The leading explanation among US intelligence officials is that three objects shot down over North America last weekend were balloons being flown for benign purposes, the White House said Tuesday, the furthest the administrat...
If conservatives could have controlled themselves in their anti-balloon hysteria, we wouldn't be here. "Biden is soft, he didn't shoot anything down! Weak! Weak!" So Biden starts shooting stuff down.
It's not that hard to figure out, and it starts with knee-jerk reactionaries having enough sense to stop looking for any nugget of BS they can wield against the other side. But they don't, and they won't.
If conservatives could have controlled themselves in their anti-balloon hysteria, we wouldn't be here. "Biden is soft, he didn't shoot anything down! Weak! Weak!" So Biden starts shooting stuff down.
It's not that hard to figure out, and it starts with knee-jerk reactionaries having enough sense to stop looking for any nugget of BS they can wield against the other side. But they don't, and they won't.
That sounds like Biden IS weak if he kowtows to knee-jerk pubs.
The small balloons are likely totally legal 'pico' balloons sent up by hobbyists. One group thinks that it was their balloon that was shot down in the Yukon:
Interesting article, thanks. I especially like this bit:
"Three countries—North Korea, Yemen and the UK—restrict transmissions from balloons in their airspace, so the community has integrated geofencing software into the tracking devices. The balloons still overfly the countries, but do not transmit their positions over their airspace. "
