Subj : Re: Up, Up, and away, in
To   : GREGORY DEYSS
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sat Feb 04 2023 10:05:00

>  MP>  ...beautiful, my beautiful... Chinese Spy Balloon!!!
> You beat me to it Mike..:)
> I so was looking forward to coming home to sound off about this.

LOL, yeah I was wondering if someone would not have already posted about it
when I did so yesterday.  :)

>  MP> So this morning I am watching the local news (NBC affiliate), and they
>  MP> mention that a UFO was sighted over Montana and US officials had
>  MP> determined it was a spy balloon, likely from China.  Apparently it
>  MP> wafted across the US-Canadian border sometime mid-week.

> I do believe due to what this is; A Spy Balloon, by that very nature it is
> confirmed as a intentional intrusion into U.S. air space.

Correct.  China tried to claim it was not a spy balloon, that it was
maybe even from a third-party Chinese source (like a company), and that it
"got away" from whoever was handling it.  The Pentagon has confirmed their
belief that it is a spy balloon.

There are supposedly two of them now, so for China's explanation to be true
someone must have been very careless with their balloons.  :)

>  MP> They also said that the decision on what to do about it went all the way
>  MP> up to President Biden, who said we couldn't shoot it down because it
>  MP> might "fall and hurt someone."

> That is total and complete BULLSH*T! Biden is a Pu**y, pure and simple, there
> is no other way to say it. It would not fall out of the sky and hurl to the
> earth as Biden has suggested. In-fact if you punched a hole in a helium balloo
> it will lose altitude and gently fall out of the sky as it looses helium,
> therefore, it wouldn't plummet to earth as Biden has suggested.
> [...snip...]
> As the caller indicated "Nothing happens quickly in a balloon."

Language but, yes, I do not disagree.  Not sure if it is a reflection of
Biden himself (who I think used to be sort of warhawkish?), a reflection
of the beliefs of his handlers and the part of our public he is trying to
play to, or a reflection of any possible affiliations that Biden might have
with certain other countries.

As for not plummeting, I think that would depend on what they shot it with.
Some have suggested that using smaller munitions, that would only punch
holes and cause leaks, would result in a slow, controlled desent.  However,
due to the altitude of the balloon, there is some skepticism that munitions
that small could be fired from close enough to hit the target.

If they shoot it with a missle, the balloon will likely lose integrity and
would fall much faster than a slowly deflating balloon.

I also wondered if they were not afraid that it might contain some nuclear
device.

> anyone says or mentions... What would Trump do? The Dems would have you believ
> that Trump would of started World War III over this, that is just foolish but
> that is the kind of thing that they would have you believe. As they would sit
> there in their mommas basement while licking a fudgesicle as they tell you
> between licks that they thank their lucky stars that Trump is not in power.
> We both know how the left thinks.

Trump has already said he would have shot it down somehow.

> This absolutely shows the world that Biden is an absolute push-over and more
> over to a greater point makes the United States of America appear weak.

I don't doubt the Chinese have figured out we are pretty soft right now.  I
think everyone except the Russians have figured that out.

> I wonder what the people in Taiwan, must be thinking... you promised you would
> protect us from Chinese aggression and you have a very tired man in your White
> House that either will not or can not defend his own air space.
> How are you going to protect us, in our time of need?

I am actually a little shocked that China has not tried something
aggressive against Taiwan.  Maybe they really don't want it back.

> It is very ironic that next week is The State of the Union, is Biden really
> going to stand there and suggest to the American People that the State of the
> Union is strong and meanwhile he did nothing while a spy balloon floated from
> Montana and went unchecked left alone to eventually float out to the Atlantic
> Ocean?

There are apparently two of them now.  Somehow, and unfortunately, I doubt
that the audience that will be watching the SotU and buying what is said
really care about being spied on.  They are probably in the "China is our
friend" camp.


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