“Joe’s not quick on the draw!
“Won’t lay down the law!”
The GOP croons
But as the Chinese keep spyin’
Joe sends jets a-flyin’
And busts their balloon.
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I’m tired
“Joe’s not quick on the draw!
“Won’t lay down the law!”
The GOP croons
But as the Chinese keep spyin’
Joe sends jets a-flyin’
And busts their balloon.
-pop-
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Yeah. We had to do something, do something. Harumph…Harumph.
ONE and DONE, Mr. Biden!
Gonna be a lot of cartoons, second-guessing, and Saturday Night Live skits come out of this one! Unfortunately, it also has national security implications.
O, indeed. The Disney-Pixar cartoon movie “Up” sprang instantly to mind. Also, “Around the World in 80 Days,” the most recent edition of which includes Hong Kong’s Jackie Chan as Passepartout. Finally, from my misspent youth, the 5th Dimension.
I’m guessing those of us of a certain age remember Francis Gary Powers, too. He was very much on the Hit Parade there for a while.
The Party’s Over: “They’ve burst your pretty balloon and taken the moon away”
Bunch of noise over nothing. Must have been a quiet news day. Countries just gotta spy. We do, they do, everybody does. I bet it was a weather ballon, and they sent it this way just to see what we would do.
It would be nice if this sort of pointless dick-waving went out of fashion one of these days. You get the wrong dummies waving them at the wrong time and you got trouble, right here in River City.
Ain’t it nutz that 80% of the world is led by boys who never left high school, emotionally speaking?
There was a clown on my high-school swim team who thought it was the acme of wit to engage a teammate in eye-contact conversation in the showers whilst surreptitiously pissing on the dude’s leg.
I was surprised when he never became president, or at least a senator.
Autocrats, religious extremists, and dicktators, mostly and maybe only men, playing with nukes. What could go wrong? Come on boys, let’s put a woman in charge, except in North Korea. That sister maybe worse than the wacked out brother.
I’m down with it, as long as we don’t get Lauren Bozobert, Margarine Taylor Maid, or Krispy Cinnabuns as our Chief Executor.
And yes, SNL got right on the case. A couple decent zingers in there about our contradictory desires for privacy and the surrender of same.
https://youtu.be/gG3kUa8uM4c
Having driven through Eastern Montana on more than five occasions, There is a lot of nothing but miles and miles and no body to give a rats ass When school buses hit the ground. Joe was a little slow on the trigger. Besides if they timed it properly they could have destroyed Rep. Matt Rosendales’ property. Repug from Maryland, carpetbagger, and neo-nazi extraordinaire.
I think Sleepy Joe should’ve sent Tom Cruise up in an F-18, had him eject from the aircraft and board the balloon, then override its programming and fly the sumbitch straight to the Pentagon for evaluation. Just set ’er down in the parking lot and throw the keys to the security dudes.
“Put ’er in the garage, boys, give ’er a wash and wax while you’re at it. I got a meeting with Mark Milley. Yeah, yeah, he knows I’m coming.”
I think it would have been more apt to produce a video of shooting the nefarious balloon down with a drone flown by an 8-year pilot sitting at home playing another game. After quickly dispatching the target, the kid would go back to his game with nary a comment. The point of the issue would be to display that we are all ready for any problems that occur. The president wouldn’t need to say anything. Symbolism complete.
Or maybe James Gunn could’ve cobbled up a quickie featuring whoever he has in mind for the next Superman snatching up the balloon and pitching it like a Gerrit Cole fastball to Alpha Centauri.
“Yo, China,” sez Supes, dusting off his palms, whisk whisk whisk. “Fuck around and find out.”