Listen to a reading of this article: You know, everyone's always talking about how the US military is only ever used to kill foreigners for resource control and generate profits for the military-industrial complex, but that's not entirely true. Turns out the US military is also used for shooting down party balloons.
You know, I'm going to have a birthday party next month and ask everyone to bring their own version of a "Chinese spy balloon". I think it'll turn into quite a fun party once we're all shooting the balloons down with our $12 billion pea shooters. :-)
You just can't make up the insanity our so-called "leaders" come up with just to justify America's obscene "defense" (more like offense) budget.
This is what happens when propaganda takes on a life of its own: flying paper planes could be fatal. And it discloses the mentality or lack of it - of our leaders and protectors. Are they even embarrassed, ashamed? Unbelievable.
This fiasco should put to rest the baseless notion that just because conservative republicans are batshit crazy, liberal democrats are automatically sane by default. With each passing day, the proof mounts (it's already a mountain range) that both major political parties in the U.S. have completely lost their fucking minds, to the point they don't even have the good sense to be embarrassed. The American media (whose job is calling bullshit on ruling class narratives but no longer do) have become shameless propagandists for Dr. Strangelove. And the enlightened bougie liberals (the 'woke') will shrug this off as not worthy of their attention while they go back to obsessing over preferred personal pronouns. In their minds, the dangerous macroaggression of nuclear brinkmanship isn't nearly as worthy of their attention as the urgent threat of perceived microaggressions.
That howitzers into the desert article you rode a while back made it clear how much they need something to do. Here's more proof. It's funny but terrifying. IIRC Bertrand Russell said something about how weird it is that everyone discounts boredom as a possible reason things happen. You know things like nukes and such.
I keep thinking about what comment I should leave,, or should I even bother anymore, but I keep having all these old references conning up in my mind,, like one balloon flew over the coo coos nest,, or sargent Ororke shouting it's a balloon! Yeah I know I'm dating myself but I have to reach back in time to when insanity was not such the norm. I seriously now believe I'm living in an open air insane asylum and pretty sure it's starting to rub off on me...now I wish I could smother a few DC criminals with a pillow to put them out of all our misery.
There is a Greek word for leadership by those who are the least able or the least suited to lead - Kakistocracy. A kakistocracy is clearly what we have today, the world over.
this reminds me of the Sputnik Satellite hysteria in the 1950s, and the Sputnik News app hysteria of the 2020s. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, Remakes are all the US has been doing for the past 30 years
Life at the end of the Roman empire by the Potomac!
Raytheon, Boieng and Lockheed are smiling at the news.
They'll start launching hundreds of balloons per month so that the Pentagon can place missiles orders!
Actually, Russia started using balloons as decoys in Ukraine after the news of the Chinese balloon became a political football in D.C. It's used to deplete the UkroNazi ABM missiles before the real missiles are fired on the targets.
While everyone is being distracted by party balloons...a train derails in East Palestine, Ohio and toxic chemicals are choking the air, water, and earth while government officials and Norfolk & Southern take no responsibility for the disaster whatsoever and leave people and nature to fend for itself. Business as usual. Why do we keep putting up with this? What else has to happen for people to wake up to the dystopia we are already living in? We could bring these corrupt systems down, but we have to stop feeding them with our time, attention, labor, and money.
You know, I'm going to have a birthday party next month and ask everyone to bring their own version of a "Chinese spy balloon". I think it'll turn into quite a fun party once we're all shooting the balloons down with our $12 billion pea shooters. :-)
You just can't make up the insanity our so-called "leaders" come up with just to justify America's obscene "defense" (more like offense) budget.
This is what happens when propaganda takes on a life of its own: flying paper planes could be fatal. And it discloses the mentality or lack of it - of our leaders and protectors. Are they even embarrassed, ashamed? Unbelievable.
This fiasco should put to rest the baseless notion that just because conservative republicans are batshit crazy, liberal democrats are automatically sane by default. With each passing day, the proof mounts (it's already a mountain range) that both major political parties in the U.S. have completely lost their fucking minds, to the point they don't even have the good sense to be embarrassed. The American media (whose job is calling bullshit on ruling class narratives but no longer do) have become shameless propagandists for Dr. Strangelove. And the enlightened bougie liberals (the 'woke') will shrug this off as not worthy of their attention while they go back to obsessing over preferred personal pronouns. In their minds, the dangerous macroaggression of nuclear brinkmanship isn't nearly as worthy of their attention as the urgent threat of perceived microaggressions.
Glad they have revealed their true nature for us to see. Thanks to the hobby balloonists for the truth of these goofs.
Gotham City has been overrun. Batman is dead. There are no superheroes but us.
Clandestine distractive process.
Bread and Circus's
the circus lost a balloon.
That is all.
Enjoy the show
THE PEOPLE are the enemy of this war machine, not "other countries".
Celine's First Law is worth repeating. "National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity."
Now we have uberhawks and control freaks having meltdowns (and demanding more money and power) over balloons. Balloons!
That howitzers into the desert article you rode a while back made it clear how much they need something to do. Here's more proof. It's funny but terrifying. IIRC Bertrand Russell said something about how weird it is that everyone discounts boredom as a possible reason things happen. You know things like nukes and such.
The MIC gotta eat….
I keep thinking about what comment I should leave,, or should I even bother anymore, but I keep having all these old references conning up in my mind,, like one balloon flew over the coo coos nest,, or sargent Ororke shouting it's a balloon! Yeah I know I'm dating myself but I have to reach back in time to when insanity was not such the norm. I seriously now believe I'm living in an open air insane asylum and pretty sure it's starting to rub off on me...now I wish I could smother a few DC criminals with a pillow to put them out of all our misery.
Yosemite Sam is offended by the unflattering comparison. You know how toons are.
There is a Greek word for leadership by those who are the least able or the least suited to lead - Kakistocracy. A kakistocracy is clearly what we have today, the world over.
this reminds me of the Sputnik Satellite hysteria in the 1950s, and the Sputnik News app hysteria of the 2020s. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, Remakes are all the US has been doing for the past 30 years
Life at the end of the Roman empire by the Potomac!
Raytheon, Boieng and Lockheed are smiling at the news.
They'll start launching hundreds of balloons per month so that the Pentagon can place missiles orders!
Actually, Russia started using balloons as decoys in Ukraine after the news of the Chinese balloon became a political football in D.C. It's used to deplete the UkroNazi ABM missiles before the real missiles are fired on the targets.
While everyone is being distracted by party balloons...a train derails in East Palestine, Ohio and toxic chemicals are choking the air, water, and earth while government officials and Norfolk & Southern take no responsibility for the disaster whatsoever and leave people and nature to fend for itself. Business as usual. Why do we keep putting up with this? What else has to happen for people to wake up to the dystopia we are already living in? We could bring these corrupt systems down, but we have to stop feeding them with our time, attention, labor, and money.