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Here's more information confirming what we knew all along, our pathetic "leaders" fucked up letting this Chinese spy balloon surveil all the way across our country...


Even if the balloon is not armed, it poses a risk to the U.S., said retired Army Gen. John Ferrari, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The flight itself, he said, can be used to test America’s ability to detect incoming threats and to find holes in the country’s air defense warning system. It may also allow the Chinese to sense electromagnetic emissions that higher-altitude satellites cannot detect, such as low-power radio frequencies that could help them understand how different U.S. weapons systems communicate.

He said the Chinese may have sent the balloon “to show us that they can do it, and maybe next time it could have a weapon.
 
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Just a thought
What if the balloon carried the next virus inside? Blow it up and it drops in micro droplets.
Maybe that's why it's not destroyed yet.

'I want to believe'
-fox Mulder
 

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Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt revealed that the Chinese ballon was moving toward the Whiteman Air Force Base, where the B-2 strategic bombers are housed.

Schmitt wrote on Twitter that it is “absolutely unbelievable” that the Chinese “spy balloon” is “right now” traveling toward Whiteman Base, the base for stealth bombers.


US B-1B Nuke Bombers Reach Guam As Chinese Spy Balloon ‘Hovers’ Near Whiteman AFB Hosting B-2 Bombers

 

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President Biden and his administration knew for nearly a week that a Chinese spy balloon was hovering in U.S. airspace — but kept the incursion secret, fearing it would derail Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

Republicans expressed “outrage” over the president’s refusal to act.

“Communist China’s surveillance balloon violates international law and threatens our homeland,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island) told The Post.

“It’s an outrage that the Biden Administration spotted this balloon days ago as it was flying over the Aleutian Islands and did nothing about it,” she said. “The president has not even made a comment about this unacceptable act of aggression by the CCP.”

The politics of the looming 2024 presidential election also played a role in Biden’s actions, sources told Bloomberg, with the fraught US-China relationship expected to be a central foreign policy issue.

Team Biden became aware of the balloon on Jan. 28, Bloomberg reported, when it was spotted over Alaska.

The US military tracked it as it flew into Canadian airspace, then re-entered American skies on Tuesday. The next day, Biden received a detailed briefing on the balloon and its course, attended by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley.

 

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Yeah, now that it's flown across some of Alaska and most of the United States, it's been shot down by the world's most powerful country 🤬
 

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This is the most incompetent administration, certainly in my lifetime, if not the last 100 years or more, that we’ve ever had. I’m glad assholes like Bobby V and the other brain dead motherfuckers on here get a good laugh out of it. What a fucking disaster.
 

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This is the most incompetent administration, certainly in my lifetime, if not the last 100 years or more, that we’ve ever had. I’m glad assholes like Bobby V and the other brain dead motherfuckers on here get a good laugh out of it. What a fucking disaster.
I wasn’t born during Carter. How would you stack the 2?
 

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You telling me that with all the satellites that China has, they have to launch a balloon to spy on us?

I am not buying this crap, just another distraction from what is truly screwing us.
They don’t even have to retask a satellite, just call up Jao and threaten his 10% and he will (and has) sell us out in a split second.

But either way, yes, it’s comical to believe China could glean any info from a “spy balloon” that they dont already have or can obtain in one phone call.
 

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I wasn’t born during Carter. How would you stack the 2?
Carter couldn’t solve the Iranian hostage crisis, inflation or anything else. Reagan comes in and the day he’s inaugurated, the hostages are released. I doubt he was as corrupt as the Biden family is nor as compromised by foreign interests.
 

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They don’t even have to retask a satellite, just call up Jao and threaten his 10% and he will (and has) sell us out in a split second.

But either way, yes, it’s comical to believe China could glean any info from a “spy balloon” that they dont already have or can obtain in one phone call.
Almost sure, won't be anything of significance found of the wreckage. Only thing I could think of, the solar panels were running some simple radar signal detection device to map locations close to proximity of military installations, and see how many actually tracked their balloon. .
Radar installations from Alaska throughout of the path of the balloon in Canada crossing the US. IMO, that balloon should have been shot down approaching Alaska.
 

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Maybe just Maybe....

Xi Jinping launched the Barooon to prevent a "Speed Car Take 4" thread? 🤷‍♂️

Biden is a fookin Clown. A felt humiliated as a watched the news this morning.
 

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China supplies pretty much everything we need because we Americans like the low prices that slave labor provides but we're not willing to pay the union wages that libbies insist on. And that is why we allow them to fly their fancy, high tech, secretive balloons over our country & why we have to think real hard before shooting them down.

This is like something out of an Austin Powers movie or SNL skit.
 

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New reports claim this was shot down off the coast of Myrtle Beach SC, in US Airspace. If this is the case, and within 12 miles off the coast, it's now laying on the bottom in approx. 50' of water. Even if 75 miles off the coast, the Continental Shelf is about 100-200' deep yet in another 10 miles drops to over a 1,000'. At least now it's recoverable and can be examined. Had it crashed on land, it would be far more damaged.
Even modest forethought and planning would have had them well prepared for a rapid salvage operation and retrieval.

Best move to make it an easy recovery, or bad mistake waiting, I have no way of knowing, unlike apparently most all of you. ;)
 

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Should have used one of those CIA “skyhook” planes like were used in the past. Just grab it out of the sky and reel it in.
 

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One should Have Said, " Top Secret Doc's On Board " Do Not Shot Down
 

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Given the responses to this scary Balloon, if any Alien has even a shred of intelligence, they should either ----

A. Immediately annihilate all life on this planet
OR
B. Stay as far away as possible, do not approach, there are no signs of intelligent life to be found ---- revert to plan A.
 
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