{"id":3595,"date":"2023-02-13T22:49:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T03:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2023-02-13T23:17:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T04:17:08","slug":"oh-the-balloonity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3595","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the balloonity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/unclesamtubeman\/unclesamtubeman150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/unclesamtubeman\/unclesamtubeman650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"1370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>My daily accidental random 15 seconds of MSNBC<\/strong> has become more and more hilarious by the day lately, because <strong>balloons.<\/strong> The teleprompter readers are absolutely apoplectic about the freakin&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/World-News\/2023\/02\/13\/balloon-WangPentagon\/6651676308008\/\" target=\"_blank\">BALLOONS<\/a> which are supposedly from ZOMG BAD EVIL CHINA. Except now, they prefer to refer to them as &#8220;unidentified objects&#8221; for some reason likely related to the volume of snickering coming from the general public at the sight of corporate media drones panting, drooling and soaking their panties over the prospect of an F16 shooting down <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/chinese-spy-balloon-flying-object-shot-down-over-lake-huron-unidentified-objects\/12809246\/\" target=\"_blank\">A FREAKIN&#8217; <strong>BALLOON.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, so we&#8217;re shooting down UFO&#8217;s now, is that it? I&#8217;m guessing they decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/unclesamtubeman\/WSJ_A1_Feb1323_72dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">stop mentioning that they&#8217;re balloons<\/a> because people were laughing so goddamn hard they didn&#8217;t hear the propaganda and didn&#8217;t get as scared as they were supposed to. So, now we&#8217;ve got four of &#8217;em, and the last three were &#8220;unidentified&#8221;? And are we supposed to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/unclesamtubeman\/washtimesA1_Feb1323_72dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">more alarmed about allegedly being surveilled by China<\/a> than we are about being surveilled for sure by at least half a dozen agencies in our own goddamn country?<\/p>\n<p>Balloons, y&#8217;all. Freakin&#8217; BALLOONS. Or, I guess they&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dwkFlgKf-1s\" target=\"_blank\">UFO&#8217;s <\/a>now, then.<\/p>\n<p>And, does this mean that China is the source of UFO&#8217;s? And so what have we got on ice at Area 51, then \u2014 not space alien bodies at all, but just some frozen Chinese guys?<\/p>\n<p><strong>9.25 x 18 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/unclesamtubeman\/unclesamtubeman150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 423kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daily accidental random 15 seconds of MSNBC has become more and more hilarious by the day lately, because balloons. The teleprompter readers are absolutely apoplectic about the freakin&#8217; BALLOONS which are supposedly from ZOMG BAD EVIL CHINA. Except now, they prefer to refer to them as &#8220;unidentified objects&#8221; for some reason likely related to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,23,9],"tags":[1321,1311,1322,1323,247],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bidenism","category-china","category-war-and-peace","tag-balloons","tag-hypocrisy","tag-pretext","tag-sinophobia","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}