The blathering idiots on the right are unsurprisingly complaining how long it took the Pentagon to act, after having been given the direction to shoot the balloon down the brass opted to wait until it was over the ocean. Losers
That was just the crew of the Truman Show doing it's video taping for a second movie.
https://apnews.com/article/politics-...gn=position_01WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military on Saturday shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast after it traversed sensitive military sites across North America. China insisted the flyover was an accident involving a civilian aircraft and threatened repercussions.
President Joe Biden issued the order but had wanted the balloon downed even earlier, on Wednesday. He was advised that the best time for the operation would be when it was over water, U.S. officials said. Military officials determined that bringing it down over land from an altitude of 60,000 feet would pose an undue risk to people on the ground.
China responded that it reserved the right to “take further actions” and criticized the U.S. for “an obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice.”
In its statement Sunday, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that “China will resolutely uphold the relevant company’s legitimate rights and interests, and at the same time reserving the right to take further actions in response.” China’s Ministry of Defense echoed the statement later in the day, saying it “reserves the right to take necessary measures to deal with similar situations.”
So we have supposedly been tracking this balloon for a week or so... and we finally took action after it hoovered over our ICBM sites in Montana..
Why didn't we shoot it down over Alaska then? If it's what they say it was, why did we do nothing for over a week?
My favorite excuse so far is "Well, it happened during the Trump administration too!" I don't remember it happening then... must be the Trump friendly media was giving him cover.......
The best thing about the balloon is, we will have a string of paranoid people looking up at the skies and reporting UFO's. Just like what happened when Russia launched Sputnik.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~ Marcus Aurelius“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984