“Would you like to ride in my Chinese spy balloon….”

MTG says the Jews are on it.

 

Reports of some random explosion over the sky in Billings, MT. The nutjob governor apparently said it was one of these balloons and then walked it back (kinda).

 

English version didn’t reference pilots acting like Captain Kirk. So I think we have our answer.

 

i know she says “everyone’s a super hero, everyone’s a Captain Kirk,” but I swear she says “sewer hero” and I’ve always imagined what a sewer hero might be.

 

In the Navy we had big red balloons that were 10x10 or maybe 12x12 probably. We'd inflate them, roll them off the fantail, shoot at them with .45s until they got out of range, switch to M-14s, then 50 cals, and finally the 5-inch. We'd hit it thousands of times.

 

So apparently in one scenario it goes down to Hilton Head, gets a local girl pregnant and then hauls ass for Gibraltar.

 

Happy to see the same cowards too frightened to anger Putin in Ukraine now advocating the weakness-preventing, high-testosterone shootdown of a Chinese balloon.

Well played, usual suspects!

 

Everything is a blank canvass for the performative right to get outraged about online.

 

This is a useful test of the citizenry. Anyone who doesn't think this is one of the funniest stories in years definitely thinks about politics too much and too darkly.

 

Has this qualified as a “-gate” yet?

Balloongate. Rolls right off the tongue.

 

seconded