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Originally posted by r0gue:
Perhaps I am underestimating our counter intelligence community, but I just can't for the life of me think it would be a challenge for any of the tens of thousands of Chinese nationals already in out country to hop in a car, or rent a plane and do this on their own with far less publicity.

Well, for one, they wouldn't have all that fancy equipment that was likely on the balloon for collecting whatever data they were amassing over a huge swath of the United States mainland at once.

And it seems to me that if thousands of Chinese on the ground were doing some shady crap like that, it would indeed grab the attention of our intelligence people. Or one would hope.

Didn't a bunch of smarty pants key strokers land a mini van on a Pentagon sized space meteorite traveling 6 Millon miles a minute,
Not that long ago?

But now there is a "giant risk "
In popping a balloon that can be seen with binoculars?

Before they collected all the data they needed.

Its now entirely obvious that China is THE ENEMY and we should start to deal with them as such.

A couple of steps should be taken immediately.

Expel every single Chinese student at every campus in the US. Get them out of this country.

Nationalize every single Chinese owned business on US soil.

I know the demented piece of shit in the WH won't do squat. Don't want to piss off his masters.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
Yep, this country is loaded with Chinese "smart" electronics and foreign nationals. What do they need a balloon to do that all these resources in place cannot or will not do?

Make biden do his version of obummer bowing to a saudi king?

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Originally posted by parabellum:
President Trump did exactly what I hoped he would do:

Never Happened
…

So if I understand you correctly, it is your assertion that President Joe Biden is a lier? Shocked I tell you, shocked!

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
Well that's a pretty unequivocal, 'No Effin Way...Didn't Happen', from pretty much EVERYONE involved during the Trump Administration!

Yup, but the TDS/Orange Man Bad crowd slurp up the shit that comes out of the Dems mouths as if it was manna from heaven so they take whatever Brandon says as gospel regardless of any evidence to the contrary.



Fox now backtracking and saying an un-named “defense official” says that info of incursions during President Trump’s term wasn’t discovered until after he left office. Suuuure…. I wonder if that was one of the guys who signed on to the letter saying hunter’s laptop was fake.

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...enior-biden-official

Chinese Balloon = Hunter Biden off front page.

U.S Officials Confirm Third Chinese Balloon, Refuse to Reveal Location

https://slaynews.com/news/us-o...ign=daily-newsletter

The Pentagon admitted in a statement that the Biden administration was aware that the balloon was gathering data but didn’t reveal what information it was collecting.

The Washington Post reported that the U.S. officials have identified “a third operating elsewhere,” but they declined to give the balloon’s location.

More at link

Good

Keep doing everything wrong

I don't understand Biden's position. Don't shoot the thing down because people might get hurt?

And this was weighed against the probability that the balloon was collecting intelligence that could be used to make an event of mass destruction more effective?

So, save a few now at the cost of thousands or millions more later?

Wow. These people.

Chinese spy balloons over US during Trump admin 'discovered after' he left office: senior Biden official

This is like Hunter Biden saying "OK, it's not my laptop, but all the information on the laptop is mine."

Well, I don’t need a Chinese spy balloon to know that their lips are moving.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Cell and WiFi data, both civilian and military, possibly could've been gobbled up as well.

You'd need a lot of power in order to collect and process that. Not sure '4-school buses' sized solar panels and batteries, are going to be enough...could be wrong but, they'd have too be robust to survive flying around along the jet stream, in the winter time. I believe the payload that balloon was lugging around was estimated at 4-tons....half of that weight is the likely frame/structure and solar panels. Collecting data is one thing, transmitting is another....haven't heard anything regarding any arrays/antenaes to uplink to a satellite, probably there but, no pics.

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Some loose, unconfirmed chatter about people's cell phones acting weird where the balloon flew over.

IF TRUE...I would wager electronic warfare jamming transmissions or, simple speculation gone wild.

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Originally posted by corsair:
Collecting data is one thing, transmitting is another....haven't heard anything regarding any arrays/antenaes to uplink to a satellite.

All seemingly true, yet it was being maneuvered around somehow, yes? Presumably the Chinese were sending and receiving signals to/from it.

I must say I am surprised at the lack of sympathy here for the demise of short time forum member I am Weather Balloon. He/Him, She/Her, It/Shit seemed like a happy, cheerful sort. I will miss the friendly "Hello!"s. It's sad that in the end even Kamala couldn't save our bloviating gasbag friend. Alas, she probably sucked when she should have blowed....

Have we recovered it yet? I have not seen anything that says we have.

In honor of I am Weather Balloon, I did post a link to ELO’s “Don’t Bring Me Down”.

^ Good tune

Well, now that they’ve had a day to get their stories straight, what I’m seeing Biden apologist type people on social media saying is that “Biden knew about this balloon all along but they wanted to jam the signal and gather intel on it before waiting 8 days to shoot it down”.

Yeah right

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Wow. These people.

Chinese spy balloons over US during Trump admin 'discovered after' he left office: senior Biden official

This is like Hunter Biden saying "OK, it's not my laptop, but all the information on the laptop is mine."

They other day I bought a 1/5th of cheap vodka and a 2 liter RC cola as a chaser.

Also ordered a 2 quart container of pickled pigs feet from amazon.

Took the day and skulled it all in a few hours. Shortly
there after I purchased and ate a 60 dollar late night pack from Taco Bell,followed by a 1 lb chorizo burrito for breakfast . extra salsa of course.

It's now Trumps fault my chocolate starfish is burning. And my stomach hurts.

Trumps fault I'm sure

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Originally posted by PASig:
Well, now that they’ve had a day to get their stories straight, what I’m seeing Biden apologist type people on social media saying is that “Biden knew about this balloon all along but they wanted to jam the signal and gather intel on it before waiting 8 days to shoot it down”.

Yeah right

Yeah, they didn't jam shit. The damn thing was still being maneuvered around remotely, was it not? So it was still getting signals.

More horseshit from this exceptionally incompetent administration.