Katy Tur of M$NBC asked if we were on the verge of an armed conflict with China.

[spanone]

Jesus Wept.

Regarding the balloon.

[snowybirdie]

1. Now that the document scandle

Is winding down, they need to push a,new "Big" story!

[GoCubsGo]

8. That, and they can't find a way to spin the good jobs news.

Might as well paint a squirrel on that balloon.

[LakeArenal]

12. That and the GOP undercurrent of "China must be punished."

[sarcasmo]

16. Death balloon, special tonight on CNN at 10.

[Irish_Dem]

2. For god's sake.

Are people freaking idiots?

[friend of a friend]

20. Yes, but you already knew that.

[Irish_Dem]

21. Yep I had that figured out at about age 7.

I keep hoping to find out I am mistaken but humanity remains consistent.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. America under attack!

How this is Biden's My Pet goat moment!

CNN tonight probably.

[LiberalFighter]

4. I don't watch that thing.

[democrank]

5. Seriously?

My head hurts

[spanone]

6. Just fucking ridiculous.

[Tickle]

7. I suppose stranger things have happened

I must admit it has me a bit nervous but more so with a why? as in why didn't they tell the President Biden so he would have the answers when asked.

[Catherine Vincent]

24. Agree!

[uponit7771]

9. The answer is yes but with MAGA and we're past "verge"

[deminks]

10. I feel like it's NORAD tracking Santa Clause.

It's now over MIssouri.

It's a balloon. It has no advantage over a satellite. We and they have many satellites.

It's either a mistake, like the Chinese say, or a provocation. The MEdia fell for it hook line and sinker. They swallowed the hook.

I love that Alex Twitt once called her Katy Turd by mistake. The name has stuck in my mind. Daytime cable news has become breathless yellow journalism.

IMHO.

[Sneederbunk]

11. Pearl Harbor in Montana

[Marcus IM]

17. It's from China not Germany.

[Oneironaut]

28. Pearl Arbor

[yaesu]

13. Imma thinking a private enterprise balloon, commercial, with the full

Backing of the china gov is doing some type of research, word is weather research but who knows.

[roamer65]

14. Once it hits the Atlantic Ocean, take it down.

Try to recover it and dissect it.

[Bev54]

15. FFS is the sky falling?? Why would any serious anchor make such a stupid statement

Almost as stupid as the republicans claiming it is a bio-tech that is going to spread another covid disease or worse. When does it end?

[gratuitous]

18. Was she visibly salivating when she asked that?

This is far more interesting, apparently, than all those "kitchen table" issues the major media were hyper-focused on just a few months ago. That jobs report and lower inflation really knocked them on their collective keister.

[malaise]

19. Ignorance is bliss to these hacks

I grew up reading spy versus spy.

Seriously these hacks have no fucking sense. All world powers spy on each other and on everyone else. Anyone who thinks the US isn't spying on China is clueless

[spanone]

22. Mad Magazine....

me too.

[malaise]

23. Should have saved our collection

[spanone]

25. I loved it.

Don Martin was my favorite

[malaise]

26. I loved Mad Magazine

😀😀

[Oneironaut]

27. Maybe it's a 4-cannon death balloon. Or, it shoots lasers?

What looked like an inconspicuous weather balloon was really China’s secret weapon!

Just ask John Bolton.