by Noah
Last week, every Republican you can think of or have the misfortune to personally know, was throwing snitfits and foaming at the mouth about how President Biden should be shooting the Chinese Spy Balloon down as it crossed America. Mind you, this was a balloon whose intelligence capabilities were neutered the moment it entered our territory. Many of these drooling, sputtering, screeching monkey, lost soul crackpots were saying they were gonna do it themselves with one of their AR-15s. From all over the country, we saw these lunatics pointing their guns at the sky and we're still seeing them! Yep, Republicans really do think that an AR-15 can reach a balloon (or baloon, as the GOP's Dear Leader Diaper Don spells it in his tweets). Lauren Boebert even implied that shooting it was a piece of cake since, in her typically demented model Republican mind, 60,000 feet "is only about one mile." Yeah, whatever. Maybe that's true in godforsaken Colorado, but for the rest of us, a mile is 5,280 feet. Genius.
Yeah, genius, shoot down a 200 foot 2000 pound balloon and risk it killing people below. Hey, maybe it lands on a school! Well done, Republicans! You've done it again! Pro-Life! Pro-Life. Oh, do it over a rural area? Sure! Maybe it only crashes on one woman driving her car down a lonely road with her baby in the back. Pro-Life! Pro-Life!
So, what if there really was a Chinese Spy Balloon floating over Mar-a-Lago? Somehow, I don't think the Republikooks would be clamoring to shoot it down. They'd be commending their Dear Leader for having such a fine relationship with Xi Jinping that he gets his own balloon. "Maybe Xi's sending him beautiful letters! Maybe it's like it is with that little North Korea fella!"
Parting Shot: No, not a shot at a balloon, but I have a few thoughts about the Domestic Terror Party's telecast response by the Gooben'r of Arkansas after President Biden's S.O.T.U. Since most of my thoughts might be deemed inappropriate... Well, I just have to ask, "What was that??" I thought all the episodes of The Outer Limits were done in black and white, but, no matter, what I saw was proof that this AI Robot thing has a long way to go. I mean, the obvious glitches! The things the eyes on this robot were expressing in no way matched the words coming out of its mouth! Even weirder, the garishly painted lips were definitely not moving in sync with the words, a real lip reading challenge if there ever was one! My wife had a one word comment- "Ventriloquist." Still learning the craft, no doubt.
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