The Morning Report — 2/3/23

Good morning kids. Considering we're living in a world where pedophiles in drag are allowed (way too weak a word) to read stories to toddlers and encourage them to "lick us where we pee," and where five black cops beat a black suspect to death in a city with a 60-plus % black populace, a black mayor and black police commissioner is an example of systemic white supremacy, does the fact that a Red Chinese military balloon being parked over Montana and that our military has not Hindenburg'ed the shit out of it, let alone allowed it to come within a thousand miles of our coast in the first place, surprise you? Meh, that's a nothing-burger I guess. But still, what the actual fuck is going on here? Meh, don't answer that.

“The United States government has detected and is tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now,” Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told NBC News. “We continue to track and monitor it closely.” Officials have confirmed that the balloon belongs to China.

“Once the balloon was detected, the U.S. government acted immediately to protect against the collection of sensitive information,” Ryder said.

“The official said there was a window while the balloon was over Montana Wednesday when they could have taken it down. NORAD sent aircraft — including F-22 Raptors from Nellis Air Force Base and airborne early warning aircraft known as AWACs — but the official would not say whether one of the options was to shoot the balloon out of the sky with a U.S. aircraft,” NBC reported. “The U.S. military flights prompted a ground stop at the airport in Billings, with air traffic controllers citing a ‘special military mission.'”

According to the Montana Free Press, “The Air Force at Malmstrom [Air Force Base] maintains 150 intercontinental ballistic missile silos across its 13,800-square-mile complex in central Montana.”

Biden refused to answer questions shouted at him by reporters Thursday afternoon.

Officials say the balloon flew over the Aleutian Islands and through Canada before settling over the Billings, Mont., area. The balloon is still hovering somewhere over the United States, according to a senior defense official who declined to say where it is now. . .

. . . “Currently we assess that this balloon has limited additive value from an intelligence collection perspective over and above what the PRC can do through other means,” the official said. “Nevertheless we are taking all necessary steps to protect against foreign intelligence collection of sensitive information.”

I can't even. I. CAN'T. EVEN.

But let's put NATO, meaning American, boots on the ground in Ukraine and trigger a nuclear exchange with Putin because we need to make the world safe for democracy and the continued graft of the Bidens, Kerrys, Pelosis, Romneys and the military industrial complex but mostly the continued graft of the Bidens, Kerrys, Pelosis, Romneys and the military industrial complex. And this time, a few thousand GIs coming home in a box over the course of years will be avoided. Mostly because they'll be vaporized by a battlefield nuke somewhere on the outskirts of Kiev. If we're lucky that's the extent and not an MRBM or ICBM. Ironically enough, Babi Yar is on the outskirts of Kiev. But I digress.

Again, how in a sane world is this allowed to happen? Meh, I think I just answered my own question, so I'll set my electric oven to broil and stick my head in it.

If I were a betting man, I'd say the answer is somewhere in a garage in Delaware in a box next to a vintage Corvette. Or on a laptop once owned by a renowned artist (of the bullshit variety), or in a dusty drawer at a University of Pennsylvania "think tank" that just happens to be funded by a gaggle (pronounced "gaggre" in Cantonese) of respectable Chinese businessmen to the tune of millions.

But that's crazy talk, right? If you want to know how a Red Chinese spy balloon gets to float totally unmolested over a SAC missile silo in Montana, then what Hakeem-puck Jeffries, the heir apparent to the Pelosi giant clown gavel – Nancy's, not Paul's – had to say might give you a clue:

Cuban-American Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) introduced the anti-Socialism resolution, a symbolic move that declares the country “founded on the belief in the sanctity of the individual, to which the collectivistic system of socialism in all of its forms is fundamentally and necessarily opposed.”

“Whereas socialist ideology necessitates a concentration of power that has time and time again collapsed into Communist regimes, totalitarian rule, and brutal dictatorships,” the resolution states.

However, Jeffries argued the anti-socialism resolution would “undermine” House Democrats’ agenda. Jeffries said:

They’re bringing to the floor of the House of Representatives today a resolution on socialism, to condemn some dictators that we all condemn. But understand the goal of this phony, fake, and fraudulent resolution is just to somehow provide cover for extreme MAGA Republicans to try to undermine an agenda that is designed to lift up the health, safety, and well-being of the American people. . .

. . . The resolution ultimately passed in a bipartisan fashion, with 328 voting in favor and 86 voting against it. House Republicans unanimously supported the bill, along with 126 House Democrats.

Interestingly, Jeffries and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) voted in favor of the resolution.

I guess I should say thank you to Rep. Salazar for the resolution, but what does it really mean? The cancer of socialism has, as Lincoln warned us as far back as 1838 all but eaten us to the bone. The very tyranny she, Salazar, warns us against, which this doppelgänger for Cory Booker's undescended testicle in ham-fisted fashion tried to defend while at the same time projecting its evils on its victims – that being us – is right here. Look at Jeffries.

Look at the antics of Titty-Caca AOC, Bro-Fo Omar. Hell, Bernie Sanders a bust-out open Communist who Vermont elected Senator multiple times already. Or maybe worse, someone like John Brennan, who somehow not only was allowed to join the CIA but rose steadily to gain the top slot in the corporation. Worst of all, are the feckless, useless and perhaps conspiratorial members of Salazar's own party who have taken a decades-long dive and a payoff from these traitors-cum-Democrats as they've overthrown the nation.

Not good, my friends. Not good at all.

America may soon face one of two kinds of left-wing authoritarianism. One is the soft despotism of liberal technocracy. This authoritarianism wouldn’t overthrow the present structures of our society or upend the economy. In fact, it would have the support of the regime’s major institutions. It would seriously curb civil liberties, such as free speech and gun rights, and feel much less democratic. More people would be arrested over memes, but much would remain the same. Political life in America would look more like contemporary Western Europe.

The other is a radical populism in the mold of Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan socialist who turned his resource-rich South American nation into a hellhole. This authoritarianism would threaten America’s institutions and overthrow the economic order. It would not be supported by the powers that be and would crush civil liberties to enact massive wealth redistribution programs. 

Unlike liberal technocracy, where the guiding principle is that “experts” should be in charge, this radical populism would be motivated largely by race resentment. The desire for revenge against “white supremacy” would inspire a movement to destroy the old America. . .

. . . Venezuelan Chavism was originally anti-white. Chavez vowed to end the dominance of Venezuela’s white castizo elite and distributed their wealth to the nation’s indios, blacks, and mestizos. Chavez and his successor Nicolas Maduro made good on that promise, turning Venezuela into a tyrannical dump. Former Bolivian President Evo Morales followed this example, promising to empower the nation’s downtrodden indios at white expense. Moderate forms of this racial socialism can also be found in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, and Peru. Left-wing populists throughout Latin America know that racial resentment is a potent political weapon.

An American version of this movement won’t be exclusively nonwhite. It will have plenty of white “allies.” Some will join due to their own nihilistic hatred for whites, parents, or surroundings. Others will join for the promises of more welfare and entitlements. Left-wing whites are not scared off by anti-white hatred; they often agree with it and amplify it.

We already saw this “mutliracial” anti-whiteness during the riots of 2020. Many whites joined in the destruction. In some places, like Portland, whites were the majority of rioters, even though the cause was a revolt against “white supremacy” on behalf of black lives. There are enough white Americans stupid enough to back Chavism here. . .

. . . The only possible upside is that American Chavism would make the middle class more receptive to the real Right. When threatened by a radical Left that’s openly anti-white, the white middle class will realize that multicultural America is not a utopia. Threats to livelihood are more powerful than any other form of political persuasion. Americans accept the excesses of wokeness because it doesn’t threaten their livelihoods. Transgender ads and a new Wakanda movie do not threaten someone’s house or job. Chavism would.

Chavism promises the realization of multicultural America. It would reject everything great about the old America and turn our nation into a giant favela. Mass immigration and the popularization of anti-whiteness make that future more likely. We can only reject it by restricting immigration and ending anti-white racism for good.

Despite his star supposedly being on the rise, Hakeem Jeffries is too stupid, I think, to fit the bill. What the Left needs is another Obama. And I don't mean the Wookie, either. It might be Maryland governor Wes Moore, who as Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants might describe him as "clean, articulate and can speak jive when he wants to."

Don't let his service as a captain in the paratroops fool you. George McGovern flew 35 missions over Italy in the pilot's seat of a B-24, yet politically he was red, white and blue – minus the white and blue.

Of course, Wes Moore too would be just a figurehead. I think it's obvious that whoever is the standard-bearer for the Dems in '24 is going to be hand-picked by a committee from Langley and the Hoover Building. They run this show. How else is a Chi-Com balloon allowed to drift over he skies of Montana unmolested?

Psaki-psircling back to Lincoln, I will leave you with this excerpt from his 1838 Speech to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois:

I know the American People are much attached to their Government;--I know they would suffer much for its sake;--I know they would endure evils long and patiently, before they would ever think of exchanging it for another. Yet, notwithstanding all this, if the laws be continually despised and disregarded, if their rights to be secure in their persons and property, are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob, the alienation of their affections from the Government is the natural consequence; and to that, sooner or later, it must come.

Here then, is one point at which danger may be expected.

The question recurs, "how shall we fortify against it?" The answer is simple. Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;--let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty. Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap--let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primers, spelling books, and in Almanacs;--let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars.

While ever a state of feeling, such as this, shall universally, or even, very generally prevail throughout the nation, vain will be every effort, and fruitless every attempt, to subvert our national freedom.

We have not fortified against it, as everything we have seen these past years and even decades can attest to. Just the opposite of what Lincoln implored us has in fact occurred, and the obvious result is the subversion of our freedom. Hence, my emphasis of that first paragraph.

The fact that there's a Communist moon over Montana is because there are Communist loons controlling our government and society.

New podcast coming later today. Be there, aloha. Have a good weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• “For more than a fortnight, my name was in the media every day.”
  Anatomy of a Book Cancellation
  
• Thad McCotter: "In accepting virtual reality as a substitute for reality we accept a living death. Resist."
  Their Medium’s Message: Received and Rejected
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "They scouted the Capitol building and killed Americans, now they have our guns." (God help me for thinking this, but if they targeted the Hoover Building and the DOJ, I can't honestly say I wouldn't ululate and hand out candy either, all things considered - jjs)
  Biden’s Afghan Weapons in Hands of Terror Group That Plotted U.S. Attacks

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• "Eunice Dwumfour, elected to the Sayreville council in 2021, was shot by an unidentified assailant Wednesday night while she was in her car outside her home. Police said they believe Dwumfour was the intended target of the gunman, ABC7 reported, but they did not identify a motive in the attack."
  Republican New Jersey Councilwoman Killed by Gunman
  
• "Chavism promises the realization of multicultural America."
  An American Hugo Chavez Is Coming
  
• "When it comes to race, 'Woke' is the new Nazi."
  Hitler’s Spiritual Descendants
  
• "The resolution ultimately passed in a bipartisan fashion, with 328 voting in favor and 86 voting against it. House Republicans unanimously supported the bill, along with 126 House Democrats."
  Hakeem "Hockeypuck" Jeffries: Resolution Condemning Socialism Is "Fraudulent," Would "Undermine" Democrat Agenda

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• "Several news outlets . . . confirmed that emails and other documents originating from Biden’s laptop are authentic. However, Biden and his attorneys had never before admitted the files’ authenticity, and the White House has generally declined to address the issue."
  Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Admit That His ‘Computer Data’ Is Real
  
• Christian Toto: "Disgraced First Son now admits it's his laptop after all, despite previous spin."
  FLASHBACK: Hunter Biden Tells Kimmel Laptop is "Red Herring"
  
• Margot Cleveland: "Biden’s lawyer says he isn’t admitting the laptop is Hunter’s, while demanding DOJ investigate the dissemination of ‘his personal computer data.’"
  Biden Laptop Repairman Blasts Hunter’s Attempt To Sic DOJ On Hunter’s Foes
  
• "[So-called quote-unquote "president's"] son builds aggressive legal strategy around family friend and Biden ally Kathy Jennings."
  Friends in High Places: Hunter Biden Pressures Delaware AG to Investigate Computer Store Owner

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• David Harsanyi: "Debunking the ‘critical of Israel’ canard."
  The Media Keep Lying To Protect Bro-Fo Omar
  
• "Yes, reporters do root for a side, and it's not the right."
  Newsrooms Are Now Officially Democrats’ Newsletter Operations
  
• "The USA Today network of local newspapers is woke, and they want you to know it."
  An Open Window on Activist Journalism

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "Before we're ready?!" The only time we'll be "ready" is when some private citizen or company builds the proverbial "better mousetrap," fool. And that may be a hundred or even hundreds of years off. For now and the foreseeable future, Carbon IS Life. Hence the Party of Death wants to end it.
  Manchin: Biden’s Trying to Use ESG to Push out Fossil Fuels Before We’re Ready, Risk We End up Like Germany Should Be Considered
  
• "Varun Sivaram, who is also the former managing director for Clean Energy and Innovation under the Biden [junta], will serve as Orsted’s senior vice president for Strategy and Innovation, the announcement said. The company holds the largest offshore wind portfolio in the world and is rapidly expanding into onshore renewable technologies, according to an annual 2022 report." (who knew the word Solyndra is Ukrainian for grift - jjs)
  Former John Kerry Aide Joins Green Energy Giant Poised to Massively Benefit From Biden’s Climate Handouts
  
• "Hopefully, the wet cycle will be a long one. It takes a lot of water to put out an EV-fire."
  Los Angeles Times Admits California Has Cyclic Wet-Dry Cycles After Historic Snowpack
  
• "China’s eyeing a ban on solar technology and has gotten approval to open a lithium mine in Bolivia."
  China’s Moves to Impact US Green Energy Capabilities in Post- Chinese COVID Era
  
• "If it ain't broke don't fix it."
  Outlawing Diesel Trucks Make No 'Green' Sense
  
• "‘Artisanal mining’ for cobalt in the Congo and green intersectionality."
  How Long Will "Climate Change" Trump Other Green and Progressive Causes?

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "Inflation remains more than triple the Fed’s goal of 2 percent."
  The Fed Has Met the Enemy and He Is Us
  
• Terry Jeffrey: "In fact, according to the U.S. Treasury, during Biden’s first two years in office—Jan. 20, 2021 through Jan. 20, 2023—the federal debt increased by approximately $3.7 trillion."
  Biden Falsely Claims: ‘We’ve Reduced the National Debt, So Far, $1.7 Trillion in Two Years’
  
• "With Biden racking up over $2.5 trillion in deficit spending during the first 20 months of his [illegitimate] presidency, it would seem that we have a spending problem, not a taxing problem."
  The State of the Debt
  
• "The latest figures from the US Department of Agriculture cattle-inventory report on Tuesday showed 89.3 million cattle as of Jan. 1, down 3% from a year ago. The decline wasn’t unexpected and was in line with a Bloomberg survey."
  SHOT: Hamburger Prices Might Continue to Rise as US Cattle Herd Shrinks
  
• "As impossible readies itself for more layoffs, the political and cultural establishment will be searching for ways to make us eat the bugs and the seed oils."
  CHASER: The Fake Meat Industry Is Failing, But That Might Lead to Governments Propping It Up.
  
• "After steep pandemic membership losses, unions made small gains last year amid a broader U.S. economic rebound.
  Laboring to Revive

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "Mayor Eric Adams (D), in a plea to the border crossers, issued a video message this week trying to entice them to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, detailing the mega-shelter’s warm rooms and healthy food options."
  Photos: NYPD Officers Remove Migrants Camped Outside Manhattan Hotel
  
• "Senate Bill 135 would offer in-state tuition to illegal immigrants attending public Indiana colleges, so long as they had previously attended Indiana schools for four years and graduated or received the equivalent to a high school diploma."
  Indiana to Consider Offering Illegal Immigrants In-State Tuition Despite Republican Supermajority

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "Isaiah Trotman killed a Metro employee and wounded three bystanders on Wednesday."
  DC Metro Shooter Had Prior Assault Dismissed by Progressive DA
  
• "Congress can exercise authority over D.C. local affairs, according to the District Clause of the Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17), and Congress reviews all D.C. legislation before it can become law. Congress can change or even overturn D.C. legislation and can impose new laws on the district."
  House, Senate GOP To Start ‘DC Home Rule’ Vote To Block District’s New Crime Law
  
• The Nichols family attorney is also insisting the rumor is not true. And a spokesman for the attorney “Also said whether Tyre was specifically targeted or not, it does not change the fact that the assault on Tyre was a gross abuse of power by several MPD officers who contributed to his beating and eventual death,” according to NewsNation correspondent Alex Caprariello. “That is the focus of their investigation and legal proceedings.”
  Was It Personal? Authorities Investigating Rumor That Tyre Nichols Was in a Relationship With Officer's Ex
  
• "Massachusetts is not the first state to try this law." ("can we have your liver, then?" - jjs)
  Massachusetts Bill Offers to Cut Your Prison Time if You Donate Organs
  
• "Will he still claim 'the gun fired itself' when he’s under oath?"
  Alec Baldwin, Charged at Last

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• "Nearly 6 months after Biden initially said the pandemic was over on 60 minutes.” (I'll believe it when I see it - jjs)
  It’s Finally Over: U.S. Slated to End Covid Emergency Declarations on May 11
  
• "The political cost of seeming to be power-hungry [Chinese] ‘Covid scolds’ paled in comparison to the cost of giving that power up, and the Biden [junta] milked that power for all it was worth."
  The Never-Ending Chinese Covid Emergency

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• “The question presented in this case is not whether prohibiting the possession of firearms by someone subject to a domestic violence restraining order is a laudable policy goal. The question is whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(eight), a specific statute that does so, is constitutional under the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. In the light of N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022), it is not,” U.S. District Judge Cory Wilson wrote in the ruling."
  Good News: Federal Court Strikes Down Decades-Old Gun Law Targeting Domestic Violence
  
• John Lott: "The per capita rate of mass shootings was much higher in California than in the rest of the U.S., despite the state having the strictest gun control laws in the country."
  False Statistics Fly as California Democrats Push for Gun Control Laws That Failed Already

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• “When given the chance to enact meaningful reforms, we will take it.”
  Why DeSantis Is Right to Reform Universities
  
• "Left-wing DEI bureaucracy has captured Florida State University and installed radical politics as the governing value."
  The Highest Principle
  
• "School choice is picking up steam nationwide – and 2023 promises to be a great year."
  Education Freedom is On the Move
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "The Newsoms showcase the corruption inherent in the government K-12 education system."
  CalGov.Woke.Porn.Con

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• "There is a giant scheme underway by Democrats to turn high schoolers into their latest voting bloc. As roughly two-thirds of Gen Z voters backed House Democrats this past midterm election cycle, left-wing activists are looking to expand their gains in the youth vote by targeting Gen Z’s younger members. And that’s why they’re focused on bringing voter registration drives to high schools as 2024 gets closer."
  Don’t Be Fooled: Putting Voter Registration Kiosks In High Schools is a Ploy to Help Democrats
  
• "If successfully passed and signed by Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, the newly proposed bill (HB 4) would expand mail-in voting — the least secure and most unreliable form of voting — throughout the state."
  If New Mexico Democrats Get Their Way, Even Felons Will Be Voting By Mail

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "Welcome to the alarming surge of Jew-hatred in the United States." (screw the corrupted, Marxist ADL; we need a new JDL - jjs)
  Molotov Cocktail Hurled at New Jersey Synagogue
  
• "Morningstar subsidiary still blacklists two companies that work with Israel to combat terrorism."
  Morningstar Hasn't Followed Through on Promise to Eradicate Anti-Israel Bias From Ratings System
  
• "Once more, the Colorado courts are targeting the Masterpiece Cakeshop owner, this time for refusing to make a gender-transition cake."
  Yet More Trouble for Jack Phillips

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "Democrat New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat New York Rep. Grace Meng, Democrat California Rep. Kevin Mullin, and Republican New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis sent thousands of dollars to Sing Tao U.S., a subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based Sing Tao News Corporation, for campaign advertisements in Chinese publications in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York, according to the FEC filings."
  Four Lawmakers Sent Campaign Funds To CCP-Linked News Organization, FEC Filings Show
  
• Kurt Schlichter: "Not believing them is standard operating procedure."
  No Apologies Over Paul Pelosi

  POLITICS

• "Notably, less than a majority of Democrats, 41 percent, actually believe Omar should be allowed to serve on a congressional committee, while 20 percent said she should not — a sentiment shared by 26 percent of independents and 50 percent of Republicans."
  Poll: Only 27% Believe Bro-Fo Omar Should Be Allowed to Serve on Congressional Committees
  
• "The GOP is standing its ground as a matter of principle."
  Congress Just Threw Bro-Fo Omar Off the Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Squad Went Bonkers
  
• "The opposition’s response to a State of the Union address is typically delegated to a rising star in the party to offer a countervailing policy agenda to the nation. This year’s matchup on Tuesday night will pit Biden against a high-profile member of former President Donald Trump’s White House."
  Sarah Huckabee Sanders to Deliver GOP Rebuttal to Biden’s State of the Union Address
  
• “I’m not optimistic,” Waters said. “I’m not confident we are going to be able to get real police reform. I approach working on this issue as a responsibility that I have to do – that we must try.”
  Rep. Maxine Waters Has Choice Words Ahead of Meeting With Biden
  
• “And it’s always symbolized to me the fact that this team has been rock solid in their support of our agenda and the [so-called quote-unquote "president"].”
  WATCH: Ron Klain’s Farewell Speech Dissolves Into Tears — Over a Rock
  
• "Was it because he didn't want to go? Or was it other stuff? Here are some theories . . . "
  Big Rat Leaves the White House Blubbering
  
• ". . . DeSantis is known for his successful [Chinese] COVID response. They also said the line of attack is too 'nuanced' to make a major impact." (and Trump decided to let Fauci, Birx and Pence handle it, and here we are, "two weeks" later - jjs)
  Trump’s Line of Attack on DeSantis Could Backfire in a Major Way
  
• "Donald Trump did more for America and Americans in his four years, than any other recent occupant of the Oval Office, while fighting a hostile and corrupt Congress." (all true, yet his suitability/desirableness as the standard bearer for 2024 is still up for debate, as it should be - jjs)
  President Trump vs. the Swamp
  
• "Republican primary voters will face a big decision. Let’s hope they choose to move forward, not backward—in terms of repeating either discredited public policy or repeating sullied candidates."
  The 2024 Test for the New American Right

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Massie noted that Americans have increasingly soured on America’s seemingly endless support for Ukraine’s conflict with Russia, and how congressional leadership moved to attach aid to must-pass spending bills such as a continuing resolution (CR) or omnibus spending bill. He described this move as “abhorrent” and “despicable” for our Republic. America has so far provided more than $113 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine.
  Rep. Thomas Massie Vows to Strip Ukraine Funding from Must-Pass Spending Bills

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Iran now has enough 60% enriched uranium to manufacture three or four bombs, should it choose to do so."
  Time to Strike Iran's Nuclear Sites?
  
• "Cruz bill could garner bipartisan support as Congress looks to penalize Russia for its use of Iranian-made weapons in Ukraine." (and then comes Veto Corleone . . . - jjs)
  Republicans Go After Biden Sanction Waivers That Allow Iran and Russia To Build Nuclear Infrastructure
  
• "Unless we are willing to hand over the mantle of world leadership to another country, we had better be prepared for war at any moment."
  As War Clouds Gather
  
• "According to the president, the legislature, and the people, Seoul is rapidly approaching a moment of crisis."
  South Korea’s Nuclear Moment
  
• "Even more radical than speaking the language of a particular place is speaking the language of a particular past."
  The Key of Language

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Pat Ryder said that the United States “has detected and is tracking a high altitude surveillance balloon that is over the continental United States right now.” (why the fuck haven't you shot it down?! - jjs)
  Chinese Spy Balloon Hovering Over United States: Report
  
• "Sadly, we don’t have a Ronald Reagan running the country right now. We have the husk of an aging, debilitated lifelong politician in the White House. If you’re like me, you have zero confidence that Biden will be able to stand up to the forces of evil aligned against the United States, which is a terrifying thought. And what better time for our enemies to attack?" (and he along with too many others in DC are de facto Chi-Com agents - jjs)
  Why Is a Giant Chinese Spy Balloon Hovering Over Montana?

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Robert Spencer: "Naser Almadaoji and Victoria Jacobs, as well as Bader Alzahrani, are just the latest among many indications of the fact that even if Americans have forgotten about the global jihad, the jihad has not forgotten about us. And with Biden’s corrupt intelligence agencies devoting their time and resources to finding “white supremacists,” the jihadis have a freer hand to operate in the U.S. than they have had in years."
  Two More U.S. Jihadis You Heard Nothing About

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "A Supreme Court ruling cannot make up for hopeless hiring policies."
  The US Postal Service’s (Entirely Avoidable) Religious Liberty Fiasco

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "The cancellation appears directly because of the sanctions against Russia due to its invasion of the Ukraine. Picking the Vega-C as a replacement at this moment however seems a strange choice, considering its last launch was a failure and it has failed three times in the last eight launches."
  South Korea officially cancels Russian launch contract, signs Vega-C instead
  
• "From the low point in this picture to the rim of Valles Marineris is an elevation rise of about 20,000 feet, most of which happens in a space of less than ten miles. This small slope is not part of that rise. Instead, it is merely a slope up to a rounded butte sitting in the interior of the canyon."
  Dramatic layers in Valles Marineris

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "Landmark case is first of its kind."
  Christian Mother is Suing School For Forcing Her 4-Year-Old Son to Take Part in Gay Pride Parade
  
• "The same people, who claim that indulgence in the childhood belief in Santa Claus is tantamount to waterboarding, demand that we indulge in the adult fantasy that biological men can become women."
  Dude, Where's My Country?

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "The Left is saying to Hispanics, 'Your language is no longer your own. It is ours to do with as we please. We don’t use gendered language, so you can’t either.' Like gender, the progressives want Spanish to be whatever they say it is."
  Hispanic Legislators in Connecticut Have Had It With the Weird Woke Nicknames
  
• "I think an even better response, however, would be to gather about a hundred people, have them all wear pro-life hats and t-shirts and arrive at the museum at the same time. They should do nothing but walk around and enjoy the exhibits. No chanting, no demonstrations, no disturbances. They should simply be there to find out if the museum really meant it when it claimed it had fixed the problem."
  Today’s blacklisted Americans: Catholic students kicked out of Air & Space museum for wearing pro-life hats

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 03, 2023 07:41 AM (uNylN)

2 happy fricking friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 07:41 AM (BRHaw)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 03, 2023 07:41 AM (CB43l)

4 Now to the content. Thanks JJ.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 03, 2023 07:41 AM (uNylN)

5 Good morning horde! Happy Friday and have a good weekend.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 03, 2023 07:43 AM (uvymP)

6 Frigid Friday!

Posted by: Ziba at February 03, 2023 07:44 AM (4h9M3)

7 Update on the guy arrested yesterday, suspected of being about to commit a Las Vegas-style mass shooting I reported yesterday...

@Breaking911 · 10h
HOLLYWOOD HIGH-RISE ARREST: DA Says Rifles Were Pointed From Window At Park, Possible Massacre Prevented

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 07:45 AM (Vwz3I)

8 Thanks to the ONT I realized this is the 40th anniversary of "Thriller". Still amazing to watch, after all these years. As a 29 year old I am especially impressed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 07:46 AM (f+YYY)

9 “The United States government has detected and is tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon

Those clowns. How'd they find it? Must have been all the videos on youtube.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 07:47 AM (f+YYY)

10 @TheInsiderPaper · 15 minutes
NEW 🚨 US, Philippines to restart joint [naval] patrols in South China Sea

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 07:47 AM (Vwz3I)

11 Have begun, the balloon wars.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 03, 2023 07:48 AM (Q4IgG)

12 Mornin' Mo-rons!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 03, 2023 07:49 AM (Q98Qw)

13 From his FL hospital bed, after formally conceding the election:

@TheInsiderPaper · 50m
NEW - Brazil’s Lula accuses Bolsonaro of preparing Jan 8 ‘coup’

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 07:49 AM (Vwz3I)

14 Biden refused to answer questions shouted at him by reporters Thursday afternoon.

He is incredibly busy. Eating his tapioca.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 07:49 AM (f+YYY)

15 We are ruled by the grifter class who have gained power by promising to steal from the productive and give to the non-productive. They are trying to greatly swell the ranks of the latter, putting an onerous burden on a quickly shrinking producer class. Time to break out Atlas Shrugged and ask the age old question, "Who is John Galt?"

Posted by: IanDeal at February 03, 2023 07:50 AM (MGjjz)

16 13 From his FL hospital bed, after formally conceding the election:

@TheInsiderPaper · 50m
NEW - Brazil’s Lula accuses Bolsonaro of preparing Jan 8 ‘coup’
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 07:49 AM (Vwz3I)

So basically the same playbook.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 03, 2023 07:51 AM (eYoxG)

17 All kinds of events are signaling this country is fucked and half the population is oblivious.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 03, 2023 07:52 AM (h3tqt)

18 Remember Balloon Boy!

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 03, 2023 07:52 AM (R/m4+)

19 "let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty."

Lofty ideals indeed. And totally obsolete.

Posted by: fd at February 03, 2023 07:53 AM (iayUP)

20 Point of order.....balloons can't *hover*, they go where the wind takes them. If that thing is hovering it ain't a balloon.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 03, 2023 07:54 AM (uNylN)

21 Good morning horde
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 07:54 AM (Vc8DP)

22 A fabulous idea, JJS, quoting the great Lincoln speech. He makes the argument against looting property and overbearing government better than anyone else.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 07:55 AM (knah8)

23
Notice that Montana doesn't have the strict common sense anti-balloon laws like Hawaii.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 03, 2023 07:55 AM (enJYY)

24 Willowed re barroon -

"So, I presume the instrumentation on the ChiCom's spy balloon must be significant. Might be worth examining intact."

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My money is on nothing. Absolutely nothing.

It's a test to watch our response, nothing more. And boy have we shown them.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 07:55 AM (0fs9V)

25 "If you’re like me, you have zero confidence that Biden will be able to stand up to the forces of evil aligned against the United States, which is a terrifying thought. And what better time for our enemies to attack?"
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Hate to break it to you pal, but FJB *IS* a force for evil. The people who elected/installed him are forces of evil. The people who surround him every day are forces of evil.

He himself is not the source of evil, but he's been steeping in it for the better part of 60 years.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 03, 2023 07:56 AM (YIVH2)

26 Putting the roo in shrooming...

@TheInsiderPaper · 1h
NEW 🚨 Australia to legalise MDMA and magic mushrooms for medical use

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 07:56 AM (Vwz3I)

27 Point of order.....balloons can't *hover*, they go where the wind takes them. If that thing is hovering it ain't a balloon.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 03, 2023 07:54 AM (uNylN)
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If it has maneuvering thrusters, then I suppose it's some kind of zeppelin?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 03, 2023 07:57 AM (YIVH2)

28 fd @ 19-
10 Commandments are to keep us out of the ditch.

Posted by: Eromero at February 03, 2023 07:57 AM (z3WCn)

29 Thanks to the ONT I realized this is the 40th anniversary of "Thriller". Still amazing to watch, after all these years. As a 29 year old I am especially impressed.

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That Indian not-thriller video near the bottom of the ONT content is worth watching if y'all haven't. It's awesome.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 07:57 AM (0fs9V)

30 Against my better judgement I am becoming a Thomas Massie fan.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 07:58 AM (knah8)

31 "So Russia is a big country full of bad people who don't like us. Sometimes bad people do bad things so the bad Russians launched some of their nuclear bombs at us. You know, those bombs that make those funny mushroom shaped clouds. People think they look like mushrooms but they are much bigger than real mushrooms. So in a few minutes you will be able to see one for yourself and think, Wow, those look just like mushrooms!"

Posted by: Kamala, sometime next year at February 03, 2023 07:58 AM (wsHtO)

32 We are way past any vision Lincoln might have had for the country. Easy living has made tyranny acceptable for enough people that his values don't apply anymore.

Posted by: fd at February 03, 2023 07:58 AM (iayUP)

33 "10 Commandments are to keep us out of the ditch.
Posted by: Eromero"

And will keep a man out of the ditch, but I'm not so sure about mankind.

Posted by: fd at February 03, 2023 08:00 AM (iayUP)

34 fd @ 19-
10 Commandments are to keep us out of the ditch.
Posted by: Eromero at February 03, 2023 07:57 AM (z3WCn)
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And the other 5 are there to help extract us if we get in the ditch...Wait. What happened to the other 5 again?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 03, 2023 08:01 AM (YIVH2)

35 So, ummm, what the heck was our ally Canana doing while the weather balloon had to fly over half its country to get to Montana?

Anyway, it amazes me that in Montana, the land of lots of land and few people, we can't figure out how to take down the balloon without hurting someone. So, that's obviously horsesh&t. The thing that shocks me is we have no idea if this balloon is retrofitted with any other capability (ala back in the late 90s when our Predator drones got missles), so we can't even say it's not a danger. We need to bring it down now and disappear it...or study it...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 03, 2023 08:01 AM (exHjb)

36 We are way past any vision Lincoln might have had for the country. Easy living has made tyranny acceptable for enough people that his values don't apply anymore.
Posted by: fd at February 03, 2023 07:58 AM (iayUP)
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Posted by: John Adams at February 03, 2023 08:02 AM (knah8)

37 From AP/CP: "China says it is looking into reports that a Chinese spy balloon has been spotted over U.S. airspace."

@TheInsiderPaper · 3h
NEW — When asked about the US comments on spy balloon, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning warned against "hyping up" the issue, without giving a clear response on whether the balloon was from China.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:02 AM (Vwz3I)

38 Good morning!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:03 AM (t0OGg)

39 @TheInsiderPaper · 3h
NEW — When asked about the US comments on spy balloon, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning warned against "hyping up" the issue, without giving a clear response on whether the balloon was from China.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:02 AM (Vwz3I)
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Heh. She doesn't know or she is lying. SOP. Everyone in public life is either ignorantly spewing or outright lying, at all times.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:04 AM (t0OGg)

40 That's not a Chinese balloon, it's a UFO. The govt is just lying to us again. Shooting it down could bring on a galactic war you know.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 03, 2023 08:05 AM (WNfWI)

41 But understand the goal of this phony, fake, and fraudulent resolution is just to somehow provide cover for extreme MAGA Republicans to try to undermine an agenda that is designed to lift up the health, safety, and well-being of the American people. . .

Che thought a 45 to the head was healthy for his cause.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 08:05 AM (BRHaw)

42
I might be a little hesitant about shooting down a balloon that came from Wuhan, China.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 03, 2023 08:06 AM (enJYY)

43 3/4 of a trillion in annual defense spending and we can't figure out what to do about a frigging Chinese spy balloon.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 08:07 AM (ZLI7S)

44 NORAD sent aircraft — including F-22 Raptors from Nellis Air Force Base and airborne early warning aircraft known as AWACs — but the official would not say whether one of the options was to shoot the balloon out of the sky with a U.S. aircraft,” NBC reported.
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This is bad news, and a bad indicator.

This kind of thing should be disclosed after the fact, not during. The statement should have gone something like, "We detected an unauthorized surveillance balloon in US airspace. We deployed intercept aircraft to collect signals and photographs of the device so we can attempt to identify origin, then we shot that bitch down."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:07 AM (t0OGg)

45 @TheInsiderPaper · 3h
NEW — When asked about the US comments on spy balloon, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning warned against "hyping up" the issue, without giving a clear response on whether the balloon was from China.
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Doesn't matter where it's from. If it's flying and spying where it shouldn't be, take it down.

I guarantee if some Montana citizen was flying a drone in the same area, the government would take it down quick and probably make the citizen disappear for good measure.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 03, 2023 08:07 AM (YIVH2)

46 So, ummm, what the heck was our ally Canada doing while the weather balloon had to fly over half its country to get to Montana?
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Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING: Canada’s Defense Department reports there is a possible second spy balloon incident

https://tinyurl.com/2mnzbxyp

[JPG of press release.]

Gateway Pundit report here too: https://tinyurl.com/mtj7jydy

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:07 AM (Vwz3I)

47 We are way past any vision Lincoln might have had for the country

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That name sounds familiar. He's the martial law guy, right?

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 08:08 AM (0fs9V)

48 42
I might be a little hesitant about shooting down a balloon that came from Wuhan, China.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 03, 2023 08:06 AM (enJYY)

Then either incinerate it at uber-heat levels (kills everything) or "pin prick" a hole big enough to let it gently fall down and quarantine it. Or capture the dang thing in the air (we must have some way to do that) and quarantine it. Don't leave it floating and continuing to get and send back more intel...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 03, 2023 08:09 AM (exHjb)

49 James Bond and MI5 would deal with this balloon by flying a plane dragging a giant hook, and just gather up the balloon.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 08:09 AM (knah8)

50 “Currently we assess that this balloon has limited additive value from an intelligence collection perspective over and above what the PRC can do through other means,” the official said. “Nevertheless we are taking all necessary steps to protect against foreign intelligence collection of sensitive information.”
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Probably true. Red China has decent space-based surveillance and many means of signals intelligence. That's not really my problem with it.

Montana is far away from everything except the Canadian border. How did it get that far before being detected? Why was it left in the sky after being detected? There is no risk of an "international incident" here. It is *our* airspace.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:09 AM (t0OGg)

51 Hunter is wrong. That laptop is Russian disinformation.

Posted by: 51 US Intelligence Officials at February 03, 2023 08:10 AM (A0/af)

52 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING: Canada’s Defense Department reports there is a possible second spy balloon incident

https://tinyurl.com/2mnzbxyp

[JPG of press release.]

Gateway Pundit report here too: https://tinyurl.com/mtj7jydy
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:07 AM (Vwz3I)

After screwing up the 1st time, why is Canada not shooting down the second one?

Posted by: Nova Local at February 03, 2023 08:10 AM (exHjb)

53 Interestingly, Jeffries and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) voted in favor of the resolution.
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1. They're politicians. They lie as they breathe.
2. The Democrats are also familiar with the ways of failure theater.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:11 AM (t0OGg)

54 We are way past any vision Lincoln might have had for the country

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That name sounds familiar. He's the martial law guy, right?

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 08:08 AM


Correct, he is the guy that suspended habeas corpus, declared martial law and arrested and jailed newspaper owners and reporters that he didn't like.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 03, 2023 08:11 AM (uNylN)

55 After screwing up the 1st time, why is Canada not shooting down the second one?
Posted by: Nova Local at February 03, 2023 08:10 AM (exHjb)

Well, it's Canada.

Posted by: dantesed at February 03, 2023 08:12 AM (88xKn)

56 Sorry. Busy. Playin' grabass.

Posted by: Strategic Air Command at February 03, 2023 08:12 AM (g8BSP)

57 The Chinese balloon is a deliberate provocation and if was shot down and released some type of toxin it would be an act of war. While it might seen practical in not shooting it down, it shows weakness to the Chinese. The Chinese treatment of Blinken on his upcoming trip will be something akin to "squeel like a pig" Top men.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 03, 2023 08:12 AM (StQQf)

58 From yesterday:

@TheInsiderPaper · 13h
BREAKING - Three US Air Force Stratotankers have been spotted flying over Montana where a giant Chinese spy balloon is seen

JPG of flight paths: https://tinyurl.com/w6dxwedv

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:12 AM (Vwz3I)

59 Trump’s Line of Attack on DeSantis Could Backfire in a Major Way

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Trump is making a colossal mistake right now attacking DeSantis. What the dummy should be doing is going full metal jacket on the Democrat Communists (which is the entire f'n party now) and how they're destroying, literally destroying, America. This DeSantis attacking is a stupid circus that doesn't address how far down the rabbit hole these foul leftists have taken this country.

Not that presidential elections matter anymore (and as of now, they don't), but Trump needs to focus on what's really of dire importance right now. And that's the Democrat Left and their utter destruction of the USA.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 03, 2023 08:12 AM (sVtYq)

60 America may soon face one of two kinds of left-wing authoritarianism. One is the soft despotism of liberal technocracy. This authoritarianism wouldn’t overthrow the present structures of our society or upend the economy. In fact, it would have the support of the regime’s major institutions. It would seriously curb civil liberties, such as free speech and gun rights, and feel much less democratic. More people would be arrested over memes, but much would remain the same. Political life in America would look more like contemporary Western Europe.
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Why is this being framed as some future development? This is the way of life in this country *now.* I know a lot of people are discomfited declaring the United States to be a technocratic tyranny that is well beyond the knee of the curve on totalitarianism, but it is what it is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:13 AM (t0OGg)

61 Indiana to Consider Offering Illegal Immigrants In-State Tuition Despite Republican Supermajority
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Despite? more like "because of". With a supermajority, they have nothing to fear, so can openly do what the CoC wants and funds them to do.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 03, 2023 08:13 AM (fs1hN)

62 Mornin’, All. Happy Fajita Friday.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 08:14 AM (xlMji)

63 Christian Mother is Suing School For Forcing Her 4-Year-Old Son to Take Part in Gay Pride Parade

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I'd want to beat the ever loving crap out of that school's decision makers if I were her. Sue, then take your child out of that groomer school...because that's what it is.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 03, 2023 08:15 AM (sVtYq)

64 "That name sounds familiar. He's the martial law guy, right?

Correct, he is the guy that suspended habeas corpus, declared martial law and arrested and jailed newspaper owners and reporters that he didn't like."

One could argue it was the beginning of the end.

Posted by: fd at February 03, 2023 08:15 AM (iayUP)

65 The other is a radical populism in the mold of Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan socialist who turned his resource-rich South American nation into a hellhole. This authoritarianism would threaten America’s institutions and overthrow the economic order. It would not be supported by the powers that be and would crush civil liberties to enact massive wealth redistribution programs.
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Entirely possible. Whether it goes in the communist direction of Venezuela or some other type of dictatorship remains to be seen, but something like this is a very likely outcome. The root causes are also similar.

One of the things that delivered Venezuela into Chavez's clutches was the open, naked corruption of its government and ruling class and the unification of that country's political parties. They had a capricious and thieving government, a uniparty complex, arbitrary enforcement of rules against the people while everyone in The Club was above the law.

Sound familiar? This is why what's happening is so dangerous. A lot of people will throw their support behind someone who promises to fix it by any means necessary. That person could well be a Chavez.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:16 AM (t0OGg)

66 How else is a Chi-Com balloon allowed to drift over he skies of Montana unmolested?

I still want to know what sort of witchcraft the ChiComs are using where they can pilot a balloon (not aerostat) along the jet stream, and then perfectly maneuver itself over a spot in Montana and then fight off the upper air level currents and jets streams and loiter over a specific space totally unmolested and undetected by a nationwide network of RADAR.

Oh. except we allegedly know exactly the path it took to get here as it apparently left a trail of breadcrumbs in the sky. We know the path, but didn't know how this magical levitation device managed to avoid physics

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 03, 2023 08:17 AM (l7lsb)

67 We have 300,000 spies in your companies, universities, research facilities, and governments. Why the fuck would we need a balloon?

Posted by: China at February 03, 2023 08:17 AM (ptElO)

68 Study Funded By The NIH Finds That 40.2% Of Vaccinated Women Experienced Menstrual Changes

That means that over 40 million women in the United States have had their menstrual cycles affected by the C19 jab.

Dr. @RWMaloneMD: "Something's Happening" With Reproductive Health

"All these things (variations in menstrual cycles, onset of menses in post-menopausal women) are pointers that there's something going wrong with the ovaries because the ovaries drive menstruation."

Developing Female Fetuses Could Be Rendered Infertile, but It Will Not Fully Be Known Until 20 Years' Time

Dr. Roger Hodkinson: "These nanoparticles from the clot shot ... are getting through the placenta and ... could be attacking the ovary of the developing female fetus.

https://bit.ly/3HzRUsE

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 08:17 AM (Do5/p)

69 I must have missed the USAF shooting down both. [Assuming it wasn't a report about just one.]

U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute · 12h
Since "Chinese Spy Balloon" is trending: In 1945, the crew of USS New York spotted a sphere that they thought might be a Japanese balloon weapon. The captain ordered it shot down but none of the guns could score a hit. Finally, a navigator realized they were attacking Venus.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:17 AM (Vwz3I)

70 Abe Lincoln was a genius with words like no other figure in the history of this nation (or any other for that matter). Thank you JJ for including that excerpt of his Lyceum speech.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 03, 2023 08:17 AM (b2dH9)

71 We can't declare war on China. They make all of our medicines. Try going without that, America.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 03, 2023 08:17 AM (sVtYq)

72 Yeah, my heart bleeds for the Confederate traitors.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 08:18 AM (xlMji)

73 "More and more journalists of color and younger White reporters, including LGBTQ+ people, in increasingly diverse newsrooms believe that the concept of objectivity has prevented truly accurate reporting informed by their own backgrounds, experiences and points of view."
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The Propaganda Press should rot in hell, and every one of these woke hactivists should be unemployable and live in cardboard boxes down by the river, under a highway bridge. Learn real values.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 08:18 AM (f+YYY)

74 Study Funded By The NIH Finds That 40.2% Of Vaccinated Women Experienced Menstrual Changes ...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 08:17 AM (Do5/p)
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That's a very big number.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:19 AM (t0OGg)

75 Is there an effort to get a UN resolution for war with Russia?

Or is Biden a less responsible global citizen than W?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 08:19 AM (LvTSG)

76 That's a very big number.

You should see the birth rate drop in Australia.

Posted by: t-bird at February 03, 2023 08:20 AM (ptElO)

77 74 Study Funded By The NIH Finds That 40.2% Of Vaccinated Women Experienced Menstrual Changes ...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 08:17 AM (Do5/p)
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That's a very big number.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:19 AM (t0OGg)

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Dolley is one. I don't think she'll admit that it could have anything to do with the vaxx.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 08:20 AM (LvTSG)

78 We have 300,000 spies in your companies, universities, research facilities, and governments. Why the fuck would we need a balloon?
Posted by: China at February 03, 2023 08:17 AM (ptElO)
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You also have satellites and robust signals intelligence.

China doesn't *need* a balloon. It is conceivable that it isn't theirs. North Korea is an obvious potential source, but China is more likely.

As to why? To see if they can. An obvious, non-weaponized drone violating US airspace to determine time to detection and how the US military responds to it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:21 AM (t0OGg)

79 We have 300,000 spies in your companies, universities, research facilities, and governments. Why the fuck would we need a balloon?
Posted by: China
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If China Cracked U.S. Encryption, Why Would It Tell Us?
When Alan Turing cracked the Enigma code during the Second World War, neither the United Kingdom nor the United States immediately published a paper announcing the achievement. Instead, they kept it to themselves so they could keep reading Nazi messages encrypted using Enigma machines. Last month, in contrast, Chinese academics from government-run laboratories and research organizations published a paper claiming to have developed a new mathematical strategy to break RSA encryption, today’s standard.

If the Chinese government can crack RSA encryption, then they can break into every U.S. government and private sector system, seeing and exfiltrating anything and everything, achieving true information dominance over Washington and its allies and partners.

https://tinyurl.com/5n9xab3d

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:22 AM (Vwz3I)

80 Correct, he is the guy that suspended habeas corpus, declared martial law and arrested and jailed newspaper owners and reporters that he didn't like."


He also threatened to jail Supreme Court justices if they didn't rule in his favor.

Many years later FJB, Fartswell and others fantasize using modern technology to do what Lincoln did indeed do - that is to raze entire sections of the country, raping, pillaging and murdering along the way.

Then of course there is the mercantilism of Lincoln and authorizing the Pinkertons to engage in genocide so that the railroads could be laid.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 03, 2023 08:22 AM (l7lsb)

81 Study Funded By The NIH Finds That 40.2% Of Vaccinated Women Experienced Menstrual Changes

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Ah, yes. I remember the halcyon days when we were assuredly told it was "very rare" that a woman would experience any kind of menstrual abnormalities following the phony vax.

Never fear, America. Veterinarian Bourla's resume includes his past working on reducing the reproductive capabilities of sheep. Or so I read.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 03, 2023 08:22 AM (sVtYq)

82 >>You should see the birth rate drop in Australia.

The central goal of all globalists since The Club of Rome invented the global warming hoax is depopulation and population control. They use a lot of different tactics and appear to be many groups but they are all the same people with the same goal.

They now sit in Davos and call themselves the WEF but still the same.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 08:23 AM (ZLI7S)

83 Developing Female Fetuses Could Be Rendered Infertile, but It Will Not Fully Be Known Until 20 Years' Time
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*sigh* Children of Men was based on the premise that women suddenly became infertile and could no longer have children.

WHY DO THESE MOTHERFUCKERS KEEP USING DYSTOPIAN SCIENCE FICTION AS A BLUEPRINT?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 03, 2023 08:23 AM (YIVH2)

84 That there Baloon just showed up. We were like hey what's that ? Hmm

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at February 03, 2023 08:23 AM (ztQ7U)

85 It's getting tedious constantly pointing out the partisan activism in the establishment "press." But wire services like the Associated Press (where I worked briefly early in my career) were once widely relied on to provide objective, no-nonsense journalism. Now they're just, at best, useless.
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David Harsanyi is a pretty great writer. His disgust with journalism is obviously timely, and well said.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 08:23 AM (f+YYY)

86 From Ron Klain's farewell speech:

"During his remarks, Klain expressed effusive praise for Biden and touted a number of accomplishments. 'I learned everything I know about how to be a good father from Joe Biden,' he said. 'He's the best father I know and the best role model I know.'"

These people are delusional. Evil and delusional

Posted by: IrishEi at February 03, 2023 08:24 AM (3ImbR)

87

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 03, 2023 08:24 AM (vwCZJ)

88 Manchin: Biden’s Trying to Use ESG to Push out Fossil Fuels Before We’re Ready, Risk We End up Like Germany Should Be Considered

Fuck Manchin with a coal miners shovel! FOAD

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 08:24 AM (BRHaw)

89 Study Funded By The NIH Finds That 40.2% Of Vaccinated Women Experienced Menstrual Changes ...

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 08:17 AM
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That's a very big number.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:19 AM

Yep. And the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services bought ad time on radio stations all last year with numerous different commercials tailored specifically to pregnant women telling them the clot shot was not only safe for pregnant women, but that it was irresponsible to not get it, because not getting it would put the baby at risk.

These people are despicably evil. I will never trust any medical institutions ever again.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 08:25 AM (Do5/p)

90 "More and more journalists of color and younger White reporters, including LGBTQ+ people, in increasingly diverse newsrooms believe that the concept of objectivity has prevented truly accurate reporting informed by their own backgrounds, experiences and points of view."

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This is another point of very serious consequence for this country. Journalism schools are attracting the very worst kind of people now...I believe worse than ever before in our history. Those on a mission to advance "their truth," according to their personal life experiences. The complete opposite of actual news reporting. They are flocking to these professions, just like the freaks and groomers are flocking to the teaching profession.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 03, 2023 08:25 AM (sVtYq)

91 WHY DO THESE MOTHERFUCKERS KEEP USING DYSTOPIAN SCIENCE FICTION AS A BLUEPRINT?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 03, 2023 08:23 AM (YIVH2)

Wait till the get a copy of Idiocracy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 08:25 AM (BRHaw)

92 As to why? To see if they can. An obvious, non-weaponized drone violating US airspace to determine time to detection and how the US military responds to it.

This could also be Master Level trolling. Just like the mighty Imperial Military lost to goat herders and hastily retreated with a trail of their own dead soldiers in the wake, this is to show that even with a new Space Force, the entire FUSA military is flummoxed and impotent with a fucking balloon.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 03, 2023 08:25 AM (l7lsb)

93 China has aircraft, ships and satellites all capable of spying on the US. And hundreds if not thousands of individuals working for the Chinese embedded in most sensitive areas of industry and government/military.

You have to wonder what this balloon can do that those can't.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 03, 2023 08:26 AM (Q4IgG)

94 Never fear, America. Veterinarian Bourla's resume includes his past working on reducing the reproductive capabilities of sheep. Or so I read.
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Yes, he's a veteran Aryan.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:26 AM (Vwz3I)

95 Guest on Maria wondered aloud if Mark Milley called the Chinese and asked if we could shoot down the balloon and they said no.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 03, 2023 08:27 AM (pKaGc)

96 They just did the Chinese "balloon" story on the morning news. They talked to a guy in Montana about the story and told him the US Air Force assured him that the balloon was no threat to him.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 03, 2023 08:27 AM (uNylN)

97 ... Developing Female Fetuses Could Be Rendered Infertile, but It Will Not Fully Be Known Until 20 Years' Time

Dr. Roger Hodkinson: "These nanoparticles from the clot shot ... are getting through the placenta and ... could be attacking the ovary of the developing female fetus. ...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 08:17 AM (Do5/p)
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It'll be known sooner than then, but it will be a disaster if it's true. A true disaster, a catastrophe. One large enough to threaten the entire civilization if the outcome is common enough. If something like, say, a quarter of girls born to vaccinated mothers are infertile, that more or less guarantees a demographic collapse during the generation after next. We have no way to quantify that, though. We don't know if the problem happens at all. If it does, we don't know how pervasively or the time considerations. Is it any vaccinated mother? Is it any mother vaccinated while pregnant? Is it only within about six months of vaccination?

All unknowns. But it will not take 20 years to find out. It will take more like 12-13. If there are lots of weird patterns in menarche, that will be a big indicator.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:27 AM (t0OGg)

98 Posted by: IrishEi at February 03, 2023 08:24 AM (3ImbR

Mr. Klain's comment is so ludicrous it's risible, but I guess if you want to get the big paying job after you leave you gotta pat the old guy on the back.

Even he doesn't believe it, I expect.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2023 08:27 AM (D+F6R)

99 Why is anyone on G*d's green earth still getting an original series of clot shots that are meant to address a variant that is long gone? Never mind its Russian roulette outcomes should one get a bad batch or should one's body react violently. Why is anybody taking this sh*t anymore? Might as well get a flu shot from 2018 for all the good it does.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 03, 2023 08:27 AM (sVtYq)

100 You have to wonder what this balloon can do that those can't.
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Those bastards!

They're after Santa Claus!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:28 AM (Vwz3I)

101
You should see the birth rate drop in Australia.

Posted by: t-bird at February 03, 2023 08:20 AM

About six other countries, too. For some strange reason the information isn't available about US birth rate numbers.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 03, 2023 08:28 AM (enJYY)

102 Study Funded By The NIH Finds That 40.2% Of Vaccinated Women Experienced Menstrual Changes ...


Did the study exclude the majority of women (Boomers and older Gen-X) who were the target demographic for the Vaxx because of their age?

Because that demographic hasn't menstruated in a while.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 03, 2023 08:28 AM (l7lsb)

103 'I learned everything I know about how to be a good father from Joe Biden,' he said. 'He's the best father I know and the best role model I know.'

Let's see, he cheats on his wife, swims naked in front of female SS agents, takes showers with with young girls, and runs a money laundering scheme with China.

Yeah, a role model for a father.

Posted by: dantesed at February 03, 2023 08:28 AM (88xKn)

104 I know some of our fine morons are not big Lincoln fans, but this moron just can’t see the argument that he was a tyrant. Perfect? Oh no…. But there’s no doubt in my mind the US doesn’t exist at all without him (even in name… I know we really don’t exist anymore as originally intended). The force for good that the US was (for instance in WW2) wouldn’t have been around without Lincoln. A great man IMHO

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 03, 2023 08:28 AM (b2dH9)

105 "Deliver me from my enemies, O God; be my fortress against those who are attacking me. Deliver me from evildoers and save me from those who are after my blood."

Psalm 59:1-2

Posted by: Marcus T at February 03, 2023 08:29 AM (wgAtL)

106 Manchin: Biden’s Trying to Use ESG to Push out Fossil Fuels Before We’re Ready, Risk We End up Like Germany Should Be Considered

Fuck Manchin with a coal miners shovel! FOAD

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 08:24 AM


No worries, he fvcked himself with that vote on the global warming bill. His popularity in West Virginia is hovering in the mid 20's. Challengers are coming out of the woodwork for 2024.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 03, 2023 08:29 AM (uNylN)

107 Dr. Roger Hodkinson: "These nanoparticles from the clot shot ... are getting through the placenta and ... could be attacking the ovary of the developing female fetus.
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Just about everything comes with a caveat to avoid while pregnant, except this so called vaccine (long time definition of vaccine changed to accommodate this 'treatment') with no long term studies to counter a disease that was shown to be deadly mostly to the very elderly, morbidly obese and those with co-morbidities which otherwise is a moderate to severe cold.

Pretty suspicious that our health 'authorities' pushed this on pregnant women.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 03, 2023 08:29 AM (fs1hN)

108 Pfizer Director Very Concerned Their COVID-19 Vaccine Is Harming Woman's Reproductive Health

"There's something irregular about their menstrual cycles... it's concerning.. The ["vaccine"] shouldn't be interfering with that... It has to be affecting something hormonal"

https://bit.ly/3JHl0sP

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 08:29 AM (Do5/p)

109 When I am President, I will shoot down ALL THE BALLOONS

Posted by: DB at February 03, 2023 08:31 AM (geLO8)

110 Maybe it’s just the Wizard trying to return to the fair.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 08:31 AM (xlMji)

111 100 You have to wonder what this balloon can do that those can't.
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Those bastards!

They're after Santa Claus!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:28 AM (Vwz3I)


"S-A-N-T-A,
C-L-A-U-S,
Hooray for Santa Claus!"

- - Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 08:31 AM (x0n13)

112 All unknowns. But it will not take 20 years to find out. I

Which is enough time for the perpetrators of this genocide to escape any consequences other than enjoying the billions of dollars made in this act of war.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 03, 2023 08:31 AM (l7lsb)

113

I like balloons

Posted by: John Fetterman at February 03, 2023 08:31 AM (vwCZJ)

114 If it were possible I'd almost feel sorry for the Fed. They are trying like hell to mop up all the extra money they created, recognizing now it was a big mistake, but Congress keeps passing mega-spending bills. Now the Fed is tightening money supply, while the Junta is running around giving out over a trillion dollars in rewards to Democrat constituencies around the country.

It'll be hard to stop inflation while that is happening.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 08:32 AM (f+YYY)

115 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Verse for the Day:

"I have told you this so that you might have peace in me. In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world."

–John 16:33

Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023 08:32 AM (bJxw1)

116 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 03, 2023 08:28 AM (b2dH9)

It's a regular thing here to re-fight the Civil War/War of Northern Aggression/War Between the States, or as Tevye sang in "Fiddler on the Roof"' "Tradition! Tradition!"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2023 08:32 AM (D+F6R)

117 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

The simplest explanation for the balloon debacle is that our government is an occupation government that takes orders from our adversaries.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 03, 2023 08:32 AM (EZebt)

118 No worries, he fvcked himself with that vote on the global warming bill. His popularity in West Virginia is hovering in the mid 20's. Challengers are coming out of the woodwork for 2024.

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That can be a problem in and of itself. Too many challengers depleting the vote, giving Man's Chin the upper edge. We'll see. Unfortunately, it's so very hard to unseat an entrenched Congress rat in either party. Maybe I'm jaded as I'm seemingly stuck with Lindsay Graham from now until eternity.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 03, 2023 08:32 AM (sVtYq)

119 About six other countries, too. For some strange reason the information isn't available about US birth rate numbers.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 03, 2023 08:28 AM (enJYY)
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A problem here is that it is hard to know why, at least this early. There are a tremendous number of factors, some of which might be survivable. Aside from the birth rate, a more important factor might be the miscarriage rate. A falling birth rate could just mean less reproduction, which is very possible sans vaccine. A rising miscarriage rate is more troubling.

One of the ancillary things that worries me greatly is the consequences on reproduction, though not for chemistry reasons. They fucked things up for 2-3 years in a very significant way. Dating collapsed. If people don't date, they don't screw. If they don't screw, they don't make babies. They also, of course, don't marry.

The decline in dating and mating alone is probably good for a significant - albeit hopefully temporary - decline in the birth rate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:32 AM (t0OGg)

120 104 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 03, 2023 08:28 AM (b2dH9)


Whatever the arguments, there is no arguing that this speech in 1838 is an almost verbatim description of what happened to this nation.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 08:33 AM (x0n13)

121 Awful cold up there.

Posted by: Some Feller in Arkansas at February 03, 2023 08:33 AM (g8BSP)

122 Plot twist of Children of Men:

Everyone knew what caused the infertility, but they just couldn't say it out loud because it was an uncomfortable truth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 08:33 AM (LvTSG)

123 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 08:31 AM (xlMji)

I commend your cleverness. I wouldn't have thought of that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2023 08:33 AM (D+F6R)

124 Can you imagine a world without balloons.

Posted by: Congressman Hank Johnson at February 03, 2023 08:33 AM (E7vND)

125 Aristophanes on twitter explains that they will lose, regardless of what happens to us.

https://tinyurl.com/yhut3pab

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 03, 2023 08:34 AM (ybIRR)

126 Don't know if Trump has the stomach for it but a hell of a lot worse things than a CCCP balloons are going to be flying our way unless and until Milley et al are tried and convicted for treason.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at February 03, 2023 08:34 AM (n8LLT)

127 Pfizer Director Very Concerned Their COVID-19 Vaccine Is Harming Woman's Reproductive Health

"There's something irregular about their menstrual cycles... it's concerning.. The ["vaccine"] shouldn't be interfering with that... It has to be affecting something hormonal" ...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 08:29 AM (Do5/p)
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Maybe we should have adequately and rigorously tested an entirely novel and new kind of drug before widely distributing it and using the power of the state to compel people to take it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:34 AM (t0OGg)

128 Some additional info on the spy balloon here:

https://tinyurl.com/2ranhftt

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 03, 2023 08:34 AM (Q4IgG)

129 116 Fen, you forgot “The War of Southern Pigheadedness.”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 08:34 AM (xlMji)

130 Might as well get a flu shot from 2018 for all the good it does.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Please, don't give them ideas.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023 08:35 AM (bJxw1)

131 Shoot___ down the balloon would be racist. right?

Posted by: Ripley at February 03, 2023 08:35 AM (cUYo/)

132 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 03, 2023 08:28 AM (b2dH9
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Maybe don't argue, because you'll just get all the same posts repeated ad infinitum.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 08:35 AM (f+YYY)

133 Can you imagine a world without balloons.
Posted by: Congressman Hank Johnson at February 03, 2023 08:33 AM (E7vND)
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No one would know Nena's name.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:35 AM (t0OGg)

134 When I am President, I will shoot down ALL THE BALLOONS

Think of all of the hopes and dreams of children you will destroy.

(I'm thinking of the spaceweather.com website where they routinely vend recaptured junk floated up into the atmosphere on their weather balloons to help underwrite STEM student's pizza parties)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 03, 2023 08:35 AM (l7lsb)

135 Maybe we should have adequately and rigorously tested an entirely novel and new kind of drug before widely distributing it and using the power of the state to compel people to take it.

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That statement will have you marked for cancellation, young man!

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 03, 2023 08:35 AM (sVtYq)

136 No one would know Nena's name.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

This a hundred times!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023 08:36 AM (bJxw1)

137 This little gem was hidden in the debt article:


"As a result of this fiscal profligacy, we racked up more debt held by the public in the 12 months of 2020 than we did during the four years of World War II-again, even after adjusting for inflation. And then we spent even more in 2021 than we did in 2020."


In two years of unrestricted covid spending we blew through more than double the money we spent to win WWII and we have absolutely nothing to show for it except a vaccine that doesn't work and kills people.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 03, 2023 08:36 AM (uNylN)

138 Nonfarm payroll increase of 517 K vs estimate of 186K. Dow down 160.

Posted by: Jen the original at February 03, 2023 08:36 AM (pKaGc)

139 Whatever the arguments, there is no arguing that this speech in 1838 is an almost verbatim description of what happened to this nation.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 08:33 AM (x0n13)
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this

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 08:36 AM (f+YYY)

140 >The simplest explanation for the balloon debacle is that our government is an occupation government that takes orders from our adversaries.

Posted by: San Franpsycho


and we can't piss off the Chinaman. We owe him a lot of money.

Posted by: DB at February 03, 2023 08:36 AM (geLO8)

141 That statement will have you marked for cancellation, young man!
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 03, 2023 08:35 AM (sVtYq)
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Oh, I'm already doomed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:36 AM (t0OGg)

142 134 When I am President, I will shoot down ALL THE BALLOONS

Think of all of the hopes and dreams of children you will destroy.

(I'm thinking of the spaceweather.com website where they routinely vend recaptured junk floated up into the atmosphere on their weather balloons to help underwrite STEM student's pizza parties)
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 03, 2023 08:35 AM (l7lsb)

That's fine. It's time for all the kids to grow up and become disciplined and regimented adults.

Posted by: XTC at February 03, 2023 08:36 AM (UnA8+)

143 That statement will have you marked for cancellation, young man!
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 03, 2023 08:35 AM (sVtYq)

Objection! Joe is not a 'young' man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 03, 2023 08:37 AM (CsVWE)

144 LOL.

@catturd2 · 12h
I bet the Chinese spy balloon isn’t brave enough to fly over Alabama.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:37 AM (Vwz3I)

145 138 Nonfarm payroll increase of 517 K vs estimate of 186K. Dow down 160.
Posted by: Jen the original at February 03, 2023 08:36 AM (pKaGc)

If it's like the last increase, it will be all part time work, and no full time adds...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 03, 2023 08:37 AM (exHjb)

146 One thing that really scares me, and it was intimated with this Walker chap, is that mRNA is going to rapidly seep into all forms of treatments and medications now. Very frightening stuff. Will there be no way to avoid being plied with that technology as time goes on? I frea it's going to supplant everything in the medical field eventually. To ask why is another question.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 03, 2023 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

147 Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023 08:32 AM (bJxw1)

Thanks; One of my favorite verses.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 03, 2023 08:38 AM (D+F6R)

148 "Pretty suspicious that our health 'authorities' pushed this on pregnant women.

Posted by: Chuck Martel"


Not really, considering being pregnant is now considered some type of disease.

Posted by: Ripley at February 03, 2023 08:38 AM (cUYo/)

149 frea=fear Typing too fast...

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 03, 2023 08:38 AM (sVtYq)

150 >When I am President, I will shoot down ALL THE BALLOONS

Think of all of the hopes and dreams of children you will destroy.



Okay...
When I am President, I will shoot down SOME OF THE BALLOONS

Posted by: DB at February 03, 2023 08:38 AM (geLO8)

151 Haha, "red zeppelin!"

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 08:39 AM (mqu1M)

152 Japanese pensioners are probably a little worried to hear this news...

Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund -- the world's largest -- reported a fourth consecutive quarterly loss on Friday, taking it to its longest losing streak in 20 years.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 08:39 AM (f+YYY)

153 Aside from the birth rate, a more important factor might be the miscarriage rate. A falling birth rate could just mean less reproduction, which is very possible sans vaccine. A rising miscarriage rate is more troubling.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:32 AM

I have articles saved somewhere in my bookmarks from research over the past year that showed that miscarriages among "COVID vaccinated" pregnant women were up dramatically. They had it broken down by trimester. I forget in which trimester the miscarriage rates were more prevalent.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 08:39 AM (Do5/p)

154 Shoot___ down the balloon would be racist. right?
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Guess the typo!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:39 AM (Vwz3I)

155 One thing that really scares me, and it was intimated with this Walker chap, is that mRNA is going to rapidly seep into all forms of treatments and medications now.
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My doctor tells me they are "hopeful" next years flu vaccine will be mRNA based. Why would anyone want that, other than Pfizer and Moderna shareholders, I wonder?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 08:41 AM (f+YYY)

156 The balloon was undetected by billion of dollars in defense technology. Being undetectable it also evaded our countermeasures to known spying methods such as satellites. A properly equipped balloon can loiter over sensitive spots and such up a lot of intel both visually and signal related. They have no idea what the capabilities of the ballon are so they can't even start a damage assessment. They also have no idea if this is the first or only balloon. Remember, civilians on a commercial aircraft spotted it. Ideally they want to capture it to help with the damage assessment. But right now the Pentagon geniuses, the same ones who left this giant hole on our defenses, can't figure that out. By the way, you can't just expend ordnance to take it down. A lot of that will hit the ground unpredictably.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 03, 2023 08:41 AM (wgAtL)

157 I will shoot down ALL THE BALLOONS


Dude, why do you hate breast implants so much?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 08:41 AM (xlMji)

158 >> to try to undermine an agenda that is designed to lift up the health, safety, and well-being of the American people.


"designed to"

Love that Jeffries is not even promising results, simply intentions. Oh, what good intentions they always claim to have! And messaging, they always brag about their good narrative, or when it fails, how they didn't sell it in a way that Americans would understand (Obama's favorite explanation).

Intentions and messaging do not make a functional government.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 08:43 AM (mqu1M)

159 Norway Finds Rare Earth Metals That Could Make Europe Less Dependent On China

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:43 AM (Vwz3I)

160
Maybe we should have adequately and rigorously tested an entirely novel and new kind of drug before widely distributing it and using the power of the state to compel people to take it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:34 AM

In the year 2002 some corona type disease went around the world but quickly died out. Since then vaccines were experimented with against that version. Every study (on animals) for almost two decades had to be halted because of VAED - vaccine associated enhanced disease.

These bastids knew that another animal study would almost undoubtedly have the same result. They needed the cover of 'Operation Warp Speed' to skip the animal study. The animal study is now on humans and enhanced disease and sudden death seem to be the outcome. Trump needs to sit down and shut up about his role in this debacle.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 03, 2023 08:43 AM (enJYY)

161 I will shoot down ALL THE BALLOONS


Dude, why do you hate breast implants so much?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 08:41 AM (xlMji)
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Perfect. Guns and boobs all wrapped up in one comment.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 08:43 AM (f+YYY)

162 123 Thanks, Fen. Glad you liked it. And Hi!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 08:44 AM (xlMji)

163 BTW. The Chinese spy balloon is an act of war which should beget the most severe response possible. But Biden doesn't want to get cut off from his China graft and Milley doesn't want to offend his friends.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 03, 2023 08:44 AM (wgAtL)

164 >>One thing that really scares me, and it was intimated with this Walker chap, is that mRNA is going to rapidly seep into all forms of treatments and medications now.


. . . and blood transfusions, too?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 08:44 AM (mqu1M)

165 >>Dude, why do you hate breast implants so much?


"I know, right?"
-- Crossdressing Canadian HS Shop teacher

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 08:45 AM (mqu1M)

166 JJ

Merry Christmas

https://youtu.be/QgcclbBmdEY?t=1458

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 08:45 AM (BRHaw)

167 One thing that really scares me, and it was intimated with this Walker chap, is that mRNA is going to rapidly seep into all forms of treatments and medications now.


. . . and blood transfusions, too?
Posted by: Lizzy


Yep.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 03, 2023 08:45 AM (G8h7g)

168 I'm not a big fan of professional tennis, so I don't know why Novak Djokovic didn't get much love from tennis fans (not as warm and cuddly as McEnroe?). But I'm a huge fan for the way he resisted the demands that he get vaccinated. He was unfairly treated by Australia last year (he invited by and followed all the rules to get into the state, but the feds kicked him out anyway because he was a symbol of vax resistance which would undermine the country's vax compliance efforts). He won the Australian Open. But he still can't come to the US Open because of Biden's rules on unvaxxed foreigners coming into the US legally (illegals are exempt).

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 03, 2023 08:46 AM (fs1hN)

169 164 >>One thing that really scares me, and it was intimated with this Walker chap, is that mRNA is going to rapidly seep into all forms of treatments and medications now.


. . . and blood transfusions, too?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 08:44 AM (mqu1M)

Now do HIV!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 08:46 AM (BRHaw)

170 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

171 159 Norway Finds Rare Earth Metals That Could Make Europe Less Dependent On China
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:43 AM (Vwz3I)


And will do nothing to mine them. They are still guilt ridden over all that North Sea oil.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 08:47 AM (x0n13)

172 "I would like to have flown in a balloon over Montana."

- that guy in the submarine movie who was also in that dinosaur movie

Posted by: DB at February 03, 2023 08:47 AM (geLO8)

173 159 Norway Finds Rare Earth Metals That Could Make Europe Less Dependent On China
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HOW DARE YOU!!!!!

Posted by: Autistic Swedish Teenager at February 03, 2023 08:47 AM (fs1hN)

174 "As a result of this fiscal profligacy, we racked up more debt held by the public in the 12 months of 2020 than we did during the four years of World War II-again, even after adjusting for inflation. And then we spent even more in 2021 than we did in 2020." ...
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 03, 2023 08:36 AM (uNylN)
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This is a disingenuous argument. The profligacy of the COVID response was appalling and unjustifiable, but it wasn't as big as the War. Inflation is a poor way to adjust spending at that scale and over that period of time. Inflation is useful for more recent comparisons, but over that time scale the fact that inflation doesn't account for economic growth is a serious problem.

WWII cost around $350 billion in 1940 dollars. The combined GDP of the war years of 1941-1945 was $950 billion. WWII cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 30%-35% of GDP.

We've spent something like $5 trillion on the COVID response. The final cost will probably be closer to $10 trillion. The combined GDP of 2020-2022 is probably around $67 trillion or $68 trillion. The COVID response will have cost us around 15% of GDP. It isn't comparable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:47 AM (t0OGg)

175 Man arrested at Windsor Castle with crossbow pleads guilty to treason for planning to attack Queen Elizabeth.
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Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, admitted the offences at London's Old Bailey after he was arrested wearing a hood, mask and gloves in the grounds of the castle to the west of London at about 8 am on Christmas Day, 2021. [...]

When he was approached by a protection officer, Mr Chail said: "I am here to kill the queen."

He appeared at Friday's hearing at London's Old Bailey court via video link wearing a black jacket and spoke only to confirm his name and enter guilty pleas to the three charges of making threats to kill, possession of an offensive weapon, and an offence under the 1842 Treason Act.

Judge Jeremy Baker said he would sentence Mr Chail on March 31, and the court ordered medical reports be prepared.

In 1981, Marcus Sarjeant was sentenced to five years' imprisonment under the Treason Act after he pleaded guilty to firing blank shots at the Queen during the annual "Trooping the Colour" parade in central London.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:47 AM (Vwz3I)

176 How did Ford fall more than a billion dollars shy of hitting a profit target it gave Wall Street at the end of October?
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I predict Ford Motor Co is looking to replace its CEO.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 08:47 AM (f+YYY)

177 159 Norway Finds Rare Earth Metals That Could Make Europe Less Dependent On China
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:43 AM (Vwz3I)

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Strip mining is bad for the earth.

Do it in China instead. For the earth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 08:48 AM (LvTSG)

178 171 And will do nothing to mine them. They are still guilt ridden over all that North Sea oil.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 08:47 AM (x0n13)

Or they'll sell the mining rights to China.

Posted by: XTC at February 03, 2023 08:48 AM (UnA8+)

179 172 "I would like to have flown in a balloon over Montana."

- that guy in the submarine movie who was also in that dinosaur movie
Posted by: DB at February 03, 2023 08:47 AM (geLO


Doug McClure or Vincent Price?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 08:48 AM (x0n13)

180 From WSJ editorial page:

New York is bleeding taxpayers and business, so how does Gov. Kathy Hochul open her first legislative year? By proposing to raise taxes some more. That’s the economic news buried in the $227 billion budget she unveiled this week that includes a higher payroll tax plus a new CO2 cap-and-trade program.


Looks like more New Yorkers will be heading out of state.

JJ, you got out just in time.

Posted by: dantesed at February 03, 2023 08:48 AM (88xKn)

181 The fact that our good for nothing leadership on the R side don't stand on the floor and rile upon the left for their constant berating and demeaning of MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN pisses me off to no end.

Literally, MAGA means MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. The democrats treat it like it's some kind of polio outbreak and the Republicans don't say a thing.

We're so screwed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

182 174 We've spent something like $5 trillion on the COVID response. The final cost will probably be closer to $10 trillion. The combined GDP of 2020-2022 is probably around $67 trillion or $68 trillion. The COVID response will have cost us around 15% of GDP. It isn't comparable.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:47 AM (t0OGg)

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I dunno about that.

You seem to have compared them pretty well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 08:49 AM (LvTSG)

183
Shoot___ down the balloon would be racist. right?
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Guess the typo!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:39 AM

Instead of typing 'i n g' you typed 'i m g'. Pixy had to figure out a way to stop people from posting images so he came up with a workaround.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 03, 2023 08:49 AM (enJYY)

184 LOL, J.J.!

"Red Zeppelin" -- wish I'd thought of that ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 08:49 AM (ZDsBk)

185 Intentions and messaging do not make a functional government.
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Maybe, but it makes us feel good about our government, and that's all that matters.

And orangeman bad!

Posted by: Wine Moms at February 03, 2023 08:49 AM (fs1hN)

186 Look at the antics of Titty-Caca AOC, Bro-Fo Omar. Hell, Bernie Sanders a bust-out open Communist who Vermont elected Senator multiple times already.


C'mon you guys. Bernie Sanders just wrote a few books to get rich. Even said you should try it if you want a 2nd or 3rd home.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

187 179 172 "I would like to have flown in a balloon over Montana."

- that guy in the submarine movie who was also in that dinosaur movie
Posted by: DB at February 03, 2023 08:47 AM (geLO


Doug McClure or Vincent Price?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 08:48 AM (x0n13)

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"You may remember me from such films as 'Watch Out! There's a Sub in the Water!' and 'Mommy Married a Dinosaur'."
-Troy McClure

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 08:50 AM (LvTSG)

188 It'll be known sooner than then, but it will be a disaster if it's true. A true disaster, a catastrophe. One large enough to threaten the entire civilization if the outcome is common enough. If something like, say, a quarter of girls born to vaccinated mothers are infertile, that more or less guarantees a demographic collapse during the generation after next
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Remember how weird it was seeing the photos of the deep jungle natives carrying their grandparents 7 miles through the bush to get injected against a virus they wouldn't be exposed to?

The worldwide push makes sense.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 08:50 AM (0fs9V)

189 You have to wonder what this balloon can do that those can't.

Carry lots of fentanyl.

Posted by: t-bird at February 03, 2023 08:50 AM (Sv58p)

190 >Doug McClure or Vincent Price?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton


the collective encyclopedic knowledge of this group never ceases to amaze

Posted by: DB at February 03, 2023 08:50 AM (geLO8)

191


Whore Rotta Rove, b/w When the Revee Bleaks

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 08:50 AM (x0n13)

192 The balloon was undetected by billion of dollars in defense technology. Being undetectable it also evaded our countermeasures to known spying methods such as satellites. A properly equipped balloon can loiter over sensitive spots and such up a lot of intel both visually and signal related. They have no idea what the capabilities of the ballon are so they can't even start a damage assessment. They also have no idea if this is the first or only balloon. Remember, civilians on a commercial aircraft spotted it. Ideally they want to capture it to help with the damage assessment. But right now the Pentagon geniuses, the same ones who left this giant hole on our defenses, can't figure that out. By the way, you can't just expend ordnance to take it down. A lot of that will hit the ground unpredictably.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 03, 2023 08:41 AM (wgAtL)


They detected it. They just allowed it. THAT'S the bigger concern.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

193 184 LOL, J.J.!

"Red Zeppelin" -- wish I'd thought of that ...
Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 08:49 AM (ZDsBk)


@ 191

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 08:51 AM (x0n13)

194 168 - Chuck: I agree with your Djokovic sentiments. I used to root against him because I was a fan of Roger Federer, who had a very elegant and aesthetically pleasing game… along with a winning personality. He was universally loved by tennis fans. Djokovic was not well liked for years because he had a prickly personality and his game was brute force based on his amazing athleticism… almost seemed unfair when he was winning like a robot while Federer elegantly floated around the court but acted like an “every-man.” Now Djokovic has my complete respect as he stood up to the mob and it was a pleasure to watch him demolish the field in Melbourne.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 03, 2023 08:52 AM (b2dH9)

195 Since we now have confirmed that the BLS falsely inflates the jobs numbers by around 1 million, the real headline is: The US lost 500,000 jobs in January

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 03, 2023 08:52 AM (RLhk3)

196 >>I'm not a big fan of professional tennis, so I don't know why Novak Djokovic didn't get much love from tennis fans (not as warm and cuddly as McEnroe?). But I'm a huge fan for the way he resisted the demands that he get vaccinated.

I think you answered your question with your 2nd sentence. He was unpersoned by the media when he refused to take the vaccine.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 08:53 AM (ZLI7S)

197 If it were possible I'd almost feel sorry for the Fed. They are trying like hell to mop up all the extra money they created, recognizing now it was a big mistake...

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It wasn't, though. It was intentional. It's a tax increase without legislation. It's seizing the 401Ks like they have been discussing for years.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 08:53 AM (0fs9V)

198 How did Ford fall more than a billion dollars shy of hitting a profit target it gave Wall Street at the end of October?
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I predict Ford Motor Co is looking to replace its CEO.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

If only their pick-up trucks were selling.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 03, 2023 08:53 AM (bJxw1)

199 BREAKING NEWS!!!

Agents for the FBI and DOJ have discovered that the Chinese gov't has brought across the southern US border and planted in 15 major American cities -

at least 20 hydrogen bombs.

The FBI and DOJ are keeping a close watch on the bombs in case they try to do anything dangerous.

The bombs will remain in place as their removal and transport would violate current US environmental law.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 03, 2023 08:54 AM (KLPy8)

200 Posted by: Autistic Swedish Teenager at February 03, 2023 08:47 AM (fs1hN)

I think she is 21

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 08:54 AM (BRHaw)

201 Niner - nine red barroons

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 08:54 AM (0fs9V)

202 > They detected it. They just allowed it. THAT'S the bigger concern.
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No. What's concerning is that this isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened. Read the article I linked above.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 03, 2023 08:55 AM (Q4IgG)

203 China has aircraft, ships and satellites all capable of spying on the US. And hundreds if not thousands of individuals working for the Chinese embedded in most sensitive areas of industry and government/military.

You have to wonder what this balloon can do that those can't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 03, 2023 08:26 AM (Q4IgG)

Dispersing biological agents?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 03, 2023 08:55 AM (Zvtjl)

204 Balloons Over Parador ..... would make a good starring vehicle for Richard Dreyfus

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at February 03, 2023 08:55 AM (oV3Rr)

205 CBD,

Salt Lick is an Austin classic. I haven't been there in years but there giant Flintstone sized, smear your face with sauce BBQ'd beef ribs were unbeatable. If they ain't been COVIDized and Biden-sized.

Franklin's is the fair-haired child of Austin. Great baseline BBQ. But, you'll probably have to tolerate a line. A long line. However, work day and cold temps may have eliminated that today.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 03, 2023 08:55 AM (KLPy8)

206 179 172 "I would like to have flown in a balloon over Montana."

- that guy in the submarine movie who was also in that dinosaur movie
Posted by: DB at February 03, 2023 08:47 AM (geLO


- and who also was the grown up Damien.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 03, 2023 08:55 AM (4I/2K)

207
The only woman I knew who became pregnant during the pandemic miscarried after the vaccine had become available. As her husband is in the medical field I am almost certain she got the jab. But nothing to see.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 03, 2023 08:56 AM (enJYY)

208 >>Now do HIV!


Pretty sure the activists have gotten AIDS-era restrictions against donating blood if you engage in sodomy lifted?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 08:57 AM (mqu1M)

209 >>And will do nothing to mine them. They are still guilt ridden over all that North Sea oil.

They seem to have gotten over it when they realized that huge financial benefits that oil gives to all Norwegian citizens.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 08:57 AM (ZLI7S)

210 The Biden junta doesn't see China as an enemy or even a rival so they don't give a crap about China spying on us.

However you? They see you very much as their enemy.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 03, 2023 08:58 AM (lc5cP)

211 Canada’s national defence confirmed on Friday a potential second incident of a suspected spy balloon and said that officials are monitoring it.

“A high-altitude surveillance balloon was detected and its movements are being actively tracked by [North American Aerospace Defense Command] NORAD,” the national defence said in a statement.

Posted by: DB at February 03, 2023 08:58 AM (geLO8)

212 Second Balloon Theory

Posted by: DB at February 03, 2023 08:58 AM (geLO8)

213 Must kill the Queen.

Must kill the Queen.

Posted by: reggie jackson at February 03, 2023 08:58 AM (Vwz3I)

214 Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 08:53 AM (ZLI7S)
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I'm a terribly ineffective comment writer, I should have said 'not much love for Djokovic from fans pre-covid'. LinusVanPelt has great explanation above.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 03, 2023 08:58 AM (fs1hN)

215 The chinee balloon could be taked down by your average moron flting an ultralight and armed with S&W Governor

Posted by: Eromero at February 03, 2023 08:59 AM (0G42s)

216 I suspect they have not shot the balloon down because they can not shoot the balloon down. A patriot missile only goes to about 60,000 ft. Maybe 70. But 100,000 or 120,000 is a whole other ballgame.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 03, 2023 08:59 AM (DPfSO)

217 The only woman I knew who became pregnant during the pandemic miscarried after the vaccine had become available. As her husband is in the medical field I am almost certain she got the jab. But nothing to see.

The left: We have to reduce the human population by any means NOW or we all die. This isn't a joke - if we don't reduce world population by 90% within a few years it is the end of EVERYTHING.

Also the left: You think we'd let some experimental gene therapy we introduced reduce the human population through fertility and health issues? Where would you ever get that idea?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 03, 2023 08:59 AM (lc5cP)

218 Perfect. Guns and boobs all wrapped up in one comment.

Reminds me of the short-story assignment where the contestants were to write a story that must include elements of Religion, Royalty, Mystery and Sex.

The shortest:
"Oh God, I'm pregnant" said the Queen, "who is the father?"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 03, 2023 09:00 AM (l7lsb)

219 Since this is a smart military blog:

Are our ICBM sites hardened against EMP attack?

Posted by: DB at February 03, 2023 09:00 AM (geLO8)

220 . . . The only possible upside is that American Chavism would make the middle class more receptive to the real Right. When threatened by a radical Left that’s openly anti-white, the white middle class will realize that multicultural America is not a utopia.

This is why it is extremely important for the "real Right" to stick to values and principles, no matter how unpopular they may be in the moment. Because when people start waking up to the Left's destruction (if they ever do), they will want to turn to someone, something, some movement in which to put their trust to turn things around. If the Right is simply a light version of the Left or is a weak movement which does not really believe in the principles to which it claims, people will not take it seriously.

Reagan's conservatism was not popular right away. But when people experienced the failure of Jimmy Carter, they turned to Reagan's conservatism. Reagan never stopped preaching his principles for years before he eventually rose to prominence and eventually Governor and President.

I worry that, as has been exposed in places like NRO, that many people on the Right are frauds and in it for the grift.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 09:00 AM (Do5/p)

221 I suspect they have not shot the balloon down because they can not shoot the balloon down. A patriot missile only goes to about 60,000 ft. Maybe 70. But 100,000 or 120,000 is a whole other ballgame.

We had anti-satellite missiles during the cold war. It could be we let them all rust away but I'm guessing they are still on some military base somewhere

Posted by: 18-1 at February 03, 2023 09:00 AM (lc5cP)

222 From Pixy's earlier link to the Red Zeppelin (at abc.net.au):

"Senior US military leaders considered shooting down the spy balloon over Montana, which is home to one of the nation's three nuclear missile silo fields at Malmstrom Air Force Base ..."

Damn, I figured we had a hell of a lot more missile silo fields than that -- and maybe we do but they're somewhat stealthily hidden? Brings back memories of the old "MX Missile" system proposed during the Reagan administration to put ICBMs on railroads as part of relocatable train-based launchers.

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 09:01 AM (ZDsBk)

223

I saw Guns 'n Boobs open for Guns 'n Roses at the Forum in '93.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 09:01 AM (x0n13)

224 We had anti-satellite missiles during the cold war. It could be we let them all rust away but I'm guessing they are still on some military base somewhere
Posted by: 18-1 at February 03, 2023 09:00 AM (lc5cP)
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Probably in Montana, somewhere...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 03, 2023 09:01 AM (YIVH2)

225 I suspect they have not shot the balloon down because they can not shoot the balloon down. A patriot missile only goes to about 60,000 ft. Maybe 70. But 100,000 or 120,000 is a whole other ballgame.

I thought that this balloon was first seen by airline passengers in aircraft that flies no higher than 40 ft.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 03, 2023 09:01 AM (l7lsb)

226 This is why it is extremely important for the "real Right" to stick to values and principles, no matter how unpopular they may be in the moment.

When I talk to LIVs they often tell me there is no difference between the parties and...it is hard to argue that point.

From the perspective of a LIV was anything different between the presidencies of Shrub and Oblala?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 03, 2023 09:02 AM (lc5cP)

227 216 I suspect they have not shot the balloon down because they can not shoot the balloon down. A patriot missile only goes to about 60,000 ft. Maybe 70. But 100,000 or 120,000 is a whole other ballgame.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 03, 2023 08:59 AM (DPfSO)


SR-71 out of mothballs for one last little fun run.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 09:02 AM (x0n13)

228 Back from the supe; and I remain convinced that there is a secret law in Pa. prohibiting road repair.

Posted by: JT at February 03, 2023 09:02 AM (T4tVD)

229
They seem to have gotten over it when they realized that huge financial benefits that oil gives to all Norwegian citizens.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 08:57 AM

That and 99% of their electricity is generated from hydroelectric puts them in an enviable position. I don't know where they sit on the socialist scale though.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 03, 2023 09:03 AM (enJYY)

230 The only woman I knew who became pregnant during the pandemic miscarried after the vaccine had become available. As her husband is in the medical field I am almost certain she got the jab. But nothing to see.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 03, 2023 08:56 AM (enJYY)

My youngest daughter was in college during the pandemic and was required to get the vaxx(s) to attend her last year of classes and work at her internship. Plus, she's going through that liberal phase that some youngsters do, so Dad is just patted on the head. She's with a great guy and marriage is in the air. I do worry about their reproductive success now with these reports coming out.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 03, 2023 09:03 AM (4I/2K)

231 I thought that this balloon was first seen by airline passengers in aircraft that flies no higher than 40 ft.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 03, 2023 09:01 AM (l7lsb)
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Uh, I think you left off a few zeros there...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 03, 2023 09:03 AM (YIVH2)

232 Wouldn't that be a Chinese Spy Barroon?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 03, 2023 09:03 AM (UuD2k)

233 The gov't does not want to come out and say "We have no ability to defend against this balloon" so they play childish footsie "Well, that stupid ol balloon can't get any info, anyway"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 03, 2023 09:03 AM (DPfSO)

234 During WWII, the Japanese released balloons with some sort of incendiary in them off the West Coast to start fires in the US. A lady in Oregon died after coming across a downed one in a forest. One balloon made it as far east as Michigan.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 09:03 AM (xlMji)

235 Newsrooms Are Now Officially Democrats’ Newsletter Operations
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"Now"

😂😂😂

Posted by: ... at February 03, 2023 09:03 AM (rG2st)

236 humans send robot spaceships to the edge of the solar system

we fly helicopters on Mars

we land on comets

we can't shoot down a fucken balloon?

Posted by: DB at February 03, 2023 09:03 AM (geLO8)

237 145 138 Nonfarm payroll increase of 517 K vs estimate of 186K. Dow down 160.
Posted by: Jen the original at February 03, 2023 08:36 AM (pKaGc)

If it's like the last increase, it will be all part time work, and no full time adds...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 03, 2023 08:37 AM (exHjb)

Government employment alone increased by 74K in January.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 03, 2023 09:03 AM (/iWhV)

238 Back from the supe; and I remain convinced that there is a secret law in Pa. prohibiting road repair.
Posted by: JT at February 03, 2023 09:02 AM (T4tVD)

Strange, I think there is secret law here locally as well.

Posted by: dantesed at February 03, 2023 09:04 AM (88xKn)

239 So the US Military can't figure out how to get the balloon down but we're the most powerful country on the planet they keep telling us.

What's the MSM saying this morning? I don't want to look.

Posted by: Ziba at February 03, 2023 09:04 AM (4h9M3)

240 Back from the supe; and I remain convinced that there is a secret law in Pa. prohibiting road repair.
Posted by: JT at February 03, 2023 09:02 AM (T4tVD)
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New Jersey has that law. Also, we prohibit roads from being well constructed in the first place.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 09:04 AM (C/zvd)

241 My only regret is that I do not own my own anti-aircraft missile battery.

Posted by: Archer at February 03, 2023 09:04 AM (gmo/4)

242 Dispersing biological agents?

That is what Pfizer, DARPA and the medial community are for.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 03, 2023 09:04 AM (l7lsb)

243 201 Niner - nine red barroons
Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 03, 2023 08:54 AM (0fs9V)

I posted that earlier

The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
When ninety-nine red balloons go by

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 09:04 AM (BRHaw)

244 "New York is bleeding taxpayers and business, so how does Gov. Kathy Hochul open her first legislative year? By proposing to raise taxes some more. That’s the economic news buried in the $227 billion budget she unveiled this week that includes a higher payroll tax plus a new CO2 cap-and-trade program. "

New York largely gets what it voted for. I am way past the point where any empathy is due those who continue to support its destruction either to assuage their political views or receive a taxpayer funded pension paid for by confiscatory taxes. Enjoy your crime ridden neighborhood, failing schools, bleak future and baby killin. Because the people who are largely funding it are leaving. Maybe you can hug a charging station for comfort.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 03, 2023 09:04 AM (wgAtL)

245 My birdbath is frozen solid, if you're keeping score at home.

Posted by: JT at February 03, 2023 09:04 AM (T4tVD)

246 >SR-71 out of mothballs for one last little fun run.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

and get Maverick on the phone

Posted by: DB at February 03, 2023 09:05 AM (geLO8)

247 I thought that this balloon was first seen by airline passengers in aircraft that flies no higher than 40 ft.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

You can still see something above you.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 03, 2023 09:05 AM (DPfSO)

248 Agents for the FBI and DOJ have discovered that the Chinese gov't has brought across the southern US border and planted in 15 major American cities -

at least 20 hydrogen bombs.
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The woods are rovery dack and deep
But I have plomises to keep
And I have mires to go befo I sreep

Posted by: chinese mushroom farmer in CA at February 03, 2023 09:05 AM (Vwz3I)

249 They detected it. They just allowed it. THAT'S the bigger concern.

Of course we allowed it! I mean, we could totally take out a balloon at 100,000 feet. We just choose not to. Yeah, that's the ticket...

Posted by: The Totally Modern Milley Military at February 03, 2023 09:06 AM (amJF4)

250 Back from the supe; and I remain convinced that there is a secret law in Pa. prohibiting road repair.
Posted by: JT at February 03, 2023 09:02 AM (T4tVD)
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New Jersey has that law. Also, we prohibit roads from being well constructed in the first place.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

LOL !!!

Posted by: JT at February 03, 2023 09:06 AM (T4tVD)

251 >>My birdbath is frozen solid, if you're keeping score at home.

It's going to be a banner weekend for plumbers up here. Pipes will be bursting all over New England.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 09:06 AM (ZLI7S)

252 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 03, 2023 09:06 AM (T4tVD)

253 >>Cory Booker silent on NJ whale deaths, offshore wind despite previously authoring whale protection bill


This is just one story of many nowadays that read like the opening of an old apocalypse book or movie. Wasn't there a Star Trek movie where they had to go back to old earth and rescue whales?!? Another one is the people who want to shoot sulfur into the atmosphere to block the sun?? And then there's the ghoulish tinkering with livestock feed.

Crazy times we are living in, super-duper CRAZYpants times -- and it keeps coming back to Bill Gates. All those old books and movies had colorful, obviously evil dudes while Gates is just . . . bland, pudgy, and awkward.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 09:06 AM (mqu1M)

254 Agents for the FBI and DOJ have discovered that the Chinese gov't has brought across the southern US border and planted in 15 major American cities -

at least 20 hydrogen bombs.

Ok, let's start pissing China off as much as we can then.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 03, 2023 09:07 AM (lc5cP)

255 My birdbath is frozen solid, if you're keeping score at home.

Posted by: JT at February 03, 2023 09:04 AM (T4tVD)


Help is on the way. It's going up to 58F in my part of South Dakota today.

Posted by: Archer at February 03, 2023 09:07 AM (gmo/4)

256 Developing Female Fetuses Could Be Rendered Infertile, but It Will Not Fully Be Known Until 20 Years' Time
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 08:17 AM (Do5/p)

Kinda convenient that the people responsible will be dead of old age before we find out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 03, 2023 09:07 AM (uvymP)

257 Joe said yesterday that “Half of the women in my administration are women”. Does that mean the rest are Rachel Levine?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 03, 2023 09:07 AM (X4R3E)

258 My only regret is that I do not own my own anti-aircraft missile battery.
Posted by: Archer at February 03, 2023 09:04 AM (gmo/4)
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My regret is that I couldn't get some of that booty Biden gave the Taliban. A single container load would set me right up.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 09:07 AM (C/zvd)

259 Funny comment from last night's Cafe:

239 Why do you think its Chinese?

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It has USA HOT ERR BARROON stenciled on the side

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 02, 2023 09:17 PM (0fs9V)

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 09:07 AM (ZDsBk)

260 In 1981, Marcus Sarjeant was sentenced to five years' imprisonment under the Treason Act after he pleaded guilty to firing blank shots at the Queen during the annual "Trooping the Colour" parade in central London.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 08:47 AM (Vwz3I)

Sarjeant's gunshots spooked the horse that QE was riding during her procession that day. If she wasn't an experienced equestrienne, she would have gotten hurt falling off that horse, or even worse. It was as good as attempted murder. He got off easy.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 03, 2023 09:07 AM (/iWhV)

261 Up, up, and away. In my beautiful Chinese Spy Barroon!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 03, 2023 09:07 AM (UuD2k)

262 I suspect they have not shot the balloon down because they can not shoot the balloon down. A patriot missile only goes to about 60,000 ft. Maybe 70. But 100,000 or 120,000 is a whole other ballgame.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 03, 2023 08:59 AM


We have satellite killer missiles that F-15's can fire. Can't remember the exact range of those things but if they can leave the atmosphere to hit a satellite in orbit they can hit a balloon *hoovering* inside the atmosphere.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 03, 2023 09:08 AM (uNylN)

263 42 going to 60 down here by the Bay.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 09:08 AM (BRHaw)

264 Nonfarm payroll increase of 517 K vs estimate of 186K. Dow down 160.
Posted by: Jen the original



I wonder how many of those are second or third jobs for people already employed, but not making enough money to survive? Oh, I forgot, don't mention that.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 03, 2023 09:08 AM (lTGtQ)

265 All those old books and movies had colorful, obviously evil dudes while Gates is just . . . bland, pudgy, and awkward.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 09:06 AM (mqu1M)
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....and, evil

Posted by: Melinda French at February 03, 2023 09:08 AM (C/zvd)

266 Tell the DOD people wearing "MAGA" t-shirts were seen in the balloon. Not only will it be shot down, but all survivors will be dispatched. Uncle Lloyd Austin will prevent the murderers with more medals than Idi Amin wears.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 03, 2023 09:09 AM (KSNKu)

267 My birdbath is frozen solid, if you're keeping score at home.
Posted by: JT at February 03, 2023 09:04 AM (T4tVD)

The birds must be pissed off at you.

Posted by: dantesed at February 03, 2023 09:09 AM (88xKn)

268 I thought that this balloon was first seen by airline passengers in aircraft that flies no higher than 40 ft.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

You can still see something above you.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 03, 2023 09:05 AM (DPfSO)

Yes, dogs CAN look up!

Posted by: Shaun of the Dead at February 03, 2023 09:09 AM (4I/2K)

269 *sings*

I'm movin' to Montana soon

Gonna be a dental floss tycoon

Gonna be observed by Chinese balloons


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smZA9Jv3qH0

Posted by: Zombie Frank Zappa at February 03, 2023 09:09 AM (KLPy8)

270 Do not worry citizens, Gen. Milley made a phone call to his masters, the Red Chinese. All is well.

Posted by: Archer at February 03, 2023 09:09 AM (gmo/4)

271 I thought that this balloon was first seen by airline passengers in aircraft that flies no higher than 40 ft.

Ah, you're using metric. You meant 40 kilofeet.

Posted by: t-bird at February 03, 2023 09:09 AM (ptElO)

272 >> So the US Military can't figure out how to get the balloon down but we're the most powerful country on the planet they keep telling us.


We can, and regularly do, drone-strike a jihadi halfway around the world, but sure, we have absolutely no clue how to take down that balloon you guyz!
Unbelievable.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 09:10 AM (mqu1M)

273 "Monitoring" the balloon. Monitoring takes on a whole new meaning.

Posted by: Ziba at February 03, 2023 09:10 AM (4h9M3)

274 My bride is still not gruntled that I made her mover out of Florida. I don't have the heart to tell her we've already past todays high and we are headed to single digit temps.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 09:10 AM (C/zvd)

275 I'm sure they can shoot it down one way or the other:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_weapon

I'm less pessimistic about why they're allowing the balloon to continue on its path.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 03, 2023 09:11 AM (vSzkg)

276 168 I'm not a big fan of professional tennis, so I don't know why Novak Djokovic didn't get much love from tennis fans (not as warm and cuddly as McEnroe?). But I'm a huge fan for the way he resisted the demands that he get vaccinated. He was unfairly treated by Australia last year (he invited by and followed all the rules to get into the state, but the feds kicked him out anyway because he was a symbol of vax resistance which would undermine the country's vax compliance efforts). He won the Australian Open. But he still can't come to the US Open because of Biden's rules on unvaxxed foreigners coming into the US legally (illegals are exempt).
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 03, 2023 08:46 AM (fs1hN)

I respected Federer, but preferred Nadal. Djokovic's vaccine stance made a fan out of me, however. I hope he breaks Nadal's record.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 03, 2023 09:11 AM (/iWhV)

277 If it is a Chinese balloon it will be China 63 decisions for US 0 by the Sundowner administration

Posted by: Skip at February 03, 2023 09:11 AM (Vc8DP)

278 A surface to air missile battery (Patriot) would need to be almost directly under the balloon and shoot straight up, and even then, if the balloon is over 60,000 ft, it is out of range.

An air to air missile shot from a fighter at 40,000ft might still be a challenge if the balloon is up at 100,000. The missile would have to be able to lock on first, and I am not sure there is enough air for it to maneuver up that high.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 03, 2023 09:11 AM (DPfSO)

279 Can't they get kids to throw rocks at it? It's how they killed the Red Balloon I remembered from my childhood.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 03, 2023 09:13 AM (/iWhV)

280 Sarjeant's gunshots spooked the horse that QE was riding during her procession that day. If she wasn't an experienced equestrienne, she would have gotten hurt falling off that horse, or even worse. It was as good as attempted murder. He got off easy.
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Reminiscent of one of the several assassination attempts on Victoria.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 09:13 AM (Vwz3I)

281 Can’t we send a fighter jet to intercept the balloon? Maybe have a Major Kong kinda guy open his canopy and toss a lasso it?

Posted by: MSNBC Reporterettte at February 03, 2023 09:13 AM (pzN/K)

282 Why no remake of Telefon with Chinese agents?!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 09:13 AM (Vwz3I)

283 More people would be arrested over memes, but much would remain the same. Political life in America would look more like contemporary Western Europe.

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Out: Dream Police.
In: Meme Police.

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 09:14 AM (ZDsBk)

284 If a laser can't burn a hole in that balloon then I'm not sure why China would bother stealing technology from us.

Posted by: t-bird at February 03, 2023 09:14 AM (Sv58p)

285 Red Zeppelin

There's your thread winner right there, folks!

Nice, JJ.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 03, 2023 09:14 AM (ykeLU)

286 I suspect they have not shot the balloon down because they can not shoot the balloon down. A patriot missile only goes to about 60,000 ft. Maybe 70. But 100,000 or 120,000 is a whole other ballgame.


NASAMS 3 can make that altitude.

Posted by: Archer at February 03, 2023 09:15 AM (gmo/4)

287 282 Why no remake of Telefon with Chinese agents?!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 09:13 AM (Vwz3I)

fall to go before I sreep

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 09:15 AM (BRHaw)

288 Seems to me there are 3 official reasons not to shoot down the spy balloon:


1- they don't know how
2- they don't want to piss off the balloon's owner
3- 'abundance of caution'

Posted by: DB at February 03, 2023 09:15 AM (geLO8)

289 There's speculation that the US is deliberately feeding the Red Zeppelin bogus intel. Perhaps moving stuff on the ground around to confuse operators back in China. To be honest, if you're not going to dispatch the thing then this would be next best option. Feed it bullshit.

But I'm not convinced our military or IC is smart enough to do that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 03, 2023 09:15 AM (Q4IgG)

290 When the junta says it is a 1)Chinese 2)spy 3)balloon I'm starting with the proposition that none of the three are true.

Posted by: torabora at February 03, 2023 09:15 AM (MkFn4)

291 Paging Thaddeus Lowe. Mr. Lowe, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 03, 2023 09:15 AM (xlMji)

292 Why is this being framed as some future development? This is the way of life in this country *now.* I know a lot of people are discomfited declaring the United States to be a technocratic tyranny that is well beyond the knee of the curve on totalitarianism, but it is what it is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 03, 2023 08:13 AM (t0OGg)

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Was going to make the same observation as Mannix did @ 60.

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 09:15 AM (ZDsBk)

293 Apparently the Chinese Politburo and WEF leadership are flying over its recently acquired territory and deciding where to set up the death camps. Flamboyant Milley and Uncle Austin won't interfere with their bosses' victory tour. Besides, there are Super MAGA types to be hunted down and murdered.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 03, 2023 09:16 AM (KSNKu)

294 214 Posted by: JackStraw at February 03, 2023 08:53 AM (ZLI7S)
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I'm a terribly ineffective comment writer, I should have said 'not much love for Djokovic from fans pre-covid'. LinusVanPelt has great explanation above.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 03, 2023 08:58 AM (fs1hN)

He was dickish with a temper...he got thrown out of the US Open pre-Covid for an outburst...that's why he wasn't liked vs Federer and Nadal. Both of those guys oozed charm, grace, and guts, but never lost it on court.

So, Djoko was unliked b/c he was unlikeable in his youth...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 03, 2023 09:16 AM (exHjb)

295 Any amateur astronomers tracking the balloon and posting its position?

Posted by: davidt at February 03, 2023 09:16 AM (SYTee)

296 289 There's speculation that the US is deliberately feeding the Red Zeppelin bogus intel. Perhaps moving stuff on the ground around to confuse operators back in China. To be honest, if you're not going to dispatch the thing then this would be next best option. Feed it bullshit.

But I'm not convinced our military or IC is smart enough to do that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 03, 2023 09:15 AM (Q4IgG)


Supposedly the stealth aircraft that was in "Top Gun 2" was photographed by the Chi-Com spy satellites and it spooked them. Supposedly.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 09:16 AM (x0n13)

297 I don't know if satellite killers were something we have or just said we have. Intersecting something with a predictable orbit is different than hitting a small, nearly stationary, but unpredictably drifting object.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 03, 2023 09:16 AM (DPfSO)

298 See, that's not a balloon sattelite you're watching over Montana, it's a trans-windsock. Totes harmless!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 09:16 AM (mqu1M)

299 zerohedge @zerohedge · 11h
Some Japanese security camera-related stocks extend their advance after a wave of customers committed unhygienic acts at sushi restaurants: BBG

WTF
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Conveyor-belt sushi restaurants are looking to take stricter hygiene precautions after a viral video of a customer licking communal items spawned copycats

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 09:17 AM (Vwz3I)

300
The notion that we didn't know it was there is laughable.

A leftist might say: "If NORAD could track Santa, they should've been able to see this thing!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 09:17 AM (x0n13)

301 #299 Japan -- nuked too much or not enough??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 09:17 AM (Vwz3I)

302 When I talk to LIVs they often tell me there is no difference between the parties and...it is hard to argue that point. From the perspective of a LIV was anything different between the presidencies of Shrub and Oblala?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 03, 2023 09:02 AM

Heck, I have been an obsessive SHIV (super high information voter, calling myself a HIV just doesn't sound very good) since 09/12/2001 and came to that conclusion about the political parties by 2006 with the Amnesty betrayal. And the GOP has just gotten progressively worse over the last 17 years. You don't have to be a LIV to notice there is no difference between the parties.

I think that is why Donald Trump was such a popular candidate and the re-elected with the most votes in American history. People were desperate for someone who would actually do what they said, who was not some despicable lying grifting politician. When none of the GOP candidates in 2016 took up any of the popular conservative policies on which he campaigned, that was the evidence that the entire GOP was full of frauds. And when President Trump governed as he campaigned, it led to the largest political base in history.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 09:17 AM (Do5/p)

303 299 zerohedge @zerohedge · 11h
Some Japanese security camera-related stocks extend their advance after a wave of customers committed unhygienic acts at sushi restaurants: BBG

WTF
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Conveyor-belt sushi restaurants are looking to take stricter hygiene precautions after a viral video of a customer licking communal items spawned copycats
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 09:17 AM (Vwz3I)


Cue Bugs Bunny music entitled "Power Station. . . "

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 09:17 AM (x0n13)

304 CLICK-CLICK "PULL!!"

Posted by: Katfish at February 03, 2023 09:18 AM (+Z2md)

305 Posted by: Zombie Frank Zappa at February 03, 2023 09:09 AM (KLPy
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Thank you for that link. It's a fine morning for some Zappa.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 03, 2023 09:18 AM (C/zvd)

306 When you expend ordnance from an aircraft, it comes down, unpredictably. You need a pretty good zone to ensure people on the ground don't get hurt. Even with guns, it would most likely be a GAU 22/A in 25mm. That leaves the barrel at over 3,500 FPS with a range over 3,600 meters and at altitude that range would be increased. It fires over 4,000 rounds per minute.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 03, 2023 09:18 AM (wgAtL)

307 We're a joke of a country.

They should've shot it down, captured it and figured out what it was for.

Then told China to EABOD's and not do that again.

Then, for shits and giggles, sent 100 balloons over China, 5 over that fucking dam that's going to destroy everything when it breaks. Just to remind them how stupid they are.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

308 Conveyor-belt sushi restaurants are looking to take stricter hygiene precautions after a viral video of a customer licking communal items spawned copycats

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 09:17 AM (Vwz3I)

EWWW! Gross! Yucko!


Now licking donuts on the other hand...

Posted by: Ariana Grande at February 03, 2023 09:19 AM (KLPy8)

309 Red Zeppelin

There's your thread winner right there, folks!

Nice, JJ.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 03, 2023 09:14 AM (ykeLU)


Would've been better if he used Cheech with the big honkin' joint.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

310 306 When you expend ordnance from an aircraft, it comes down, unpredictably. You need a pretty good zone to ensure people on the ground don't get hurt. Even with guns, it would most likely be a GAU 22/A in 25mm. That leaves the barrel at over 3,500 FPS with a range over 3,600 meters and at altitude that range would be increased. It fires over 4,000 rounds per minute.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 03, 2023 09:18 AM (wgAtL)


It's over Montana, not Central Park. And regardless of the threat to life and limb, the threat to national security is obvious.

But, we are in clownboner world now, and so it goes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 09:20 AM (x0n13)

311 >>Hunter is wrong. That laptop is Russian disinformation.
Posted by: 51 US Intelligence Officials


IIRC, none of them actually said it was Russian disinfo, they always said something like "it has all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation." Lotta wiggle words so that they weren't technically confirming, simply saying "you should trust my hunch on this because it appears to be Russian disinformation. Thene the MSM happily used their statements as proof that it was definitely so. Clintonian.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 09:21 AM (mqu1M)

312 Posted by: Muldoon at February 03, 2023 09:14 AM (ykeLU)


High praise indeed, sir!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 09:21 AM (x0n13)

313 It's over Montana, not Central Park. And regardless of the threat to life and limb, the threat to national security is obvious.

But, we are in clownboner world now, and so it goes.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 09:20 AM (x0n13)

Two worlds: spotted owls.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 03, 2023 09:22 AM (KSNKu)

314 [i[]
It's over Montana, not Central Park. And regardless of the threat to life and limb, the threat to national security is obvious.

But, we are in clownboner world now, and so it goes.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 09:20 AM (x0n13)


Just aim north. Bullets go to Canada. Who cares?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

315 It is just beaming down TikTok videos to remote areas.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 03, 2023 09:22 AM (DPfSO)

316 There's speculation that the US is deliberately feeding the Red Zeppelin bogus intel. Perhaps moving stuff on the ground around to confuse operators back in China. To be honest, if you're not going to dispatch the thing then this would be next best option. Feed it bullshit.

But I'm not convinced our military or IC is smart enough to do that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 03, 2023 09:15 AM

I don't believe that for a second. What I do believe is that this is what our government, military and IC would tell the American public they are doing, while actually doing the exact opposite and giving up intel to China.

Considering every government institution and corporation in the USA is infiltrated and corrupted by China already, it's not logical to think there is anyone in the US government which is against China at this point. The Deep State Uniparty protected them all through the Plandemic and rigged and stole elections to get rid of the only US politician working against China.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 09:22 AM (Do5/p)

317 It's worse than Sputnik!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 03, 2023 09:22 AM (4I/2K)

318 Unlike the witch Pelosi, Speaker POS McCarthy has no email on his page. And what he's got there is garbage word salad.

Posted by: torabora at February 03, 2023 09:23 AM (MkFn4)

319
"it has all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation."

Actually they used the word 'earmarks' - which was strange.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 03, 2023 09:23 AM (enJYY)

320 Excuse the all-caps-- it's a ZeroHedge affectation.

@zerohedge · 30m
*CHINA: BALLOON ENTERS US AIR BY MISTAKE DUE TO FORCE MAJEURE

CHINA FOREIGN MINISTRY, ON CHINESE UNMANNED AIRSHIPS APPEAR IN U.S. AIRSPACE: THE AIRSHIP FROM CHINA IS FOR METEOROLOGICAL AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 09:23 AM (Vwz3I)

321 Because when people start waking up to the Left's destruction (if they ever do), they will want to turn to someone, something, some movement in which to put their trust to turn things around. If the Right is simply a light version of the Left or is a weak movement which does not really believe in the principles to which it claims, people will not take it seriously.
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1) we here have been predicting (hoping) the people will wake up to the destruction of the left since Obama. They are not-- they love it or don't care.
2) nor has anyone of any heft on the right offered anything other than "well-managed socialism." Yes, not even Trump nor DeSantis. Placing moral managers--with principles!--of the current socialism is as destructive as the current immoral managers.
3) there is no party with any platform on reducing the size, scope and reach of the federal government. Nor is there an electorate sufficient to support such.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 03, 2023 09:23 AM (RLhk3)

322
CHINA FOREIGN MINISTRY, ON CHINESE UNMANNED AIRSHIPS APPEAR IN U.S. AIRSPACE: THE AIRSHIP FROM CHINA IS FOR METEOROLOGICAL AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 09:23 AM (Vwz3I)


Uh huh. It just happened to lose control and blow to US Airspace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

323 Today’s blacklisted Americans: Catholic students kicked out of Air & Space museum for wearing pro-life hats
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Those hats with "pro‐life" written on them are literally violent.

Posted by: Smithsonian at February 03, 2023 09:25 AM (fs1hN)

324 Seen on Twitter h/t @amuse

Let your enemies fly their spy balloons over your most sensitive military installations.

-Joe Tzu.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 03, 2023 09:25 AM (DPfSO)

325 >>Actually they used the word 'earmarks' - which was strange.

Ah, right - "earmarks"! The awkward phrasing stuck out.
After years of listening to the Clinton lie, one tends to notice this crap.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 09:25 AM (mqu1M)

326
Those hats with "pro‐life" written on them are literally violent.
Posted by: Smithsonian at February 03, 2023 09:25 AM (fs1hN)


"Your speech is violence. Our violence is speech."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

327 321 1) we here have been predicting (hoping) the people will wake up to the destruction of the left since Obama. They are not-- they love it or don't care.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 03, 2023 09:23 AM (RLhk3)

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This reminds me of how the left keeps wondering how the revolution never materializes.

People need to starve en masse before the people rise up en masse.

Stolen elections? Whatever. It's not like the parties are any different. They're all crooks and liars. Now, with my full belly, I'm going to watch the NFL.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 09:26 AM (LvTSG)

328 Nobody noticed it until it got to Montana?

Posted by: davidt at February 03, 2023 09:26 AM (SYTee)

329 "Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 09:20 AM (x0n13)"

Depends on where it is. The Chicoms weren't looking at the elk population. They were spying on military sites. It's not as easy a choice as some are making it. But I would partially agree they may not want to shoot it down only because of the intel value. They need to do a capability and intel assessment. That's kinda hard when the thing is in a million pieces scattered across rural Montana. The Pentagon geniuses who allowed this intrusion are probably trying to figure out how to capture it intact. My issue is more this is an act of war and the response has been flaccid ass covering. The obvious question is how did this happen with billions being spent on defense on whose ass should we nail to the door.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 03, 2023 09:26 AM (wgAtL)

330 It is just beaming down TikTok videos to remote areas.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 03, 2023 09:22 AM

Speaking of TikTok, Sydney Watson had a great video this week on China using TikTok as a weapon against Western nations. And I would say that it has worked perfectly. Just started in 2017 and over the next 5+ years look at how far Western culture has degraded even more than it already had been over the past 2 decades.

Sydney Watson: TikTok is deliberately poisoning a generation

https://bit.ly/3YjsYfV

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 03, 2023 09:26 AM (Do5/p)

331 Just aim north. Bullets go to Canada. Who cares?
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But that's where AOP lives!

I can live with that.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 09:26 AM (Vwz3I)

332 If the Right is simply a light version of the Left or is a weak movement which does not really believe in the principles to which it claims, people will not take it seriously.
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Word.

Posted by: 'Pope' Francis at February 03, 2023 09:26 AM (fs1hN)

333 301 #299 Japan -- nuked too much or not enough??
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 09:17 AM (Vwz3I)

Motto...motto...motto...

Posted by: XTC at February 03, 2023 09:26 AM (UnA8+)

334 and the Russian fishing trawlers festooned with all the antennae rather than nets, are off the US coastlines just peaceably fishing . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 03, 2023 09:27 AM (4I/2K)

335 The United States military looks more and more like its public education system: excessively funded to produce retard-level results with an active Fifth Column to undermine American interests. No doubt Milley is on the phone with his CCP counterpart telling him where to head the balloon next.

Cut the military budget to $0. We are an occupied nation at this point and there is no upside to doing the work for the puppet dictatorship.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 03, 2023 09:27 AM (KSNKu)

336 Nobody noticed it until it got to Montana?
Posted by: davidt


It was probably launched from Canada. Remember, the Chicoms have military access to Canada.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 03, 2023 09:28 AM (G8h7g)

337 "CHINA FOREIGN MINISTRY, ON CHINESE UNMANNED AIRSHIPS APPEAR IN U.S. AIRSPACE: THE AIRSHIP FROM CHINA IS FOR METEOROLOGICAL AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH"

And our response should be, fuck you very much.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 03, 2023 09:28 AM (wgAtL)

338 >>Today’s blacklisted Americans: Catholic students kicked out of Air & Space museum for wearing pro-life hats

Hope they were allowed to stop by the gift shop to pick up a Juneteenth tee on their way out!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 03, 2023 09:29 AM (mqu1M)

339
I seem to remember an "F-Troop" episode where Chief Wild Eagle spots a balloon. . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlyERnu7zUw

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 09:29 AM (x0n13)

340 "CHINA FOREIGN MINISTRY, ON CHINESE UNMANNED AIRSHIPS APPEAR IN U.S. AIRSPACE: THE AIRSHIP FROM CHINA IS FOR METEOROLOGICAL AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH"


It probably possibly is.

If they send balloon over from China where do they land in the US?

Remember Japan did something like this in WWII

Posted by: 18-1 at February 03, 2023 09:29 AM (lc5cP)

341 Rebecca Choong Wilkins 钟碧琪 @RChoongWilkins · 11 minutes
BREAKING: The Biden administration is weighing whether to postpone or cancel Antony Blinken’s upcoming trip to Beijing after detecting a Chinese surveillance balloon that was lingering at high altitude over sensitive nuclear sites in Montana.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 09:29 AM (Vwz3I)

342 TikTok is performing its intended mission. Very well designed and perfectly executed.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 03, 2023 09:30 AM (DPfSO)

343 No worries! Blinken is going to Beijing to give a strongly worded speech. And Milley has obtained a promise from CCP that they are not going to do anything "bad" to Americans. Everybody. needs to calm the fuvk down now.

Posted by: Ziba at February 03, 2023 09:30 AM (4h9M3)

344
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Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 09:31 AM (BRHaw)

345 Red Zepperin, in the official Chinese Foreign Ministry voice, I berieve.

Posted by: t-bird at February 03, 2023 09:31 AM (Sv58p)

346 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 03, 2023 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

347 Lookup the STARS (Fulton Surface to air Recovery System). Something like that could be retasked to capture a balloon.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 03, 2023 09:31 AM (wgAtL)

348 *sings*

Float on!
Float on Chinese Balloon
Up in the sky
I ain't had no COVID
Since January, February, June, or July

Posted by: naturalfake at February 03, 2023 09:32 AM (KLPy8)

349 Anyone with a little bit of knowledge looking at the array is calling bullshit on the Chicoms. They are betting we can't get it down intact to prove them wrong.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 03, 2023 09:33 AM (wgAtL)

350

See the sidebar.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 09:34 AM (x0n13)

351 The geometric shapes in this composition are uniquely used to create an appearance of infinite shapes that continue pattern deeper and deeper into themselves. This exquisite painting is a testament to the raw yet disciplined talent of the artist. Black and Violet is an example of the profound depth and powerful strength of the artist's devotion to inner beauty.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 03, 2023 09:34 AM (BRHaw)

352 nood abstract art

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 09:34 AM (Vwz3I)

353 The geometric shapes in this composition are uniquely used to create an appearance of infinite shapes that continue pattern deeper and deeper into themselves. This exquisite painting is a testament to the raw yet disciplined talent of the artist. Black and Violet is an example of the profound depth and powerful strength of the artist's devotion to inner beauty.
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Lucky you. You just beat the 350-comment rule -- no art on the EMT rule!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 03, 2023 09:36 AM (Vwz3I)

354 The Biden administration is weighing whether to postpone or cancel Antony Blinken’s upcoming trip to Beijing
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This is good, the U.S. needs to show us the respect we deserve, and send us someone who is not a complete idiot. You would have thought they would have figured this out by now after forcing multiple anal swab covid tests on him, but nooooo. They have no concept of honor.

Posted by: CCP at February 03, 2023 09:36 AM (fs1hN)

355 Maybe Ukraine could give us a S-300?

It's a sitting duck, right?

****""
This story is BIG malarkey. There's wind up there. All the time. No way it just floats there.

Posted by: torabora at February 03, 2023 09:40 AM (MkFn4)

356 Fundamentally unserious nation.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 03, 2023 09:40 AM (XF9Gj)

357 There once was a Chinese balloon...


Now THIS is material I can work with!!

*retires to the Limerick Llibrary, pen in hand*

Posted by: Muldoon at February 03, 2023 09:52 AM (ykeLU)

358 Good morning, all, and thank you, JJ.

Yes, local news (Philly) reporting the balloon is a civilian airship, doing research, that was blown off course.

It must be true.

FJB and the hyena are coming to Philly today to (publicly) collect $ towards 2024 run for their "compromise v. confrontation" (my name for it) campaign. Seems like that's a teeny rebranding of their former Decency Campaign but if it worked before on more than one occasion, why not?

Seems FJB has nothing to campaign on other than proposed "efforts to replace lead pipes in places like Philly, thanks to the bipartison infrastructure law signed last year," according to the WH. But if memory serves, they've been singing that same song since the Flint water crises (USA reported 40+ cities had serious lead pipe issues at that time) & the shovel ready infrastructure projects that weren't shovel ready at all. Humm; wasn't FJB the official tracker of the TARP $ (and the runaway ombud federal agency funding) under O & his administrations? Again, I believe he was. And like O & his first administration, no federal budget has been submitted.

Our leader, pitbull & copy cat.

Posted by: Lola at February 03, 2023 09:56 AM (Wxlzw)

359 "Republican primary voters will face a big decision. Let’s hope they choose to move forward, not backward—in terms of repeating either discredited public policy or repeating sullied candidates."

Um... News Flash... Republican primary voters will not matter until ballot counting is changed and the Stupid Party just re-elected the multinational donor class' favorite dupe in McRomneyDaniel who will do nothing to stop the theft of our votes PRIOR to elections.

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 03, 2023 10:03 AM (klw0w)

360 "Dude, Where's My Country?"

In Donald Trump's front pocket which was then stolen by the multinational UniParty.

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 03, 2023 10:07 AM (klw0w)

361 306 When you expend ordnance from an aircraft, it comes down, unpredictably. You need a pretty good zone to ensure people on the ground don't get hurt. Even with guns, it would most likely be a GAU 22/A in 25mm. That leaves the barrel at over 3,500 FPS with a range over 3,600 meters and at altitude that range would be increased. It fires over 4,000 rounds per minute.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 03, 2023 09:18 AM (wgAtL)

25mm HEI-T has a self destruct range. Fuze fires based on spin decay. From a ground platform, that's around 3000m. It would be more from an aircraft in flight, but shoot with a nose-up attitude and you won't get much ammo debris hitting the ground. Highest danger would be the spent cartridge cases, not high velocity projectiles or explosions on the ground.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at February 03, 2023 10:14 AM (8C7+r)

362 Watched a Victor Davis Hansen talk at Hillsdale in 2017/18?, and he mentioned an America-first National Security Strategy.

One member of the audience asked why the hell we haven't heard of it. Good question. Why the hell doesn't he run on that, instead of against DeSantis?!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 03, 2023 10:22 AM (gMml8)

363 "Why does candidate act like he's in a primary race when he's in a primary race?"
-Shit that gets real old every 2 damn years

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 03, 2023 10:26 AM (LvTSG)

364 Low Earth orbit is perfect altitude to launch an EMP attack.

If I'm the Chinese, I'm going to start sending these "surveillance" balloons over North America a lot more often. It's obvious that we don't see them as a threat. Then one day, when I'm ready to make my military moves in the South China Sea, I'll swap out the usual gear for a disguised EMP weapon, float it over the USA, and activate it.

Cold-cocking us that way would leave half or more of the US with no electricity in an instant. We'd be too busy trying to avoid losing millions of people to starvation right here at home to worry about Taiwan.

If I'm the Chinese, that's what I'm thinking.

Posted by: Taylor at February 03, 2023 10:39 AM (D/+M7)

365 Our government thinks that we are stupid. Comment 1, why would the Chinese care about the high-altitude weather over central Montana? Comment 2, central Montana is lightly populated. DOD could destroy that balloon with a nuclear weapon and, most likely, no one on the ground would be hurt. It would require exquisite planning in order for it to fall on something valuable. Comment 3, so then it would be just fine for us to fly airplanes all over China "just to check their weather". Comment 4, situational and historical awareness are a survival skills. Why and how exactly did we saddle ourselves with such ignorant people?

Posted by: richard at February 03, 2023 10:52 AM (xGLnO)

366 Balloon: The Chinese delivering the next installment of mutated coronavirus?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 03, 2023 11:01 AM (ynpvh)

367 SHOT: Hamburger Prices Might Continue to Rise as US Cattle Herd Shrinks

Pretty soon gophers, pigeons and rats will start looking good...or at least affordable.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 03, 2023 11:07 AM (ynpvh)

368 Just finished reading that awesome first link, JJ -- thanks!

Wish I could write like that; what a beatdown Mr. Biggar puts on the illiberal wokerati ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 03, 2023 11:08 AM (ZDsBk)

369 365 Low Earth orbit is perfect altitude to launch an EMP attack.

If I'm the Chinese, I'm going to start sending these "surveillance" balloons over North America a lot more often. It's obvious that we don't see them as a threat. Then one day, when I'm ready to make my military moves in the South China Sea, I'll swap out the usual gear for a disguised EMP weapon, float it over the USA, and activate it.

Cold-cocking us that way would leave half or more of the US with no electricity in an instant. We'd be too busy trying to avoid losing millions of people to starvation right here at home to worry about Taiwan.

If I'm the Chinese, that's what I'm thinking.

Posted by: Taylor at February 03, 2023 10:39 AM (D/+M7)

US planes or ships in international waters near China, China sends ships and planes to intercept and harass. China sends balloon over US, US does...nothing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 03, 2023 11:10 AM (ynpvh)

370 Autumn Scardina fella is a vexatious litigant and should be marked as such in every court in Colorado. It has sworn to continue to sue Jack Phillips over and over until it wins, which makes this nothing but harassment. To Colo tribunal that upholds these Constitutional abhorrent provisions should be taken out, beaten to an inch of their lives, tarred, feathered, and set out in the middle of a forest. In Germany, unemployed women can be forced to become prostitutes by their own government or lose unemployment, regardless of their moral views; we are headed in that direction and worse.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 03, 2023 11:15 AM (ynpvh)

371 You know, I was taught at an early age that often times the best way to deal with a bully isn't to overreact to what they do, respond in kind, etc. The point is specifically to provoke a reaction.

Sometimes, the best thing to do with a bully is just ignore them.

Consider this: China has spy satellites that can see everything that this balloon could feasibly see, and the satellites can be directed, etc.

So why the balloon?

Perhaps to provoke a response? Perhaps, even, to measure the quality, quantity, and speed of the response?

Maybe responding to this balloon by shooting it down is exactly what China wanted, and by essentially ignoring it and acting like it's NBD, we're winning?

Just saying...

Posted by: Goober at February 03, 2023 11:18 AM (Hgvgt)

372 Could Jack Phillips be made to make a simple cake consisting of single colors for a man who said he wanted this cake to celebrate p3dophilia? Would the Colo Tribunal uphold the P3do's "right" to have that cake made? What about making a black baker make a cake celebrating cross-burnings and lynchings of blacks? Forcing a devout Muslim or Jew to make a cake celebrating the joys of eating bacon in simple colors?
Either we have freedom or we don't. Colorado Gov't seems to believe we don't.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 03, 2023 11:19 AM (ynpvh)

373 Trump was wrong about COVID and the response to it. It wasn't his fault as he trusted those in positions of power that said it was "science". Nevertheless, Trump is the kind of person who refuses to apologize for being wrong because it is seen as weakness, therefore he will continue to say it was the right thing to do.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 03, 2023 11:22 AM (ynpvh)

374 Say what you will about Cory Booker and his testicles, but he gets to f--- Rosario Dawson.

Posted by: Harry at February 03, 2023 12:12 PM (oa7zK)

375 the venezuelans had something we don't. someplace to go.

Posted by: ontoiran at February 03, 2023 12:14 PM (43Y8x)

376 375 Say what you will about Cory Booker and his testicles, but he gets to f--- Rosario Dawson.
Posted by: Harry at February 03, 2023 12:12 PM (oa7zK)


He gets to PRETEND to fuck Rosario Dawson when he's fucking the Newark equivalent of Reggie Love.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 03, 2023 01:01 PM (x0n13)

377 Note the muted conciliatory tone towards SALAZR. The author here seems blind to who and what Salazr is.

Posted by: tintx at February 03, 2023 01:01 PM (8PuN1)

378 I guess NORAD is only good for tracking Santa

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Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at February 03, 2023 04:20 PM (Py7f7)

380 Weird rantings about non-existent "boots on the ground" in Ukraine.

People disingenously pushing this idea. Tucker or some other dpsht must be running this this week.

Yes, there are "boots on the ground" in Ukraine. The "boots on the ground" being the Marine security detachment returned to Kyiv US embassy. By which standard, we have "boots on the ground" in just about every nation on Earth.

And aid inspectors, who were present prior to the Feb 2022 full invasion. Isn't "oversight" what all the people who cry corruption want? Can't have it both ways.

Posted by: xyu at February 03, 2023 08:53 PM (6ZaEK)

381 I find it remarkable that the author cites the man who did more to bury the Constitution of the founders than any other man in the history of this country.

As evil as Obama and Biden are they didn’t kill a million Americans. Lincoln did. Who else can boast of this particular accomplishment.

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