What should we do about the balloon?

[yankintx]

You know which balloon I mean, and if you don’t a quick search of DP will tell you.

Is it the baby Trump Balloon

Hell ya shoot it down

 

[Slartibartfast]

How would you capture it?

Rocket powered boomerang

 

[yankintx]

I voted, capture it and study what they were doing.

We spy on them, they spy on us, would be nice to get a glimpse at their interests.

It's probably American technology stolen by the Chinese anyway,

 

[Rexedgar]

They do not fire single rounds. I forget burst size, maybe 100 rounds?

Sounds like someone ripping a bedsheet.

 

[Rexedgar]

Jamming the ballon would likely jam a lot of the electronic signals in the area

how to spell balloon in Canada - Google Search

 

[phoenix2020]

They do not fire single rounds. I forget burst size, maybe 100 rounds?

I see… yeah that would be problematic.

Oh well, we probably have to fall back on Marjorie’s space laser.

 

[Rumpelstil]

What to do with the South American Balloon?

 

[BlueTex]

When a weather balloon went rogue almost 25 years ago, fighter jets fired 1,000 rounds at it and couldn't bring it down

"With something like this, which is stationary in the air when the CF-18s are flying very, very fast, it is difficult to shoot it," a lieutenant said.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Pippi Longstock]

You know which balloon I mean, and if you don’t a quick search of DP will tell you.

All we have so far is meathead Biden and his possum grin when asked about it.

 

[BlueTex]

All we have so far is meathead Biden and his possum grin when asked about it.

Would you mind reaching out to junior and explaining the balloon near the east coast now and the Montana is not located on the east coast. Also, there is nothing tje good people of Montana possess which could reach this balloon.

 

[Pippi Longstock]

Would you mind reaching out to junior and explaining the balloon near the east coast now and the Montana is not located on the east coast. Also, there is nothing tje good people of Montana possess which could reach this balloon.

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Stretch much?

 

[BlueTex]

Stretch much?

Junior is joining in with the stupid shit people are proposing..

 

[Pippi Longstock]

Junior is joining in with the stupid shit people are proposing..

So what. If shit for brains Biden isn't going to comment on it then why would I care about anything anyone says? I doubt Biden can put together a thought on it.

 

[BlueTex]

So what. If shit for brains Biden isn't going to comment on it then why would I care about anything anyone says? I doubt Biden can put together a thought on it.

What should Biden say about it?

 

[jamesrage]

You know which balloon I mean, and if you don’t a quick search of DP will tell you.

I say shoot it down as soon as its spotted. Study it if there is anything left over. I am sure that if we had a balloon floating over China their goventment would shoot it down or capture it.

 

[Pippi Longstock]

What should Biden say about it?

No clue but I'd bet a million it would be a brainless comment.

 

[LouC]

You know which balloon I mean, and if you don’t a quick search of DP will tell you.

Leave it alone.

 

[PoS]

Anyone who wasnt in China's employ would have shot it down by now.

 

[Pippi Longstock]

Anyone who wasnt in China's employ would have shot it down by now.

I get the feeling that they're trying to normalize it.

 

[Tigerace117]

Anyone who wasnt in China's employ would have shot it down by now.

So our entire military secretly works for China? Sounds like America already lost then

 

[Acadia]

Here's what Biden has done...



(nothing)

 

[RedFishBlueFish]

My guess is the Pentagon is gaining as much if not more valuable intel from the balloon as the Chinese think they're getting flying it over. That's why they allow it.

Honestly can't think of another logical reason.

This second part is just speculation, but maybe they'll bring it down after they've had their fun with it?

I saw Congressman Jim Hines on Alex Wagner's show last night. He sits on the Intelligence Committee. He all but said that we would capture it. He, of course, didn't say how.

The best idea I've seen in this thread is to shoot holes in it so that it descends enough for helicopters to grapple it.

 

[Cardinal]

I get the feeling that they're trying to normalize it.

Yes, that's it. Our government is normalizing late Victorian-era balloon warfare.

 

[Doppelgangirl]

How would you capture it?

Maybe via one of those windmill farms?
Trump says they kill all the birds, last
I read it was over Montana….

Surely a balloon would be easy fodder…

 

[Pippi Longstock]

Yes, that's it. Our government is normalizing late Victorian-era balloon warfare.

Looks like you're already there. They didn't have to work too hard.