Thursday, February 23, 2023

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Balloonacy (don't panic!)"


From Mike Flugennock, DC's anarchist cartoonist

"Balloonacy (don't panic!)"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3609


JEEEEEEzus christ, man, wotta goddamn shitshow, huh? Not that anyone 
with two synapses to rub together could tell you that the US boss 
media were pulling it straight outta their ass, that it wasn't a "spy 
balloon" and probably not even Chinese, given the US media's record 
over the past 30, 40 years.

Finally, about 2 weeks into this Mel Brooks movie, the Pentagon 
Amateur Hour crew starts shuffling and backpedaling and stammering 
like Porky Pig that well, OK, it wasn't really dangerous and probably 
not a surveillance balloon after all — and while that's going on, a 
bunch of Top Gun wannabes piss away $2m worth of our tax money 
shooting down what was probably some kid's science project, likely to 
get Marjorie Taylor-Greene to shut the hell up. And btw, when a 
fascist freak like MTG is allowed to sit in Congress and yell for 
something to be shot down as if it were "Call Of Duty" or something, 
you know your Rules-Based Order™ is circling the shitter.

So, if you're thinking that Uncle Joe's handling of this and other 
foreign policy batshittery he's stoking up is looking more and more 
like a rejected Pinky And The Brain plot — except that P & the B 
actually had their shit together a little more — join the club, 
kiddos. Hell, the Chinese were showing more class in their little 
finger than the US and the West at large, who spent the last 2 weeks 
filling every pair of BVD's in the drawer.

Ha haahhhhh, NARF.

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"US media report calls into question balloon 'spy mission' claims 
against China", Patrick Martin at the World Socialists' site, 02.16.2023
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/02/16/gcsf-f16.html

"US admits weather pushed Chinese balloon off course, US shot down 
hobbyists' $12 balloon in $2M missile attack", Ben Norton at the 
Geopolitical Economy Report, 02.18.2023
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/18/us-weather-chinese-balloon-hobbyist/

"Marjorie Taylor Greene urges fans to shoot down spy balloon", Matthew 
Chapman at Raw Story, 02.03.2023
https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-spy-balloon/

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