{"id":3609,"date":"2023-02-23T00:06:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T05:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2023-02-23T00:10:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T05:10:57","slug":"balloonacy-dont-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3609","title":{"rendered":"Balloonacy (don&#8217;t panic!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/balloonacy\/balloonacy_150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/balloonacy\/balloonacy650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>JEEEEEEzus christ, man, wotta goddamn shitshow, huh? <\/strong>Not that anyone with two synapses to rub together could tell you that the US boss media were pulling it straight outta their ass, that it wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;spy balloon&#8221; and probably not even Chinese, given the US media&#8217;s record over the past 30, 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, about 2 weeks into this Mel Brooks movie, the Pentagon Amateur Hour crew starts <a href=\"https:\/\/geopoliticaleconomy.com\/2023\/02\/18\/us-weather-chinese-balloon-hobbyist\/\" target=\"_blank\">shuffling and backpedaling and stammering like Porky Pig<\/a> that well, OK, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2023\/02\/16\/gcsf-f16.html\" target=\"_blank\">it wasn&#8217;t really dangerous and probably not a surveillance balloon after all <\/a>\u2014 and while that&#8217;s going on, a bunch of Top Gun wannabes piss away $2m worth of our tax money shooting down what was probably some kid&#8217;s science project, likely to get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/marjorie-taylor-greene-spy-balloon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marjorie Taylor-Greene<\/a> to shut the hell up. And btw, when a fascist freak like MTG is allowed to sit in Congress and yell for something to be shot down as if it were &#8220;Call Of Duty&#8221; or something, you know your Rules-Based Order\u2122 is circling the shitter.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re thinking that Uncle Joe&#8217;s handling of this and other foreign policy batshittery he&#8217;s stoking up is looking more and more like a rejected <em>Pinky And The Brain<\/em> plot \u2014 except that P &amp; the B actually had their shit together a little more \u2014 join the club, kiddos. Hell, the Chinese were showing more class in their little finger than the US and the West at large, who spent the last 2 weeks filling every pair of BVD&#8217;s in the drawer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ha haahhhhh, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/balloonacy\/USmediaballoonpaniccollage.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">NARF.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/balloonacy\/balloonacy_150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image, <\/a>1.7mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEEEEEEzus christ, man, wotta goddamn shitshow, huh? Not that anyone with two synapses to rub together could tell you that the US boss media were pulling it straight outta their ass, that it wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;spy balloon&#8221; and probably not even Chinese, given the US media&#8217;s record over the past 30, 40 years. Finally, about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,23,10,9],"tags":[1325,1324,1326,1320,1235],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bidenism","category-china","category-media","category-war-and-peace","tag-dont-panic","tag-hitchhikers-guide","tag-top-gun","tag-chinese-balloons","tag-marjorie-taylor-greene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","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=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3616,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions\/3616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}