Joe: Hello, president X-i, this is the Big Guy.
Xi: It's not X-i. It's pronounced "She."
Joe: She? Oh, I get it. That's your pronoun.
XI: Never mind. I want to talk to you about that balloon. Mr. Big Guy, that's not a spy balloon, it's a weather balloon. Don't worry!
Joe: Whew, I'm glad to hear that. I was going to blow it up yesterday, but Gen.Thoroughly Modern Milley talked me out of it. That guy actually thinks he's in charge sometimes.
XI: Good decision. And by the way, tell Hunter that his cut is inside the balloon, along with your 10%. It's programmed to land at your Delaware beach house, so get to it right away.
Joe: OK, She. Oh, are there envelopes for my brothers, Jimmy the Chin and Frankie Four Fingers?
Xi: Yeah, yeah. Gotta go now, Big Guy.
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What am I missing? Why does this balloon matter? And if it matters, can't we just grab it?
But we can’t really grab it.
It would be so sweet if we captured it intact and found a spot in Washington DC to display it, fully inflated. That would be troll 1000.
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Hopefully it’ll be rescheduled very soon, since it is a very important visit.
and flying right over our military sites and nuclear silos. You have no problem with this?
And I have a little secret for you - they’re not going to learn much of anything new by flying over with a balloon.
This is a major fuckup on their part, and they know it. We’ve canceled the SecState trip to run it in their faces a bit.
It’s a nothing burger.
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..the military experts are not mentioning this as an issue, and it would be the first thing that I would expect them to say if we really couldn't do it.
You just don’t believe experts when you don’t want to, it’s amazing.
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....it's being reported that it floated over Alaska and then Canada before we knew it. I hope that is false. That is a massive problem to address if true.
And we're scrambling to decide what to do. Amateur hour.
never even been allowed into US air space.
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