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Has the government explained why they needed to shoot the balloon down over the ocean?
Posted on 2/6/23 at 9:29 pm
Posted on 2/6/23 at 9:29 pm
And since it was so important to do so, WHY THEY DIDN’T SHOOT IT DOWN WHEN IT ENTERED OUR AIRSPACE???
Posted on 2/6/23 at 9:30 pm to cubsfan5150
Because they were unsure if it contained explosives.
Better safe than sorry.
Better safe than sorry.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 9:33 pm to cubsfan5150
To destroy the evidence.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 9:38 pm to TDFreak
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Because they were unsure if it contained explosives.
Better safe than sorry.
Assuming that's sarcasm, but do you have a legit, serious answer?
Posted on 2/6/23 at 9:38 pm to cubsfan5150
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Has the government explained why they needed to shoot the balloon down
public outrage
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over the ocean?
had to wait until Biden's friends in the CCP completed their mission
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WHY THEY DIDN’T SHOOT IT DOWN WHEN IT ENTERED OUR AIRSPACE???
see part 2 above
Posted on 2/6/23 at 9:42 pm to cubsfan5150
They got confused and shot it down over the wrong ocean. Should have been shot down over the Aleutian Islands.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 9:45 pm to cubsfan5150
because they wanted to make sure all info was uploaded and transmitted before destroying all the evidence
Posted on 2/6/23 at 9:52 pm to cubsfan5150
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WHY THEY DIDN’T SHOOT IT DOWN WHEN IT ENTERED OUR AIRSPACE???
Not sure if they ever explained this decision. But it's typical of that Chinese Fire Drill (pun intended), Joe Biden and his pals are running up there in Washington, D.C.
I heard one report (unsubstantiated) the reason was the DOD was afraid the balloon would fall and hit somebody on 'his whittle head'. Plugs tried playing CYA by insisting he ordered the thing shot down last Wednesday. Who knows what the real story is with this bunch?
To be honest, this smells like Mark Milley had a hand in this. Like maybe they strung this thing out as a desperate effort to divert attention from the Hunter - ChiCom - Big Guy fiasco. Now they're saying - Donald Trump did it. The Swamp is really terrified of another Trump Presidency.
Hopefully that GOP hearing scheduled for next week will cast some light on this debacle (aka balloongate, or "How I watched a Chinese Spy Balloon disappear like a fart in the wind"),
Trump 2024 - You know he's right.
This post was edited on 2/6/23 at 10:35 pm
Posted on 2/6/23 at 10:01 pm to cubsfan5150
Cause Jill’s Husband said so…
Posted on 2/6/23 at 10:11 pm to TDFreak
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Because they were unsure if it contained explosives. Better safe than sorry.
Don’t forget it could have contained a strain of COVID-23! LOL
This post was edited on 2/6/23 at 10:12 pm
Posted on 2/6/23 at 10:11 pm to SingleMalt1973
If they shot it down over land there was a possibility it could land on some place where Biden had top secret documents stashed.
Posted on 2/7/23 at 1:40 am to 88Wildcat
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If they shot it down over land there was a possibility it could land on some place where Biden had top secret documents stashed.
Or it contained yet another stash of Joe Biden classified documents and we couldn’t let it crash on land where it could have spread reams of classified documents across the countryside. We had to dispose of the at the bottom of the ocean.
Or the balloon was carrying yet another Hunter Biden laptop for a special delivery to Hunter. Unfortunately, it landed in the ocean so it’s secrets would be lost at the bottom of the ocean instead of being leaked on Fox.
This post was edited on 2/7/23 at 2:10 am
Posted on 2/7/23 at 4:52 am to Tarps99
Any bio weapon would have been carried across the USA via the jet stream. Only reason I can think of.
Posted on 2/7/23 at 5:26 am to MizunoDude
The only reason I can't fathom is that they wanted to drop in the water to minimize damage to the equipment upon impact, for they same reason we dropped our space capsules in the ocean.
Posted on 2/7/23 at 7:40 am to TDFreak
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Because they were unsure if it contained explosives
Ah, it might contain explosives so let's let it enter continental America airspace.
Makes total fricking sense...
Posted on 2/7/23 at 8:53 am to ocelot4ark
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You people
Yes I agree.....
You people.
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