First kill for the F-22 apparently 
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lol china just said they aren’t very happy with the downing of the balloon…
China says it reserves right to respond to downing
like for what? literally floated a giant balloon over the USA, OVER sites that house NUCLEAR weapons. Yeah, a weather balloon. 
Is this just them losing face? looking like absolute clown asses? China can never just admit their bullshit. Way too many people including Fauci gave them the benefit of the doubt on covid, but come the fuck on.
Can’t just say we’re really sorry a weather balloon got loose, you are free to shoot it down. We apologize. Entire country throwing a tantrum that of a 3 year old.
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Maybe this was one of those NK tricks where they use a balloon in place of military equipment at their parades.
The Chinese used a balloon as a fake balloon. Made the Americans use up a missile. Tomorrow, 10000 balloons.
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Imagine if it was filled with anthrax. Poof!
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Nope 97 more to go.
Or the original
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It was filled with sugar and spice and all things nice to turn the men into little girls.
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it’s so far up that it can’t gather any better data than something 80+ miles further up? 
Weather balloons and Airships aren’t like a regular balloon that pops - they’re very low pressure, and holes just create very slow leaks. They’re very, very difficult to take down by poking holes in - hundreds of bullet hes don’t do a whole heck of a lot.
I think it’s been stated the payload was around 90’ long.
that’s bog standard for every country - plausible deniability baby!
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So about half the size of an f16
Yes I realize that
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Needs to be transgender flag not LGB. 
Also, can someone explain the logistics to me? How did it go from China > Canada > America? It had to have started in Canada correct?
It floated in over Alaska
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I can see Chinese balloons from my house.
Palin 2024
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Are they going to do what they did to Taiwan and blow up some fish? Well, most likely not even that. Thats a great response from the CCP comedy troupe though, on form.
The time Richard Branson/Bertrand Piccard flew their balloon around the world they needed permission to fly over most countries.
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sounds familiar…like when the U2 spy plane was spying on the Soviet Union and was shot down. America said it was a weather recon plane that got lost. 
The CIA had prepared a cover story In the event of a loss that the U-2 was a high-altitude weather reconnaissance plane that had “gotten lost.” The USSR allowed Eisenhower to offer this excuse for an entire week before revealing they had captured Gary Powers, humiliating Eisenhower and causing the May 16 Paris Summit
The funniest part of this story though is that China straight up floated a mother fucking balloon into the USA and went right over sensitive sites with nuclear silos, and then said it’s just a weather balloon.
at least a U2 plane travels at high speeds, but the fact china straight up went with a balloon is fucking hilarious.
Maybe Trudeau should ask his McKinsey fluffers what to do
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Americans — liberal and naive as ever — sold oil to the Japanese War Machine right up to the eve of Pearl Harbor attack. Japanese aircraft carriers made of US steel - fueled by U.S. oil - steamed to Pearl Harbor.
Is anybody surprised Russia used profits from selling oil to Europe to attack Europeans? What pray tell did you think a totalitarian militaristic dictatorship would do with extra money??? What did you think George Floyd looters would do with money (buy guns to up their business model)
Since China joined WTO we have seen the greatest transfer of wealth since 1492. What technology Chinese didn’t steal, your CEOs, and politicians gave away to China — knowing they’d bail out with a golden parachute (before anyone was wiser). We who lived and worked in China could have told Bill Clinton that sponsoring China - a totalitarian militaristic dictatorship— into the WTO would pay for the greatest military expansion and spy network in history.