Chinese Balloon Down And The Conservatives Are Still Outraged!

Balloon popped and the far right still outraged.

The balloon went down around 2pm on Saturday. The balloon was possibly a Chinese surveillance unit was spotted over Montana and it drew outrage from the Republicans and some Democrats.

The FAA closed airspace over the area. A ground stop was ordered on the coast, specifically at Myrtle Beach International Airport, Charleston International Airport, and Wilmington International Airport. Military aircraft were reported to be over the Carolinas. US officials later stated that this was in preparation for an eventual downing of the balloon over the Atlantic.

It was spotted over the Aleutian Islands in Alaska and British Columbia, Canada. NORAD notified the American president Joe Biden  and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The U.S. intelligence agencies did a information jamming sequence to prevent the device from obtaining any resources in its payload. The president gave a shoot down order but was told to hold back due to the risk of lives, property and possible destruction of the device.

They were flexing their fingers to post on social media with claims that President Joe Biden is weak when it comes to dealing with China and demanding the balloon be shot down.

Unaware of the potential danger of the device, Republicans led a chorus of noise demanding it be shot down. Biden had already had given order to shoot it down, but at the advice of the Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Pentagon officials, they suggested that the device should be shot down in the Atlantic Ocean.

Biden said that the balloon did not pose a threat to U.S. security and was promptly shot down.

The balloon was described as the size of three buses and equipped with a technology bay. A senior defense official said the balloon had traveled from China to the Aleutian Islands and through northwest Canada before arriving over Montana on February 1, when it was spotted over Billings. A possible route along this trajectory, following prevailing westerlies, was calculated by a meteorological researcher using the HYSPLIT atmospheric model. Montana is the location of multiple nuclear missile installations, including Malmstrom Air Force Base, one of three US Air Force bases that operate intercontinental ballistic missiles. On Feb. 3, the balloon was observed above northwest Missouri, near Kansas City.

So on Saturday they sent two F22 Fighter Jets to destroy the device. It was destroyed about 50 nautical miles from Charleston and 20 nautical miles from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

End of story right.... Nope.

For the last three days, Fox and even CNN was leading their coverage to the balloon and speculation of what was inside it. Some Republicans made conspiracy theories to why it was spotted to the most zany theory that Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) had slept with Christina Fang (Fang Fang), an alleged Chinese spy.

Other Republicans decided to flex their social media toughness by posing with firearms saying to Biden if we see it, we'll shoot it down. Unaware the device is over 75,000 feet from the earth surface, a bullet would not even reach that distance of contact but of course it was to "own the libs."