For days in early February, debate raged in the official imperial press about Beijing’s malign intentions in lofting this zeppelin over cow country. Trump took to the internet to demand shooting down the balloon. The white house did not at first do so, leading to the conclusion that Biden was afraid of a balloon, or worse, in some idiot far-right quarters, that the Wall-Street-owned president is a radical Marxist Leninist commie dupe committed to permitting a Chinese spy operation. No wonder Blinken cancelled his trip! No wonder the pentagon finally shot down the balloon over the Atlantic, with, by the way, a very expensive missile. One less balloon to menace our imperial freedoms. More

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