Chinese High Altitude Spy Ballons?

[TrumpWon]

Joe missed another chance to shoot down inflation

[Ranger99]

Well it's really too late now to fret
over it. Whatever the thing was sent
for whether it was spying or spreading
biological foo foo or whatever,  it's
already done and over with before the
taxpayers were informed about it.

Mission accomplished cat eaters

[DDZ]

They were just testing our weakness, and they found it. If they wanted photos they wouldn't have sent a balloon.

[darkgael]

over the ocean..where retrieval will be difficult.

Perhaps not as difficult as we might imagine. The debris field is “spread across seven miles, about six miles off the coast of SC.” The water there is 47 feet deep.

[ironglow]

  Flimsy excuses for not shooting down the balloon sent up by the folks who seem to be writing him paychecks.
  Couldn't shoot down the spyware  over Montana...  Hey folks, it's too crowded in Montana, might kill thousands of people...or prairie dogs.
  That balloon crossed the Aleutian Islands.  It should have been shot down then...nobody lives on those outer Aleuts.
  Besides, it would have likely come down in the bearing straight....may as well be there, as to cross much of US territory only to come down somewhere off Myrtle Beach.
    Of course, If we would have cut down that spyware over Montana...we may have been able to gain some intel
  from the wreckage.   ..But then how would Joe explain that to his pals back in Beijing?

  Below, see a map of the Aleutian Islands.  That Chain of islands reaches out toward Northern Japan.  In fact, as a diversion for the Midway operation, the Empire of Japan invaded the islands of Attu and Kiska..

  US Air Force is well represented in Alaska.... it would have been 'child's play' for them.
 
   No excuse for the Commies in Washington...other than that they are Commies

[Dee]

They were just testing our weakness, and they found it. If they wanted photos they wouldn't have sent a balloon.

According to the military balloon pics at 60,000 feet are far better quality, and detailed than satellite photos. The balloon may be antiquated, but the technology on board the balloon are state of the art.

[Dee]

over the ocean..where retrieval will be difficult.

Perhaps not as difficult as we might imagine. The debris field is “spread across seven miles, about six miles off the coast of SC.” The water there is 47 feet deep.

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The balloon should have bit the dust before it got to Alaska.

[guzzijohn]

So what did your orange one do when about the balloons when he was president?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/02/04/yes-chinese-spy-balloons-flew-over-the-us-when-president-trump-was-in-office-too/?sh=5ec979463ea3
GuzziJohn

[Dee]

So what did your orange one do when about the balloons when he was president?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/02/04/yes-chinese-spy-balloons-flew-over-the-us-when-president-trump-was-in-office-too/?sh=5ec979463ea3
GuzziJohn

What a useless link. It offered "nuthin but maybes".

[scattershot]

It's been shot down.

After it has traversed the whole country.  Joe has his orders, after all. And, you heard it here first, they won’t be able to recover the thing to examine it, either.

[gene_225]

Sure is odd that they think they need/have a right to do something to even the score for the loss of a weather balloon. Something doesn't ring true. Actually, a lot of things don't ring true.

[phalanx]

I wonder what its altitude was ? SAC should have shot it down as an invasion of our airspace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyNsGJgv2j0

[phalanx]

It’s the East Germans ! They are back Lol. They sent a chick to tell us, a good looking ambassador she is. At lease it isn't Fang Fang from China looking for Hunter Biden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpu5a0Bl8eY

[ironglow]

Look again..it should have been downed as it intruded into Aleutian air space..  I bet at least 95% of the people on GBO
  would have been quicker on their mental feet than the demented one, and would have called the Air Force at that time, rather than to let the CCP spy across the entire continent.
   See the island of Attu way out there near the eastern edge of the map.. See that little island next to it?  That is called Kiska... and that balloon should have travelled no further.

[TrumpWon]

Looks like a giant boob. Trump wouldn’t have shot it down. He would’ve had the Air Force flying around looking for the other one!

[ironglow]

Looks like a giant boob. Trump wouldn’t have shot it down. He would’ve had the Air Force flying around looking for the other one!

  Interesting... when you are at a loss of any plausible explanation of Democrat incompetence, you try to find
   some kind of humor to explain away their egregious neglect..

[Mule 11]

Looks like a giant boob. Trump wouldn’t have shot it down. He would’ve had the Air Force flying around looking for the other one!

Yeah, like the effing b eye going through melanias underwear drawer...

[DDZ]

So what did your orange one do when about the balloons when he was president?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/02/04/yes-chinese-spy-balloons-flew-over-the-us-when-president-trump-was-in-office-too/?sh=5ec979463ea3
GuzziJohn

Do you really believe that? If you do you are more gullible than I thought. Or you just hate trump so bad you will believe anything. When something like this happens to the Marxist party in charge the first thing the American hating news outlets do is blame it on Trump, or claim that Trump did it too. This lie has been refuted. Trump would have never let something like this happen. Especially from China.  To believe a story like this one has to be absolutely close minded, and think that their feelings are more important than logic. Its just a couple traits in that all liberals have.

[Casull]

So what did your orange one do when about the balloons when he was president?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/02/04/yes-chinese-spy-balloons-flew-over-the-us-when-president-trump-was-in-office-too/?sh=5ec979463ea3
GuzziJohn

Sooooo, Trump did not shoot down the balloon that NOBODY saw.  Are you really going to go with that?

[Dee]

Looks like a giant boob. Trump wouldn’t have shot it down. He would’ve had the Air Force flying around looking for the other one!

[Dee]

So what did your orange one do when about the balloons when he was president?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/02/04/yes-chinese-spy-balloons-flew-over-the-us-when-president-trump-was-in-office-too/?sh=5ec979463ea3
GuzziJohn

Sooooo, Trump did not shoot down the balloon that NOBODY saw.  Are you really going to go with that?

He did go with that. Are you surprised?

[Casull]

Trump put in place a program to protect us, BUT Biden dismantled it.



https://dcenquirer.com/trump-created-a-doj-task-force-protecting-u-s-from-chinese-spy-balloons-joe-biden-shut-it-down-over-racism/?utm_source=telegram

[phalanx]

I know, when we know one is floating over looking down at us, we all just drop our trousers and moon them. A very strategic maneuver lol. Or an inflated big giant butt flying over them. Kim Kardashian has that.

[gypsyman]

Read that about there were several of these flying around when Trump was in office. Really, want to push another lie? Hunter's laptop, Epstein's client list, Russian collusion, Hillary's bleach bit, Ukraine connections? Every time a Democrat opens their mouth a lie comes out! Sad part, there are still morons that believe this crap. Trump wasn't perfect, but 100 times better than stumble-mumble I want to smell your hair little girl Joe!!

[ironglow]

  Time to repost what Casull posted...sometimes you miss cogent points if you neglect posted links.  Let's look again;

   https://dcenquirer.com/trump-created-a-doj-task-force-protecting-u-s-from-chinese-spy-balloons-joe-biden-shut-it-down-over-racism/?utm_source=telegram

   If you didn't read the link..here is an important part that you may have missed;

  " In 2018, 45th President Donald Trump put in place a program that identified and prosecuted Chinese threats to national security just like the Chinese spy balloon.

In February 2022, The Biden administration ended Trump’s program, named the “China Initiative,” because it was called racist by Asian-American groups.

“We helped give rise to a harmful perception that the department applies a lower standard to investigate and prosecute criminal conduct related to that country or that on, Matt Olsen, said."

   Now, let's use the gray matter a bit.. Which Asian -American groups, do you suppose complained?  The groups being paid by Beijing perhaps?
 
    Then there is this; " or that we in some way view people with racial, ethnic, or family ties to China
    differently,” Biden’s Assistant Attorney General in charge of the National Security Division."

     Let's use common sense..
   Should we not keep a close eye upon groups that have unusual ties to the Chi-Coms, who have already announced that they are  viewing a possible war with the US in the next 3 years?

  Or should we instead, be celebrating that hapless Joe likes chocolate chip ice cream.

[TrumpWon]

Two more and Joe will have missed as many as his predecessor.
Airheads!!!!

[Dee]

Two more and Joe will have missed as many as his predecessor.
Airheads!!!!

Two ways to look at a liberal. With pity, or amusement. 

You mean the imagined ones?

[Bob Riebe]

Two more and Joe will have missed as many as his predecessor.
Airheads!!!!

Trump did not miss, because they were not there, any but left wing BS makes suckers out of some.

One of the new shows the governor of Montana was on and he contacted the Military about shooting it down, he controls the National Guard, they told him they had been tracking since it left China and they had considered shooting it down, the norm, but were told not to even when it was still over the ocean.

[darkgael]

A bit late, i know, but an interesting read nevertheless:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinese-spy-balloon-has-unexpected-maneuverability/

[ironglow]

Retired general Blair Holt, this morning;

  Thanked Jeane-Pierre this morning for possibly exposing a situation worth investigating.  We can fairly rest assured that were Pres Trump aware of Chinese balloons crossing our country..he would have shot them down.

  Pompeo and other top officials in the Trump admin, says there were no such balloons.

  So, if as the usual liars are saying, that balloons crossed during the Trump administration...then who in our
  defense or intelligence, dropped the ball?  Who should be brought up before congress to testify as to why the
  president was not informed?

  Personally, I think the Dems are lying as usual !  Think! Who first reported the invasion of our skies by "Biden balloons"..  IT WAS THE PUBLIC...who first cited the balloons..  If such balloons had crossed during the Trump admin,
 why then were there no sightings by the public?

   There is a humorous side too!  Joe saying there were balloons flying over when Trump was in office.. is akin tom little Jimmy, when caught robbing the cookie jar...claims.."well Billy robbed some too"!

  Sorry Jimmy, that doesn't make your offense any better..