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Pic Of The Moment: GOP Outrage Over Balloon Is A Lot Of Hot Air (Original Post) EarlG Feb 2023 OP
Heard a hilarious point Traildogbob Feb 2023 #1
Fox News right now: "Duh... Trump would have handled it better!!!" Initech Feb 2023 #2
Turns out Mad_Machine76 Feb 2023 #4
If he wanted to nuke a hurricane, he'd nuke a balloon. NM Grins Feb 2023 #9
wonder how many other administrations had these "weather balloons" AllaN01Bear Feb 2023 #3
Oh of course the idiot ass pickle babbles on about fake news. Six117 Feb 2023 #5
Had this admin shot it down as soon as it was spotted XorXor Feb 2023 #6
Agreed. Caliman73 Feb 2023 #8
K&R LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2023 #7
I can't wait until our Government KS Toronado Feb 2023 #10
The RW noise machine -- including the major networks -- will always attack Democrats. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2023 #11
"balloonatics" CousinIT Feb 2023 #12
Marco 'Water Balloon' Rubio Blue Owl Feb 2023 #13

Traildogbob

(8,748 posts)
1. Heard a hilarious point
Mon Feb 6, 2023, 12:28 PM
Feb 2023

On Stephanie Miller this AM. Alison Gill texted this weekend,
Hershel Walker was right. “Jina is dumping their bad air into our good air, via balloons”.
Damnit, we let a Genius get away, such a lose for the Senate.

AllaN01Bear

(18,245 posts)
3. wonder how many other administrations had these "weather balloons"
Mon Feb 6, 2023, 01:08 PM
Feb 2023

in our country. and all of those " ufo" reports.

Six117

(205 posts)
5. Oh of course the idiot ass pickle babbles on about fake news.
Mon Feb 6, 2023, 01:23 PM
Feb 2023

I just wish they would stop quoting the lies.

XorXor

(621 posts)
6. Had this admin shot it down as soon as it was spotted
Mon Feb 6, 2023, 02:16 PM
Feb 2023

The republicans would be complaining about that too. Probably talking about wasting resources on a balloon, not waiting to observe and collect Intel on it, or something about Biden being a warmonger. The last one seems far fetched, but these people were saying similar things when Pelosi visited Taiwan. They will always find a way to take issue with anything.

Caliman73

(11,738 posts)
8. Agreed.
Mon Feb 6, 2023, 02:58 PM
Feb 2023

People are approaching this as if it was a "good faith" but maybe hypocritical attack on President Biden. Nothing that Conservatives, and their political vehicle, the Republican Party, do is in good faith.

All the people who are outraged, know very well that this happened during the Trump administration, and likely other administrations as well. It is nothing more than the latest attempt to smear President Biden.

The bigger problem is how the media handles these things. Instead of confronting Republicans and calling out their blatant bad faith arguments, they treat it as a debate. There is no debate here. Republicans do anything, including lie, to score partisan points.

KS Toronado

(17,252 posts)
10. I can't wait until our Government
Mon Feb 6, 2023, 05:31 PM
Feb 2023

after finding the pieces of this balloon and analyzing them come out and state "IT WAS A WEATHER BALLOON"
What will MSM report then? "Biden owes China $$$$$$ for balloon"? Will they recap how they got the
public in an uproar over "SPY BALLOON-SPY BALLOON-SPY BALLOON-SPY BALLOON"?

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