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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #100 on: February 03, 2023, 08:04:08 pm »
Here's a theory.  The balloon is carrying some sort of treasonously incriminating evidence against Biden, and if they shoot it down, the evidence will be exposed.  So Biden needs to leave the balloon in the air to protect himself, embarrassing the US in the process.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #101 on: February 03, 2023, 08:26:08 pm »
Here's a theory.  The balloon is carrying some sort of treasonously incriminating evidence against Biden, and if they shoot it down, the evidence will be exposed.  So Biden needs to leave the balloon in the air to protect himself, embarrassing the US in the process.

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You just get the feeling we are not being told the whole story. Again.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #102 on: February 03, 2023, 08:38:55 pm »
The same thing could have been accomplished using a specially-trained spy albatross.

If it were a hypersonic missile, they wouldn't have this much time to be stupid.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #103 on: February 03, 2023, 08:46:27 pm »
That's why they are the world's superpower, and we're not.  :crying:

China is not a superpower under any definition. Per capita GDP of China in 2021 was $11,188.30. The US's was $69,288. China on average is dirt poor and its citizens are slaves.

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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #104 on: February 03, 2023, 08:53:22 pm »
China is not a superpower under any definition. Per capita GDP of China in 2021 was $11188.30. The US's was $69,288. China on average is dirt poor and its citizens are slaves.

Correct, but the trends underway suggest otherwise.  That moment or soon after when the Chicoms surpass us in GDP will likely be followed by some form of a currency reset.  That will be when the SHTF, and we start circling the drain.

They'll be the economic superpower, and a nation like ours that leveraged itself (by that time....  200-300% of debt to GDP ratio?), will slump into 3rd world status.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #105 on: February 03, 2023, 08:56:50 pm »
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You want ‘peace through strength’

I want peace through overwhelming firepower and an orange man who isn’t afraid to use it

We are not the same.

I can see a overlap. Use some of our superior firepower to shoot those SOB's down,and then embargo ALL trade with China until they reimburse us for the cost of shooting them down.

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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #106 on: February 03, 2023, 08:59:35 pm »


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Not true. We are merely whores for rent,not for sale. If China were to cut off the payments to the Biden Crime Cartel,the sales would end instantly.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #107 on: February 03, 2023, 09:03:02 pm »
China is a superpower, in a smartest-kid-on-the-short-bus kind of way.

Their economy is a house of cards. They may actually be worse off then us. Most of what we see is fake, façade, and managed PR.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #108 on: February 03, 2023, 09:08:55 pm »
The same thing could have been accomplished using a specially-trained spy albatross.

An African albatross, or a European albatross?  What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen albatross?



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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #109 on: February 03, 2023, 09:09:25 pm »
You want ‘peace through strength’

I want peace through overwhelming firepower and an orange man who isn’t afraid to use it

We are not the same.

I can see a overlap. Use some of our superior firepower to shoot those SOB's down,and then embargo ALL trade with China until they reimburse us for the cost of shooting them down.

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Yeah, I'd yell 3- Amen's except for the fact we do not have a manufacturing base that will supplant the nation's needs for goods, services,  and supplies.  Your government via rules, laws, regulations, and anti-business practices  through the past 50 or so years has turned this economy into a service economy shamble.

In 1955 one in 4 jobs were in the manufacturing sector.  Now that number is about 1 in 10.  And those numbers continue to drop rapidly.  There is no way to sustain a country's economy on that.  At least not for long.
 

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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #110 on: February 03, 2023, 09:12:10 pm »
 February 3, 2023 2:41pm EST
Hawley demands Homeland Security investigation into Biden's 'baffling' response to Chinese spy balloon
The Chinese surveillance balloon hovering over the U.S. has moved to the central part of the country

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hawley-demands-homeland-security-investigation-bidens-baffling-response-chinese-spy-balloon
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #111 on: February 03, 2023, 09:12:35 pm »
China is a superpower, in a smartest-kid-on-the-short-bus kind of way.

Their economy is a house of cards. They may actually be worse off then us. Most of what we see is fake, façade, and managed PR.

They are really too opaque to really tell what is going on.  Except from debt perspective, I can almost 100% guarantee that we win that aspect, or more factually lose.  And that will be the factor at least in this country that ultimately dooms us, as we succumb the crown to the Chicoms.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #112 on: February 03, 2023, 09:14:41 pm »
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BREAKING — Chinese Foreign Ministry claims the balloon traveling through U.S. airspace is a civilian airship intended for scientific research.

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So,they are finally admitting they are stealing our tech?

Let me see if I understand this,ok? A foreign spy sattellite is flying over US air space to steal high tech off the air,and we are supposed to allow them to do this?
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #113 on: February 03, 2023, 09:16:56 pm »
Their initial response from China was a denial that the balloon was theirs.  It is right at that moment the balloon should have been shot down.  The fact that we didn't shows that  people within this regime are running cover for the Chi-coms.

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Not really. Chances are they are waiting for the deposits in their names to appear in their off-shore accounts.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #115 on: February 03, 2023, 09:20:53 pm »
Heard opinion this morning...if we shoot it down, they could begin to destroy Elon Musk's satellites, etc..

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So freaking what?

Let Musk sue them in international court for the financial losses.

If that doesn't work,he can sue them in US court for the losses and damages.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #116 on: February 03, 2023, 09:21:22 pm »
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Not really. Chances are they are waiting for the deposits in their names to appear in their off-shore accounts.

Maybe 10-15 years ago, I'd countered that we had enough honerous IRS rules of disclosure in our tax code to prevent that.

That's before my more recent epiphany that our government is utterly rotten to the core, and has been playing by a second set of rules forever.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #117 on: February 03, 2023, 09:25:44 pm »
Don't worry. Joe is answering all our questions about the spy balloon over our heads.

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President Biden needs to speak to the American people about why a Chinese spy balloon is allowed in our territory. If this isn't a dereliction of duty (or worse), tell us why.
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Well,in his defense,when he hears someone say "Chinese",he thinks he is getting a bowl of noodles for dinner.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #118 on: February 03, 2023, 09:28:43 pm »
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China may be flying a spy balloon over our country but on the bright side, it's not like we're allowing them to buy our farmland, are totally reliant on them for medical supplies, every corporation has their manufacturing base there,
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You misspelled "married".
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #119 on: February 03, 2023, 09:30:46 pm »
Is this most embarassing day of the Biden presidency?  I think a compelling argument could be made so.
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« Reply #120 on: February 03, 2023, 10:00:37 pm »
We now have a close-up picture of the Chicom Ballon.

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« Reply #121 on: February 03, 2023, 10:04:07 pm »
We now have a close-up picture of the Chicom Ballon.



Now that is a hoot!!!!! :silly:
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #122 on: February 03, 2023, 10:08:13 pm »
From RinVa's post #87:
"This is one of the most humiliating spectacles in our nation’s history. A giant Chinese spy balloon traversing unmolested across our sovereign airspace without a worry in the world"

Question:

If the United States is not able to deal with (i.e., shoot down) a Chinese CCP surveillance aircraft floating over America...

... then how is it going to defend (and win) a WAR with China over Taiwan...?

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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #123 on: February 03, 2023, 10:31:55 pm »
Exclusive — Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke on Chinese Spy Balloon: ‘An Embarrassment We Took No Action’

Zinke called the Biden administration allowing the Chinese to float a spy balloon into the United States’s airspace “an embarrassment.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/02/03/exclusive-montana-rep-ryan-zinke-on-chinese-spy-balloon-an-embarrassment-we-took-no-action/
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« Reply #124 on: February 03, 2023, 10:33:50 pm »