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  That's no balloon.  That's a spy station.
context: “Sources told CTV News that a smaller object may have been released from the balloon that might pose a risk to planes.”
  The plot thickens. >
  
  Bottom line is, we don't know what these ballons are doing, and China is lying. We don't know how many there are, or where. China has been encroaching on Taiwan, India militarily. Chinese ships have invaded fishing waters around the globe. China has mining contracts in Afghanistan and across Africa. 
  I think the Chinese economic miracle has created a monster. >
  
  Am I missing something? 
  Could be irony, but I wouldn't call the Chinese economy a miracle. I haven't seen anything in the last decade from Pooh Bear that would leave me to believe he's anything other than another Putin, flailing at western powers as their country's slowly collapse in on themselves. The balloons are a joke from a country that is becoming one. >
  
  From a country that had famines 70 years ago to a country thats just 1 generation behind Taiwan in chip manufacturing. You really dont see any changes? >
  
  No homelessness and high speed rail makes me very frustrated at America's government/media. China does a LOT wrong, but let's not ignore how America has done nothing to improve the life of the average person in the last 20 years. We are headed toward serious problems if something doesnt change. Spending less on military to build public transit wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Rent control wouldn't be bending the knee to China. Universal healthcare wouldn't be bending the knee to china. Our media focusing on our issues at home with attention to the actual causes seems unlikely to ever happen when Tucker is the biggest show on television, and that has me worried about the next decade. >
  
  After having visited Japan just this last month... our country is letting us down in a variety of ways. Whatever is keeping your average American from rioting in the streets (seriously... there's a ton of reasons: healthcare, wages, treatment of citizens, police inaction unless they are shooting up innocent civilians, the list goes on) must be REAL good to keep everyone's ass on the couch. >
  
  I wonder this everyday lol. It has to be some kind of social conditioning. We live in a world so far detached from reality it’s like the entire country is a big TV show. >
  
  Personally, I think it's due to our size (literally in both senses). This is a much larger discussion, but it makes no sense for our country to be THIS big. Our wants and needs are vastly different region to region and sometimes even state to state. 
  The only reason we're still locked in is because the rich states subsidize the poor ones. >
  
  As long as food and drink are readily available its hard to unite behind a cause for mass rioting. I often wonder why we don't experience Shinzo Abe scenarios with a country full of guns combined with such a massive wealth disparity. Both parties have done an incredible job focusing on divisive issues which attract our attention. It helps when one party is legitimately insane. >
  
  The attacks on politicians have already begun. One in NJ just died after being shot in her car.
  But that's the R attacking the L. >
  
  It’s just my Shein order >
  
  Ohh that’s why it’s off track >
  
  Pack it up boys and girls and everyone in between or outside the binary, reddit solved anotha one. >
  
  I could be skeptical of the first balloon only because the idea of air current  - but for 2 to be located as a "oopsie" - no way      Find a space to safely deflate. >
  
  The first balloon was found to be steering itself. Balloons don't accidentally do that. >
  
  “We will get Aunt Peggy’s cookie recipe once and for all.” >
  
  It's her Apple Brown Betty and the secret ingredient is horse manure. >
  
  Minh has a better recipe >
  
  Add nutmeg! >
  
  furious scribbling
  Okay, how bout this one? 🧁 >
  
  "Just monitoring the weather" >
  
  That’s no moon.  That’s a space station.