

C'mon man. You can't truly believe that they can't differentiate weather balloon or some hobby club balloon (which probably only drift a 100 miles or so max) from one they let drift over the entire Pacific ocean and an entire continent carrying a payload the size of 3 buses.

Which one, the hobby/weather balloon that has a flight time of probably a few hours and a range of a 100 miles or so or the spy balloon that they allowed to drift thousands of miles and a flight time on the order of weeks?

Him and his administration deserve criticism from both episodes.

1) They tracked the balloon all the way across the Pacific ocean and all the way across the continent and did nothing until it completed it's journey and they shot it down in the Atlantic.

2) After being criticized on that, they try to pretend that are serious and pretend a show of force and shoot down hobby/weather balloons.

He's probably being briefed on the dangers of the local Estes rockets that folks launch on a daily basis. Gotta send out the National Guard and A-10's to shoot them out of the air as a show of protecting the US air space.

Didn't realize you were an experienced fighter pilot... You really think Biden made the choice of Guns vs Missile?

17 Year Vet and current Major in the Air Force reserves with over 1000 hours in the F-16, also qualified on the f-18 and spent time conducting the role of adversary air with F-22 pilots while flying the T-38, Major C.W. Lemoine explains the reason for not using Guns...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfUXU9N7YA

in case one source isn't enough...

‘In 1998 Canadian CF-18s tried to shoot down a rogue weather balloon that went out of control drifting between 27,000 to 37,000 ft. It took 6 days for the balloon to fall despite RCAF CF-18s firing over 1,000 rounds of ammunition in multiple attack-runs. While the attack caused extensive punctures on the balloon, it failed to fully release the helium gas which kept the balloon flying. In fact, instead of falling on the ground the balloon ended up drifting across Canada and out to the Atlantic Ocean for almost a week."

‘While using the gun would appear as a more cost-effective solution for such a shot-down, in reality it’s not only ineffective but might as well be a far worse solution"

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/heres-why-the-usaf-f-22-used-the-aim-9x-rather-than-the-gun-to-shoot-down-the-chinese-spy-balloon-and-why-the-sidewinder-dont-need-to-see-something-hot-in-order-to/

In the first case he under reacted and let a foreign airship fly in US airspace to collect whatever information they were trying to collect. Then they tried to safe face by shooting it down (after it collected data).

In the second case he over reacted to try to save face but ends up with another dope slap.

Both are justified in their criticism. If proving your point is that the current administration is a complete set of bumbling fools, then yeah, I helped prove your point.

The win-win would have been to shoot down the "hostile" balloon before it did it's duty and leaving the hobby balloons alone.

If you can't see that, then I can't help you.

Milley alerted Biden to the original balloon on Tuesday... Biden then asked for military options, including the immediate destruction of the aircraft. and ordered that no activities or sensitive unencrypted communications would be conducted in the path of the balloon... The Military experts then advised against shooting it down due to the possible problems the debris could cause... If he had not listened and decided to shoot it down that day he would be criticized for that as well... and would then be to blame for any damage the debris caused...

You come off like a man that's never served in any branch of service so, please....yes...ignore not just myself but the nose on your own face too!

as a civilian...got it.

Old Sniffy lied, they knew about it when it launched NOT when it made it to Alaska….they’re constantly lying….Pete is getting ZERO media heat….pretty rad