Top general says Trump-era spy balloons flew over the U.S. undetected
Gen. Glen VanHerck cited a "gap" in capability that caused the DoD to miss the incursions.
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TRUMP is baaaaaaaaaaaack !!!!!
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I did tell him I work in investment management but some how his understanding of macro economics from baby support payments trump my knowledge of capital expenditure in a global setting. Whatever! These trump clowns are funny thoughEconomics? Lmfao but you didn't know about the push to manufacture chips in the US..lmfao ..
Stop it bruh ...I bet you been driving the same dodged truck 10 years and buy guns but never shot nobody because you live in b.f.e ..tf you know about economics? Your shirts don't even have sleeves
There is nothing stopping any chip manufacturer from making chips in the US....in fact, it would be very easy to argue that policy initiatives from previous adminstrations made it untenable to produce chips in the US subverting the natural laws of supply and demand and any NEW incentive and government investment in this area is an additional violation of economic laws....Government by definition do not create jobs because they are incapable of efficiently allocating capital with the one exception of defense spending since it is its own unique industry.....all government spending is KNOWN to have a negative multiplier effect....MEANING, the more they spend the worse it gets.I did ...chip manufacturing..did you not read smh ..are you trolling or you really this slow? Let me guess biden didn't invent chip manufacturing, that job already existed ..
CHECK AND MATE
we wouldn't have a semiconductor industry to start with without government spending, so this is kinda dumb.
ditto for the airline industry, or the internet, or for wyoming being inhabited by white settlers
if government spending was so bad I'd expect Somalia to be an economic powerhouse
Lol people call checkmate constantly without seeing the next move ..it's a common mistake...but just because you say there nothing stopping chip manufacturers in the US doesn't make planets magically appear .. and never said anything about the previous president
sorry I don't know if you realize who you was talking to ? But it does take a genius to realize that the chip storage we are working out wasn't simple supply and demand..it's was co dependence lol but I'm not surprised you thought that way .I am talking to a bunch of people who believe a Chinese Ballon was a threat to America and not about tiawan and the south sea
Government by definition do not create jobs because they are incapable of efficiently allocating capital
As in taxes
but we have government jobs ...idk why is these a hard concept to gasp
Yeah, these morons don't like to accept facts, but it's fun to wind them up, they always expose themselves!
The government produces NOTHING... Look at the postal service, they're an ABJECT FAILURE.Lol people call checkmate constantly without seeing the next move ..it's a common mistake...but just because you say there nothing stopping chip manufacturers in the US doesn't make planets magically appear .. and never said anything about the previous president
I don't know if you realize who you was talking to ? But it does take a genius to realize that the chip storage we are working out wasn't simple supply and demand..it's was co dependence lol but I'm not surprised you thought that way .I am talking to a bunch of people who believe a Chinese Ballon was a threat to America and not about tiawan and the south sea
Government by definition do not create jobs because they are incapable of efficiently allocating capital
As in taxes
You're not fooling anyone, you know less than nothing about economics, and even less than that about US politics... You're nothing but a hateful, whiny troll.
Trump could not whip s.hit with an out board motor.....most on the right know thatWell Trump would whip his arse right now
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Biden ben there done that....he learned from Baracks mistake
Not Barack Obama's White House: Why Republicans no longer get the benefit of the doubt
In 2011, Barack Obama entered into negotiations with House Republicans. They wanted the president to cut future spending in exchange for voting to raise the debt ceiling to borrow more money to pay for existing debts.
Ultimately, Obama agreed to $2 trillion in cuts. The debt ceiling was raised, but the damage was done. “The United States experienced its first credit rating downgrade and the stock market plunged,” according to USA Today.
Joe Biden, as vice president, learned a lesson that day. He evidently shared it Wednesday with Kevin McCarthy after inviting the House speaker to the White House. He said: There will be no negotiations over the debt ceiling.
McCarthy has shown his hand. To Margaret Brennan, host of “Face the Nation,” he said, “we’re not going to default.” What has he to bargain with after giving away his leverage? I don’t know. But the moment seems to illustrate a new pattern of behavior coming out of the White House.
There will be no benefit of the doubt.
A problem for the Republicans
According to reporters Alexander Nazaryan and Michael Isikoff, the White House is prepared to work with House investigations but there’s a but.
“When it comes to Congress, we intend to review and respond to oversight inquiries in good faith,” White House communications officer Ian Sams said last month. “We're going to call it out when we see rampant hypocrisy.”
Sams said the Republicans have a “total lack of credibility.”
He’s not wrong.
Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan is head of the House Judiciary Committee. A “ferocious Trump defender,” he said he’d turn to a “compulsory process” if the White House refused to be forthcoming with requested information.
This is the same congressman who balked when the J6 committee subpoenaed him for testimony on his role in Donald Trump’s coup.
Sams went on.
He said Kentucky Congressman James Comer, head of the House Oversight Committee, is playing “political theater.” Sams said that when a Democrat is involved with government secrets, he’s very concerned. When Trump was involved, he was la-di-da. Sams said, via Nazaryan and Michael Isikoff, that:
Comer had downplayed Trump’s mishandling of sensitive documents after arguing in an interview with Newsmax last August that the matter 'didn’t amount to a hill of beans' and would not 'be a priority' in terms of an investigation.
This is not Barack Obama’s White House.
The average white American probably didn’t give the first Black president the benefit of the doubt on account of his being the first Black president.
The average white American does give Joe Biden the benefit of the doubt on account of his being white as well as being widely regarded as moderate.
With ample benefit of the doubt behind him from the average white American, Biden seems to believe that he owes none to the Republicans.
That’s a problem.
For the Republicans.
Blunting their attacks
What is “the benefit of the doubt”? Why is it important?
First, Merriam-Webster’s definition: it’s “the state of accepting something or someone as honest or deserving of trust even though there are doubts.”
Second, it’s important because virtually everything the Republicans in the House hope to accomplish with their phony investigations, of the Biden administration and the Biden family, depends on the president trusting them just enough for the Republicans to turn that trust against him.
Obama gave the House Republicans the benefit of the doubt. They dragged out the process so long global investors panicked. Obama lost once by conceding to $2 trillion in cuts. He lost twice after markets plunged. In the end, Obama was complicit in the GOP’s sabotage of his administration.
But because he was the first Black president, and because his party had just experienced a “shellacking” in the 2010 midterms, he had to play along.
Things are different now.
The president is white. The House Republicans are barely a majority. The benefit of the doubt of the average white American is not on their side.
Today’s House Republicans plan all kinds of investigations – of the 2020 election, Biden’s return of classified documents and Hunter Biden’s laptop.
But what they are actually doing is searching for reasons that would provide the appearance of proof of their allegations. They want to credibly accuse the president of something. But doing that requires Biden’s help.
The appearance of proof.
That’s why Sams leaned into their “total lack of credibility.”
By refusing to give the Republicans the benefit of the doubt, the White House is depriving them of that appearance, blunting their attacks.
This isn’t Barack Obama’s White House
McCarthy tried hard to make it look like Biden is the one being hypocritical. “He literally led the talks in 2011 and he praised having those talks,” he told CBS’s Margaret Brennan. “This is what he’s always done in the past.”
The House Republicans don’t know what they want, however, and the White House knows that the House Republicans don’t know what they want.
The House Republicans keep asking for spending cuts, but won’t say which domestic programs they want to cut. The reason for that is pretty clear. If they say what they want to cut – spending on Social Security, for instance, which is broadly popular – it will undermine demands for spending cuts.
The Biden administration believes it has the advantage. In a memo to McCarthy, the White House asked if McCarthy will “commit to the bedrock principle that the United States will never default on its obligations” and “when the Speaker and the House Republicans will release their budget.”
He won’t and they won’t, because he can’t and they can’t.
“The Biden administration believes Americans will view the Republican brinkmanship more unfavorably – as willing to jeopardize the economy and cut popular programs for ideological reasons,” according to USA Today.
Biden is probably right.
DeSantis Couldn’t Net Any Election Fraud Prosecutions, So Florida GOPers Want to Change the Law
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) tried to get some good press and score points with Donald Trump supporters when he arrested 20 people accused of voter fraud last year, but the stunt hasn’t led to any real convictions. On Friday, Republicans in the state legislature introduced a bill to change that.
The stunt came in the form of the Office of Election Crimes and Security, a sham task ******* DeSantis launched within the Florida Department of State last August as the Big Lie still lingered following the 2020 election.
The governor admitted at the time that there was no evidence of widespread fraud in Florida, but he still seized on the opportunity to fight against the phantom menace: On Aug. 18, 2022, he announced that the office had already arrested 20 formerly incarcerated residents —mostly Black, mostly in South Florida— who’d been accused of voting illegally. Most of those arrested didn’t know they weren’t allowed to vote and some were told they could vote by election admistrators.
“Today’s actions send a clear signal to those who are thinking about ballot harvesting or fraudulently voting,” he said. “If you commit an elections crime, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
That last part turned out to be harder to execute. To date, three of the arrestees had their cases dismissed while a fourth took a plea deal to avoid jail time.
The 3 Chinese spy balloons spotted during the Trump administration were initially classified as UFOs
- A Chinese spy balloon seen floating over the United States was shot down on Saturday.
- Three spy balloons were seen during the Trump administration and were initially classified as UFOs.
- The Trump era balloons weren't detected as quickly due to a "domain awareness gap," officials said.
In former President Donald Trump's administration, at least three surveillance balloons were detected traversing the country, officials acknowledged in a Sunday press conference. Bloomberg reported the devices were initially categorized by intelligence officials as "unidentified aerial phenomena" before being identified as balloons.
In December, the Department of Defense established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office to identify "unidentified anomalous phenomena" — in space, in the air, on land, or in the sea — that may threaten national security. The term UAP replaces the traditional "unidentified flying object" or UFO designation, as officials expect to evaluate anomalies "across all domains."
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GENERAL GLEN D. VANHERCK, USAF
Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command
General Glen VanHerck is Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM). NORAD conducts aerospace warning, aerospace control, and maritime warning in the defense of North America. USNORTHCOM conducts homeland defense, civil support, and security cooperation to defend and secure the United States and its interests.
General VanHerck is a graduate of the University of Missouri and was commissioned through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program. He has a diverse operational and training background that includes assignments in the F-15C, F-35A, B-2A, and B-1B with over 3,200 flight hours. He has served as an instructor pilot and flight examiner in the F-15C, B-2A, and T-6A. Additionally, he served as a U.S. Air ******* Weapons School instructor in the F-15C and the B-2A.
grad from Mo. says enough......but do you really think someone supposed to be in charge......will admit he fucked up?
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maybe the end is not in sight......big brother watching
U-2 Spy Planes Snooped On Chinese Surveillance Balloon
The U.S. Air *******'s U-2S Dragon Lady spy planes were among the assets tapped to monitor and collect intelligence on a Chinese government surveillance balloon during its recent trip across parts of the continental United States and Canada. An F-22 Raptor stealth fighter finally shot down the balloon with an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, and efforts are now underway to recover the wreckage from the Atlantic Ocean. Readers of The War Zone can first get up to speed on what we already know about this incident, and its conclusion, in our past reporting here.
Americans aren’t buying the GOP’s 'weaponization committee': survey
One of the key targets of the Republican Congress is in going after President Joe Biden's Department of Justice and FBI for conspiracy theories spread on conservative outlets.
According to the recent Washington Post-ABC News survey, however, most Americans understand that the efforts by the GOP are absurd.
A whopping 56 percent of Americans see the GOP's "weaponization committee" as "just an attempt to score political points." Just 36 percent support it.
"What’s more, just 28 percent believe that government agencies are indeed biased against conservatives," cited Aaron Blake. "That’s more than the share that believes they’re biased against liberals (11 percent), but nearly two-thirds of Americans don’t believe conservatives are being singled out."
Even the Fox News poll showed that only 43 percent of people they surveyed supported the committee.
One of the GOP's claims is that the DOJ went after parents objecting to Critical Race Theory at school board meetings. In fact, what the DOJ did was say that they would investigate anyone who made violent threats against school board leaders and teachers. They even published the intentions in a press release.
“Biden used the FBI to target parents as ‘domestic terrorists.’ Can you imagine that? To use your own FBI to go after parents, calling them domestic terrorists. Without any evidence. Simply aiming to silence their First Amendment rights. A whistleblower just confirmed it," Speaker Kevin McCarthy falsely said in Nov. He has never been able to produce the so-called "whistleblower."
"f your White House and our Justice Department that we pay for — if they're encouraging a left-wing political group to write them a letter as a pretext to go after parents, to go after moms and dads who simply are trying to do what's best for their *******' education — if you encourage that, if you put that in the letter, that is scary stuff," said committee chair, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to Fox in Oct.
The other aims are investigations into the DOJ for their search on Donald Trump's country club in Palm Beach, Florida. In that case, the Republicans have demanded all of the details about the DOJ's ongoing investigation, which they have denied. The third piece of the GOP weaponization committee is to probe the ongoing investigations into the Jan. 6 attacks, which includes some of the people on the weaponization committee. In that instance, the DOJ has also refused.
This has been discredited... But you love to hold onto lies...The 3 Chinese spy balloons spotted during the Trump administration were initially classified as UFOs
Days after a Chinese spy balloon was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean, Pentagon officials are acknowledging the surveillance devices have been seen floating over the United States before.
- A Chinese spy balloon seen floating over the United States was shot down on Saturday.
- Three spy balloons were seen during the Trump administration and were initially classified as UFOs.
- The Trump era balloons weren't detected as quickly due to a "domain awareness gap," officials said.
In former President Donald Trump's administration, at least three surveillance balloons were detected traversing the country, officials acknowledged in a Sunday press conference. Bloomberg reported the devices were initially categorized by intelligence officials as "unidentified aerial phenomena" before being identified as balloons.
In December, the Department of Defense established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office to identify "unidentified anomalous phenomena" — in space, in the air, on land, or in the sea — that may threaten national security. The term UAP replaces the traditional "unidentified flying object" or UFO designation, as officials expect to evaluate anomalies "across all domains."
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GENERAL GLEN D. VANHERCK, USAF
Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command
General Glen VanHerck is Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM). NORAD conducts aerospace warning, aerospace control, and maritime warning in the defense of North America. USNORTHCOM conducts homeland defense, civil support, and security cooperation to defend and secure the United States and its interests.
General VanHerck is a graduate of the University of Missouri and was commissioned through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program. He has a diverse operational and training background that includes assignments in the F-15C, F-35A, B-2A, and B-1B with over 3,200 flight hours. He has served as an instructor pilot and flight examiner in the F-15C, B-2A, and T-6A. Additionally, he served as a U.S. Air ******* Weapons School instructor in the F-15C and the B-2A.
grad from Mo. says enough......but do you really think someone supposed to be in charge......will admit he fucked up?
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Trump still lives even though your best efforts to k.ill him off has only produced the very bluest of balls
Your disparaging of America heroes disgusts me.
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A WHOPPING 62% of Americans in the same poll will be PISSED if Debacle Joe gets re-elected - what’s that say to ya
Their corrupt media gives Dems what they need - the key is when they say a senior Defense Department official was quoted as saying but NO name - there are definite tells to their corrupt reporting.
Funny NO reports of this during the Trump administration and the press LOVED to beat him to death with ANYFUCKINTHING they could - but now it comes to light. Also did NOT know our government had a portal to look into the past - that is big news - maybe they’ll finally tell us who killed Kennedy !!!!
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That's not what he said ...making up your own facts again I seeTop general says Trump-era spy balloons flew over the U.S. undetected
Gen. Glen VanHerck cited a "gap" in capability that caused the DoD to miss the incursions.
If you read the General’s own words NOT the words your corrupt media put in his mouth it’s not what he said.
That article chose very selective quotes - one of which is “I will tell you we did not detect those threats” - funny cause NEITHER did any citizens like they did this time !!!!!
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