According to the Associated Press, Joe Biden is planning to shoot down the Chinese ‘surveillance’ balloon possibly later today when it reaches the eastern shore of the Atlantic Ocean.
The mumbling mumbler who mumbles said, “We’re going to take care of it”, when asked about the ongoing issue earlier today. WATCH:
(Via Associated Press) – WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is considering a plan to shoot down a large Chinese balloon suspected of conducting surveillance on the U.S. military, by bringing it down once it is above the Atlantic Ocean where the remnants could potentially be recovered, according to four U.S. officials.
Two of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive operation, said President Joe Biden had given the go-ahead. In a brief remark Saturday in response to a reporter’s question about the balloon, Biden said: “We’re going to take care of it.”
The balloon was spotted Saturday morning over the Carolinas as it approached the Atlantic coast. In preparation for the operation, the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily closed airspace over the Carolina coastline, including the airports in Charleston and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina, until at least 2:45 p.m. EST Saturday. The FAA was rerouting air traffic from the area and warned of delays as a result of the flight restrictions.
Officials were aiming to time the operation so they could recover as much of the debris as possible before it sinks into the ocean. The Pentagon had previously estimated that the balloon, flying at about 60,000 feet in the air, was about the size of three school buses and that any debris field would be substantial. (read more)
(AP) In this photo below provided by Brian Branch, a large balloon drifts above the Kingston, N.C. area, with an airplane and its contrail seen below it. The United States says it is a Chinese spy balloon moving east over America at an altitude of about 60,000 feet (18,600 meters), but China insists the balloon is just an errant civilian airship used mainly for meteorological research that went off course due to winds and has only limited “self-steering” capabilities.
Google Disclaimer: Image Above – Not the real balloon
Joe Biden only wants to shoot it down now because someone told him, as soon as it past the USA, it would be heading for his favorite country, Ukraine. And he must defend Ukraine at all costs.
Where was he when it was over the Pacific and left Alaska? Another “Slo Joe” move?
Let you in on a little secret: It never flew over the Pacific. Shhhh, don’t tell anyone.
So the Demented Fraud got permission from the CCP to shoot it down now that it’s been across all of the continental US
The data has already been sent to China. They have no further use for the aircraft.
My thought exactly!
Milley handled the negotiation…..and got a free order of Kung Pau Chicken.
And a can of Coke!
Is that balloon photo racist?
Totary lacist, Humphley
HaHa
Used to lmao when in S.E. Asia and the locals sang that song Yerrow Liver, LOL!
That is hilarious.
Joe Biden knows nothing. This is another intentional move to make him more imbecilic. Bidens are swirling. They are stacking up scandal cordwood. They need them out to get new blood for 2024. The bidens are damaging the brand too much, elections are less and less credible. I predict Gavin as new VP. Then they do something about Kamala, and Gavin ascends, and Abrams backfills in VP, just in time for 2024
Nobody wants the obese corn husker installed.
Stacey can’t afford the pay cut.
Notice the Dhimmies are gettin’ while the gettin’s good? All these people that they can install without an election!
Thought the tank was going to Ukraine.
Oh gee, thanks Uncle Joe. You bumbling idiot!!
I still think it was/is part of the ongoing terror campaign on Americans.
Looking forward to VSGPDJT’s reaction when/if Slow Joe actually gives the takedown order… The order that President Trump issued in all CAPS, complete with an exclamation point (SHOOT DOWN THE BALLOON!) on Truth Social yesterday. 😜
“… out of an abundance of caution…”
What are the odds that the CCP will ditch it on command before we get a chance to put our flight suits on…
A squib fired bolt holding the payload to the envelope – splash and vanish, into the Atlantic.
Dead drop from 60,000 feet. Will make a great splash and the bamboo from will be splinters.
These are the same people that said when a specific area would be attacked and by how many on live television.
This is profound.
So Moe, Larry and Curly allow a Chinese spy balloon to cross most of the US snapping up images of possibly key military bases, etc and then once they have completed the mission and beam the images back to the homeland of China, these absolute idiots want to take a bow after they shoot it down over the Atlantic?
Now I know where the expression, dumb as a box of rocks comes from.
Again, “… out of an abundance of caution…” – the legacy motto of the Soetoro Beauracratic Institutions of Amerika.
Balloon spying is mainly for listening surveillance. They could record and hone in on listening to every command center of our military bases, civilian governments, etc…
Most likely vacuuming up absolutely every electronic transmission along the way.
Hopefully, we recorded any of its transmissions to home and from its home back to it for analysis.
Same goes for recovery of its sensor package. It’s coming down from 60,000+ feet, but we were able to piece together a lot from the Pan Am 103 bombing at Lockerbie, Scotland back in ’88. Forensics have advanced a lot since then.
Rocks have been around for millennia. Please do not insult them!
I saw a map yesterday where the balloon kept circling around in Missouri somewhere.
For all you “it’s just a weather balloon types,” it just wasn’t really sure of Missouri’s correct temperature; so it had to hang around, damned be the winds, to make sure? Really?
Probably around Sedalia, MO home of Whiteman AFB. ICBM installation.
Thank you for the weather barroon pic, I truly laughed out loud!
Somebody gave the order to Biden, who then passed it along to the military …
See this “Who’s REALLY Running the White House (It Ain’t Joe Biden)” here:
https://tomwigand.substack.com/p/whos-really-running-the-white-house
Nice body of work on substack there, Thomas, good show! Good to have you in the Treehouse. I’ll be reading your back issues.
Jeff, thank you so much! I’ve been a contributor to Trevor Loudon’s site for a number of years, and launched the Substack in January. As it’s new, your positive feedback means more than you could know – very encouraging for me.
I’ve been a “Treeper” for quite some time, and occasionally repost Sundance’s work on Truth Social and GAB (I post under a nom du guerre on GAB).
I have several drafts going on substack, but I am agonizing over pushing the Publish button. What an incredible facility and resource substack has turned out to be!
As Henry James said, “A writer is someone upon whom nothing is lost.”
Hello? What do we have here?
Joe Biden and Son Hunter Arrive in Syracuse, New York For Personal Visit 👀 👀 👀 Biden Tells Reporters US is “Gonna Take Care Of” China Spy Balloon
OBiden Regime informed Lapdog Media that “Joe Biden was spending the weekend at Camp David”.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/developing-joe-biden-son-hunter-arrive-syracuse-new-york-personal-visit-biden-tells-reporters-us-gonna-take-care-china-spy-balloon/
Why is the the doper in chief always following daddy around? He’s a bigger security threat than the big guy…
According to Hunter Biden, he can get his dad to do anything.
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According to Joe Biden, Hunter Biden is the smartest guy he knows.
Who’s running the country since the stolen election?
Maybe Joe is following Hunter around. Follow the money, after all.
It’s “Bring your child to Work Week”.
The diaper changers need time off too.
Get an F35 to hover over it for a few seconds. The hot exhaust should melt all sorts of plastic right on the top where the greatest pressure is.
He’s going to shoot it down after the chynese already got all the data they came for? 🤦🏼♀️
Hey Mims
Why was it allowed in to start with?
And now destroy the evidence of who and what it was…
seems to me there is some “collaboration” going on…
(just my cynicism coming through )
Why don’t they just grab it with a tether and hook attached to an aircraft, and bring it down to examine it. They must know it’s a nothing burger!
Should have been captured or destroyed over the Pacific, before it crossed the US and transmitted it’s surveillance data to China.
Joe Biden is a traitor. He needs to be prosecuted for treason.
And absolutely no one believes anything that is told us. If that balloon was really that important, the communists would never have put it in position to be ” accidently lost”.
Chase Doak spotted the balloon over Montana, from his plane. If he had not seen it, we would never have known about it.
Option 1 – Shoot it down as in crosses into US airspace PRIOR to it reaching Alaska and able to record anything – Nope
Option 2 – Shoot it down over a very unpopulated area like Montana before it can record too much – Nope
Option 3 – Capture it over Alaska or Montana to understand its mission and before it captures information – Nope
Moe, Larry & Curley’s choice:
Allow the spy balloon to complete its mission and to transmit its captured info back to China and then shoot it down in the Atlantic so NO ONE will ever know exactly what it was doing.
If I didn’t know any better it sounds like the missing Hillary emails, the missing Seth Laptop, the missing Hammer hard drive and the missing Biden Laptop.
Idiots or CoverUp?? You decide!
I’m thinking Kinston instead of Kingston, NC. That means it went over Seymour Johnson Air Force base in Goldsboro and is between Cherry Point Marine Corp Air Station and Camp LeJeune.
Probably passed over Ft Bragg. Watching airplanes in the area now – looks like there’s an ongoing operation right now. Tankers, Coast Guard, and other stuff in the area. One jet just flew in to Bragg from Huntsville, AL. I’m curious what method they are trying. Those things are hard to bring down. A laser might do it.
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I just read the Moon of Alabama article about this balloon. Why waste a good scare tactic by the US government to increase hate of China?
It is probably exactly what the Chinese say it is, a weather balloon that went off-course. But it is being escalated to cause people to be concerned.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/02/blinkens-travel-canceling-adds-to-china-hate.html
Multiple balloons. Capable of controlled mobility. Used multiple times in the past over different nations.
I really don’t understand the world sometimes….
….What do the powers that be have to do for people to notice….???
“Why waste a good scare tactic by the US government to increase hate of China?”
For this alone, they should be just short of nuked:
COVID caused about a $3 TRILLION ($3,000 billion) increase in the national debt, which is damage not even counting serious economic impacts, deaths, and injuries.
It was also timed perfectly to destroy Trump’s reelection prospects and resulted in voting system changes, now made permanent in some Dim states, that led to the election results in 2020 AND 2022. It also conveniently nipped in the bud the worst revolt against the CCP since Tiananmen Square occurring in Hong Kong and helped with the CCP’s HUGE aging demographic problem due to their past one child policy by killing mostly the elderly, the LEAST vaccinated part of their population. So many “birds” with one “stone.”
Everything You Need to Know About the Lab Leak
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
https://brownstone.org/articles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-lab-leak/
House GOP report claims COVID may be linked to Chinese bioweapons program
December 14, 2022
https://nypost.com/2022/12/14/gop-report-claims-covid-may-be-linked-to-chinese-bioweapons-program/
“Based on our investigation involving a variety of public and non-public information, we conclude that there are indications that SARS-CoV-2 may have been tied to China’s biological weapons research program and spilled over to the human population during a lab-related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV),” the report states.
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/final_unclass_summary_-_covid_origins_report_.pdf
And the CCP lost one over South America too? Really?
Anyone who thinks this isn’t a big deal should reconsider.
Here are notes on China’s EMP doctrine:
https://parler.com/feed/13cd28fa-674c-4473-9a0d-d2e0dee103e0
Exactly: Operation Starfish.
I don’t understand how the Average Person reacted to the 2020 Election Theft.
I don’t understand how the Average Person has reacted to what we know to date about Covid + the “Vaccines”.
In isolation, I could understand the reaction to the Ukrainian War – but combined with the rest since 2020 – I just don’t get it.
I don’t understand why 2 years in, mine was the only vegetable garden in my area when it was common when I was a kid (1970s).
— I just don’t understand how far down this road we have to be taken before the reactions make sense (to me at least)….
Look around – does the Average Person seem to be acting any differently than in 2013…???
Act like anything has really fundamentally changed since 2019…???
I just don’t understand how people seem to behaving + reacting despite all we have witnessed…
Perhaps it is meant to be this way…
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024%3A37-39&version=NKJV
Besides the blessing the garden + stockpile of food + necessities I began building in Late-2019 have already been due to being out of work multiple times related to Covid for the most part — I am happy about one other thing I began then as a partial joke / smile:
I haven’t had a haircut since about March 2019.
I get it cut very short then let it grow for 7 or 8 months.
I was due around Halloween but didn’t do it.
In Jan 2020, I started joking when asked about it that I was waiting until the world made sense again.
It is now far longer than ever before.
Now I’m glad + serious about why I won’t get it cut… Not until the world makes some sense again (if ever)….
Well, there has been a run on horse blinders!
People cannot and will not accept that their government wants them dead, either by freezing to death, starving to death, medically killing them…the list goes on and on. If they just pretend it’s not happening, then, it’s not happening! That, and the fact that a lot of people are just stupid.
play the movie “Idiocracy” here.
The non-reaction to the 2020 Election Theft has been the biggest shock…
He will screw it up. I despise this fraudulent president more each day. I miss Trump. He actually interacted with the corrupt press corps so we actually got useful information.
So now that all the collected data has already been sent to China, Old Joe has permission from the people that control him to destroy the balloon over the ocean where all the evidence of spying will be lost. Of course as Old Joe once said this is just for optics, I believe one time time he was referring to Afghanistan weeks before he surrendered $$$billions of $$$ of equipment and wealth to the poorly equipped Taliban.
So then … Joe’s gonna take care of it … like the Nordstream pipeline?
what a tough guy … out behind the gym …
They just shot it down! It’s leaving a trail of “sparkly bits” as it floats down.
Filled with glitter, for maximum effect.
Zero coincidence this thing passed within a whisker of:
Nuke silos
Omaha (SAC headquarters)
Knob Knoster (Whiteman-B2s)
And who really knows what else
It’s a dry-run of an EMP. Period. Altitude is roughly 10 miles.
See: Operation Starfish.
Sorry Doug….found both of your comments in the bin… 🙁
Coming down now on FNC.
They took it out a couple min. ago.
sunnydaze: What is FNC?
Edit: Ugh. Fox News Center, I suppose.
yep. Close
Fox News Channel (I think??)
Woo HOO , congratulations they shot the damn thing down.
Way to late IMHO, the damage is done.
We are in Surfside Beach SC. The balloon is literally right above us. 2-4 military jets flying circle patterns below it. As of 1430 it is over land, not the Atlantic as some maps on Twitter show.
On the Tucker post I related how I saw 16+now 25 contrails over my house in NE Tennessee. I knew something was going on.
so the FAA has issued a ground stop/ TFR-air space closure for parts of North and South Carolina until 2:45pm. The FAA shut down 3 airports and closes airspace due to a national security initiative.
I got this from Truthsocial.
I thought I was going full tin hat for a bit but ha! I’m not crazy. Can’t wait for the planes to start going back to their bases. I’ll let you know if there is a big 💥.
its the balloon.
be well
Two focus groups and various polls later they finally decide they better do something. Real leadership.
Here we have a man and his son , neither of which could pass the background check to be a Walmart greeter telling us he’s going to take care of it , it’s like we’ve been given a glimpse into an entirely different dimension of reality , one in which all sense of morality and righteousness are exactly opposite.
Too riddle too rate………
and the wholerworld laffs at us as we go on pretending……amazing
Indeed.
Why don’t we wait until China is done gathering all the critical information they are after before we do something?
Wait that is what we are doing.
They are planning to do something AFTER it is finished flying over critical parts of the country .
Over the ocean where there is nothing to see.
Anyone who still feels safe thinking their government and military are protection is a fool.
It’s Show Time ! Who says you don’t need an F-15 when going against the Grifter Regime ? It’s a balloon folks. At any time a couple of holes could have been put into it and it would have descended largely intact. Instead Joe’s going to create a great fireball display showing his magnificence which will increase Global Warming.
I await the offical narrative, and the spiking of the football by Big Bad Joe, Balloon Hunter.
🇺🇲🇨🇳⚡️Chinese Balloon has been shot down.
https://t.me/intelslava/44101
China has confirmed that the balloon is theirs, but denied that it is a spy balloon. Going by this statement, we can limit ourselves to three explanations: (1) the CCP is lying; (2) the CCP is telling the truth and there happen to be really stupid people within their ranks, as only a really stupid person would think sending a Chinese balloon of any kind over American soil without notifying Washington is a good idea; or (3) the CCP is telling the truth, it did notify Washington in advance, and Washington is lying. Take your pick.
#3 shiny object to distract from very very damming third Veritas video reg Covid-19 vaccine damage to women’s reproductive system.
Door #3, Monty.
The regime claims that they were worried about the debris hurting people on the ground if they shot it down. What utter rubbish. Does that mean that the Chinese can send bombers over the US and we won’t shoot them down because the wreckage might hurt someone on the ground?
Nothing like waiting until it has traversed the entire Country to bring it down by whatever means over the Atlantic Ocean, a Slow Joe Fizz.
Apparently, Sleepy Joe just shot down the balloon as President Trump directed him to…. Joe was a little slow to respond to the order but, well, you know….
REAL President Trump tells Resident Biden to shoot down the balloon. Slo-Joe says he will only after said balloon finishes its tour of some of our most sensitive defense sites. Joe mumbles something about him having to fulfill his contractural obligations to his donors over at the CCP.
Things are going from bad to worse for our beloved homeland. Will we survive as a Union until 1/20/25?
I saw it happen live from my back yard. Pretty dang cool.
Any photos or videos?
Is it over land or water?
Planes,missles? How many?
None. I was actually cleaning my grill to put some burgers on here shortly. Was keeping track of it as it went across the sky.
Burgers and a show.
It must have been interesting.
I didn’t see it get shot down darn. But I saw at least 25 high flying jets heading to the area. It’s weird though that more jets are still heading that way.
‘Saturday Special SITREP 2.4.23 – Balloons Everywhere!’
Little over fourteen minutes video
After attempting to HIDE the China Spy Balloon for over a week, allowing it to do maximum spy damage, over multiple military bases and nuclear silos, across our nation’s airspace, over our states, above the American people, Joe Biden says he’s “gonna do something”.
It is a Treason Act of the installed OBiden Regime -while the Bidens are disposing of documents.
When (If) it comes down, Biden will state, “I pulled on the L-O-N-G string and pulled it down myself.”
“Did I tell you about the time I flew a kite with Benjamin Franklin…….?”
Days late
Dollars short
Wrong place
Yeah, now that it’s sent all the data back to China. Or released the newest variant. Or, both.