“They successfully took it down and I want to compliment our aviators who did it,” Biden said after getting off Air Force One en route to Camp David.
On Saturday, Ashlyn Preaux, 33, went out to get her mail in Forestbrook, South Carolina, and noticed her neighbors looking up — and there it was, the balloon in the cloudless blue sky. Then she saw fighter jets circling and the balloon get hit.The debris landed in 47 feet of water, shallower than officials had expected, and it spread out over roughly seven miles and the recovery operation included several ships.
The officials said the U.S. military was constantly assessing the threat, and concluded that the technology on the balloon didn’t give the Chinese significant intelligence beyond what it could already obtain from satellites, though the U.S. took steps to mitigate what information it could gather as it moved along.
The Chinese government on Saturday sought to play down the cancellation of Blinken’s trip. “In actuality, the U.S. and China have never announced any visit, the U.S. making any such announcement is their own business, and we respect that,” China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.The Pentagon also acknowledged reports of a second balloon flying over Latin America. “We now assess it is another Chinese surveillance balloon,” Brig. Gen.
Blinken, who had been due to depart Washington for Beijing late Friday, said he had told senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi in a phone call that sending the balloon over the U.S. was “an irresponsible act and that decision to take this action on the eve of my visit is detrimental to the substantive discussions that we were prepared to have.”
In preparation for the operation Saturday, the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily closed airspace over the Carolina coast, including the airports in Myrtle Beach and Charleston, South Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina. The FAA rerouted air traffic from the area and warned of delays as a result of the flight restrictions. The FAA and Coast Guard worked to clear the airspace and water below the balloon as it reached the ocean.
How could the US violates the International Executive Agreements., Any president has the rights to defend his sovereign territory at all cost. Flying any objects on his territory is subject to verify for national security reasons. What is wrong with that.
The Chinese high altitude balloon programme has shown us the Anti Chinese obsession which is prevalent in the United States.
Timcast China is the lying commie democrats aspire to be.
To be fair the balloon is Made in China like how long do you this it would’ve lasted? (I’m Chinese btw)
They are pretending to be upset but the truth is, they are thanking the Biden’s CCP allied regime for allowing the spy ballon to finish its mission.
At this point, it is a matter of time…they will take advantage of sleepy Joe!
realsassysally The balloon drama continues
Timcast They have the audacity to scold our incompetent captured government for allowing them to complete their mission before destroying their spy craft…
Sleepy Joe
Timcast What are they going to do? Release a deadly virus on the world, wait 🤔.
They keep F'in around and they'll find out.
Let’s send some balloons over and see what they do
habibi_bros alexstein99 heads up CIA the next spy ballon we send to China is being threatened. Oh noes
Timcast Was shooting down the balloon racist? Was it toxic masculinity? I KNOW, I KNOW, IT WAS TRANSPHOBIC!!!!!! oh crap, that balloon identified as a bird, a gay bird... Now the commies will burn down a city saying Trump brought this on.
China should make arrangements to bring down the balloon that is over Latin America so other countries can inspect it. If it’s truly benign, that shouldn’t be an issue. If they resist, it’s clear that its purpose is for spying. potus secdef
Tell CCP to keep their crap out of our airspace and we won’t have to shoot their spy crap out of the sky!
I am sure this is t the first balloon. Just the first time a civilian called it out
Timcast Maybe we should be sending balloons to china? A reach around kind of move!
Just make sure it doesn't take so long the next time
Timcast Im shocked a red neck didn't shoot it down day 1 honestly.
I’m ready for the next balloon
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One of the largest military forces in the world and they're celebrating shooting down one balloon. You'd think there would be bigger news, but this story helps to feed into the anti-China theme, so blow it up (no pun intended) and talk about how bad they are.
1971: D-21 goes Mach 3 at 90,000 feet over Lop Nor nuclear test site but /oops/ all the spy pictures were “lost” so I guess it never worked…
Timcast America about to get wrecked because of a balloon
Timcast China is about to be introduced to the FAFO chart
Should’ve been shut down the second and entered US airspace. Biden needs to go
Don’t concern yourself with CCP cowards.
They said next time shoot it down!
China’s protest is ridiculous. If we had flown a ballon over China they would have shot it down.
Bullshit china! Come get some of this!
China isn't the only one's upset... They have support from the anti-American GOP regarding the manner in which things were handled. The GOP is obviously unaware that the military only takes down gas bags that actually gather intelligence...😂
It should be shot down immediately. Balloons provide immense more spy capability than a satellite. They travel at 100 not 27,000 MPH. Much lower allowing advanced sensors to gather huge amounts of data. Pentagon answer on not destroying it is BS. 100s of miles 1 person per mile
Timcast Do it, China! Real men don't talk. Behind every blade of grass is 100 guns. You don't think China knows this?..lol
Nobody scared of China. We had every right to shot the hell out they ballon
This may just be their ploy all along inorder to retaliate with a strike on a U.S. Satellite over their area or over Taiwan, thus closing the gap American eyes over that region before their eventual strike on that island.
Timcast The US military is allowed to shoot down civilian aircraft for invading secure airspace. I also thought China said it was a civilian weather balloon.
I am sure if we had a balloon in there air space taking pictures of there nuclear plants, they would’ve shot us down before we even had a chance to get into their air Space.
A good point
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Frankly, I don't give danm what China thinks
Imagine! Chinese think shooting down their balloon in what is clearly U.S. airspace violates international norms? Wonder what their reaction would be if the U.S. sent a few huge balloons with spying equipment dangling from them floating across China ...
Be aware if the Chinese were to attack they will do it while Biden and the DNC are in office. The Chinese ministry of information is literally prompting DNC talking points about how it’s okay because they did it under Trump. Information War
oh we can't violate thier airspace ? tell em to bring it on! jets are ready.
Damn good thing we have Joe around to make some big decisions for us
Timcast Violating another nation's airspace is against international law. It is usually considered an act or declaration of war.
So did they still have control of the balloon-over US soil? They probably wanted to see if they could fly over unnoticed-to test unconventional air defense systems. This is a big deal- and they're being bullish instead o being apologetic.
Timcast Ah so it was a Ch1nese spy balloon.
The fake ass Chinese flex is embarrassing. Just take the L and shut up. In fact, apologize.
Biden hiding in his basement
Timcast Political theater on the part of China, Biden would never have shot the balloon down without permission from his Chinese masters.
Let's attack on China since they are the terrorists
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HeatherMyersTV Bring it!!
The balloon invaded US air space and by international law America had the right to shoot it down.
China be wise you sent a spy balloon to another territory and it got blown instead of you guys to keep shut and maintain your communist agenda you busy dragging yourselves to your end time maybe china will be the first place rapture took place
Timcast Okay. 🤷♀️ Stop importing their cheap crap.
China is continuing to walk all over Biden! 😭
Like sending a spy balloon over a nation's airspace doesn't violate international norms. Kick rocks, commies.
Defund WW3 and the IRS
China has been behaving like Americans for too long. Time to bring the Chinese down a few notches where they belong. There’s room for only one nation in this world to behave like arrogant, above it all tourists & that’s reserved for US citizens… And yes I am being sarcastic🙃
If they were watching where it was going, they should have warned us BEFORE it got here
Yeah… so if that balloon can just waltz in and do what it wants, who is to say fighter planes can’t do the same?
fbeeyeguy1 I think every country has the option of taking further action at any time they want. What’s the point? That they are pissed off because they lost a weather balloon that got away from them?
Bring it Kung Pooh.
Balloons are super effective at distracting children.
Timcast Exactly how long would China have let something float through their airspace before shooting it down? Probably not as long as the US did.
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Wtf?
Maybe USA should send their own “spy” balloon over China. Let’s see their reaction. Hmmmmmm!
Realistically speaking, there's no data a balloon not specially equipped for spying could get that China can't already infer from Satellite imaging anyways. This thing, even if it *was* a spy balloon, likely hasn't acquired any data China doesn't already have. Good shot tho.
Timcast Perhaps they can explain what “international norms” this violates. Seems par for the course to shoot it down when it’s in our airspace.
Really? They were over our air space. That’s laughable. I know it’s hard to tell that we care anymore about being a sovereign nation…they are already here infiltrating. We’re letting it happen at all levels. CCP/Russia/Middle East are our biggest geopolitical foes & have been…
Timcast Must've been more than a 'civilian airship' then, huh? China is full of liars, thieves, and that kid in kindergarten that said, 'iknowyouarebutwhatami?' all the time. Keep your balloon within the confines of your hundred acre woods and we wouldn't be in this situation, would we?
Well, international norms define they can do it, but must inform countries about the scientific research. In this case China simply launched something. We will never know what that actually was!
They have to say that to save face.
They gonna send a kite next?
They were steering it right. For days in a row.
Stay focused, folks! Distraction.
F U, 🖕
When you send a jet or a surveillance balloon into another country’s airspace(by mistake or intended)it violates the sovereignty and territorial integrity of that nation. It has every right to shoot it down if like a jet it cannot be escorted out of the airspace. POTUS
That was five minutes ago. Chinese foreign country persons should move on.
That’s historical,
They won’t do shit.
Timcast If the election wasn’t rigged, President Trump never would have allowed this violation of US airspace. BidenCrimeFamily
Yea it's totally normal to just let other countries spy on us and our assets
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Why are all these authoritarian scumbags so bad at gaslighting now?
BoycottChina. DONT BUY MADE IN CHINA. SEND A MESSAGE. AS SMALL AS IT MAY SEEM.
Anyone else think this smells fishy; like they're trying to goat us?
I’m sure General Milley will let them know if we plan a counter response. Resign!
Hmmm our airspace is tripped and they want us to just…not here buddy!!!
If it was just a weather balloon that was accidentally put off course, why would they care?
Timcast This shouldn’t be surprising to anyone. China has a history of touching a hot stove and screaming “hey everyone look the stove burnt me, feel bad for me in this moral injustice”
We should ban all Chinese from American territory. Take them to concentration camps while awaiting deportation.
They're coming, don't be surprised.
They can protest all they want….weather balloon or spy balloon….it does not need to be in our air space period!
Grifters grifting
We send a message to them saying if it happens again there will be a military response so protect that
Wheel of Fortune; Sorry you could have won all the cash in the Balloon 🎈 😄
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Let’s think about this - the US bans it’s citizens from travelling and doing business with CUBA but not CHINA? Does any of this make sense to anyone Oh right— $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Satellites have mapped the world. Surely, there’s no need to take pics from a balloon. I wonder what it was sent for.
Chinese invade our air space, then they complain we shot it down
I’m tired of their attitude and it’s time the U.S. put them in their place!
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Shameless China. First should ask apologises to USA.
What about china doing this to try and start a war with us, or we do nothing and they spy on us. What will happen now
Ohhh…you angry over a “weather balloon”? Doesn’t sound right…Ahhh…let’s see what comes out the investigation.
If it was just a weather ballon, wouldn’t they be laughing about the fact we spent 20 million dollars to shoot down a weather balloon. They kind incriminated themselves like a five year old.
I was pleasantly surprised that the news division of Fox News presented an expert who agreed with how Biden handled it. The entertainment division (retaining R base audience by telling them what they want to hear) is another story of course.
Tell China to be accountable for their shit. Bout time we stopped being pussies.
Timcast The whole 'maybe if we pretend like this never happened it will all just go away' act is getting older by the second.
Timcast No surprise there... Next step Taiwan. America provoked it...
bruh they planned this. they had no reason to go to war with us and then all of a sudden a 'weather balloon' is over Missouri? nah fam, China wants that smoke, but they aren't ready for that smoke
I have zero idea why we would shoot it down after it has passed the US based on what our government said about it. Either it was wrong and a threat and we should have shot it down before it went over the entire US or it was no threat and let it go. Why shoot it down afterwards?
Lol
This was always gonna be the response. So why wait three days after Biden gave the order?
After giving all of our militaries arms and ammunition to Ukraine. I feel a lot more of this shit is going to happen. We went from heros to zeros in ,0-Joe Biden.
They violated the norm by letting it come here in the first place.
Joe would love some more conflict and war. He has voted yes to war and funding of every single time in his 50 years in public office. War is why he was appointed.
The outrage over a balloon popping. I don't even. I just don't
Hey China, GFYourselves.
marsmanalaska Oh shut it, AP.
If this is tru, I swear all these ppl ave nth better to do
Timcast Who gives a shit what they think. Let’s send some balloons in their airspace to see how they like it. Let’s play fuck around and find out!
I wonder what they would do if it was us with a balloon over China.
What? Wait, I thought China denied it was theirs.... Things that make you go hmmmm.
The first thing that stands out is our POS president did not salute the two enlisted servicemen who were on the ground, saluting him as he touched the ground. 'Commander-in-Chief' indeed.
Timcast Drop a MOAB on CCP headquarters.
Bring it on ChiComs
Wow, so send it over , they shoot it down...now thats gives you the right to retaliate..🤣🤣 fuck start sending balloons over and let's fuckin dance
Don’t Even go there China, if 🇺🇸 had a balloon in your air space it’d be down like planters has peanuts
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You know what they say If you're feeling froggy! We should have shot this thing down over Alaska!
says the folks who probably sent an 'errant' balloon our way to see what we'd do, so they could then complain about it.
Timcast Ironic coming from a government who is commiting genocide against Uyghurs and violates Taiwanese airspace.
too bad. is our space. not by china so bye bye
F Biden will roll over for them
the Chinese have always loved pretty balloons 😆
Take them down NOW
Your f'ing balloon violated American airspace.
Timcast Alternate headline: China reserves the right to do something stupid and get its ass kicked.
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So much for keeping a calm & level head. 🤷♂️
Always the victim. This is why Democrats love China.
And we reserve the right to prohibit all cheap Chinese imports…what do you think America? Buy American and tell China to take a hike!
Well you have to credit them for acting right away. It was our air space they invaded num nuts .if the balloon was an airplane would we play with it for awhile. Joke of leaders in the United States
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Joey might actually get his war
Timcast Ya after Creepy traitor Joe let it make it all the way across the Continental US. There were plenty of places it could’ve been downed, but the big guy had to make good on his 10%!
It would be cool if they could just tell us that their balloon is entering our airspace.
Free tibet, Taiwan, Hongkong
I would say having a balloon made with taxpaying money floating over 2 sovereign countries without their permission or knowledge violates international norms, but hey what do I know.🤷♂️🙄
Balloon shooting games - always fun... Now become serious something! 😂 A local pastime has given heavy occupation to a whole country - its govt, military, press, politicos & everyone else with a mobile phone!
Weather balloon or not, it shouldn’t be in our air space at all. They have nothing to bitch about.
Timcast China knows Biden is a weak pedophile that nobody respects.
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How long would a US balloon last over China?
Damned we do, damned if we don't. The manufacturers of death would love to see munitions being spent. And the war pigs are always there's different blood. Still, fire does China think they're actually ready to find out?
Chinkies talking about international norms!
I guess China thought that if it was okay for them to fly over 3 times during the cult leader's reign, then it would probably be okay for them to try again with our POTUS. Not on his watch. Bye-bye spy balloon.
Corn pop was a bad dude.
Really they have a real nerve while they were the ones violating United State s Air Space
Maybe they were trying to figure out where the firmament ended.
Hey China
China is a hostile force “TO BE RECONNED WITH” the time has come to stand against their arrogant actions.
oOoOoOhHhHh nOoOo, a second balloon!!
Please do China let’s get this over with!!! Oh by the way come land on our shores so most of us can take out a little anger using our second amendment rights!
Bring it! It does not belong in our country keep it in your country!
This is just a face-saving counterpunch by the Chinese. Face-saving is very important in eastern cultures. No one, however, is going to buy this crap.
Um. All kidding about the actual threat this balloon posed aside, the US doesn't need anyone's permission to shoot down unauthorized craft in it's airspace. Like that's just ridiculous.
We will shoot it down 100000x over. Lets see what you got, Xi. We knew this day was gonna come from them. Just a matter of when and where.
Further action = Invade Taiwan
They sent the balloon as a provocation. They are basically political gaslighting the USA. Their network of spies and operatives are in the USA and Canada because there was no regulation on who can buy houses & property - how do you think they paid millions in cash? (China gov't)
WTF is going on 😱
Violates international norms? Look at this china doing in Philippine sea...and fishermen .. so look whos talking
Its not a threat, they are saying since US has shot one of their balloons, creating a precendent and means China can respond with same treatment to any US balloon that flies over Chinese airspace. US really did not think this through. BidenWorstPresidentEver ChinaIsNotOurEnemy
How dare you shoot our spy balloon. Clowns, every country should do this with China. Keep your sheet inside your own country.
Timcast D-Does China thinks they have the RIGHT to SPY on other countries? 🤨🤡
Here come WWIii
Airspace. Get in the sea Commies ! fly one over them .
Try and fly a balloon through Chinese airspace and see how far you get before it gets blown out of the sky!
The chinese hypocrisy is unprecedent.
So is this an escalation? Diplomacy is a 2 way conversation.
Fuuuucckkk China and the horse they rode in on. If the US stopped production orders to China, it would become a 3rd world country all over again. We make China great, not the other way around.
NOW there is a spy balloon over Columbia! China is escalating
SPLASH
Timcast All Governments sit down and eat dinner together Only the unwashed masses are told otherwise. Humanity embarrasses me Over and over again, bulls with rings in their noses...led around from fake story to fake story STOP IT and Grow the F up ! jc ....
China van crie all they want
Next time when the “real spy plane” flies over South China Sea, Chin will shoot it down!
Just fucking bring it… tired of their shit already.
These people are bold faced and shameless
Danger close...🤣😂🤣🤦♂️😎🏴☠️
JUST IN: Spy Balloon contained ICE 9, which is now turning the Atlantic into solid ice. 😉
Chinese birthday streamers of peace now on way!
Lol you do you China. Clutch those pearls.
i mean norm would be aircraft - not necessarily a weather balloon. if a U.S. Weather Balloon were to float on down to Asia i am sure it would meet an eventual end via AA or would it float around collecting data or whatever weather balloons do for fun. would we declare it rogue?
I'm tellin' ya. China is looking for a reason. With the Taiwan problem, China claiming islands in international waters and now this spy balloon.
Fvck China.
Does anyone realize the fact that this is a declaration of war. We are not understanding what the actual move was is and we all better understand life as we know it is going to be very different and very terrifying for the half who caused this for us all. Biden sold us out
China said it was a weather balloon to study weather patterns in Montana.
China shouldn't fly their shit in our airspace without permission.
Finally China has learned to speak in a typical American style.
the founding principles of our country and its government is to protect the people & ran by the people and we need to own our truth and get a leader in the presidency now & remove the treasonous one that is holding office. Come on America if ur so woke why are you sleeping
Violation Norms Were Violated When They Breached Our Air Space ! Has the whole world gone crazy ?
Remove 'The' from your name.
Yes,you keep protesting and we'll keep shooting them down.
China has a point. US had no reason to blow the thing up after it was over the Atlantic.
Chinese are smart! No questions! 💩❤️
So what happens if we put one of these things over their country? Does it still comply with international reserves? I've been hearing for years that China wants to invade... Well isn't this invasion of privacy and homeland safety? So many questions. I bet we get b******t answers
Timcast We can shoot anything down we damn please inside our air zones. Piss off China.
Why are they upset? They already have the intel they needed. It was sent already...not like it was sitting in a black box waiting to be retrieved.
You can always count on good ol’ U.S. of A. paranoia! Oh look, some foreigner is recording us on his massive 80s cassette deck. We should be worried.
china Anytime. We're waiting.
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Of course is war drums
Neither the Chinese nor anyone can believe any innocent excuse for a provocative act such as violating the wisdom of a country, congratulations to the army for bringing down the shitty Chinese balloon
False flag. Look elsewhere
I say bring it!!!
Well tell china 🇨🇳 bust a move then… c that’s why we need realDonaldTrump cuz china wouldn’t even play wit us like dat 🏌️♂️
Was that shit flying in our airspace or not?
Did they get permission to fly an info gathering balloon the size of 3 busses into our air space across our whole country & gather geographical info? & if the answer is No, did they think seriously think we were just going to let that go?🙄
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Fly into MY country, get shot buy MY guns take action against ME
How dare you stop us from doing the bad thing?!
Could you ever think of that ww3 starts with a balon ? Insane
Oh those Eliza Bleuns?
Timcast Biden plans to build zeppelins to fight the threat of chinese balloons
As per its old tried custom, America solves international problems with weapons.
But I thought they said it was a private weather balloon off course?
Huh? They violated US airspace and it’s the USs fault for taking action?
Ccp on opium like their predecessors
F Chy....na
Timcast Does CPofCN Have any right to float balloons on any Sovereign Country? If it does,Why?
Fucking bring it. We're guilty of illegal surveillance.
Timcast Just a shame it was shot down only after it flew over the Montana Mintue man3 missile silos and possibly transmitted live data regarding the size and disposition of a chunk of US Strategic Defense assets
Timcast International norms would have called the balloon an unauthorized invasion of U.S. airspace. Shut up.
Timcast Hay look the CCP that created covid are threatening US again.
So... China violate our country air space and we broke some treaty law by shooting it down .... Is it something I miss here 🤔
Timcast Maybe spraying a virus 😉
Cuz biden is a joke. They wouldn't have tried this with Trump. facts
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I look forward to reading the strongly worded letter they send to the UN.
Timcast Wait ... What... NOT Chinese airspace or International airspace , BUT American airspace. The US had every right to shoot it down. End of discussion.
What ever information they want to collect they did .that is why biden didn’t blow up the balloon .He let them collect the information this is set up he thinks he will look good when he blows the balloon. to late american people are not stupid
Nice to see all of the social media epidemiologists and classified documents experts have diversified and now specialize in foreign counter-intelligence and espionage. And they say Americans don't want to work...
More BS propaganda
Oh please…
they are free to shoot American spy balloons in China airspace
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China should shut up! They have disqualified themselves from having any say in this world.
Is this ment? They are supposed to ignore the breach on their airspace
It’s a sad day when Brandon’s actions are seen as aggressive
This is a tit for tat war 🙃🙃🙃🙃
How many distractions does it take to make the American people forget about what really matters. Prime example!
Knew that was coming
Lol, the weak US administration let them complete their spying mission, why would they be mad
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This is US air space over a sovereign nation. Their answers appeared inconsistent and their protest shows a lack of respect for America.
Why was it not shot down immediately. Soon as it was in our air space the airforce should have been tracking and escorting it out of north American Air space, warning to change course or be immediately shot it down. China now knows we think about it, while they enter our space
Yah, ok…bring it on…bring it on in to the heartland of America….take your further action ‘round here and see how far you get…you piece of crap communist, pile of good for nothing plastic product producing, poor excuse for a country!!
Timcast This is all some kind of drama that is made for Americans follow. It does not make sense to me in this way it is being reported.
Bro I don’t remember right. I’m
We could just all get along but no what do we do, fight over a balloon like 5 year olds ….
Hii si ni uchokozi tu?🤦🏾♂️
China don’t want no smoke with us
China can cry all they want, they were wrong to release that spy balloon over the US and other parts of LATAM... Retaliate all they want. what are they going to do put more lead on baby formula?
Lol. 😂 they are so mad about a “civilian balloon?”
Suspicious activity leads to consequential response, right to bear settlement agreement withholding further escalation issue.
Timcast Dems got their conflict. World War enables the suspension of elections. . .
Fuck around and find out! 🤬mofos
God be with us
taking down the spying balloon from imperialist China is the right thing to do
But it in US air space
It was just said less than a week ago that by 2025 we would be at war with China. Here we go.
America STOP BUYING CHINESE MADE PRODUCTS
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Do we sound scared ? No pissed off is the word I’d use.
What threat? They said the balloon didn't belong to them.
Biden’s Christmas bonus might be in jeopardy
From now on, China holds an option to shoot down any U.S. spying objects if they come into China again
I thought they said the balloon didn't belong to them? What is wrong with these Chinese people?
Timcast Let’s go then. We’re all down for a fight. Let’s go!
What action? They going to work extra hard making plastic junk for us in sweat shops?
it shouldn't of been there in the first place. Get your act into gear, China. PRC may need to review InternationalLaw guidelines and the definition and rights of entering any country's airspace. Escalation from your error will not solve the issue USAirForce POTUS
such announcements form 🇨🇳 shout be taken more carefully what if 🇺🇸 investigators find evidence of spy equipment
It being in US airspace is against international norms.
Lol China, u so craaaazy
Send it
sorry…this wasn’t some civilian aircraft. this wasn’t a simple “weather balloon”. i’d like to see if the UN, who holds up these so called “international norms”, would even come close to voting on the US violating any of them (btw, a vote on US soil)
BUT YET CHINA WOULDN’T CONFIRM NOR DENY IT WAS THEIRS! NOW WE KNOW!!!!!!!
Amen
NickAtNews lol if China quadrupled their airspace firepower they'd still lose
We need to respond in kind to them. Should have been shot down when it enter our air space with extreme Prejudice
Time to start selling them opium again.
“ further action “ Bring it.
Timcast Bullshit.
Why is nobody talking about the child who was operating the balloon who was shot down with it ? The media is just covering for the governments mistakes once again , RIP unknown child pilot
Shut down the plane when American governor going to Taiwan!
Timcast All going according to plan I see.
Lol! And China is ANGRY.Oh the irony
Timcast Now we see their real motivation for sending the balloon. They were poking the bear.
Bring it on Pooh bear
China has shown that it can frighten US by sending balloons over US. Let's see more and more balloons from China.
Timcast This is Babylon bee, right? RIGHT?
Timcast Fake outrage! Just a smoke screen to help Biden not look as owned by his Chinese masters
This is so stupid don’t spy on us! We will bring war to YOU if you continue to violate our agreements to stay on our own sides!
….are they freaking serious?
Those very same Republicans have an egg on their face after learning that T allowed 3 such balloons to travel unimpeded across the US during his tenure.
Obviously, none rational would send a balloon to spy. So, that balloon didn't serve to spy
China making up there own rules.
Timcast Bullshit. Link to their statement.
Stop acting like the Chinese don't already spy on us with their media, a balloon holds no valuable information in 2023 lol
Keep your shit out of our airspace.
Lol no they aren’t. China lives rent free in your mind
Hahaha
What took so long?
The Chinese can kiss it!
Timcast Our president let this foreign invasion happen for days to the point now China feels entitled. Just like how China had ericswalwell in their pocket, our worthless president is laughed at by the world
Simple STOP BUYING FROM THE CHINESE…
Lmfao They are gaslighting con artists. If any other country did the same to them they’d shoot that shit down in a nano second and still threaten those who sent it. US shoild have shot that shit down as soon as it hit US air space. No exceptions.
So then it wasn't a civilian weather balloon.
China is allowed one free balloon pop next time we fly one over their country.
Yes the U.S. will send a blimp named Donald Trump over then retaliate
So what
Timcast Balloon norms
You got to remember, they are testing our response. They want to try and bully us. Shut em down and break off any talk or negotiations. Yes that might disrupt supply chains and supplies. But just my opinion. Carry on
Go to hell Chinese communist!
Better “reserve” it. Get your fuckin ass whipped…
LOL china can suck it
We should retaliate by sending all of our Macy's parade balloons over Chinese airspace. Hope it isn't Monday over there, because Garfield HATES Mondays!
And this is how the Chinese take over...over a stupid spy balloon argument claim
Kudos to the Biden Administration who took action to protect the citizens in America.
Hey soy boys….🖕🏼
'A nation without borders is not a nation.' - Ronald Reagan
Timcast They goaded Biden into starting WW3.
CONWAY
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Hmm its now an international norm to spy on other countries?
Timcast stop talking
Free Tibet.
They must be on some cheap drugs...
So is spying
Xi Jinping whinnie the pooh would do well to keep PRC's activities within the 100 acre woods & be content to picnic there !
Finally! The nuclear war to end globalism.
It's about time!
Timcast suckitchina
Threat? From who?
Let’s ruumble.
Go on bring It China
You know damn well if we sent a balloon over there and they shot said balloon down, they'd more than likely say we shouldn't be sending foreign spyware into their country in the first place
We need to stop buying shit from them anyway. Let's work with mex
The ccp crying foul? Really....this was a violation of US airspace. There is no civilian agency in China. The ccp is a an existential threat to America.
Hey China! I think your “aka” bs weather balloon Flying freely over United States waters would definitely be violating International Laws!!
Tired of dictatorship China in delirium omnipotence Go back home china
khireewbal Interesting that it was in our airspace, and they are upset
😂😂😂🖕🏼China
Timcast
It's way past time for American companies to pack up and get the hell out of China.
They violated air space!!!!! Excuses 🤬
🤣🤣🤣
They should have done this much earlier
China had no right to enter our Air Space unannounced. This is America and we don't play around with threats
So ask them if we can do the same to them maybe have a few fighter jets fly through their country without a response
Entering another country's airspace violates international law. Pound sand, CCP.
In Latin America they are chill about their Chinese spy balloon.
I completely understand China. Tell you what we’ll fly a SR-71 over Beijing and you can try down it if you want to.
DananaMama Lol, they know Biden is a weak and senile man who can’t stand up to them.
Why do we keep allowing Chinese into our country and universities?
That was crazy. It was in plain sight on US air space. Once the equipment was recovered, they could figure out what was recorded. The correct action was to apologize and minimize the incident. I have very little faith on this ending nicely.
China... if ur feeling froggy, then jump👀
Not defending the US but if anyone had their balloon going over China's territory, it will be shot down too. 🙄
Ballon shouldn’t have been there in the first place… Should have been shot down days ago!
Blah blah blah . ....they have to say this.
Expected a garland or what?
Do it.
Lmaooooo they can’t be for real!!! ANY country would have shot that mf down… as soon as they saw it in their country! China says they have the right to retaliate? This gotta be a joke. Sorry China, you don’t own the world. They were spying and that’s that
Sure hope they don’t shut down tik tok. That would just be awful 🙄
They wanted us to shoot it down. It was bait.
FJB 🤡 🖕🏼🇨🇳
Yea .. China , you are cray.. cray.. crazeeey lol 😂 😂😂 i am sorry who violated who again? Please do not apply your non-sense rule to International law … 🤦🏻♂️
China never stops criticizing other countries' behavior but never acknowledges its own abhorrent deeds.
Just give up just being played rip
We’ll send over some Republicans in a balloon. Have fun.
Are they going to shoot chop sticks at America now 🤔🙄🇺🇸🥢🥢🥢🥢🥢🥢🥢
Stop all Chinese exports from coming in
I'm sick of this!! When will we finally get to see WW3 FFS!!!
Lol wut
Dear China:
Timcast Fckchina
Why did the USA shoot it down? For what ends? If it could not detect it or stop it when it entered its airspace, it was pointless to shoot it thereafter. Moreover, it didn't pose any direct threat to USA security.
Now we get tough? AFTER it canvased the whole freaking US China is thanking us and laughing heartily at our soft headed idiocy. Shame on us. Weakness at its best.🙄😒
If as they claim weather research. Would they have the data on warming trends over cities and industrialised zones, to verify published data? Might be useful at the next climate conference if it contradicts anything.
Did we just get baited into a war?
Timcast The CCP can go sit and spin.
FuckThem
Considering the Chinese were openly testing space weapons from balloons not too long back, I’d say there’s plenty cause for concern.
Has Joe apologized yet? I’m sure he will. Beg his boss for forgiveness
International norms is you get shot down for entering our airspace.
Whattttttt looks like China wanting a war lol
Timcast Don’t pop the Covid balloon 🙈
Send them the clean-up bill
Sure . What are they going to to ? Repossess … oh wait …
Probably carrying Covid 22…
So, a long time ago, a Japanese balloon flew into US airspace. There are rules about this, and China is in violation, not us. Do your homework AP.
“International norms” What…you mean NOT standing up to China?
Hahaha ahem, what? Let’s send a balloon over their airspace and see what happens 😀
🤡🤡🤡
Bring it bitch
Commies big mad
It's almost that time
Nope. Finders keepers. Don’t want to lose your balloon, China? Keep it in your own airspace.
Whatever the left wants is best because of maga
Timcast
Awww... US so mean. Chinese sent 'weather balloon' all the way from China to help the weather forecast and they shot it down. Bad US 😂
China, if you're paying attention. Then FO!
Timcast If we are going to do this let’s do it now…
So they are mad that we shot down their surveillance balloon that invaded our country's air space? 🤔 That's an interesting stand to take.
this is the only way they can measure accurate distance 👉🏼👈🏼
Tell those slants to fucking bring it! Let's nuke this whole motherfucker 👇! The entire future of the human species looks abysmal anyway!
The Communists smell weakness.
Yeah, AFTER they finished their surveillance of us
China completely gone mad?
They got the information they needed already transmitted back to thim.. this is all bull
Keep your junk outta our yard then.
LOL? What violated 'Norms' was allowing it to get past the Pacific Coast in the first place. How the fuck did this travel all the way across our nation? What the fuck was brandon & the dod doing? I would have blasted it long before it hit the Pacific Coast. America is weak.
If we had done that to them it wouldn't of made it an hour before it would be taken down.
Looking for any reason to start a war with China 😑
Dear CCP: 🖕🖕🖕 Best regards, 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Who gives a shit if they are mad.
Don't invade our air space.
Fighting over a balloon. Not just for 3 year olds anymore.
To the MAGAts who want to unleash W3 over a balloon in the sky, but want Ukrainians to give up their country to the Russian invasores, you are a bunch of HYPOCRITES !!!
Wait. This the same china that threaten the US for training missions in international waters near Chinese waters?
Timcast What are they literally going to do? Release another virus?
Timcast You know what China didn’t do? Block TheQuartering
Go right ahead we'll light your a** up 🏴☠️🍻😎
We should send the Baby Trump balloon on a tour of Ghina.
Timcast China will do whatever they are allowed to get away with. History proves that. Simply look at south east Asia water disputes
We still have our Hiroshima/Nagasaki Weather Ballons lying around in Taiwan? Maybe take one out for a ride during a Tsunami with winds out of southeast! That’s our response! The F**k around equation applies here also.
pleaaaaaaaaaaaase do
Lets cover the chinese air space with balloons. See what happens.
Timcast Time to stomp these piss ants
Timcast If we flew anything over their country, they would have shot it down too. That’s such a narcissistic response.
Procession3007 Lol
Chinese Spy Balloons. Chinese officials are very ugly. China ignores international law, China ignores sovereign states.
Like what, shooting down our ham radio balloons?
What a joke
Stop teasing me. Just launch the nukes already.
Shooting it down was a reasonable response.
Timcast F China, FJB!
If I was the US I might begin doing a stocktake of my spy satellites that are specifically aimed at China. ChineseSpyBalloon
Anyone who is worried about this balloon 🎈 isn’t paying attention.
China will express their displeasure again if we don't watch out
Cope
China is like my ex. It/he throws their shit at me, and when I bat it away, they lose it and display classic domestic violence control tactics to try to intimidate and get their way 🙄
To counter the threat that the CCP implies, we should negotiate with Taiwan for a military base.
Timcast Usually i Disagree with Biden BUT WHAT DID CHINA EXPECT?
Pay us for retrieved pieces after they’re analyzed by the Pentagon. Don’t send in balloons anymore, we have enough wacky clowns.
Doubt it
This is what happens w/a weak potus deep in corruption w/Ukraine,Albania&China. Every single war simulation the military has run has us losing to China, fyi. But at least we got the guy who wants to kill babies in the 9th month now,foreign policy be damned🙄DemocratsAreCorrupt
Timcast Chinese officials sure are mad over a little ole ‘CiViLiAn AiRcRaFt’ they had absolutely nothing to do with. 🙄
FAFO China
Well, lets hope this doesnt escalate to blowing up satellites
Hillarious! Are they trying to create a reason to escalate tensions with the US?
They're asking Joe for their money back
That must been a really important weather balloon. 🤣
Whatevs.
provocation
Bring it on bitches
VoiceOfFranky O great, here comes the German Spy Balloon!
Deal with it China. You don't need to be sending balloons over U.S Airspace, anyway.
Timcast Bring it. China needs a good ass beating. They have overplayed their hand for the last 20 or so years with lies and deception. Time to blow them off the map.
Don't float over country and spy then
Blah blah blah
MQ-9s over Beijing when?
Timcast Look at this propaganda 👀
LMAO
🖕 🇨🇳
China already declared war... And bet more will be reported...
If it is just a 'weather' balloon, what is 🇨🇳 worried about? Protesting the US's justifiable action is a confession of intentionality. It seems China is scared we will recover this intact and see what they are up to.
I have an idea. Lets fly a spy balloon over China snd see what they do. Stupid threat...
Bring it on China.
Timcast Took a week to get to a balloon. Guess we are fucked if it’s something else
Too bad
Do it! You should not have invaded our space!
Entrapment. Charge them w/sanctions and violating International laws.
The He audacity 🤣🤡
Timcast Ahhh typical shit starting. Nice.
That’s ok send your made in China balloons over here,don’t be surprised when Made in America fighter jets show up over Beijing
The former guy let us do it!
CCP are clowns
Ohhh China... will you ever learn? Ours is way bigger than yours.
Good thing that Chinese spy ballon was white. We’d never hear the end from the likes of TheView and JoyAnnReid how it’s racist to shoot down a Black Balloon. Black Balloons in all the profile pics. BBLM riots everywhere.
Timcast AR-15
Not smart China.
Timcast The CCP smell blood in the water. They are pouncing on what they hope will be a weak response by the Biden regime. The Biden regime will no doubt go on the defensive rather than call out the CCP’s violations of our sovereignty.
If China believes themselves to be in the right here, I’d like to point them to the BOFA doctrine.
let's fly different balloons from different countries to China and see what they gonna say...lol
This just seems like either a distraction or a setup for something worse to come
Lol what Winnie the pooh gonna do. Cry?
Timcast Are they serious?
That’s a lot of fuss for what they claim is a “weather balloon.” Perhaps they’ll calm down if we send them a new weather balloon to make it right.
We need to prepare for war.
That’s interesting to know. So international law permits enemy nation to spy with unmanned vehicles. But question still arise that how come it entered in US air space without detection? Either US airforce is weak or ballon took of from US soil only. Both situations are serious.
The ap takes orders from the Chinese government and receives millions of dollars
Enjoy it while Biden the wimp is here. A proper president would have that thing down before it arrives.
Timcast rubbish, China knew it was out there, they could've destroyed it themselves before it reached US/Canada.
shouldn't have been spying on our military then.
😂😂😂
Biden did violate international norms. Any other serious nation would have shot that thing down the second it entered our airspace
Yeah ok. Stop creeping. No reason they need weather reports from the US.
Who has 'ww3 starts via balloon' on their 2023 bingo card?
sahilkapur Still Majority of Goods sold in America is imported from China. Why buy goods from enemy country?
Hopefully U.S. officials respond to Xi with the old familiar suggestion
The Art of Playing The Victim.
The Art of Provocation.
Take all of china's farmland in the US
Uncle Joe doesn’t give a shit how upset they are. Send another one and we’ll shoot that shit down too.
CCP
Timcast awwww poor babies, keep your crap out of our airspace next time
Why wasn’t it taken down before it got over our land. Praising Biden now that it’s flown across the entire US gathering who knows what is too late!
Tell China they can kiss our Mr. Miyagi!
Timcast The United States is going to wind up paying China hundreds of million dollars for the balloon
Timcast Their next “balloon.”
natashakorecki Ok thanks for letting us know.
Ummm no country in their right mind is gonna let that go. They’re insane if they think we should’ve just let it fly. This is our land and if they were to shoot down a surveillance balloon over their land, I’d also find it reasonable!
They truly think this administration is a joke and the administration proves it daily
Why do they care so much, I thought it was a weather balloon? Whatever China says, believe the opposite. They said they didn’t have anything to do with covid and we all know that’s bs
Timcast Bring it bitches.
The US military has taken down that defenseless civilian balloon days after its harmless entry. The US needs an education on harmless passage though its military has been harassing and trespassing countries for decades in the name of 'harmless passage'.
CCP invade airspace from another country, then they dare to threaten us.
Fck China! And Fck China Joe!
regarding China and its ascendence: perhaps if American corps had not moved their manufacturing facilities to a Chinese jurisdiction where labor was cheap and regs were few, the west might not have enabled the China we deal with today.
Timcast
China pulled the ol 'leaf on the shoulder' move
Timcast Our admin just proved to them that they can take any action they want without any repercussions of any kind.
Over a lil ol' weather balloon?
What the deal over popping a damn weather balloon? 😀
Beijing Biden, let's a Chi-com spy balloon map all of our missile silos, then finally shoots it down to save some face from all the backlash.
Timcast They said it’s a weather monitoring system, we’ll recover wreckage and see, if not they have some explanation required
Wahhhhhh play stupid games win stupid prizes
Wow, they really have the audacity to retaliate after invading US land with that balloon. The world still hasn't forgiven China for unleashing COVID yet, and here they go with their bs.
Timcast 🤣🤣🤣
Scramble jets to protect the Goodyear blimp ASAP!
Timcast Well, frankly, once it was over the ocean it was just posturing to bring it down, By then, the damage was probably done
They need to stop.
Timcast China was trolling, and USA responded exactly how they were hoping.
Why people believe what they are told? It’s because that is how they grew up listening what they have been told.
China rn
Alrighty then, let’s send some “balloons”over those islands they are fortifying, just to see what kind of reaction we get?
Its time to blow up the chinese made sand bar in the Philippine waters as this baloon is an act of war
Timcast Feels like this is to stoke the military industrial complex money spending (even though we’re at debt ceiling)
Timcast
Timcast Uhhh..thats like the burglar suing the homeowner for shooting him.
Timcast We should send China a million of balloons over their airspace. I like this design. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
None of this makes, we have a foreign object flying over U.S. which means somebody somewhere gave permission for all this.
They can have one of mine if it makes them feel better. I gotta have it back though next week
🇺🇲
To bad china don’t like it. 🎉🇺🇸💪
CCP cries after they lost a balloon for spying. Trash party.
Timcast
China puts a flying object in our air space, we shoot it down, under Biden and all Liberals are posting about is Trump Liberalism is a disease.
LOL COPE
So China sends balloons to spy on other countries without any consideration that it would interfere with the safety&security of other nations &USA shot it down. Yet now China says America interferes with their spying flying mechanism?😳Did covid &their vaccines fry their thinking
Pooh playing with balloons
Timcast 😂🤣
Downed it over OUR country lol … that’s over American Soil… ya. Keep protesting.
Haha further action of what? Your shit has been over our airspace for days trying to steal info
Lol they violated U.S. air space
Too bad. If they want to put something over our country without permission that’s unidentified, it’s fair game. Same standard should apply if we put an unidentified object over their country.
Timcast
This would be the most all time pathetic excuse for war or all time.... This is pysops is stupid.... Change the channel
Bring it.
Timcast China leaders will need to discuss with the US Commander in Chief. He gave the order and apparently, 81M Americans elected him. Let him solve it.
🙄
Yes, Chinese Spy Balloons Flew Over The U.S. When President Trump Was In Office Too via forbes
Well next time don’t spy on us. Leave it in your lane fools.
Timcast Just offer to return the pieces? :-)
Why hasn't anybody done a meme of the diaper-donald balloon floating high in the sky, and torpedoed by one of our jets?
Timcast
Timcast The hero we need.
Timcast Why does China 🇨🇳 need to spy with a ballon. They are doing it already with satellites!
Timcast And we care why?
Timcast Biden admin still to busy writing their apology letter?
Bring it!
Timcast Is this a continuation of the white paper protesting, otherwise… nobody cares.
You can’t make this up, can you? It was in our sovereign airspace. If they can’t control their “weather” balloons better than this then they need to keep them out of the sky.
Not really. They're covering for Biden, trying to make him look tough
Fuck china.
shouldn’t have intervened when the Japanese invaded that garbage dump
Biden's next war...
Winnie the Pooh crying with a popped balloon
Thank you China for giving Joe a chance to redeem himself, now that the mission is complete. He can now make a speech condemning China, thus showing what a strong leader he is, while remaining a good puppet.
stavridisj While not the Wen Rui, it's not entirely dissimilar, eh?
Timcast Good America needs a reality check
But flying a surveillance device over another country doesn’t “violate international norms” (aside from those that apply to the US government)?
Timcast 🖕🇨🇳
Wow, they've mastered the art of gaslighting I see.
Well heck … China will threaten & beat the crud out of us right now… since they KNOW we are being run by woke, and weak leaders! 😏 … We are an EMBARRASSMENT
TheRealCoryElia sooo, if the missile only just popped the balloon, what’s up with the explosion and smoke? …remote self-destruction to destroy evidence? 🤔
Timcast
Timcast Close the China embassy for 3 months. POTUS
Timcast Do something about it.
Timcast Yet their news stations yesterday denied it and said they would never violate our agreements by flying a balloon into our air space.
Timcast We need to teabag their balloon while it’s down.
Timcast C’mon man…
Timcast
Don’t fuck with sovereign airspace of a superpower.
Timcast
This is what you get when you elect democrats. What a joke
Timcast But but but didn't they claim it was a civilian balloon? Lmfao
What they gonna do make another virus?
Nigga what Don’t send your shit over here and it won’t get violated..tf?
Timcast bro, China having a balloon in our airspace violates...well I don't know what it violates but I know foreign countries are not allowed to fly things in our airspace
Time to retaliate by sending back a Winnie the Pooh balloon
So they gave the “world” access to the data being collected live and fully explained how they did not expect the balloon to be in this location? Nope. So flying a balloon over another country violates international norms.
So. Why fly it over US airspace?
Hopefully they shot down the Chinese virus with it
Say when
Timcast Protesting? Like BLM? I’m in.
Amazing, seeing the numbers of leftist/commies/Chinese bots condemning our right to our sovereign airspace. It’s almost as though they’re sympathizing with their commie brethren.
Timcast Poor babies
Timcast We all know that China owns the Biden crime family.
Chin*s gonna chin*
Timcast And flying a spy balloon over a country doesn’t violate the international norms? GFYs
Timcast 那是来自共产党的富有
Timcast Enter nothing, they have nuclear subs they can launch these off of on The coasts of California. The DOD knows it is out there too.
Well they can piss off.
What are they gonna do? Send the house from 'Up'?
That’s bullshit. They’ve shot down planes plenty of times that were not even violating their airspace.
China threatens US for shooting down their balloon with increased opening of Dollar Stores in North America!
Don’t start no shit won’t be no shit…
China is protesting the US shooting down their spy balloon? I thought they were totally against any and all protests and protesters. Double standards too, like someone else we know.
Thoughts and prayers
I hope you all see through the smoke right away… we noticed the thing in Montana but waited until it got all the way across the country to “shoot it down” I don’t believe a thing.
The balloon traveled freely fm ccp to elsewhere across the ocean and countries for whatever purpose. The cheap one was finally shot down by an air-to-air missile from a jet after it had been detected over the US territory for a few days. Great!
I guess it's welcome to shoot down any US spy balloons over China 🤷🏽♀️
ChinaIsAsshoe
China weather news stations are messed up now.
Yeah sure they are
China initiates WW3. Let’s go.
Y’all crazy. Don’t ever call me crazy again.Why do y’all think Republicans were shouting to shoot the balloon down? Remember they are trying to overthrow the Government.
So it was something more than what they claimed it was. Okey dokey.
* Barroon
Lol
Is this the 3rd grade?
Trespassing into US airspace is also violates international norms.
Let’s fuckn go
They won't do shit
I'm sorry, what are the international norms for spy balloons from adversarial nations traveling through your airspace?
Over US airspace? These communists think they own the entire world.
China out here tryna play “Keepy Uppy” over the USA Bluey
Oh noes!!!
Tell them to go ahead and light this candle if they want.
Let’s goooooooo!!!!!
Oh God, here we go So stupid and dangerous the US is
Tf did they expect
850 billion dollars per year.
All bark and no bite!
We need to give them a balloon to shoot down to deescalate
BeKind1965 🖕🏼China
OK China. 🤣🤣🤣 Our military is the biggest in the world. But yeah, save face and try to sound tough!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡
😅😂😂🤣🤣😂😅
Further action my ass. They would’ve shot that ish down in 2 seconds if we sent a balloon over their country.
Get ready everyone! Now it's time for: US vs. China Ring: Taiwan! Winner:? US & allies vs. Russia Ring: Ukraine... Winner: Russia!
🙄
Why wouldn't we shoot down something from a communist county illegally entering US air space. I can't beleive we didn't shoot it down sooner
Who gives a shit?
Violate US air space = kaboom
Bring it. Russia failed with Ukraine. China still uses balloons. These so called competitors to America is like thinking TCU was going to beat Georgia.
So first it was a weather balloon. Now it’s a spy balloon and we had the nerve to shoot it down? What would China do if we did the same thing to them? Your high horse stance is a joke. Shut up.
So...the decision to shoot down the thing was done on Weds. We monitored it, jammed its sensors, and gained intel on its capabilities, waited until it was out range where a crash could cause civilian harm, shot it down, and this is what is causing a million MAGAs to lose it.
Flying your damn ballon over our airspace is a violation of norms also.
So flying it over the US is ok?
“and criticized the U.S. for “an obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice.” If the tables were turned you know 10000% China would be absolutely LIVID and declare war in a heartbeat.
WWIII
Cool. If the US sends a balloon to fly across China and spy on them, then the Chinese government can shoot it down. Seems fair:
What bullshit! It's pitiful to set up a business like this for a poor weather balloon pushed by high altitude jetstreams, they usually burst and fall on their own, this one has lived longer. Speak to the meteorologists they will inform you. What bullshit !!!
What else did they expect? Not to mention this thing was going to pass the East coast so were they expecting it to float back to them after going across the globe?
According to China, it's a civilian research surveillance. On the other hand, civilians research are obliged to provide everything to CCP. 🤔
take your best shot, China
WTF!!
Like what? Not granting ivanka another trademark?
It’s time for all iPhone production to be taken out of China. Plenty of other countries capable of picking it up.
sahilkapur China is a paper Tiger, they won’t do shit.
Lol what?
The genocidal ChiComs are as concerned about “international norms” as Stalin was when Ukrainians weren’t getting enough to eat in 1932.
Are they insane? They literally sent an object of unknown capability into American airspace and are now upset with how usa handled the situation? Can’t believe I am defending the usa government but we did everything right here
Keep your shit out our air space.
WWAAAAARRRR!
They didn't say that and it wasn't a Chinese balloon. Just take an objective step back and it's easy to see this. American propaganda is all this is.
It was in U.S. air space wtf 😂
You voted for this incompetence. Now soak in it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why wait until after it crosses the country?
Are they serious? What were they expecting. They literally violated US airspace, breaking international law, and flying over our military bases and nuclear middle sites and they’re surprised
Bring it.
Lets have the USA send the same balloon with the same “climatic” equipment fly over China at 60,000 feet & see what the Chinese would do
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) must Stop genocide against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang Stop oppression against Buddhists in Tibet Stop violence against the people of Hong Kong Stop threatening the people of Taiwan Respect the human rights of Chinese people.
president xi, my country (canada) yearns for freedom
I guess the Chinese won't know the weather in Jenkinsville, SC now.
Seems like most leaders now a days need to be put in a retirement home 😂 My word hopefully people understand we need an age limit for government/state politicians
It was a civilian balloon I thought? It's still foreign craft in our airspace.
eatshitchina
I'm so sick of hearing about this darn balloon 🙄 Maybe they were checking on their Amazon warehouses😅 Honestly, a balloon is the least of our worries. I think we’ve been in a Cold War with China for a while now. Even Bill Maher was sick of this story 🙄
No, China, just no!
The actions out of the White House at this point become critical in addressing this. I’ve seen war, it’s not pretty and with China, North Korea, Iran & Russia heated up these are indeed scary times. Time to sit up and take notice, the world just started spinning a bit faster.
THATS BS. IT WAS ACT OF WAR FOR THEM TO PLACE ANYTHING IN OUR AIRSPACE. If We were to have flown ANYTHING into ANYONE'S AIRSPACE it would have been shot down in minutes and been an act of War ! So I call Bs. Stop scaring the public with BS
do they ever have a creative response. yawn
Why did we blow up all the evidence ?
I don’t think so. China is trying to save face. That’s all important in their culture. A weakness.
LFG BOYS
WOW China must be serious... I'm trembling in fear..
Lol! ..
China feels emboldened by our weak response, now mocking us.
I'm sure that if there was a US spy balloon over China they would be totally chill about it. 🙃
Tell them to pound sand.
it is time to formally declare the cold war 2.0! staying away from monster is the most optimal solution for all.
Remember, it was inadvertently blown off course by the prevailing winds. If you don’t know what prevailing means, look it up.
Release the floating pinata !!!
🤡🤡🤡🤡
Hahaha
lmfao they really bought to drop the US
They fucked around and found out!
说不准那天飘过去的就是轰炸飞艇呀😎
Over a balloon cuckoo cuckoo
Predictable. Will the Biden administration apologize?
This makes it plenty clear that the balloon was sent intentionally in the US airspace to spy on American objectives. Its capture puts the Chinese government in a delicate position. Essentially, they now complain about being caught with their pants down.
ain't no way i'm alive in the timeline where ww3 starts with a hot air balloon
Screw them.
Can China be specific on what international law, treaty’s USA broke ? China didn’t did anything wrong?
Bring It!
They're really trying to wake the beast
Maybe we should send a bunch of balloons in response and see how they handle it?
China can suck it.
China came into sovereign territory w their spy crap…stay out…
Oh look, it's China's 100th final warning. They won't do anything.
dear China,
Tough shit.
Sure, they want to start a war while we're spending so much money on the Ukraine.
Simple question, what was China spy balloon doing in U.S territory
Here we go. Spy satellite wars.
Kind of sounds like they’re using the Trump defense, “Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks on to you.”
What did China expect from our government?
We spent $382k dollars to shoot it down and we still don’t have affordable insulin
I am worried that this incident will cause a big spike in anti Asian hate crimes.
Ok lmao
If it turns out to be a weather balloon which I’ll wager it is… this could be deliberate to start a war with China
It took a fighter jet from langley Airforce to put an end to this bullshit, obviously the rest of the country is too damn weak
Here, they can have this reaction 🖕🏻
My bet is they take out a US spy satellite.
Did china invent Bitcoin or just Binance
Suddenly it’s not a civilian WX balloon
They should pull the Bank of China HQ out of Trump Tower.
Blah blah
Lol wut?
Lol oh really? did you not straight up violate our air space. Lol
Totes norms
Destroy the evil American government China! Use your ChineseSpaceLasers!!! God bless Sinim
China should do a better job of controlling their balloons 🎈
China
Lol, you have got to be kidding me! They mapped our country!
lol k
FuckChina
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