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[Diego in Seattle]

[Diego in Seattle]

In theaters when the movie "Independence Day" came out the audiences laughed at this....



Now we're laughing at Donald Trump Jr..

[Donnie Baker's Ghost]

So they shot down the Chinese balloon about 6 miles off the coast of Myrtle Beach.

Why use a misslle to pop a balloon for christ's sakes.

Because you don't want to know what the balloon was recording?

Congress: What's on the balloon's hard drive?

DoD: Dunno. It got blown up by the missle. Shucks. Rotten luck.

[Softball Bat]

Bidet let the "Chinese spy balloon" go all the way across the states, and then shot it down after it left.

rotf...




But take comfort, folks.
China is looking into the matter.







Americans are being mocked.

Enjoy!

[mvscal]

Montana ANG has F-15s, fuckwit. Capability, yes. Resolve, no.

[Screw_Michigan]

Bidet let the "Chinese spy balloon" go all the way across the states, and then shot it down after it left.

rotf...




But take comfort, folks.
China is looking into the matter.







Americans are being mocked.

Enjoy!

What's the point of having NORAD if it can't shoot this piece of shit down over the Pacific?

[Screw_Michigan]

Montana ANG has F-15s, fuckwit. Capability, yes. Resolve, no.

The Montana ANG isn't the "good people of Montana," idiot. Try again.

[mvscal]

Bidet let the "Chinese spy balloon" go all the way across the states, and then shot it down after it left.

rotf...




But take comfort, folks.
China is looking into the matter.







Americans are being mocked.

Enjoy!

What's the point of having NORAD if it can't shoot this piece of shit down over the Pacific?

Probably too busy with Diversity Equity and Inclusion training followed by rigorous trans-sensitivity orientation. Who has time for all that old fashioned "national defense" crap?

[mvscal]

Montana ANG has F-15s, fuckwit. Capability, yes. Resolve, no.

The Montana ANG isn't the "good people of Montana," idiot. Try again.

Who are they then? Martians? Advanced cyborgs from the future?

[Screw_Michigan]

Who are they then? Martians? Advanced cyborgs from the future?

Dump Jr clearly was referring to rootin tootin armed to the teeth Montana residents. NOT the US Armed Forces.

Hope that clears things up for you.

[mvscal]

Who are they then? Martians? Advanced cyborgs from the future?

Dump Jr clearly was referring to rootin tootin armed to the teeth Montana residents. NOT the US Armed Forces.

Hope that clears things up for you.

The Montana ANG is not the US Armed Forces. They are armed to the teeth and Montana residents, though.

[Screw_Michigan]

The Montana ANG is not the US Armed Forces. They are armed to the teeth and Montana residents, though.

Not in peace time, correct.

[mvscal]

The Montana ANG is not the US Armed Forces. They are armed to the teeth and Montana residents, though.

Not in peace time, correct.

Not in wartime either unless activated for Federal service. The governor of Montana could have picked up the phone and ordered F-15s under his command to intercept the balloon. He very well might next time after seeing Pedo Joe's clown show response.

[Screw_Michigan]

Not in wartime either unless activated for Federal service. The governor of Montana could have picked up the phone and ordered F-15s under his command to intercept the balloon. He very well might next time after seeing Pedo Joe's clown show response.

You have a point, but I can't believe you honestly think Dump Jr was referring to the Montana ANG. Considering how monumentally stupid Dump Jr is, I'm sure he was referring to Montana residents shooting this thing down from 60,000 ft altitude, a monumentally dumb idea.

I can only imagine the bureaucratic shitstorm that would develop of the governor of a state ignored advice from DoD leaders in a situation like this and scrambled fighters to take down a weather balloon. Sure, he could have done it, but I bet the juice wouldn't have been worth the squeeze.

[mvscal]

Why use a misslle to pop a balloon for christ's sakes.

Why not? That's what they're for.

[mvscal]

Not in wartime either unless activated for Federal service. The governor of Montana could have picked up the phone and ordered F-15s under his command to intercept the balloon. He very well might next time after seeing Pedo Joe's clown show response.

You have a point, but I can't believe you honestly think Dump Jr was referring to the Montana ANG. Considering how monumentally stupid Dump Jr is, I'm sure he was referring to Montana residents shooting this thing down from 60,000 ft altitude, a monumentally dumb idea.

He is an avid hunter, so he is personally familiar with a variety of long guns. I'm sure he is well aware that deer rifles don't have a range of 12 miles. He might, perhaps, be dumb, though, which could possibly explain why he didn't express himself more clearly.

I can only imagine the bureaucratic shitstorm that would develop of the governor of a state ignored advice from DoD leaders in a situation like this and scrambled fighters to take down a weather balloon. Sure, he could have done it, but I bet the juice wouldn't have been worth the squeeze.

Who said it was a weather balloon? China? And you believed them?











Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that it was a weather balloon. Why shoot it down at all? Has that ever happened before? I certainly don't recall ever hearing about stray weather balloons being intercepted and destroyed by any air force.

[Softball Bat]

Exactly.

Why was it taken down over the Atlantic, if it was just a weather balloon?

[Screw_Michigan]

I don't believe it was a weather balloon, I shouldn't have called it that. I don't know what it was.

[mvscal]

I don't know what it was.

Neither does anyone else who isn't in China. That's kind of the point. If we don't know what it is, it should be shot down the splintered instant it enters US air space.

[Donnie Baker's Ghost]

What is the risk of being wrong? If it's a weather balloon and nothing else and we take it down, oops somebody lost some weather data. No biggie.

If it's a spy device, delivery vehicle, dry run, or tactical test of the jet stream and we don't take it down, oops the enemy has an advantage.

[mvscal]

Diversity Equity and Inclusion training

DEI is no longer sufficient. It is now DEIB. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging.

Now report to HR, you have additional training to complete.

[mvscal]

What is the risk of being wrong?

"Tuesday is vanilla. Definitely vanilla. My butt's been wiped."

[Screw_Michigan]

Neither does anyone else who isn't in China. That's kind of the point. If we don't know what it is, it should be shot down the splintered instant it enters US air space.

Needless to say someone or some people have a lot of explaining to do for why this thing wasn't shot down over the Pacific.

[mvscal]

Neither does anyone else who isn't in China. That's kind of the point. If we don't know what it is, it should be shot down the splintered instant it enters US air space.

Needless to say someone or some people have a lot of explaining to do for why this thing wasn't shot down over the Pacific.

They must be ice skating in hell right now. I agree. Don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen, though.

[Diego in Seattle]

Montana ANG has F-15s, fuckwit. Capability, yes. Resolve, no.

I'm sure that would have gone over well, what with it being the fucking PENTAGON who recommended to POTUS that he wait until the balloon was at least 12 miles from land.

And I've heard that the balloon wouldn't have been able to get much.

[Sudden Sam]

And I've heard that the balloon wouldn't have been able to get much.

Well there ya’ go. Good enough for me.

[Softball Bat]

Clown world on steroids...



China condemns the U.S. action.
They say shooting the balloon down was an "excessive reaction," and they retain the right to respond further.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/02/04 ... py-balloon

[Scott from Anaheim]

[Diego in Seattle]

"Trump would have shot that balloon down immediately!"

Oh rrrrrreeeeeaaalllllyyyy?

[LTS TRN 2]

What is it distracting people from?

His crackhead son's laptop? The Veritas expose? Kamaltoe's increasingly scary cackle? The upcoming series of investigations--including but not limited to--Fauci, Mayorkas, the weaponized DOJ and FBI, and the massiver amount of money accrued by the Biden family in its dealngs with China and Ukraine?

Sure, let's shoot down a baloon as though it's some sort of invasion.

[Dr_Phibes]

China condemns the U.S. action.
They say shooting the balloon down was an "excessive reaction," and they retain the right to respond further.

See, you guys are fucked now

[Donnie Baker's Ghost]

lol

[Dr_Phibes]

Chinese pre-launch sequence

[Dr_Phibes]

Has that ever happened before? I certainly don't recall ever hearing about stray weather balloons being intercepted and destroyed by any air force.

Actually it has.

The RCAF tried to shoot one down in 1998. They fired thousands of rounds at it and.. nothing happened. It flew off over Iceland and disappeared in the Arctic.




https://eurasiantimes.com/1000-rounds-f ... years-ago/

[Donnie Baker's Ghost]

"Trump would have shot that balloon down immediately!"

Oh rrrrrreeeeeaaalllllyyyy?

Citation needed.

Seems no one in the Trump administration recalls any such event. The Pentagon needs to provide some more details here. If the balloons did fly over why did no one in the White House know about it? Did the Pentagon withhold information then or are they lying now?

[Diego in Seattle]

"Trump would have shot that balloon down immediately!"

Oh rrrrrreeeeeaaalllllyyyy?

Citation needed.

Seems no one in the Trump administration recalls any such event.

Imagine that...no one in the Rump administration can remember events that the non-disclosure of would be very embarrassing to them, as well as the embarrassment of having done nothing about them...

If the balloons did fly over why did no one in the White House know about it?

What makes you think they knew nothing about it?

Just because they failed to disclose the incidents doesn't mean they didn't know about it.

And why would they disclose the Chinese spy balloons when they knew the public would demand negative action against China at a time when Ivanka was trying to get patents in.....China?

[Donnie Baker's Ghost]

Those are some pretty good conspiracy theories, Diego. Any facts to share or just the usual Trump is evil talking points?

[mvscal]

And why would they disclose the Chinese spy balloons...

Because people can see them just they saw this one, you fucking moron.

[Kierland]

Try English next time.

[Softball Bat]

More than 500 dead as 7.8-magnitude earthquake hits southern Turkey and Syria






https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/05/euro ... index.html





The death total will rise significantly.





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