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  snap snap snap hell yeah loveliest summation to truly capture my feelings yet on this episode the last few days
context: Awww. Winnie the Pooh lost his balloon. >
  
  Rover! >
  
  But when they shot it all the Communism Marxism Boleschivik-ism spilled out and now the GQP is gonna be mad as hell! >
  
  Congrats to Rep Santos for shooting it down. >
  
  He's a Top Gun! >
  
  “99 spy balloons, floating in the summer sky, panic bells, it’s red alert...” >
  
  I hear they wanted to shoot it down with the usual Jewish Space Laser, but being the Sabbath, the laser was unable to work. So they had to use the lesser-known Gentile Space Laser to bring it down today.
  /s Just in case that wasn't obvious. >
  
  Why is it that salacious but ultimately meaningless stunts are the news that attracts by far the most attention in the United States? >
  
  How is this is a stunt? It's what the military is expected to do. >
  
  I think they mean the whole balloon thing in general? >
  
  Well that would be on China, not the United States. If our balloon was over another countries monitored and restricted airspace, they'd shoot it down too. >
  
  Yeah but how the US population and US media react has no bearing on China...that is what they are getting at. I'm just explaining something you seemed confused about. I'm not here to argue the other person's point. >
  
  The Media is ridiculous on a global level. I can't disagree with that but I can say that I am not one of their "consumers" either. 
  As a strictly government handled process, the President gave the greenlight to take this thing out on Wednesday. The amount of lunatic conspiracies and the sheer twisting of this into a political firestorm is fucking stupid. That sort of sentiment doesn't represent the entirety of the US, but it does represent quite a few citizens. These are the target demographic for "news" media. It's not a US exclusive thing either and I'm tired of people acting like it is.