“Vhy don’t you admit it? He’s too much of a man for you. I know! You’re going to need an army to beat him! You’re finished. Fertig! Verfallen! Verlumpt! Verblunget! Verkackt!”
“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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February 4, 2023 at 3:06 pm |
Yeah. We had to do something, do something. Harumph…Harumph.
February 4, 2023 at 3:10 pm |
February 4, 2023 at 4:27 pm |
ONE and DONE, Mr. Biden!
February 4, 2023 at 5:12 pm |
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.
February 4, 2023 at 5:45 pm |
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.
February 4, 2023 at 5:16 pm |
The Party’s Over: “They’ve burst your pretty balloon and taken the moon away”
February 4, 2023 at 7:16 pm |
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.
February 4, 2023 at 7:34 pm |
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.
February 4, 2023 at 8:43 pm |
Ain’t it nutz that 80% of the world is led by boys who never left high school, emotionally speaking?
February 5, 2023 at 7:46 am |
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.
February 5, 2023 at 6:16 am |
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.
February 5, 2023 at 7:48 am |
I’m down with it, as long as we don’t get Lauren Bozobert, Margarine Taylor Maid, or Krispy Cinnabuns as our Chief Executor.
February 5, 2023 at 7:42 am |
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.
February 5, 2023 at 1:05 pm |
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.
February 5, 2023 at 2:01 pm |
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.”
February 5, 2023 at 1:54 pm |
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.
February 5, 2023 at 2:12 pm |
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.”