Chinese balloon flying
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Anonymous
OMG, the spin and back-slapping is remarkable! |
Anonymous
You mean the spin by Republicans, right? “The Trump administration had an inconsistent relationship with China. Trump attacked China in a trade war early in his presidency, placing tariffs on a range of products (which induced China to retaliate, prompting Trump to pump $28 billion into the U.S. farming sector to compensate for lost revenue). But by 2019, according to Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton, Trump “pleaded” with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to help him get reelected in 2020, and inked a deal for China to buy significant amounts of the farm products it had turned to other countries to provide after the tariffs (that was why Trump downplayed China’s role in hiding Covid in the early months of 2020). According to former representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Trump also asked congressional leaders to “lay off” Xi, because Trump didn’t want to disappoint Xi. In contrast, Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have worked to counter China by building Indo-Pacific cooperation, reinforced U.S. support for Taiwan, established export controls on technology that have hamstrung the Chinese semiconductor industry, worked to counter Chinese investment in Africa, and enhanced security cooperation with South Korea and Japan. But the balloon sparked a frenzy from Republicans insisting that Biden had been weak on China or even was working for China: right-wing talk show host Mark Levin said Biden is “bought and paid for by the Communist Chinese government,” and former president Trump said that Biden “has surrendered American airspace to Communist China.” Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) said China was showing “that the United States is once-great superpower that’s hollowed out, it’s in decline.” South Carolina Republican representative Joe Wilson—the man who shouted “You lie” at President Obama—said that Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris should resign from office because of the balloon. In fact, U.S. standing in the world has strengthened considerably since Biden took office, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which Trump tried to scuttle, is strong enough that Sweden and Finland want to join.” Excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson, Feb 6 newsletter |
Anonymous
But isn’t that the issue? Why didn’t the Trump administration know about it?? |
Anonymous
Unable or unwilling. So basically the Trump Administation was incompetant (at best) and you think this is a good thing? |
Anonymous
Statements like these? “ The Biden administration official now says the incidents were not discovered until after the Trump administration had already left. But the official did not say how those incidents were discovered or when.“ Shifty shift shift
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Anonymous
So name them |
Anonymous
New buzz phrase “domain awareness gap”. It’s going to propagate everywhere like bird poop. How do you people not see through this? |
Anonymous
Anonymous
And leftists are all ‘yeah, yeah, that’s what happened’. Do none of you have a ‘spin’ detector? Any shred of a BS meter? If the Trump administration had stated any of that, you would have immediately called it out. There isn’t even a shred of critical thinking on the left anymore |
Anonymous
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Remember the Trump administration obessession with UFO's?
Makes a lot of sense now. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/15/trump-says-he-doesnt-particularly-believe-ufo-reports-1365848 |
Anonymous
If this wasn’t so serious this would be funny in its irony … military evidence that at least three Chinese spy balloons sailed over the US without detection during Trump administration … the GOP posturing now makes them look ridiculous and hypocritical … US intel assessment documents Chinese spy balloon incident under Trump Updated 11:11 PM EST February 6, 2023 A US military intelligence report from last year that focused on China's use of high-altitude balloons mentioned sightings in Hawaii and Florida during the Trump presidency, The April 2022 report, titled "People's Republic of China High-Altitude Balloon," found a Chinese spy balloon "circumnavigated the globe" in 2019 -- while Donald Trump was president -- at an altitude of roughly 65,000 feet, and "drifted past Hawaii and across Florida before continuing its journey," the US Air Force document states. https://apple.news/ABKnIGO4OShiuFrAI06xVTg |
Anonymous
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The trump administration knew about the balloons and did nothing. The spin that it was not seen or undetectable is total BS. Just look up in the sky and you can see it.
Why are conservatives doing this? Why the f is wrong with them? |
Anonymous
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Leaders at Pentagon CLAIM three balloons flew over us under Trump. Provide no evidence. Zero. No civilian pictures or videos.
Tons of people see Chinese balloon over usa and share pictures under Biden. Biden admin tries to obfuscate his failures by casting doubt and blame on former admin. Several people in former admin deny this. Y’all hypocrites say if a several women make an accusation against a man they must be believed, yet refuse to believe several saying the accusation against former admin never happened. You LWNJ are too much! |
Anonymous
Wow, did you have your MAGA Bingo card out or something? Leaders at the Pentagon are not going to provide evidence to you, you dolt. You know that whole national security thing? What they DID do is brief Trump officials about it. This has nothing to do with personal sex acts committed against women without their consent. Nothing. And you are vile for even attempting to link the two. Pig. |