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Spy balloon keeps a rollin’

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 2/4/2023 11:26:45 AM

The Chinese spy balloon keeps a rollin’ across the United States. Relying on the reporting of Bloomberg (which has to be stripped of its credulity over the White House spin) and the Associated Press, I wanted compile the facts roughly making out what we know as of this morning while adding a few comments of my own. • The observant Mr. Chase Doak spotted the spy balloon traversing Montana on Wednesday. “Not gonna lie,” tweeted Doak as his video went viral. “First, I thought this was a #ufo. Then, I thought it was @elonmusk in a Wizard of Oz cosplay scenario. But it was just a run-of-the mill Chinese spy balloon!”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Trump'sCousin 2/4/2023 11:29:12 AM (No. 1394669)
What defines treason in the Republic today. Anyone?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Hazymac 2/4/2023 11:48:07 AM (No. 1394683)
Don't worry. It's just a trial balloon.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: wilarrbie 2/4/2023 11:52:37 AM (No. 1394684)
Every citizen with a legal ability to do so, should just start shooting straight up. Doesn't matter it won't hit the balloon, just make the Feds think we're trying, since they won't.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 2/4/2023 11:54:37 AM (No. 1394687)
Its not a trial balloon, they have been been seen around the world for years. Maybe now we know how Covid spread so quickly.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: edgar 2/4/2023 11:58:22 AM (No. 1394691)
Maybe if someone writes "J6" on the balloon Biden and Co will deem it worthy of a government takedown.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 2/4/2023 12:17:48 PM (No. 1394703)
And so once again, America's establishment rolls just like it did when the covid scamdemic hit.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 2/4/2023 12:50:14 PM (No. 1394721)
Shoot it down. THEN you can take a close look at what it is, exactly. If it had any normal, reasonable purpose, they would have ASKED US for permission to fly through our air space and filed a flight plan....even if it was not in complete control, as most balloons are. Put it down, and examine the wreckage. And SOP needs to be to shoot down anything like this in the future BEFORE It crosses into US air space. If someone wants to fly something over us....get permission, file a normal flight plan and MAYBE that will be OK. Maybe not. And maybe you get your airship shot down. I guarantee that if this was a US balloon over China, they would have at least tried to shoot it down long ago. Whether they are capable, not sure. But they sure as hell would have tried, again and again.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: thefield 2/4/2023 1:08:47 PM (No. 1394742)
The WH will have it shot down once it crosses the Atlantic shoreline. Dweeds, it is a little too late.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Axeman 2/4/2023 1:46:14 PM (No. 1394782)
Wouldn't you like to fly In my Chinese Spy Balloon? Way up in the sky With my Chinese Spy Baloon We could gather up intelligence across the sea Oh, we could spy, spy, Up, up, and away! In a Chinese Spy Chinese Spy BALOON! Up, up, and away! (I can't be the only one who has been earwormed with this)
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