GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has called President Joe Biden "absolutely pathetic" for refusing to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon over the continental United States, saying that nobody on the ground was killed when the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania during the 9/11 attacks.
The Georgia Republican said: "The excuses that were given on this were pathetic, absolutely pathetic. They told us it was too risky, oh, it was too risky to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon. Do you know what a bunch of b******* that is?”
"They said it's three school buses wide," she continued. "OK, well, do you guys remember on 9/11 when an airplane crashed in Pennsylvania? A jetliner, remember that? It didn't kill anybody on the ground. Killed everybody on board, but it didn't kill anybody on the ground. So they want to tell all of us that it was too risky to take down that Chinese spy balloon over rural Idaho or Montana or any of these other states, or Alaska."
Greene continued: "They are liars. You can only see it two ways. Either they're liars or they're cowards, or our president has sold out to China. You know what, I'll go for all three."
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I’ll admit I don’t know the full reasoning behind’s Biden’s decision, as I’m not part of his inner circle or anything like that, but somehow I think he and his military advisors probably gave it more thought than Miss Gazpacho does to anything.
And if he DID have it shot down immediatly, and it landed on people, Miss Gazpacho would certainly have condemned him for that instead. You just can’t win with these idiots.
On a side note, she really is batshit insane, isn’t she?
You know, in the military, we already expect satellite observation of our bases. We have, since 1968, implemented ROOF technology to foil about 85% of all known satellites. For the rest, we have beach umbrellas.
On the other hand, idiot, do you remember when Congress was examining the Ukraine data, and GOP congresscritters violated a ton of security rules to interrupt? Using their phones to order pizza from inside the secure room? You hypocrites haven’t even got a duck’s leg to stand on, here.
At least President Biden wasn't reduced to cosplaying as Cruella De Vil at his recent State of the Union speech, missy.
At least he made the logical decision - in saving American lives - in sending that F-22 to bring such down when: certainly where .
You haven't exactly covered yourself in glory - in wearing what you did: not only where, but when - in that act of P.R. self -immolation: crashing & burning the way you did.
When even a Chinese balloon had not a whiff of hot air within such...!
Over land the wreckage can hit people's homes directly and even worse: cause a wildfire. Anyone not completely oblivious knows how bad those have been lately. Over water that is mitigated and as a bonus leaves the components more intact upon retrieval giving greater insight into technical capabilities, more recorded data, and what exactly was being targeted for observation. All useful on its own to better detect and thwart future incursion but used right it becomes additional political leverage.
Why would you demand an increased risk to America and to eliminate a potential advantage? Incompetence? Or perhaps you would like to say something about where your loyalty lies Marj? Because it isn't to the American people you would have endangered pointlessly nor the power of America as a nation who would be weakened on the world stage by such unthinking impulse.
Setting aside the obvious apples to oranges comparison, unless MTG believes that flight 93 was actually shot down. Given that she’s questioned what happened at the Pentagon I wouldn’t put it past her.
You also have to consider that the government probably wanted to have a sense of where this stuff would come down for several reasons. First, minimize risk of debris impact. Second, the intel community would presumably want to get access to it first. I would think the intel people want to get a sense of where it will land so they could get their people in place to gather it before souvenir hunters. Part of why there are all those Area 51 conspiracies has to do with experimental aircraft that go off course, crash land and the military has to rush onto some rancher’s property to collect the items before some classified details get leaked. we we don’t know what else was in that balloon. Our phones have heavy metals and other chemicals we don’t want getting in our soil or water. Now imagine what something the size of a school bus would have? Imagine this thing lands in a farmer’s field or leaches into a community’s groundwater?
Yes, Marj’, the plane did land in an uninhabited stretch. But it could just have easily crashed into a house, or a town or a gas pipeline leading into a packed city. Saying, “hey, this random event didn't turn out to be an apocalyptic disaster for millions of people, so let's roll the dice that we'll get lucky again!” isn't sound military strategy.
And let's be honest here, Joe Biden could have flown up to the balloon Saiyan-style the very second it was discovered, torn it apart with his teeth and repurposed it to produce the cure for cancer, Half-Life 3 and that sequel to the live-action He-Man movie we were promised nearly forty fucking years ago, and you'd still find cause to whine about it. It's not that Biden did something you don't like, or didn't do something you did like, it's that he did something , anything , while you pretend that Donald Trump wouldn't have tried to stare into the sun to see if he could find the balloon himself, and have his lion-killing failed abortions shoot it down with their bang-bangs.
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