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Balloons on Biden's watch...unknown
Balloons shot down by Biden...one
Balloons on Trump's watch...three (known)
Balloons shot down by Trump...zero
GOP...Biden soft on China
Chinese spy balloon was watching ‘sensitive military sites’ and program has been targeting US for years

GOP has been complaining that Biden took too long to take action. Biden waited until it could be brought down without risk to others. Trump just let it happen. Three times. Now Republicans are pretending like they don't have a double standard, criticizing Biden but saying nothing about Trump. >

Supposedly Biden wanted to shoot it down days earlier, but the military said it was getting good data from studying what the balloon was transmitting and convinced him to wait >

and they still get to pick it up and see what it was was on it.  the fact that this happened at least 3 times during rumps time in office and nothing was done should scare you. >


and nothing was done should scare you.

Not just nothing was done, but nothing was even noticed. >

Musta been noticed. If not we wouldn’t know about these three’s >

This doesn't cause any anxiety response in me.
Russia has been flying spy satellites over us for a long time. If it's electronic surveillance of frequencies I'd be a little more concerned but I think it would be cheaper and easier to just send a few student spies over here with some receivers. 
The whole thing looks so amateurish and clunky that I could see how it really could just be collecting weather data. Regardless, if it's flying in our airspace without prior permission then we should shoot it down. Done and done. >

The simplest explanation to me is that they just wanted to see how we'd respond to something flying over our airspace. I mean the Chinese are kinda slapdash in how they construct their shit but they're not stupid. >

China can definitely build quality products if the price is right. >

I'm just saying that people tend to equate low quality products with stupidity which just isn't true. >

People seem surprised that a technologically-advanced adversarial power is spying on us, a gigantic country that’s impossible to surveil? Like we haven’t had spy planes flying overhead since the early Cold War?
I get the outcry and the knee jerk reaction to shoot it down, but a Chinese spy balloon floating at 60k feet is  probably less worrying than all the other Chinese spying currently happening through Tik Tok, hacking, and corporate espionage. >

Remember when a Chinese spy walked right into Mar-a-Lago when TFG was the sitting President? >

Remember when swalwell was banging a Chinese spy? Remember when Feinstein had a Chinese spy as a driver? >

The fbi said salwell had no relationship with the Chinese spy. Not sure why you guys continue with a false narrative. >

I'm just trying to figure out why you guys refuse to admit Tucker, Hannity etc lied to you about salwell? >

Because accepting the reality that their main news source lied about one thing is the first crack in the glass of their worldview that Fox is not the same 'lying mainstream media' they claim to hate. You can't expect them to willingly shatter their whole inner reality of their own volition. They aren't self aware enough for that. >

Well they had reason to believe they could operate with impunity, because Trump has allowed it. >

They know 100% they shouldn’t have been doing it then and they shouldn’t be doing it now.
Just because Trump didn’t do shit about it didn’t meant they thought it was all perfectly acceptable. >

Yeah, no matter what, it’s a foreign vessel in US airspace without any permission to be flying over our citizens like that. If it was reversed, you bet your ass they’d shoot it down too. I personally think it was just a test to see how we’d respond, and we responded accordingly. >

You know, when I was first notified about this story I think I had a normal reaction. One of slight curiousity and intrigue and the merest feeling of unease, a very minor unsettling feeling, and then it went away. I scanned an article or two and satisfied my curiosity. I also understood that while alarming, this isn't unprecedented  and it doesn't untangle the fabric of our foreign relationships. 
But one brief look at how Republicans are reacting to this same story, and you'd think Armageddon is approaching. >

and since China is holding Trump’s purse he allowed it. With the spy at Mar a Lago I bet China was just confirming the national secrets Trump sold. >

No shit. They also said they can easily make the instrumentation useless too while over our airspace. >

That's kinda how spying and espionage generally works. Using a big ass, slow-moving balloon is a little unorthodox, but they are probably expendable. What are balloons going for these days? >

ONE BEELION DOLLARS *pinky to mouth*
... if you believe Trump. >

Much was learned by patiently observing the balloon and taking it down where it could be recovered. It would have been idiotic to blast it down right away as some have suggested. >

I overheard some Qanons saying this is how they delivered Covid to the US >

Lol. Under Trump then. >

I wonder what excuses the Chinese going to use once its confirmed that the balloon was loaded with surveillance equipment >

They will say it wasnt as its all a ploy against the West