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Original Washington Compost article.

Link to archived copy.

https://archive.is/BE1XB#selection-343.0-343.17

1 posted on 02/14/2023 11:20:29 PM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

So, when do Biden family members go to prison?


2 posted on 02/14/2023 11:38:51 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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RE: the possibility that China didn’t intend to penetrate the American heartland with their airborne surveillance device.

Aw, c’mon now.
That’s one of the lamest excuses I’ve ever heard.

It was all to unfurl a banner saying “People of Guam, we love you.”


3 posted on 02/14/2023 11:42:11 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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The administration at first denied they had any knowledge of the balloon. Apparently, they have been letting these things traverse our air space for fear of confronting China. But someone in Montana looked up and their cover was blown and they were forced to do something about it. Now, they have someone leaking they had followed the balloon from China and knew all about it. They got lots of splainin’ to do. The latest lies involve the air clutter they have been shooting down the last few days for optics and lying that they don’t know it was random benign junk balloons that are released globally at a rate of 1800 a day that regularly escape to higher altitudes


4 posted on 02/14/2023 11:45:14 PM PST by chuckee ( )
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The balloon can be roughly “steered” by adjusting its altitude to conform to Jet-Stream wind shifts.


5 posted on 02/14/2023 11:46:07 PM PST by Does so (What distinguishes today's Russian aggression from that of the USSR?)
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Sounds like crap.

I think it left from Inner Mongolia.


6 posted on 02/14/2023 11:51:54 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: McGruff

Anybody wanna buy a bridge in Brooklyn?


7 posted on 02/14/2023 11:54:42 PM PST by Equine1952
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They have been desperate to drag Trump into their reluctance to confront China over the spy balloons by coming up with the narrative that intelligence has been able to retroactively determine that 3 spy balloons traversed the country during the Trump administration. Yet, they have no clue as to what they shot down for political optics in the last several days. They don’t want to admit it was benign airborne junk balloons escaping to higher altitudes, much like the junk balloons they are alleging they have determined were spy balloons during the Trump administration.


9 posted on 02/15/2023 12:09:26 AM PST by chuckee ( )
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To: McGruff

Denial first then saying it happened under Trump now the truth starts to leak out after they have created sufficient propaganda fog to cover Joe


13 posted on 02/15/2023 1:35:29 AM PST by newzjunkey (Trump cannot win in 2024)
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I wonder if any of these brainiacs have overlaid the balloon’s light path with a chart of the jet stream during the relevant period?


16 posted on 02/15/2023 5:36:57 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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I call BS on this explanation. What now? The Biden admin. trying to cover for China’s spying? Wow, just wow!


17 posted on 02/15/2023 6:51:25 AM PST by JoJo354 (We need to get to work, Conservatives!)
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